“Pretzel Und Beer!" Stacy is Back at Must-Do Disney
If you visited Walt Disney World anytime between roughly 2005 and the late 2010s, you know the ritual.
Stacy J. Aswad will host an all-new "Must-Dos" resort TV loop at Walt Disney World
You finally arrive at your resort hotel. You are hot, tired from travel, and desperate to drop your bags. You open the door to your room—whether it was All-Star Movies or the Grand Floridian—and the rush of industrial-strength air conditioning hits you. You find the remote, and immediately turn on the TV.
You don't look for the news. You don't look for cartoons. You look for The Channel.
And there she was. Stacy!
When the news dropped recently that Disney is bringing back Stacy J. Aswad to host an all-new "Must-Dos" resort TV loop, I am not embarrassed to admit I audibly gasped.
For a specific generation of Disney travelers—my generation—Stacy was an unofficial member of our family vacation.
She wasn't just a TV host telling us to go ride Soarin’; she was the ambient soundtrack of our entire trip.
The nostalgia hits me like a ton of bricks just thinking about it. It’s the mid-2000s. We are running on coffee and paper FastPasses (that were free by the way).
The parks felt a little simpler then, a little more spontaneous. And the anchor of it all was that hotel room TV loop.
We left the TV on 24/7. I’m serious. We’d wake up, and Stacy would be there, standing awkwardly with Goofy, getting us hyped for rope drop. We’d come back for a midday nap, the room freezing cold and dark, and her energetic voice would act as a comforting nightlight.
We’d fall asleep at night after fireworks to the gentle glow of her eating a pretzle in Germany at Epcot.
We knew that loop by heart. We anticipated every line. We shouted them at the screen.
“There doesn’t seem to be any track!”
"It’s a spicy meatball!" “There doesn’t seem to be any track!” The way she emphasized getting soaked on Splash Mountain.
The sheer enthusiasm for everything from thrill rides to relaxing by the pool.
It was cheesy, yes. It was incredibly repetitive, absolutely. But it was ours. It was a shared language among Disney fans.
If you knew about the "Stacy loop," you were part of the club.
When Disney quietly phased her out a few years ago for more generic, polished promotional loops, the resort experience lost a little bit of its soul.
The rooms felt quieter. The new loops were informative, sure, but they lacked that quirky, earnest energy that Stacy brought.
They felt like commercials; Stacy felt like a friend giving you advice.
That is why her return is such a brilliant move by Disney right now.
Lately, it feels like Disney is finally understanding the assignment when it comes to nostalgia. They are realizing that the 2000s are distant enough now to be cherished. Even the 2026 merch has that early 2000’s look, you can see a preview here.
They seem to understand that many of us are longing for a time at the parks when things felt like they were just working well.
A time before park reservations and complicated apps, when the magic felt a little more accessible.
By bringing Stacy back, Disney is tapping directly into that vein of positive memory. It’s a small gesture, practically speaking—it’s just a TV loop in a hotel room. But emotionally? It’s huge.
It’s Disney saying, "We know you miss the vibe of that era. We miss it too. Here’s a piece of it back."
It’s comforting. It’s familiar. And honestly, it’s just fun.
I don't know what the new loop will look like. I assume the video quality will be better than the standard-definition fuzz of 2008.
But I hope the energy is exactly the same.
It’s good to have her back.
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