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Welcome to For Your Amusement, a theme park podcast that aims to exhaustively evaluate the world's most popular theme park attractions to determine if they are world class.

I'm Ryan Bergara. I'm Byron.

And for this episode's featured attraction, we'll take a peek behind the massive

that Universal pooled by replacing a beloved attraction with whatever the Simpsons ride is,

located in Universal Studios, Hollywood, and Orlando.

And as always, go ahead and like and subscribe to this podcast. If you're listening to it,

or if you're watching it over on YouTube.com slash watch your podcast, go ahead and like and subscribe

there. It helps us keep making this silly show, and we need the help. Anyways, we've finally

done it. We are, we are finally covering the Simpsons. Only a matter of time. The ride that we actually have a world-class test based off of for the wrong reasons. It's finally happening. And normally we would have a guess explain why we chose this ride. But we have no guess today. I didn't think we wanted to put a guess through whatever we're about to do. Once again, we're going to try not to be too negative because we don't like being too negative on this podcast. We love rides. That's why we made this podcast. But we don't have to love every ride. And folks, this is one of those rides, for me, at least. Hey, you know what? With our rubric, any ride has a chance. That's true. Well, that's true. We'll see where it scores in the rubric.

I, I, we all, we never run these rides through the rubric up top or before the episodes,

just because, out of pure curiosity for the, the scientific exercise of it all.

Byron, what is your first impression of the Simpsons ride? Okay, this would have been in either summer of 2010 or 2011.

I remember it happening in July.

And if anyone is out there as familiar with Universal Studios Hollywood in July, you could

probably already tell that I didn't have the best of experiences.

It was an extremely crowded day. Yep.

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