JoJo’s World: Disrespecting Character Performers

JoJo is watching the Star Wars: A Galaxy Far, Far Away show in Disney’s Hollywood Studios, and says it’s for the first time. After the show, when the characters parade by, JoJo says he has to say hi to Rey and “hopefully, she says hi to me.”

First, JoJo tries to provoke the cast members who are playing Darth Vader, Darth Maul and Kyle Ren. He doesn’t care that the cast members are already having to be outside in the Florida sun with a helmet and costume and the last thing they need is an obnoxious nitwit trying to provoke them for content.

When Rey walks by, she ignores him. “That’s like every girl I talk to. Let’s keep moving,” he says resignedly.

JoJo shows that he’s with original Austin, Emily, and Hayleigh. He asks them what they are going to do and they decide to go to Lightning McQueen’s Racing Academy. JoJo has seen it before but the rest haven’t.

On the way, Austin, who was present when JoJo did his fake proposal, asks JoJo how the marriage is. JoJo replies that he’s now divorced. “I’m back on the market, ladies,” JoJo says as if he had left it.

At the attraction, JoJo does his “dance with someone in the park” routine. Actually, he does the “dancing with kids outside the attraction”, like he did previously. JoJo says being one of the attraction’s dance leaders is another dream job of his. “Hey Disney, hire me. I swear to you, Entertainment, I will do an amazing job if you let me,” JoJo beseeches.

They go in the attraction and watch it. Afterward, Emily and Hayleigh say it was cute. Hayleigh says matter-of-factly, “It happened.”

Next, the girls go get ice cream and the guys get root beer floats with alcohol. Austin says a cast member asked him if he knew that the drinks had alcohol in them. JoJo exclaims, “Yeah we know that! We want it!”

For a short while, Emily has JoJo’s camera and she tells viewers to subscribe to Austin’s channel. He says he doesn’t have one. Emily has a lot of trouble holding the camera properly in order to stay in frame.

JoJo gets back control of his camera and they all watch the stormtroopers parade down Hollywood Boulevard. JoJo thoughtlessly taunts the cast members in the parade. At the end of the parade, JoJo follows behind it and yells at guests lining the street, “Thank you guys. I know you’re excited to see me!”

The stormtroopers line the front of the stage as Captain Phasma speaks. Toward the end of the performance, JoJo pushes by guests in front of him and gets in the face of some of the cast members playing stormtroopers. He tells viewers he didn’t get in trouble for it, but JoJo always claims what he does is okay.

Later in the vlog, once again the Star Wars character parade by, and this time Rey waves to JoJo. Hayleigh dryly says to JoJo, “I’m so happy for you.”

As they walk out of the park, JoJo mentions his promise that if his vlog with Austin on what to do in Magic Kingdom got over 50 likes, he’d give away his bubble maker. He says the vlog received that many likes, so he plans to follow through on his promise. We’ll see if that actually happens.

[2/5]  Watch to see how not to treat character performers.


by Angela Tortelli

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