Stupid Guest Tricks

I think my biggest "Spiel Oopsie" was the day I used my standard spiel by mistake.

It was Gay Day at Magic Kingdom. And while that's generally just cause to deviate a bit from the standard script, in this particular case it was absolutely required.

The problem was my standard safety spiel at the Frontierland Station on the WDW RR. I normally instructed my guests to, "Keep them arms and legs inside the train, pardners, them bears is hungry!"

And.... it was not the right spiel when half the train was full of bears! The catcalls started at once. "Are they big, hairy bears?" "Can I take one home?"

Realizing it was not something I could just pretend didn't happen I decided to run with it, because, I figured, they couldn't fire me twice!

"Yeah you gotta watch out for them bears; one a them gets you in a bear-hug, they may never let go!" and so forth.

The guests loved it, and we kept up the "gay reparté" until it was time to leave. I closed with, "You folks sure have a queer way of lookin' at things!"

They giggled all the way to Toontown.

I heard the new monorail spiel using the "robot voice" the other day I was at the MK. They kept the "old" voice for some of the spiels and used the new one for others, including a few that seemed new to me. It sounded computer generated, so that is why I dubed it the robot voice or robovoice. It has an autotuned quality to it also. It also is very close to the original voice in the spiels.

Not really an oopsie, but a way a way of telling the guests off. I was in the Shrek auditorium and a co-worker (suffering from burn out) was in Pre show. As the pre show doors open to the Aud, I hear him talking over the show spieling " "please enter the auditorium and TAKE ALL OF YOUR TRASH WITH YOU!".

Trash in preshow is common, preshow is like a huge trash can. I thought it was funny. I am sure a sup would not.

Hear the new monorail spiel here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... SqlTgkacrU

I would have been and was better. That guy is boring.

Why do I think I would be a better voice? More emotion, more welcoming, much less robotic. Proof

I found out about this video when, the day after Atlantis launched on the STS-129 mission, I received a call at 4:00 in the morning from my mom asking if I had been driving the Monorail the previous day. I said I had. She said that she had fallen asleep with the TV running on CNN, and that my voice had woke her up when they went to this video.

Guess that's my few minutes of fame.

Teddykeiko86 wrote:Not really an oopsie, but a way a way of telling the guests off. I was in the Shrek auditorium and a co-worker (suffering from burn out) was in Pre show. As the pre show doors open to the Aud, I hear him talking over the show spieling " "please enter the auditorium and TAKE ALL OF YOUR TRASH WITH YOU!".

Trash in preshow is common, preshow is like a huge trash can. I thought it was funny. I am sure a sup would not.

I'm glad I wasn't the one who said that!

NemoRanger wrote:When I was working at The Seas with Nemo and Friends I decided that it might be a good idea to learn a little Spanish. I got tired of the non English speakers stopping the lines (when we it had lines) to try and figure out how many people could go in a shell.

So I looked it up and one day in my best Spanish I started screaming

Un or dos per concha!

I did this a number of times smiling away and feeling so proud of myself.

Then I started to get some weird looks from the Spanish guest. One lady gave me a horrified look as she walked past.

IT was then a Puerto Rican Friend of mine explained that I was saying the wrong word for shell. I was saying something pretty nasty

:hysteria: :hysteria: That is hilarious! As someone said you did use the right word but it's the slang that kills it. Not to mention that the vulgar word sounds very, very similar. :hysteria: This whole thread is hilarious, love it!

One time during a ride evac, I spieled to the vehicle, "We will be getting you off one row at a time!" It must have been the way I said it, because the entire back half started cracking up.

That sounds like a very special evac.

Sometimes you have the audience who takes every little thing you say as innuendo. Of course, they can also be the most fun to work with.

Big Wallaby wrote:That sounds like a very special evac.

Sometimes you have the audience who takes every little thing you say as innuendo. Of course, they can also be the most fun to work with.

So... is "That's what she said" considered good show?