Death by Wave Pool: Brilliant Band Name, Like New Jersey’s Most Way to Die? In the trailer for Class Action Park, it is the latter. While those who went and lived to tell the story knew, Action Park was a favorite ramshackle amusement park in New Jersey that operated from 1978 to 1996 that took a less-than-structural approach to its ride construction. It inspired the 2018 Johnny Knoxville movie Action point, which mint the unfortunate history of the real park for comic inspiration. The trailer for HBO Max’s new documentary on the subject is full of house video and ad photographers of children jumping off cliffs, shooting through water slides, and ambulances always coming on the scene. While Chris Gethard quits, “no one should ever be the second person to die in a golf pool. Close the fucking wave pool!” Action Park also had, perhaps unsurprisingly, a shy, “criminal element.” Experience the happy memories when Class Action Park starts streaming on HBO Max on August 27th.
