Practical Jokes at Disney

[KJMAX1]

There was a pos ton here years ago that made me laugh I cried so hard. This woman had given her husband one of the two way radios that were popular, and told him they would meet him after he wwas done with the bathroom. He put it in his pocket, and when he had been in there for a few minutes, she radioed him on the two way and said "Hey let me outta here, come on, I gotta go....REALLLLLLL bad....And then went.....AHHHHHHH, oh that felt so good....Needless to say he came out with a beat red face, and guys were pouring out the restroom with laughter.

 

[bdg100]

Now there's an idea. Of course, we have now done away with the two ways in favor of cell phones. But, funny nonetheless.

 

[extreme8]

Seemed like a funny idea at the time but in hindsight....

Took my 9YO son on SE. It was his 3rd trip and he had been on it before but didn't remember anything about it.
As we started to move away from the loading area I started looking around in a panic and yelled "Oh my gosh, the shoulder restraints didn't come down, hang on tight or we're gonna get flung out of this thing".
He looked at me with a terrifed look on his face...never said a word...and started to jump out of the car. He wasn't about to hang around and see what happened next! I barely got a hold of his shirt and was able to haul him back in.
I felt like a terribe dad, but I got over it

 

[maddhatir]

As a older child going to Disney with my parents years and years ago, they tired to hold my hand the whole trip long, espeically when you would hear "please take young children by the hand", etc. I was soo embarressed!

O-M-G!!!

DH does that to me....EVERY single trip .....EVERY time he hears that stinkin' announcement........NEVER FAILS.......

i think i am going to tell him that i read on the boards that the Beverly soda was suppposed to be really good- but can he please hold up the cup before he drinks it so that i can take his pic.......knowing DH i will be cracking up after he drinks it and he will just be staring at me like "what?" ..thats the way things usually go.....but wait.... wouldnt that mean...the jokes on me???

 

[tiggtail]

kjmax1........how funny! I just have to try that! It would be worth taking our two way radio's just for that prank. My son in law is always pulling pranks and that would definately get him back for all the stuff he has pulled on us! One time we were walking up the avenue to watch Fantasmic with hundreds of other people. Our son in law being the practical joker that he is and also being from montana and a cattle ranch, seized the opportunity. He very professionally "mooed" like a cow. My dh and I could barely contain ourselves as we watched many people looking to the right and the left trying to figure out where that cow was. But what was so funny was not too much longer after he kept up the cattle call, a woman on the far side and down from us starting doing a sheep call. Talking to her later, she knew the critters pretty well and sounded very authentic. We had quite a few people laughing as the "herd" kept moving on up towards the stadium. Great memory!

 

[mommyceratops]

There was a pos ton here years ago that made me laugh I cried so hard. This woman had given her husband one of the two way radios that were popular, and told him they would meet him after he wwas done with the bathroom. He put it in his pocket, and when he had been in there for a few minutes, she radioed him on the two way and said "Hey let me outta here, come on, I gotta go....REALLLLLLL bad....And then went.....AHHHHHHH, oh that felt so good....Needless to say he came out with a beat red face, and guys were pouring out the restroom with laughter.

MY DH did that to my cousin once but he said "Hey there big fellow" My cousin was very embarressed and thought it a good joke.

 

[mkygrl]

WOW..I thought I was they only one who did that! My animalof choice is a "goat". (I do a great goat impression!) Anytime we are in a crowd either WDW or concerts etc...I do my goat sound! It really is funny to see the looks on people's faces! (I am a teacher and I did the sound on a field trip with my kids recently and it was quite funn!) Stock up on the animal sounds!

 

[ladybugz11]

My husband and I told our kids 12 & 13 that we were staying at the Coronado Springs resort and had actually booked the Animal Kingdom Lodge..we had never stayed at a deluxe before so we wanted to suprise them. The morning we got there it was about 5:30 am and dark, we acted as if we were lost and couldn't find the resort. They were sitting in the back seat real excited telling us they knew which way to go, listen to them...we just drove around talking about stopping to ask someone how to get there and by the time we reached the AK lodge they were jumping up and down in the backseat saying "ask us we know which way to go...just look at the signs." It worked though they were very surprised.....

The next one was actually done by my daughter...she has a weird sense of humor...we were staying at the poly and everytime we would walk by a duck she would say "kitty". Well one morning we were sitting outside eating breakfast and this little girl saw my daughter talking to the "kitty" i.e. duck....she told her mom "that girl thinks that duck is a kitty" We died laughing...my daughter was about 12 at the time.

We also play games on the bus and stuff...It's fun to see other people's reactions to your silliness. We play the burp game...When someone burp's everyone puts there thumb on their forehead....the last one get's hit....Once we were on a bus and this little boy about 5 wanted to join in and hit us...It was funny.

 

[tmt martins]

Get the CM's in on it they will do some stuff as well like pull them out into the middle of the street during a Parade or on a line (That color shirt messes up the sensors type thing)

 

[sk8bug72]

If you are with a large group, have someone yell out "Look! It's (enter a celebrity's name here)!!!!" and have everyone crowd around one person in your group. I haven't actually tried this myself, but I bet it would be really funny!

 

[sameyeyam]

This works great for little kids, say 3-10 years old. When they are in the bathroom and can't see you use the hotel phone, place a call for a wake up call - about 10 minutes from the current time.

Then when the phone rings a few minutes later, tell the kids it's for them and they should answer it. The look of astonishment on their faces as they hear a Disney character start talking to them on the telephone is priceless!!! Of course they will soon realize it's just a recording, but it's a fun little prank anyways and always puts a smile on their faces!!

 

[dustysky]

Now that I think of this it was mean...

Last Yr at CR we had 3 rooms-2 connecting. My BF and I went through my parents room into brothers room and set his mickey wake up call for 3 am. The next day he said "mickey called me wicked (we are from Boston) early this morning!". WE (BF and I) just said guess he wanted you to have an early start!

and he still doesn't realize it was us....

OMG WICKED funny!! Hee hee, sorry I am soo missing home (Amesbury MA) now after hearing you say that !

 

[MyGoofy26]

The best was when I was a CM, back on my college program. I worked merch at MGM and I'd get excited when I was scheduled for the Indy truck. I don't know if they still do this, but we did it just about every day back when I did my program. So OP, you could always sneak off from the kids and ask the CMs at the truck if they still do this and set your kids up . . . we'd do this occasionally over the rack of rifles as well.

We sold those big rubber tarantulas (I have a HUGE fear of spiders so I'm probably going to burn for torturing others with them) and we had a couple that were attached to fishing line. When we'd hear the final act of the Indy show start, we'd get into place. Behind the truck, if you've ever exited that way, you know it's tree covered. So we'd toss the tarantula up over the limb that went directly over the path and stand back beside the truck, out of the way and pull the string so that the tarantula was as close to the limb out of view as possible. The rest was a matter of timing.

As people exited I'd watch for someone walking in the middle who wasn't paying attention - usually best if they're engrossed in conversation. As they near I'd let the line loose so that the tarantula would drop and dangle eye level. Got some GREAT screams (if you were real good you could get people to swear, LMAO!) Just absolute terror that quickly gave way to hysterical laughter once they realized it was rubber. If you were real lucky, you could scare a few people at once.

At that point people start looking around, trying to figure out what just happened. It usually took awhile for people to realize it was me. Like I said, I stood back out of the way and I'd actually have my hands holding the string behind my back. But I couldn't NOT laugh and once someone found me, I pretty much gave myself away. We'd get huge crowds too - people would stick around to watch the next "victim". . . but you had to time it right. Couldn't do it again too quick because people back in line still saw that SOMETHING happened and were on edge. You'd have to give it a few minutes for a whole new crowd to be on their way out.

Luckily, never got a complaint. . . everyone had a good sense of humor about it. And it got a LOT of business for the truck since so many people hung around to watch.

 

[tigger0215]

LOL!!! the spider one is funny!

 

[bdg100]

Spiders. Hmm, now that is interesting. But my wife would have to be in on it or she would die of a heart attack. Worse than that, she would kill me if she survived.

 

[Muziqal]

While I was working there, practical jokes were one of the only things that kept us sane while having to watch the O Canada movie about 50 times a day.

I think the best one was one of the guys working in the Trading Post for the day called one of the girls working in the mine (the Canadian movie). He told her a guest had lost a fake tooth somewhere in the waiting area. He said it was imperative that she find it as his flight was leaving that night. 25 minutes later we checked on her and she had all the guests in the waiting area on their hands and knees looking for the fictional tooth. Now that's guest interaction!

 

[TiggerTails57]

While I was working there, practical jokes were one of the only things that kept us sane while having to watch the O Canada movie about 50 times a day.

I think the best one was one of the guys working in the Trading Post for the day called one of the girls working in the mine (the Canadian movie). He told her a guest had lost a fake tooth somewhere in the waiting area. He said it was imperative that she find it as his flight was leaving that night. 25 minutes later we checked on her and she had all the guests in the waiting area on their hands and knees looking for the fictional tooth. Now that's guest interaction!

Tooth Funny!!! Keep'em Coming.......

 

[IowaGirl]

It wasn't a practical joke, but it is something that has stuck with me for life.

In the 70's I was in grade school and we drove from Iowa to California. The big promise of the trip was that I would get to go to DisneyLand. My Dad had business to tend to, so it was a boring trip, but I held on to my dream of Disney.

I could see DisneyLand, we pulled in the lane, and you had to pay for parking. My Dad turned around since he is the cheapest person on this planet (we slept in the car the whole trip). I started to convulse I think....
Anyway my Mom screamed at him so much that he turned around again, and he paid for parking.
Then we got to the ticket turnstile, and tickets were $19 a piece.
He turned around again.....
I remember looking through the fence.....
My Mom threatened him with seperate bedrooms and we got to go in.

My kids have heard this story a zillion times since it really impacted me, so now they joke to DH "Are you ready to turn around Dad?"
Or my son will go through the turnstile and shout "$19 a ticket!!!!! and sound just like his grandpa.....

 

[Shagley]

Last year I drove to Florida with my sister, my friend, and my friend's Niece (we are all in our mid 30's - except the Niece was only 20). Any time they would pick on me during the car ride (which was quite frequently), I would say "You better watch out or I am going to have Mickey kick your butt when we get to Disneyworld". On the second day of our drive, we had some car problems, and I had to call Disney to change our hotel reservations. While I was on hold, one of the others started teasing me again. They couldn't hear the other end of the phone conversation, so while I was still on hold (but the others thought the operator had picked up), I said "Yes, I have a reservation at Pop Century for May 22nd through the 24th that I need to change, ALSO, I need to schedule a Mickeys Butt Kicking for three people first thing tomorrow morning". The car went silent, and the other three looked absolutely stunned and kept looking at each other like "I can't believe she just said that". It was hilarious

An idea of what you might do is to type up an official Disney looking letter that states that the Magic Kingdom (or whatever the kids favorite park is) is holding a nudist convention (or any other type of convention) all week long (the exact days that you will be there), and so the park will be closed the entire week to kids under the age of 12 (or however old your oldest one is) and that ID's will be checked at the gate. For adults, clothing will be optional. You can be the one to "find" the letter on the dresser or the bed when you first get into your room.

 

[Loves Disney]

OMG WICKED funny!! Hee hee, sorry I am soo missing home (Amesbury MA) now after hearing you say that !

When we were down at WDW one year, I said the word "wicked" in one of my comments (I use that word all too often lol -- I am from MA, so I don't really notice my constant use of the word lol) and I saw a couple people turn around and spear me with their eyes! I have also had some people think I was talking about witches, spells, and other stuff like that lol.