Challenge: Jungle Rhythm (Jungle Attraction)

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06/04/18 • 33 min

Opposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design Show

This week on our world famous program - the deepest darkest jungle attractions! Jim makes it all about himself as he invites guests to experience Jim's (Apparently) Amazing Jungle Adventure and boy is there a reason that one word is in parenthesis. Join Jim as he delights you with tales of a recent Central America jungle trek while his engineers and artists show you how everything really happened. Meanwhile on the other side of the park, Scottye takes guests down a very special river on his very own World Famous Jungle Booze, a 2-drink minimum attraction where you are also plied with alcohol during the ride. Set sail with your bartender/skipper as you visit the birthplaces of many famous alcoholic beverages and sample them as well. Things get a little wild on his jungle river, folks, and let me be the first to warn you that bathing elephants and animatronic pythons are the least of your worries.

Also, we delve into another episode of our show-within-a-show PASSFAST as Jim discusses the newest attraction of Six Flags Great America - Mardi Gras Hangover, a looping attraction that may or may not be a roller coaster (spoiler: it's not).

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Jim's Apparently Amazing Jungle Adventure (concept/script)
Mardi Gras Hangover - MSN.com — MSN's look at the press release plus video. Six Flags doesn't seem to have a site just for it.
HangTime Dive Coaster (Knott's Berry Farm) — That one coaster Scottye couldn't remember during PassFast.

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Jim's Apparently Amazing Jungle Adventure (concept/script)
Mardi Gras Hangover - MSN.com — MSN's look at the press release plus video. Six Flags doesn't seem to have a site just for it.
HangTime Dive Coaster (Knott's Berry Farm) — That one coaster Scottye couldn't remember during PassFast.

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Challenge: All Together (Weird Kiddie Attraction)

This week, Scottye lays out the challenge for a crazy weird kiddie ride and comes out swinging with The Exquisite Corpse, a humdinger of an attraction that appears to feature almost every popular theme park attraction rolled up into a single mystifying conflagration of fun. It also has an 8-drink minimum, so maybe save this one for later in the day. The cocktail(s) of choice are the USS Bomber for the adults (link to the recipe below) and something known as Shit for the kiddos, an amalgamation of Pixie Stix, Monster Energy drink, and...let me check the notes...muscle relaxers. Seem's perfectly reasonable. And mandatory.

Jim, on the other hand, spends most of his time developing a cartoon series about a group of palindromic animals that live in a place called Wedew Mountain which you can visit on his side of the park. Join TacoCat(traditional 2D), GoDog(stop-motion), SooMoos(CGI), and RaeBear(someone in a costume) as they have a raucous water-gun battle in their mountain clubhouse that soon goes completely out of control! Stick around for the exhibits featuring artwork and other paraphernalia from the show as well as meet-and-greets with the characters and get yourself a special (very non-alcoholic) drink of WeDew Mountain Dew with the refreshing taste of cherry limeade! (Hit me up, Pepsico!)

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All Together (1942 film) - Wikipedia — If you wonder where the title of this episode came from.
USS Bomber (recipe)
Exquisite Corpse - Wikipedia
Absinthe (The Green Fairy) - Wikipedia

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Challenge: Lonesome Ghosts (Spooky Attraction)

This week, we continue our tradition of SpooooooOOOOoooky attractions! First up, Scottye delivers The Swing From Hell, a 1930's nightclub speakeasy rollercoaster with a 3 drink minimum of fire, brimstone, and some bitchin' tunes from Postmortem Jukebox, playing live every night at The Hellhole! Meanwhile, on the other side of the park, Jim has sent his employees out ghost-hunting and they may have accidentally incurred the wrath of the Marx Brothers in his rotating theater attraction That's The Spirit!! Maybe they'll join the Mickey Mouse Club and then get hit over the head with it?

Also, they discuss their short vacations including some Hashtag Too Hot Disney knock-off merch, a claustrophic horror tunnel, a fart button, and a detour to the land of PassFast.

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