It's a Mad, Mad, Mad Hotel

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“It's a Mad, Mad, Mad Hotel”

Episode no.	Season 1 Episode 12
Guest star(s)	Adrian R'Mante, Estelle Harris, Brian Stepanek, Keith Blaney
Writer(s)	Howard Nemetz
Director	Lex Passaris
Production no.	114
Original airdate	July 17, 2005
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad Hotel is an episode of The Suite Life of Zack and Cody.

1 Plot
2 Quotes
3 Trivia
4 Goofs
5 References

[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

After accidentally destroying a painting, Zack & Cody discover an old newspaper article describing a treasure left in the hotel by mobster Alphonse "Hot Peppers" DeLeo in 1938. Soon, the twins, Maddie, Muriel, Esteban, London, and Arwin are all turning the hotel upside down to find it. After Arwin's latest invention - a super strength glue - explodes a hotel wall, money and gold bars are found - but they turn out to belong the Bank of Boston next door to the hotel. The hidden treasure turned out to be "Hot Peppers" girlfriend - Muriel.

[edit] Quotes

(Esteban Dancing while dreaming)
London: What in the world are you doing?
Esteban: It is salsa time!!!!! (Both start dancing)
Mr. Mosbey: ESTEBAN!!!
Esteban: It is hiding time!

Esteban: (looking for a place to hide) The dumbwaiter!!!
London: You know, I really don't like to make fun of the help.
Security Guard: Hello. Welcome to the United Bank of Boston. You know, if you want to make a withdrawal, we prefer you use a teller.
Mr. Moseby: I would have, but the lines (drops money).

London: I wonder what my life would be like if I found the money... ("Dream wave" begins) ("Dream wave" stops) Oh- it'd be the same! Yay me! (claps)

Zack: I'm coming down, okay? AGH! (falls)
Maddie: (kissing broom)
Zack: Oh sure, why catch me when you can make out with a broom?

[edit] Trivia

This is Dylan Sprouse's favorite episode.
Title of the episode and the frantic search for treasure are based on the 1963 movie It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
Each of the younger characters reveal their dream of what they would do with the money:

Zack would marry Maddie and live in a private suite with a huge gameroom. (Maddie would be Maddie Martin.)
Cody would win the Nobel Prize in each academic area as well as baking and work with Dr. Inga.
Maddie would be become President of the United States and help protect the environment while having good-looking secret service agents.
Esteban would become the owner and manager of Hotel "Esteban", make London work as a bellhop, and make every certain time of the day "salsa time" where everybody in the hotel dances the salsa.
London is already rich, so she wouldn't change a thing.

Muriel has been "working", more likely just sitting around, at the hotel since at least 1938. If she was 18 when she began working, she'd be 85 years old now. Of course the minimum age for full-time work was 14 back then.
In the flashback, each character is portrayed by another character in the Suite Life of Zack & Cody:

Muriel - Maddie Fitzpatrick
Hot Peppers - Esteban
Hot Pepper's bodyguards - Zack Martin and Cody Martin
Flossy - Carey Martin
Officer - Mr. Moseby
London's Great Grandmother - London Tipton

7th appearance of Esteban
6th appearance of Muriel
3rd appearance of Arwin
The episode title is occasionally printed wrong, adding or subtracting the word "Mad".

[edit] Goofs

When Esteban imagines himself as manager, the logo on the front desk is an E. But on London's bellhop uniform, there still is a T.

Cody calculates the garbage room to be at the center of the hotel, but Arwin blows through the wall of that room to a federal bank next door, although the garbage room could stretch from the center to one side.