In 1989, for a brief run,Disney uncharacteristically let its hair down. A musical review produced for Comedy Warehouse, one of the late Pleasure Island’s night clubs, called Forbidden Disney, viciously poked fun at Disney itself. According to DeScope
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Michael Eisner gave Walt Disney Imagineering this assignment: “Create a show for the Comedy Warehouse. It should be funny, light, satirical; the first Disney review that pokes fun at the Disney Guest Experience. Be bold! Use this as your measure: create a show that, if someone else did it, we’d sue ’em.”
The show, which was replaced after a brief run, referred to the Florida Theme Park as Wallet Disney World, and featured such songs a SuperFriendlyConscientiousDisneyWorldEmployee. The full script can be found here.
