Happiness Is...
"Happiness Is..."Season 2 Number 11 
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Todd Kurosawa
Morin HalperinDirected by
Previous Next "There's Something About Hook Foot" "Max and Eugene in Peril on the High Seas"
Plot[]
The group is having a party on the beach with theLorbs. Everyone is having a good time, exceptRapunzel who is in the village, admiring all her birthdayLanterns. She comes across one that includes a letter written by herfather seven years after she was kidnapped. Upon reading the letter, Rapunzel begins to miss her family and friends and quickly feels homesick. The next day, Rapunzel attempts to lift her spirit by exploring theisland. She comes across amagical idol and the moment Rapunzel takes possession of it, she begins having hallucinations of King Frederic. Rapunzel shows everyone the idol and soon each of them begins using it to give them each their inner most happiness. However, the idol corrupts Rapunzel, who becomes greedy and craves the idol's power. She takes it away from her friends and locks herself inside the hut. The idol's power quickly starts to corrupt everyone, who all formulate plans to get Rapunzel out of the hut and give him/her the idol. However, once everyone begins fighting over the idol, Rapunzel seems to have snapped back to her senses and offered to get rid of the idol herself since she is the one who found it.
Unfortunately, it's revealed that Rapunzel was lying. She runs off to find a private place on the island so she can keep using the idol's power for herself.Pascal leaves Rapunzel and informs the Lorbs of the situation who arrive to help. According to the Lorbs, the idol was created long ago by a Lorb warlock named Horb to stop sadness. Unfortunately, his noble act quickly backfired when the rest of the Lorb culture grew obsessive over its power. He tried to destroy it, but it became lost in the chaos. The Lorbs manage to convince Rapunzel to hand over the idol, but it then makes her hallucinateVarian threatening her father. Rapunzel tries to "stop Varian" but during the scuffle, the Lorbs fall under the idol's control. They take Rapunzel and Pascal captive and soon begin terrorizing the village.Eugene andCassandra come to Rapunzel's rescue, but they still crave the idol's power and begin to fight the Lorbs to get it for themselves. Rapunzel finally snaps back to her sense and is determined to get the idol to the temple near the village and stop the madness she has created. Rapunzel gets the idol and reaches the top of the temple where she is about to destroy it. However, the idol in an effort to save itself, makes hallucinations of Rapunzel's parents and friends appear before her as an angry mob, and urge her not to destroy the idol. Seeing Rapunzel in distress finally snaps everyone out of the idol’s control and together with Eugene and Cassandra, Rapunzel finally destroys the idol, freeing everyone from its power for good.
Afterward, despite still feeling homesick, Rapunzel decides to send out her very own lantern with a letter to her parents, expressing how she misses them. The lantern makes it all the way toCorona and approaches thecastle towards a waiting King Frederic andQueen Arianna.
Cast[]
- Mandy Moore asRapunzel
- Zachary Levi asFlynn Rider
- Eden Espinosa asCassandra
- James Monroe Iglehart asLance Strongbow
- Jeff Ross asHook Foot
- Paul F. Tompkins asShorty
- Clancy Brown asKing Frederic
- Jeremy Jordan asVarian (cameo only)
- M.C. Gainey asCaptain of the Guard
- Flula Borg asAlfons
- Russi Taylor asLorbs
- Richard Steven Horvitz asLorbs
Additional Voices[]
- Brian T. Delaney
- Jennifer Hale
- Laura Bailey
- Keith Silverstein
- Erica Lindbeck
- Yuri Lowenthal
- Travis Willingham
- Ashly Burch
- April Winchell
- Kari Wahlgren
Song[]
- Picture to Burn
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Moral: True happiness comes from the heart.
- Varian,Captain of the Guard,Attila,Friedborg,Ulf,Big Nose,Old Lady Crowley,Seraphina,Lady Caine's thugs andThe Baron's men appear as visions in this episode.
- Corona Castle andthe Tower's wreckage are featured in this episode.
- The full name of the idol is called "Idol of Vershaftsbezeigungengien", which is a long word gag of German.
- Eugene is wearing his royal outfit fromTangled: Before Ever After when he holds the idol.
- This is the second time where Varian appears in a vision. The first was "The Quest for Varian".
- This is the last episode to air in 2018.
- The Episode's title is a reference to a lyric from the song "Happiness" fromYou're a Good Man, Charlie Brown.
- When corrupted by the Idol, several of theRichard Horvitz-voiced Lorbs' war cry almost sounds like "Ai-yi-yi-yi-yi!" like Alpha 5 fromPower Rangers, who he also voiced.
- Rapunzel says that one of her birthday lanterns has her name embroidered on it, and King Frederic refers to Rapunzel as "Rapunzel" in his letter to her when she was seven. However, she was stolen as a baby and it was Mother Gothel who gave her that name.
International premieres[]
- February 9,2019 (Germany)
- May 13,2019 (Poland)
