Line #38 Series/TheFurchesterHotel


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:The hotel's run by monsters, a staff beyond compare.\
3	We've got the kind of service you won't find anywhere.]]
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5	'''''The Furchester Hotel''''' is a spin-off/companion series to ''Series/SesameStreet'', and a coproduction between Sesame Workshop and UK-based children's network Creator/CBeebies; it runs on that channel and is also available on the web. Elmo and Cookie Monster travel to England to help Elmo's aunt and uncle run a "half-star" hotel whose staff is good at solving problems.
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7	Outside of the UK, the show can be seen on Website/YouTube, and in select territories on Creator/{{Netflix}}.
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12	* AscendedExtra: Originally performed by Mak Wilson (or, occasionally, David Rudman), Gonger was used during series 1 as sort of a one-note character: he'd randomly appear to ring a gong, leading to the Tea Time Monsters stampeding through the hotel to get to their tea, and never show up again until the next episode. During series 2, however, the character was recast to Warrick Brownlow-Pike, and given a more prominent role as the hotel cook (complete with permanent chef's toque and apron). When ''Furchester'' ended its run on [=CBeebies=], Gonger was imported to the American ''Sesame Street'' for "Cookie Monster's Foodie Truck", and Brownlow-Pike came along with him, becoming the only currently-active U.K. puppeteer working on the show. Since then, Gonger has gained official ''Sesame'' merchandise, book appearances, and even a walk-around character at ''Sesame Street Live!'' stage shows and at the Sesame Place theme park in Langhorne, PA.
13	* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: The raccoon guest with StickyFingers.
14	* BearsAreBadNews: Again, averted. Although the bear guest that shows up falls asleep just as the Furchesters try to get him to his room, he's actually a GentleGiant.
15	* BigEater: Mr. Squigglebottom, the caterpillar guest that comes. He makes Cookie Monster faint by demanding a lot of leaves.
16	* BritsLoveTea: Mr. Dull and the Tea Time monsters. Justified as this is Britain and tea time is SeriousBusiness.
17	* BrutalHonesty: Harvey P. Dull sometimes delivers this.
18	* ButtMonkey: Harvey P. Dull is often the main victim of the chaos the monsters and guests cause.
19	* CanonImmigrant: Gonger was added to ''Sesame Street'' itself in Season 48, running a food truck with Cookie.
20	* CharacterCatchphrase:
21	** Funella: "We welcome you with furry arms!"
22	** Pheobe: "Fuzza-wubba! That gives me a monster idea!"
23	** The Tea Time Monsters: "Ugga-wugga tea time, ugga-wugga clink! Ugga-wugga tea time, ugga-wugga drink!"
24	* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: After chasing around five chickens for one episode, to keep them together for a tour, Elmo and Phoebe are flabbergasted that all they needed was a whistle to call the chickens together.
25	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything:
26	** No one wants to get close to Pierce the porcupine for fear of getting hurt, and he is a StepfordSmiler about it. This is very analagous to people who have behavioral disabilities and contagious diseases or whose physical appearances scare others.
27	** Elwood the Woodpecker always needs to peck, which is a problem when he reduces most of the furniture in his room to sawdust. He makes it clear that he has to, and cannot be physically stopped, and thus they find a compromise when it's revealed he can peck the glockenspiel quite well.
28	* FriendToAllLivingThings: Phoebe and her cousin Bebe. They can talk to animals.
29	* GreenEyedMonster: Phoebe briefly when Bebe reveals that she can speak to chickens better than Phoebe can.
30	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Mr. Harvey P. Dull. Although he is TheEeyore about the hotel and a DeadpanSnarker, he also is polite to Phoebe and Elmo and dresses up as Monster Monster to cheer up Elmo when the real Monster Monster doesn't show up.
31	* LampshadeHanging: The episode "Gonger's Gong Gone" hangs a lampshade on the entirely random occurrence of Monster Tea Time (which sometimes happens in the middle of the night if that's when the episode's set); Funella asks Gonger if it should really happen straight after breakfast, then shrugs and says "Well, if you're sure".
32	* MeaningfulName: The little, pink monster who bangs a gong to signal tea time for the appropriately-named Tea Time Monsters? His name is Gonger.
33	* OnceAnEpisode:
34	** The "tea time" RunningGag happens.
35	** Either the song "A Furchester Never Gives Up" or "A Furchester Catastrophe". (Season 2 adds "We Can Solve Any Problem".)
36	** The characters coming up with a solution to the problem of the week by "putting our furry heads together".
37	* RequiredSpinOffCrossover: Season 2 has a Big Bird episode, a Count von Count episode and a Yip-Yip Martians episode.
38	* ShoutOut: Episode 109 "Mystery Weekend" has various parodies of famous fictional detectives, including [[Literature/MissMarple Miss Marbles]], [[Series/PerryMason Penguin Mason]], and a raccoon named Inspector Raccoonseau who is named after [[Franchise/ThePinkPanther Inspector Jacque Clouseau]], and has the voice and mannerisms of Series/{{Columbo}} (funnily enough, the main ''Sesame Street'' once had their own Columbo parody named "Colambo"). Sherlock Hemlock also appears, but is reduced to a silent background cameo, as Jerry Nelson had died two years prior to the episode's production.
39	* SmellySkunk: Mr Smells-A-Lot, who sprays whenever he's surprised. The Furchesters have to show him everything in the hotel, so that nothing will startle him anymore.
40	* SomethingWeForgot: When guests arrive for Mystery Weekend, Funella and Fergus have realized that they've forgotten to set up a mystery. Thankfully, a raccoon with StickyFingers ends up providing a good whodunnit.
41	* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Phoebe and her cousin Bebe. Of course, being a ''Sesame'' production, most of the animals [[TalkingAnimal speak English]] unless the plot requires them not to.
42	* StatingTheSimpleSolution: When the phone is out and the Furchesters realize that yodeling isn't working because no one in the hotel knows who they're yodeling to, they're preparing to sing all the room numbers in yodel so as to make distinctions. Harry P. Dull then finds that the phone cord is unplugged and solves the problem.
43	* StepfordSmiler: Pierce the Porcupine. He claims that it doesn't bother him how having all his quills is a stigma, but when Phoebe and Elmo prod him he admits that he's very hurt about it.
44	* StiffUpperLip: Pierce demonstrates this when Cookie Monster freaks out on seeing him and spills salad all over him, leaving to the vegetables landing on his spines. He says that he likes "shish-kabob"
45	* UncannyFamilyResemblance: Cookie Monster's British cousin Biscuit Monster appears in one episode. He looks exactly like Cookie Monster, except he wears a DashinglyDapperDerby and has an English accent.
46	* YesMan: Mr. Carrot the horse, until Phoebe teaches him how to say no.
47	* YouMeanXMas: Monster Monster Day. Monster Monster comes to the best hotel during the winter and cheers up the place.
48	** Becomes baffling when they ''do'' celebrate Christmas in a later episode.

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