TV shows with parks/coasters

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Anyone have any favorite tv show episodes (not documentary types but sitcom or other fictional shows) that feature parks and/or coasters?

[Robert]

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Anyone have any favorite tv show episodes (not documentary types but sitcom or other fictional shows) that feature parks and/or coasters?

Kings Island is featured in both Brady Bunch and Partridge Family

Six Flags Over Texas was in Sid & Marty Kropff Lidsville, plus some segment of Bananna Splitz and ? were shot at SFOT and SFOG

CA Cyclone was used in an episode of Leave it to Beaver

[Bill Steele]

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Anyone have any favorite tv show episodes (not documentary types but sitcom
or other fictional shows) that feature parks and/or coasters?

I can't name any, but there are probably a hundred shows where a cop
chases the crook into a mirror maze.

In movies, Abbot and Costello in Hollywood and State Fair come to mind.

[acer510]

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Anyone have any favorite tv show episodes (not documentary types but sitcom or other fictional shows) that feature parks and/or coasters?

Kings Island is featured in both Brady Bunch and Partridge Family
Six Flags Over Texas was in Sid & Marty Kropff Lidsville, plus some segment of Bananna Splitz and ? were shot at SFOT and SFOG
CA Cyclone was used in an episode of Leave it to Beaver
Not sure on this but weren't the Banana Splits park segments shot a Kings Island. I know in the early days of Kings Island they had costumed characters of the Banana Splits roaming the park along with the Hanna Barberra line-up also(or was the Hanna Barberra line-up more mid-70's). There is a tie-in somewhere in that Kings Island was originally owned by Taft Entertainment. Somewhere in my collection of park/coaster stuff I have a couple of 3-D postcards sold at Kings Island in 1974 that features the Banana Splits riding the twin Racers.
While on the subject of early Kings Island there is a superb documentary about how Kings Island was born. It was posted on the website of the Cincinnati PBS station a while back. If you google "KINGS ISLAND PBS Documentary" it should show up.

[Kris Rowberry]

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Anyone have any favorite tv show episodes (not documentary types but sitcom or other fictional shows) that feature parks and/or coasters?

Don't forget Step by Step and the opening that featured Magic Mountain...only located on the edge of Lake Michigan ;)

[Mike Kallay]

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Anyone have any favorite tv show episodes (not documentary types but sitcom or other fictional shows) that feature parks and/or coasters?

Don't forget Step by Step and the opening that featured Magic Mountain...only located on the edge of Lake Michigan ;)

Get a Life -- first episode, Terror on the Hell Loop 2000, where the coaster gets stuck in the loop.

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[Flare]

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Anyone have any favorite tv show episodes (not documentary types but sitcom or other fictional shows) that feature parks and/or coasters?

Don't forget Step by Step and the opening that featured Magic Mountain...only located on the edge of Lake Michigan ;)

Get a Life -- first episode, Terror on the Hell Loop 2000, where the coaster gets stuck in the loop.
http://youtu.be/hguWyaZ9eTg

How about some quintessential Wonder Woman cheeze:

http://youtu.be/hguWyaZ9eTg

and for more cheeze, Kiss Meets The Phantom of The Park:

And from the wayback machine, "Beaver's Fear" was a classic. Youtube is charging for the episode, but there's background info on it here:

http://silentlocations.wordpress.com/2013/06/16/leave-it-to-harold-and-beaver-at-the-long-beach-pike/

[Dave Althoff Jr.]

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Anyone have any favorite tv show episodes (not documentary types but
sitcom or other fictional shows) that feature parks and/or coasters?

Bill Figie used to post an exhaustive list right here on r.r-c, if I
remember right. Is it still possible to search r.r-c on Google Groups?

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[Mike R]

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Anyone have any favorite tv show episodes (not documentary types but sitcom or other fictional shows) that feature parks and/or coasters?

The Muppets and Soupy Sales at Astroworld......

The Pied Piper of Astroworld

http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/The_Pied_Piper_of_Astroworld

What? You never saw it?

[acer510]

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Anyone have any favorite tv show episodes (not documentary types but sitcom or other fictional shows) that feature parks and/or coasters?
There is the one episode from Gomer Pyle USMC where Gomer while in Washington DC along with Sgt. Carter meets up with a little aisan boy who takes them on a wild goose chase. I don't remember the specifics but at one point the little boy wants to go to the amusement park which was Glen Echo park,I think. There is some brief footage of the coaster as I seem to recall.

[acer510]

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Anyone have any favorite tv show episodes (not documentary types but sitcom or other fictional shows) that feature parks and/or coasters?
There is an episode of Mr. Bean titled "Mr. Bean Minds the Baby" that I remember was shown by Mr. Gary Baker at the convention hotel in Richmond during a Coaster Con. I think it was the Con that featured the re-creation of the Rebel Yell marathon that started the ACE organization. There is a memorable scene where Mr. Bean is trying to change a poopy diaper on the baby and the diaper goes flying around and hitting various people(mostly in the face) while they are riding the rides. Not sure which park is featured in it though.

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Anyone have any favorite tv show episodes (not documentary types but sitcom or other fictional shows) that feature parks and/or coasters?
This thread died quicker than I thought it would...LOL

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I recently saw an episode of Spongebob that takes place in an amusement park where he and Patrick are both scared to ride the big roller coaster. It was really funny!


Things like this aren't what I was thinking when I made this thread but figured it was worth mentioning since it was surprisingly entertaining, and I think most coaster fans would enjoy, even if you're not a fan of Spongebob (which I actually think is an okay show).

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There are two episodes of Sliders that feature parks.

"Dream Masters" has some scenes at Santa Monica pier in Ca. (Season 3)

"Invasion" has some scenes at a park I believe in Canada. The park is non operational in the episode. (Season 2)

[Dave Althoff, Jr.]

To resurrect a long-dormant thread...

Last week's episode of NCIS contains scenes set at a North Carolina
amusement park which clearly happens to be Six Flags Magic Mountain.

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Post by Dave Althoff, Jr.
To resurrect a long-dormant thread...
Last week's episode of NCIS contains scenes set at a North Carolina
amusement park which clearly happens to be Six Flags Magic Mountain.
--Dave Althoff, Jr.

Saw that and was curious...been too long since I had been to NC and did not think the park was in NC, but never been to SFMM

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Be sure catch the last episode of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt if you’re not already a fan of the show.

[acer510]

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Be sure catch the last episode of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt if you’re not already a fan of the show.

On what network ?

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Unbreakable Kimmy Schmitt is on Netflix. The final episode features footage from Adventureland in New York, including the Turbulence coaster. Also, a previous season episode features footage at Universal Studios Florida, including Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit.

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Incidentally the scene shot at Adventureland is passed off as Universal Studios Florida in the show.