Defunctland: The Bizarre Garfield Dark Ride

The ride being deliberately made mediocre for capacity reasons is the most Garfield thing ever.

"Too scary for many children and too Garfield for many adults" also describes me

"update it to appeal to modern audiences" is a phrase that should be accompanied by ominous thunder and lightning every time someone says it.

the one text being completely blurred out (presumably for being extremely graphic) followed by a genuine "Hope this helps!" Made me lose my mind laughing. This was an incredible watch.

I'll never get over someone's last vacation before their father died being spoiled by Garfield sex

"Kennywood employees were given a plastic bat, and instructed that if they saw the naked buttocks of any rider, they were to smack them..." The original "Bonk! Go to horny jail!"

“if you can be seated within arms reach of another person, someone has found a way to do something on that ride” is so sinister

I can imagine the employees back then be like. -Let me get this straight, you are going to pay me money from your own pocket to spank people's bare butt in a dark tunnel as soon as I see them. -Yes, that's basically what I said. - I fucking love this job.

I love how Kevin usually is deappanned and straight forward in delivery, this topic clearly broke him, especially the sign being a mascot. That pushed him over the edge

I got so invested in the history of Tunnels of Love that Garfield arriving felt like a bag of bricks to the head

The fact that a young man could kiss his boyfriend in safety for the first time because of the Garfield Dark Ride is both emotionally moving, and absolutely hilarious.

I just love how Kevin says "You can meet the sign!", why is there a mascot version of the Kennywood sign???

“The fluorescent splatter was deliberately put there and not the result of 103 years of bad aim.” This is it. The best joke Defunctland has ever told

The fact that there might be people out there who were conceived in the Garfield Nightmare Tunnel is hilarious.

I love that roughly 50 years before the meme, Kennywood was bonking people sending them to horny jail. But as a kid I rode this with the skeletons theme for years and never knew any of this history. It was just a great way to start the day because it was a slow ride before the coasters opened, the line wasn't usually long, and it was right at the iconic entrance tunnel. The last time I went on the ride in 2012, I was most definitely going on with the intent of some of that iconic romantic time. But we were so surprised and impressed by the art put into the unexpected Garfield theming, that we forgot our original intentions and just came out pleasantly surprised at the overhaul.

The joke of having the reveal in a different shape than the shadow was way funnier than it should’ve been

I don’t think I’ve ever heard Kevin so passionate about anything as when he said “YOU CAN MEET. THE SIGN.”

Viacom demanding that the employees destroy all of the set pieces for Garfield's nightmare to ensure they couldn't be sold and having them take videos as proof that they actually destroyed them might be the most on brand thing for Viacom that I've ever heard.

You know, with his stoic, deadpan, documentarian delivery, I always forget how funny Kevin is until he just casually drops a precision-guided joke that absolutely levels me. Every. Single. Time. And then he can manage to tie the whole crude, wild thing up with heartwarming nostalgia AND stories of people being able to feel, maybe for the first time, comfortable in their own skin. This is A+ work. Goddamn.

25:58 the message being just “Hi There,” and everything else being censored is simultaneously the funniest and strangely the most terrifying part of this video