Universal Studios Hollywood Backlot Tour - Jaws / King Kong / Earthquake / Fast & Furious
A visit to Universal Studios Hollywood Backlot tram tour . After boarding this nearly hour long adventure it takes us thru movie filming history but also a bunch of key attractions such as Jaws , King Kong , Fast and Furious Supercharged , Earthquake and a special guest who lives in the Psycho house .
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Transcript
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today's adventure brings us to universal
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studios in hollywood california
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the entertainment capital
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of l.a self-proclaimed
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that's their new mata and as always
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every time i enter the premises
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i have to rub this gentleman's nose
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for good luck welcome everyone adam the
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woo here there is a heck
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of a lot to see or do at this theme park
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but today specifically i want to focus
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on the backlot tour what is there
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to see and experience and visually
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embrace as you board the tram tour
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join me shall you we might be seeing
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some filming in progress
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we'll also be meeting jaws king kong
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and going through a plane wreck
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pretty exciting that's what's going to
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happen right there
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that's pretty much a rundown of of the
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studio tour in brief
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cartoon fashion as you wait in line
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there are some posters the wolfman
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frankenstein dracula even some 80s
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classics breakfast club
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fast times at ridgemont high and
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american graffiti there's
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ron howard there are a lot of rules no
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smoking or they'll dump water on you
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that's the first thing i learned and if
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there is an emergency
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oh like if someone attacks that oh if
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like a monster attacks
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tries to drag you out of the tram you
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pull the cord they pull the cord down
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and they'll stop it and they'll remove
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the monster c
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though someone that works here will come
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over and get oh no it's not a monster
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it's like a perpetrator it's like a
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villain of oh no
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it is a monster but also remember to
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have
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fun just like these guests are doing
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they're having
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having a having fun thumbs up for fun we
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need to pick up
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some 3d glasses these are a necessity
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for some of the things we're going to be
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experiencing
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there it goes they're providing some
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extra effect there with the mist
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kind of gives it the throwback element
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card how you doing
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you're gonna have a great tour we're
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leaving the theme park behind and we're
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heading deep into the heart
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of one of the world's largest and
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busiest working studios
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where many of hollywood's biggest names
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come to work every single day
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it all started when our founder mr carl
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lovely moved to movie production company
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west
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and opened universal pictures on march
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15 1915 that's right
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we have over 100 years of moviemaking on
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this slot
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we've entered our second century of
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movie magic that is a real working fire
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station because we are our own city
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universal city we have our own fire
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station medical services police
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department zip code
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and our first mayor was a woman giving
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up for the ladies on board
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local 51.95 that used to be the home to
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alfred hitchcock one of the greatest
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directors of all time
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and that's over to your left hand side
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underneath the white awning
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we're not going completely into the back
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lot
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of the section from back to the future
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from hill valley
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they're currently doing some filming
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back there look very closely we're
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passing it quickly but that's
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hill valley from back to the future this
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whole section is used
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very prominently during halloween horror
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nights
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they let you walk around back here in
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this section
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during horror nights
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but this time of the year you're not
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allowed you have to have to be on the
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tram you have to be very quiet because
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they are
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currently filming something who knows
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what but something is being filmed
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at the moment we have to put our inside
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voices
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on outdoors can't make a lot of noise so
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jimmy fallon is inviting everyone to
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have a staring contest
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all right i'm not gonna blink this time
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i'm just gonna
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don't blink don't blink
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don't blink don't blink don't blink
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don't blink
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don't blink dang he won
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i blinked we are now heading
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to meet king kong with a very
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hard right turn that bridge you see in
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the background
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you should be able to drive over that on
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the tram tour but
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that's no longer something they
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currently do in this day and age
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we're gonna go meet king kong
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i think he's not a monster you know he
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is an incredibly
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go ahead and put on those 3d glasses
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oh
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oh my goodness 360 3d
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did you guys make it yeah he's pretty
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good you guys make it all right
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a little bit that was i hate it like a
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champ
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the lightning or large arc strobe lights
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on top of the set out of the campus for
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you
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ladies and gentlemen what you were all
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waiting for folks rain
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now for the rain it's a very different
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technology it's really high-tech
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advanced technology
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it's called sprinklers we put the
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sprinklers on top of pools shoot the
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water up into the air and let it
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naturally fall down to the ground so
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it's like real rain
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a little more like a secret the
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raindrops are a little bit bigger than
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when the camera's able to see them
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you see how it's raining there usually
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the water stops right now perfectly dry
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that was our flash flood or as we call
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it the south bank
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now it is being used for a production i
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can't let you guys know what it is
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unfortunately but just know that during
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the summer they're going to be filming
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non-stop so if you're an annual pass
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member holder
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come back and check it out it's going to
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be really fun c springs texas is really
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fun
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it's really iconic because this is where
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carl langley used to bring audiences
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just like yourself
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to watch real-life productions happen
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during the silent film area when the
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western the heyday of westerns
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they were filmed here we can film up to
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six of them at the same time hence
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getting the name sixpence texas press so
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you have italy
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or friends for the muppets movie
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you have the fictional country of
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genovia for the princess diaries to
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aurora engagement
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or most of you might recognize it as the
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afterlife
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in the good place this is one of my
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favorite spots back here it's where all
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the old universal monster movies were
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made
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right in this little courtyard right
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there
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it's pretty freaking cool these folks
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remain seated at all times we don't want
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to mess up their continuity
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so continuity mixing means that a movie
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is filled where
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they wanted to whoa
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oh right folks watch out until you left
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the ceilings came here watch out
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large scale mechanical effects still
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said that
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it can bring you some of the greatest
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action sequences for example
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david morianis any time that i'm feeling
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stressed out i like to go down to amity
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i
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victor wasn't that terrorized by a giant
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man eating a shark well yeah but they
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caught him
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he's right there we have nothing to
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worry about so we can just lay back
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and chill
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now we're gonna need a bigger tram
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okay don't worry folks do not panic just
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remain seated i have my police
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diaper george in the water hey george
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you still getting my grease after this
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man
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oh no oh george
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he had a lot of guts to be out there
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okay and there they are all right folks
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please remain seated because we're going
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to get out of here folks
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remain seated we're going to go ahead
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and hide behind these extremely
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flammable gas tanks
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at all times oh oh it's not really wet
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squirt it up on me does anybody have an
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eye on the shark folks
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folks please remain seated
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i saw you i saw that reaction she's
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trying to ignore me she's like i didn't
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scream
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but folks does anybody know what kind of
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shark that is
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it's not a great white it's plastic
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right hand side you can see the chicken
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wrench
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which has been used in production like
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the musical best little whorehouse in
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texas sorry donnelly pardon
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and burt reynolds shout with john
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travolta beethoven's fifth
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it's been used for the mentalist nbc's
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about a boy and in 2012 a reimagination
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of the monsters called
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monkey berlin with porsche gerasi eddie
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izzard and i think it was also using a
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house of a
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here we go for the grand tour we're
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going to start with gabrielle sully's
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house made by elva longoria
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off to your left-hand side the perfect
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house on the street
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every time i go through here i can't
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help think of
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revenge house
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right here on this side of the road many
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many scenes from that film
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we're shocked i gotta say however it is
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pretty awesome being able to see
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the monster's house right there it looks
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a lot different but at the same time
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looks very similar
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1313 mockingbird these sets are made out
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of chicken wire and styrofoam
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to bring the winter worlds of dr seuss
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to life two million linear feet of
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styrofoam were used
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enough artificial snow to cover nine
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football fields and if you have a sweet
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tooth like i do
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1938 candy canes it was one of the
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biggest productions in movie history
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here on the lot it took up 11
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sound stages had to deal with the grinch
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as a neighbor but here on the backlog
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beats folks that's norman bates
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um hello hey bud what's what's happening
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folks once again please for me and see
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that all the time so he's got something
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oh he's got a body oh gosh
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well folks he hasn't noticed us and if i
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haven't
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seen anything y'all have no oh no coming
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towards the tram
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stay away from us oh that was
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that was a close one
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he gave me a solid is that about my
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jokes or about norman
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all right folks well from the iconic
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scent of alfred hitchcock's psycho one
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of my favorite movies
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we're about to take it to one of the
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biggest they're still looking at us
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ladies and gentlemen it costs filmmakers
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sixteen thousand dollars and you're
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probably thinking that's not bad for a
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real airplane
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well it costs two hundred thousand
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dollars to get it here
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it's always the shipping and handling
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they get to am i right
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you hear that engine grinding still
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moving around
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what if the 747 goes down right in a big
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neighborhood
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because it's just something you don't
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see
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all right going we're exiting now the
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war of the world set
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pretty freaking awesome huh right
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let's take a look to what is directly in
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front of you guys over
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over by that pond that is our false lake
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area
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that is one of the world's largest
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freestanding green screens or blue
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screens in that case
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you can see it behind this house which
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was used in the great outdoors
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the greatest scene john candy just have
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to put you in the movies plugs all right
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here's the scene
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you don't need your 3d glasses i'll let
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you guys know when to put them on
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but one of you on the tram is an
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international witness
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oh and owen shaw that's a bad guy he's
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after us
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oh no so dr retton is gonna keep us
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protected inside of sullivan's garage
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but now it's time to turn up folks here
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we go
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oh yeah it's like a full-on party in
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here
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oh really well tell me roman who do you
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work for
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we don't work for nobody
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which one of you is the witness speak
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now or you all get fried
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oh this is our turn oh here we go
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here we go here we go
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how about you eat asphalt don't think
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you're getting away
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of universal studios
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hollywood
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oh no there's a troll on the loose
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there's a troll on the oh it's a never
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mind it's a
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it's a friendly troll
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that's gonna do it for today from
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