Defunctland: The History of the Terrifying Splash Mountain Predecessor, Tales of the Okefenokee 

Where did you get ride music from?

You should for sure consider making an episode about the abandoned Wizard of Oz theme park in North Carolina

I did not like that monster ride

I was weirdly thinking about Monster House earlier today... There’s a joke in it where a character thinks that the “uvula” is a part of the vagina. Written by Dan Harmon. Kinda great, lowkey.

Are you thinking of adding the entirety of the world of Sid and Marty Krofft to the Defunctland game?

Riolupai but will it be the wildest ride in the wilderness?

Curse his name.

Why you in a car

An Eisner episode is ALWAYS going to be a trip

Eisner somehow both saved and destroyed Disney simultaneously. It’s kinda impressive

Yeah, yeah, I agree! Heck I read "Penthouse" for its groundbreaking journalism too!

@Ruby Doomsday 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💗

Ruby Doomsday 🤣👌

Hey, I'm one of them.

FunkySlash65 Argh! You bastard!!

LMAO

Superstar Limo II

the only thing that would make that more surreal is if it had a voice recording of him reading out his tweets from when he got that early days COVID

I would love that

It would become a target and quickly get destroyed weekly just me...?

Why does that make me wanna show up in a light salmon shirt, wearing either fox ears or rabbit ears to a Disney park… like “I DARE you CMs to tell me my outfit isn’t showing references to ANY of your company’s films”… lol

Yeah. That didn't happen bud.

@@agoo7581 wow you're so smart. You seem to know everything about everything.

@@agoo7581 Cleary you are a psychic so powerful you can read minds and tell if people are lying even through the internet! Astounding! You should get a tv show! Yeah, the story absolutely could've happened, it ain't that wild you r/IamVerySmart mascot.

I asked my parents where Zip a Dee Doo Dah came from, and they said it was from "Song of the South," but did not explain anything else about the movie.

That's hormones. Who can blame 'em, really?

If you didn't do that as a teenage then boy did yo miss out.

And burning carrots.

Nothing turns me on more than attempted rabbit murder

Don't kink shame me!

I just realized how funny that actually sounds I've been laughing for a minute straight muttering it to myself.

Hahaha I actually snorted.

Its such a word salad

So much for saving the Rabbit

The flaming carrot eventually got it's own comic book. Yes, it's true! And it won an Eisner award. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flaming_Carrot_Comics

Western Ohio Interurban History 😂😂😂😂

OH SHIT OH FUCK THE CARROTS ARE ON FIRE OH NO

*notices burning carrot* Some underpaid teenager: uh, Steve the carrots are on fire again

OR WHEN THE MR FOX CULT IS DEMANDING THAT THE DARK HARVEST BEGIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As if the singing carrots weren't horrifying enough on their own

That’s nothing compared to Bob Iger.

@@DLAbaoaqu z zali z x dsz

@@DLAbaoaqu You think Iger's bad, look at Chapek...

Something about not having the Disney name and being in control of Disney leads to very poor decisions being made LMAO

He’s the Stan Lee of defunctland

Now I'm picturing their audio getting warped as well, as their eyes stare out from the flames.

@@veryberry39 WHY WOULD YOU PUT THAT IMAGE INTO MY HEAD

I suppose it depends on whether you prefer your carrots cooked or raw.

LMAO! OMG that would be TRUELY horrifying!

Welcome to the gates of hell.

ZIP ZIP! ZIP ZIP!

M. P. Barnett my sleep paralysis demon makes this sound when I fall asleep while watching defunctland

the 1990s were just as bad as now.

ldobehardcore I think that this is true with plenty of decades too- some people don’t realize how bad some things are until things change and we have hindsight, ya know?

bruhh the fuckin 80s song they put in there...hahahaha

Man. You were right.

Oh goodness, that may be almost as bad as the Star Wars Holiday Special. Ouch.

Something intended to appeal to teenagers, created by someone who has absolutely no idea what appeals to teenagers.

...was that a hip-hop remix of Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah mixed with rapping about Splash Mountain? Was that what boomers thought was hip in the late 80's?

@@timothymclean It wasn’t just the boomers… I’m a millennial and my age range thought rap was the coolest (not me though)…

sebastian banguis 10/10

Both kind of fit that name tho

*Splash Mountain getting replaced by Princess and the Frog* *When You Wish Upon A Star Has Entered The Chat*

@@andyblargextra Yeah I guess you do that.

Both of them were prominently featured in the theme music for *Wonderful World of Disney* throughout the 1970s and 1980s, but it was the earlier song that became the logo song in 1985, and that sealed it.

Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in awhile.

@@RacingVagabond The story of Eisner's career in a nutshell.

Seemed like all that man did was either AMAZING or ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE. what a stressful time to love the company

Not only horrible... it's named after a completely forgettable and forgotten B-movie!

CeCe Meyer Some days he brought us the Disney Animation Renaissance or Splash Mountain, and other days he brought us Superstar Limo

“Well what happened to the carrots?” “…spontaneous combustion”

Hey legally speaking their entitled to that hour and goddamit they’re going to take that whole hour

Yah the employees probably hated the ride and those carrots are nightmare inducing I may never sleep again without a AK-47

Imagine how much more horrific they must've looked while they were on fire.

@@mango8616 how about I don't I already can't sleep because of them

As some one who frequents SFOG that is totally how it would happen

I just thought of that scene from Charlie and The Chocolate Factory where those animatronics catch on fire while they’re singing.

Probably weren't looking at the robots, to be fair, but the soundtrack definitely can't have set the right mood

*they love to watch*

If you notice the robots at all you are doing the "making out" wrong ;)

There are people who get their rocks off to embarrassment or being viewed while doing stuff so...

Normal people kiss with their eyes closed.

Wait thats his actual middle name!? Lmao 🤣

@@eiffiedarkness649 Yes

Not anymore...

Six Flags had themed sections represented by one of the flags; Spanish, French, British, Confederate etc. The rides, dining and attractions were themed as well (sort of.) Even the employee uniforms were themed at first, but this required a uniform change if someone working in French needed to be sent to work in another section (Spanish or British for example.)

y i k e s

"Mommy, mommy! Can I take a picture with the slaves?"

Ediodi Macaroni Oh heck

George Washington Rather deal with that then kissing the asses of the landed and wealthy racialist aristocracy.

imagine getting to the down part during that- many things would be wet,i'll say that!

Splash Mountain is closed today

Kiely Fong right?! Bless his heart!

True but the other name was bit of a tounge twister, I do admit.

Somewhere close to that suggestion is naming an actual NHL hockey team after a lame kids movie. At least the Splash suggestion was never used. =P

Kiely Fong In an alternate universe there is a version of the ride that randomly an animatronic of Madison just in the water

@@spookyrosev6467 One animatronic closer to Darryl Hannah Reich

They've changed it to monster mansion, she(a monster) still says it though

now you just have to lie about hate crimes to get acclaim. turn the world right side up and its still upside down

@@Lifesizemortal what?

How did they get a VHS of that movie? It was never on home video over here.

From MN and in my elementary music class around 2004 or 2005 they showed us the movie, I kid you not.

@@phoebelajoie5466 It was probably just released in very few countries. One of which was the US. Or it might have just been released to the US and no one else at that time.

@@CosplayCore If there ever were legit VHS tapes over here they've long since disappeared....

@@CosplayCore There are none in the US

The virgin Morgan Freeman God versus the chad Uncle Remus God

I thought God looked like the oatmeal man

I can't lmao

@@milkyway120 THE QUAKER GUY??

@@allikazaam Yeah 😔

hi,rob!

Tubular, one might go so far as to say.

It was totally tubular for a bad ride like that.

I got Village People vibes from the dancing, lol!

But was it "tubular?"

*wishing

Woah who's that guy? He looks like an asshole rofl

@@Phantomsangel yup. He tried cutting costs in the worst way possible.

Still better than bob Iger

@@GODCONVOYPRIME delusional

That happened all the time during segregation. Hattie McDaniel from Gone with the Wind had to sit in the back of the theater at her own table during the Oscars, even though she won!

@@badazzledhippo6010 😭

Yep. Really puts into perspective how not bad the film was at release. Lol

@@poletooke4691 yeah comparatively Song of The South was very progressive back then.

Hey. That's democrats for ya. Oh! Did I mention that racist white southerners were democrats? Yeah, some things never change. Only they live mostly on the east and west coasts now :D

If it weren't for shows like this, I'd have just assumed that it's not possible for uploaders to control when the midrolls show up, or even whether they do at all. Just goes to show how lazy 90% of RU-vidrs are.

Isaac Kwon my biggest gripe!!

I have RU-vid Premium. I don’t say that to brag or something, but because I have completely forgotten about ads until I saw your comment.

I always wondered if creators can control when the ad plays. It's super annoying when they cut in mid-sentence. If and when I monetize my content, I will make sure the ads are at nice break points! Also, it means I am 95% more likely to watch the ad if it doesn't break in at a super annoying moment.

Yea i really hat when they do dont lay a finger on my better butterfinger

that line is even worse if viewed with slavery in mind...

Same lol. Then I heard about Song of the South and felt much, much worse. 😅😭

@@LoveMyUnusual SAME! hahaha

Anyone remember that one clickhole quiz, “which of these things has the fox on splash mountain spoken directly to you?”Or something like that lmao

I always loved the ride when I was little, but my older sister HATED it. The dark area before the big drop was scary to her, so she thought the entire ride was a crime against nature.

I really hope he does. It only seems fitting.

he really should

Splash Mountain isn't "technically" defunct, it does still exist at Tokyo Disney, The Oriental Land Company saved that one from being re-themed.

Terry Altherr “come on baby, I wanna show you my laughing place”

I would've done that too. Sounds like a real good time tbh.

Terry Altherr Pres X to doubt

At Six Flags Over Texas, that ride was called The Speelunker's Cave

You know teenagers, they love the classics!

is it make out or we talking second base lol honestly i am not sure where he was heading with it?

@meanybean I want to know how on Earth that atmosphere could be considered even SOMEWHAT sexy 😂😂

Oof

@meanybean but.. how did they finish in time and not be heard by the other riders?

@@pinkchampagne5528 idk, maybe they went earlier in the morning/ late at night, where there would be far less guests

I think Joe Pesci would sum it up best: "What the fuck is this piece of shit?"

I found that part hilarious for some reason. The dry delivery by Kevin is perfect.

It’s almost cute in its naïveté

Still it's sweet and I think its a good way of thinking especially at that time like oh maybe we all aren't that different after all, he saw them as people, like him and that made me smile like I think relating to others and empathy is a big part of unity But yeah obviusly was a huge difference in hardship between like HUGE CONTRAST

@@eiffiedarkness649 unfortunately most of these comments are by 15 year old woke intellectuals who think they know everything, and don't understand that different eras have different values. Having slaves was normal for the western world at that point. Being a good person and sympathetic to slaves was not. Someone can still be a good person and display good moral fiber while participating in a system that is overall immoral, because societal values change over time.

@@Flowtail eh id say they way it turned out was quite well. he could have ended up like any other southern author at the time but his connection with the slaves lead to a prominent abolitionist in the south. which id say is quite the wonderful thing

It won't be defunct, it's just getting re-skinned

@@nowandaround312 Kevin's talked about reskinned rides on Defunctland before, like Paris' Space Mountain and Superstar Limo. Heck, Tales of the Okefenokee was reskinned too.

Eh, let's be honest though, after 30 years, it needs a rebranding, and "Princess and the Frog" needs more attention anyway. You barely hear about it and that's a travesty.

Yea same but I am sad that splash mountain is going.Maybe not the physical ride but the theme and song.I mean I haven’t been to Disney since 2018 so I Hope splash mountain doesn’t close til 2021 cause tron is coming so it will be crowded so they should keep it open 😔

@@nowandaround312 The skin of a Disney ride is 99% of the ride. The rides themselves stripped down are uninteresting. It's the themes that yield the immersion factor and why Disneyland is so wildly loved. So re-skinning it is by all accounts "defuncting" it.

These days it's a popular trend to erase the past. For Disney it's not as much about legend, but more about playing it safe.

You mean *ALL* of them?

@@dizzymelodies6845 Five Nights at Tales of the Okefenokee

@@autobotstarscream765 ha ha ha good one! Terrifying!

@@MsMercury Thanks! :)

@@autobotstarscream765 Those carrots are especially frightening.

Ugh yasssss

Hearing anyone say Negro that casually makes me raise my eyebrows a bit.

In 100 years calling a black person an AFRICAN American will be the height of racism.

alias yeah

chinablue who yeah

Would be nice.

there are maelstrom easter eggs in frozen ever after, so i guess there's a chance

More than the Okefenokee animatronics?

@Maintenance Renegade The music - or a lot of it!! - is still pretty good today. Song-and-dance routines and the fashions... Not so much! And I wasn't even a teen back then, only a pre-teen.

A segment of the rap was incorporated in the Zip A Dee Doo Da segment on the "Disneyland Fun Sing A Long Songs" video...

@Maintenance Renegade Couldn't that apply to a number of decades though, even our own?

@Maintenance Renegade You're ignoring a lot.

Dude I've lived in Carrollton my whole life and felt so giddy the whole time seeing all these things I recognized in this video

I've been scrolling for a while and you're literally the only comment that actually even mentioned Over Georgia, because, you know, this video is about the history of that ride and NOT Splash Mountain. This was a good reminder as to why I don't watch stuff on this channel anymore.

died terribly too shame

Oh that’s really cool

And after voicing Peter Pan he was unceremoniously dumped by Disney because he had acne. Which led to him becoming an addict, and ending at age 31 as an unidentified corpse in a dark New York city alley. Hollywoods first of many broken childstars, and they have learned nothing.

@@elisabethb.131 That's horrifying. I would have died too in his place, I'm acne ridden and I'm 24

"like"

I want a video game where Michael Eisner is the final boss

Yeah 😂

He looks like a human, overweight Thanos, so it's fits

ShiggieWiggie “Perfectly edgy, as all rides should be.”

Yeah but some day in the future someone will say Princess and the Frog is racist and it will change again

The Princess and the frog is not racist

@@charlottestreet3301 well not today, but it might be offensive in the future, who knows?

The Princes and the frog ride won't be as detailed it was just a way to get rid of something connected to a part of Disney's past they want to bury. At lest The Oriental Land Company was able to stop them from re-theming Tokyo Disney's Splash mountain, so at lest one of them survived.

@@charlottestreet3301 *yet

Aledgedly, Walt was so pissed off that after his introduction speech, he left the theatre.

It's still a damn shame he died two years after the film was released: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Baskett

KolonaRulez it’s because of his poor health

​@@CutieRingoJoy Georgia was a segregated city at the time, it wasn't because of his health.

At least he was able to accept his academy award for his role as Uncle Remus. and was the first black man to receive one. I actually did a black history month project on him in high school! It was for extra credit and I was already acing history, so I was mostly doing it because I wanted to.

I'm sure he will, eventually. It's too beloved of a ride not to.

And I thought the "Mickey Mouse Disco" version was campy!

That rap is in the Disney Sing Along Songs too. I never knew that came from something else.

Anon E. Mousse Mine is r/sbubby.

That could beat Disney in a heartbeat.

Nothing wrong with painting the face

Near me, for a carnival these four guys went as the Calgary '88 Jamaican Bobsleigh Team, from Cool Runnings. Now, I live in Mid Wales, so as you could guess, these were white guys who blacked up. It caused a stir, enough for one if the actual bobsledders to get in contact with them basically saying "I appreciate the thought, but you screwed up."

I dunno, being part of a race that was denied employment, shunned by religious groups, and even openly massacred with no punishment for the perpetrators or compensation for the victims simply based on where they were from and what they looked like... Irish suffering gets swept under the rug A LOT.

That's is an honest mistake. To think he had it remotely as bad as humans forced into property is wild.

​@@Duothimir Irish is not a race. AND no, Irish suffering is not swept under any rug besides the white one you all continue to prop up by being Hella racist to poc. Have you been up north in the US? The Irish here are fucking horrible, just like every other white person here.

And they're both fiting because they're both horrifying to look at while they're burning

god yes; that scene gave me /nightmares/ as a kid. even now, having not seen that movie in a least a couple years, i will still sometimes have nightmares about those fucking /dolls/

Look like they were all in blackface after fire!

Oh God no that scene was, is, and always will be terrifying

That is incredibly interesting thought.

True

Indeed. i imagine things like bre'r rabbit and the rest of the tales were a kind of compilation of the various stories and folktales from africa and then rerooted in equivalent material. since sticky rubber gum trees are not actually common or native to the american south, the solution was a substance that could be sticky and familiar to the audience at the time. Tar was that solution. Joel Chandler harris probably could not forsee how his work would become controversial in the ways that he did, but i imagine that he was trying to genuinely adapt the stories that he had heard in his own way, but like plenty of storytellers that came before, he changed things to fit his style and understanding better. I am probably wrong about a few things, but i don't believe he had malice in his heart when he was adapting the tales. certainly unlike some people who have adapted storied over the years. maybe that is why the characters and the songs have been as timeless as they are. because there is a kernal of that timeless magic that is born of genuine love.

@@jonathanphillips3052 To be specific, yeah, the stories were basically the slaves' way of telling Anansi stories without getting whipped for it. The slaves who told Joel Chandler Harris the stories were also some of the only people who ever showed him kindness, as he was literally an Irish bastard, and we all know how Americans treated the Irish and illegitimate kids in the 1800s. Harris compiled the stories and made the Uncle Remus character to preserve the stories and those who told them, right down to the vernacular the slaves spoke in. And now people who have no idea what they're talking about call it racist and are celebrating the replacement of a ride based on the cartoon segments of a movie inspired by preservation of African culture with a ride based on a movie written by four white men based loosely on a European fairytale and whose black leads spend over 90% of their screentime as frogs.

@@ElFreakinCid yeah. strange how these things work. people remember it, and disney will happily reuse the songs, but they are strongly against acknowledging their own film and will try to memory hole it like that will somehow work... forgetting that thanks to the internet, people can and will make sure the film is preserved forever in memory. lets hope one day disney decides to acknowledge it and has the courage to release it. it will recieve attacks, it will recieve hate, but you should not pretend it didn't exist. hell, it could even get some fans, as people see with eyes unclouded. this was not the only adaptation of uncle remus, though compared to how disney pulled it and hid it, the animated film 'coonskin' by ralph Bakshi stood up in the face of the attacks on it, battered bruised and bloody, but still standing defiantly. and that film was way more provocative in how it handled its material.

I just stared, baffled and confused. Followed by a "What the f*** am I watching!?"

I've known about that video for a while and was wondering when it was going to show up in this episode, I was not disappointed.

I did the exact same thing, then scrolled down here to recover by reading the comments for a bit.

I just had this grin of pure joy going the whole time. Like I was looking at a kitten chasing its own tail.

We all did, Emma. A real WTF moment, even for Disneyland.

Indeed

I need to download it and Another Splatoon 2 fan!

Mya The Ink Demon hello there, good to see you

Nya, oh, do you think that's bad? Do you want to see something more frightening than those carrots? Observe and marvel at the most horrifying wax museums in Europe. Wax Museum of Saint Petersburg: twitter.com/randymeeks/status/1105537216938496000 Wax Museum of Madrid: twitter.com/aroquesihombre/status/923303921099137025 Have sweet dreams :D

@@tomokokuroki3085 - Good googly moogly. The horror cannot be unseen.

@@tomokokuroki3085 Burn it! Burn it all! These... abominations are an affront to all that is good and pure on this earth. Nuke the sites from orbit and send these monstrosities back to whatever pit they were spawned in for the sake sanity and humanity.

That's some classic Krofft brothers designing right there. It may bhe terrifying as all hell but at least it sticks with you! :D

havent gotten to that part yet and im freaked out.

Savannah Irwin what’s so scary i’m too scared to watch it

@@Sloptit holy fucking shit

Some Guy. i’m pretty sure that’s what he’s supposed to say at least the vultures say that right before you drop maybe you were just hearing that

Meh.... he had already the perfect prompt with the song previously shown mentioning how there is no "hokey and pokey in Okefenokee" ... there should have been a line about how the hanky and panky is going well ;)

Meeee! It was perfect for me to watch while I was Golding laundry!

I sointenly was, Mon frair of hare!

Mii

That was so 80’s that it made me want a New Coke. 😕

@@austinhinton3944 We'll toast, your New Coke to my Crystal Pepsi. *Cheers*

Nah, '89 means that was some bleeding age '90s aesthetic.

Lol.

I much prefer the Veggie Veggie Fruit Fruits myself.

it's a cursed image for sure

Now imagine one on fire

of course they were the ones that started the fire

Thinkin' about takin' a trip to the briar patch

The logs are going into the briar patch allright

ccggenius12 yeah, I never knew that one either. Nifty.

It started in Texas, which also had six flags rule over it: Spain, Mexico, France, Confederate, the republic of Texas, and Us

@@princessprotecterhornet9992 WOW! DING DING DING! Ryan with the correct answer of how 6 flags got its name. It has nothing to do with any flags from Georga. Check out the video on this channel about the 1st 6 flags that was built in Texas to learn more.

@@princessprotecterhornet9992 I always forget that France ruled over Texas once. Though iirc, it was really only a tiny bit of the area now known as Texas and the US got it via the Louisiana Purchase. And the boarders were contested by New Spain who held the rest of what is now Texas, and then Mexico got it when they got independence from Spain, then the Mexican American War and blah blah blah. Tbh, should it even count that France once ruled over the area now known as Texas? Ah, fuck it. I say yes. If anything, just cuz I know the real right wing hillbilly types who like to act as though Texas is still an independent nation absolutely HATE the fact that their beloved nation-state was once a colony of FRANCE! Lolololol!

I pretty much only recognised it because my dad used to sing that song throughout my childhood, I assume he saw the movie when he was a kid.

I think you're projecting here.

@@Clay3613If OP was projecting with their comment, why did Defunctland heart it? Riddle me that.

It's become a local meme here in Georgia. "DON'T GO INTO THE MARSH!"

it was in decent shape when i went in 2012 and 2015, but yeah that line is still a top tier meme.

It’s still in bad shape lol they never fix it