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I like the part where he goes to Rainforest Cafe

the thought of you actually just pivoting into a full on review of 1995's jumanji is hilarious

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

It feels weird rewatching this, now knowing the malicious spirit of Jimmy Buffet was looming in the background.

I feel really bad for the employees. Just imagine hearing that thunderstorm every 20 minutes...8 hours each day...

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

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.

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

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

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 made me so giddy to see my local rainforest cafe, I couldn’t stop laughing when you mentioned the fish less tank that is a running joke here 😭

I sure hope he doesn’t do the same challenge but with margaritaville 😅

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.

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've now watched this video 3 times in the last year. Whenever I'm feeling down, I know I can turn to this and I'll immediately smile, nod, and think, "At least I'm not in a rainforest cafe."

Seeing how this trip absolutely destroyed Eddy’s mental and physical health, there’s no way he’ll do this again with another restaurant chain…..right?

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

"Ted got a bloody Mary at 9am before we walked around Disney." Ted is a fucking champion.

I love how Ted's video makes the trip sound fun and Eddy's video makes it sound like a living hell

Well done, now do every Chuck E Cheese in the country.

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.

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 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

imagine living in Michigan and getting excited for you to absolutely destroy the one in Great Lakes and it's relegated to "We went to Michigan and then we left." 😢

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 dichotomy between Ted's seemingly unending, growing positivity and Eddy's spiral into a mad man talking to the bathroom monkeys is incredible.

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

Back to watch this again after the Margaritaville edition. I'm pleased to see that Canada has exceeded expectations two years running.

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.

It would be hilarious if they did this again but with hard rock cafes.

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

“You fart with that thang” has been keeping me up all night

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

Don't know why but this was honestly one of the most entertaining KZfaq videos I've seen in a long time

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.

I don’t think I realized how “American” the mall of America is. Like, on summer break from school people will take their families on trips to VISIT a MALL. That’s so consumerist and it never registered to me, I was always really excited to go as a kid 😂

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

You and Ted are single-handedly keeping Rainforest Café financially afloat.

I cannot overstate how rewatchable your videos are. Pure gold, sir.

this has become a comfort video and i think ive watched it upwards of 10 times

I love how Ted is almost completely unfazed by the end, but Eddy looks like he did 2 tours in Vietnam.

I love how for Ted the trip was like a religious pilgrimage, but Eddie basically just had a three week long mental breakdown.

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.

Wow this was so cool. Did you know there's also a Margaritaville in the Mall of America right across the hall from the Rainforest Cafe? Maybe you should go to every one of those next time lol

I'm not kidding, this is easily one of my favorite KZfaq videos of all time. It's a KZfaq-Roadtrip movie and I'm HERE FOR IT.

I feel Eddy is gonna walk into a mall 8 years from now, see a Rainforest Cafe, and completely snap.

29:35 Ted jerking away from the elephant like it’s a live animal and will hurt him 😂

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

Rainforest Cafe was the first place I ever got food poising at, I was around 6 years old, good times.

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.

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

It brings me so much joy to know that while I was sitting in my college graduation, these boys were torturing themselves with Rainforest Cafes.

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 really loved how you got to meet up with family and friends along the way. Makes it worth all the safari fries

Watching this one after the sequel, I completely understand how insane it was to do this again. Hats off my man!

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.

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.

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)

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

Ted and Eddy go to every medival times

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

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.

The tire shop blasting Saving Private Ryan on repeat, sent me ngl

I remember eating at the Chicago one a couple times as a kid because my mom worked near there. This video was a huge wave of nostalgia lol.

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.

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

This is becoming one of my most rewatched documentaries of all time.

These trips are always just a showcase of the duality of man

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.

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.

that pistachio watered my crops, fed my starving family, revived my dead grandmother and built my house,, pistachio we truly appreciate you ❤

The staff at the one that used to be local to us kicked my (8yrs old at the time) little sister out of the restaurant bc the birthday party she was attending ended early. She went and found my mom after wandering the mall for luke an hour, and my mom went nuclear on the RC staff for kicking a literal child out so they could turn the room over early. They ended up offering us a meal on the house for our whole family if we didnt sue. We ordered like 1k worth of food, and ate leftovers for a week.

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.

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

I hope you’re not haunted in your dreams by the animals from the rainforest cafe- thank you for doing this you guys!

seeing all of the vines n shii on the ceiling and overall building, I can only think abt the amount of possible spiders in there.

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.

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

I loved this video! I used to always want to go to the Rainforest Café in Burlington, MA, but I inevitably would be terrified of the thunderstorms. Tracy Tree became a sort of psycopomp for me, on my perilous journey to Just Okay food and Questionable-At-Best animatronics.

for my 6th birthday i was taken to a rainforest cafe. it was in london. they made me stand on a chair to sing happy birthday to me and it, to this day, is one of the first instances i can remember of me not only freaking out because of heights, but also because of intense social anxiety. I was sat next to a frog tho, that was cool

not sure what would compel someone to actually follow through with this ambitious but profoundly stupid plan, but i applaud the joint effort nonetheless

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

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

As an Australian watching this I am absolutely desperate for the rainforest cafe experience omg

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"

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"

I went to the Rainforst Cafe often as a kid because I grew up in Houston and Galveston was a common summer day-trip for us. I never knew how good I had it with that location being the one I always went to.

I knew about it because there was an ad for it on a DVD we had when I was a kid. There might have been one in Rockland too a long time ago, but we never ate there

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”

i was so hype to watch this bc there used to be a rainforest cafe in CT that I had gone to, and I thought it would be funny to see you review. turns out it closed in 2013 and I completely forgot

I just love knowing that while Eddy got to spend time with his girlfriend half way through the trip, the crushing reality of the continuation of the trip dawns on him and ruins any happiness that moment might have created. :D

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.)

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

eddy I just want you to know that I fall asleep to this most nights. really takes me on a trip to snoozville but in the best way possible. takes me on the adventure with you

Imagine the shock of future generations looking at this video and all the wonders and horrors of one man putting himself through hell just for the sole pourpose of entertainment. Truly a masterpiece.

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.

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!

I've never eaten at one of these, but every time I go to Ontario Mills, I observe the Rainforest Cafe there with horror and amusement.

One day his child is gonna ask to go to Rainforest Cafe