Dec 22 2008
Angry-Dad Blogging
The essence of Disneyland is a kind of extreme repetition. Note, for instance, this deathless verse:
Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate’s life for me.
We pillage, we plunder, we rifle and loot.
Drink up me hearties, yo ho!
We kidnap and ravage and don’t give a hoot.
Drink up me hearties, yo ho!
Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate’s life for me.
The song the pirates sing in the Pirates of the Caribbean ride, of course: Repeat one billion times. There are other verses to the song, but no one can understand the words, and see if you don’t get the “yo ho” part stuck in your head right now (here is a nice page written by a fan of the ride, with the rest of the song on it).
Why is this the essence of Disneyland? It is one of their basic techniques: set up some little thing (an animated mannequin singing a song, often) and drive people past it once every ten seconds. The pirates have been singing that song almost nonstop for 41 years.
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