There are many things to be learned from interviews. In the case of Mike Abiuso’s interview with The Sound Alarm, I have learned two things. One is that Mike Abiuso seriously loves Six Flags. The other is that I hate Mike Abiuso. And it’s not because of his slender grasp of basic physics or his blatant disregard for proper spelling and grammar. It’s because I happen to hate Six Flags, and therefore by extension, I hate him too. So I’m going to counter his 6 reasons he loves Six Flags with 6 reasons of my own to hate Six Flags.
#6. It’s All A Scam
So you and your family are going on a trip to Six Flags. Unless you’ve pulled some elusive strings, you’ve probably just paid the regular price of about 40 to 50 dollars for each ticket. Good job! Once you finally get there, you’ll find that it’s going to cost you another 30 goddamn bucks to park! What are you going to do? Turn around and go home? Hell no! You’ve just dropped around 200 dollars on this trip already and you’re not even IN the park yet. They’ve really got you by the balls here and you know you’re going to drop that extra $30 for a parking space (if you can find one, that is).

"Fuck It! We're going home!"
So now that you’re finally in, you’re ready to get on some rides. But you have to wait in those infernal lines first! In fact, more than half the time you’re there, you’re going to be waiting in lines with your thumb up your ass. Some wait-times go up around 1 or 2 hours! And God help you if there’s a malfunction to add another hour to your wait.
If you actually want to get ON some of the rides, you can get this thing called a Flash Pass. You just have to pay the extra low-cost of about another 20 to 30 dollars. Depending on which pass you get, you could potentially get the red carpet treatment all the way up to the front of the line (as well as the ‘royal-douche-of-the-park’ treatment). If you get the slightly cheaper pass, then you still pretty much have to wait the same amount of time. All it does is eliminate the aspect of waiting while you’re in line. So you just reserve a spot and go have your thumb up your ass elsewhere! Oh joy!

You will likely be bored as hell on some of these rides anyway
And of course you can’t go on EVERY ride. What about the extra thrilling ones like the Dare Devil Dive or the Bungee Jump Swing? You know, the BEST ones! Sorry, they’re going to charge you more to get on those rides. And there’s virtually no good reason for this. Those rides cost less to make than some of the bigger roller coasters around the park that they’re letting you on for free! They’re just charging you more because, fuck, you’ll pay it! You sorry sap.
At some point between puking your brains out after rides and just being in the park for hours to get your money’s-worth, you’re probably going to get hungry. You can’t eat your own food, because they’ve made sure you won’t have any when you come in. Your only choice is to pick among their several options of “yummy cuisine” and dish out some more cash for their overpriced and shitty food. Which brings us to….
#5. The Food Is Lousy
A lot of the food you’ll find at Six Flags is basically the equivalent of a prepared Lunchables lunch gone through an Easybake Oven. Actually, that example is probably healthier and more appetizing than their own food. The food is very ill-prepared and very bad for you, and if you’re lucky the worst you’ll get is the runs.
The reason for this is because Six Flags food establishments suffers from the Fast Food syndrome, but far worse. The food has to be prepared in such a way that requires little skill and minimal training, because their employees are only around for a short season. Nobody is long-term. Your average Burger King employee has more skills and knows more about food than these people.

At least he knows to wait for the "Ding!"
And lets face it, Dippin’ Dots is bullshit ice cream that doesn’t fucking belong anywhere but in Space, far away from the decent folk with much better options for frozen treats.
#4. Their Mascot Is Fucking Creepy
Every self-respecting amusement park needs to have an icon. Disneyland has the loveable Mickey Mouse. Universal Studios has the fucking Earth. Legoland has those awesome Lego minifigures. Six Flags figured out very quickly that they couldn’t just count on a bunch of flags. This is America, and there’s only one flag that counts here.

This one, right?
So Six Flags needed a mascot that would be memorable. Something jolly and inviting for all the kids to love. And of course, something family-friendly. So what did they land on?
This guy:

Perfect!
I’m sure you’re familiar with the notorious Mr. Six. You know, the happy-go-lucky energetic old koot that kind of sort of looks like your weird uncle that’s always asking you to sit on his lap. He made his debut in the big “It’s Playtime!” Six Flags commercial, forever teaching young little boys and girls that it’s totally okay to hop inside an old man’s bus as long as he’s dancing to 90′s dance-pop and promising “Playtime.” And you know what? America ate that shit right up! They fucking love the guy!

Afterall, who the hell doesn't love pedophile mascots?
And just like that, Mr. Six became the face of Six Flags. You can find him prowling around any park, dancing around and inviting you to come close to him for a picture so he can sniff your hair and give you a nice pat on the rump when you’re done. Just like Uncle Slippy-Finger.
#3. Just About Any Six Flags Attraction May Kill You
It should be no surprise that incidents at Six Flags happens… A lot. It’s no big secret that between precarious design and lack of safety procedures, there is real danger in many of of their rides and attractions. Except if you actually work at Six Flags, then it’s a very hush-hush topic. But everyone already knows that a lot of the rides can kill or injure you. What they don’t know is that the rides MAY kill or injure you. I don’t mean it could happen – I mean it’s ALLOWED to happen.
Because of a convenient loophole, there is currently no federal regulation of amusement parks. That means no one outside of the amusement park’s own paid staff are overseeing the safety of their rides!
Well, that’s okay. If an accident happens, you can still sue them, right? WRONG! Thanks to a little thing called “Rider Responsibility,” the moment you enter a ride, you have basically agreed to all of their safety, health, and legal warnings. You know, the ones that are on that gigantic sign that’s required to be at the front of the ride. The one you totally didn’t even think to read!

tl;dr!
This means that generally if a catastrophic accident occurred, they’re not responsible! You are! Over 90% of all accidents in amusement parks are caused by riders. Why? Because they wrote the freaking rules that way. If a seat belt breaks, it’s because you’re too fat or too skinny. If your head gets decapitated, it’s because you’re too tall or too stupid. Name any sort of incident, and they’ll figure out a way to turn it right around and make it the rider’s fault!
#2. It’s Disgusting
Six Flags is a very big place and like many big places, it’s very hard to manage and keep tidy. It doesn’t matter if you’re at Six Flags as soon as it opens at 10:30AM, you’re still going to find overflowing trashcans, benches covered in sticky soda, and wads of old gum all over tables.

And God help you if you need to use the bathroom
Remember that bit about the incompetent employees earlier? Well, it turns out that it’s not only the food that suffers because of this. Employees are not very apt to the mundane things that come with their job like picking up trash, washing tables, and cleaning up the pools of vomit everywhere. So they pretty much don’t even do it. And who’s to make them? Have you ever seen any Six Flags managers around anywhere? No one is overseeing these slackers. So naturally, no one is picking up or cleaning anything.
#1. The People of Six Flags Are The Worst
People suck. But Six Flags people suck even harder! Six Flags is a gathering spot for some of the worst kinds of human beings imaginable. It is seriously a menagerie of ugly, rude, and disgusting people.

Almost as bad as this guy
I’ve already talked briefly about the incompetent employees that generally consist of low-life teenagers and adults that have made too many bad decisions in their lives. But what about the attendees; the people that the park was made for?
Just about everything bad about Six Flags that I’ve listed is actually some of the main things that attract all the wrong people. Like the shitty food I mentioned earlier? That tends to draw in a huge crowd of fat disgusting slobs. I’m talking about the ones with cardiovascular disorder; the ones that just make you sick to even look at. You generally see them gather around in the water park areas, taking up most of the space in swimming pools. Or you see them falling out of roller coaster rides, because they’re too fucking fat to stay on, but just fat enough to be covered by the Americans With Disabilities Act so the workers can’t turn them away!
And what about the hardcore gangster thugs and the ghetto-ass hoodrats that come with them (because, you know, they’re a package deal)? For some reason, when they’re not out on the streets throwing up gang signs and living the “Hood Lyfe.” They like to take some down time and go to Six Flags to throw up their gang signs and remind everyone around them that they are from the Hood (and refuse to stay there).
And last, but not least, the most horrible people of all are the stupid people. They very well could be a combination of any of the people listed above. You know who they are, but the worst thing about them is that they don’t know who they are! They’re the ones that practically need their hands held while they navigate the park, because they can’t read a fucking map. They’re the idiots that hold up the ride, because they can’t get the damn safety devices on them right. I say just leave them and let them fall to their death! I think Charles Darwin would agree with me. He’s a pretty smart guy and everyone knows that smart people are the best people.
Ladies and gentleman, it just so happens that Mike Abiuso is a part of the latter group of people that I’ve mentioned. He’s one of the stupid people that actually enjoys the God-awful hellhole that is Six Flags – and he does it with a burning passion.