This documented the American experience in the most accurate way. How far apart everything is, the random giant things everywhere. The rain forest cafes. Saving Private Ryan playing at full volume in a Texas Midas. Incredible documentary
Forgive me if I'm wrong but doesn't that movie have like a ton of gore? I've never seen it because I hear it's super bloody. Not really something I would make my customers watch on repeat.
@@spiwolf6998 yeah it's definitely super gory. Lots of gunshot and head wounds. Like most of the people die I'm pretty sure. AND there are a lot of battle scenes and a lot of gunfire especially the last battle scene. So those guns and explosions constantly going off at top volume would have driven me crazy LOL.
Also, paying $40 to eat inoffensive food in a place designed from the ground up to be the noisiest, most stimulating restaurant ever created. That's a very american experience.
So in the bathrooms, the murals look painted and not like wallpaper or whatever, and they look very similar in style which leads me to believe that a long time ago one sad mural artist had a similar experience traveling across these United States to paint every rainforest cafe bathroom in the country
It’s more likely one artist painted a sample mural design, and freelance artists were hired in every location to paint them. It’s like scenic painting in theater, the designer hands you a small version and says “make it big” and you have to match the style. Your idea is much more fun, of course.
This thought is invading my brain. I need to know if there’s a story here and if eddy is now going to be haunted because he made the same ill fated trip as the bathroom mural painter.
In the bathroom without monkeys, the artist took his own life. That was the true end of the journey, but eddy was young and naive. He continued his trek and thus sealed his fate as “forever cursed by the tropical rainforest cafe mural artist”
I lost it at the moment Eddie’s friend asked does this happen everytime? And Eddie immediately responds “it happens every 20 mins”. All I could think was Eddie’s truly declining into a the madness of a professional rainforest cafe customer.
the fact that i’ve spent 30 minutes watching a guy go insane only to go to teds channel to watch another 30 minutes of a guy enjoying himself touring the country with a guy going insane next to him is so funny
Yeah, I feel like this dude is being a huge crank instead of just enjoying the ride and the time with someone. I’m not a person to say nut up and enjoy yourself, but some people aren’t meant to do anything other than make UA-cam videos.
@@WalterMootz i am so genuinely shocked you can watch someone spend 21 days on the road which is exhausting enough as it is and eating at rainforest cafe 18 times and comically play up his anguish for a video and then your takeaway is "well he's being an asshole about it". im not usually the one to say you have to try something before judging anothers reaction to it but in this case i think i will
I’m just imagining Ted stary eyed, talking to waiters eating his 7th basket of mozzarella sticks today while Ed is in the bathroom trying to calculate if he could consume a lethal amount of bathroom hand sanitizer before someone else came in and tried to stop him.
I just started the video because I was like dang I thought Ted this. Then jumped in halfway thru the video and he’s saying the bathroom monkeys are now his friends. I can’t wait to fully dissect this
My guess for why their moods are so different is that Eddy’s the one who drove the most/ whole way. I watched this while doing dishes so if I’m wrong it’s cuz I wasn’t watching the screen the whole time but tbh driving does that to ya
Shoutout to whoever expedited the truck fixing process. Mechanic's are busy people, but they are people. When you meet an honest one, they're ready to help accomodate such a shitty situation. Car's are their lives, so they understand how much of a bitch being stranded without one is.
The Hero's Journey: 1:19 - The Call to Adventure 2:57 - Crossing the Threshold 6:00 --> 21:12 - Tests, Allies (bathroom monkeys), Enemies (thunderstorms) 21:12 - Approaching the Inner Cave 24:13 - (still) Approaching the Inner Cave 30:28 --> 32:36 - Dark Night of the Soul / The Ordeal 33:50 - Seize the Reward (volcano cake) 34:24 - The Road Back Home 35:15 - Return Changed
The energy of him and ted is like a guy who’s brought effervescent joy by driving speedboats and a guy rapidly discovering his debilitating fear of large bodies of water
@@Lucifersfursona Fr though, cause like aesthetically I love themed restaurants, like they seem so fun and whimsical, but I would 100% have a meltdown if I had to eat at a rainforest café. I remember walking past one as a kid and nearly started crying because it was so overwhelming, and again I wasn't even inside the damn restaurant.
Absolutely losing it at Eddy's slow descent into madness juxtaposed with Ted's unfailing chipper attitude. It's like live action Pinkie and the Brain. Delightful.
I do enjoy Ted keeping his "Golden Retreiver at a suprise party" level of excitement/optimism, all while Eddie just slowly descends into rainforest induced madness
When Ted was a kid his parents would take him to rainforest cafe every year, at his request. After the divorce, it never really happened again. He went about his life with this rainforest cafe sized hole in his heart, he needed closure, and he wanted his best friend there with him. So, while eddy suffered for most of the trip, Ted was revisiting old friends, Ted was saying good bye. God bless you, Ted.
I honestly don't know if this is true or was just made up, but if this is, that is the sweetest story ever and that perfectly explains his excitement, good for Ted c:
I just want you guys to know that I watched this video when it first came out and promptly forgot about it, but it didn't forget me... I recently had a vivid dream about going to the Rainforest Cafe with my family and I had to ask my dad if we ever went and the answer was a weird look and a resounding No. I have never been to the Rainforest Cafe, but because of this video, it has burrowed into my brain and lives there now
I'd like to imagine a small B plot to this storyline, involving a traveling corporate training manager who went on a similar trip coincidentally at the same time. They arrive at each location to check up on things and make sure quality is good. Then they slowly get more and more paranoid that they're being followed by you two. It finally comes to an end at the last location when just as they're rushing to leave in order to avoid you guys, they spot you in the parking lot and have a mental breakdown.
I desperately need Ted to post a video of this journey from his perspective, where his is just wonderful and happy and good vibes, and you just see Eddy in the background looking like he just saw his family get murdered.
14:20 As someone who actually lives in Galveston, to call it "pretty touristy" is a massive understatement. I work at Ben and Jerry's and the line is literally out the door on Saturdays.
Downtown Disney has a separate restaurant called T Rex Cafe which is also owned by the same parent company and is basically identical to Rainforest except it's dinosaur themed. I think this counts as a Rainforest Cafe and you should go back and eat there, too
@@TransdimensionalJoyride I'm sorry the concept of getting catered food from a place where the whole idea is to see the physical theme is really funny to me lol
It used to be a rainforest cafe back in the day. I remember going there for my 8th birthday and feeling like an absolute queen when they brought me my lava cake
i love rainforest cafe. i just wish they actually drenched you in water when the thunderstorms happen. it would make for a more realistic dining experience.
Why? Why every 5 months does this video call to my phyche like the Siren's song to a sailor too long at sea? I've watched not only the Rainforest café, but now also the Margaritaville videos 3 nay 4 times each! And yet they call to me hauntingly through the algorithm, sweetly like the memory of a past lover.
They're definitely my comfort videos, both Eddy's and Ted's versions. Just perfect long form videos about an obscure restaurant chain I've always wanted to go to that are great to fall asleep to.
Canada has much stricter food laws than us. Their food overall is way less processed, has less added chemicals, and more simple ingredients that are actually food.
@Gary Phillip the fact that their name was literally right there and you had to read it to know it and you still spelled it wrong comedy at it’s finest
this is like watching The Shining. Ted being upbeat and optimistic while Eddy slowly descends into madness. The mildly-homicidal dissociative look in his eyes. I thought for sure he was gonna go postal when the bathroom didn't have monkeys in it. This was Art.
@@idkjordash fun, original idea that's executed realistically and almost doable irl but it's silly and who would do that, it's almost crazy. Like an idea you come up with with a friend but then you actually do it. This guy's funny, so I subscribed and really enjoyed the video..
I now fall asleep to this video because something about elephant noises and Eddy’s slow decent into madness is apparently soothing to my anxiety-riddled brain. Two thumbs up
my favorite thing about the Disney Springs rainforest Cafe is it's like a 2 min walk from t-rex Cafe, which is literally the same concept but with Dinosaurs. Instead of a thunder storm every 20 minutes it's a meteor shower.
Yes! I remember eating there a few times with my family when we went on vacations to Orlando. I vaguely recall shutting my eyes and ears every time it happened. The worst part was that we were almost always seated in the blue section with a T-Rex skeleton stuck in the “ice” and every time a meteor shower happened, the room would turn hellfire red and blare the sound effects of dying dinosaurs to the max. Scared me so bad as a kid, but I think I remember liking the stuff on the kids menu.
That is nothing compared to the absolutely horribly loud and obnoxious doorbell that rang everytime someone walked into Five Bellow, and even then an employee told me it became total background noise after day one. I don't remember the the thunderstorms being that loud anyway and I was a huge of fan of this place at 5-10. if anything the elephant trumpeting is more startling.
As a native Houstonian, congratulations Eddy on being the first person to ever enjoy Galveston. People talk more smack on that poor little island than any other place in the state, lol.
It’s crazy that a few months after the Morbius Marathon, Eddy let himself get conned by Ted into doing another extremely repetitive thing (+ a road trip around the country)
At 13:16 the reason the mouth looked like it was decaying off is because it was, most animatronics like that use latex, after a while latex will begin to decay and rot due to the fact that is a plant based material that hardens to make a rubber like substance and is mostly water. if left in direct sunlight or it is old the water will evaporate and the latex will begin to rot/decompose
I half expect Ted to just one day, be like “There’s this new restaurant we’ve never been to, let’s go!” And then start driving towards Rainforest Cafe, and Eddy just panicking as he recognizes the road.
My boys are dying for their craft. Drew is ordering useless garbage he knows he won’t like, Danny is wasting days of his life playing defective apps, and Eddy is literally killing himself eating at Rainforest Cafe non-stop
Gotta love how this whole trip is basically one long journey across the country outlined by brief moments of rainforest-themed existencial dread and anguish
My bf became obsessed with this video when it came out, so I decided to surprise him with a visit to the rain forest cafe in Disney springs when he came to visit me (we’re long distance) and it’s probably one of the best dates we ever had And YES, it WAS an awful experience
I feel like the Disney Springs in general is actual hell. I’ve never been but my middle school Drama teacher went once with the troupe and tells me how hellish it was
@@gissneric not talking about the entirety of Disney Springs, just that specific Rainforest Cafe. I think Disney Springs is wonderful, the Rainforest Cafe there is just hell
Imagine his credit card company looking at his statements. Saying wow this must be a scam because no way someone willingly went to all these different rainforest cafe
I think rainforest cafes really capture a certain aspect of growing up where all of a sudden a place that seemed so magical turns into a rundown sad fishless fish tank of an experience. It’s such a weird feeling to think back on all the times you went to the mall and it was just slowly falling into disrepair more and more each time you visited and you didn’t really notice it until it was too late. Also the sign in front of the Ontario location used to have like a waterfall feature which was pretty cool
@@yungpapi They actually fixed the crocodile at the Dallas location. It looks around and even stands up again. Been over a decade since I had seen it do it.
imagine working at a rainforest cafe 😭😭 the amount of thunderstorms, elephant screams, gorilla grunts. it would be psychological warfare for anyone except ted and people like ted
As an ex Rainforest Cafe employee, I appreciate the attention to detail in learning the names of the animatronics… we all had to know their names + personalities. This was somehow more degrading than the fanny pack we had to wear, or screaming “VOLCANO” for the dessert… Also, I apologize for how many times you had to hear the Landry’s card pitch… You are a true hero ✊
oh man, when I used to be a busboy for Texas Roadhouse I would have loved to have a fanny pack- great place to keep your weed and one hitter so you can quickly fire off a couple hitters during a trash run. Really the only way to be a busboy at an extremely busy and shitty restaurant is to get really stoned and just stumble through your shift and plot with other busboys on ways to steal a keg from the walk in.
@@keenanmyers8576 I’m not sure if this is still the case, but back when I worked for Rainforest Cafe, the restaurant was owned by a larger company called Landry’s. Landry’s had a discount card for all of their restaurants, where you get “a point for every dollar you spend. After 250 points, you get $25 dollars off.” It cost $25 to join, but on your next visit to another one of Landry”s restaurants, you’d get $25 off. We were supposed to pitch this to EVERY. SINGLE. TABLE, and it was just awful. The last thing anyone wants is to hear a sales pitch at a restaurant when they’re just trying to eat and enjoy the show of the restaurant. We had a lot of rules we were supposed to follow and things we had to say/recommend… Also, I completely forgot the details of the card until typing this, and it came back so f*cking clear, that’s how often I had to do it lmfao.
This reminded me of a brilliant article by Helen Rosner where she describes doing a tour of different Olive Gardens. She concludes that "there is only one Olive Garden, but it has a thousand doors". It seems like that doesn't really apply to Rainforest Cafe locations which is interesting. This whole thing is delightfully American to me (a non-American) and I'm glad you took us on this adventure.
@@hederahelix1383 I'd say condescending and not demeaning. Although I don't think they intended it in that way, I do see how it could be interpreted as such. As an American I don't think I could get away with calling something "delightfully African" without at least having to explain myself. Just some food for thought.
@@ashwilliams1725 that’s because Africa is an entire continent, it wouldn’t be as bad, at least to me if it was “delightfully Kenyan” or “delightfully Ethiopian” (unless OP meant American as in the continents)
i went to rainforest cafe in mall of america when i was like 10, and we didnt end up eating because my little sister had a panic attack and passed out from all the ambient sounds, i would rate the experience 3/5 stars
That's interesting because I also damn near had a panic attack going up to the topmost floor for the cafe because I'm deathly afraid of heights. My dad says he didn't know that before ahaha! But it was absolutely worth it... The cafe was alright but I wouldn't trade my giant ft foxy for the world.
Volcano's the name of a giant dessert you can buy there. The staff have to shout it when they bring it over, there's like sparklers on it and stuff, it's a whole big thing, don't ask me how I know the Rainforest Cafe lore
@@nattyice23 thank you, i figured the person just got rain forest cafe confused with trex cafe which has "volcanos" + "meterorites/asteroids" instead of rainstorms
Thank you for living out my ill-gotten dreams. For many years as a child I’ve walked by the Rainforest Cafe in Gurnee Mills mall longing for the day I would experience a dining experience in a jungle-like setting. But alas, my dreams were stopped short by a consistent “There’s food at home”, as I was whisked away to go home to my usual dried fish and rice dinner. Although from the looks of it I wasn’t missing much, your documentation of your Rainforest Cafe visits has cured my childhood trauma of never visiting one. My soul is lifted. You are a blessing.
I can relate! I grew up in in the city (Chicago) and I wanted to go to the downtown location SO BAD, but my mom said it was too expensive and now that location is closed. THANKS MOM
If you're talking about Katy Mills, I went to the Cheesecake Factory there a few months ago out of curiosity and it was 'Eh'. The decor was fancy but it took a while to get my food when it was pretty empty and it wasn't too special outside of the bread.
At Disney Springs in Orlando, there’s another restaurant, the T-Rex Cafe, owned and operated by the same company that does Rainforest Cafe. It’s basically the same thing except Dinosaur-themed. Instead of a thunderstorm, there’s an astroid strike every 20 minutes, with all the dinosaur and mammoth animatronics losing their shit constantly. Used to really scare the crap out of me as a kid
Oh I’m going there in a few days because my cousin wants to go there lol Edit: well we might end up going to the rainforest cafe because we can’t get reservations for the T-Rex cafe
every few months, i come back to both this video, teds version, and both versions of Margaritaville just to bring back my sanity a little bit, i love it
I can't say I'm surprised by the lack of fish at some of these places. Went to the Galveston location when I was a kid and watched a couple of crabs pin down and kill a fish and scoop out it's eyeball. No one tried to stop it and one waiter simply commented "whoa that's not supposed to happen, that fish cost like 600 bucks"
Now we need a Rainforest Cafe tier list Locations, menu items, animatronics, doesn't matter what - you are now the most knowledgeable person on Rainforest Cafes in the world and it would be a tragedy to let that go to waste
Ted is the exact man you want to go on a road trip with. His truck breaks multiple times and he's forced to eat amongst robotic wildlife daily yet his P.M.A remains unshakeable
I love how Ted and Eddy have totally different perspectives of Eddy’s enjoyment. In this video Eddy is actually enjoying himself and the giant pistachio was like god itself, but in Ted’s video Eddy looks like he wants to die, and the giant pistachio is the devil itself
Come on, Eddy... We need Part 2! There are four more Rainforest Cafe restaurants to visit! Tokyo, Japan; Abu Dhabi UAE; , Paris, France; and San Giljan, Malta. You gotta finish the job!
underrated bit is the giant pistachio meaningful fancam after watching ted's video and seeing him torment eddy by isisting on visiting it, such sarcastic editing once you know it
Guys... Imagine being Eddie’s bank provider watching his transactions for those 3 weeks... “Why has this dude spent so much money at different Rainforest Cafes over America”
100p when you work in repetitively loud environments you tune that stuff out with the quickness, ask anyone working in a Margaritaville lol otherwise they'd lose their minds with all that Jimmy Buffet lol
The crazy part wasn't taking a three-week trip just to eat at Rainforest Cafes; it was driving 8,000 miles in a pickup truck instead of a car. (And I say this as a Tacoma owner.)
I watch the rainforest cafe and Margaritaville videos from Eddy and Ted like at least once a month idk why it’s such great background noise and easy to follow.
As someone who still giggles like a child everytime I walk into one of the Rainforest Cafe restaurants, I laughed my ass off when you entered the Galveston restaurant and experienced the same miraculous wonder I experience everytime I go there.
I’ve only ever been to the galveston one and I only went once and I honestly don’t remember my experience being that crazy. But that was also 7 years ago so idk
I absolutely love the juxtaposition of Ted enjoying himself, no matter what and Eddy wanting to die. Like I feel sorry for Eddy, but it makes for great cinema
I know all of this must of been really hard but the hardest part for me is the fact that you could just talk alone in the bathroom while filming it without being afraid of someone walking in, that’s some bravery man
Humans love the idea of “logic,” but our very existence and how we are as a people is inherently nonsensical. Love what you love mate, and don’t think too hard about it 😉
I was confused as to why there was a thunderstorm while you were in a hotel room talking, and then I realized it was in real life. That goes to show how realistic the thunderstorms at the Rainforest Cafés are.
My best friend and I started joking in lockdown that when we were finally able to travel we would travel to the Nashville rainforest cafe to celebrate my bday. This past February we finally got to and recently we talked about doing a countrywide road trip to every rainforest cafe in the us. Imagine how shocked we were when this popped up on my feed today. Thanks for the reviews fellow rainforest devotee 🕊🫡
This is evil. I had no idea that I’d been to over half of all the rainforest cafes that exist?!! I thought there were hundreds of them?!! Now I have to finish it off. It’s a checklist now. Thanks a lot.
@@emmarosestrong I thought so, but then I can’t think of any that I’ve been to that weren’t shown. That’s almost a stranger coincidence. And I was with a different group each time it’s like I was subconsciously actively seeking it out but I don’t remember EVER suggesting it.
Can I ask HOW you’ve managed to somehow go to so many rainforest cafes? Do you seek them out wherever you go? It seems like a lot for it to be just a coincidence!
@@AlbinoAxolotl I’ve tried to figure it out as well. I travel so much that I hate traveling, but that seems to have had nothing to do with it. 1. Katy- a few times starting late 90’s (98 or 99) it was my local for a while 2. Gurnee- ‘02 or ‘03 either my great grandma turning 100 or her funeral. They were close together 3. Dallas 2007 ex’s brothers girlfriends baby shower 4. Galveston 2008 field trip for marine biology class 5. NOLA 2010 sorority trip 6. Vegas 2014? Client dinner. We joked it was the only “dinner and a show” HR would approve 7. San Antonio 2014 long weekend trip 8. Disney 2017 (this one WAS my idea I thought a franchise would be priced better) 9. Ontario also 2017 on business idk why we ended up there. 10. Mall of America March 2020 (right before the world came to a screeching halt) doing a charity walk for National eating disorder association. Most the time I can only remember why I was in the vicinity bc I don’t remember how we decided where to eat. Edit I said Austin at first but meant Dallas I clicked on the video thinking I had only eaten there maybe 3 times at 2 locations and a series of “oh yeah I’ve been to that one” led me to this weird self-realization
I mean, tbf I never heard of this guy but this video is always lingering in my recommendations. One of these days I just decided to watch it because it wouldn't go away.
I’m honestly kind of disappointed that Eddy didn’t end the video with a ranking of the rainforest cafes worst to best. But half of them are the same so I get it.
Part of the reason they’re all “(location) Mills” is because Rainforest Cafe has an agreement or partnership with the owning group of the Mills malls, which are a national chain (as are Tanger Outlets and Premium Outlets). It’s weird to me to see the locations that are *not* in a mall but they make way more sense tbh….
thank u for sharing this I was just thinking “is there an agreement where they have to only have locations in places with the word mills because that seems like too much of a coincidence”. thanks for answering this question!!
I was just at Grapevine mills in Grapevine, Texas, and noticed how it looked exactly like the Opry Mills malls in Nashville, even with the exact same location for the Rainforest cafe
@@Justaguy689 Yeah it’s my understanding that Mills malls all have similar floor plans to each other, assuming they were built as a Mills property and not purchased.
as a minneapolis resident, I must point out the only location which is an exception to this rule, that being the Bloomington MN location in the Mall of America. ik it’s the founding one and they’d never move it, but there is *one* location not at a mills mall.
Please follow Ted to see his video on the trip tomorrow! - ua-cam.com/users/TedNivison
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Got halfway through the video I'm glad you enjoyed the Galveston location. I grew up near there and we went there very often.
My guy. You drove over 32% of the circumference of the earth.
this will haunt you like vietnam... carry on my wayward son
This documented the American experience in the most accurate way. How far apart everything is, the random giant things everywhere. The rain forest cafes. Saving Private Ryan playing at full volume in a Texas Midas. Incredible documentary
Forgive me if I'm wrong but doesn't that movie have like a ton of gore? I've never seen it because I hear it's super bloody. Not really something I would make my customers watch on repeat.
@@spiwolf6998 yeah it's definitely super gory. Lots of gunshot and head wounds. Like most of the people die I'm pretty sure. AND there are a lot of battle scenes and a lot of gunfire especially the last battle scene. So those guns and explosions constantly going off at top volume would have driven me crazy LOL.
yes
Also, paying $40 to eat inoffensive food in a place designed from the ground up to be the noisiest, most stimulating restaurant ever created. That's a very american experience.
@@WhitneyDahlin I mean not even especially the last battle scene, the opening scene starts out with an absolute massacre
the thought of you actually just pivoting into a full on review of 1995's jumanji is hilarious
The melting floors scene in the Robin Williams Jumanji is the only scene i can remember
Ayeeee mista gg!
i came to this vid from one of your videos
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So in the bathrooms, the murals look painted and not like wallpaper or whatever, and they look very similar in style which leads me to believe that a long time ago one sad mural artist had a similar experience traveling across these United States to paint every rainforest cafe bathroom in the country
It’s more likely one artist painted a sample mural design, and freelance artists were hired in every location to paint them. It’s like scenic painting in theater, the designer hands you a small version and says “make it big” and you have to match the style.
Your idea is much more fun, of course.
This thought is invading my brain. I need to know if there’s a story here and if eddy is now going to be haunted because he made the same ill fated trip as the bathroom mural painter.
Now THAT'S a video I'd love to see 😂😭
In the bathroom without monkeys, the artist took his own life. That was the true end of the journey, but eddy was young and naive. He continued his trek and thus sealed his fate as “forever cursed by the tropical rainforest cafe mural artist”
@@gabriellas_fan did we just create rain forest folklore? Get Hollywood on the phone kid.
I lost it at the moment Eddie’s friend asked does this happen everytime? And Eddie immediately responds “it happens every 20 mins”. All I could think was Eddie’s truly declining into a the madness of a professional rainforest cafe customer.
“Eddie’s Friend”😭😭 don’t do Danny Gonzales like that
@@linstantnoodles_Danny? I thought it was Kurtis?
*employee
@@deliahraccoonwhat? r u trolling, that was clearly eddy burback
Bruh it's drew@@linstantnoodles_
the fact that i’ve spent 30 minutes watching a guy go insane only to go to teds channel to watch another 30 minutes of a guy enjoying himself touring the country with a guy going insane next to him is so funny
And the guy enjoying himself is oblivious to the mental scarring happening to the other guy
Is it actually funny though?
@@Blernster 100%
Yeah, I feel like this dude is being a huge crank instead of just enjoying the ride and the time with someone. I’m not a person to say nut up and enjoy yourself, but some people aren’t meant to do anything other than make UA-cam videos.
@@WalterMootz i am so genuinely shocked you can watch someone spend 21 days on the road which is exhausting enough as it is and eating at rainforest cafe 18 times and comically play up his anguish for a video and then your takeaway is "well he's being an asshole about it". im not usually the one to say you have to try something before judging anothers reaction to it but in this case i think i will
I love how Ted is having the time of his life while Eddy looks like he's gone through two tours through Vietnam and his third divorce.
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@Gary Phillip hi
Most people don't come back from their first tour in 'Nam
I’m just imagining Ted stary eyed, talking to waiters eating his 7th basket of mozzarella sticks today while Ed is in the bathroom trying to calculate if he could consume a lethal amount of bathroom hand sanitizer before someone else came in and tried to stop him.
Either that or 5 minutes of league of legends
I like how Ted’s is a fun little adventure across North America, and Eddy’s is a psychological horror about a man slowly descending into madness
I just started the video because I was like dang I thought Ted this. Then jumped in halfway thru the video and he’s saying the bathroom monkeys are now his friends. I can’t wait to fully dissect this
My guess for why their moods are so different is that Eddy’s the one who drove the most/ whole way. I watched this while doing dishes so if I’m wrong it’s cuz I wasn’t watching the screen the whole time but tbh driving does that to ya
@@neverendinglute3125that makes so much sense because i used to have to drive my unlicensed friend everywhere and it was so draining
@@LoeDownin Ted's video, he confirms that it's his own truck.
@@neverendinglute3125like someone else said: #1 it’s teds truck. #2 whenever he is recording in the car you see eddy is not on the driver’s seat.
Shoutout to whoever expedited the truck fixing process. Mechanic's are busy people, but they are people. When you meet an honest one, they're ready to help accomodate such a shitty situation. Car's are their lives, so they understand how much of a bitch being stranded without one is.
"Ted got a bloody Mary at 9am before we walked around Disney."
Ted is a fucking champion.
Ted wanted that glass so bad
What other time of day would you get a bloody Mary?
@@concernedcitizen4933 yeah, it’s literally a breakfast cocktail
Disney Bloody Mary? That would be $1700 please
@@RPPIII13 with a straw and stalk of celery for a meager extra 50.
…cents?
*employee stares at you*
The Hero's Journey:
1:19 - The Call to Adventure
2:57 - Crossing the Threshold
6:00 --> 21:12 - Tests, Allies (bathroom monkeys), Enemies (thunderstorms)
21:12 - Approaching the Inner Cave
24:13 - (still) Approaching the Inner Cave
30:28 --> 32:36 - Dark Night of the Soul / The Ordeal
33:50 - Seize the Reward (volcano cake)
34:24 - The Road Back Home
35:15 - Return Changed
Best comment on youtube. Thank you for your service.
Joseph Campbell would he proud
Thank you and God bless 💓
@@druarde beautiful
The titles for these time stamps are so raw
The dichotomy between Ted's seemingly unending, growing positivity and Eddy's spiral into a mad man talking to the bathroom monkeys is incredible.
Reminds me of National Lampoon's Vacation
Planes, trains and rainforest cafe
The energy of him and ted is like a guy who’s brought effervescent joy by driving speedboats and a guy rapidly discovering his debilitating fear of large bodies of water
“You won’t starve provided you say the names of the menu items as they are printed with enthusiasm” alright see ya
The soundscape of the rainforest cafe is enough to almost make me wonder if allistic folks have ears for like, decoration.
@@Lucifersfursona Fr though, cause like aesthetically I love themed restaurants, like they seem so fun and whimsical, but I would 100% have a meltdown if I had to eat at a rainforest café. I remember walking past one as a kid and nearly started crying because it was so overwhelming, and again I wasn't even inside the damn restaurant.
Absolutely losing it at Eddy's slow descent into madness juxtaposed with Ted's unfailing chipper attitude. It's like live action Pinkie and the Brain. Delightful.
pinky pinky pinky and the brain brain brain
*eddy
@@bigifchunks Right you are! Thanks 👍
the PERFECT way to describe the dynamic
Nah Ted is losing it
Why else would he be so happy
You and Ted are single-handedly keeping Rainforest Café financially afloat.
GOAT comment
Also Disney
@@mjbridges it’s a joke…
My parents took me there for every birthday as a kid. Good memories. Keep up the good work my man
I don’t even know why the Disney Springs one is still open. There are so many great places to eat there that are cheaper or the same price.
I do enjoy Ted keeping his "Golden Retreiver at a suprise party" level of excitement/optimism, all while Eddie just slowly descends into rainforest induced madness
Sisyphus and his rainforest cafe
Why does top comment always have to just spoil the video?
@@deezjeff21 Why do people always read comments before watching the video and then complain that the comments are about the video?
Rainforest cafe is favorite puppy
The bar for entertainment has never been lower
Doing my semi-annual rewatch of the classic “Guy goes insane in a jungle themed restaurant: Part One”
When Ted was a kid his parents would take him to rainforest cafe every year, at his request. After the divorce, it never really happened again. He went about his life with this rainforest cafe sized hole in his heart, he needed closure, and he wanted his best friend there with him. So, while eddy suffered for most of the trip, Ted was revisiting old friends, Ted was saying good bye. God bless you, Ted.
True story!
This one hits close to home
Eddy’s parents are divorced, he got NOTHING
I honestly don't know if this is true or was just made up, but if this is, that is the sweetest story ever and that perfectly explains his excitement, good for Ted c:
Eddys parents got divorced at a rainforest cafe
I like the part where he goes to Rainforest Cafe
Still mad at screen rant?
@@shoeboi4596 not really but I doubt they've improved
@@shoeboi4596 lol
I think I missed that part. What’s the time stamp?
Can you put a time stamp for that I can’t find that
It would be hilarious if they did this again but with hard rock cafes.
Make it a full world tour
How many are there?
@@freeestyleobsessed 180 restaurants across the world
OHMYGOSH NOOOOOO!!!! XD XD XXD
@@pinky6226 XD XD XXXXXXDDD 😐
I just want you guys to know that I watched this video when it first came out and promptly forgot about it, but it didn't forget me... I recently had a vivid dream about going to the Rainforest Cafe with my family and I had to ask my dad if we ever went and the answer was a weird look and a resounding No. I have never been to the Rainforest Cafe, but because of this video, it has burrowed into my brain and lives there now
You will...
You will...
I'd like to imagine a small B plot to this storyline, involving a traveling corporate training manager who went on a similar trip coincidentally at the same time. They arrive at each location to check up on things and make sure quality is good. Then they slowly get more and more paranoid that they're being followed by you two. It finally comes to an end at the last location when just as they're rushing to leave in order to avoid you guys, they spot you in the parking lot and have a mental breakdown.
This is an insanely good concept for a short story, wtf I would've never thought of this
LMFAO I want to see thus
Hahahaha, that would be excellent
This sounds like a wacky 90s road movie
Make this a movie
I feel Eddy is gonna walk into a mall 8 years from now, see a Rainforest Cafe, and completely snap.
Just start freaking out and making monkey/ storm noises
MY MONKEYS WERE NOT IN THE BATHROOM!!!!! lol
That's if malls are still a thing in 2030.
Malls and Rainforrest Cafes in 2030. Seems optimistic.
None will survive
I love how Ted is almost completely unfazed by the end, but Eddy looks like he did 2 tours in Vietnam.
Lmao ya
I desperately need Ted to post a video of this journey from his perspective, where his is just wonderful and happy and good vibes, and you just see Eddy in the background looking like he just saw his family get murdered.
@@peytonalexander5300 😂😂😂
@@peytonalexander5300 He already posted it lmao
@@consumy3425 Ted? No he hasn't.
14:20 As someone who actually lives in Galveston, to call it "pretty touristy" is a massive understatement. I work at Ben and Jerry's and the line is literally out the door on Saturdays.
Downtown Disney has a separate restaurant called T Rex Cafe which is also owned by the same parent company and is basically identical to Rainforest except it's dinosaur themed. I think this counts as a Rainforest Cafe and you should go back and eat there, too
Nah they catered to my job several times and every time we all got food poisoning
@@TransdimensionalJoyride I'm sorry the concept of getting catered food from a place where the whole idea is to see the physical theme is really funny to me lol
It used to be a rainforest cafe back in the day. I remember going there for my 8th birthday and feeling like an absolute queen when they brought me my lava cake
@@TransdimensionalJoyride why…why would you order it again after being poisoned the first time
@@vickytsurka8109 this plus the food poisoning comment killed me I am crying.
i love rainforest cafe. i just wish they actually drenched you in water when the thunderstorms happen. it would make for a more realistic dining experience.
For the most realistic experience they should bulldoze half the restaurant while you eat
@@antoniodiavolo Or burn it all down
@@antoniodiavolo that wouldn't be realistic. It's closer to having a bathroom stall out of order.
Mmmmm… damp food
@@antoniodiavolo I laughed hella hard at that LMAO
I love how for Ted the trip was like a religious pilgrimage, but Eddie basically just had a three week long mental breakdown.
One could say they both started as pilgrims and one grew to love their god more and the other became atheist by the end.
So, the plot of "Planes, Trains and Automobiles".
*Eddy
Why? Why every 5 months does this video call to my phyche like the Siren's song to a sailor too long at sea? I've watched not only the Rainforest café, but now also the Margaritaville videos 3 nay 4 times each! And yet they call to me hauntingly through the algorithm, sweetly like the memory of a past lover.
Same
this comment is art
They're definitely my comfort videos, both Eddy's and Ted's versions. Just perfect long form videos about an obscure restaurant chain I've always wanted to go to that are great to fall asleep to.
props to Ted and Eddy for still being friends after spending three entire weeks together on the road
It somehow seems so fitting that the single best meal Eddy had was at the only Rainforest Café that’s
1) privately owned
2) not in the United States
Sadly the only rain forest cafe in Canada 😔
@@prometheus6499 I remember there was one in toronto, and it kinda sucked and it closed down. that was a pretty long time ago though
same with Margaritaville! He really like the food at the Canada location
I’m eating at the rain forest cafe in niagara right now!!
Canada has much stricter food laws than us. Their food overall is way less processed, has less added chemicals, and more simple ingredients that are actually food.
Glad you guys had a safe trip! I'm sorry I'm just watching this! It was a pleasure meeting you guys.
-Sincerely your Phoenix location server.
@Gary Phillip the fact that their name was literally right there and you had to read it to know it and you still spelled it wrong
comedy at it’s finest
@@thatonegaybitch1811 Okay I was about to type something funny but then i saw your username pop up and I just can't anymore
on a scale of 1/18, how good is the MinneSNOWta one?
Does the thunder ever get on your nerves
Hey Ashlee!
This is becoming one of my most rewatched documentaries of all time.
Every couple months I pop it back on, it's basically comfort food at this point
I love the difference between Eddy’s horror intro and just how awful it was… and then there’s Ted who’s video shows just pure nostalgia and bliss
I think I like Eddy's video more due to the mental breakdown.
this is like watching The Shining. Ted being upbeat and optimistic while Eddy slowly descends into madness. The mildly-homicidal dissociative look in his eyes. I thought for sure he was gonna go postal when the bathroom didn't have monkeys in it. This was Art.
Well put. 🤣
Amazonian Psycho
he went full Kubrick Stare in that bathroom.
Best comment 10/10
100%
Don't know why but this was honestly one of the most entertaining UA-cam videos I've seen in a long time
fr
Can you describe why?
@@idkjordash Because they have the personality of a mop.
@@idkjordash watching him slowly deteriorate into madness
@@idkjordash fun, original idea that's executed realistically and almost doable irl but it's silly and who would do that, it's almost crazy. Like an idea you come up with with a friend but then you actually do it. This guy's funny, so I subscribed and really enjoyed the video..
I now fall asleep to this video because something about elephant noises and Eddy’s slow decent into madness is apparently soothing to my anxiety-riddled brain. Two thumbs up
my favorite thing about the Disney Springs rainforest Cafe is it's like a 2 min walk from t-rex Cafe, which is literally the same concept but with Dinosaurs. Instead of a thunder storm every 20 minutes it's a meteor shower.
And it's even louder.
Ow.
Yes! I remember eating there a few times with my family when we went on vacations to Orlando. I vaguely recall shutting my eyes and ears every time it happened. The worst part was that we were almost always seated in the blue section with a T-Rex skeleton stuck in the “ice” and every time a meteor shower happened, the room would turn hellfire red and blare the sound effects of dying dinosaurs to the max. Scared me so bad as a kid, but I think I remember liking the stuff on the kids menu.
Hmmm. Thinking about opening a chain restaurant of Space Cafes. Toystory acting like that idea wasn't rad as hell.
Fr
ok so they do both exist simultaneously i'm not crazy i had somehow convinced myself they replaced one with the other lol
It feels weird rewatching this, now knowing the malicious spirit of Jimmy Buffet was looming in the background.
Well 😔
RIP 🙏
@@buttermilkjesusxHe will live on in our hearts… and wallets. Jk he was my favorite singer of all time
@@emmym.1524 imma be fr, I didn't know who Jimmy Buffet was until the Margaritaville video 💀 I just knew the song
yowch aged like milk
I feel really bad for the employees. Just imagine hearing that thunderstorm every 20 minutes...8 hours each day...
i was a photographer at the ontario mills location. i can confirm it’s the worst…
or have to deal with douche bag UA-camrs filming you while you're just trying to make a buck.
@@Legendary-zh9hd I did not see him film any of the staff without consent in this video. Can you find the timestamp?
@@TrueUnderDawgGaming Yooo what’s up bro I love your videos
That is nothing compared to the absolutely horribly loud and obnoxious doorbell that rang everytime someone walked into Five Bellow, and even then an employee told me it became total background noise after day one.
I don't remember the the thunderstorms being that loud anyway and I was a huge of fan of this place at 5-10. if anything the elephant trumpeting is more startling.
I like how this is essentially watching one man's descent into madness, but it's Also just like a 2-week sample of the employees' lives
As a native Houstonian, congratulations Eddy on being the first person to ever enjoy Galveston. People talk more smack on that poor little island than any other place in the state, lol.
Lol as a Houstonian I appreciate Galveston as a sanctuary from the humid hellscape that is Houston
from SA can confirm
I am still not sure why there are 2 rainforest cafes in the Houston area
i ever have to set foot there again i'm flying into the sun
Very true. It’s probably because of the gray water in the gulf
It’s crazy that a few months after the Morbius Marathon, Eddy let himself get conned by Ted into doing another extremely repetitive thing (+ a road trip around the country)
That Morbius marathon certainly was the challenge ever, never gonna be another like it.
This is the best roadtrip dynamic. Two silly guys but also one is living a different reality than the other.
At 13:16 the reason the mouth looked like it was decaying off is because it was, most animatronics like that use latex, after a while latex will begin to decay and rot due to the fact that is a plant based material that hardens to make a rubber like substance and is mostly water. if left in direct sunlight or it is old the water will evaporate and the latex will begin to rot/decompose
I half expect Ted to just one day, be like “There’s this new restaurant we’ve never been to, let’s go!” And then start driving towards Rainforest Cafe, and Eddy just panicking as he recognizes the road.
Rainforest Cafe PTSD.
Don't give him any ideas
*laughs like a villain*
Safari Cafe for Rainforest Fries. I swear it's a different thing
Like a dog being told they're going to the dog park only to be driven to the vet
My boys are dying for their craft. Drew is ordering useless garbage he knows he won’t like, Danny is wasting days of his life playing defective apps, and Eddy is literally killing himself eating at Rainforest Cafe non-stop
Meanwhile, Ted is having the time of his life
And they all made trending within a week
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yup and all for us even though we don't deserve it and are even worse than the food at rainforest cafe.
Yo you just gonna forget our Canadian boy Kurtis?
Gotta love how this whole trip is basically one long journey across the country outlined by brief moments of rainforest-themed existencial dread and anguish
I can't even begin to imagine how cathartic it must have felt to leave the last Rainforest Cafe lmfaoooooo
I cannot overstate how rewatchable your videos are. Pure gold, sir.
Watched it 3 times already
My bf became obsessed with this video when it came out, so I decided to surprise him with a visit to the rain forest cafe in Disney springs when he came to visit me (we’re long distance) and it’s probably one of the best dates we ever had
And YES, it WAS an awful experience
MOST WHOLESOME AWARD ✨
And the "Best Gf Ever" Award goes to:
I feel like the Disney Springs in general is actual hell. I’ve never been but my middle school Drama teacher went once with the troupe and tells me how hellish it was
@@DK-go6nw nah Disney Springs is nicer than most entertainment retail especially in Orlando. The restaurant variety is great.
@@gissneric not talking about the entirety of Disney Springs, just that specific Rainforest Cafe. I think Disney Springs is wonderful, the Rainforest Cafe there is just hell
Imagine his credit card company looking at his statements. Saying wow this must be a scam because no way someone willingly went to all these different rainforest cafe
I seriously lol'd at this cause you're right. I keep imagining someone's face when they see it and it is cracking me up!
they probably dont question ted anymore tbh
Lmao
I think rainforest cafes really capture a certain aspect of growing up where all of a sudden a place that seemed so magical turns into a rundown sad fishless fish tank of an experience. It’s such a weird feeling to think back on all the times you went to the mall and it was just slowly falling into disrepair more and more each time you visited and you didn’t really notice it until it was too late. Also the sign in front of the Ontario location used to have like a waterfall feature which was pretty cool
And the 🐊 used to come to life and pretend to open its mouth
yeah i remember the waterfall thing too! its so pathetic looking whenever i pass by it now
@@yungpapi They actually fixed the crocodile at the Dallas location. It looks around and even stands up again. Been over a decade since I had seen it do it.
imagine working at a rainforest cafe 😭😭 the amount of thunderstorms, elephant screams, gorilla grunts. it would be psychological warfare for anyone except ted and people like ted
Rainforest Cafe was the first place I ever got food poising at, I was around 6 years old, good times.
they were known for their attention to quality and safety!
SAME WTF
My first time was at school
It's a jungle, what did you think was gonna happen
Wtf. Linux chad watches this channel?
The more Eddy suffers, the more powerful Ted becomes. We need his side of the story where he describes it as the best 3 weeks of his life.
You just KNOW it was. You know Ted was absolutely thrilled the whole time
If Eddy wasn't suffering, Ted would've pulled out the baseball bat to break his shin bones
Ted is an emotional vampire
It's up on Ted's channel now!
@@gregorysteffensen3279 link please?
As an ex Rainforest Cafe employee, I appreciate the attention to detail in learning the names of the animatronics… we all had to know their names + personalities. This was somehow more degrading than the fanny pack we had to wear, or screaming “VOLCANO” for the dessert… Also, I apologize for how many times you had to hear the Landry’s card pitch… You are a true hero ✊
What’s the card pitch?
oh man, when I used to be a busboy for Texas Roadhouse I would have loved to have a fanny pack- great place to keep your weed and one hitter so you can quickly fire off a couple hitters during a trash run. Really the only way to be a busboy at an extremely busy and shitty restaurant is to get really stoned and just stumble through your shift and plot with other busboys on ways to steal a keg from the walk in.
@@keenanmyers8576 I’m not sure if this is still the case, but back when I worked for Rainforest Cafe, the restaurant was owned by a larger company called Landry’s. Landry’s had a discount card for all of their restaurants, where you get “a point for every dollar you spend. After 250 points, you get $25 dollars off.” It cost $25 to join, but on your next visit to another one of Landry”s restaurants, you’d get $25 off. We were supposed to pitch this to EVERY. SINGLE. TABLE, and it was just awful. The last thing anyone wants is to hear a sales pitch at a restaurant when they’re just trying to eat and enjoy the show of the restaurant. We had a lot of rules we were supposed to follow and things we had to say/recommend…
Also, I completely forgot the details of the card until typing this, and it came back so f*cking clear, that’s how often I had to do it lmfao.
@@TDOLLA We ALL stored shit like that in ours 🔥
i love the occasional scenes of ted running around in the distance like a little kid, which is really funny to me for some reason
This reminded me of a brilliant article by Helen Rosner where she describes doing a tour of different Olive Gardens. She concludes that "there is only one Olive Garden, but it has a thousand doors". It seems like that doesn't really apply to Rainforest Cafe locations which is interesting.
This whole thing is delightfully American to me (a non-American) and I'm glad you took us on this adventure.
As an American, that’s probably the first time I’ve heard a non-American person describe something as “delightfully American”
@IntrepidTit How is it demeaning?
That Olive Garden line is fucking haunted and it made me feel real fear
We have to start closing those doors. Before it’s too late
@@hederahelix1383 I'd say condescending and not demeaning. Although I don't think they intended it in that way, I do see how it could be interpreted as such. As an American I don't think I could get away with calling something "delightfully African" without at least having to explain myself. Just some food for thought.
@@ashwilliams1725 that’s because Africa is an entire continent, it wouldn’t be as bad, at least to me if it was “delightfully Kenyan” or “delightfully Ethiopian” (unless OP meant American as in the continents)
i went to rainforest cafe in mall of america when i was like 10, and we didnt end up eating because my little sister had a panic attack and passed out from all the ambient sounds, i would rate the experience 3/5 stars
Same. I remembered being terrified of all the sounds and creepy animal faces
Holy shit…it is pretty over stimulating tho
That's interesting because I also damn near had a panic attack going up to the topmost floor for the cafe because I'm deathly afraid of heights. My dad says he didn't know that before ahaha! But it was absolutely worth it... The cafe was alright but I wouldn't trade my giant ft foxy for the world.
That gave me a hardy lol, thank you Zach Fake & Co.
This gives that one yelp review that’s like “got stabbed here, would go back, 3/5 stars”
absolutely love that the first time eddy shows us a "thunderstorm" you can very, very clearly hear a staff member in the background yelling "VOLCANO"
or was it tornado
Tbh i kinda thought it was "Bojangles"
Volcano's the name of a giant dessert you can buy there. The staff have to shout it when they bring it over, there's like sparklers on it and stuff, it's a whole big thing, don't ask me how I know the Rainforest Cafe lore
@@nattyice23 thank you for your service
@@nattyice23 thank you, i figured the person just got rain forest cafe confused with trex cafe which has "volcanos" + "meterorites/asteroids" instead of rainstorms
Thank you for living out my ill-gotten dreams. For many years as a child I’ve walked by the Rainforest Cafe in Gurnee Mills mall longing for the day I would experience a dining experience in a jungle-like setting. But alas, my dreams were stopped short by a consistent “There’s food at home”, as I was whisked away to go home to my usual dried fish and rice dinner. Although from the looks of it I wasn’t missing much, your documentation of your Rainforest Cafe visits has cured my childhood trauma of never visiting one. My soul is lifted. You are a blessing.
😂😂😂
I can relate! I grew up in in the city (Chicago) and I wanted to go to the downtown location SO BAD, but my mom said it was too expensive and now that location is closed. THANKS MOM
I'm not kidding, this is easily one of my favorite UA-cam videos of all time. It's a UA-cam-Roadtrip movie and I'm HERE FOR IT.
Beat me up
We need more of these
@@TJUntame Is that your fetish?
Wood’s here?
@@kibblesnbits3174 Might be
It must’ve been depressing walking by a Cheesecake Factory only to turn the other direction and go to Rainforest Cafe for the 4th time
Palisades Center: Sweats nervously
😂😂😂
If you're talking about Katy Mills, I went to the Cheesecake Factory there a few months ago out of curiosity and it was 'Eh'. The decor was fancy but it took a while to get my food when it was pretty empty and it wasn't too special outside of the bread.
WHAT? Cheesecake factory food is the worst, they need to just stick to cheesecakes.
😂😂😂
At Disney Springs in Orlando, there’s another restaurant, the T-Rex Cafe, owned and operated by the same company that does Rainforest Cafe. It’s basically the same thing except Dinosaur-themed. Instead of a thunderstorm, there’s an astroid strike every 20 minutes, with all the dinosaur and mammoth animatronics losing their shit constantly. Used to really scare the crap out of me as a kid
Literally LOVED T-Rex Cafe as a kid
Lol..the idea of a bunch of animatronics having panic seizures while I'm trying to eat dinner is amazing.
Oh I’m going there in a few days because my cousin wants to go there lol
Edit: well we might end up going to the rainforest cafe because we can’t get reservations for the T-Rex cafe
That sounds funny to just be eating some food and then a fake asteroid hits and to see a bunch of fake dinosaurs lose their shit
Sounds horrifying... i want to go XD
every few months, i come back to both this video, teds version, and both versions of Margaritaville just to bring back my sanity a little bit, i love it
I can't say I'm surprised by the lack of fish at some of these places. Went to the Galveston location when I was a kid and watched a couple of crabs pin down and kill a fish and scoop out it's eyeball. No one tried to stop it and one waiter simply commented "whoa that's not supposed to happen, that fish cost like 600 bucks"
Brutal
That's friggin sweet
Was he supposed to jump in and save it?
Nature is hardcore
Guess that explains why the RFC near me only had jellyfish
Now we need a Rainforest Cafe tier list
Locations, menu items, animatronics, doesn't matter what - you are now the most knowledgeable person on Rainforest Cafes in the world and it would be a tragedy to let that go to waste
Rainforest Cafe Subject Mater Expert (RCSME)
Agreed we need this
Yes
ted would be better, he had fun
I would like to see it
Ted is the exact man you want to go on a road trip with. His truck breaks multiple times and he's forced to eat amongst robotic wildlife daily yet his P.M.A remains unshakeable
What does pma mean? Also, I agree; Ted is great
@@RockySmithsen commenting for when they answer 👀
@@RockySmithsen positive mental attitude
positive mental attitude i believe :)
@@RockySmithsen positive mental attitude
Watching this one after the sequel, I completely understand how insane it was to do this again. Hats off my man!
I love how Ted and Eddy have totally different perspectives of Eddy’s enjoyment. In this video Eddy is actually enjoying himself and the giant pistachio was like god itself, but in Ted’s video Eddy looks like he wants to die, and the giant pistachio is the devil itself
Wait is eddy the guy narrating in this video ?
@@MarlonBitoyyes
eddys always been good at committing to the bit haha
I think Ted is aware, and may be trolling just a bit for the camera. Kinda seems like his personality based on his videos
@@MarlonBitoy No.
I really loved how you got to meet up with family and friends along the way. Makes it worth all the safari fries
Hi evan♡
@@gabiblatezky nm 1
hello evan :D love your channel dude, very excited seeing you in this comment section
Maybe the real safari fries were the friends we met along the way
Come on, Eddy... We need Part 2! There are four more Rainforest Cafe restaurants to visit! Tokyo, Japan; Abu Dhabi UAE; , Paris, France; and San Giljan, Malta. You gotta finish the job!
One in London as well!
Four in Mexico as well I believe!
@@claremitchell9435 London one shutdown and rebranded to a rainforest cafe-esq restruant
@@jamiepalmer5691 All the Mexican locations closed
Oh I want thiiiisss
underrated bit is the giant pistachio meaningful fancam after watching ted's video and seeing him torment eddy by isisting on visiting it, such sarcastic editing once you know it
Guys... Imagine being Eddie’s bank provider watching his transactions for those 3 weeks... “Why has this dude spent so much money at different Rainforest Cafes over America”
"Should we send a fraud alert? But who would steal a card for this?"
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Imagine working at Rainforest Cafe and having to hear thunder sounds… everyone 20 minutes… for every 4 to 8 hours of your shift
It’s actually a hypnosis cue… keeps them working
@@ellisdicaprio underrated comment omg this is making me HOWL
You drown in out unless you’re talking
100p when you work in repetitively loud environments you tune that stuff out with the quickness, ask anyone working in a Margaritaville lol otherwise they'd lose their minds with all that Jimmy Buffet lol
Imagine working in a kitchen with a paper printer. You want to drown that sound out but you can't
The crazy part wasn't taking a three-week trip just to eat at Rainforest Cafes; it was driving 8,000 miles in a pickup truck instead of a car. (And I say this as a Tacoma owner.)
Me and my Taco could never
Taco would be perfect, you could sleep in it.
Thought the same thing. I love my pickup, but that's a helluva drive in a Tacoma.
I had a 2017 rental for work and used it for 2 hours. Rode great, but the seats felt like park benches.
@@jguerra0117 Sounds like every freakin Kia rental I have had the misfortune of getting.
I watch the rainforest cafe and Margaritaville videos from Eddy and Ted like at least once a month idk why it’s such great background noise and easy to follow.
As someone who still giggles like a child everytime I walk into one of the Rainforest Cafe restaurants, I laughed my ass off when you entered the Galveston restaurant and experienced the same miraculous wonder I experience everytime I go there.
How often you think Eddy girlfriend be fucking dudes while he was gone.
Probably as much as when he's in the room
The Galveston one is amazing! Love that it's like thirty mins from me lmfao
It blew my mind when he said all of them are located in “mills” malls lol. I haven’t been to the Katy one since 20 years ago
I’ve only ever been to the galveston one and I only went once and I honestly don’t remember my experience being that crazy. But that was also 7 years ago so idk
Part 2 is when he will go to the Café's international locations in Tokyo, Paris, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Malta! You MUST complete the list!
There’s one in London too!
I really want to know how to decided on Malta as a location
@@ctoacu6188 probably tax related
Leave the poor man alone. Can’t you see he is already traumatized enough!
I can’t believe there’s one in Malta.
You're genuinely insane for doing this and I respect you so much for it
Well, he went insane doing this, so checks out.
Also, 31 Hard Rock Cafe locations, including HAWAII! That trip will break Eddy.
I absolutely love the juxtaposition of Ted enjoying himself, no matter what and Eddy wanting to die. Like I feel sorry for Eddy, but it makes for great cinema
Edd and Ted’s Existential Safaradventure
me: geesh eddy h@t3s himself even more than i do.
I know all of this must of been really hard but the hardest part for me is the fact that you could just talk alone in the bathroom while filming it without being afraid of someone walking in, that’s some bravery man
this is such an incredibly weird and niche form of content and the fact that I find it enjoyable makes no logical sense but here I am, rewatching
Humans love the idea of “logic,” but our very existence and how we are as a people is inherently nonsensical. Love what you love mate, and don’t think too hard about it 😉
I rewatch this video every time I’m sick or hungover because it makes me feel better to know Eddy is having a much worse time than I am
Eddie having an existential crisis while Ted has a blast is true contrast
It’s also exactly what I expected and I love it
I was confused as to why there was a thunderstorm while you were in a hotel room talking, and then I realized it was in real life. That goes to show how realistic the thunderstorms at the Rainforest Cafés are.
bro can't escape then
My best friend and I started joking in lockdown that when we were finally able to travel we would travel to the Nashville rainforest cafe to celebrate my bday. This past February we finally got to and recently we talked about doing a countrywide road trip to every rainforest cafe in the us. Imagine how shocked we were when this popped up on my feed today. Thanks for the reviews fellow rainforest devotee 🕊🫡
Ted and Eddy go to every medival times
This is evil. I had no idea that I’d been to over half of all the rainforest cafes that exist?!! I thought there were hundreds of them?!! Now I have to finish it off. It’s a checklist now. Thanks a lot.
There probably were hundreds (or at lease several dozen) a long time ago. But most have closed.
@@emmarosestrong I thought so, but then I can’t think of any that I’ve been to that weren’t shown. That’s almost a stranger coincidence. And I was with a different group each time it’s like I was subconsciously actively seeking it out but I don’t remember EVER suggesting it.
Can I ask HOW you’ve managed to somehow go to so many rainforest cafes? Do you seek them out wherever you go? It seems like a lot for it to be just a coincidence!
@@AlbinoAxolotl I’ve tried to figure it out as well. I travel so much that I hate traveling, but that seems to have had nothing to do with it.
1. Katy- a few times starting late 90’s (98 or 99) it was my local for a while
2. Gurnee- ‘02 or ‘03 either my great grandma turning 100 or her funeral. They were close together
3. Dallas 2007 ex’s brothers girlfriends baby shower
4. Galveston 2008 field trip for marine biology class
5. NOLA 2010 sorority trip
6. Vegas 2014? Client dinner. We joked it was the only “dinner and a show” HR would approve
7. San Antonio 2014 long weekend trip
8. Disney 2017 (this one WAS my idea I thought a franchise would be priced better)
9. Ontario also 2017 on business idk why we ended up there.
10. Mall of America March 2020 (right before the world came to a screeching halt) doing a charity walk for National eating disorder association.
Most the time I can only remember why I was in the vicinity bc I don’t remember how we decided where to eat.
Edit I said Austin at first but meant Dallas
I clicked on the video thinking I had only eaten there maybe 3 times at 2 locations and a series of “oh yeah I’ve been to that one” led me to this weird self-realization
@@emmarosestrong yeah there was like 3/4 just downtown in san antonio and the only one open rn i think is the one downtown on The Riverwalk
How nice of Ted and Eddy to take Danny to Rainforest Cafe twice
Underrated joke lol
Lol it took me a little bit to get it hahahaha
I don’t get it
@@PGO5490 there is a meme that Danny Gonzalez and Drew Gooden (the guy the meet with his wife Amanda in Orlando) look alike
@@PGO5490 Danny and Drew is the same person
The fact that this is Eddy's most viewed video ever is the cherry on top of this absolute masterpiece.
In such little time too
Holy crap it has more than DOUBLE his max views HOW
I mean, tbf I never heard of this guy but this video is always lingering in my recommendations.
One of these days I just decided to watch it because it wouldn't go away.
Never heard of this man, but the idea is so stupid and ridiculous. I'm a minute in and im getting the impression people suffer
it’s his most viewed video by A LOT too
As an Australian watching this I am absolutely desperate for the rainforest cafe experience omg
Ted's increasing excitement accompanied by Eddy's slow descent into madness every RFC they go to is just perfect.
Ted's reaction is more understandable. Eddie acts like someone forced him to do this xd
18:12 the moment he began to lose it LOL
I’m honestly kind of disappointed that Eddy didn’t end the video with a ranking of the rainforest cafes worst to best. But half of them are the same so I get it.
Same haha. I wanted to know how good the original in MN was because thats where im from!
@@ethanschoof4953 It has moved so therefore is not the same as the 94 store...
i dont understand how you couldn’t be thrilled at every moment you walk through a rainforest cafe entrance
"I would like *long gulp* ....the IGGY'S PIGGY'S SANDWICH, please."
Part of the reason they’re all “(location) Mills” is because Rainforest Cafe has an agreement or partnership with the owning group of the Mills malls, which are a national chain (as are Tanger Outlets and Premium Outlets). It’s weird to me to see the locations that are *not* in a mall but they make way more sense tbh….
thank u for sharing this I was just thinking “is there an agreement where they have to only have locations in places with the word mills because that seems like too much of a coincidence”. thanks for answering this question!!
I was just at Grapevine mills in Grapevine, Texas, and noticed how it looked exactly like the Opry Mills malls in Nashville, even with the exact same location for the Rainforest cafe
@@Justaguy689 Yeah it’s my understanding that Mills malls all have similar floor plans to each other, assuming they were built as a Mills property and not purchased.
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as a minneapolis resident, I must point out the only location which is an exception to this rule, that being the Bloomington MN location in the Mall of America. ik it’s the founding one and they’d never move it, but there is *one* location not at a mills mall.
I really do feel that Ted was personally screwing with Eddy by ordering Mozzarella sticks at every Rainforest Cafe.
I just love "It's actually a cool spot to eat? That doesn't really make sense to me, I'm supposed to be in a mall and depressed"