Happiness Is...

**Happiness Is...** is the thirty-first episode of *Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure*. It premiered on August 26, 2018 and it is the tenth episode of the second season.

## Synopsis

A homesick Rapunzel discovers a mysterious idol with the power to bring instant happiness to whomever holds it, but its power threatens to tear the group apart from each other.

## Plot

The group are having a party on the beach with the Lorbs. Everyone is having a good time, except Rapunzel who is in the village, admiring all her birthday Lanterns. She comes across one that includes a letter written by her father 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 the island. She comes across a magical 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 begin using it to give them each their inner most happiness. However, Rapunzel 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 affect 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 offers to get rid of the idol herself since she is the one who found it.

Unfortunately, it is revealed that Rapunzel was lying. She runs off to find a private place on the island so she can keep using the evil 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 to eliminate sadness. Though his act was noble, he never realized that sadness is a needed emotion. As a result, it quickly backfired when the rest of the Lorb culture grew obsessive over the power, corrupting them. He tried to destroy it, but it became lost in the chaos. The Lorbs manage to convince Rapunzel to hand over the idol, but she hallucinates Varian 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 and Cassandra 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, hallucinations of her 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.

Afterwards, 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 to Corona, and approaches the castle towards a waiting King Frederic and Queen Arianna.

## Trivia

* Quirin's own biological child Varian, Cassandra's own adopted dad Captain of the Guard, Attila, Friedborg, Ulf, Big Nose, Old Lady Crowley, Seraphina, Lady Caine's thugs and The Baron's men appear only just as visions via the Idol of Vershaftsbezeigungengien's evil and the magical cursed powers briefly during the episode of the second season and the series respectively.
* Corona Castle and the Tower's wreckage are featured on screen briefly during the episode of the second season and the series respectively.
* The full name of the evil and the cursed idol is called the "Idol of Vershaftsbezeigungengien", which is a long word gag of German.
* King Edmund's own biological child Eugene Fitzherbert is shown to be wearing his own royal outfit that he wore previously from the Disney Channel animated television movie *Tangled: Before Ever After* when he holds the pretty evil and the wicked magical cursed idol of Vershaftsbezeigungengien that his own girlfriend Rapunzel found earlier while she walked at the beach alone by herself briefly during the episode of the second season and the series respectively.
* This is the second and the final time where Quirin's own biological child Varian appears only as a vision briefly during an episode of the series. The first was the episode The Quest for Varian of season one and the series respectively.
* This is the last episode to air in the year of 2018 because the series went on a short hiatus for a total of seven whole months during the second season.
* The episode's plot is somewhat similar to the Pixar movie *Inside Out*, while the episode title is a direct reference to a lyric from the song "Happiness" from the musical *You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown*.
* While they are being temporarily corrupted by the evil and the wicked of the magical cursed Idol of Vershaftsbezeigungengien briefly, various several unnamed members of the Lorbs tribe that are voiced by Richard Horvitz say "Ai-yi-yi-yi-yi!" pretty much like Alpha 5 from *Power Rangers*, who he also voiced previously.
* This is the last and the final episode of the series that Quirin's own biological child Varian wears his own long black and gray trench coat. The first two times of the series that he wore a black and gray trench coat and a gray bauta of his were the two of the previous episodes What the Hair?! and the second half of the special one hour episode Secret of the Sun Drop of season one and the series respectively.
* The way Eugene Fitzherbert's own girlfriend Rapunzel is sending a note that is tied to a lantern to fly back to the two of her own biological parents at their castle home briefly at the end of the episode of season two and the series respectively. Also, it is the exact same way Quirin's own biological child Varian sent a note and a key that were attached to a lantern to Eugene Fitzherbert's own girlfriend Rapunzel briefly during the episode The Quest for Varian of season one and the series respectively.
* The way Rapunzel's own lantern flies back to her own home at Corona for her own biological parents briefly at the near end of the season two episode and the series respectively. Also, it is the exact same way Rapunzel's own biological mom and dad sent a lantern to fly to their own biological child Rapunzel who was abducted by Cassandra's own evil biological parent Mother Gothel briefly during the CGI animated movie Tangled.
* The way Maximus pretty angrily blew one member of the Lorb tribe away from hanging onto the top of his own snout briefly at the near end of the episode of season two and the series respectively. Also, it is the exact same way Maximus angrily blows away Rapunzel's own little and green pet chameleon Pascal and King Edmund's own pet and his absent-minded sidekick black bird Hamuel to prevent the two of them from hanging onto the top of his own snout briefly at the near of the beginning of the season three episode Day of the Animals and the series respectively. Plus, it is the exact same way Rapunzel's own boyfriend Eugene Fitzherbert blows away the little orange flame away from the Demanitus Scroll briefly during the second half of the one hour special episode Cassandra's Revenge of season three and the series respectively. Also, it is the exact same way Jack Spicer blew away a little flame on his foot briefly during the Xiaolin Showdown episode Hannibal's Revenge. Plus, it is the exact same way Raimundo Pedrosa tried to blew Jack Spicer away when the latter activated the Changing Chopsticks to enter inside one of Omi's ear alongside Toshiro Tohomiko's own biological youngest daughter Kimiko Tohomiko briefly during the Xiaolin Showdown episode Saving Omi to bring Omi back to the good side. Also, it is the exact same way Kiera's own sibling Catalina told a wild red bird to shoo away from Stan's own best friend and partner Pete briefly during the episode The Lost Treasure of Herz Der Sonne of season three and the series respectively. Plus, it is the exact same way Quirin's own biological child Varian puts out the small blue flame by patting down on his own patch collared teal shirt briefly during the episode Great Expotations of season one and the series respectively. Also, it is the exact same way Ash Ketchum's own male Pikachu blew onto his own injured little arm because it has stung him quite a little bit after Flint and Lola's own oldest biological child Brock sprayed a potion onto it to allow to fully heal briefly during the Pokémon: Advanced episode You Never Can Taillow.
* The way King Edmund's own biological child Eugene Fitzherbert pretty angrily says "That statue belongs to us!" to Alfons and the several members of the Lorbs tribe members briefly during the episode of season two and the series respectively. Also, it is the exact same way Mother Gothel's own biological child Cassandra pretty angrily says "Your destiny belongs to me" to Eugene Fitzherbert's own girlfriend Rapunzel briefly at the near of the beginning of the first half of the special one hour episode Rapunzel's Return of season three and the series respectively. Plus, it is the exact same way Chase Young said "Omi belongs to me now and forever!" when he turned Omi into a small and yellow kitten when the latter swore his own loyalty to the former briefly at the near end of the Xiaolin Showdown episode Saving Omi. Also, it is the exact same way Chase Young said "Therefore, the Bird of Paradise belongs to me!" briefly during the Xiaolin Showdown third season episode Bird of Paradise. Plus, it is the exact same way Chase Young said "Dojo belongs to me now" after Master Monk Guan traded him offscreen for the Spear of Guan briefly during the Xiaolin Showdown episode Master Monk Guan. Also, it is the exact same way Odion Ishtar and Ishizu Ishtar's own little sibling Marik Ishtar said "Joey belongs to me now" while he held his own Millennium Rod while he brainwashed Serenity Wheeler's own older sibling Joey Wheeler as a mind puppet to duel against Solomon Muto’s own grandson Yugi Muto briefly during the Yu-Gi-Oh! episode Friends Til the End, Part 2. Also, it is the exact same way Yugi Muto's own alter ego Yami Yugi AKA Pharaoh and Atem said "His soul belongs to Dartz now" when he, Téa Gardner and Tristan Taylor were pretty much shocked while they saw Joey Wheeler's own soulless body was at the fence briefly at the near end of the Yu-Gi-Oh! episode Fighting for a Friend - Part 5. Plus, it is the exact same way Tristan Taylor said "That belongs to Bakura" when Marik Ishtar’s alter ego Yami Marik was shown to be wearing the Millennium Ring of Bakura Ryou's briefly during the Yu-Gi-Oh! episode The Final Face Off - Part 1. Also, it is the exact same way James says "That belongs to Morpeko" when he realizes that their former released Grookey holds a a single Nanab Berry that is inside of a light brown cardboard box that is chock full of their own various items at their own secret hideout briefly during the Pokémon Master Journeys: The Series episode When a House is Not a Home!.
* The way Mother Gothel's own biological child Cassandra says "I had no idea, Lance is so graceful" while she is pretty much amazed when she sees Eugene Fitzherbert's own childhood best friend Lance Strongbow and Hook Hand's own little sibling Hook Foot are dancing alongside Alfons and the several members of the Lorbs tribe at the front of a campfire briefly during the season two episode and the series respectively. Also, it is the exact same way Omi and Kimiko Tohomiko said "I never knew Raimundo was a chess player" and "I never knew Raimundo could do anything using his head" when they were pretty much amazed while they saw how good Raimundo Pedrosa was at playing a single game of chess against a wild adult sized and talking Tyrannosaurus Rex from the dinosaur era briefly during the Xiaolin Showdown episode Oil in the Family.
* The way King Frederic and Queen Arianna's own biological child Rapunzel destroys the wicked and the evil and the cursed Idol of Vershaftsbezeigungengien alongside the help from King Edmund's own biological child Eugene Fitzherbert and Mother Gothel's own biological child Cassandra permanently at the top of the alter at the near end of the season two episode and the series respectively. Also, it is the exact same way Eugene Fitzherbert's own biological dad King Edmund destroys the evil and the cursed Mind Trap alone by himself permanently during the special three part series finale episode Plus Est En Vous of season three.

## Goof

* During Cassandra's own hallucination of her sword-fighting alongside her own adopted father, Captain of the Guards, in the one quick shot, Mother Gothel’s own biological child Cassandra is shown briefly to have two left feet instead of a left and right one.

## Cast

* Mandy Moore as Rapunzel
* Eden Espinosa as Cassandra
* Zachary Levi as Eugene
* James Monroe Iglehart as Lance
* Jeff Ross as Hook Foot
* Paul F. Tompkins as Shorty
* Clancy Brown as King Frederic
* Jeremy Jordan as Varian
* M.C. Gainey as Captain of the Guard
* Flula Borg as Alfons
* Russi Taylor as lorbs
* Richard Horvitz as lorbs

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