It's a Mad, Mad, Mad Hotel

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad Hotel is an episode of The Suite Life of Zack & Cody.

Plot

Template:Spoiler 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 once Moseby and Carey arrive, money and gold bars are found - but they turn out to belong to the United Bank of Boston next door to the hotel. The hidden treasure turned out to be "Hot Peppers" girlfriend - Muriel.

Trivia

This is Dylan Sprouse and Ashley Tisdale's favorite episode.
Each of the younger characters reveal their dream of what they would do with the money:

1: Zack would marry Maddie and live in a private suite with a huge gameroom. (Maddie would be Maddie Martin or Maddie Fitzpatrick-Martin.)

2: Cody would win the Nobel Prize in each academic area as well as baking and work with Dr. Inga.

3: Maddie would become President of the United States and help protect the environment while having handsome secret service agents.

4: 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 salsa dances.

5:London is already rich, so she wouldn't change a thing.

In the episode Free Tippy Mr Moseby states that there is a strict retirement policy at the age of 65. 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.
In the flashback, each character is portrayed by another character in the Suite Life of Zack & Cody:

1: Muriel - Maddie Fitzpatrick

2: Hot Peppers - Esteban

3:Hot Pepper's bodyguards - Zack Martin and Cody Martin

4:Flossy - Carey Martin

5:Detective - Mr. Moseby

6:London's Great Grandmother - London Tipton

7th appearance of Esteban
6th appearance of Muriel
3rd appearance of Arwin
1st appearence of Cody's talent in cooking and baking
The episode title is occasionally printed wrong, adding or subtracting the word "Mad".
During Esteban's dream, Kim Rhodes who plays Carey has a bandage on her left ankle.
London's great-grandmother speaks with a Southern accent even though she's a Bostonian.

References

The episode title and the frantic search for treasure are based on the 1963 movie It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.

In Zack's fantasy, he tells his "wife" Maddie, "Baby, you're the greatest" -- a reference to The Honeymooners in which Ralph would tell Alice those exact same words after making up from a fight.

In Muriel's flashback, Detective Moseby was mimicking James Cagney.

When Zack tells his brother, "So I'm in love. Sue me" it was a reference to "Guys and Dolls". One of the main characters, Nathan Detroit, tries to explain to his fiancé that he loves her by singing 'sue me, sue me, what can you do me, I love you!..."

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.

When everyone has to give the money back Carey also drops money on the floor. However Carey is nowhere near the hole when everyone else is getting the treasure.

In the events in Muriel's flashback London's great-grandmother is speaking with a clear Southern accent even though the events are taking place in Boston of 1938.

In Esteban's dream, Carey says that it is three-thirty(salsa time), yet the clock behind the desk doesn't say three-thirty.

In Zack's dream, when Maddie comes in he brings the controller with him when he asks what's for dinner, but when Maddie beat the game, the controller was in front of the machine.

References

"It's a Mad, Mad, Mad Hotel" TV.com's The Suite Life of Zack and Cody Episode Guide, July 17, 2005.