Funhouse

A funhouse or fun house is an amusement facility found on amusement park and funfair midways in which patrons encounter and actively interact with various devices designed to surprise, challenge, and amuse the visitor. Unlike thrill rides, funhouses are participatory attractions, where visitors enter and move around under their own power. Incorporating aspects of a playful obstacle course, funhouses seek to distort conventional perceptions and startle people with unstable and unpredictable physical circumstances within an atmosphere of wacky whimsicality.

Common features

Appearing originally in the early 1900s at Coney Island, the funhouse is so called because in its initial form it was just that: a house or larger building containing a number of amusement devices. At first these were mainly mechanical devices. Some could be described as enlarged, motorized versions of what might be found on a children's playground. The most common were:

  • A slide, usually much taller and steeper than one would find on a playground. Some were as much as two stories high. Slides of comparable size can be seen today on carnival midways as separate attractions. Most were made of polished hardwood, and riders would sit on burlap mats to protect themselves from friction burns and to ensure that rubber-soled shoes didn't slow the slider down.
  • Funhouse (Pink album)

    Funhouse is the fifth studio album by American singer-songwriter Pink, released by LaFace Records worldwide on October 24, 2008. The album debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 180,000 copies in its first week and reached number one on the charts in seven countries including Australia, New Zealand, Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Funhouse has sold over six million copies worldwide.

    Singles from the album include the U.S. number-one single "So What", "Sober", "Please Don't Leave Me", "Funhouse", "I Don't Believe You", and "Glitter in the Air". Funhouse earned Pink three Grammy Award nominations and five MTV Video Music Award nominations. Funhouse was re-released in late 2009 to include a bonus DVD, and was accompanied by the release of Funhouse Tour: Live in Australia, a live album taped during Pink's Australian leg of the Funhouse Tour.

    Writing and development

    Pink has stated that this album is her most vulnerable to date. Much of the album's subject matter alludes to the fact that Moore had recently separated from her husband, Carey Hart. The first single, "So What", opens with: "I guess I just lost my husband/I don't know where he went". "Please Don't Leave Me" also addresses the split. The artist sums up its theme thus: "Okay, I’m an asshole, but love me anyway." In "Mean", she sings, "It was good in the beginning/but how did we get so mean?" The song that Moore is the most proud of is "Crystal Ball". She said about the track: "I recorded it in one take and we didn’t mix it. It just went straight to master. It was all about a vibe and not about perfection or being polished. I just love that song and I loved recording it." She wrote the song with Billy Mann, who also aided her with the songs "Stupid Girls", "Dear Mr. President" and "I'm Not Dead" (all 2006), among others.

    Funhouse (The Sopranos)

    "Funhouse" is the twenty-sixth episode of the HBO television series The Sopranos. It is the thirteenth and final episode of the show's second season. It was co-written by series creator/executive producer David Chase and co-producer Todd A. Kessler, and was directed by frequent The Sopranos director John Patterson. It originally aired in the United States on April 9, 2000, attracting about 9 million viewers.

    It was nominated for an Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series.

    Starring

  • James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano
  • Lorraine Bracco as Dr. Jennifer Melfi
  • Edie Falco as Carmela Soprano
  • Michael Imperioli as Christopher Moltisanti
  • Dominic Chianese as Corrado Soprano, Jr.
  • Vincent Pastore as Pussy Bonpensiero
  • Steven Van Zandt as Silvio Dante
  • Tony Sirico as Paulie Gualtieri
  • Robert Iler as Anthony Soprano, Jr.
  • Jamie-Lynn Sigler as Meadow Soprano
  • Drea de Matteo as Adriana La Cerva
  • and Nancy Marchand as Livia Soprano
  • Guest starring

  • Jerry Adler as Hesh Rabkin
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    PLAYLIST TIME:

    Funhouse

    by: Pink

    I dance around this empty house
    Tear us down, throw you out
    Screaming down the halls
    Spinning all around and now we fall
    Pictures framing up the past
    Your taunting smirk behind the glass
    This museum full of ash
    Once a tickle, now a rash
    This used to be a Funhouse
    But now it's full of evil clowns
    It's time to start the countdown
    I'm gonna burn it down, down, down
    I'm gonna burn it down
    9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, fun
    Echoes knocking on locked doors
    All the laughter from before
    I'd rather live out on the street
    Than in this haunted memory
    I've called the movers, called the maids
    We'll try to exorcise this place
    Drag my mattress to the yard
    Crumble, tumble house of cards
    This used to be a Funhouse
    But now it's full of evil clowns
    It's time to start the countdown
    I'm gonna burn it down, down, down
    This used to be a Funhouse
    But now it's full of evil clowns
    It's time to start the countdown
    I'm gonna burn it down, down, down
    I'm gonna burn it down
    9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, fun
    I'm crawling through the doggy door
    My key don't fit my life no more
    I'll change the drapes, I'll break the plates
    I'll find a new place, burn this fucker down
    Do, do, do, do, do, do, do
    Do, do, do, do, do, do, do
    Do, do, do, do, do, do, do
    Do, do, do, do, da, da, da, da
    Do, do, do, do, do, do, do
    (9, 8)
    Do, do, do, do, do, do, do
    (7, 6)
    Do, do, do, do, do, do, do
    (5, 4, 3)
    Do, do, do, do, do, do, do
    (2, 1)
    This used to be a Funhouse
    But now it's full of evil clowns
    It's time to start the countdown
    I'm gonna burn it down, down, down
    This used to be a Funhouse
    But now it's full of evil clowns
    It's time to start the countdown
    I'm gonna burn it down, down, down




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