Happiness Hotel

There's no kitchen anymore.

But if the road's been kind of bumpy and you need to rest a spell, well, welcome home to Happiness Hotel.

That's it.

That's where I am now.

If you've got luggage, keep it handy.

A happiness hotel.

That's me.

I just got room service.

My wife recently stayed at a hotel that was like really crappy.

And I think I sang her to the Happiness Hotel song because I still know the whole thing.

And I forced my children to watch The Great Muppet Keeper.

So I think that Jim Henson was a genius.

I think on that sort of ambition though, there's some other like quite ambitious moments with, I think a lot of the ambition is to do with multiple Muppets.

Like even if you look at a sequence like Happiness Hotel, there's a lot of performers being stuffed into the sort of walls and under the floors and stuff of that set.

But then like there's sequences like the Muppets all going up a drain pipe together.

Yeah.

And I'm so glad that Dr. Stephen, the electric mayhem have quite a big role in this movie as well.

They're quite prominent in it.

And that we've got a bit of, you know, the, you know, in the happiness hotel sequence, like it, it feels like there's a bit more of a Muppet world and, in this movie compared to the muppet movie in some ways um it feels maybe a bit more lived in even though ironically we're in london you know where we've got a home away from a home in this crappy rundown awful hotel that is also somehow quite delightful

Again, nowhere else to put this, but it is also, just as a Muppet scholar, the Happiness Hotel sequence, that the Happiness Hotel has a concierge who is a Muppet, is quite a strange choice in the sort of way the Muppet films are usually cast.