[HN Gopher] Chuck E. Cheese's animatronics band bows out
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Chuck E. Cheese's animatronics band bows out
Author : pseudolus
Score : 55 points
Date : 2024-12-03 11:18 UTC (5 days ago)
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| tracerbulletx wrote:
| Anybody vaguely interested in this story would probably enjoy
| this documentary about the the direct ancestor of this band.
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTmhS6hcY-A
| sitkack wrote:
| Let this be a warning in what your children get exposed to,
| they could be making a documentary in their 30s or 40s. /s
|
| These kids had an existential experience triggered by
| animatronic band. It was sweet to see how honest they were.
| prettyStandard wrote:
| I'm getting some real country bear jamboree vibes from that bear.
| Jgrubb wrote:
| ...which, my wife tells me, has also seen an overhaul lately.
| Isamu wrote:
| Easily the worst pizza I've ever eaten anywhere, the poorest
| quality control ever. But the kids had fun.
| notyourwork wrote:
| Not sure why there would be any surprise. They aren't in the
| pizza business. They are in the waste children's time business.
| sokoloff wrote:
| Nate Bargatze has a pretty good bit on Chuck E Cheese:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHrcGFKgWGY
| seism wrote:
| As did John Oliver
| https://youtu.be/3v6y2pY1pZ0?si=0SBXDOD025rM55dB
| dannyphantom wrote:
| I was probably around ~5(ish) years old when I went to Chuck E.
| Cheese for a birthday party; distinctly remember disliking the
| pizza (and cheese, by extension) so much that I thought I
| *hated* pizza altogether until I was ~16(ish) and started
| working at a local pizza place in town called Valeos where we'd
| get a free 16in to take home after every shift. I still use
| their sauce recipe to this day it's literally so good!
|
| At the time, I think a friends mom [jokingly] said the pizza
| was 'cardboard' and I began crying as I genuinely believed it
| was actual cardboard
| irrational wrote:
| Are you able or willing to share the sauce recipe?
| dannyphantom wrote:
| absolutely :)
|
| [we were a thin-crust only type of place; we also used a
| little handful of cornmeal as it was placed in the brick
| oven to prevent the crust from sticking - it adds a little
| extra flavor and texture to the pizza :)]
|
| In a pot, placed on medium-heat on the stove top, add:
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| - 2tbsp EVOO
|
| - two twigs of fresh oregano, crushed or finely chopped (to
| express the oils in the plant)
|
| - 1/4 white onion, minced very finely
|
| - 1/4 yellow onion, minced very finely
|
| - 2-3 squished cloves of roasted garlic (cut the top part
| from a bulb of garlic, add some EVOO and bake @ 400 for
| ~30(ish) minutes; be sure to do it in foil or the ceramic
| baking dishes for roasting garlic!)
|
| - 1tbsp of salt mixed with black pepper and crushed red
| pepper flakes
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| Until onions are translucent and aromatic
|
| Then add:
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| - 1 large can of Cento-brand peeled San Marzano tomatoes
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| Stir intermittently until sauce develops a deep red color
| and you can use it right away or keep it in the fridge!
|
| - As it cools, add in a handful (1/4 cup) of freshly
| crumbled Parmesan cheese (you could see the cheese chunks
| as we applied the sauce to the dough so they weren't large
| pieces but little(ish) crumbles)
|
| Hope you enjoy it!! :)
| hinkley wrote:
| I was so excited to be invited to my first party there. The
| pizza was a huge letdown, and Pizza Hut was the best thing I
| experienced for many, many years, followed by Godfather's.
| Chuck E. Cheese wasn't even on the list. But I sure had fun on
| the video games and ski ball.
| Fwirt wrote:
| Oddly enough, Chuck E Cheese has been trying to "rebrand"
| itself since COVID. During the pandemic they actually operated
| as a shadow kitchen pizza chain and possibly as a result, the
| quality of their pizza (at least at our local restaurant) has
| substantially improved, to the point that I would rank it above
| a couple other nationwide chains. The atmosphere is very
| different from the dark, grody, funky 1980s rat pizza
| restaurant, and is now a loud party atmosphere with TV screens
| constantly blasting kiddie music videos. They've shifted their
| age demographic from "family" to "kids", and their locations
| have become much cleaner.
| Dwedit wrote:
| The name of the shadow kitchen is "Pasqually's Pizza &
| Wings". If you read the "Our Story" page on their website, it
| says that they "leverage the operational infrastructure of
| Chuck E. Cheese kitchens across the country".
|
| Pasqually is one of the animatronic characters, he is a chef.
| nvahalik wrote:
| TIL that Nolan Bushnell, of Atari, started Chuck E. Cheese!
| shagie wrote:
| Chuck E. Cheese's, Silicon Valley Startup (2013) 122 points by
| duck on Jan 22, 2017 - 14 comments
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13453427
|
| https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/07/chuck...
|
| http://web.archive.org/web/20170125082102/https://www.theatl...
|
| There's a lot of neat stuff back in
| https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Chuck+E
| pjot wrote:
| For weeks after my grandmother brought me to a Chuck E. Cheese
| for the first (only) time, I had recurring nightmares fueled by
| this band.
| bisby wrote:
| https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/local/2024/05/28/illinois-ch...
|
| Apparently 5 stores nationwide are being allowed to keep the
| animatronics.
| cgriswald wrote:
| For the curious, they are: Los Angeles, CA; Nanuet, NY;
| Springfield, IL; Pineville, NC; and Hicksville, NY.
| debugnik wrote:
| I would have expected animatronics to become more popular after
| Five Nights at Freddy's, not less. But I've never seen a store
| with animatronics in my country, so I don't really know how kids
| feel about them.
| Uehreka wrote:
| Idk, parents took kids to Chuck E. Cheese for the (at the time
| seemingly) wholesome appeal. Having an extremely popular and
| visible IP point out how creepy animatronic animals are is not
| gonna make parents want to take their kids to Chuck E. Cheese
| more. Nobody wants to take their kids to an "edgy food and
| entertainment place", that's not a thing. I think this is a
| great textbook example of "There is such a thing as bad
| publicity."
| fullshark wrote:
| I'll take this opportunity to plug the YouTube videos of
| animatronics super fan Jenny Nicholson. Her videos on the Star
| Wars hotel: https://youtu.be/T0CpOYZZZW4?si=8bzPpb_9kPaTsTto and
| the theme park Evermore:
| https://youtu.be/L9OhTB5eBqQ?si=utwaOeBFRpOQMStx are peak YouTube
| content.
| wileydragonfly wrote:
| Today you learned his name is "Charles Entertainment Cheese."
| bozhark wrote:
| "Sharl" needs to focus on his driving
| Uehreka wrote:
| I'd heard this fact before, it was honestly kind of obnoxious
| how the writer kept wanting to remind us how much they also
| know this fact.
| knowsuchagency wrote:
| They're now working on Optimus
| api wrote:
| The unfortunately defunct podcast The Nonsense Bazaar has a
| hilarious and wonderful episode on the Chuck E Cheese saga:
|
| https://thenonsensebazaar.com/listen/131-chuck-e-cheese/
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