Mabel's Cottage

**Mabel's Cottage** is a location in Jonah Campbell's 2023 animated feature film, *Pablo And Tyrone's Epic Escape*, and its 2024 sequel, *The Empire State Express*. It is a small cottage located in the rural countryside of Friendship, Maine on the outskirts of a quaint village. It is also the home of Mabel Griffin, as well as her two adoptive sons, Pablo and Tyrone.

## Appearances:

### *Pablo And Tyrone's Epic Escape*

Mabel's Cottage lies in a countryside field. Mabel herself lives in it alone and usually just spends her time cooking, watching TV, reading, and cleaning, combining the first two by watching the cooking channel, to which she often ends up falling asleep to. Mabel also keeps a rifle in her cottage handy just in case if rats, burglars, murderers, or any other FBI-wanted criminals manage to enter her cottage.

One day, when Remy and his brother Emile enter Mabel's kitchen to get some saffron for some food Remy found. However, when Remy finds the saffron, he gets distracted by a broadcast on Mabel's tv that talks about Gusteau's death, which occurred two years ago after his restaurant gained a negative review by the antagonistic food critic Anton Ego. But just as Remy is processing this devastating news, Mabel turns off the tv and sees Remy and Emile in her kitchen. Panicking, she grabs her rifle and begins shooting all over the place in hopes of (basically) executing the girls, but her recklessness ends up causing the chandelier in the midst of her cottage to come crashing down and expose the colony to her, prompting her to run out of her home in fear and the rats do the same.

### *The Empire State Express*

#### Before the trip

The film starts off with Pablo and Tyrone sleeping in bed together on Christmas Eve, listening for Santa Claus's sleigh bells. They wake up after hearing some sort of bells, but find nothing out their bedroom window. The boys hear the sound again coming from outside of their bedroom, so they go downstairs to investigate, only to find no presents under the Christmas tree, a plate of uneaten cookies, and a full glass of milk. Suddenly, the jingling noise is heard once again coming from inside the kitchen. Pablo and Tyrone at first think it's Santa, but it turns out to be their adoptive father, Ivan (who flew in from Wyoming to spend Christmas with his new family), with Austin (who's spending the night), so they run back to their bedroom. From the keyhole in their bedroom door, Pablo and Tyrone watch their parents tuck Austin into bed. Austin tells them about some things Pablo and Tyrone told him regarding Santa's nonexistence, but Ivan assures him that they were only joking, and Mabel says to Austin that Santa won't come until he goes to sleep.

Pablo and Tyrone decide to research the North Pole in their world atlas book, which claims that the said location is "stark, barren, and devoid of life". Just as Pablo and Tyrone start to get the feeling that Santa may not be real after all, they hear Mabel and Ivan approaching their bedroom, so they quickly get back into bed and pretend to be asleep. Mabel and Ivan check up on Pablo and Tyrone and quietly comment to each other on how they used to stay up late on Christmas Eve, waiting for Santa to arrive. They describe their current state as the "end of the magic".

Later, Pablo and Tyrone are both suddenly woken up again. They discover that the clock is frozen at 11:55 PM for some unknown reason.

#### After the trip

Right before Pablo and Tyrone go home, they say goodbye to their new friends they made on the trip, Martin and Chris Kratt, Diego and Alicia Márquez, Sid, Gerald, Gabriella, and May, who all feel deeply sorry for Pablo after losing the silver bell at the North Pole. Just as the train leaves, the boys wave goodbye to the Conductor from their house, who shouts, "Merry Christmas!" to them. Uniqua and Tasha, who have been chasing the boys throughout the course of the film, wave goodbye too before entering their house to go to bed. On the way back to their bedroom, Pablo and Tyrone find out that Santa still hasn't arrived yet.

The next morning, Austin excitedly wakes up Pablo and Tyrone, telling them that Santa has been to their house, then goes to wake up Mabel and Ivan. Later, Pablo, Tyrone, and Austin all go downstairs to open their Christmas presents. Austin finds one small final present from behind the tree, which has the silver bell Pablo lost, alongside a note. The boys enjoy its lovely sound, but when Mabel shakes it, she doesn't hear anything since she doesn't believe in Santa Claus. Ivan shakes it too, but he doesn't hear anything either and thinks it must be broken. Shortly afterwards, Pablo, Tyrone, and Austin are then called by Mabel, and Pablo puts the bell on the end table before leaving.