Defunctland: The Bizarre Garfield Dark Ride
In this minisode, Kevin dives deep into the history of Kennywood’s Old Mill and the infamous Garfield overlay, Garfield’s Nightmare.
History Sources:
David Hahner Jr. – https://www.amazon.com/Kennywood-Images-America-David-Hahner/dp/073853563X/
Brian Butko – https://www.facebook.com/groups/Kennywood/
Boaz Frankel – https://www.verylocal.com/garfield-nightmare-kennywood/3820/
Video Sources:
Historic Pittsburgh – https://historicpittsburgh.org/
David Hahner – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsmxF9MJgdeVAq6cVrPve9A
Blacklight Attractions – https://www.youtube.com/c/BlacklightAttractions
XscreamThrills – https://www.youtube.com/c/XscreamThrills
RampagingRex Productions – https://www.youtube.com/c/RampagingRex
TheCoasterMan – https://www.youtube.com/user/thecoasterman100
WackyWeazle – https://www.youtube.com/c/WackyWeazle
Leonard Kinsey / The Dark Side of Disney – https://www.youtube.com/c/DarkSideOfDisney
TomWasHere – https://www.youtube.com/c/TomWasHerePGH
Dark Ride Archive – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyLnNvWKIIWndAHyAg9RcCg
The Coaster Spot – https://www.youtube.com/c/TheCoasterSpot
Television Archives – https://www.youtube.com/c/TELEVISIONARCHIVES
Amusement Now – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOi3P861W5KzZdCdFONC8yw
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As someone who rode this every year, it was an awful ride lol. Not well maintained, boring, and just not a fun ride lol
@Sage hewson its Kennywood dog. If your not from Pittsburgh you just don’t get it.
Brent, you’re supposed to bring someone on the ride with you!
@Fawksthephoenix1 Tbh, the art –is– was really cool.
As someone who rode this ride every year…I hate to admit that I liked this ride 🙁
@CheerupButtercup I’ll never forget my disappoint when after not having gone for years to find the Olde Mille had changed. It just didn’t feel the same for the rest of the day.
I suppose thats just getting older but man what an unnecessary change.
Loved this video more than Garfield loves Lasagna, remarkably funny with an emotional twist at the end, keep up the good work Mr Perjurer, love this channel!
“Loved this video more than Garfield loves Lasagna”? Not possible, heretic, nothing is more powerful than the bond between the orange cat and his Italian foodstuffs
Smokerwolf?! Qué haces aquí?!
As a Pittsburgh native I can confirm you knocked this out of the park – really appreciate the curiosity and diligence you bring to covering parks outside of the typical Disney/Universal wheelhouse.
…also I’m not going to get greedy, but Noah’s Ark is another Kennywood attraction with a very long and bizarre history (it’s an ~85 year old religious funhouse that, for a number of years, started by dropping you in a skeleton-strewn mineshaft)
Omg someone mentioned the end room with the flooding walls and the siren and now I’m having flashbacks to crying as a kid after exiting the walk through. Looking back though… those effects were legitimately cool and scary.
Holy shit he needs to cover this
I grew up & still live in Pittsburgh so a lot of Kennywood lore is just common for me. Now thinking of it, the ark definitely had a few weird re-designs over the years.
it WHAT
Noah’s ark had no right to be that terrifying
I want to know Garfield’s dark secrets
Tell me your secrets lasagna cat
Don’t we all!
Lasaga
@Mr. Treehouse Yeah they are hilarious.
As someone who grew up going to Kennywood as a kid, the sentence “my downstairs got as slippery as the log jammer”, has absolutely wreck my childhood
AERIAL DUMP
lol
@Shane Bauer yinz can’t even redd up yer pittsburghese n’at
Slippy*
🤣
“In this minisode…”
*30+ minutes long*
when you work with quinton reviews, 30 min sure is short
Hey, it’s no 2-hour manifesto
Dude made a feature length doc about lines… he doesn’t know the meaning of short.
@12799MaDeuce hell nah they got LMGs watching defunctland.
nate, WHERE THE FUCK IS THE NEXT HIGH SCHOOL SURVIVAL GUIDE, ITS BEEN SO LONG I GRADUATED
My siblings and I went on the Garfield ride so many times when we were children, completely unaware of the reputation it had among adults.
Needless to say, hearing about it’s history has simultaneously ruined and enhanced my childhood.
that’s what anything related to Garfield does to you (trust me I know, look at my pfp)
highly relatable
Yup that’s what adulthood does to us
Wildly enough, this sent me on a goose chase of my own when you did not mention that Silverwood in Idaho also gained Garfield as a mascot in 2001. Thinking that maybe I slipped dimensions, I checked their wiki to find that they also ended up de-Garfieldifying in 2021, probably for the exact same viacom stipulations.
Now that you mention it, I remember the garfield theming too! rip in rest mister field
F*ucking Silverwood. I almost died on one of their rides. I kept screaming that the locking mechanism hadn’t worked, but the operator just shrugged and left. She literally left the ride alone to smoke. I ended up breaking my hand jamming it shut, right before we went upside down. The spin cycle is what I think it’s called? The manager didn’t give a shit when I tried to tell them, and ask for help with my hand. Ended up in the ER to fix my hand, and haven’t gone back in 5 years. I’d seriously be careful on some of their rides.
“We’ve always been at war with Eurasia”-Viacom, probably.
Kevin, genuinely don’t think I’ve ever laughed so hard at a Defunctland episode. This was delightful.
That pause on the Garfield urinals – juuuuuust long enough for it to sink in that, yes, men were meant to piss in Garfield’s mouth, is one of the many reasons I love this channel.
Right up there with “…already California-themed California.” I’ll never forget that winner.
Poor Kenny the Kangaroo had me dying
The “poor aim” comment about the paint splashes did it for me.
so many fantastic quotes in this one,, defunctland has always had sneaky humour in it but this is the funniest episode imo