The Monty Python reference in the previous chapter was, essentially, the entire thing. Not the bit about hobbits, but the whole architects watching people fall outside their window thing was a MP sketch.

THE SEARCH FOR THE PLOT (part seven)

Meanwhile, Merry was mourning the untimely and unsightly death of his "friend" Pippin.

He wandered morosely through Disneyland, shedding the tears of a thousand sorrows.

Suddenly, a Disneyland employee ran up to him. "Why are you so upset?" he asked, "Don't you know that this is the happiest place on earth?"

Merry was about to respond when a giant blancmange (bluh-mahnje) came and ate them both.

TBC

Remaining fellowship members: Sam, Gandalf, Gimli