Hardluck Hotel (episode)

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Summary:

Count Duckula decides to go on a holiday to a hotel called Hardluck Hotel, though when he arrives, nothing is even close to his liking. The hotel itself is in terrible disrepair, the service is bad, and everything is rank and fetid.

To end this torment, Duckula goes straight to the hotel manager to check out, but as luck would have it, it has only just been revealed in the papers that Transylvanian drachmas (Duckula's currency) are now deemed worthless in the current market. Faced with this dilemma of not having one red cent to pay for his considerably short stay, Duckula is then forced to work as a hotel employee to pay off his debt.

To make matters the worst possible for this unfortunate Count, his servants, Nanny and Igor stop at this hotel for a vacation, and, not knowing that Duckula serving as the hotel's staff, see fit to order the hapless young duck around and around. Change, however, may be on its way for the Count, who is not at all happy that, ironically, he had been serving his own staff for a whole week.

Background Music Pieces:

• "Vamp Til Ready" by Wally Asp
• "Casbah Nights" by George Fenton and John Leach

Trivia:

• T'he hotel manager is based upon the legendary British TV character Basil Fawlty, from the 'Fawlty Towers' TV comedy series. Fawlty, played by John Cleese, was also a hotel manager who was notorious for being rude to his own guests.
• Duckula's room number is "1313". According to superstition, the number 13 is considered unlucky and many hotels don't have a room with number 13.
• The American accented chambermaid Gloria's voice is possibly based on Rosie the Robot Maid's voice from Hanna-Barbera's TV cartoon series 'The Jetsons'.
• The name 'Hardluck Hotel' might have been a spoof of the Elvis Presley hit single 'Heartbreak Hotel'.
• Igor orders a "mouldy bread with green slime sandwich" and Nanny orders a "peanut butter sandwich with custard and a cherry on top," which Duckula says is her favourite.

QUOTES:

• Igor, referring to Hardluck Hotel: "(T)he most rundown, despairing, gloomy and sinister hotel that anyone in his right mind could ever wish for."

• Count Duckula: "Where's the elevator?"
• Hotel Manager (when asked "where's the elevator?"): "At the basement. It stopped there at the turn of the century and we hadn't had time to service it yet."
• Hotel Manager (after Duckula says that he is a vegetarian): "Really?! I would see a doctor, they do marvelous things these days."
• Duckula: "I'm checking out! In fact, I'm nearly passing out."

PHOTOS:

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The hotel manager, inspired by the character Basil Fawlty

Gloria the chambermaid

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Mr Grinder, "The Complaints Department"

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The Great Duckeruni acting as the hotel's magician