Monday, October 16
All we needed was Bob Saget…
My daughter has an obsession with the TV show Full House. Every day, as many times as it airs, she ‘must’ watch it. (My understanding is that many 8-12 year old girls have similar compulsions.)Honestly, I’ve never quite understood…
There is a particular episode that is one of the many ‘hallmark episodes’ of this fine comedic gem of a TV show. The Tanner Family, (I think that’s their names), take a trip to Disney World and while there, for some reason that I’m glad I can’t remember, they end up on stage playing and singing with the Beach Boys. There was fun had by all…
Well, yesterday, my family and I went to Disney World in Orlando. (My kids are on fall break all week, my parents live half the year in Florida, and I found $36 plane tickets to Tampa, so we thought ‘what the heck’)
We spent the 1st half of the day at Magic Kingdom (my daughter had a blast), and then the 2nd half of our day at Epcot (our favorite of the four parks). My son Matthew’s only desire was to see the Beatles cover band in the United Kingdom section of the park. Unfortunately, once we arrived in the 'land of little Big Ben' that Monday is the band’s day off.
So we comforted him with the fact, that according to the schedule, there was a Beach Boys cover band playing three times that day. Our thought was that this might suffice his longing to hear something from the 60's.
Well, we arrived a few minutes early to the concert venue expecting to hear “Help Me Rhonda” and “Kokomo” performed by some Disney performers in Hawaiian shirts, and were amazed at how long the line was…it stretched, in Epcot terminology, from America back to Norway and all the way to Mexico.
The thought came, “Hmmm, do you think maybe it’s the real Beach Boys playing tonight?” Sure enough…it was. (Actually, there are just two original members in the band, but Meghan said it looked the same as the band from Full House…)
So, there we were…in the middle of Epcot Disney, thousands of people, mostly older people who had grown up with “Little Deuce Coupe”, standing and screaming and holding up signs requesting songs and doing something that sort of looked like dancing while singing every word to every song.
It was incredibly surreal.
All we needed was Bob Saget singing backup and Uncle Jesse playing the congas…
Mark Nelson at 3:00 PM 2comments
2 Comments
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at 11:57 PM
said... That IS awesome. And I totally remember being about your daughters age and having that same affection for Full House, and I remember that episode. You've got one fortunate little girl on your hands.
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at 11:38 AM
said...
My wife finds your "gilmore girls" addiction to be rather...
interesting. :)