DIS RESTAURANT BOARD CONTEST! - Can You Make Us Laugh?

[Kaycee]

Attention all Disney restaurant board devotees! The restaurant board moderators, in conjunction with Webmaster Pete, are happy and very excited to announce our DIS Restaurant Board Contest: Your Funniest Dining Experience at WDW.

Please share the stories of your most outrageous and hilarious moments related to Disney dining here in this thread. An experience at any WDW table service restaurant, counter service restaurant, lounge, or bar qualifies. We do kindly ask that you keep your stories as concise as possible, while still including all the details that will make us laugh.

Please use this thread for contest submissions only. If you have any questions or comments about the contest, please put those in a separate thread.

The prize for the funniest story will be $50.00 in Disney Dollars to use toward your next meal in WDW.

Submissions will be accepted through March 5, 2006. The Restaurant Board Moderators will be the judges. In the event of a close call, three finalists will be submitted to Webmaster Pete for the final decision.

So c'mon everyone, put on your thinking caps, go back in time if need be, and let the fun begin!

 

[lfama]

Last October, my boyfriend and I ate breakfast at Akershus. Princess Aurora was taking photos with everyone, and my boyfriend asked who she was. I told him it was Princess Aurora from Sleeping Beauty, to which he responded, "She has a name?" When we sat down, the princesses came over to us one by one. Mulan had come over to us and asked us where we were from. We told her NY and we were skipping class. She told us that wouldn't make our parents proud. The last one to greet us was Snow White. She came over to our table, said hello, and what does my boyfriend do? Says "Why, hello, Princess Aurora!" Snow White just glared at him. Literally, she was speechless. I was mortified! I corrected my boyfriend, saying, "no, this is Snow White!" And then I think I added "how the HELL do you not know Snow White?!" My boyfriend was so embarrassed, and Snow White was a bit reluctant to pose for a photo with my boyfriend after that. I will never have breakfast at Akershus again!

 

[zulaya]

On our first family trip in 2000, my DS was 5 and DD was 4. I of course was excited to have obtained that elusive PS to Cinderella's Breakfast in the castle. Being the good Disney mom, I had prepped the kids, saying that they would probably see Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, etc. We got their for one of the first PS in the morning. The kids were in awe as we entered the castle dining room. Oddly enough, it was DS who was the most excited about meeting the characters. He talked to Cinderella and asked her where her mice friends were. He told Sleeping Beauty that he was happy she wore her blue dress instead of her pink one because blue was his favorite color. Then Snow White visited us. (Keep in mind, DS is 5 at this time) DS popped up out of his chair and said to her, "Snow White! Hey! Where's your 7 dorks ?" It was all I could do to not bust a gut laughing!

 

[tjmouse]

I can't believe I am telling you all this, but here it goes!

Setting the scene -
Crystal Palace, lunch time, March 2005.

My dd was turning 4 so we decided to take a trip to WDW for her birthday. We made her birthday reservations at Crystal Palace. They were so great! They had the table decorated and after lunch they brought out the cupcake and the card signed by all the characters.

It was then time for the little parade that they have around the restaurant. My dd was directed to follow Pooh, who was holding the "It's My Special Day" sign. Once I finally got her to understand what to do, she was off. The restaurant was pretty full that day so there were probably about 25 kids marching around the restaurant by this time.

Here I was, following the group with my video camera, trying to catch the magical moment on tape. Suddenly, I very clumsily trip over the child infront of me and it started a domino affect! I couldn't believe it! Here I was kneeling on the floor infront of 50 or more people, at least 5 little kids looking at me like I was the stupidest adult they had ever seen! Thank goodness no one was hurt in "the filming of this movie"! Well, after dusting myself off and apologizing to the children in front of me, I rewound the tape. Ah hah! Pooh was the culprit! Apparently, Pooh had to make a quick stop to avoid running over a child that darted out infront of him, which was impressive considering his limited periperhal vision. When he stopped, every child behind him ran into the person (or character) infront of them. Not one child was paying a bit of attention to where they were going! It was just like a Three Stooges bit where Moe stops and the other two run right into him. Well, when the little girl infront of me stopped, I did the same thing, but on a much bigger scale!

I wanted to show Pooh the video, so I flagged down his CM friend and she let me show it to Pooh. You could tell that Pooh was embarassed, but you could also tell that Pooh's "inner self" was laughing so hard, he had to excuse himself for a few minutes.

You know what the worst thing was? When we went back in December, we had the same server! I remembered him of course, but when he came to our table, he said "hey, I have waited on you before!" He didn't mention the incident, but he said he "remembered it was dd's birthday." Yeah right! He remembered me almost taking out a half-dozen little Pooh fans! I was so embarassed the entire meal. And, needless to say, I DID NOT attempt to video tape the parade again.

 

[Syrreal]

We were eating at Whispering Canyon about five or six years ago. A couple of friends had joined me and dbf (now dh) for dinner. We had gotten a late reservation (as usual) and were one of the last people left at the end of the day. We had a great meal and great interaction. Just then dbf passes some gas...it was so loud too. All of a sudden, from around the corner we hear our waiter yell to the kitchen and other waiters "Hey this guy just let out an air biscuit!" I swear, I didn't know whether to laugh or be embarrased...I think I did both. We still laugh about that. It was so funny and so in character with the restaurant.

 

[bigsis1970]

Hi Ok here is our story -- On our very first trip to Disney in Dec 2001 we made ressies for the Ice Cream Social it was a warm day in Epcot and we all were ready for our Ice cream at 3pm .. we get in the booth and sit down and the Characters start showing up - just as our Ice Creams do so as the waitress puts my DD who was 8 in front of her Chip scoots over in the booth next to her and fans the napkin out and tucks it into my DD's shirt then picks up the spoon and feeds her along with patting her head. she was laughing soo hard its a wonder he got the spoon in and the best part is I have it caputured in Photos to tease her about it forever!! Michelle

 

[mrp4352]

My story happened last September at Le Cellier. My friend asked our waiter if he could take a picture of us and the waiter immediately replied, "Quick, put it up, you're not supposed to have cameras in here and I'll have to confiscate it if we're not careful!" Of course, she immediately turns bright red and almost drops her camera while trying to hide it. But she managed to turn even redder when we started laughing!

The rest of the evening there was a parade of waiters at our table, wanting to see the camera chick!

 

[rogerram]

a few years ago at Akershus in epcot, myself, DW , DD and DS had lunch. It was a buffet and we were having a great time, so I went up to the buffet and brought back another plate. I had DS (7 or 8 at the time) try this excellent special meat dish. He asked to try my steak. of course I let him. About half way to chewing it, I asked him if he liked it. He is nodding his head when I asked if he knew what it was. He shook his head no and just looked at me. Well I then said to him"you remember the movie Bambi?" The look was priceless. He suddenly didn't like it and he lets out a"Mom...argh, they killed Bambi?". We still laugh every time we go by there at EPCOT. I always ask him how Bambi is doing. He is 17 now.

 

[SeaSpray]

Our most memorable, and funniest, Disney restaurant meal was dinner at 1900 Park Fare at the Grand Floridian, back in 2001. The food was great but what made this memorable was the interaction between the characters and DSs Craig and Robby (ages at that time were 13 and 10). This meal was called the "Villain's Dinner" because it featured many of the bad guys from Disney movies. On this night we saw Cruella DeVille, Capt Hook, Prince John, Governor Radcliffe and the Queen of Hearts. Both Capt Hook and Prince John kidded around a lot with Craig and Robby, returning to our table over and over again during our meal, trying to steal their food! They saw that my kids were enjoying this and really played up their characters, as you will see....


They say that a picture is worth a thousand words, and since this story is better when you can see what happened, here goes....!

Quite a drama unfolded during our meal...


Robby made a wise crack to Hook...

...so like any good villain, he attacks! And he refuses to sign Robby's autograph book!!

Prince John seems friendly enough at first....

but then uses Robby's head as a table!!

Old Prince John is a crafty fellow and walks off with Craig's food!

Robby reacts and quickly protects his food from him....

and this not-so-sly villain comes up empty handed!

He's persistant! Prince John doesn't give up so easily and continues trying to steal!

During dessert, Capt Hook wandered over again and saw Craig's cupcake...he picked it up and pretended he was going to smoosh it in Craig's face. Hook looked at us, and we told Hook to "go for it!", so he did!!

However, this isn't quite the reaction Hook expected! Craig thought it was funny! (and what was especially funny is that we could hear "Hook" laughing)

Five years later, DSs, DH, and I still laugh about dinner that night and our "close encounter" with some Disney Villains! Where else would something like this happen, except at Disney World?!

 

[Us2]

Many years ago our family of four went to dinner at the Poly. My husband was brought his coke and was very thirsty so starting drinking it down quickly. When he got to nearly the bottom of the glass, he found two hair pins in the soda which he managed to keep from going down his throat. We called the manager over. Now my husband is gagging because he realizes that they fell out of someone's hair. I say to the manager "this isn't acceptable and should never happen. Imagine had it been a child drinking this down quickly." The manager apologizes to my husband and says "I am so very sorry, the waitress is a new one." Now we weren't sure what being new had to do with hairpins getting in a soda, but my husband being the smart mouth he can be blurts back, wow hairpins if she's new, what false teeth if she's an old one? The look on the manager's face was priceless. My husband was being "Goofy" but of course the manager didn't know my husband's sense of humor. My daughters and I were hysterical and I am sure we probably destroyed that poor mans day.

 

[yellowfish78]

There were three of us eating at Chef Mickeys for dinner (all adults!) During dinner, Donald came by to pose for photos. Out of the blue, Goofy comes RUNNING up behind Donald and "tags" him. Before you know it, they are off and running around the tables. To get away from Donald, Goofy decides to sit down at our table and act like he's been there the whole time.
Now this is where Goofy starts the trouble. He's opening sugar packets (every last one at our table) and pouring them in our ice tea, he tries to make "napkin hats", and is mixing the veggies from dinner with the ice cream we got for dessert. He finally decides to get up out of his seat, trips on the chair next to him, and falls flat on his face! This little boy at the next table stood up and literally YELLED to the whole restaurant: "How dare you push Goofy!?!"
Goofy stood up, "dusted" himself off, and the hands when on the hips, with his head shaking "How dare you!"
He wouldn't leave until he got his 'I'm Sorry' and shook the little boy's hand at the next table for catching us in the act.

 

[PixiePop]

We were eating at Liberty Tree Tavern- Me, DH, DS and my mom. The characters were really in a mood that night. Dale was picking on Minnie, who than proceeded to untie Dale's apron strings multiple times. After a while, Dale got on the floor and was creeping up behind Minnie and got right next to her and tugged on her dress.--It got caught a little bit and lifted up.

My son yelled - very loudly- Hey, Dale is looking up Minnie's dress!! Everyone in the vicinity started laughing and Dale went running a way.

Pixiepop

 

[mlj'smom]

Our funniest restaurant moment happened at Le Cellier. It was HOT (August), we went in for something cool for lunch. My kids wanted to order a neat drink with glow ice cubes. The waiter brought out a rootbeer float in a tall clear glass for my son, with a red, glowing cube at the bottom. He set it down fizzing in front of my son, then 5, and told him to hurry up and start drinking before it blows. My poor little guy almost freaked out ~ here we are in a dark restaurant with a foaming, red glowing volcano getting ready to blow up, so he did what comes natural ~ he stood up and started yelling, arms flapping, "Get it away from me!" Everyone turned to see what was going on, while the rest of our family was busting up laughing at this poor, hot little boy who was genuinely scared! For the rest of the trip, his older sisters teased him with red glowing ice cubes and threateded to start another "volcano" every time he annoyed them. You'd better believe that he behaved as soon as they threateded that! Oh, and mom enjoyed the rootbeer float, as he would not go near it, let alone drink it!

 

[momshark]

June 2004

DS is 7 years old

His first trip to the World.

We went to the Rose and Crown for dinner before Illuminations one night. When ordering our beverages we convinced my DS to get a Shirley Temple. You know, with giner ale and grenadine. Our waitress asked if we would like a glowing ice cube. Sure!! we all said. When our drinks came we all were ooohing and ahhing at the lovely colors, except for DS. He looked in his glass then looked up very concerned and asked, "But where's the temple?" Everyone started cracking up even the waitress. The older adults at other tables around ours asked about the ice cubes and before we knew it everyone on the outdoor terrace had ordered glowing cubes too. Fun for all.

 

[pooh2001]

May 26, 2003
Liberty Tree Tavern dinner

My DH has a very dry sense of humor. He was joking about the rolls on our table to our family. Chip and Dale heard his comments. Since their characters can not talk, Chip and Dale fell to the ground and started to bang their paws into the floor. It look really funny with their 'butts' wiggling up in the air and their head and front paws on the ground.

The little boy at the next table said - "Are Chip and Dale looking for thier contact lenses ?"

Then Goofy ran into the room and 'tripped' over Dale.
The guests in the room burst out laughing.

 

[dsnymomof4]

On our trip in August, 2004, we had breakfast at CRT (our one and only time there.) Now, my husband is a lot better now, but at that time, still did not know who all of the princesses were. For example, he thought Cinderella was Snow White. Now, if he saw Belle in her yellow dress standing next to the beast, he could probably figure out that she was "Beauty", but probably did not know her real name. As you know, however, Belle doesn't wear her yellow dress at CRT, she wears her blue dress with the apron. Anyway, as we're eating breakfast, the princesses are making their way around the room. I look up to see Belle making her way towards us. Just then, my husband calls to her and says "excuse me, Miss, can we have some more bacon?" He really thought she was the waitress!

 

[disneymom225]

We love Le Cellier and make it a point to visit on every trip. Our last trip was extra special because we were celebrating my 30th birthday and also our DD's 1st Disney trip. DD was 18 months old at the time and had been eating out at restaurants since about 10 minutes after she was born (I rarely cook!). She is always a gem. Well, almost always. We were seated quickly at Le Cellier and DD decided she did not want to sit in the high chair. FIne, she could sit in my lap for a few minutes. Nope, didn't want that either-she wanted to sit in the high chair. This little dance went on for a few minutes until she decided yelling would be a better game. DH and I were trying to order but could barely make ourselves heard over our lovely child. I took her to the bathroom to change the setting and try to help her re-gain her composure. We returned to the table and put out crayons for DD. They ended up flying across the room (sorry to any fellow diners she may have whacked!). THe screaming continued along with the in high chair, out of high chair game. DH took her outside for a walk while Mommy chugged her wine (hey, I needed something to calm down!). A few minutes later I hear my DH's voice just outside of the dining room- he's trying to reason with an 18 month old (can you guess how well THAT worked?). Her voice is getting louder and I know that she is laying on the floor doing her boneless impression. If I can hear her, I know so can everyone else. Finally, DH gives up and gives her a spanking- her first, EVER!- She is not phased and bites her father. He bites her back (I know, I know! Very wrong! Bad parenting!)- she continues to scream. At this point, I had scarfed down my meal and ran out to relieve him. He ran back to the dining room and shoved the delicious steak into his mouth as quickly as he could. I came back in just in time to recieve the bill and a "Magical Moments" certificate from our waitress. She knew we were celebrating my birthday but as she handed it to us- she said, "THis is so you'll never forget your special day with us." If I didn't know better, I'd think she was being sarcastic but she was a Disney employee and Canadian so I KNOW that couldn't be the case. But she was right- we will never forget our "Magical Moment" at Le Cellier.
PS- THe rest of the trip- DD was wonderful in restaurants and hasn't had a meltdown like that since.

 

[square pond]

When exploring Epcot one day we all decided we were hungry and ready to eat dinner. We have two boys 5 and 8 who are very picky eaters. We took some time exploring all our options and decided on Alfredo's in Italy. We figured we would be safe with Buttered noodles with cheese (a main stay at home!) I have to say we were a little apprehensive about eating there once we saw the waiters in Jackets and ties and how beautiful the dining room was. But all seemed to be going fine....that is until our server asked my 5 year old if he would like parmesan cheese on his noodles. My 5 smiled and said yes. But when the waiter brought over the block of cheese and began to grate it, his face went cold. He just sat there and stared. Of course those of you who have been there realize they grate until you say stop so he soon had a giant pile of cheese on his noodles. My husband told him it was enough and he left. My son was mortified by the cheese. When I asked him what was wrong he replied why did that guy just put that stuff all over my noodles?? I explained that it was fresh parmesan cheese but he refused to eat it. When the waiter returned he noticed my son had not touched his meal and asked him if something was wrong. My son replied yes "do you have any cheese in a can"?? I could have died but he the look on the waiters face was priceless!! Needles to say they did not charge us for my sons meal and even brought over a nice dish of spumoni for him. Which we made sure to refer to as ICECREAM!

 

[cwnhokie]

DH got himself into a bit of trouble at Cinderella's castle for lunch. DH wasn't used to the royal treatment from our waiter (he doesn't get that around our house). When he thought the waiter wasn't around, he said, "My Lord, my lady, whatever!" Just as he said it the waiter popped out of nowhere to give him a hard time. He continued to appear thoughout the meal. He was like the Lucky Charms guy, popping in and out when you least expected it. He's here, he's gone. DH had to be on his best behavior, which believe me is not easy.

Later, we did receive the best compliment from the same waiter. He commented on what great parents we were. He said he could tell by the way we handled our boys and the way we talked to each other. He said, "And I should know, I see hundreds of parents everyday!" We felt flattered and very blessed, even if the guy did have a funny accent.

 

[Mickeefan]

My family, Mom, Dad, sister and I, were on a trip in the mid to late 80's when Epcot was first opened. We had toured the WS and decided to head into Mexico to eat. It just happened to be dusk outside as we went into the building. As you all know, the atmosphere inside Mexico is very well done and is designed to be "dusk" also. My Dad, who was mid-50's at the time, would not believe us that we were inside a building. He swore that we had only "passed through" an entrance and that we were still outside. It took us 30-40 minutes to convince him we were inside a building. We were seated right next to the water with a great view of the volcano. Maybe that volcano proved to him that is was Disney magic as there are no volcanos in Florida that I'm aware of. To this day, when I enter the Mexico building, I think of him and smile. I also won't let him forget it!

Our meal was delicious and we've been back to eat there several times. In fact, it's one of my favorite restaurants in the WS.