One of the funniest things I've ever heard at WDW:

[pwdebbie]

Early November this year, we were in AK on a rainy day. We stopped at the Dawa Bar for a beer and then looked for a table. An older man invited us to sit with him. He was obviously well-to-do and used to the finer things in life. He commented to us, "I'm surprised that Disney has let this park get so run down." I tried explaining to him that this is how AK is supposed to look, to which he responded, "You mean they PAID to make it look this bad?"

 

[wdwtheplacetobe]

We took a group of relative newbies on a trip and asked them to do a Photo Scavenger Hunt.

One of the guys was standing underneath the TTA and wondering if the WEDway People Mover was over by Space Mountain.

I had to stifle myself not to tell him to look up. This was one we wanted them to ask a CM about the location!

 

[luvthemouse71]

The times I most often see other people with a map is when they come to a dead stop to read it on the walkway right in front of me.

This is very true. I think it must be human nature to just stop like that..I've caught myself a few times and I remind myself to stand to the side.

 

[Disney Fool]

Early November this year, we were in AK on a rainy day. We stopped at the Dawa Bar for a beer and then looked for a table. An older man invited us to sit with him. He was obviously well-to-do and used to the finer things in life. He commented to us, "I'm surprised that Disney has let this park get so run down." I tried explaining to him that this is how AK is supposed to look, to which he responded, "You mean they PAID to make it look this bad?"

too funny!

 

[clandrum]

Not AT Disney - but heard on the airplane going there just before takeoff - a DM to her kids in a 100% serious tone of voice:

"Here, everyone take a piece of gum. You have to chew it during take-off or your head will explode."

She also later told them something about wearing there seatbelts in case "the plane starts dropping out of the sky". We couldn't help but wonder how terrified these kids were of flying.

My brother told my daughter to be careful flushing the toilet because she could get sucked out of the plane. My daughter flies all the time but still gets nervous going to the restroom on the plane.

 

[xerotheory7803]

During my most recent trip (August 2010) I heard a mother say to her child "Someone told me the wait was 300 minutes. We don't have 3 hrs to wait for anything."

Not sure if I should laugh or cry at that one.

 

[Coach81]

Great thread!!!

 

[Greaser69]

I was sitting on a bench waiting to check in for our lunch ADR at the castle last week.

A little girl about 4 years old in a beautiful homemade Cinderella dress, tiara, bun in her hair sits down next to me.
She looks like the perfect princess.

She starts singing "Jingle Bells, Batman smells Robin laid an egg!!" at the top of her voice. Her mom looks over at her horrified then we both just laughed....

That is from the "Simpsons"!
The rest goes like this: Batmobile lost a wheel, the Joker run away - hey!

Lovely!

 

[Alesia]

That is from the "Simpsons"!
The rest goes like this: Batmobile lost a wheel, the Joker run away - hey!

Lovely!

I was singing it long before the Simpsons.

 

[librarygeek]

Most of the stories I can think of are from myself or my friends, not other people overheard... hmm...

But anyway, here's my favorite: In high school, my friend's very generous family brought a group of us to Disney World for her Sweet 16. While in Epcot we went on the Mexican boat ride, which was completely deserted. The guy operating the ride was very friendly, and we started talking to him. (Being 16 year old girls, we found him quite good looking and so spent almost an hour hanging out there with him). Anyhow, at one point he introduces one of the other cast members to us. My best friend decides to try out her best high school Spanish, and tells our friend that the other cast member is "mono." She was trying to say that he was cute, but I guess it's either a regional thing or she used it in the wrong context, because he started cracking out and yelled over to his friend that this girl had just called him a monkey!

 

[Missytara]

Wow! Just wow! I wonder how many days they had booked!

They were there with Pop Warner, so they were booked all week.

I believe that it was most likely a family that made the play-offs, and never really realized that the package included Disney World, etc. I think they just thought they were going to be in a hotel and go to the WWoS every day to watch their son play football - I don't think they even knew it was a package deal with tickets, etc.????

And they definately didn't know what Walt Disney World really was to begin with...

 

[skater]

Early November this year, we were in AK on a rainy day. We stopped at the Dawa Bar for a beer and then looked for a table. An older man invited us to sit with him. He was obviously well-to-do and used to the finer things in life. He commented to us, "I'm surprised that Disney has let this park get so run down." I tried explaining to him that this is how AK is supposed to look, to which he responded, "You mean they PAID to make it look this bad?"

I've often thought this about the dinosaur area at AK . Standing there on all that cement/asphalt/whatever in the broiling sun - I think that every single time .

 

[Greaser69]

I was singing it long before the Simpsons.

OK. Maybe it is well know in USA... I heard it on the Simpsons (it was on the Episode where the build the Casinos in Springfield).
Funny Sidenote: This Episode just ran 2 Hours ago on German Television... I watched it when I was doing the dinner... They translated the Song also in German, but I know it from a Simpson CD in the Original... (Big Simpsons Fan here as you see...)

 

[bumbershoot]

I checked into the Contempory resort on 12-19 and while I was at the counter and a man came up and asked how to get to universal studios.he then explained how were going to use their Disney tickets to see the park. He got really upset when the cm told him Disney did not own Universal and his tickets were no good there. I was amazed.

I was recently doing a Universal survey, and a whole big section of it was about "before today, did you realize that Universal and Disneyworld are two separate parks, and you cannot use Universal tickets at WDW, and vice versa?" It was painful, b/c you know they were doing that survey because there are so many people out there who get upset about it.



Greaser69, the "batman smells" version of Jingle Bells is a childhood playground song that I've been singing since the early 70s (made all the sweeter by the fact that my brother's birth-name (he's since legally changed it) was Robin...).

 

[pwdebbie]

That is from the "Simpsons"!
The rest goes like this: Batmobile lost a wheel, the Joker run away - hey!

Lovely!

Hate to tell you this, but that version predates the Simpsons. We sang it when I was a kid. Batman was originally airing way back in those olden days . . .

 

[chartle]

Hate to tell you this, but that version predates the Simpsons. We sang it when I was a kid. Batman was originally airing way back in those olden days . . .

Yea I know the Simpson's are like the oldest running TV show right now but I didn't think it went back to the late 60's.

 

[Greaser69]

Hate to tell you this, but that version predates the Simpsons. We sang it when I was a kid. Batman was originally airing way back in those olden days . . .

I guess you mean this old Batman Series from the 60ties where they included the Pow, Boing, Biff, Bang Signs... This was great TV History... ha ha ha. I remember that they showed in here somewhere in mid 80ties. I was 15 and was really amused.

 

[Rhonna]

Yea I know the Simpson's are like the oldest running TV show right now but I didn't think it went back to the late 60's.

They're saying the original Batman TV series aired in the 60's, not the Simpson's. So, the song had to have come about during or after that era since it includes references to Batman.

(Well, I suppose it could have been referring to the comic books but Batman became really well known through the 60's TV show.)

I don't know where the song came from (it did not come from the Batman show) some kids probably made it up along the way and it caught on with other kids.

The Simpson's were just including a long standing kids song.

 

[ktlm]

(Well, I suppose it could have been referring to the comic books but Batman became really well known through the 60's TV show.)

I don't know where the song came from (it did not come from the Batman show) some kids probably made it up along the way and it caught on with other kids.

I think it was first published in 1971 in a book of children's rhymes called "all the way to Pennywell"; however, apparently it had been around before that time. Rumor has it that it was actually made up by soldiers in Vietnam in the 1960s, but as far as I know no one has ever been able to confirm the origin.

 

[JLTraveling]

I was a CM for awhile, and I heard it all. Here are just a couple of my favorites:

1) I was working the door at Innoventions when a summer thunderstorm popped up. We would always draw a massive crowd of annoyed people at those times, so I always went out of my way to try to cheer them up. But one woman was beyond hopeless:

Woman: Excuse me, miss. Can you go tell them to turn off the rain?

Me: I'm sorry, what?

Woman: Go tell those people to turn off that rain! I paid a lot of money to get in here, and I don't know why you think it's funny to get me all wet!

Me: I do apologize, ma'am, but I'm sure it won't last long. Here in Florida it rains almost every afternoon during the summer, but it clears up quickly. I'll be happy to contact our weather department and find out what time it will end.

Woman (now screaming): Apparently you don't understand me! I know how all your little tricks work. Ha ha, real funny! Now get hold of the person in charge and tell him to turn off the d**n rain!

Me (into my radio): Um, God? This is Innoventions Greeter. Could you please turn off the rain?

**A few seconds pass**

Me: I'm sorry, ma'am. He doesn't seem to be by the radio right now.

Woman: Oh well. Thanks for trying. Have a good day now!

2) My own father did this one. We were at Fort Wilderness for a few days, and for some reason we ran into every single surly, grumpy CM in the place. We've stayed there since and never had a problem, but this was just one of those trips. So by the last day, he'd had enough. We went to the front desk to complain to a supervisor.

(Dad finishes up the rather long story)

Supervisor: I'm so sorry that happened. I know you mentioned the CM's names...do you happen to know their last names?

Dad (frustrated): Last names? You people don't have last names! It's just "Hi, I'm Bob." "Hi, I'm George." (in a perfect Mickey Mouse voice) "Hi, I'm Mickey. Heehee!"

That was it. My boyfriend, my mom, the supervisor and I were all on the floor. I don't even remember what the supervisor did to make it right, though I'm sure he did something. But to this day, whenever we run into a grumpy CM, one of us will spout off "Hi, I'm Mickey. Heehee!"

I have a bunch of others, but those are my favorites.