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Omnichron
Since: Dec, 2012
30th Apr, 2016 05:45:28 PM
Is it Crashbox? The framing device for the puzzles was a dirty stop-motion factory run by robots, and they had these square capsules that contained the puzzles that opened up to show the next segment. One of the puzzles revolved around overhearing things from a hotel/party like you described.
Kids show somewhere in the later 2000s that I have yet to find the title of, though I loved it as a kid. I vaguely remember it being odd for a kids show, I remember garbage filling the frame as a backdrop and then a human shaped garbage figure moves in stopmotion. One episode I remember had a skit in which an animated hotel showed characters in silhouette of each window, it was meant to be scary I believe. There was also a narrator that spoke from time to time. I think doors opening was either in one episode or commonly used to transition from skit to skit.