The place of happiness has Reba McEntireThe character, Bobbie, does her best to hide that there is a mouse in the tavern.
In Us every weekexclusive clip from the Friday, December 12 episode of the NBC show The place of happinessBobbie tries to charm a health inspector named Monica, played by Cheri Oteri.
“Have I told you how happy we are that you’re here? We’re happy, happy, happy!” Bobbie gushed. “I’m just happy that a sister is doing so well in the world. We have to stay together.”
Monica, for her part, is “wary” of Bobbie’s kindness.
“These bar mats are placed correctly, but I want you to make sure to clean underneath after each shift,” she notes. “What is this? I have a piece of trash here that looks like it was chewed by something.”
As viewers see a mouse running around the tavern, Bobbie tries to play along by pretending to have a hot flash before eating a napkin.
“Oh, it’s me [who chewed on the paper]”, she said. “I’m a paper chewer. I had a breakfast menu.
The place of happiness centers around Bobbie as she inherits her father’s restaurant and discovers a new business partner in her long-lost half-sister (Belissa Escobedo). Before the show returned for Season 2 in November, McEntire, 70, and Escobedo, 27, shared how excited they were for viewers to see how The place of happiness has evolved.
“It’s a great place. We know our audience, we know each other better and we’ve solidified ourselves. We didn’t have a big break between the end of the first season and the start of the second season, so we dove back into it,” McEntire teased. “We bond a lot more. All six of us are very confident and very comfortable with each other – so much so that when we have a guest cast, we feel very comfortable sharing the stage.”
Escobedo said the connection could be felt in the show.
“As we become more comfortable and more connected, we see that in the characters as well,” she added. “Because we feel comfortable with our own characters and each personality becomes a little deeper. You become more interested in that person.”
She continued, “That’s what I’m so excited for everyone to see, is how much everyone’s relationship has progressed to become even more of a whole. It’s so funny.”
McEntire teased We that the stories in Season 2 are even bigger and better, adding, “We’ve progressed and we’ve grown together. We’re a tight-knit family – even though [Belissa and I] are the only ones that are blood related in the series. But I feel like we’re kids who were adopted into a big family called Happy’s Place.
The place of happiness airs on NBC Fridays at 8 p.m. ET before airing the next day on Peacock.
