absolutely insane to think about a kid gang member possibly saying, "videopolis is our turf, go back to knott's berry farm where you belong" and being dead serious about it
This is how Disney land clubs acted like. Every club had different patches, example sons of Anakin. There was a lot of beef between different clubs. Shit was cringe and toxic
I naturally scrolled to the comment section while the before-video ads were playing, and man oh man was I confused at this comment out of context lmao.
funny thing is one time I had to get off space mountain, I literally sat in the vehicle was ready to go, but a few minutes later i saw the cast members speaking, security running. A guy got out of his ride vehicle and started running around inside of space mountain. Pretty sure he could've danced in there if he wanted to
I love how the Videopolis theme actually slaps for the first 7 seconds, then starts to slap significantly less after they stop coming up with lyrics and just say "Videopolis" three times
Lol yeah, I was thinking "oh, another Defunctland video! Let's see what brilliant idea Eisner comes up with and then how he manages to completely screw it up!"
why did i tear up at the “I like Disneyland, it’s a nice place to go” quote from one of the guys who were thrown out just for dancing like damn let them be
Honestly this is wholesome because Eisner just wanted his son to think he was cool but, like a classic Disney villain, he just went too hard and ended up with nothing. You can almost see him sitting in the faint neon lights of YUMZ hoping that maybe *tonight* will be the night that his son decides to stop by for a churro with the old man. The homosexual fast dancers spin around him, lost in their own revelry, and his son parties the night away at Knott's Berry Farm, oblivious to his father's despair. "Euro Disney," mutters Eisner as he picks at his soggy churro. "That will make things right."
My uncle asked me what I was watching. I mentioned this as a “Documentary on Videopolis” and he went “OOH I REMEBER THAT. That’s where I sold drugs over high school summer breaks” I know you mentioned the drug problem last time but listening to his account (we’re socal locals) of being a teenager during this time was hilarious.
Engineer Lume is here! Yeah, but its a bunch of collective stories from what he does remember over the course of 4 summers. Because it wasn’t just weed being sold, lsd and coke were popular among the scene too. Because. 80’s. Though Figment is at Walt Disney World, my uncle compares a group of 5-6 teen boys getting high on mushrooms and sitting in the people mover just tripping balls. Back then they could hop carts all they wanted especially with (friends) older siblings working at the parks
It’s 1985. I’m a 16 year old high school girl from California. I won a softball tournament and to celebrate I’m going to Disney for the first time with my best friend. I’m a bit shy, but she encourages me to dance with her. It’s fun, but I’m still sore from the tournament, so I start to slow down. Big mistake. Mickey mouse emerges from the shadows and beats me with a churro because my dancing has transitioned from “homosexual fast dancing” to “homosexual slow dancing”. I get a lawyer, four months later, I am one of only two women allowed to engage in homosexual slow dancing at a Disney park in the state of California
"My friends are here.. the lights are weird." "There are lots of females here, I like the females." Friendly reminder, kids. Teenagers in the 80's didn't have any better a grasp on their composure than you do, take pride in your triumphs and relish in your awkwardness, you aren't terrible for minor mistakes.
Hey everyone! This is not a reupload! This is a remastered Videopolis history triple the length of the original video. There’s a lot of new info and story and I hope you enjoy it! Also here’s your Homosexual Fast Dancing shirt, all proceeds go to The Trevor Project. teespring.com/shop/homosexual-fast-dancing
Only thing I didn't like more than the old version, is the pic of 80z All Stars at Tomorrowland Terrace that I could actually see myself in is gone. Though the one from the actual time mentioned is cool as well. Rip to the old shows and the rising stage.
Whenever people complain about the newer generations being too sensitive, I’m gonna remind them that “homosexual fast dancing” was once seen as a ban-able offense. Edit: homosexual fast AND slow dancing
lol 😂 not surprised. same company that signed "dont say gay" bill and censored all lgbtq+ references in all movies and tv until Andi Mack and Owl House. Seriously homophobic history of Disney.
21 year old guys in the same nightclub as 14 year old teenagers? Totally kosher. 2 people of the same gender boogeying it out on the dancefloor together? *JAIL FOR A THOUSAND YEARS.*
it's an age range used for all of the teens who can't legally drink, so yes. when i was 18-20 i never went to stuff like that because i was horrified at the chance of being around a bunch of 14yr olds. 16-20 is a better range imo but i guess the 14 and 15yr olds are too left out that way, fuck if i know. i don't like it either lol
The "hangout" stuff made me really worried when I put this together, specially with the 40 year old man scene. I seriously doubt nothing illegal was going on there, the gangs were probably the only public part.
When I was fourteen, I would have said that I should totally be allowed to go on the teen dance floor. Now at twenty, I'm thinking "why did they let high school freshmen near college students?"
@@HollyG1903 If he wasn't being fucking creepy towards the children, I think it'd be alright. I mean, who doesn't like to see an older person just vibing somewhere? He's not there to pick up on or otherwise try to relate with the children, he's just there to have fun!
I'm legit saddened by the fact that Teenage Nightclubs came and went so quickly. Wish we had something like that while I was going through adolescence in the 2010s. Teens have nowhere to go and party together, play loud music, and just be out of the house until midnight.
I’m part of a DnD group at this local tabletop game store. Like a year ago, when I was sixteen, the guy who had been the DM for about a year was leaving the state. Due to a bunch of convoluted circumstances, my ride picked me up halfway through my final session with him. This was despite the fact that they told me to text them when it was over. I was upset. I realized that I couldn’t go somewhere at six, pretend to be gnome wizard named Dweebdum, and return home at ten.
@@MattMcIrvin It's pretty informative about how they reached their current, almost suspiciously LBG positive positions. I'm curious who exactly it was who figured out that being anti-gay would destroy them in the modern cultural sphere, but clearly someone realized that they had to switch gears and _hard_ if they wanted to avoid controversy with serious consequences.
@@raymondthrone7197 Yeah, and to this day they continue to put on the pretense of progressiveness while at the same time editing out homosexual characters in the Chinese release of films, and in general making only very minor concessions to the LGBT community such as having two background male characters dancing together. Ah yes. Very progress. Much ive. Wow. I don't even really care that much about LGBT stuff, but if you say you're pro-thing, then have the balls to back it up with your actions. Otherwise get over here and sit on the fence with the rest of us.
Shenaldrac The great irony of this is that the film division had no trouble hiring a transsexual - and not just any, but one whose birth name was Walter - to compose the musical score for *Tron.*
Kevin i remember when the original version of this premiered, and I remember thinking how much you had improved in just the few episodes you had out at the time. This version is friggin amazing and makes my heart so happy to see what a talent documentary director you've grown into. Also I need a ring tone of you saying "homosexual fast dancing" I always thought Charles Entertainment Cheese would be the best defunctland line, but boy I was wrong.
That reminds me of the Robot Chicken skit where teens could get 'handjob passports', and would get stamps based on where they gave each other handjobs.
I mean, unless you've somehow literally never heard of Disney before, the homophobia should be completely expected. It's literally almost the entirety of their history.
I actually paused the video and read the entire article. It was definitely about adult married couples being "romantic" on a disney vacation, and not about kids hooking up at videopolis.
When they mentioned the old lady dancing with kids, and then said "everyone's worst fear happened" I was very shocked to hear it was a shooting and not a k1d napp1ng or p3do bathroom assau1t.
As an afficionado of both fast and slow homosexual dancing, I appreciate your attention to these issues and I absolutely love your deadpan sarcasm when talking about it!
I know everyone loves Kevin’s delivery of “Homosexual Fast Dancing”, but can we just talk about him saying, “I like the females here. There are a lot of females”?
That’s just like a person who doesn’t want to call themselves gay even tho they are but still want to deflect from it, so they claim they’re the opposite sex or something other than human. Obvious.
Just watched The Owl House episode where Luz and Amity, a semi-confirmed (EDIT: confirmed) same-sex couple, dance-battle the monster of the week. After 35 year, Disney finally allowed homosexual fast dancing.
@@slithra227 It's third season didn't get cancelled, it's going to be the finale, three 44ish minute episodes. Can't find any reports stating it has been cancelled at this time.
11:06 "My friends are here. The lights are really weird." That is some stellar input, Chris. Very helpful. I don't know why that specific quote (all of them were great) really got to me but, man, that's funny.
“This was a huge win for the two men... and no one else.” This was a great video, quite the insightful watch! I love that you include various news articles from the time, it’s super fascinating reading the public perceptions of the events you’re covering.
I'm old enough to remember the quality of the park in those days. It was looking pretty bad in parts. You had paint peeling of off structures, ride queues weren't getting cleaned regularly so the grime of people touching things built up, and the food was awful. It was the cheapest ingredients you could find for quick service restaurants. The quality was lower than public school cafeteria food.
This "fad" has always existed. Every single cartoon, movie, theme park, the entirety of disney as a corporation has been an attempt to resonate with kids. Kids don't tend to run huge businesses or make media of their own, every trend kids have ever had has been started by middle aged businessmen.
I love how Disney tried to play off the gay ban by implying that it might lead to too much aggressive HETEROsexuality, whereby dancing lesbians would be sexually assaulted by male bystanders. Also, Videopolis totally needs to have a movie made about it. Sort of like how American Graffiti came to be the signature nostalgia movie for the Baby Boomers - this could be the big nostalgia movie for early Generation X.
Defunctland is one of the best channels out there. I seriously couldn't give a fugg about most the topics at first but for some reason I always find myself 100% invested. Keep up the good work!
I hope the grown up version of that kid sees this video. Nothing better than thinking back to cringey moments from your youth ... once you've had some time to insulate yourself from them, lol
@@vianjelos now see, that may be *logical and correct* but I think we all know human beings have never let little things like "logic" and "facts" get in the way of buying into fear-mongering and mass hysteria.
Disney: *Opens an area for adolescence teens and young adults, expecting them to be civil and act like adults.* The Teens and Young adults: *Act like young adults* Disney: Wait, that's illegal!
@@AdamYJ Disney Channel teens: I love respecting my parents and doing my homework on time. Real teens: f*ck your parents, f*ck your school, I want cocaine and homosexual fast dancing
I've always told the story of being there as the only teen in my family, and when Billy Idol's "Dancing With Myself," played, I went onto the dance floor, only to be tapped by security and told I couldn't be there dancing by myself!
I will say, being responsible for the proliferation of churros throughout the Disney empire is a pretty great legacy. There are few things better than a Disneyland churro.
Somehow, the 61 year old woman showing up every week to hang out with the younger crowd is oddly sweet in a "young at heart" sort of way. I wonder what eventually happened to her. I mean, it's been over 30 years, so she's likely long passed, but it makes you wonder what she did after Videopolis shut down. Did she find a new place to go to hang out and dance, or did she quietly retire to dance in her home?
@@queuedjar4578I remember I looked up her name after I originally saw this video, and I DID find a woman in her 90s who was still living in the area that was the right age. I hope she's still around and enjoying life.
This was great to watch. My dad was a Cast Member during Videopolis, and after watching this I pulled out his purple satin Videopolis jacket I've had at the back of my closet.
I feel sorry of the teens who loved Videopolis. I'd be crushed too if my favorite hangout spot was closed forever. It was a product of its time, but it was fun for genuine fans.
I lost my mind laughing at the homosexual dancing ban fiasco... Gay couple: "Can we dance here?" Disney: "No." Gay couple: *sue Disney* Disney: "Okay, you can dance together, but no other gay couples can." Other gays: "Wait wha--" Disney: "Okay, gays can dance together, but they aren't actually gay because kids can't be gay." The gays: "Um... thanks? We'll just ignore that last part, we see this as an absolute win." Part 2: 3 gays: *Get told they can't slow dance together* Disney: "H O M O S E X U A L F A S T D A N C I N G O N L Y" 3 gays: *sue Disney again* Disney: "Okay, gays can dance together."
@@92JazzQueen we almost did. Haim Saban tried his hardest to bring Super Sentai to America since 1986, but it took him until 93, after he had gained some serious clout from X-Men The Animated Series the year prior.
8:26 "We didn't want to have two women dancing and have some guy go out and hassle them" Ah yes, because that'll stop guys from hassling women. "Man I really want to be a jerk, but there's only one woman over there! Damn it! I guess my plan is foiled!"
I'm now imagining having to do some 80's dance at half-speed while the song rages at 180 bpm or getting someone to control a strobe light so that you can be like "you can only see every other beat of the dance, so really it is only homosexual 90bpm dancing"
My parents have just informed me that one of their friends took pictures of them at Disney in the 80's when they were still just bf/gf, and that in a few photos of theirs are them dancing at Videopolis.
Say what you want but I think Michael Eisner did a really good job to turn the Disney ship around. Also, Kevin, your videos mixed with the dry humor are so top-notch it makes for some of the best videos on UA-cam!
Under him we got the Disney Renaissance era of animated films and Disney Television Animation. We also got defunct teen night clubs, unsuccessful VR arcades and underperforming international parks.
My mom always tells us stories of Videopolis and ‘homosexual fast dancing’. Basically, she admits that her friends would all go and have fun as heterosexual fun-loving teens but as soon as they got on the floor, they’d dance next to each other so they could hug and express PDA as anyone wanted. It is absolutely hilarious.
It still weirds me out whenever someone talks about Disney failing back in the 80's. It's just unthinkable compared to the Disney of today. I mean, even when I was a kid (90's to early 2000's) Disney was up there as one of the premiere studios who always made bank.
I clearly remember back in the 1970’s when Disney nearly went out of business altogether (and would that have been such a bad thing in retrospect?)(all the bad movies, even from the so-called renaissance era, the rotten tv shows on the Disney Channel, and the crap made for video/dvd pictures; the ever-expanding and always-getting-worse parks; the stupid cruise line; the very idea of Celebration, Disney’s takeover and destruction of the Broadway musical; keeping both Marvel and Star Wars going long long long long past their expiration dates; just as examples)
@@lazchurchyard1229 saw it back in the day, but can’t say I recall a second of it, nor that I was enthused enough to ever try to catch it again…though I fully acknowledge that some films can strike one differently years later
Man, the one thing that I love about this channel is that it doesn't try to hard for humor. Humor has its place, but a lot of the time the information the information is enough to keep you interested
I’m really loving this current theme of bringing attention to some of the Disney company’s less savory aspects through discussion of some particular aspect of its history. Disney is big on airbrushing away anything from the past that doesn’t make them look good today, so you using your platform to shine a light on them is fantastic.
You have one heck of a great channel! Fantastic and deeply accurate research. Perfectly edited with a crystal clear story line. Exciting and Crisp Presentation! Historic film clips never before seen. What a show!
I was hoping it was going to be this one! I never know of its existence prior to seeing the first version of this video and have been hunting for more info ever since!
"My friends are here. The lights are really weird" 😂 14 and high as a kite
there's no way a 14 year old said that shit sober
Dude was gone cocaine was rampant in the eighties
absolutely insane to think about a kid gang member possibly saying, "videopolis is our turf, go back to knott's berry farm where you belong" and being dead serious about it
“Bro they think they can just show up at Disneyland without having to answer to us? Man once I save up enough money for a pass ima see them”
California Gangs of the 80s-90s were pretty hardcore... they even claimed public restrooms at parks
This is how Disney land clubs acted like. Every club had different patches, example sons of Anakin. There was a lot of beef between different clubs. Shit was cringe and toxic
I just got to the part where he mentioned a rise in gang violence, and I couldn’t have imagined that leading to the quote in your comment.
@@RanivusCh dont even THINK about shitting on our turf
“I like the females. There are a lot of females here.”
- Guy trying not to get busted for homosexual fast dancing
THIS 💀
🤣
I naturally scrolled to the comment section while the before-video ads were playing, and man oh man was I confused at this comment out of context lmao.
@@Toolace same here
Lol😆
The line “Homosexual Fast Dancing” should be hung at a museum somewhere, the same for “Charles Entertainment Cheese”.
The Charles Entertainment Cheese Museum of Homosexual Fast Dancing
It should be hung in a gay club somewhere.
I want to start a band and name it this. Whose in? 🤗
BJA Anderson I’m in.
*Mom, I’m Just Homosexually Fast Dancing With Charles Entertainment Cheese*
"You can't dance on Space Mountain!"
Well, not with *that* attitude.
That Giaccino score SLAPS
I'm getting a very similar vibe to a certain cyborg and a red planet.
Though I think we know the answer to that as well.
funny thing is one time I had to get off space mountain, I literally sat in the vehicle was ready to go, but a few minutes later i saw the cast members speaking, security running. A guy got out of his ride vehicle and started running around inside of space mountain. Pretty sure he could've danced in there if he wanted to
Josh Avitia yes! Cinemawins ftw!
@@audrey.c1 I heard about that! Wasn’t that kinda recent
I love how the Videopolis theme actually slaps for the first 7 seconds, then starts to slap significantly less after they stop coming up with lyrics and just say "Videopolis" three times
Opening on a picture of Eisner is the most Defunctland thing I can think of
Lol yeah, I was thinking "oh, another Defunctland video! Let's see what brilliant idea Eisner comes up with and then how he manages to completely screw it up!"
nothing is more defunctland than opening on a still image of Eisner and a guitar riff
It's truly Kevin at his most Kevin.
Pie-rxmancer specifically that one guitar riff from undertale
And it’s Eisner with hair too no doubt. Idk if that makes it funnier or not
Videopolis' theme song straight up sounds like something you would have made for this series.
Right? You'd think it was in the company of "Disaster Transport"
It should be the theme song for this channel
Gotta admit it's pretty catchy.
@@missybarbour6885 OOOHHH YEAAAHHH!
The lyrics are pretty hard to remember though.
why did i tear up at the “I like Disneyland, it’s a nice place to go” quote from one of the guys who were thrown out just for dancing like damn let them be
Honestly this is wholesome because Eisner just wanted his son to think he was cool but, like a classic Disney villain, he just went too hard and ended up with nothing. You can almost see him sitting in the faint neon lights of YUMZ hoping that maybe *tonight* will be the night that his son decides to stop by for a churro with the old man. The homosexual fast dancers spin around him, lost in their own revelry, and his son parties the night away at Knott's Berry Farm, oblivious to his father's despair.
"Euro Disney," mutters Eisner as he picks at his soggy churro. "That will make things right."
im dead lmao
I need a really dramatic netflix series centered around this idea
I love you
Best defunctland comment of l time
Despair? *Upupupupu!*
My uncle asked me what I was watching. I mentioned this as a “Documentary on Videopolis” and he went “OOH I REMEBER THAT. That’s where I sold drugs over high school summer breaks”
I know you mentioned the drug problem last time but listening to his account (we’re socal locals) of being a teenager during this time was hilarious.
Is there more to this story or did he just go "God I love DRUGS!" and walk off?
Engineer Lume is here! Yeah, but its a bunch of collective stories from what he does remember over the course of 4 summers. Because it wasn’t just weed being sold, lsd and coke were popular among the scene too. Because. 80’s. Though Figment is at Walt Disney World, my uncle compares a group of 5-6 teen boys getting high on mushrooms and sitting in the people mover just tripping balls. Back then they could hop carts all they wanted especially with (friends) older siblings working at the parks
@@catharinrin my god I miss the 80's
Everyone did cocaine in the 80’s ... even Mickey
Everyone did coke and lived fast lives because they all thought they were going to be vaporized by the big one
Said one viewer, “I love it in Defunctland. There are so many great videos here. I especially like the fact that there are slow and fast videos.”
It’s 1985. I’m a 16 year old high school girl from California. I won a softball tournament and to celebrate I’m going to Disney for the first time with my best friend. I’m a bit shy, but she encourages me to dance with her. It’s fun, but I’m still sore from the tournament, so I start to slow down. Big mistake. Mickey mouse emerges from the shadows and beats me with a churro because my dancing has transitioned from “homosexual fast dancing” to “homosexual slow dancing”. I get a lawyer, four months later, I am one of only two women allowed to engage in homosexual slow dancing at a Disney park in the state of California
Mabel Pines I imagined this all in a mabel pines voice 10/10
I thought you were for real
Sh*t just went from zero to one-hundred real f**king quick.
@@doseofmilquetoast5383 so did I, lol.
@@doseofmilquetoast5383 Same here. Especially after eating a whole bunch of candy.
I’m not sure it’s possible to have a more 80s sounding name than “Videopolis”
All hail the new fresh!
Perturbator?
Is that what inspired Studiopolis Zone's name?
Or a more 80s theme song
Sounds like a Sonic level
My parents met at videopolis. if it wasn't for that place, I wouldn't be here.
really?
The prophesy has been fulfilled 🙌
Did they-
Did they uh-
Did th-
Did they fast dance in the bathrooms???
@@a.a.g.h.1679 Awsome
Were you conceived at videopolis??
Oh boy, I can't wait to learn about a Disney dance club!
Kevin: "This created a class divide"
"You can't dance on Space Mountain" says local coward.
*dances to the cha cha slide while on the drop*
You can still do the hand jive or the Tony Manero disco finger. Even Michael Eisner would agree with that.
*homosexual slow dances on Space Mountain*
i am ric flair and you can dance on space mountain alllll night long woooooooooooooo!!!
This has the same energy as "You can't sit there." States cowardly non-believer.
Imagine having such a lame gang that you get in a turf war over Knott's Berry Farm.
like you wouldn't flex on the street knowing you lorded over a theme park as a 14 year old
imagine having a turf war over "america's first theme park" which has intense rides now
I just need a Footloose style movie about an uptight theme park transformed through the power of homosexual fast dancing.
That would be legit! All we need now is to find the perfect guys to play the Andrew Exler and Shawn Elliot characters.
A Broadway version of that would slap too
I feel like it would play out like a gender bent version of the prom.
YES
Girl its happening NOW
"Lucky for him, it was the 80s."
This is both the most amazing and most terrifying sentence ever. 🤣
"My friends are here.. the lights are weird."
"There are lots of females here, I like the females."
Friendly reminder, kids. Teenagers in the 80's didn't have any better a grasp on their composure than you do, take pride in your triumphs and relish in your awkwardness, you aren't terrible for minor mistakes.
damn thanks homie :')
Facts
welp, guess i’ll just become even more shy now lol
Regardless of any generation, teens are awkward ducks
Luckily for them, Gen X and earlier teens didn't have to worry about some kind of network storing all their cringeworthy mistakes forever.
Hey everyone! This is not a reupload! This is a remastered Videopolis history triple the length of the original video. There’s a lot of new info and story and I hope you enjoy it! Also here’s your Homosexual Fast Dancing shirt, all proceeds go to The Trevor Project. teespring.com/shop/homosexual-fast-dancing
Hey I would be cool if you could respond to me bc I love you content and u spoke at my school remember Mr Wright ? That’s one of my teachers
That is cool
Yup it was cool
Thank you
Only thing I didn't like more than the old version, is the pic of 80z All Stars at Tomorrowland Terrace that I could actually see myself in is gone. Though the one from the actual time mentioned is cool as well. Rip to the old shows and the rising stage.
“Homosexual fast dancing” that’s just me doing the just dance 2 dance to Britney Spears’s toxic with no music for no reason
Same
doing it with no music bc the cover in that game was so horrible.
I do that all the time fr haha
TOO HIGH, CANT COME DOWNNNN
Lmao bro that’s so hilarious
Whenever people complain about the newer generations being too sensitive, I’m gonna remind them that “homosexual fast dancing” was once seen as a ban-able offense. Edit: homosexual fast AND slow dancing
And we were so sensitive back then, that we closed down a night club. Thanks for being an idiot.
@@PinkGoldAbby why u so mad lol
Every generation is overly sensitive
@@dylan9382 yeah, just in different ways and levels of extremity
Exactly
4:07 No one gonna mention how sick Brer Bear’s moves are
I think that's actually the Big Bad Wolf. lol
Bear breaks it right the fuck down
He’s a B boy that taught the good folks at Disney the 5 elements of hip hop.✊🏽👌✌🏽
Omg you’re right he’s fucking balling
Of COURSE the 80s had a period of time where there were only two dudes in the entire world who were allowed to gay dance at Disneyland.
Correction "homosexual fast dancing"
@@mehsmeh1308 true, if it was just gay dancing as a whole, they would have been allowed to homosexually slow dance as well.
This needs to be made into a drama
@@jgallardo7344 hell yeah i'd watch that
Makes you wonder how that'd be enforced
Guard: "You can't do that here"
Guy: "We're the lawsuit dudes"
Guard: "Ok then. Carry on"
I love how they were so concerned about "homosexual fast dancing" while kids were literally screwing in the bathroom lol
Think about the children
lol 😂 not surprised. same company that signed "dont say gay" bill and censored all lgbtq+ references in all movies and tv until Andi Mack and Owl House. Seriously homophobic history of Disney.
And now look at them; gay and trans crap everywhere you look.
Not to mention how DIRTY they did owl house
21 year old guys in the same nightclub as 14 year old teenagers? Totally kosher.
2 people of the same gender boogeying it out on the dancefloor together? *JAIL FOR A THOUSAND YEARS.*
“i like the females here. there are lots of females”
-robert
That boy was very perceptive.
"Also, I'm *totally* not an alien masquerading as a human being."
Robert knows what's up.
Somedays a Ferengi wants to dance.
@@Modern_Robot even if its with Hu-Mons
Imagine finding out your parents hooked up at Disneyland and you were the product.
“Son you were conceived at the happiest place on earth”
Danielle Felice imagine finding out your mother thought she broke her water but it was actually Matterhorn’s splashdown. Also, you’re George Lopez.
I'd be fine.
Imagine those parents named you Mickey. 🤣
I imagine quite a few people were conceived at Disney. All the hot3ls and resorts oof
"son, you are the product of Michael Eisners fantasy"
I can’t be the only one who finds the age range on 14-21 very weird. You mean whole adults are in the same club with 14 year olds???
it's an age range used for all of the teens who can't legally drink, so yes. when i was 18-20 i never went to stuff like that because i was horrified at the chance of being around a bunch of 14yr olds. 16-20 is a better range imo but i guess the 14 and 15yr olds are too left out that way, fuck if i know. i don't like it either lol
The "hangout" stuff made me really worried when I put this together, specially with the 40 year old man scene. I seriously doubt nothing illegal was going on there, the gangs were probably the only public part.
When I was fourteen, I would have said that I should totally be allowed to go on the teen dance floor.
Now at twenty, I'm thinking "why did they let high school freshmen near college students?"
Yeah, gee, there wasn't any paedophilia going on there at all... /sarcasm
This is the sort of venue that would make much more sense in europe with 18-21 year olds or with 14-17 year olds. Not both.
The “Dancing Mama” is one of the most hilarious thing in the entire attraction. Good for her for having fun at being over 60!
I don't like that at all. She was sponging off the kids.
If it was a 60 year old guy out there I don't think people would have thought it was so "cute". 🤷
@@HollyG1903 ... Why not? I mean unless he was creeping on people. But if she really was just dancing and having a good time then it's fine.
@@BE-fw1lr I agree. I was saying it's unfair that a man couldn't have the same fun.
@@HollyG1903 If he wasn't being fucking creepy towards the children, I think it'd be alright. I mean, who doesn't like to see an older person just vibing somewhere?
He's not there to pick up on or otherwise try to relate with the children, he's just there to have fun!
The weirdest part of this by far was learning that Michael Eisner has a son named "Breck".
What kind of name is that?
@@elijahblechman8633 It's of Scottish origin meaning "speckled".
Your profile picture looks like it was made for this comment
@@samtinkle9076 I'm sure the ancient Aztecs who made it 500 years ago intended it for this exact purpose.
Gveskojeno wait so he essentially named his son Spot?
I'm legit saddened by the fact that Teenage Nightclubs came and went so quickly. Wish we had something like that while I was going through adolescence in the 2010s. Teens have nowhere to go and party together, play loud music, and just be out of the house until midnight.
I’m part of a DnD group at this local tabletop game store. Like a year ago, when I was sixteen, the guy who had been the DM for about a year was leaving the state. Due to a bunch of convoluted circumstances, my ride picked me up halfway through my final session with him. This was despite the fact that they told me to text them when it was over. I was upset. I realized that I couldn’t go somewhere at six, pretend to be gnome wizard named Dweebdum, and return home at ten.
Here in Mexico most of those places/parties are underground and basically a point of entry towards crime
Given how commonly such hangouts become centers of crime and violence, there's a reason teenagers have nowhere to hang out.
Blame US urban planning for that lol.
Of course you had somewhere to go, Dunkin Donuts parking lot??
"I LIKE HUMAN FEMALES
THERE ARE LOTS OF HUMAN FEMALES AT THIS PLACE"
-Testimonial Bot 8000
Cypto from Destroy All Human's then goes into the park to dance.
Now playing: Lonely island ft. Nicki minaj | The creep
Ferengi!
this comment is cursed, 666 likes
Robot: Greetings fellow male humans. I also like female humans, as male humans do.
Two guys: Homosexual fast dance by.
Robot: Visible confusion.
all of those quotes from "real teens" sound like dril tweets
IF DISNEYLAND BANS ME FOR DANCING ON SPACE MOUNTAIN I WILL FACE MICKEY AND MOONWALK INTO MR. TOAD'S WILD RIDE.
I worship the feet of goddess george-W.bush and I am a littol PIGGY who must be sent to Iraq." - went dril tweets
Holy cats
gay rights, but only for those two homosexual fast dancers
@@fuckwit107 just start fast dancing, the cops will never catch up
Because they were the fastest and gayest dancers in all the land!
i read this and laughed and had to reread it lmao
@@NonsenseWithGlasses but do it EXTRA homosexually to really rub it in their face
@@scottpeltier3977 EXTRA HOMOSEXUALITY love that
Same-Sex Couples: "So, can we dance together at Videopolis or not?"
Disney: "Well, yes, but actually no, but actually yes"
The thread weaving through this of "how the Disney parks became gay-friendly, mostly under duress" is really interesting.
@@MattMcIrvin It's pretty informative about how they reached their current, almost suspiciously LBG positive positions. I'm curious who exactly it was who figured out that being anti-gay would destroy them in the modern cultural sphere, but clearly someone realized that they had to switch gears and _hard_ if they wanted to avoid controversy with serious consequences.
ItsMamaLuigi well, that’s confusing
@@raymondthrone7197 Yeah, and to this day they continue to put on the pretense of progressiveness while at the same time editing out homosexual characters in the Chinese release of films, and in general making only very minor concessions to the LGBT community such as having two background male characters dancing together. Ah yes. Very progress. Much ive. Wow.
I don't even really care that much about LGBT stuff, but if you say you're pro-thing, then have the balls to back it up with your actions. Otherwise get over here and sit on the fence with the rest of us.
Shenaldrac The great irony of this is that the film division had no trouble hiring a transsexual - and not just any, but one whose birth name was Walter - to compose the musical score for *Tron.*
Kevin i remember when the original version of this premiered, and I remember thinking how much you had improved in just the few episodes you had out at the time. This version is friggin amazing and makes my heart so happy to see what a talent documentary director you've grown into.
Also I need a ring tone of you saying "homosexual fast dancing" I always thought Charles Entertainment Cheese would be the best defunctland line, but boy I was wrong.
homosex
Charles Entertainment Cheese was way better though
I was there back in the brad Pitt days lol
Never in a million years did I expect to see a still image of Michael Eisner with a crushing heavy metal guitar riff over top of it, but here we are.
disney: No gay dancing!
boy and girl: heading to the "hang out spot" bathrooms
Disney: wait-
Boy and girl: No.
Two girls:*homosexual fast dancing*
Disney: no
Two girls: ok *go to the bathrooms together*
Disney: WAIT A MINUTE
I WANT THIS ON A T-SHIRT
Lol imagine losing your virginity at Videopolis!
That reminds me of the Robot Chicken skit where teens could get 'handjob passports', and would get stamps based on where they gave each other handjobs.
What I expected: poor management
.....
What I got: Gang violence and homophobia
I mean, unless you've somehow literally never heard of Disney before, the homophobia should be completely expected. It's literally almost the entirety of their history.
@@ShroudedWolf51 Grow up
@Moonshine Everclear is better
@@ShroudedWolf51 homophobia is just something to be expected in a functional society. Get over it
@@krypticunlimited6925 Expected, yes. Doesn't mean it should be overlooked though :)
14:54 "Disneyland after dark becomes cuddleville."
That sounds like the title of a PSA about keeping pedophiles out of the park.
@Steamed Hams Something something joke about adventuring in each other's inner spaces
I actually paused the video and read the entire article. It was definitely about adult married couples being "romantic" on a disney vacation, and not about kids hooking up at videopolis.
@@planaritytheory Yeah I paused it too, I think defunct just wanted the headline
@@planaritytheory well they do say that Disney is the most sexually repressed place on Earth…
When they mentioned the old lady dancing with kids, and then said "everyone's worst fear happened" I was very shocked to hear it was a shooting and not a k1d napp1ng or p3do bathroom assau1t.
As an afficionado of both fast and slow homosexual dancing, I appreciate your attention to these issues and I absolutely love your deadpan sarcasm when talking about it!
Wtf?
I know everyone loves Kevin’s delivery of “Homosexual Fast Dancing”, but can we just talk about him saying, “I like the females here. There are a lot of females”?
That’s just like a person who doesn’t want to call themselves gay even tho they are but still want to deflect from it, so they claim they’re the opposite sex or something other than human. Obvious.
Any dude who uses "females" instead of girls or women is a huge 🚩.
I love females
Just watched The Owl House episode where Luz and Amity, a semi-confirmed (EDIT: confirmed) same-sex couple, dance-battle the monster of the week. After 35 year, Disney finally allowed homosexual fast dancing.
its third season got canceled so not exactly
@@slithra227 They still allowed it, though.
@@slithra227
It's third season didn't get cancelled, it's going to be the finale, three 44ish minute episodes. Can't find any reports stating it has been cancelled at this time.
@@Larper64 They cut it down from 14 episodes to three specials, cutting 6 hours worth of content from the shows planned third season
@@slithra227 I miss when shows were allowed to have episodes :
"6 are stabbed, 21 arrested in gang violence at Magic Mountain" is one sureal headline
11:06 "My friends are here. The lights are really weird."
That is some stellar input, Chris. Very helpful.
I don't know why that specific quote (all of them were great) really got to me but, man, that's funny.
He was just on a REALLY bad tab of Acid he found in his uncles old hippie van when he said that
“This was a huge win for the two men... and no one else.” This was a great video, quite the insightful watch!
I love that you include various news articles from the time, it’s super fascinating reading the public perceptions of the events you’re covering.
I love that there was a point where it was likely/possible that Disney could be bought out. That's just laughable today.
I'm old enough to remember the quality of the park in those days. It was looking pretty bad in parts. You had paint peeling of off structures, ride queues weren't getting cleaned regularly so the grime of people touching things built up, and the food was awful. It was the cheapest ingredients you could find for quick service restaurants. The quality was lower than public school cafeteria food.
ohdogwow2 Now they have blue soy milk at a half-finished Star Wars park.
@@Attmay sweet
And it was saved by The Muppets. Mickey came first but KERMIT OWNS HIM:)
Hedvig Yeah, if you don’t mind swollen nipples.
"I like the females here, there are lots of females"
Did one of the animatronics gain life and give an interview?
No... The animatronic was not alive while saying this 😂😂
Typical 80s 16 year old boy.
I know this is an old comment but I legit laughed X'D
is that how Mark Zuckerberg was born?
Idk, sounds to me like a guy trying to not get busted for Homosexual Fast Dancing.
14:53 dude can you imagine if your parents conceived you in a disneyland bathroom? you've gotten be born with some sorta magic powers then, right?
That sounds like a premise of a movie that could be either great or terrible.
People conceived in the Disneyland bathroom and People conceived on the Garfield dark ride are 2 sides of the same coin
This whole Videopolis is basically a 80s version of a “Hello Fellow Kids” corporate fad.
But that kind of thing worked in the 80s. It started in the 80s. It’s really unique to that era.
Back then it actually worked XD
Albeit, a successful one
Mate it’s the origin story of “Hello Fellow Kids”, no other company did it like Disney in this era
This "fad" has always existed. Every single cartoon, movie, theme park, the entirety of disney as a corporation has been an attempt to resonate with kids. Kids don't tend to run huge businesses or make media of their own, every trend kids have ever had has been started by middle aged businessmen.
I love how Disney tried to play off the gay ban by implying that it might lead to too much aggressive HETEROsexuality, whereby dancing lesbians would be sexually assaulted by male bystanders.
Also, Videopolis totally needs to have a movie made about it. Sort of like how American Graffiti came to be the signature nostalgia movie for the Baby Boomers - this could be the big nostalgia movie for early Generation X.
I love the fact that they needed to hold separate trials for fast and slow dancing. That's fantastic.
This was an absolutely fantastic remaster, but I can’t stop thinking about “the wizards of rad”
Defunctland is one of the best channels out there. I seriously couldn't give a fugg about most the topics at first but for some reason I always find myself 100% invested. Keep up the good work!
Shoutout to the review from 14yr old kid at 11:02, he's a little confused but he's got the spirit
Videopolis a project that could only exsisted in the 80s would've loved to see what would've happened had they played SLAYER
MOSH PIT
If it had lasted into the '90s it probably would've become a mosh pit (and the dealers would've moved from coke to ecstasy).
@@andyjay729 true
"'...I like the females here. There are lots of females' - Robert, 16" They need to put that on a giant golden engraved plaque
I hope the grown up version of that kid sees this video. Nothing better than thinking back to cringey moments from your youth ... once you've had some time to insulate yourself from them, lol
It sound alike something you'd say to hide that you're gay
Alongside “homosexual fast dancing”
We all thought it and he just said it. He’s got guts
@@scottpeltier3977 ummmmmm no, he’d had guts if he said he was looking at the boys while being a boy not changing after they throw him out.
Wait, hold up, you just glossed over the fact that there was a BMX group called the "Wizards of Rad."
What? What’s the time stamp?
@@thejman5683 17:48
What i want to know is how Goofy is able to ride a bike in the costume
@@TuesdaysArt yeah I wonder about that too, how does one do it in a costume like that???
@@LotusStar48 the cast member is just built different
I think the argument of “Its not a discriminatory rule, we had it since the 50s” is legitimately one of the stupidest things I heard in my entire life
What's more interesting is the failure to mention that this was when HIV was spreading across the nation.
@@necroflounder if HIV spread like the coronavirus I would understand..but unless they were bum fucking on the dance floor HIV wasnt an issue.
@@vianjelos now see, that may be *logical and correct* but I think we all know human beings have never let little things like "logic" and "facts" get in the way of buying into fear-mongering and mass hysteria.
@@Cipher71 I don't think I've ever seen a quote that so neatly summarizes how I feel about people at large. Thank you for this gem.
Sodomy leada to suffering
Disney: *Opens an area for adolescence teens and young adults, expecting them to be civil and act like adults.*
The Teens and Young adults: *Act like young adults*
Disney: Wait, that's illegal!
What they meant by Young Adults probably stuck to the 1950's view.
Yeah, there was no way this idea was gonna last long.
They kind of forgot that real teenagers don't act like the teenage characters that are the stars of their animated movies.
@@AdamYJ Disney Channel teens: I love respecting my parents and doing my homework on time.
Real teens: f*ck your parents, f*ck your school, I want cocaine and homosexual fast dancing
@@josephruiz5148 Teenager myself, there is no truer statement than yours
I love the phrase “homosexual fast dancing.” Thanks for such a well-researched and well produced episode. So glad I stumbled on this channel!
I've always told the story of being there as the only teen in my family, and when Billy Idol's "Dancing With Myself," played, I went onto the dance floor, only to be tapped by security and told I couldn't be there dancing by myself!
Wait, so did you HAVE to partner up then? That's so weird! (And ironic!)
Dang, no homosexual fast dancing, no asexual fast dancing, next they're gonna find a way to ban bisexual fast dancing!
@@linkwannabe And demisexual slow dancing.
@@beth12svist and pansexual dancing, when you dance with a partner of any gender
You, a simpleton: Panic! At the Disco
Me, an intellectual:
H O M O S E X U A L
F A S T
D A N C I N G
Panic on the streets of Carlisle.
Isn't Brendon Urie a total _dreamboat_ ??
I will say, being responsible for the proliferation of churros throughout the Disney empire is a pretty great legacy. There are few things better than a Disneyland churro.
Let's take a moment to appreciate the real hero's, those who fought Disney so all homosexuals can dance at whichever speed they desire
@Seth Hultkrantz yessir that's me
@@ansel569 Ok, that's actually cringe
@@PeruvianPotato what? People appreciating a couple gays trying to get equal rights to dance?
@@benedictdwyer2608 no it’s a bunch of people dancing in a Disney park…kinda cringe
As a homosexual i very much enjoy being able to dance as speedy as i want
My cousin got knock up at 14, while at Club K, while my parents where taking me to Disneyland for the first time. (I was WAY to young to remember.)
Somehow, the 61 year old woman showing up every week to hang out with the younger crowd is oddly sweet in a "young at heart" sort of way. I wonder what eventually happened to her. I mean, it's been over 30 years, so she's likely long passed, but it makes you wonder what she did after Videopolis shut down. Did she find a new place to go to hang out and dance, or did she quietly retire to dance in her home?
You start aging once you stop moving, so if she's still dancing she's probably still around. Weirder things have happened.
@@queuedjar4578I remember I looked up her name after I originally saw this video, and I DID find a woman in her 90s who was still living in the area that was the right age. I hope she's still around and enjoying life.
This was great to watch. My dad was a Cast Member during Videopolis, and after watching this I pulled out his purple satin Videopolis jacket I've had at the back of my closet.
I would pay a large sum of money for that jacket LOL
I feel sorry of the teens who loved Videopolis. I'd be crushed too if my favorite hangout spot was closed forever. It was a product of its time, but it was fun for genuine fans.
I lost my mind laughing at the homosexual dancing ban fiasco...
Gay couple: "Can we dance here?"
Disney: "No."
Gay couple: *sue Disney*
Disney: "Okay, you can dance together, but no other gay couples can."
Other gays: "Wait wha--"
Disney: "Okay, gays can dance together, but they aren't actually gay because kids can't be gay."
The gays: "Um... thanks? We'll just ignore that last part, we see this as an absolute win."
Part 2:
3 gays: *Get told they can't slow dance together*
Disney: "H O M O S E X U A L F A S T D A N C I N G O N L Y"
3 gays: *sue Disney again*
Disney: "Okay, gays can dance together."
Basically Sarah 35 years later Disney okays brief same sex kiss in celebration scene of a Star Wars movie
Robert J Kral PROGRESS!
@@rjkral "But only if it's two random lesbians, and absolutely none of the marketable characters!" - some Disney exec, probably
@@lanceturley7745 *cries in upset gay because Finn and Poe weren't allowed to get together*
"Homosexual Fast Dancing" sounds like a great band name.
on paper this kinda sounds like the sort of place 5 teenagers with attitude would hang out to practice kung fu and talk to their watches
Berke Ah, yes. But that would come later, in the year of 1993.
If only we got Super Sentai in the 80's, so that could happen.
*Against the Ninja...*
@@Davethe3rd A much less child-friendly IP right there.
@@92JazzQueen we almost did. Haim Saban tried his hardest to bring Super Sentai to America since 1986, but it took him until 93, after he had gained some serious clout from X-Men The Animated Series the year prior.
8:26 "We didn't want to have two women dancing and have some guy go out and hassle them"
Ah yes, because that'll stop guys from hassling women. "Man I really want to be a jerk, but there's only one woman over there! Damn it! I guess my plan is foiled!"
I think they didn't want to offend either side so they used the excuse of a nothing issue...
@@mykaruest3620just as Kevin said. Disney Shifting blame to teen’s heterosexual fears to cover up their homosexual fears
Remember kids, no Homosexual Fast Dancing allowed.
Homosexual Slow Dancing is fine, just don't go above 100bpm.
If the Homosexual Dancing drops below 50 mph, Videopolis is rigged to explode.
@@Kirbyfan87827 "We've got to dance faster! And gayer!!"
As someone who once worked for Disney, I can tell you that Disney had a lot of stupid nonsensical rules like this.
I'm now imagining having to do some 80's dance at half-speed while the song rages at 180 bpm or getting someone to control a strobe light so that you can be like "you can only see every other beat of the dance, so really it is only homosexual 90bpm dancing"
@@Kirbyfan87827 mph is a measurement of miles, you mean 50BPM?
"Homosexual Fast Dancing" will be the name of my new album.
lol
Followed by "Homosexual Slow Dancing"
Add the Soundcloud link here
Love the 80's aesthetics of this episode. Great job!
"You cant dance on Space Mountain!"
Watch ME
As a gay man, I prefer homosexual medium dancing
Homo-perfered bisexual slow motion dancing in three alternate universes simultaneously
My asexual fast dancing is essentially standing stone cold in the middle while people attempt and fail to interact with me.
As I bisexual man, I prefer a frenetic mix of fast and slow dancing
@@HaydenX as a bisexual girl I agree with you
@@HaydenX same
17:50 So that's what inspired An Extreme Goofy Movie lol
My parents have just informed me that one of their friends took pictures of them at Disney in the 80's when they were still just bf/gf, and that in a few photos of theirs are them dancing at Videopolis.
A thoughtful, insightful review of videopolis by Chris: "My friends are here. The lights are really weird" beautiful
"from 1955 to 1957 it can be assumed dancing was banned" xD imagine getting kicked out because you tapped your foot
Master Shake traveled back in time.
Imagine a Disney themed nightclub nowadays, kids dancing to "Let it go" eating Dole Whips and churros lmao.
I mean that was basically mad t party...except it was a dubstep remix of let it go and a $25 margarita 😂😂
I bet Goofy Movie fans wouldn't mind this
@@maxwasson2000 I would fuckin rock out to Eye 2 Eye, for sure
if it makes em happy, more power to them
Say what you want but I think Michael Eisner did a really good job to turn the Disney ship around. Also, Kevin, your videos mixed with the dry humor are so top-notch it makes for some of the best videos on UA-cam!
He was a good leader in crisis, not so much in times of plenty.
I’m honestly an Eisner stan. I’m embarrassed to say that...
@@Narokkurai I think he was doing fine until his partner passed
@@naomirhoja6539 This is almost the argument that DisneyWar makes.
Under him we got the Disney Renaissance era of animated films and Disney Television Animation. We also got defunct teen night clubs, unsuccessful VR arcades and underperforming international parks.
My mom always tells us stories of Videopolis and ‘homosexual fast dancing’. Basically, she admits that her friends would all go and have fun as heterosexual fun-loving teens but as soon as they got on the floor, they’d dance next to each other so they could hug and express PDA as anyone wanted.
It is absolutely hilarious.
Can you rephrase that? I can't quite figure out what you are trying to say.
It still weirds me out whenever someone talks about Disney failing back in the 80's. It's just unthinkable compared to the Disney of today. I mean, even when I was a kid (90's to early 2000's) Disney was up there as one of the premiere studios who always made bank.
Never too big to fail.
and that is the crazy power of Eisner and his team.
I clearly remember back in the 1970’s when Disney nearly went out of business altogether (and would that have been such a bad thing in retrospect?)(all the bad movies, even from the so-called renaissance era, the rotten tv shows on the Disney Channel, and the crap made for video/dvd pictures; the ever-expanding and always-getting-worse parks; the stupid cruise line; the very idea of Celebration, Disney’s takeover and destruction of the Broadway musical; keeping both Marvel and Star Wars going long long long long past their expiration dates; just as examples)
Watch The Black Cauldron, and you'll get it.
@@lazchurchyard1229 saw it back in the day, but can’t say I recall a second of it, nor that I was enthused enough to ever try to catch it again…though I fully acknowledge that some films can strike one differently years later
Homosexual fast dancing is the only thing in the comments, and that’s fair but can we talk about 11:16
I WANT THIS ON A T-SHIRT
As a female homosexual, I too “like this place, there’s lots of females”
Just make sure you don't fast dance in there 👀
I love the remake! Shows how you've improved and grown as a creator, and more info is great!
YOOOOO A VIDEOPOLIS REMAKE THIS IS MY FAVORITE EP
21:37
Agent: Hey! I got you a part in a play for Disney!
Actor: Sweet! What part did I get?
Agent: The propeller.
Actor: Uhhh, what?
Man, the one thing that I love about this channel is that it doesn't try to hard for humor. Humor has its place, but a lot of the time the information the information is enough to keep you interested
My jaw dropped when I saw this. You should do this for even more classic Defunctland vids!
"You can't dance on Space Mountain." Spoken like someone who's tried.
I’m really loving this current theme of bringing attention to some of the Disney company’s less savory aspects through discussion of some particular aspect of its history. Disney is big on airbrushing away anything from the past that doesn’t make them look good today, so you using your platform to shine a light on them is fantastic.
Something about defuntlands videos make me so emotional, almost like a nostalgia feeling, theyre all so well done I can’t praise them enough
You have one heck of a great channel! Fantastic and deeply accurate research. Perfectly edited with a crystal clear story line. Exciting and Crisp Presentation! Historic film clips never before seen. What a show!
The Legend of Dancin' Mama shall live on.
I was hoping it was going to be this one! I never know of its existence prior to seeing the first version of this video and have been hunting for more info ever since!