The Strange History of Chuck E. Cheese
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- The Strange History of Chuck E. Cheese [ft. @ManyKudos and @JamesMiller69 ]
Most of us spent our childhoods at Chuck E. Cheese. Wolfing down a hot plate of 'za, slurping down copious amounts of Mr. Pibb while we waited for the lines to clear up for the token pusher.
The history of Chuck E Cheese is a strange one, but it's more so what he became after years of success that really makes this story strange.
Grab a fist full of cheesy bread, and let's take a dive into the strange history of Chuck. E Cheese.
Big thanks to my BOYS @ManyKudos and @JamesMiller69 for hopping in the hot tub time machine to help out with this viddy. Please go subscribe to them because they are cool and i love them tysm
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thanks for watching! if you enjoyed it, please consider subscribing! also check out this one i did on Ronald McDonald: ua-cam.com/video/iDNILNNVzy8/v-deo.html
i do not approve of you having this weird white T-shirt. I want my money back.
@@salis-salis lol my interdimensional portal shirt was at the drycleaners. next one for sure!
@@doplextv u better!
I certainly did subscribe! Glad the algorithm brought me here finally!
I agree I don't like what I mean so you design one with the cap and we had before this new one I like that one better I wish they didn't have to change it
Imagine being 5 and dancing with the rat. Life is good, homework isn't a thing yet and your rubbish artwork is on the fridge. Then Chuck slips, time slows and you look over. The Rat's head is rolling on the floor. Chuck is dead and your dancing killed him.
hahah i think that is the moment you slip into the narrow crack of reality, and fall into the pit of despair that is adult hood
...
*what the fuck*
Lol
I have an inclination that you're slowly rising into a niche, fast food history channel and I'm actually here for it!
hahah it’s a weird niche but it’s one that needs filling! thanks Alex!
Keep it coming dude, I agree with Alex here!!!!
@@Zerinity42 thanks so much!!
"He attended AA meetings, got his sobriety chip, and was granted visitation rights to see his disgusting rat family"
This is canon
hahah and if it wasn't canon before, it is now. i'm writing it in.
This is the way
ur too young homie, everything and everyone from the 80s is an ex smoker...
hahah good point good point
To add onto your “it must suck to lose your job to a musical number” it’s even worse when you remember they didn’t even finish it, he lost his job because he didn’t sing well enough in a failed animation, that’s a feels bad man
hahah holy spit, i didn’t even think about that. yeah wow that makes it even worse F in the chat :(
I thankfully avoided ever being near that rat. Not a slice of Chucks pizza consumed. My slate is clean.
bro you’re missing out on the best sugary cardboard pizza money can buy!
@@doplextv the conspiracy that they reuse pizza slices from tables that didn’t finish theirs was enough to keep me away.
we never had them here in Sweden.... ffs we hardly even have Starbucks... we make food at home. Food at home: yes they do.
edit: we do have heroin behind the Circle K tho
@@AndrewMillerYT it was proven bullshit by matpat the pizza still looks weird even though its carry out only
@@signs4407 AND they even showed a video of them cutting the pizza.
I wouldn't hesitate to throw hands with Charles Entertainment Cheese, fnaf has made me not trust the rat
yeah same lol. although his speed and agility are unmatched!
@@doplextv after inevitably losing to Chuck he will banish you to the ticket muncher
Or he beats you at yugioh
I'm a 2004 baby and I grew up with Chuck E Cheese up until I was around 12 or 13 years old. Chuck E Cheese made many fun childhood memories I hold dearly today since it would usually be my grandma I wouldn't see too often take me there either with my little brother and occasionally my best friend would tag along. Even though the most I ever got was 1000 tickets I still remember wishing for those big prizes yet only afford an unhealthy amount of candy and a plastic slinky. Great video Doplex! Watching your videos are always a treat & inspire me to try being a youtuber. Keep it up dude, you're doing great things :)
ah that’s sweet haha, that just goes to show that chuck e. cheese transcends the 90s and memories were made well after that. thanks bud, i believe in ya!
I won over 1000 tickets at Dave n Busters
the pin point impression toy needle art frame was my peak in childhood
bro i know, every kid had like 10 of them for no good reason
*Squeek squeek*
Seriously tho, this video was amazing and was really the first time I knew Chuck on a personal level, as if I shared a home with him. Sad to know Chuck E Cheese probably won't come to the UK, even though he has the same amount of teeth as the average Bri'ish person.
thanks loon! glad you could experience it vicariously through my retelling of his history lol. you could always do one of those VR experiences lmao
the very first charles cheese looked like a fish that you reeled in too fast
hahah holy shit he totally did
The UA-cam algorithm sure knows how to get suggestions right lately.
i'm so glad! cuz it brought you to my unnecessary video essay on a pizza rat!
thanks for watching, my friend
How dare you have such good editing
how dare you leave such a nice comment. makin me feel all happy and shit
Actually, the chuck e cheese characters werent more marketable. showbiz didnt actually own the copyright to the rockafire explosion, and when they went to creative engineering the actual copyright holders, they wanted to take the characters and give them basically nothing in return, which of course creative engineering disagreed to. so they were basically forced to use the chuck e cheese characters for the rest of eternity
This was recommended to me on my google explore page on the homescreen of my phone
yooo google putting in work for me! lol
9:04 it's more scary than fnaf, and those characters are BASED off these family friendly pizza parlors.
right?? i think it’s the necks
@@doplextv the face just stares into your soul and i hate it
Why didn’t you add that they had a twitch channel and Chuck E. Cheese said poggers?
I FORGOT ABOUT THAT god dammit lol
WHAT?! FUCKING W H A T ? !
@@Galaxy--Bug Yeah to matters funnier they hosted a streamer named Jerma, they instantly regretted it cause Jermas fans started memeing it by like photoshopping jerma making out with him. Honestly that was a strange experience.
@@baddgerpaw I... I need a minute to process that.
I absolutely loved this, great job! I appreciate the shoutout to the tiny Chuck E. fandom because I’ve been one of those weirdos for the past decade lmao. Definitely going to subscribe.
thank you so much! haha hey to each their own, i can see the appeal but i myself have a deathly fear of animatronics but the nostalgia is definitely there. appreciate you giving it a watch and deciding to stick around, it means a lot!
man I havent had cable TV since 2011, So I had absolutely no idea that there was a redesign in 2012 to make him all sleek and pixar looking. you just blew my mind.
haha it’s okay, i barely knew about either til recently. it’s pretty nuts and a massive change from the iconic rat
What kind of animal does this much research on Chuck E. Cheese....
Only to reveal the existence of animals that don't need to research Chuck E. Cheese because apparently they're passionate about the lore or something.
Anyway, Dop(e) video Lex
haha an animal like me! yeah it’s pretty wild but that’s what they call a *twist* in show biz..pizza.
thank you king daniel 🙏🏼
Another video only a month after the previous one? My, you're spoiling us!
right?? tbh i had this video nearly done for the last two and a half weeks but work got crazy so here we are lol. thanks for watching!
@@doplextv I see you've cuckolded your fanbase into thinking one video a month is some sort of treat for them, truly evil stuff
@@TheFirstPodcast it’s not easy being sleazy
“The chuck that fucks”
“Avenger chuck”
“Thumb chuck”
These names are insane
Avenger Chuck is one of the actual names for said era of CEC :)
Can we get a let's play from you of five nights please? thanks
coming right up! lol
Yo...that Jurassic Park arcade they got is BANGER!!! Fuck winning prizes. I wasted ALL my tokens on that shit.
hahah bro totally! as i got older i stopped worrying about prizes and more about the solid choices they had
Wtf they made five night at freddys a real thing ?
yeah it’s a neat little pop up for the most hardcore FNAF fans!
I hated watching American TV from my small town and seeing chuck e cheese commercials. How can y'all have that down there and be as angry as you are.
hahah that’s what i’m saying! although chuck e. cheese is generally an angry place these days for god knows why
This channel deserves so many more views and likes then its getting rn, like this is INCREDIBLE WORK
ah thank you so much! i really appreciate that!
9:23, not entirely true. They rebranded all restaurants to Chuck E. Cheese because they didn’t own the rights to the showbiz characters, and would have been an extra expense. With the merger, the company acquired the names to the Chuck E Cheese characters. The new merged business also wanted to pump out shows in volume rather than take time perfecting it, creative engineering (Rock Afire creator) had the complete opposing view wanting quality over quantity, the relationship soured and Creative Engineering was essentially axed from the company
Always have been a huge fan of CEC for a long time, history, characters, everything about it, nowadays it's just not what it used to be, sure, but it's always been one of my biggest interest and it's nice seeing bigger channels like this show people a little bit of the history, too bad fnaf has soiled it's reputation with most people, but there is a fanbase out there that truly loves this stuff, myself included, nice vid!
that’s awesome! it’s so cool to get the perspective from someone who is a big fan of the characters! yeah it’s pretty interesting how it has such a diehard fan base, and a deep history. so glad you enjoyed the vid!
@@electricfishfan nice, I actually do love a few of the fnaf games for what they are, its just the bad rep it gave cec although im glad that many fnaf fans take the time to look back at stuff like this lol
We've all seen the Ninja Turtles movie, arcades were just like the foot clan hangout in the 80s
it was my DREAM to live in a place like the foot clan hide out
Yoooo Hope you’re doing well great content right there.
thanks so much! all good here, hope you’re doing fantastic!
Another great vid content getting better and better cheers from Australia
thanks so much!!
Oh my GOD, how am I just seeing this now? I was watching your old videos and when I discovered this one, I freaked out lol. I don't know how to put this into words, but I'm going to try.
When I found your channel (thanks to Bowblax for tweeting out your Ronald McDonald video), it felt like I'd finally found the type of content I've always needed. Ever since I was a kid, this is my shit. This, all of it, the subject matter, the aesthetic, the humor, the entire existence of this internal universe. I know I probably sound like a crazy person lol, but that's alright.
Hopefully someone understands at least some of what I'm trying to say. Thank you, doplex, for everything. Please keep making videos. If I'm ever in the position to be able to be a patron, I will do so with happiness. The world needs more people like you. 🖤💜❤
this is easily one the nicest comments i’ve ever gotten, truly. i can’t even begin to thank you for watching my stuff, sticking around and supporting what i do. your kind words mean the world, so THANK YOU. 👑
@@doplextv, awww man! That's so sweet. I'm glad that you appreciated what I had to say. I almost back-spaced the whole comment out and was just going to forget about it, but I'm glad that I didn't. I'll definitely be watching your videos as long as you keep making them, and rewatching the old ones. Thank you again. 🖤❤💜
THE SLIGHTLY UN-SYNCHRONIZED BLINKING
ITS UNSETTLING
I have no idea where this channel is going but I like it
haha well stick around to find out! might be going straight into the recycling bin!
jk i appreciate ya
I don't feel so safe in Mr. Cheese's safe place...
(and I declare you and ManyKudos the holy binity of cool 90's shirts)
i think that’s the intended effect! keep you on edge so you think you’re having fun!
haha thank you, we do be runnin in the 90’s
I went there a couple times. The pizza’s pretty good, but I could never shake off the feeling that I was about to be murdered on the spot. It’s not even because I’m an avid fnaf fan, the place was just that dodgy.
yeah totally, that was just part of the experience though. eat ‘za, get shot. it’s give and take ya know
The UA-cam videos of kids who were (in theory) dancing alone but wearing Christmas themed masks is killing me lmao
11:41 the curtains..... one time i was watching the animatronics and they shut down mid act.... i saw them each do their “death pose”
I knew what i had saw, and the dark reality of what the curtain actually was.... these images bring back my thoughts in that moment
Chuck E. Cheese is dead. Hes dead and not coming back.
Thank you Jesus its over.
until he rises from his grave and becomes a dave and busters
I love these kinds of videos
I actually am working on a VR Chuck E. Cheese's with some friends, been working on it since January.
oh no way, that's awesome! i'd love to check that out haha
Every time I see an animal animatronic, I have this deep instinctual desire to take any object around me and just beat the everliving shit out of it. Something about them is just utterly unholy.
oh same! you ever been to rainforest cafe? i get vietnam flashbacks while trying to enjoy my cold pasta
12:30 You re sleepin on the SFA 3 MAX for PSP. Love that game, it has a huge roster, and its SFA 3! And that MK:A for Wii has the unique Khameleon, a female Ninja changey thing. I like MK:A just the dial a fatality sucks
dude when i was in HS, that was my go to PSP game lol. and i LOVE MK: A on the wii, even though people say it was the worst one. i think i just liked the novelty of it.
@@doplextv The size of the MK:A roster was mind blowing at the time. I still appreciate it.
Tiny Chuck is the least horrible design, change my mind
he is the size of a RAT. not a big cute oaf like before. A RAT
@@doplextv he had never been "cute" previous to that design😂
Doplex has me out here mourning the slow demise of a franchise I didn't even experience. 😔
Hey. I grew up with Cool/Avenger Chuck but became a fan because of Rockstar Chuck; I think this fandom actually shuns casual fans.
Fuck E. Feces, bruh I’m dead. Again, this series is amazing
hahah glad you liked that. thank you queen doe!
Just found this channel. You're funny af my dude. You're like if paymoneywubby actually put effort in. And wasn't fat. =P
hahah wow thanks so much!! can’t fully agree with that last part though cuz ya boy has put on some quarantine weight
Watching the Doplex episode a week later, i must be early
Rock Chuck sucks. Rock Chuck sucks. Rock Chuck SUCKS. BOOOO! I grew up with Avenger Chuck and Cool Chuck, bring him back.
avenger chuck is easily the best chuck. PERIOD
The rise and fall of a powerful rat
some say he was even.. a god 😳
Grade A video thanks for the entertaining content .
thanks so much!!
Right now this is Dope(lex)
and right now this is Cord(wit)
that doesn’t work :( but thank you king!
I've never even been in Chuck E Chese restaurant and this video somehow made me feel sad and nostalgic.
then my job here is complete!
oh my god my 90s childhood....my 90s childhoooood....EXISTENTIAL CRISES INTENSIFYING! I feel so OLLLLDDDDD!!!! WHYYYY?!....it's ok...I'm ok.....I AM NOT OKAY!!!!! *confused screeching*
Side Note: Oh man, Imagine being so good at inventing that "inventor extraordinaire" is what the tv programs choose to put under your name during interviews.
i really enjoyed this video. i wish scott cawthon and chucky cheese could team up and make a horror themed pizzeria like fnaf.
haha i would completely disregard my fear of animatronics and eat there
@@doplextv same here
HAHA!! "It's stupid, but it was the 70's."
Oh dang a Doplex video! In today's climate?? SICK!
despite the economy, i uploaded!! oh no i think i just caused a stock market crash
Man I love your aesthetic. If google glass comes back and becomes a thing I’d want an extension that lets me see the world the way your videos are produced.
Bruh I have a picture of me and Chuck...I felt so akward when I took a picture with that guy
the awkwardness was just part of the experience!
This guy really copied five nights at Freddy's but with other animatronics sad
NINTENDO HIRE THIS MAN
Black plague bandit sounds like a good username.
hahah or a good band name
...and they say fnaf isn't real.
they made fnaf into a real thing!!
Officially watched your entire backlog, all gold. I'm here for the rest of the ride.
i can’t even begin to explain how much i appreciate you taking the time to do that lol. thank you!
Man, I always thought it would be gnarly to have a cocaine fueled, neon laced psilocybin psychedelic adventure through a 90's era Chuck E. Cheese. I was born in 1992, so my childhood Chuck E. Cheese runs unfortunately did not include this.
Can you make a video on the history of Showbiz Pizza and Creative Engineering Inc. ? There is a lot of info on UA-cam, Wikipedia and Showbizpizza.com
The big C? Yeah not touching that
they knew what they were doing
Damn I didn’t think your channel was like this comin from Inside G. Awesome. Subbed
When I was growing up, my parents told me you could only go to Chuck E Cheese if it was your birthday. Nah, turns out you can just show up whenever and play ski-ball or whatever. I’ve felt lied to ever since I learned that.
Little update: about a week ago Chuck E Cheese's parent company emerged from bankruptcy. Ricky Rat isn't dead yet.
avenger chuck was my favorite infinity wars character
same, he was robbed of his part in the subsequent films /:
would i rather do dope or watch doplex? i choose doplex!
why not both! jk don’t 😳 but thank you! lol
@@doplextv you stole my comment idea :(
Damn I guess Jasper T Jowls is my legal chuck n fuck fursona
hahaha i’ll be mr. munch
Chuck e cheese's fourth recognizable rodent of human fiction culture
I feel like the restaurant could maybe make a comeback if it leaned into the new image of animatronics ala FNaF given its popularity, though on the other hand I doubt parents would take kids to a horror themed, or even just a goofy haunted house themed restaurant so yeah, the Chuck is just fucked.
Such a great vid, I really enjoy what you're doing here, never stop!
thanks so much! that means a lot, i will continue to do whatever it is i’m doing here until my body eventually gives out under the pressure of youtube’s algorithm lol
Chuck E cheese, is my favourite entertainment centre. And I will fight anyone who calls it a restaurant
what's the outro music, I really want to know
it’s The Way U Move off of Killer Cuts (Killer Instinct OST) ! a banger for the ages
@@doplextv thanks man, and keep putting out great stuff!
I am Gen Z and I went to my local Chuck e cheese until it closed. I was given wall art of Chuck E Cheese as Spider-Man and the shirt from the mascot costume. I was also one of those die-hard fans too. Seeing this video gave me nostalgia of those days. Also you missed the perfect chance to talk about Dolli Dimples, a character with a chest movement and got "hot and bothered" by her audience. I feel like you could have done something with that, but I understand the need to keep the video focused. As a former Chuck E Cheese die-hard, I know the rabbit hole goes DEEP
Why are you so funny?
i’m not, just funny looking lol but thank you!
What's the music used in the intro if I may ask?
during the 3D it’s an old jingle used in Hey Arnold! i forget the name though haha
Cheesy Charles, nightmare come to life
they’re built on nightmares!
I remember never going there because of my crybaby sister with my mom but with my dad it was like every other weekend but my sister still cry and be scared until she was 6 or 7 i still remember that i hate her for it
He thought we wouldn’t notice he used the boneworks soundtrack in the intro, I’m onto you
They got rid of all the games that had ANY violence(tame stuff like the simpsons arcade game) in the early 2000s and focused on only shitty ticket games. That's what killed them
Welll, I played a game in there once where you shoot dinosaurs, and the main character swore, so I wouldn’t say they got rid of it completely.
@@crowMilatonin prolly something the franchise owner brought in. I've got 7 bros and sisters so tons of nephews and nieces and haven't seen anything but DDR or that sega firefighting game since like 03, and that's chuck e cheeses in 3 different states
i do remember that yeah. however, my local chuck e cheese swapped them out with fairly decent stuff. i remember playing hydro thunder which was loads of fun
I found this video when randomly scrolling threw google
THROUGH GOOGLE?? yoo i am the internet now
The Chuck E. Cheese I went to had the old Chuck costume until just a few years ago.
that's so awesome. i wonder if they're one of the locations that refused to make the switch haha
@@doplextv they must've been. I remember the old animatronic band onstage as well
Man this one hit me in the feels real hard.
glad i could nip at your heart strings like a rat nipping at the pizza crust ✨
AY! It's Doplex Time!
ayyy unfortunately!
Oh Jesus I didn't know modern chuck e cheese wears boot cuts
What's your favorite food
i really like to eat my own feelings but sushi is a close second!
Really digging your content doplex!
whats a man gotta do to get some cool chuck
i'm tryna get some of that thumb chuck
I wish Elon's son was named entertainment instead of binary code
he’s really missing out on a golden opportunity. who knows, Elon may read your comment and consider it
@@doplextv He could always name his next child Entertainment
You forgot to mention that fnaf was inspired by a shooting in 1987 which killed 4 kids
Oh yeah and that the animatronics have no turn off mode for when a kid is on stage so they can actually maul kids
Chucky is also scary
damn i did not know that lmao. what i do know is that chuck is indeed scary
The Sonic music really fits
Around here in NW Indiana, we had Celebration Station, but pretty much the same thing. I remember the ball pit aka the birthplace of super AIDS, Mega-Rona, and just general nastiness. They also had MK 1 and 2, and that weird Sega Hologram Time Traveler game. Now Ive made myself sad with how old I am. We also had a place called Wrights Barnyard (One in Lansing IL, and I know there was one in Hobart/Merrillville, IN, and I found one years later by the Crestwood Ice Arena, I believe it was technically Alsip, IL - all the places I mention are just Chicago area)which was somewhat similar but no animatronics, but had batting cages, go-karts, a pretty good mini-golf, and a good arcade. Later, it was renamed DZ Junctions (DZ = Discovery Zone, another kids place we had that was pretty cool).
Doplex and ManyKudos, the ultimate crossover!
Alright, one more thing then my old ass will shut up - Best place of all these types of places was Photon (Doplex, Im telling you theres a gold mine here, place was way cool.). It was Lazer Tag but waaaay better stuff, and it actually worked. It was such a cool place. The one I went to was in Harvey I think, its right on the border of a few places but it was next to the Harvey Expo Center, which later in life (early/mid 00's) we would go to "Cold Chillin"- a rave with Vanilla Ice playing live - yes! That same Photon would later become a strip club called Club O, and they even had some of the main playing field still up (the was a "base" of sorts for each team, and you wanted to get over there and shoot it for like 300 points, it was a half plastic dome with LED lights - either green or red depending on what team's base). When we were waiting to get into the rave/concert the strippers going in and out of Club O would raise there tiny skirts and flash their ass for the crowd, which was appreciated as it wasnt too bad of a club...Now Cowboys down the street is another story.
haha man thank you for educating me on east coast amusement! here on the west coast we have the most basic shit for easy entertainment but all that stuff you listed sounds cool as hell.
i’m gonna have to do some research lol
@@doplextv Photon was really cool. You signed in with a nickname or handle (mine was OverKill cuz I liked the GI Joe of the same name, and I thought it was a cool name).Then you wait with your team in a small area and they would be playing the Terminator theme. There was a catwalk you could watch the match from. The one I went to had a pretty solid little arcade - Double Dragon/MK1-2/ A 4 game Neo Geo / Pit Fighter. I looked up a few things and saw that Celebration Station was a nationwide company, or at least more than the Midwest. Toward the end of Wrights Barnyards (It was DZ's Country Junction by then)they would have a special where all the arcade games were 1 token, which was great. It was either the Summer or Winter, cant remember which one. we would play the hell out of the Star Wars Trilogy Arcade by Sega, House Of The Dead 2, Tekken Tag (the model with the bigger screen) and - now this is something else you could look up - this Uncle Fester/Adams Family "Game" where you grab there 2 metal rods standing vertically up and you had to hold on to them while it "electrocuted" you, which was just the rod shaking very very quickly so it felt that way. We would always make the new person that came with us for the 1st time do it. Ive looked it up here on YT before, it was a unique arcade machine.
I think they wanted to compete with Sonic the hedgehog
I told my parents to stop taking me to chuck e. cheese when I was 7 because the mascot creeped the fuck out of me and still does to this day. fucking thing is unnatural
hahah i think it’s the fact it doesn’t blink 😳
The company man sees you
i love company man so i hope he does