Annette Funicello

Annette Funicello
Attractions	Annette's Diner Disney's Polynesian Village Resort Disney's Typhoon Lagoon The Great Movie Ride Mickey's House Muppet*Vision 3D Trader Sam's Enchanted Tiki Bar Trader Sam's Grog Grotto Tropical Hideaway
Biographical information
Full Name	Annette Joanne Funicello
Aliases	Pineapple Princess
Affiliation	Mickey Mouse Club
Marital status	Divorcee to Glen Holt Married to Jack Gilardi
Date of birth	October 22, 1942
Place of birth	Utica, New York, U.S.
Date of death	April 8, 2013
Place of death	Bakersfield, California, U.S.
Physical description
Species	Human
Gender	Woman
Height	5'1
Eye color	Brown

Annette Joanne Funicello (1942-2013) was an actress and singer in addition to being a former child-star who worked on the original Mickey Mouse Club. She is affiliated with the, "Beach Party" film trend and Polynesian exoticism of the mid 20th century, a trend connected to the development of Adventureland.

History

Biography

Annette Funicello was a popular singer and actress around the mid 20th century. In 1960, she released a popular album titled, "Hawaiiannette" which contained the song, "Pineapple Princess". Around the 1960s-1980s, she is implied to have been a patron of the Grog Grotto bar in the Great Ceremonial House of a Polynesian Village, run by one Trader Sam who was a fan of her music. Here, she would have been tossed into the sea on at-least one occasion resulting in Trader Sam making the bar's second house-rule, "Never throw Annette into the sea".

Jungle Cruise appearances

Trader Sam's

Trader Sam's Enchanted Tiki Bar

Sam has a sleeve for Hawaiiannette (1960) on display in his bar's cabinet.

Trader Sam's Grog Grotto

Rule 2 of Trader Sam's Grog Grotto is, "Never throw Annette into the sea", implicating Annette as having been a customer of Sam's bar.

Tropical Hideaway

Rosita references Annette in her spiel, saying she feels like, "A Pineapple Princess perched on a net". This alludes to Anette's 1960 song Pineapple Princess though the reference might be anachronistic given the 1936/1938 setting which Disneyland's Adventureland uses.

Other connections

Disney's Polynesian Village Resort

In a cabinet of Polynesian gimmicked memorabilia is a cover for Hawaiiannette next to artwork of the Enchanted Tiki Room.

The Great Movie Ride

Annette's handprints from the May 1st of 1989 are outside of the Chinese Theatre.

Other appearances

Annette's Diner

Annette is namesake of this retro-themed diner in Disneyland Paris.

Disney's Typhoon Lagoon

A poster for the fictional Beach Party film, "Bikini Beach Blanket Muscle Party Bingo" mentions having an actress named, " Annette Crocochello".

Mickey's House

Annette appears as a child in a group photo of the Mickey Mouse Club, framed in Mickey's home.

Muppet*Vision 3D

Annette is referenced in the queue for this attraction where the Muppets Studio in Hollywood contains, "A net full a' jello".

Trivia

• In the Jungle Cruise, Annette's frequent co-star Tommy Kirk is referenced in the Amazon River Base as, "Thomas Kirk, Esq.", a cartographer on the fictional island of Bora Danno. He is referenced alongside his actor Merlin Jones from the film The Misadventures of Merlin Jones (1964) which Annette acted in as Merlin's girlfriend Jennifer.
• One of the chimpanzees is often nicknamed, "Annette" due to holding a butterfly-net.