It took longer than they told us it would by like an hour to 90 minutes last year.
My report on it:
Hot and Chewy
I woke up at some ungodly hour and got ready to head to EPCOT for the taping of the Chew. They had a lot of guidelines in the emails they had sent about the clothes that would be ok to wear and I followed them; unlike some of the others that showed up.
As I wasn’t sure if the bus would be there with enough time to get there timely, I took a taxi over to EPCOT and got to explain to the driver how to actually get to EPCOT. Not sure if you should be a taxi driver at Disney if you don’t know how to get to a major theme park. My crazy earliness paid off and I was among the first in line. I killed my time playing on my phone and people watching as the various other taping guests arrived.
When checking in, my paperwork stated I had a ticket for myself plus 1 and they just gave me two one day EPCOT tickets despite being by myself and an armband to show I was with the show. Not sure if these one day tickets expire but we’ll find out next year when we use them sometime.
The next 1.5 hours pretty much involved a lot of standing around and waiting and being shuffled from the front of the park to the World Showcase stage and waiting in a huge line out there.
It was almost 9AM when the taping was supposed to start when we were actually let into the seating area for the audience and got to wait around some more. We were given information by the production director and entertained by a B-rate Comedian until the taping actually started. The audience seating was in the direct sunlight as well. This got really hot. Eventually the taping started which they would do a segment and then break to get to the next one. It wasn’t really the most exciting time but it totally was something different to enjoy in the midst of my Disney trip. We got to see Mario cook italian, Carla cook Salmon w/ Hidden Valley Ranch and Michael Symon cook food from The Land. We were given a Hidden Valley Gift Bag which actually was rather helpful for carrying our stuff for the rest of the day once I met up with my husband. We didn’t get to taste anything as an audience at this showing. It also ran over the time it was supposed to and didn’t get done until almost 11AM but luckily my husband had bus delays so it didn’t matter much to us.
Dis_Yoda in Selfie
Audience Giveaway
I have more details about the aftermath of it in my full trip report - but it was really hot and in the direct sun. Because of all the delays - I ended up heavily dehydrated and overheated. It took a while to cool off for me afterwards even with a large amount of liquids to rehydrate - basically until my husband and I got to the movies and I had an extremely large Icee while we watched Everest.
