Funniest comments you've overheard in WDW

[ougrad86]

Here's one I overheard while playing at Epcot:

Mother (to son, during lunch): Hey, go easy on those apples! I brought enough to last you all day-- and they don't grow on trees, you know!

(Yes, I completely lost it on that one. Thank the Gods I wasn't in costume!)

Today I was working Parade Crowd Control and had a guest duck under the rope, walk out to me in the middle of the empty street (with thousands on either side of me) and ask, "Excuse me, but where's the parade route?"

I only wish it were raining; then I could have replied, "You're soaking in it."

I once overheard this exchange:

Son (pointing at the Guests in the FastPass lane): "Why do all those people get to go in front of us?"

Mom: "Oh, those are all the rich people who paid extra."

(Yes, I gave them a free education about FastPass.)

I love the one about the apples (and the rest)

 

[ougrad86]

is Walt Disney World????? We were staying at Disney's Vero Beach resort last summer and some women was expressing her disappointment in Disney World . . . she thought there'd be at least some rides other than the pool slide. My jaw dropped. I composed myself and explained that this is where people come to relax AFTER a visit to WDW. Yeesh!!!!!

She replied that she's from Nebraska and people from Nebraska don't travel to Disney because they have the zoo. Bet there are a few Nebraskans out there who would beg to differ . . . and may I ask what the zoo has to do with not going to WDW???

Think I shared this before, but I also thought it might be worth sharing again.

I am from the Omaha, NE area, and yes we have a very nice zoo...but AK is way better - and we are planning out next WDW vacation with my MIL from Nebraska coming with us.
Have no clue what she is talking about, but like you said there are more than a few Nebraskans out here who would beg to differ!

 

[Philadisney]

This is my very first post.

to the DIS!

 

[Number1Son]

Sometimes kids see things a little differently ...

You know how near the end of Fantasmic, some people will get up and head for the back to try to beat the rush for the exits? Apparently one father pushed it a little too much and walked out right after the explosion/smoke where Mickey disappears from the top of the mountain but right before they spotlight him appearing at the bottom.

When we passed him as we were exiting, he was trying to quiet a screaming toddler in a stroller, who could only wail over and over "Mickey's dead! Mickey's dead!" while the father kept saying "No he's not. You'll see him tomorrow."

Poor little tyke must have seen Mickey go up in a ball of fire and came to the only logical conclusion!

Kind of tugs at you, but in retrospect, it's also hilarious. The father didn't gain any time, and whenever we've had our feet stepped on too many times by other people's children allowed to run amok or been hit one too many times by freely-swinging swords or light sabers, we'll just mutter to each other "Mickey's dead", and have a little flight of fancy about the panic that would ensue if we said it out loud! Never fails to lighten the mood a bit and bring a smile.

 

[tidblgrrer]

My DA is not to up on the Disney movies --

While looking at the Broom Topiaries in MGM she loudly exclaims -- "Oh Look! Dancing Pickles!" It took a minute to figure out what she was looking at --- but now if you are going to MGM -- you are going to visit the Dancing Pickles!

And yes, she's plenty old enough to have seen Fantasia!

 

[PaulDavid's mom]

Sometimes kids see things a little differently ...

You know how near the end of Fantasmic, some people will get up and head for the back to try to beat the rush for the exits? Apparently one father pushed it a little too much and walked out right after the explosion/smoke where Mickey disappears from the top of the mountain but right before they spotlight him appearing at the bottom.

When we passed him as we were exiting, he was trying to quiet a screaming toddler in a stroller, who could only wail over and over "Mickey's dead! Mickey's dead!" while the father kept saying "No he's not. You'll see him tomorrow."

Poor little tyke must have seen Mickey go up in a ball of fire and came to the only logical conclusion!

Kind of tugs at you, but in retrospect, it's also hilarious. The father didn't gain any time, and whenever we've had our feet stepped on too many times by other people's children allowed to run amok or been hit one too many times by freely-swinging swords or light sabers, we'll just mutter to each other "Mickey's dead", and have a little flight of fancy about the panic that would ensue if we said it out loud! Never fails to lighten the mood a bit and bring a smile.

Awww. Poor Mickey! LOL

Off Topic but I'm from Sussex/Menomonee Falls area. I've got a DIS neighbor

 

[tchrrx]

My DA is not to up on the Disney movies --

While looking at the Broom Topiaries in MGM she loudly exclaims -- "Oh Look! Dancing Pickles!" It took a minute to figure out what she was looking at --- but now if you are going to MGM -- you are going to visit the Dancing Pickles!

And yes, she's plenty old enough to have seen Fantasia!

This reminds me of my dad! Last year at MK he was a little ways ahead of us on the way to BTMR. He calls my cell phone & says, "Get DD up here! Hiawatha is here signing autographs." "Hiawatha? What?" "Oh, I don't know! Some Indian!" (now, don't get offended! We live in Oklahoma & have many Native American friends. This is just the word he happened to use at the time.) I finally just said, "Dad, could it be Pocahontas?" "Yeah, maybe. I don't know." I had quized DH repeatedly on the different characters before the trip (making him play Disney Memory & Disney Guess Who many times), but I guess I failed to 'educate' my dad on the characters.

 

[David R]

This thread is so long that I don't know if I have shared this before.

A friend of mine was working outside of Planet Hollywood and a man walks up to him:
Man - "Where Disney World?"
CM - "You are in Disney World right now."
Man - "Well, where are the rides?"
CM - "In the parks."
Man - "Parks? What parks?"

 

[jonslola]

Last year at MK my dh and I were in line for POC. We were accompanied by my mother and her husband, it was their first time inWDW. Well, my husband, a seasoned WDW veteran, proceeds to "educate" them about the ride. After sharing some interesting info, he then comes out with, "well, some of these rides were built in the 40's" Uh-huh. The rest of the trip EVERY ride we got on we'd say, "Oh, this ride was built in the 40's" He would get so mad at us! Later he said, "I knew it wasn't built in the 40's, I was just trying to make the point that some of the rides are old." Sure dear, whatever.

 

[nopdwife]

Okay this is really funny but a little crude so if that is not your humor type please scroll past.

This was my first trip to dw on our first day we stopped by TOT before we went to dinner. I've heard that disney pipes smells on certain rides so we were in the boiler room waiting to board when I take a big whiff and said,"Wow, it smells like somebody died in here!" My dh bf started busted out laughing it wasn't until after the ride that he told me no he had just passed gas! I couldn't understand why everyone was laughing at me but now I know.

That is something my DH would do! I'll have to be careful when we go in May.

 

[duffy]

We had just finished watching Fantasmic, the show at MGM. Throngs of people, all started plodding towards the exits. Slowly we shuffled along, jostling for space, trying to stay together. And then someone said, "Moo."

Someone else laughed, and mooed back. Then slowly the whole crowd started "mooing" at each other. Then someone got scared at a loud noise and we stampeded over a cliff.


No, we didn't really stampede.

 

[snusnu]

Last November, we were in line for the Jungle Cruise, and a particularly loud mother, daughter and grandmother were in line behind us. They kept stopping and waiting and looking behind them as though members of their party were missing. The mother's cell phone then rang and she told the caller (her husband, I think), that they were holding a place in line for them and to hurry. She hung up, and told her mother in law that the boys had just gotten off of the Pirates of Penzanze. My DH and I started to laugh, and wanted to ask her if she liked an ingenious paradox and if her husband knew equations simple and quadratical.

 

[PinkDaisy8844]

Just subscribing, this is a great thread by the way!

 

[Number1Son]

Awww. Poor Mickey! LOL

Off Topic but I'm from Sussex/Menomonee Falls area. I've got a DIS neighbor

Well, hi there, neighbor! Our last trip was a spur of the moment thing. We decided to go 2 weeks before leaving! (Used my tax refund.)

 

[Buzz Litebeer]

Last year at MK my dh and I were in line for POC. We were accompanied by my mother and her husband, it was their first time inWDW. Well, my husband, a seasoned WDW veteran, proceeds to "educate" them about the ride. After sharing some interesting info, he then comes out with, "well, some of these rides were built in the 40's" Uh-huh. The rest of the trip EVERY ride we got on we'd say, "Oh, this ride was built in the 40's" He would get so mad at us! Later he said, "I knew it wasn't built in the 40's, I was just trying to make the point that some of the rides are old." Sure dear, whatever.

Reminds me of some of the disinformation on DisneyLies.com:

Walt Disney World opened in 1950 as Walt Disney's biggest project -- and it soon became his biggest failure. The world wasn't ready for Disney's grand vision. They didn't want to spend the money, they didn't want to spend the time, and by God they didn't want to have to go to hot, sticky, buggy, hurricane-infested Florida on their vacation. After spending huge amounts of time and money (more than $15,000, or $6.7 billion in inflation-adjusted 2006 dollars), Disney had to admit that his pride and joy was a boondoggle and close up shop.

Not one to wallow in defeat, Disney purchased some land in California, determined to make a go of his theme-park idea by doing the whole thing on a smaller, more manageable scale. Disneyland proved to be an instant hit, and it gave Disney the funds he needed to give his Florida project a second lease on life.

The next time around, many of the mistakes that had been made in building the resort were fixed. A hotel was built so that guests would have somewhere to stay. Restrooms were installed in the theme park. The whole place was wired for electricity. Bigger, better, more likely to stay in working order attractions were built, using materials that wouldn't rot away in a matter of months in Florida's humidity. And, perhaps most important of all, the swamps were drained so that everything could be built on dry land and the gators could be better kept under control.

The renewed resort opened in 1971, and although Walt Disney himself was no longer alive, he still considered it one of his greatest achievements.

 

[pkondz]

We had just finished watching Fantasmic, the show at MGM. Throngs of people, all started plodding towards the exits. Slowly we shuffled along, jostling for space, trying to stay together. And then someone said, "Moo."

Someone else laughed, and mooed back. Then slowly the whole crowd started "mooing" at each other. Then someone got scared at a loud noise and we stampeded over a cliff.


No, we didn't really stampede.

I'd heard of the moo game... but your comment about stampeding over a cliff just about killed me ! ! !

My first visit to WDW back in 77 with my sister and parents. We were in HM with my dad and I in one doombuggy. Dad thought he'd "scare" my mom and leaned waaayyy over and banged on the buggy in front of us and yelled... too bad my mom and sister were'nt in that particular buggy. On the upside, he did get some good terrified screams out of the people inside that buggy. At the next turn he apologized to the occupants and explained that he "thought you were my wife!" That pretty much sums up my dad right there.

 

[tony609]

This wasn't something overheard BUT I remember it and we all still think its funny. Many years ago at Disney we were at a buffet...it was me then 16,my best friend also 16 and my mom and dad. My friend and i filled our plates and sat down. My mom started laughing and said something to my dad and he started laughing. My friend and I were like what? Whats so funny" My mom says to me "Tony, what are you going to do with all that mint Jelly?" I said thats jell-o.....I was wrong. and she said to My friend "Kelly, what are you going to do with all that butter"...she said "its not butter its bananana pudding"...she was wrong and mom was right again.

 

[dameodie]

Not WDW related, but I think this thread is cursed. I finished reading the whole thing (!!!) and yesterday this gem comes out of my mouth...

We had rented Alice in Wonderland for the girls to see, which we were going to watch after dinner. DSD4 runs into the kitchen and says "Carrie! Puss in Boots is in Shrek 3!" Now, I haven't been watching TV much lately, so I didn't know they were running trailers for this already. My brain was focused on analizing her behavior and wondering how she knew that... my split-second conclusion being...

"Did you just put the movie in? That's for after supper..."

ARRRRGH! Stupid brain!! There's not going to be a Shrek trailer on a Disney movie!!!!



Another amusing story...this one much more tied to WDW.

Back before CRT was CRT and it was King Stephen's Royal Banquet Hall (which always bugged me!) we went to the character meal there. My sister Kim, brother Craig, and I all had our picture taken with Cinderella. My mother was not in the picture at all (Her name is Barbara, the names are important later).

This was back in the day when the Disney Channel was fairly new (as in it was still a pay channel!). They had segments between the shows where they would post pictures that people would send into them (this was before the internet too, so seeing random people's family pictures was more of a novelty!) Well, my parents being my parents, figured that a picture of the kids with Cinderella was a shoe-in to get on TV. They were right.

Every picture included a caption with the people's names, and where they were from. I forget how we knew we'd be on, but we knew and were watching for it. So up pops our picture - remember, it was just me, my sister, brother, and Cindy. My mother must have put her name on the entry somewhere however, because the caption beneath our picture said:

"Carrie, Kim, Craig, and Barbara K_________, Sometown, US"

For months, my dad was calling my mom "Barberella"...

 

[dameodie]

Okay here's one that fits more with the original intent of the thread...

My fiancee and I went to Disneyland last summer when we were in CA. By his tone, it was clear that he'd thought long and hard about this when he said it...

"You know, most of the Disney movies I can think of are represented here in some form... can you think of any that arn't?"

I forget which ones I came up with, but there were a couple.

"I thought of one!" he says, obviously proud of himself. "Song of the South!"

After I got over my laughing fit, I took him on Splash Mountian

 

[ClaraBug]

My first visit to WDW back in 77 with my sister and parents. We were in HM with my dad and I in one doombuggy. Dad thought he'd "scare" my mom and leaned waaayyy over and banged on the buggy in front of us and yelled... too bad my mom and sister were'nt in that particular buggy. On the upside, he did get some good terrified screams out of the people inside that buggy. At the next turn he apologized to the occupants and explained that he "thought you were my wife!" That pretty much sums up my dad right there.

I fell out of my chair laughing!!!