It’s so cute how Ollie mimicks his dads expression and tone when talking about food theory and his videos. It’s so sweet, ollie is definitely going to be a good theorist like his father!
This episode is just full of surprises, Matt went to Paris, Oli speaks like he runs the Theory channels and I just learned in tandem about American history and the benefit of a fake forest chain restaurant on the psychee
I used to love this place when I was really little. I was like borderline obsessed with jungles and nature for over half of my life tbh. I still like their aesthetic too.
Ollie is so freaking adorable. You’re right, you little theorist, this will be quite the whacky theory If you told me Rainforest Cafe is the result of someone experiencing some sort of insane acid trip, told their friends about it, and they told him "You should replicate that acid trip and make it an actual concept"....I'd believe you. We wish we had one of the international locations of the chain. It'd be a nice fit at my palace for Rodman and I.
I love how the LOREEEE is just history. I expected you to say something along the lines of " The animals take children and steal there souls while their parents get hypnotized or spelled into thinking that they never had children or just forget who they are/ were." You know, but this video is still cool, educational and entertaining. Thanks!
This is exactly why i love living in Japan. They've kept the weird and adventurous themed cafes and restaurants alive while they are slowly dying in the US.
Little Ollie being part of the intro and then Mat reassuring him during the thunder is so cute; way to go there, Dad. Also, totally screaming over the shout out to your hometown Mat and the amazing river that caught fire twice. As a Medina native myself, it’s always fun to here those bits about you talking about your childhood home.
When my cousin survived cancer, our entire family went to Disney to celebrate. One night we ate at the rainforest cafe. My family was the only ones who had already eaten there, so I watched them experience all the lovely chaos for the first time. Special memories I’ll never forget
@@anoyint it was the most magical Disney experience I’ve ever had. When we took a family photo on Main Street, the morning show was just finished up, and fireworks launched into the air. Our photos had litteral fireworks framing the castle behind us.
Basically something similar for me my little brother had cancer and his make a wish pick was to go to Florida/Disney and we went to this restaurant also. I think there was also a dinosaur themed one also
@@Alex32304 I love the Dino restaurant! we chose the rainforest one bc it’s more fun for kids, and we were all really young at the time. I remember once I deliberately stuck my ear up a geode and the Dino one bc I wanted to see if the crystals would fit up my ear 😂
The stark difference in Eddies and Teds videos make me laugh every single time. Teds video is childish joy and excitment with dragging his friend along on this journey and Eddies is like a slow decent into madness
2 sides of the same coin. Like the story of 6 blind guys separately admiring an elephant. Someone felt the side and thought it was a wall, one felt the trunk and thought it was a snake, etc. These seem irrelevant but everyone has a perspective on everything lol
When the video opened up and they were talking about lore, I was like “ah yes, who died this this time? What secrets does this family friendly restaurant hold? What have you uncovered MatPat?” And then I was hit with genuine feelings, memories of childhood, and history facts that I wasn’t prepared for. I don’t know wether to be upset that there are no skeletons in closets or sad that there isn’t one near me
I'm still sad hearing about the one Rainforest Cafe that I could've reasonably gone to (Yorkdale Mall) closed down awhile back, I miss the days of getting spooked by the tree and tossing pennies into the crocodile mouth
Yeah, same. I was expecting "Rainforest Cafe secretly has terrifying hidden lore deep in the children's menus", not "How Rainforest Cafe made an LGBT kid realize it was okay to be himself."
I wanted to go to this sooo badly as a kid. My parents never let me :( I'm hoping I can go to the Disneyland Paris location this year before it's announced its gonna close or something. It feels safe, magical, silly. The message at the end really summed it up for me, it feels like such a wonderful experience of child-like wonder :')
My experience with Rainforest Cafe is all from the one near me, so maybe each is different, but my experience is that you go for the atmosphere, not for the food. The animatronics, the decorations, the sound effects and lighting, are all lovely. The food is... mediocre. At least it's not outright bad food, I guess.
I went there as a baby in Minnesota a long time ago I can barely remember it and I thought it was a dream and this year I went to Minnesota and saw that it’s a real restaurant but we didn’t go but it shocked me when I saw it lol
I lived near a mall with a Rainforest Cafe for a few years during college, and although I didn't really have much nostalgia for it (I think I only went once as a very young kid) I really appreciated the atmosphere even just outside of the restaurant. It was a bit more shaded, the walls were made of tropical wood (or plastic that looks like it more likely) and it actually had a much more relaxed vibe than the rest of the mall, so it was nice to pass by it as the last thing I see before I'm out the door.
This video is so genius in so many fun ways, It's the team cashing in on the recent Rainforest Cafe hype, an actual cool an comprehensive history lesson on theme restaurants and a genuine heartfelt discussion on restaurant escapism.
@@a75431a History is Lore, it's Lore about real life people, places and events that happened long ago in the past. To be History is to be Lore and to be Lore is to be History.
@@Heartrose7 History is lore indeed, but everyone was thinking "hey 'nother killer animatronic chain? with secrets sprinkled around the corners of the restaurant?" But we got history
the part at 7:00 where he talks about how people living through such a hard time made them decorate with as many colors and patterns as they could is really shining light on why eclectic maximalism is having a resurgence again now. i love when history repeats itself
I'm pleasantly surprised that this is more of an appreciation video that was very sweet and endearing. Glad to see some much-needed comfort in the chaos that is our world now-a-days. Hope you're doing well Matpat and taking care of yourself along with your family
This past summer, I finally got to meet my online friends. We had known each other for years, and we had all saved enough to get a small Air BnB and have a week of fun in person. We picked Niagra Falls Canada, since about half of the group lived there. On the second day, we spent our time at Clifton Hill (basically Niagra Fall's tourist trap). I got to spend the day watching the falls and going on rides with my friends. Then we rounded out the night at the Rainforest Cafe. Ted and Eddie's video had recently came out, so we all NEEDED to go there for the joke. But, we ended up having such an amazing time. We all got to laugh and bond and be with each other for the first time in person, with the backdrop of the Rainforest Cafe. We laughed at the elephant screaming next to us, acted fake scared at the lightnight, and actually ate some half decent food (even though it cost most of the money I had set aside for food the entire trip). While many of peoples fond memories of this place was from childhood, I am still happy to say that I as an adult have made memories to last a lifetime at this chain.
@@revolutioninthedark7048 dumb, he’s basically inheriting them, it’s just a matter of when. And that’s if he’s even interested in them, they may be passed down to someone else
@@revolutioninthedark7048nepotism: the practice among those with power or influence of favoring relatives or friends, especially by giving them jobs. MatPat is not favoring his son by giving him a job, for one, he’s still far too young, two, having him in a video doesn’t mean anything except just showing they’re having family bonding time, three, don’t mistake what OP said as anything other than opinion, and four, this is all on the assumption you seem to have that MatPat is even thinking on giving the channel to his kid, and on the other assumption that his kid even wants to do it. So if anything, you’re the smooth brain around here, next time, talk only when you have real information and not assumptions.
I can imagine Ollie going to school and the class being asked about what their parents (specifically their dads) do for work "My dad is a firefighter!" "My dad is a pilot!" *"My dad sits in front of a computer all day and yells about not being able to solve the lore of FNAF!"*
When I was younger, there was a Rainforest Café in Chicago that my family took me to every once in a while. Unfortunately it closed during the pandemic, but what I wouldn’t give to revisit that specific location just to see it again. I’m glad to see the Rainforest Café also lives on in other peoples’ hearts, and now Ollie’s, too
There once was a rainforest cafe at Downtown Disney at Disneyland. I used to go there almost every single trip when I was younger. I never knew there was lore.
Same I remember that one! I was not pumped for it, because of the thunderstorms every 20 mins and its always loud because it reminds me of FNAF with jungle vibes I love their food but I've never had it since!
I just like to imagine Mat and steph having a nice family time and then just pulling out their note books in front of oli to talk about murdered kids and the lore about how actually the crying child is ness from earthbound
“Rainforest Cafe, which has an entire Jumanji’s worth of predatory animals, hasn’t spawned a single nightmare.” Oh, Matthew, you should have seen the terror in my younger brother every single time we had to walk past Nile the animatronic Alligator in the Rainforest Cafe swamp in our local mall. He was morbidly afraid of it.
There was a Rainforest Cafe in my city mall. I don’t think we ever ate there but we did play in it. I have a vague memory of my mom talking in her phone and holding my shirt like a cat making sure I didn’t fall into the “river” where the crocodile lives
Technically, each channel is just a different class, food theory is like home ec and history and game theory is math and I don't know what film theory and style theory would be cause I haven't watched either in either a while or period
Love the part where Ollie said “it’s theorin’ time” and theorized all over those Rainforest cafe Customers and employees. Truly one of the theories of all time.
My heart is so full with this video! I grew up without a lot of money, but I always loved lizards and frogs. My mom found Cha Cha and Iggy at a goodwill once and gave them to me for Christmas. I loved those toys, but had no idea what they were. About 5 years later, we got to go on a trip to Michigan for my dad's job. At the mall they had a rainforest cafe. I was 10 years old and we were just walking by when I saw Iggy and Cha Cha inside. I practically screamed and went running inside. We couldn't afford to eat there, but just seeing that world come to life around me, seeing my little toys moving on a larger-than-life scale, it was the most magical moment. I got a stuffed snake from the gift shop that I still have to this day. Rainforest cafe will always hold a special place in my heart.
By the day Ollie looks more and more like an exact combination of you two it’s amazing, Ollie being a little theorist is adorable so should I just assume that every restaurant has lore?? what's next?? Whataburger???
I mean every restaurant that has mascot characters has "lore". It's not that weird. Those character descriptions and activity pages kids get is "lore".
I went to a rainforest cafe once when I went to Disney world with my family. I don't remember much, but I do remember the rainstorms (those were my favorite parts) and the dinosaur themed build a bear where I got a pink stegosaurus. It's one of those restaurants I want to go to again, and definitely will at so point
I love how the pace of this video is different, don’t get me wrong I love almost every video but this video is filled with bold claim and craziness, but sincere research and content, still so entertaining
@our hero to be frank, I enjoyed it completely. It was so heart warming and informative. One of my favorite theory videos for sure, even if there was no theory. I feel…at peace
I went to the Rainforest Café when I was super young. It’s a core memory that I can never forget. Im going to have to bug my parents to go there again to recreate pictures. It’s exciting to see a theory about a unforgettable childhood memory of mine!
Strangely enough, I was never scared of the Rainforest Cafe. I always wanted the thunderstorms to happen and always got super excited when it did. If anything, my Grandma was more scared of it than little me 😅
I am so glad that I don't feel alone when it comes to Rainforest Cafe. This place is good and I honestly hope that it can get a resurgence and be in more places.
I loved the rainforest cafe growing up, i would always sit on the bar stools that looked like animal legs (only the ones with a tail for some reason) Great memories of that restaurant with my family
OH MY GOD Ollie's picking up the Matpat theorist vocal pattern! I can hear the same inflections mid-sentence and held extensions on the final word at the end of the sentences. I swear, he's a step away from learning how to mimic the scratchy vocal cord distortion that's used for the enthusiastically louder parts of the theorist voice. Dadpat mode is adorable, and I crave more of it. As far as I'm aware, Ollie cameos have been clips of simple feedback questions or Matpat sharing a story of Ollie in the "witty banter" section of GTlive videos, so this was a cute surprise. I'm a sucker for chill parent-child hanging out/activities because my Dad did that with me for as long as I can remember. So wholesome. ^-^
i agree! as dumb as it sounds, i feel like it's easy to forget that you tubers have families and stuff outside of youtube so seeing ollie is cute :) (also I went to like this comment and accidentally disliked it lol. I am very sorry please take my like)
0:18 I'm so used to that image Matpat always uses to represent himself in videos that seeing him in person is slightly uncanny.... Or maybe it's just the facial hair.
How the conversation for this definitely went: "Do you wanna go to the Rainforest Cafe?” "Do you have a coupon?“ “Well if we make a video, we can write it off” “So no coupon but we have a camera?“ "That works for me“ "Thats Cleveland pride right there! Takes a special city to set the water on fire." and launch so many balloons into the air to set a world record but ended up polluting the lake and clogging waterways which hindered a rescue mission out on the lake and led the coast guard to not find the fishermen they were looking for.
@@ireallylikenuggets9490 the first one was what they imagine the pitch for the video was. For the second, they probably accidentally pasted a comment about the Cleveland Balloon Incident but decided to keep it for the heck of it. Edit: No that's wrong! I just realized. The comment is about Cleveland setting *rivers on fire, something mentioned in the video.
i’ve only been to the rainforest cafe twice in my 19 years of living. i went there the first time at disney world and then the last time i went to disney (which was before covid hit hard). both times were honestly magical!! not just cause it was at disney world but just the experience itself was something. like a fever dream but in the best way possible. this video made wanna go again so badly..tho idk if there’s any near me.
As a 90s child I loved visiting the Rainforest Cafe in Kansas City because I was fascinated with the animatronics. However, my parents could never afford eating there or buying anything from the store. So most of my childhood when we went to the mall was just getting to spend time standing and watching the animatronics in the store area, my favorite being the crocodile that would eat pennies at the front. Unfortunately my parents and I relocated to Arizona far away from any of the locations of this restaurant. On a lighter note my relatives took me to eat inside once I was a preteen for my birthday. They also bought me a shirt, a collectors plate, a tiny storage box, and a few lizard and frog toys. I still have the storage box today.
"Rainforest cafe hasn't so much as spawned a single nightmare" I beg to differ: it was through watching this video that I realized just how much this place still appears in my dreams after going to the one that used to be in San Francisco just a couple of times as a small child. Usually in a bad context too.
Dreams are fascinating. I have been having very different dreams for the last few days, but they all have the same plot and characters. Me, a girl I know, and some activity we would have likely both happened to be in. So far, it has had such settings as: VEX Robotics Competition (we are both involved in amateur recreational engineering for children) Taking a college aptitude test, like SAT or ACT Shopping at Wallmart
Never thought I'd see a video of food theory on the rainforest cafe, I once went there when I was a kid and I was scared of the sounds the restaurant made since I am sensitive to loud noises, plus the cafe's food wasn't that good anyways, and some of my friends can agree with that
I never liked the food, loved the theme but even as a child I knew the food was bland and too expensive for what it was lol. When your cheeseburger is worse than McDonald's (not to say that McDonald's burgers are bad at all, I actually like them) that's pretty sad. Like the base burger was just bland, no special toppings to stand out. Almost like your school cafeteria was just cranking out quick food instead of making things tasty/better ingredients. They had a very wide menu but not a lot to bank off of the aesthetic as far as exotic or themed foods/flavors. Like it would be a plain dish just with a different themed name, instead of using different unique ingredients.
I’ve never been to Rainforest Cafe, but as a kid I’d go to what I assume to be a sister chain, T-Rex. Instead of storms every 20 mins, it’s a meteor shower which is pretty cool
Since I live in a van, I've contemplated a road trip for something like this. Doing a podcast and going to every state, with out without the views or anything. Just to enjoy the "stupid fun" of a place in each state, while allowing other people to join to see how they feel. Doesn't matter if it's a restaurant or the randomest thing like a haunted cider mill. Just something someone made from their heart to entertain people
please go for this idea! if you've thought it, you can do it too! add something the world doesn't have yet! I'd love to see it and come back here to link it if you do!
The Rainforest Cafe will always be one of my favourite restaurants. It beautifully and LOUDLY announces to you how much it doesn't give a crap what your standards for a normal restaurant are, and commits to the fun idea they had all the way through.
When the rainforest cafe here in kansas city closed i felt a part of me go with it. I still have a plate from them i got when i was 5. Its my favorite piece of dishware. I miss it and think of it often. It was unapologetically odd and i was always facinated by the thunderstorms and animatronics. I hated chuckie cheeses but thr rainforest cafe was an escape. One day i will drive myself to a rainforest cafe.
If I’m going to be honest, I used to have a Rainforest Cafe about 30 minutes away in a shopping mall. However, it won’t show up on any Rainforest Cafe road trip map these days, as it closed down quite a while ago. My parents never took me there because they thought it was too creepy or something, so I thank you Matpat for sharing on the experience that I never could have.
Came here expecting a creepy lore theory, left with tears in my eyes and nostalgic memories of the two times I went to a rainforest cafe, one as a baby, another one as a preteen
its pretty rare to find one with fish. ours in Gurnee illionis got rid of them because they were just too expensive to maintain. also, the gift shop now is SUPER tiny now.
I’m so happy to see so rainforest cafe get attention nowadays. I remember growing up I had the whole action figure set, because they had figures for a reason. Also Ollies pureness is wonderful and awesome
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Ollie is the cutest little nugget! Edit: In regards to “Rainforest Cafe never giving people nightmares”, speak for yourself. I went to Rainforest Cafe when I was 6, and looked up as I was entering just in time to see the snake coming down towards me. It took years for me to even walk past that darn restaurant without getting the heebie-jeebies.
I remember going there a couple times over my childhood when i was younger and went to Michigan to see my aunt and there kids. I remember really liking the food and atmosphere and I also remember there was a little waterfall I would always joke about going into. Man watching this video and listening to matpat, Eddie burback, and the guy from that article talk about brings back fond memories. I makes me wanna go back there again just for ole times sake. Thanks matpat for bringing back fond memories, keep making good content and have a blessed day
I absolutely adore Ollie's energy. Like, he's just so flippin adorable! Let's just hope that he doesn't make 50 videos analyzing a crumb that came from a certain pizzaria chain..
As soon as I see Ollie in the video my heart just melts. 🥺 He's just too cute! I love that he gets to experience your research along with you, haha. ^^
I’m happy to see my idea of driving to every Rainforest Cafe in the USA blossom into a global phenomenon
ted will save the rainforest cafe
remember that time when you got high for a day straight
You are my king
You truly are an amazing man :)
Ted you have an odd obbession with this restaurant chain
thank you for going to another one so I don't have to
Eddy! Hi
Are you sure you haven't gone to that one though?😂
You made a sacrifice to provoke the rest of the world to become like this
Lmao
Eddy love your stuff and matpats. My favorite is definetly your divorce mukbang
It’s so cute how Ollie mimicks his dads expression and tone when talking about food theory and his videos. It’s so sweet, ollie is definitely going to be a good theorist like his father!
Hes following in papas footsteps
agreed
The future heir to the Theorist throne indeed.
@beyond your imagination English.exe has failed
He can definitely go down that road if he likes!
This is without question the most creative way I've ever seen to write off a family dinner as a business expense.
Omega donut
I went in expecting lore like “oh no someone died” or “the food was terrible”
But Instead I got a history of a restaurant and a life lesson
Honestly, isn’t that what we all need sometimes?
@@thememeqween I guess we do need that sometimes...
I love how “the food was terrible “ is up there with “oh no someone died”
@@avarice8765 the food was so terrible that someone died
True
I like the part at 12:41 where I'm in the video. Now officially part of the Food Theory universe.
Congrats! You're finally part of the TCU
(Theory cinematic universe)
Congrats man! Still waiting for my time
Yeah the part where he went to the rainforest cafe was pretty insane
Congrats man. Now we have to find the others--
Congratulations
This episode is just full of surprises, Matt went to Paris, Oli speaks like he runs the Theory channels and I just learned in tandem about American history and the benefit of a fake forest chain restaurant on the psychee
And not to mention the fact that these restaurants are dying out, which makes me real sad
I mean both of his parents are really smart so I feel like he’d pick up on things easily.
They probably take time to teach him stuff too
His speech pattern was exactly like Mats. Loved it.
There is a rainforest cafe in the Katy mills mall because I live in Texas
Agreed, also like your profile picture.
I used to love this place when I was really little. I was like borderline obsessed with jungles and nature for over half of my life tbh. I still like their aesthetic too.
We all love ourselves a themed restaurant chain!
Ollie is so freaking adorable. You’re right, you little theorist, this will be quite the whacky theory
If you told me Rainforest Cafe is the result of someone experiencing some sort of insane acid trip, told their friends about it, and they told him "You should replicate that acid trip and make it an actual concept"....I'd believe you. We wish we had one of the international locations of the chain. It'd be a nice fit at my palace for Rodman and I.
Kim-Jong-un my great leader!
Nani
He is very cute. Made my day honestly
ay wanna team up and start world war 3
Why did you make that your name
I love how the LOREEEE is just history. I expected you to say something along the lines of " The animals take children and steal there souls while their parents get hypnotized or spelled into thinking that they never had children or just forget who they are/ were." You know, but this video is still cool, educational and entertaining. Thanks!
I mean, History is basically irl lore isn't it?
bro now i want this
@@a75431a history is lore tho?
@@a75431a still leagues better than the steaming crap you prolly make
@@a75431a history is just irl lore
This is exactly why i love living in Japan. They've kept the weird and adventurous themed cafes and restaurants alive while they are slowly dying in the US.
wacky fun restaurants are HIGH on my list of reasons i want to visit japan ngl
I feel like we need a designated area for them to thrive. Like a theme park but only streets of themed restaurants and no rides
Thrive in the US that is
August 6, 1945
@@tonyduranjr6570 irrelevant.
Little Ollie being part of the intro and then Mat reassuring him during the thunder is so cute; way to go there, Dad.
Also, totally screaming over the shout out to your hometown Mat and the amazing river that caught fire twice. As a Medina native myself, it’s always fun to here those bits about you talking about your childhood home.
It sparks more joy than I can put to words that Ollie's having fun with Papa-Pat's work.
@our hero begone bot!
@our hero no
yeah
@Valen nah
I just cannot get over Mat's beard- he's such a dad now and Ollie is soooo precious and smart! Yall are such a cute family
You can call him DadPat
Dad and son are sooo cute
When my cousin survived cancer, our entire family went to Disney to celebrate. One night we ate at the rainforest cafe. My family was the only ones who had already eaten there, so I watched them experience all the lovely chaos for the first time. Special memories I’ll never forget
That’s so sweet. I’m glad your cousin’s okay now!
that sounds like an amazing time. Especially after such a serious experience it's great to get a little silly.
@@anoyint it was the most magical Disney experience I’ve ever had. When we took a family photo on Main Street, the morning show was just finished up, and fireworks launched into the air. Our photos had litteral fireworks framing the castle behind us.
Basically something similar for me my little brother had cancer and his make a wish pick was to go to Florida/Disney and we went to this restaurant also. I think there was also a dinosaur themed one also
@@Alex32304 I love the Dino restaurant! we chose the rainforest one bc it’s more fun for kids, and we were all really young at the time. I remember once I deliberately stuck my ear up a geode and the Dino one bc I wanted to see if the crystals would fit up my ear 😂
Mats son is slowly becoming the heir to game, film, and food theory!
Oliver Patrick! Heir to the theory throne! It has a nice ring to it
The young master lol
I look forward to the day that the theory channels will once again have a Patrick at the helm
Yeah! Also I’m from the future yall and…MatPat alr retired….
The stark difference in Eddies and Teds videos make me laugh every single time. Teds video is childish joy and excitment with dragging his friend along on this journey and Eddies is like a slow decent into madness
2 sides of the same coin. Like the story of 6 blind guys separately admiring an elephant. Someone felt the side and thought it was a wall, one felt the trunk and thought it was a snake, etc. These seem irrelevant but everyone has a perspective on everything lol
one guy comment in the videos that "Eddie was wondering why Ted didn't decent into madness like him, but Ted is already mad" I think about that alot
Yes
Three bots with a total of 4 bot comments.. great.. 2 having a video link, 2 saying it’s better than the youtuber. WAT
Bro him cutting to him wearing a buckys hat killed me
Ollie already pick up on MatPat’s ways of opening a video. They grow up so fast
Oh wow, over 2,000 likes
So many bots replied to u 😭😭
@@gabiiiiiiiii.k I’ve noticed
the way he said "In ThE JUnGlE" made me laugh so hard
@@icantchangemyname6753 what's wrong with The Boys?
@@Aspenstorpemusic I feel really stupid right now 😢😢😢
When the video opened up and they were talking about lore, I was like “ah yes, who died this this time? What secrets does this family friendly restaurant hold? What have you uncovered MatPat?” And then I was hit with genuine feelings, memories of childhood, and history facts that I wasn’t prepared for. I don’t know wether to be upset that there are no skeletons in closets or sad that there isn’t one near me
I'm still sad hearing about the one Rainforest Cafe that I could've reasonably gone to (Yorkdale Mall) closed down awhile back, I miss the days of getting spooked by the tree and tossing pennies into the crocodile mouth
The description said "this might be the next FNAF" but there wasn't even any thory here??
There's one but its so far away from me but i have to travel to America
Sad that there isn't a skeleton near you. Ngl that's pretty weird man but hey you do you.
@@jjtv9928 and if you do find a skeleton make sure one of its eyes (specifically the skeletons left eye) *isn't* glowing, yeah just a tip
Oh my! First time seeing Oliver more grown, so cool to share theory crafting as a family 🥰
Matpat: this was surprisingly expensive.
Stephanie: the “lore” here could pay for our eats.
Ollie: - takes notes.
LMAO
MattDad is so precious to me. Just knowing he has a kid who probably thinks he has the coolest job 😩
Wdym “probably”
He has the coolest job.
What’s better than Animatronic jungle restaurant theories?
@@lDontExist yeah, imagine going to disneyland with your dad and finding dark lore (seems cool to me)
@@firamation8114 sounds great.
matpat with beard is cool
Mark Rober and MatPat. Most interesting dads
"Welcome to rainforest cafe, what can we get you?"
"I'd like lore."
"That's not on our menu."
"TELL ME THE LORE."
it's on the special secret menu
We can give you a history of the American middle class and a wholesome lesson, but that's about it.
Free pass
LOL
I can just imagine Matpat slaying his hands on the coner and yelling that at them 🤣
Man, I love Ollie. He looks like such a sweetheart, and I'm so jealous.
I was expecting a creepy traumatizing theory, instead I got a sweet and beautiful theory, thanks matpat
i eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
It was just as wholesome as visiting an actual Rainforest Cafe
Yeah, same. I was expecting "Rainforest Cafe secretly has terrifying hidden lore deep in the children's menus", not "How Rainforest Cafe made an LGBT kid realize it was okay to be himself."
same!
NUUUUUUU
MatPat can find lore in anything and I appreciate that
Dude got botted
I appreciate it too.
I don’t care how much bots I get I’m not falling for them
He’ll find lore on why theirs so many bots on this comment
Goddammit youtube needs to do SOMETHING about these bots
I love how Matt and Stephanie are more interested and intrigued by Rainforest Cafe than Ollie himself is 😂😭
You got to teach those kids how it's done 😆
Lol yeah 😂
Well, it IS the dad's idea to go to the rainforest cafe 😂
He's so cute tho he so little and sweet
Ikr
I wanted to go to this sooo badly as a kid. My parents never let me :( I'm hoping I can go to the Disneyland Paris location this year before it's announced its gonna close or something. It feels safe, magical, silly. The message at the end really summed it up for me, it feels like such a wonderful experience of child-like wonder :')
His kid just radiating his father’s energy…looks like we know who’s gonna take over the channel soon🤣
as dantdm said "he's gonna start at the bottom, like his papa"
The modern family business
Oh yah Oli theory
Yeah by the time matpat passes on ☠️ Ollie’s gonna make theories of his own
Important Disclaimer: Eddy didn't buy tickets to Morbius, he bought tickets to a good movie and snuck into Morbius. He has standards
Professionals have standards
You know what? I support this
The funniest part of the video was him worried he’d die of embarrassment if he was caught sneaking IN to Morbius
It was “Everything Everywhere All At Once” that he bought tickets to. Standards indeed, we commend you Eddy lol.
What do you mean? Morbius is the movie of all time!!
My experience with Rainforest Cafe is all from the one near me, so maybe each is different, but my experience is that you go for the atmosphere, not for the food. The animatronics, the decorations, the sound effects and lighting, are all lovely. The food is... mediocre. At least it's not outright bad food, I guess.
I agree the drinks are pretty good but the food is meh.
I went there as a baby in Minnesota a long time ago I can barely remember it and I thought it was a dream and this year I went to Minnesota and saw that it’s a real restaurant but we didn’t go but it shocked me when I saw it lol
I just went this year when I went to Disney and the food was decent
But the environment was definitely higher priority there
are you a structure block?
@@bjmax3045 Maybe 😀
I lived near a mall with a Rainforest Cafe for a few years during college, and although I didn't really have much nostalgia for it (I think I only went once as a very young kid) I really appreciated the atmosphere even just outside of the restaurant. It was a bit more shaded, the walls were made of tropical wood (or plastic that looks like it more likely) and it actually had a much more relaxed vibe than the rest of the mall, so it was nice to pass by it as the last thing I see before I'm out the door.
This video is so genius in so many fun ways, It's the team cashing in on the recent Rainforest Cafe hype, an actual cool an comprehensive history lesson on theme restaurants and a genuine heartfelt discussion on restaurant escapism.
Tbh, this is literally the first time I've heard of this restaurant, and I've never had a video recommended to me
@@a75431a lol
@@a75431a History is Lore, it's Lore about real life people, places and events that happened long ago in the past. To be History is to be Lore and to be Lore is to be History.
@@Heartrose7 History is lore indeed, but everyone was thinking "hey 'nother killer animatronic chain? with secrets sprinkled around the corners of the restaurant?"
But we got history
Don't forget the part of writing an expensive meal off as business expense. It's genius all the way down
the part at 7:00 where he talks about how people living through such a hard time made them decorate with as many colors and patterns as they could is really shining light on why eclectic maximalism is having a resurgence again now. i love when history repeats itself
Umm, eclectic maximalism? I thought modern/minimalism was more popular with a bookshelf or two displaying hobbies/interests?
@@RandomPerson-nd2ey with Gen Z the thing that’s in rn is to have a shitton of trinkets
@@beefcakesmchunkerson9079 That sounds like.. hoarding..
@@Dubstequtie trinkets
@@beefcakesmchunkerson9079 To store their weed in?
Love how Ollie is starting to become a theorist like his parents and even helping them out!
fr
He is stronger than goku
@shinyfox ikrrr
The intro was absolutely adorable. We need more Ollie!
I'm pleasantly surprised that this is more of an appreciation video that was very sweet and endearing. Glad to see some much-needed comfort in the chaos that is our world now-a-days. Hope you're doing well Matpat and taking care of yourself along with your family
Thank you. 😊😊
i love your pfp
:D
ok varse
Ollie is so adorable! Mimicking his father! Pretty soon he will be a master at the ‘But hey, that’s just a theory!’ voice
Oh yeah I can definitely see Ollie taking MatPat’s place in theory crafting when Mat gets too old or retires
@UnfaithfulEvil 🅥 WHAT THE FU
@UnfaithfulEvil 🅥 cool
Nobody:
MatPat:Is Rainforest Cafe the new Fnaf
@UnfaithfulEvil 🅥 First thing, why. Second thing, you lied to me.
@@dittodemo1234 you really wanted to see that.
This past summer, I finally got to meet my online friends. We had known each other for years, and we had all saved enough to get a small Air BnB and have a week of fun in person. We picked Niagra Falls Canada, since about half of the group lived there. On the second day, we spent our time at Clifton Hill (basically Niagra Fall's tourist trap). I got to spend the day watching the falls and going on rides with my friends. Then we rounded out the night at the Rainforest Cafe. Ted and Eddie's video had recently came out, so we all NEEDED to go there for the joke. But, we ended up having such an amazing time. We all got to laugh and bond and be with each other for the first time in person, with the backdrop of the Rainforest Cafe. We laughed at the elephant screaming next to us, acted fake scared at the lightnight, and actually ate some half decent food (even though it cost most of the money I had set aside for food the entire trip). While many of peoples fond memories of this place was from childhood, I am still happy to say that I as an adult have made memories to last a lifetime at this chain.
We all know that Ollie is eventually going to take over all the Theory channels when he gets older. Keep adding him in, MatPat!
Nepotism
@@revolutioninthedark7048 dumb, he’s basically inheriting them, it’s just a matter of when. And that’s if he’s even interested in them, they may be passed down to someone else
OlPat.
@@silver7215 That’s basically what nepotism is!!! Seriously do you have rocks for brains?
@@revolutioninthedark7048nepotism: the practice among those with power or influence of favoring relatives or friends, especially by giving them jobs.
MatPat is not favoring his son by giving him a job, for one, he’s still far too young, two, having him in a video doesn’t mean anything except just showing they’re having family bonding time, three, don’t mistake what OP said as anything other than opinion, and four, this is all on the assumption you seem to have that MatPat is even thinking on giving the channel to his kid, and on the other assumption that his kid even wants to do it. So if anything, you’re the smooth brain around here, next time, talk only when you have real information and not assumptions.
The way Mat calms Ollie during the thunderstorm sounds. 😭 my heart
I can imagine Ollie going to school and the class being asked about what their parents (specifically their dads) do for work
"My dad is a firefighter!"
"My dad is a pilot!"
*"My dad sits in front of a computer all day and yells about not being able to solve the lore of FNAF!"*
"He's been doing it for a while now."
"My dad analyses an hour long horror series frame by frame and turns it into a 25 minute acid trip!"
He’d prolly get bullied lowkey
@@Smartchimp77 I don’t think so, his dad is pretty famous, he’d probably have some of the older kids looking out for him
@@matthewkehoe5027 🤷🏾♂️ we’ll see
When I was younger, there was a Rainforest Café in Chicago that my family took me to every once in a while. Unfortunately it closed during the pandemic, but what I wouldn’t give to revisit that specific location just to see it again. I’m glad to see the Rainforest Café also lives on in other peoples’ hearts, and now Ollie’s, too
There once was a rainforest cafe at Downtown Disney at Disneyland. I used to go there almost every single trip when I was younger. I never knew there was lore.
@Long Beach Griffy short Nice try, ad and comments saved me.
There still is, i was down there a couple weeks ago and they have a volcano to show where it is.
They changed it into a star wars gift shop
Same I remember that one! I was not pumped for it, because of the thunderstorms every 20 mins and its always loud because it reminds me of FNAF with jungle vibes I love their food but I've never had it since!
I just like to imagine Mat and steph having a nice family time and then just pulling out their note books in front of oli to talk about murdered kids and the lore about how actually the crying child is ness from earthbound
“Rainforest Cafe, which has an entire Jumanji’s worth of predatory animals, hasn’t spawned a single nightmare.” Oh, Matthew, you should have seen the terror in my younger brother every single time we had to walk past Nile the animatronic Alligator in the Rainforest Cafe swamp in our local mall. He was morbidly afraid of it.
My current partner joked that they were traumatized by the animatronics that I didn’t even notice the one time I went to our local one.
:skull:
When I lived in Gurnee, the my siblings and I always made our parents stop so we could throw pennies on it
@@707Honeypot same here, we used to through change everytime I went passed the rainforest cafe
MORBIUSLY AFRAID
There was a Rainforest Cafe in my city mall. I don’t think we ever ate there but we did play in it. I have a vague memory of my mom talking in her phone and holding my shirt like a cat making sure I didn’t fall into the “river” where the crocodile lives
🤭💗💗💗 adorable ~
Ok
Mat has taken his theories to the next generation
This wasn't really a theory, but I like it, I like just hearing history lessons from Matpat disguised as evidence for a theory
Honestly, I don't really mind. Matpat is a great historian in general, and it is a nice change of pace from traditional theory content.
Yes that is so true
Technically, each channel is just a different class, food theory is like home ec and history and game theory is math and I don't know what film theory and style theory would be cause I haven't watched either in either a while or period
Love the part where Ollie said “it’s theorin’ time” and theorized all over those Rainforest cafe Customers and employees. Truly one of the theories of all time.
It is truly one of the theories of all time
My heart is so full with this video! I grew up without a lot of money, but I always loved lizards and frogs. My mom found Cha Cha and Iggy at a goodwill once and gave them to me for Christmas. I loved those toys, but had no idea what they were. About 5 years later, we got to go on a trip to Michigan for my dad's job. At the mall they had a rainforest cafe. I was 10 years old and we were just walking by when I saw Iggy and Cha Cha inside. I practically screamed and went running inside. We couldn't afford to eat there, but just seeing that world come to life around me, seeing my little toys moving on a larger-than-life scale, it was the most magical moment. I got a stuffed snake from the gift shop that I still have to this day. Rainforest cafe will always hold a special place in my heart.
By the day Ollie looks more and more like an exact combination of you two it’s amazing, Ollie being a little theorist is adorable
so should I just assume that every restaurant has lore?? what's next?? Whataburger???
I mean every restaurant that has mascot characters has "lore". It's not that weird. Those character descriptions and activity pages kids get is "lore".
@UnfaithfulEvil 🅥 L
@UnfaithfulEvil 🅥 L
@UnfaithfulEvil 🅥 L
@UnfaithfulEvil 🅥 L
MatPat is the only person who could look at a spec of dust and think “ITS LORE”
Well, he's not the only one since it has rubbed off on me.
Girly
I find it adorable that Ollie has already inherited his Dadpat's intros
Girly
I went to a rainforest cafe once when I went to Disney world with my family. I don't remember much, but I do remember the rainstorms (those were my favorite parts) and the dinosaur themed build a bear where I got a pink stegosaurus. It's one of those restaurants I want to go to again, and definitely will at so point
I love how the pace of this video is different, don’t get me wrong I love almost every video but this video is filled with bold claim and craziness, but sincere research and content, still so entertaining
@our hero to be frank, I enjoyed it completely. It was so heart warming and informative. One of my favorite theory videos for sure, even if there was no theory. I feel…at peace
@@samuellopez479 that was a bot nitwit
You can tell MatPat is training Ollie well with the intros.
Passing the torch
@@zero_is_boring8803 lol
Well yeah. He will be the new matpat after like 18 more years. Maybe
@@pauliusbrenkevicius2087 BUT THAT'S JUST A THEORY
And now Ollie has inspired an episode!
This feels like a history episode, and honestly what if you started a history channel. I think you could pull it off.
But that’s just a theo…
Omg, imagine! Not even theory related, just history in general. coming from him would be cool i think
food theory basically already is a history channel
@@ked49 whos theo
I went to the Rainforest Café when I was super young. It’s a core memory that I can never forget. Im going to have to bug my parents to go there again to recreate pictures. It’s exciting to see a theory about a unforgettable childhood memory of mine!
Strangely enough, I was never scared of the Rainforest Cafe. I always wanted the thunderstorms to happen and always got super excited when it did. If anything, my Grandma was more scared of it than little me 😅
Why would a kid be scared of a rainforest cafe 💀
Girly
@@Quatro921 The thunderstorms might startle some young kids (and the animatronic animals might creep them out)
@@Dayday-6297 fair enough but i always just thought the animals were cool
@@Quatro921 Same 😌
I am so glad that I don't feel alone when it comes to Rainforest Cafe. This place is good and I honestly hope that it can get a resurgence and be in more places.
I've never even heard of this
I miss getting to go there after spending 7 hours at massive ski sales in the Seattle area. I fucking hate just how shameless modern life has become
I Love how Oliver makes impression of matpat's voice in the beginning of the video
MINI-Pat is wholesome
I loved the rainforest cafe growing up, i would always sit on the bar stools that looked like animal legs (only the ones with a tail for some reason) Great memories of that restaurant with my family
OH MY GOD Ollie's picking up the Matpat theorist vocal pattern! I can hear the same inflections mid-sentence and held extensions on the final word at the end of the sentences. I swear, he's a step away from learning how to mimic the scratchy vocal cord distortion that's used for the enthusiastically louder parts of the theorist voice.
Dadpat mode is adorable, and I crave more of it. As far as I'm aware, Ollie cameos have been clips of simple feedback questions or Matpat sharing a story of Ollie in the "witty banter" section of GTlive videos, so this was a cute surprise.
I'm a sucker for chill parent-child hanging out/activities because my Dad did that with me for as long as I can remember. So wholesome. ^-^
i agree! as dumb as it sounds, i feel like it's easy to forget that you tubers have families and stuff outside of youtube so seeing ollie is cute :) (also I went to like this comment and accidentally disliked it lol. I am very sorry please take my like)
Oliver: Dad, can we eat at Rainforest Cafe?
Mattpatt: Sorry Ollie, we’re having leftovers from our last experiment.
Oliver: They have lore.
Mattpatt:
Lol😅😂😂
Mat: Steph we need to go to rainforest cafe!
Steph: Oh that’s a great idea! Ollie’s gonna love it!
Mat: yes…. For Ollie….
Losing this place near me was heartbreaking, it's still my favorite restaurant as an adult.
0:18 I'm so used to that image Matpat always uses to represent himself in videos that seeing him in person is slightly uncanny....
Or maybe it's just the facial hair.
It's the hair .
It’s both
It’s just the facial hair.
How the conversation for this definitely went:
"Do you wanna go to the Rainforest Cafe?”
"Do you have a coupon?“
“Well if we make a video, we can write it off”
“So no coupon but we have a camera?“
"That works for me“
"Thats Cleveland pride right there! Takes a special city to set the water on fire." and launch so many balloons into the air to set a world record but ended up polluting the lake and clogging waterways which hindered a rescue mission out on the lake and led the coast guard to not find the fishermen they were looking for.
??? Can someone explain this comment to, me, i dont get it
@@ireallylikenuggets9490 the first one was what they imagine the pitch for the video was. For the second, they probably accidentally pasted a comment about the Cleveland Balloon Incident but decided to keep it for the heck of it.
Edit: No that's wrong! I just realized. The comment is about Cleveland setting *rivers on fire, something mentioned in the video.
What
i’ve only been to the rainforest cafe twice in my 19 years of living. i went there the first time at disney world and then the last time i went to disney (which was before covid hit hard). both times were honestly magical!! not just cause it was at disney world but just the experience itself was something. like a fever dream but in the best way possible. this video made wanna go again so badly..tho idk if there’s any near me.
But did you hit T-Rex? That place it pretty fun too!
As a 90s child I loved visiting the Rainforest Cafe in Kansas City because I was fascinated with the animatronics. However, my parents could never afford eating there or buying anything from the store. So most of my childhood when we went to the mall was just getting to spend time standing and watching the animatronics in the store area, my favorite being the crocodile that would eat pennies at the front. Unfortunately my parents and I relocated to Arizona far away from any of the locations of this restaurant.
On a lighter note my relatives took me to eat inside once I was a preteen for my birthday. They also bought me a shirt, a collectors plate, a tiny storage box, and a few lizard and frog toys. I still have the storage box today.
"Rainforest cafe hasn't so much as spawned a single nightmare"
I beg to differ: it was through watching this video that I realized just how much this place still appears in my dreams after going to the one that used to be in San Francisco just a couple of times as a small child. Usually in a bad context too.
Dreams are fascinating. I have been having very different dreams for the last few days, but they all have the same plot and characters. Me, a girl I know, and some activity we would have likely both happened to be in.
So far, it has had such settings as:
VEX Robotics Competition (we are both involved in amateur recreational engineering for children)
Taking a college aptitude test, like SAT or ACT
Shopping at Wallmart
Ollie just brings me sheer joy everytime he's on screen
Never thought I'd see a video of food theory on the rainforest cafe, I once went there when I was a kid and I was scared of the sounds the restaurant made since I am sensitive to loud noises, plus the cafe's food wasn't that good anyways, and some of my friends can agree with that
I never liked the food, loved the theme but even as a child I knew the food was bland and too expensive for what it was lol. When your cheeseburger is worse than McDonald's (not to say that McDonald's burgers are bad at all, I actually like them) that's pretty sad. Like the base burger was just bland, no special toppings to stand out. Almost like your school cafeteria was just cranking out quick food instead of making things tasty/better ingredients. They had a very wide menu but not a lot to bank off of the aesthetic as far as exotic or themed foods/flavors. Like it would be a plain dish just with a different themed name, instead of using different unique ingredients.
I love his wholesome relationship with his kid and family
Bro I remember when Mat was just like “so guys…I’m having a kid!” And now he’s like 4. Time flies man
I’ve never been to Rainforest Cafe, but as a kid I’d go to what I assume to be a sister chain, T-Rex. Instead of storms every 20 mins, it’s a meteor shower which is pretty cool
Yeah I went to the one in Disney and got a build a bare Dino there
Yo same All the time for friends birthday
i went to one of those once i think, it was very scary for like 4 year old me
I live right by the one in Galveston, but I never go lol
i went there before, probably still have a cup from there somewhere
0:06 holy crap Mat Pat looks like an actual dad
I'm horrified for some reason
I think everyone is
UA-camr: *explains he'll go to every rainforest cafe in the US and Canada.*
MatPat: "However, he forgot to go to Paris."
Since I live in a van, I've contemplated a road trip for something like this. Doing a podcast and going to every state, with out without the views or anything. Just to enjoy the "stupid fun" of a place in each state, while allowing other people to join to see how they feel. Doesn't matter if it's a restaurant or the randomest thing like a haunted cider mill. Just something someone made from their heart to entertain people
if you dont have one get a phone with a decent camera and microphone and go for it
That sounds like a really fun idea. If you have the money, I think you should go for it. Sounds like you'd make a lot of great memories.
please go for this idea! if you've thought it, you can do it too! add something the world doesn't have yet! I'd love to see it and come back here to link it if you do!
I would love to see this oh my god-
The Rainforest Cafe will always be one of my favourite restaurants. It beautifully and LOUDLY announces to you how much it doesn't give a crap what your standards for a normal restaurant are, and commits to the fun idea they had all the way through.
When the rainforest cafe here in kansas city closed i felt a part of me go with it. I still have a plate from them i got when i was 5. Its my favorite piece of dishware. I miss it and think of it often. It was unapologetically odd and i was always facinated by the thunderstorms and animatronics. I hated chuckie cheeses but thr rainforest cafe was an escape. One day i will drive myself to a rainforest cafe.
Do it.
Do it now
You must
I need to know the food quality
I need to know to lay my childhood to rest
seeing matpat with a beard feels like something i never thought on but its probably the best thing i've saw in this channel
If I’m going to be honest, I used to have a Rainforest Cafe about 30 minutes away in a shopping mall. However, it won’t show up on any Rainforest Cafe road trip map these days, as it closed down quite a while ago. My parents never took me there because they thought it was too creepy or something, so I thank you Matpat for sharing on the experience that I never could have.
Was it Rainforest Cafe Dubai Mall?
The one in grapevine texas?
Came here expecting a creepy lore theory, left with tears in my eyes and nostalgic memories of the two times I went to a rainforest cafe, one as a baby, another one as a preteen
For once, matpat came up with a theory without ruining our childhood.
Y E S
The prophecy has been fulfilled
Ikr hahaha
Omg your right
its pretty rare to find one with fish. ours in Gurnee illionis got rid of them because they were just too expensive to maintain. also, the gift shop now is SUPER tiny now.
MatPat is definely evolving into DadPat. The beard is forming. Soon the videos will be half puns..
Oh, wait.
Yeah the beard scared me
I’m so happy to see so rainforest cafe get attention nowadays. I remember growing up I had the whole action figure set, because they had figures for a reason. Also Ollies pureness is wonderful and awesome
ollie has grown so quicly, makes me feel like time is passing too fast.
I didn’t notice until the ent of the intro but Mat’s relationship with Ollie brought a smile to my face. Y’all are too wholesome❤
0:13 Ollie is so cute 🥰
That was ever in question
We are in agreement, mortal. XD
This is the truest statement ever
Fr! ❤
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Ollie is the cutest little nugget!
Edit: In regards to “Rainforest Cafe never giving people nightmares”, speak for yourself. I went to Rainforest Cafe when I was 6, and looked up as I was entering just in time to see the snake coming down towards me. It took years for me to even walk past that darn restaurant without getting the heebie-jeebies.
Little me was so terrified of this restaurant and I’m so excited to learn the lore
THE LOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRREEE
Theres 4 bots on this comment alone
Okay, so it wasn't just me who was scared of that place when they were a kid. Good to know.
@@joeld.2004 I would start sobbing every time I got on the ride😭
@@biaxolotl5171 I just wanted to comment smth and then I just get notifs of bots lmao💀
Does it rub anyone else the wrong way how much Matt atributes the whole idea to Eddie, when like... No. It was Ted's idea. Through and through.
I remember going there a couple times over my childhood when i was younger and went to Michigan to see my aunt and there kids. I remember really liking the food and atmosphere and I also remember there was a little waterfall I would always joke about going into. Man watching this video and listening to matpat, Eddie burback, and the guy from that article talk about brings back fond memories. I makes me wanna go back there again just for ole times sake. Thanks matpat for bringing back fond memories, keep making good content and have a blessed day
I absolutely adore Ollie's energy. Like, he's just so flippin adorable! Let's just hope that he doesn't make 50 videos analyzing a crumb that came from a certain pizzaria chain..
YEES
As soon as I see Ollie in the video my heart just melts. 🥺 He's just too cute! I love that he gets to experience your research along with you, haha. ^^
oml ollie is so precious in this video 😭 so happy i decided to rewatch this