150: Class Action Park

True Crime Obsessed

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.2 • 34.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Here's the gist: During its 1980s and 1990s heyday, New Jersey’s Action Park earned a reputation as the most insane — and possibly the most dangerous — amusement park that ever existed.

It was known as a lawless land, ruled by drunk teenage employees and frequented by even drunker teenage guests. The rides were experimental and illogical, and seemed to ignore even the most basic notions of physics or common sense—not to mention safety.

Lying somewhere between Lord of the Flies and a Saw movie, Action Park is remembered as a place so insane and treacherous that, decades later, anybody who ever stepped foot in it is left wondering whether their memories could possibly be true. It became a nearly perfect breeding ground for urban legends and myths.

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0:00.0	Holly and Cheneyce are prepping for a big weekend away and it needs to go exactly to plan
0:05.5	so they need to know exactly what they get it, like the choice of over 800 hotels.
0:09.9	Yes! Right in the centre!
0:12.1	So there are only moments away from where they want to be, with a super comfy bed waiting
0:16.8	for them at the end of the night. And with checkout by 12pm they can even hit snooze.
0:22.6	Enjoy the same feeling whatever the trip, premiere in, rest easy, only available to book at
0:27.8	bremyin.com. People from New Jersey love that shit. What?
0:32.1	Being from New Jersey. It's like that half of this documentary is talking about how they're
0:35.3	from New Jersey and they love being from New Jersey. They love it, they love that shit.
0:38.4	They love being from New Jersey.
0:48.0	Hey, Jolene Petzalali! Hey Patrick, hi, Spurrna!
0:52.5	Which bit forever since we've said our names at the top it's so weird.
0:56.5	Can I blame it on the quarantine brain?
0:58.5	Totally! Okay.
1:00.8	I like it when you say perchance, it takes us to the way back times.
1:03.6	I didn't say perchance.
1:04.8	Oh, I thought you said perchance. Can I blame it on the quarantine perchance?
1:08.9	I said the quarantine brain, but sure, perchance to dream.
1:13.7	Oh, you guys, before we get to this bananas episode, which I honestly don't even know how we're
1:18.8	going to do, we'll figure it out when we get there.
1:20.7	Not unlike a ride at Action Park, we'll just see what happens.
1:23.2	Also, you can't convince me that the name of the park isn't Class Action Park.
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