What Was So Bad About Tiki Room "Under New Management"?

[Matt_Black]

It wasn't terrible. But it did have Gilbert Gottfried yelling a lot. And that's not good.

Clearly you've not watched The Comedy Central Roast of Bob Saget. Gottfried yelled a lot during his monologue, and it was WONDERFUL.

 

[slappy magoo]

It took two characters from beloved IPs, made great AAs for them, and instead of giving attractions worthy of those movies, they shoehorned them into an existing ride.

Not only that, but it wasn't done with grace like Pirates, but more like a wrecking ball.

Had it been done better, maybe people would have liked it. I liked the Iago and Zazu AAs, hated their use in Tiki Room.

To be fair, I think "shoehorning" was the point. The idea was the characters were imposing their sensibilities on this classic ride, and doing it indelicately and that was where the humor was supposed to come from. A little like (please don't be mad mods, this is what it was called) "The Two A-Holes..." sketches on Saturday Night Live that Jason Sudeikis and Kristen Wiig used to do. In each sketch people were bending over backwards to please these two people who went back and forth between contempt and indifference, and the humor was in how people tried to do their job as best as they could in spite of these insufferable characters.

But if you were a fan of the original, the shoehorning could seem like an unnecessary imposition. And if you never saw the original, you had no way to compare the original to the then-current version of the show.

There could have been a way for the show to be written so that there was a better attempt to show what it was and then be amusingly shocked at what it had become. Perhaps if the pre-show was about the history of the Tiki Room - even if it was an "embellished history" where pre-recorded interviews with the original hosts made it clear they love their jobs, they love doing it the same way for the past 30ish years, it's like a family...and THEN bring in the new management. That may have been a better way to bridge the old and new. And then incorporate more of what the show originally was with Iago insisting it needs to be bigger and bolder and more! Have the original hosts (hopefully) get the audience on their side, that the show is fine the way it is. You know, basically the same plot of every other Muppets movie, but in the Tikitikitikitikitiki room.

 

[PhotoDave219]

So who made you the attraction monitor that gets to decide what is good or not??????

Well .... I can't tell you who. I was sworn to secrecy.

The original started with a long trek through the orange groves of Polk County. My quest took me deeper and deeper into the swamps. Mermaids were spotted near WikiWachiee. I continued my trek for the master.... Went back for the 4:30 mermaid show and later continued my journey until I found a near deserted shack surrounded by tiki torches and was nearly dwarfed by a 1938 Wild Mouse built by the Philadelphia toboggan company.

What I learned from that man? He is the one who taught me whether an attraction is good or not.

 

[LuvtheGoof]

Well .... I can't tell you who. I was sworn to secrecy.

The original started with a long trek through the orange groves of Polk County. My quest took me deeper and deeper into the swamps. Mermaids were spotted near WikiWachiee. I continued my trek for the master.... Went back for the 4:30 mermaid show and later continued my journey until I found a near deserted shack surrounded by tiki torches and was nearly dwarfed by a 1938 Wild Mouse built by the Philadelphia toboggan company.

What I learned from that man? He is the one who taught me whether an attraction is good or not.

Guess you must've gotten a C then.

 

[ProfSavage]

Well .... I can't tell you who. I was sworn to secrecy.

The original started with a long trek through the orange groves of Polk County. My quest took me deeper and deeper into the swamps. Mermaids were spotted near WikiWachiee. I continued my trek for the master.... Went back for the 4:30 mermaid show and later continued my journey until I found a near deserted shack surrounded by tiki torches and was nearly dwarfed by a 1938 Wild Mouse built by the Philadelphia toboggan company.

What I learned from that man? He is the one who taught me whether an attraction is good or not.

 

[PhotoDave219]

Guess you must've gotten a C then.

Plenty of that from the mermaids, yes.

 

[ford91exploder]

So who made you the attraction monitor that gets to decide what is good or not??????

Because Dave is the worlds greatest secret agent!

 

[LuvtheGoof]

Because Dave is the worlds greatest secret agent!

Oh, he is definitely a legend in his own mind.

 

[Pumbas Nakasak]

shouldnt that be leg end?