Prince-1
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Their jobs. They are more than capable of making jokes while the changes are being made.
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Jungle Cruise Re-Imagining
- Thread starter Rteetz
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Their jobs. They are more than capable of making jokes while the changes are being made.
peter11435
Well-Known Member
He’s right though. The skippers are doing their jobs and filling the time with jokes where necessary.
As for why the attraction is open. There was/is a global pandemic. With limits on park capacity and decreased attraction capacity they need all the throughout they can get.
lightningtap347
Well-Known Member
I just wanted to know if they were having them extended ad-lib or if they had made changes to the spiel/script. There's no reason for such a smart-assed / useless response. Obviously they're telling jokes, I just wanted to know how the procedure changed around the blank sets.
DryerLintFan
Premium Member
Lol @ blank sets. They removed a couple props.
Delivering. They are not really trusted with making jokes anymore. I barely trust what gets approved from show writing with that anymore.
flynnibus
Premium Member
In this discussion - it was all about the comment "In the end, most guests won't notice" -- People did notice with Star Wars and they weren't shy about boasting about it either.
owlsandcoffee
Well-Known Member
I see your point now, apologies for misinterpreting you!
owlsandcoffee
Well-Known Member
This is true! But that didn't make the films bad.
Anyways, the Jungle Cruise...yeah...
Bocabear
Well-Known Member
Can you even imagine if they added and upgraded the settings and props so much that the skipper jokes were not even necessary... because the actual sets and animatronics were so engaging?
There was a time when the Jungle Cruise was not snark... that started as the original sets aged and people got more jaded...
This would be an interesting time to just completely overhaul the whole thing and make it a real adventure...
There was a time when the Jungle Cruise was not snark... that started as the original sets aged and people got more jaded...
This would be an interesting time to just completely overhaul the whole thing and make it a real adventure...
The Aracuan Bird
Well-Known Member
I’d prefer they did that.
Movielover
Well-Known Member
There would certainly need to be a more adventurous feel added to it since at that point you're essentially just making a wet and shorter version of Kilimanjaro Safari. But I would love to see what could be done, heck at that point a Indiana Jones overlay might work as well.
UNCgolf
Well-Known Member
And one with fake animals.
There's no way to make the Jungle Cruise serious as currently exists. No one is going to be enthralled by AA elephants, rhinos, etc. when they can go see the real thing a couple of miles away. Completely overhauling it into an Indy ride could work, though.
LittleBuford
Well-Known Member
I consider the humour charming and hokey rather than snarky. And weren’t the gags added only a few years after the original Jungle Cruise first opened?
I for one love the current approach and would be sad to see a more serious or “thrilling” style of attraction take its place.
Sir_Cliff
Well-Known Member
As far as I understand, it was Walt and Marc Davis who decided to make it more humorous in the early-1960s. I think it was honestly a genius move which probably saved it from eventually going the way of the Mine Train Through Nature's Wonderland.
lazyboy97o
Well-Known Member
“No monkeys. Monkeys aren’t funny. When I was young, I thought all comedy was funny. If I didn’t see the humor of a joke, that was plainly my fault. But then, in 1961, came the TV première of “The Hathaways,” starring Jack Weston, Peggy Cass, and the Marquis Chimps. It was not funny, not at all. Even I could see that. And I blamed the monkeys. They were ruining comedy. So no monkeys, please, and if you must use monkeys, for God’s sake, don’t put hats on them.”
-John Swartzwelder
www.newyorker.com
-John Swartzwelder
John Swartzwelder, Sage of âThe Simpsonsâ
The first major interview with one of the most revered comedy writers of all time.
The Sorcerers Aprentice
Active Member
Someone at Imagineering must find monkeys hilarious. They are in almost if not completely in all the scenes they’ve showed so far. Hopefully we see a couple new animals added as well to add some variety to the new scenes.
_caleb
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Brer Panther
Well-Known Member
A lot of people assume that monkeys are automatically funny.
The Department Of Low-Stakes Controversies: Are Monkeys Funny?
We raise the burning question: Are monkeys funny? We are not sure.
www.npr.org
Bocabear
Well-Known Member
A mix of humor and WOW moments... At one time the visuals were all a WOW...now they have gotten stale and have not been addressed in years... Time to update and renew so maybe the entire attraction does not rest on the jokes, but jokes are a little embellishment to a great attraction.