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Post by Joe Neglia on Jun 12, 2020 0:35:44 GMT -5
I’ve never figured out who, but Matt Groening said that an artist told him his deepest secret is he performed all the music for the Chuck E. Cheese Band. Gordon Lightfoot. Source? Not finding anything via Google regarding that.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Jun 12, 2020 0:40:12 GMT -5
Source? Not finding anything via Google regarding that. I’ve Googled it too. Never found anything. Or any hints. The closest hint I could get at is someone who was on the Simpsons, but Groening has his own band, so who knows who he’s met in the wild?
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Post by Malcolm on Jun 12, 2020 1:12:31 GMT -5
Damn.
And I wanted to take my nephews someday.
At least there's still Peter Piper's here in LV.
I said it before and I'll say it again: the shareholder model of doing business either needs a complete overhaul or it needs to f***ing die.
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Post by Welfare Willis on Jun 12, 2020 1:37:27 GMT -5
I just turned 39. Am I old enough to blame Generation Z for this like baby boomers blame us?
Damn kids playing on your youtubes and not wanting to eat crappy pizza and play in dirty ball pits (I know they got rid of the ball pits).
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Post by Long A, Short A on Jun 12, 2020 1:58:12 GMT -5
I wondered how tey were still in business back in the 00's. Close to two hundred dollars for a kid's party seemed steep as hell to me.(Granted, I just wanted a birthday that was thrown for me and not my mom) Maybe they should have embrased their impromptu fight club reputation...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2020 3:31:48 GMT -5
Chuck E. Cheese has gotta be near the top of the list of “places I’ve heard about the most, but actually seen the least”. I’m pretty sure in all of my years, I’ve actually only seen a Chuck E. Cheese once.
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Post by Mike Strike on Jun 12, 2020 6:26:08 GMT -5
Chuck E. Cheese was created to be a place for Atari to host their arcade games. The death of arcades meant the death of CEC.
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Post by MC Blowfish on Jun 12, 2020 7:16:17 GMT -5
We have one here and it's always busy on the weekends. My son has been there a few times for birthday parties and always enjoyed himself. I also think they are facing more competition with trampoline places that have more activities.
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Post by Paul on Jun 12, 2020 7:59:57 GMT -5
Damn. And I wanted to take my nephews someday. At least there's still Peter Piper's here in LV. I said it before and I'll say it again: the shareholder model of doing business either needs a complete overhaul or it needs to f***ing die. Funnily enough, Chuck E. Cheese owns Peter Piper's Pizza...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2020 8:20:15 GMT -5
I didn't even know it was still around. I have lived all over the country (and outside of it) and have not seen a Chuck E Cheese anywhere since the 90's.
Dave and Busters is better anyway.
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Jun 12, 2020 8:31:11 GMT -5
Needs more robots. Kids love robots, adults who never grew up.... like me love robots. Why did they pivot away from robots?
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Post by Bub (BLM) on Jun 12, 2020 8:36:34 GMT -5
Not sure what else they could have done to save money. They've already been making the pizza out of recycled cardboard.
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Post by jason1980s on Jun 12, 2020 8:40:44 GMT -5
I just turned 39. Am I old enough to blame Generation Z for this like baby boomers blame us? Damn kids playing on your youtubes and not wanting to eat crappy pizza and play in dirty ball pits (I know they got rid of the ball pits). I actually had a few slices of their pizza a few weeks ago and really enjoyed it. I was surprised when I found out it was from Chuck E Cheeses. I like pizza that has a thinner crust but the top is more filled than a normal thin crust pizza as in Dominos or Ledo. I also think the new generation with the iphones and such are a reason CEC is losing business but kids are growing up so much faster because of so many different issues going on in the world. I was never much of a game player and preferred a kid's place with a larger amount of play places than games, such as Discovery Zone or these two different ones in the same place at a local mall in the late 1990s.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2020 9:27:41 GMT -5
Source? Not finding anything via Google regarding that. It was a joke from the "Radio Bart" DVD commentary, since they wanted to do "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" instead of "Convoy" as the song Homer sings on the toy radio, but after they found out Lightfoot gave the rights to said song to every survivor of the shipwreck, they were forced to pass on it as you would have to get the approval from every family to legally use the song (or so they said). Matt used Gordon's name as a joke since they were still bitter about the ordeal years later.
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Jun 12, 2020 9:28:46 GMT -5
Both Chuck E. Cheese and Discovery Zone in Winnipeg closed down 15ish years ago. Kinda assumed they had died off everywhere
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Post by Eunös ✈ on Jun 12, 2020 10:39:11 GMT -5
Being British we never had Chuck E Cheese over here.
There was one when I stayed in Florida back in 2000 though never went in.
Only time I went into one was in Dubai in the UAE.
I'm sure if I had grown up in America I would have loved the place.
Oh well.
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Post by Malcolm on Jun 12, 2020 11:07:27 GMT -5
Damn. And I wanted to take my nephews someday. At least there's still Peter Piper's here in LV. I said it before and I'll say it again: the shareholder model of doing business either needs a complete overhaul or it needs to f***ing die. Funnily enough, Chuck E. Cheese owns Peter Piper's Pizza... ...Aw, dammit...
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Post by Jaws the Shark on Jun 12, 2020 11:19:05 GMT -5
As a Brit I'm surprised a chain casual dining restaurant lasted so long. Ours seem to change every few years (except the big multinationals like Pizza Hut and TGI Fridays), although they're all owned by the same companies. When I was a kid there was Deep Pan Pizza (which to be fair I enjoyed immensely) and Fatty Arbuckle's, which were replaced by Frankie & Benny's, which is now on the brink of going bust and will probably be replaced by another chain, and the slightly sub-par casual dining wheel will continue turning until the end of time.
I am forever grateful to Chuck E. Cheese for inspiring the hysterical Wall E. Weasel scene from The Simpsons, though.
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Post by Ronny Rayguns Is All Elite on Jun 12, 2020 15:17:51 GMT -5
Aww man, that was THE cool spot to have your B-day party when I was 5
shocked they managed to stay afloat this long
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Post by Feyrhausen on Jun 12, 2020 19:51:03 GMT -5
I just turned 39. Am I old enough to blame Generation Z for this like baby boomers blame us? Damn kids playing on your youtubes and not wanting to eat crappy pizza and play in dirty ball pits (I know they got rid of the ball pits). I actually had a few slices of their pizza a few weeks ago and really enjoyed it. I was surprised when I found out it was from Chuck E Cheeses. I like pizza that has a thinner crust but the top is more filled than a normal thin crust pizza as in Dominos or Ledo. I also think the new generation with the iphones and such are a reason CEC is losing business but kids are growing up so much faster because of so many different issues going on in the world. I was never much of a game player and preferred a kid's place with a larger amount of play places than games, such as Discovery Zone or these two different ones in the same place at a local mall in the late 1990s. As I said in an earlier post Chuck E Cheese is so broke is because of a predatory equity firm buying them out with leveraged debt. Companies in that position are very vulnerable to any loss of business. Like the virus.
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