{"id":4537,"date":"2013-03-19T00:45:08","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T08:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/?p=4537"},"modified":"2013-03-21T00:49:45","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T08:49:45","slug":"did-some-riders-on-the-simpsons-ride-in-universal-studios-once-unexpectedly-get-doused-with-vegetable-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/2013\/03\/19\/did-some-riders-on-the-simpsons-ride-in-universal-studios-once-unexpectedly-get-doused-with-vegetable-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Some Riders on the Simpsons Ride in Universal Studios Once Unexpectedly Get Doused With Vegetable Oil?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends related to amusement parks and whether they are true or false. <\/p>\n<p><u><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">AMUSEMENT PARK URBAN LEGEND<\/span><\/u>: Riders of The Simpsons Ride at Universal Studios Orlando were unexpectedly doused with vegetable oil during a ride!<\/p>\n<p>After a long and popular tenure at Universal Studios (both Orlando AND Hollywood branches), Back to the Future: The Ride became a thing of, well, you know&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/1399680671_818052b2a6.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It was replaced by what has become one of the most popular amusement park rides of all-time, The Simpsons Ride.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/simpsons-ride.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The Simpsons, as they are wont to do, even made self-referential fun of the fact that they are replacing Back to the Future, with a video that plays as people wait on lie that works in Doc Brown from Back to the Future&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/simpsons3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Christopher Lloyd even voices Doc Brown for the short video (which features Professor Frink going back in time to try to stop Krustyland from taking over from Doc Brown&#8217;s Institute of Future Technology, only to inadvertently CAUSE the ruination of the Institute, allowing Krusty to take over). <\/p>\n<p>The ride was the fastest ride to ever reach one million customers, which it achieved in July of 2008, only months after opening in May of 2008. <\/p>\n<p>However popular it was, fans of the rides were likely NOT fans of something that happened on June 13th of 2008.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nAs you might know, Lisa Simpson on the Simpsons is a vegetarian, but I don&#8217;t think even she would appreciate the fact that a mechanism broke down during the ride, dousing all the people riding the ride with vegetable oil (or at least something that was basically vegetable oil)!!!<\/p>\n<p>No one was injured, and the riders were given a change of clothing and allowed to shower at the park. <\/p>\n<p>Universal Studios did not know how the oil got there.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily for Universal, no one was lawsuit-mad, and after their dry cleaning was paid for, everyone lived happily ever after.<\/p>\n<p>I just still want to know where that vegetable oil came from! How weird is that? Vegetable oil?!?<\/p>\n<p>The legend is&#8230; <\/p>\n<p><u><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">STATUS<\/span><\/u>: True<\/p>\n<p>Feel free (heck, I implore you!) to write in with your suggestions for future installments! My e-mail address is b&#99;&#x72;&#x6f;ni&#x6e;&#x40;le&#103;&#x65;&#x6e;d&#115;&#x72;&#x65;ve&#x61;&#x6c;ed&#46;&#x63;&#x6f;m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends related to amusement parks and whether they are true or false. AMUSEMENT PARK URBAN LEGEND: Riders of The Simpsons Ride at Universal Studios Orlando were unexpectedly doused with vegetable oil during a ride! After a long and popular tenure at Universal Studios (both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[24,28],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7MjBq-1bb","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5127,"url":"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/2013\/09\/18\/was-there-really-an-unaired-episode-of-the-simpsons-where-bart-dies\/","url_meta":{"origin":4537,"position":0},"title":"Was There Really an Unaired Episode of the Simpsons Where Bart Dies?","date":"September 18, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about TV and whether they are true or false. 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