- “Oh, sir. Don't you think this is perhaps a little too much of a cruel joke to be playing on somebody as...well, the, the maintenance guy?”
- ―Kendall to Mr. Nottingham about giving a Skeeter a chance to come up with an idea about the new hotel so he can become the manager.
Kendall Duncan is the main antagonist in Disney's 2008 live-action fantasy comedy film Bedtime Stories. He is the former manager at the Sunny Vista Nottingham Hotel who was originally going to be its successor. However, he also plans to build a hotel of his own, where it involves demolishing the school both Bobbi and Patrick Bronson, Skeeter Bronson's niece and nephew respectively, were attending. He is also the arch-rival of Skeeter himself.
Biography[]
Kendall Duncan is the arrogant manager of the Sunny Vista Nottingham Hotel. He had been dating Notingham's daughter, Violet, though mostly just so he can become the manager of the new motel, which works to his delight-secretly he's dating the hotel clerk, Aspen. When given the opportunity, he proposes an idea for a rock and roll theme for the hotel to Mr. Nottingham. However later, the handyman Skeeter Bronson, the protagonist, tells him that the idea has been used for years, and Duncan is scolded for it. Unbeknownst to Duncan, Skeeter's niece and nephew, Bobby and Patrick, have the ability to make their bed time stories come to life whenever they tell the story. In their first one, Sir Fix-a-lot (Skeeter) was given a shot to become champion of the kingdom (hotel owner) against Sir Butt Kiss (Duncan). This proves to work when Skeeter is given a chance to propose an idea of his after Duncan's is rejected-much to Duncan's dismay. However Duncan is pleased to find out the location for the new hotel would replace the school Bobbi and Patrick go to.
In their third bed time story, Skeeter, Bobbi, and Patrick come up with one that involves a space fight between Duncan's counterpart, General Kendallo and Skeeter's counterpart Skeeto Bronsonian-in which Skeeto defeats him. This proves useful the next night when they propose their ideas for a hotel theme to Mr. Nottingham. Kendall comes up with a Broadway theme, while Skeeter tells them basically that a theme does not contribute to the hotel's glory, but the imagination of the guests. Skeeter's theme is then used. Duncan is disappointed, but still happy to tell Skeeter where the hotel is being built, later turning his niece and nephew against him as well as their teacher Jill Hastings. Duncan is happy to play part in demolishing the school and has the workers turn their cell phones off-this proves difficult for Nottingham to get in touch with Duncan after Skeeter manages to get the hotel relocated. When Bobbi and Patrick leave the protest to go inside the school and stop the demolition, their mom notices them missing. One of the workers tells Duncan they should check the place again, but a frustrated Duncan shoves him aside and decides to blow it up himself - despite the risk of children being in there. Fortunately Skeeter stops Kendall just in time. As for Kendall's punishment: is that he got charged for attempted child murder and mass destruction by the authorities and ends up being a member of the waiting staff, along with Aspen at the new hotel.
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