Originally Posted By AutoPost This topic is for Discussion of <a href="http://www.LaughingPlace.com/Latest-ID-77856.asp" target="_blank"><b>Latest: Viral Video: Tigger does The Cat Daddy</b></a> <p>Have you seen this yet? Over 400,000 have since it was posted on Wednesday. A couple of DJs went to Disneyland and got Tigger to do the Cat Daddy. Eeyore is featured as well.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><iframe width="450" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/IQuC89GriBU?rel=0&hd=1" frameborder="0"></iframe></p> <p> </p>
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt It's pretty awesome, but I'm wondering where is the music coming from? Did they bring a sound system into the park or was music edited in after? There's something kind of fake about this. I suspect that either the the two DJs are friends with the cast members in the costumes or this was staged by Disney as a promo for the DJs radio station.
Originally Posted By TP2000 No, it's awesome. I have a pretty good nose for this type of pre-packaged corporate stuff dressed up as "viral", but this seems genuine. I'm sure there are some folks who would howl about Tigger being in themed Critter Country and doing a contemporary dance craze with some teenage kids. But I'm reminded of the old Wonderful World of Color footage from 1962 showing Goofy doing the Twist with kids on the parade route, or that Golden Horseshoe show from the same era where Annette dressed up as an Indian Maiden and did the Twist on stage to a rockin' version of Buffalo Roundup. I think this footage is legit, not staged by stuffed shirts in TDA trying to do bad viral videos. When TDA tries to do something "viral" it ends up forced and corny like this Soundsational Flash Mob from last week... <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDdkk_j4SeE" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...kk_j4SeE</a>
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I don't think that it's staged by TDA, but I'd say there's a decent chance that it's staged by the folks in the video. The camera happened to be running at just the right time to get the whole thing. Of course, they knew that they were going to try to teach Tigger to dance, so they could have planned on recording the whole thing, but in my experience the whole setup seems a little strange. As for the time period, I feel like it's a little different than the shows. Even things like Celebrate, which had all sorts of characters dancing to a bunch of out-of-theme music, have been in the parks recently. However, I do see a difference between seeing a character in a parade or show, and meeting them in their 'native' environment elsewhere in the park. I'm fine with it happening, but it doesn't seem like the woods of Critter Country is the best place for it.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt Ferret you said it better than I did. It's fishy to me that Tigger, along with the other characters, "just happened" to be such phenomenal dancers when the camera began recording.
Originally Posted By Tiggirl I don't know... right after Michael Jackson passed away I saw Tigger do an amazing moonwalk and a whole "Michael Inspired" choreographed dance while I was at the BBQ Place on Big Thunder Trail while he was waiting for families to take their pictures with him. I'd believe it. ~Beth
Originally Posted By Princessjenn5795 My cousin has a friend who works at DL and has been several of the big stuffed characters. She has been a dancer all of her life and is also a dancer in some of the parades. She ultimately wants to be a princess in a parade or show, not a stuffed character, but she has to take whichever character is available to her until a spot she wants opens up. The person inside Tigger could be in the same situation. Pooh was not that good a dancer and Eeyore was just okay. I would not say that is strange at all that Tigger is a good dancer, when DL employes so many performers in various areas. This doesn't seem fake from a DL production stand point. It seems like the DJs went to park to try to get some footage of them teaching a character to dance. I think the characters were just having fun with it-it has to be much more fun playing along with something like that than standing for pics and autographs for an hour.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt Even if their ability to dance is just a coincidence where did the music come from? I watched it again and the music seems to be playing live while the camera is filming. Did one of the DJs have a rig and PA set up in Critter Country?
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance To me it sounded more like they added the music in after the fact.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt If you do a search for "1015jamz disneyland" you'll see that this isn't the first time the station has done something at Disneyland. Maybe the dancing So You Think You Can Dance Tigger is a coincidence, but I remain suspicious.
Originally Posted By Bolna Another argument for why the music was added later: I can't see the video due to copyright issues here in Germany. Youtube regularly blocks music due to an ongoing copyright case. I am sure they would not have been able to detect the music so quickly if it was a background music.
Originally Posted By Autopia Deb Ummmm. Do we really care if it was set up or not? It was cute and it made me smile. And I'm sure the vast majority of viewers got a kick out of it too. It's entertaining, Disney is an entertainment company. What's the fuss?
