Carwardine Parks/Memes

This is a list of memes spawned from Carwardine Parks.

Barney Error
Barney Error is a genre of meme that originated from the Carwardine Forums, and later spread to other websites.

Blue Bart's Revenge
This photo is of Kid's World's Bart costume. Kid's World has not upgraded to an orange-shirted Bart throughout its existence, and thus blue-shirted Bart is a common sight at Kid's World.

Bolligard and Mabiller
The meme stems from a mispronunciation by Chris Carwardine at the opening ceremony of Zymbezi at Rose Park.

Braney
This meme stems from a photo taken at Carwardine Colony where one of the Barney costume's eyes had gotten stuck, resulting in a slightly cross-eyed look.

The Carousel Parties Too Hard
At some point around mid-2020, Carwardine Colony’s Twitter account posted their version of the “Caramelldansen Lights” meme featuring their carousel and Ian Monteil‘s cover of Caramelldansen (with the sped up tempo). It’s caption was “It appears that our Carousel might’ve partied too hard… (Don’t worry, nobody’s dead; actually, none of these figures were ever alive!)”. Below this tweet, Carwardine Colony promoted the then-upcoming Volume 31 of The Carwardine Colony Carousel.

Carwardine Character Crowd Dance
During Carwardine Colony's annual March opening ceremony in 2023, numerous of the park's walk-around characters, including all characters that'd be featured in Carwardine's Licensed Property Musical (debuting later at said park's Coney Theatre) danced together to Tina Turner's 1993 cover of "Proud Mary", in at least somewhat of a Flash Mob-like fashion. Multiple people from the Carwardine Parks community (alongside at least a few people from outside said community) have put other songs (and on at least one occasion, random non-musical sounds) over footage of said dance (it wasn't uncommon to see the footage function as a variation of the "___ when the __ song you've ever heard in your f*cking life comes on" meme). After Tina Turner passed in May of that year, Carwardine Parks posted unaltered footage of the characters dancing to the original music as a way to pay tribute to her.

RANDOM FACT: In the original footage, people could be heard shouting "HEY! HEY! HEY!" to the music; this, as mentioned below, is another Carwardine Parks-related meme within itself.

Chance v. Cassie
This meme refers to the similarities between Cassie Clown's 2017 redesign and the design of Universal Halloween Horror Nights icon Chance.

Cornthias
This photo refers to a costuming mistake that happened at Whalom Park where Matthias had Cornflower's head (without her headband/scarf), likely due to a last-minute rush to start the meet-and-greets.

DIPPIN' DOTS ROCK
This meme started off not long after the time Carwardine started playing Dippin' Dots' "Dippin' Dots Rock" commercial on their hotels' TV channel (as did it start appearing in queue tapes as an ad); it functions somewhat of a Carwardine equivalent to Rickrolling, albeit it has spread outside of the Carwardine Parks community. Although the jingle annoyed many, the commercial and the meme it’s created resulted in helped raise sales for Dippin’ Dots at Carwardine Parks and other Carwardine Properties. (The line "They just make me want to SCREAM!" is particularly considered memetic)

The Float of Miscellaneous Characters
This meme refers to a float used in the parades to accommodate the semi-current licenses (e.g. Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! and Mortal Kombat) and licenses that don't have space on the other floats. Carwardine has acknowledged this a few times; a subtle example is that in at least one Holiday Parade, the characters on the float sing a variation of "The Most Wonderful Day Of The Year", the song sung by the Misfit Toys from the 1964 special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (lyrics containing "The Island of Misfit Toys" have said words go unchanged; this might at least partially be due to "The Float of Miscellaneous Characters" having too many syllables).

GIMME MY TOASTER BACK!
This meme uses a gag photo taken by Carwardine Colony employees in 2005 where Buster from Arthur (played by Haley Armetta) steals Landon Franck's car, a first gen Scion xB (which is often nicknamed a "toaster").

HEY! HEY! HEY!
This meme started circa 2006-2007, sometime after Carwardine began using a sales promo for Thomas & Friends, featuring a rock rendition of the "Engine Roll Call", as an ad on queue tapes and the Carwardine Hotel TV channel. The meme involves parkgoers shouting "HEY!" repeatedly during songs, especially ones with the same BPM or key as that version of the "Engine Roll Call". This meme has been acknowledged numerous times within Carwardine material, such as a cover music video of that version of the "Engine Roll Call" (mainly using footage filmed at Carwardine Colony, featuring CSRR #1 "Thomas") done for the 75th anniversary of the Thomas & Friends franchise in 2020, where a crowd of people and characters shouts the "HEY!" part alongside the band shown playing.

is rainbow road gay?
A title of an infamous post on c/mariokart posted on June 2, 2018, and popularized by the YouTube video "Carwardine Forum Simulator Volume 1" that came out later that month. It's often used for people mocking people for thinking something has LGBTQIA+ themes simply for featuring a rainbow, and gained renowned attention after the second trailer to The Super Mario Bros. Movie came out in December 2022.

Lincoln Turns Into A Neckbeard
Lincoln Turns Into A Neckbeard refers to a video in which a guy performing as Lincoln Loud at Great Escape accidentally had the costume head fall off, revealing the Carnie's face, looking like a stereotypical neckbeard, the identity of the guy is currently unknown, although teams on Carwardine Forums and Discord are researching his identity.

Man Inside Angelica Pickles Costume/Angelica-Man/Mangelica
This meme is of an image at Carwardine's Great America of a staff member named Harvey-Lee Douglas inside an Angelica Pickles suit, with the suit's head in his hands, facing the camera with a smirk. After it got posted on the Carwardine Forums in 2007, the photo soon became used on templates mocking male internet users posing as females and he gained the nicknames "Angelica-Man" and "Mangelica", he officially retired from working at the park in 2021, as he was getting too old to be performing in the costume, at age 55, at his final day at the park, tons of men cosplaying as Angelica, imitating the iconic photo, stormed the park and surrounded him performing as Angelica. Afterwards, he thanked the cosplayers, saying "You've made my career here worth it."

Montgomery's a girl!
"Montgomery's a girl!" refers to a video in which a Carnie performing as Montgomery Moose at Omaha Luna Park accidentally had the costume head fall off, revealing that the Carnie playing Montgomery was a woman.

Not gonna lie but bush did 9/11
A reference to a post on the Carwardine Forums section "c/SpongeBob" in 2004 that had this has the title and the post itself. This is often memetic and a poster child of off-topic posting.

The Only One In The State of Georgia
A meme with Jan C. Gabriel's overly enthusiastic responses in the Zymbezi announcement about the "dive loop", "non-inverted coaster zero G roll" and "non-shuttle Cobra Roll". It is often used to mock overly superlative statements.

Phil Head, Lil Shirt
The photo refers to a costuming mistake that happened at Omaha Luna Park where the Rugrats twins costumes got "Frankensteined", as it's a costume that had Phil's head (note the lack of a bow) and the rest of the body being of Lil (note the skirt instead of pants and different color shoes).

Rainbow Brite carjacks Santa
The photo refers to a photo of the original Rainbow Brite at Carwardine Colony wearing her Christmas outfit while "stealing" Red Santa's sleigh. This was taken as a joke photo by Thomas Hogenkamp's nephew, with Carnie Jessica Soskina, who was in the Rainbow Brite costume in the photo, having helped come up with the idea.

ＲＡＩＮＢＯＷ，　ＨＥＬＰ
This photo is of an incident at Mississippi's Backyard wherein their then-new articulated Rainbow Brite head's eyes were slightly cross-eyed.

Sportaflex
This meme is of a video of Magnus Scheving, in-character as Sportacus, doing an aerobics routine during the 2005 Carwardine Colony opening event, with the audio overdubbed with "Zoolookologie" by Jean-Michel Jarre.

Springfield Car Teleportation
This is a scene in a queue tape skit where Chris Carwardine teleports his car to Springfield because he can't find it on a road.

YOU A WIN
Similar to the below-mentioned "YOU ARE WINS CONGLATURATIONS!", this is an infamous piece of Engrish grammar, this being from Chris Carwardine's Technical Malfunctions 5 where the ending text says this exact line. Later revisions changed the text to simply "GAME COMPLETE!".

YOU ARE WINS CONGLATURATIONS!
A notable Engrish grammar issue in the original version of the Carwardine Parks arcade game "Super Mario & Friends Memory Match", where ending text says that exact line, the first revision changed the text to "YOU WIN! CONGRATULATIONS!" while the second revision onwards has Mario's infamous line from Super Mario 64 "THANK YOU A-SO MUCH FOR A-PLAYIN' MY GAME!".