A thing I think about a lot is that in 1980, Chuck E. Cheese sued Showbiz Pizza for ripping off their concept and won, and then in 1984 Chuck E. Cheese went bankrupt so Showbiz Pizza bought the company, and then they turned all the Showbiz Pizzas into Chuck E. Cheeses
— Helen Rosner (@hels) November 19, 2020
if anyone says Charles Entertainment Cheese in my replies I'm blocking you, we all know that fact
— Helen Rosner (@hels) November 19, 2020
Also this https://t.co/vRGaDEFsLy
— Helen Rosner (@hels) November 19, 2020
For two decades the voice of Chuck E. Cheese was a very devout evangelical Christian who, after he was oustered, said that all who heard his voice as Chuck E. over the years were hearing pure love for Jesus. Chuck E.'s current voice is the frontman of the band Bowling for Soup
— Helen Rosner (@hels) November 19, 2020
In 2012 Chuck E. Cheese, who is canonically a rat, officially changed species and became a mouse
— Helen Rosner (@hels) November 19, 2020
The founder of Chuck E. Cheese, Nolan Bushnell, also founded Atari, and basically he started CEC on the principle of "So an arcade buys my game for $5k, and then they make $30k on it? Screw that I'm just gonna start my own arcade."
— Helen Rosner (@hels) November 19, 2020
He's a savvy guy, even if a lot of the reason Chuck E. Cheese went bankrupt in the 80s is because he paid zero attention to the business due to being too busy handling the absolutely unfathomably shitshod disaster of Atari's 1982 E.T. game
— Helen Rosner (@hels) November 19, 2020
Wow, big error that I misremembered: Bushnell was NOT busy with Atari when stuff started going south in 82, he was busy with a startup called Kadabrascope, which he eventually sold off to try to save CEC, and he sold it to George Lucas, and then Kadabrascope became Pixar
— Helen Rosner (@hels) November 19, 2020
Showbiz Pizza has entered the chat!!! Thank you Showbiz Pizza dot com! https://t.co/IgKgi9J0kC
— Helen Rosner (@hels) November 19, 2020
(He was, it turns out, correct.)
— Helen Rosner (@hels) November 19, 2020
Originally Chuck E. Cheese was going to be called Coyote Pizza but the mascot company accidentally shipped Bushnell a dirty rat costume instead (likely designed as a prop for striking unions!) https://t.co/iooVM2nM0Y https://t.co/rlCiWLnDRb
— Helen Rosner (@hels) November 20, 2020
You’re welcome, pal https://t.co/C1F1vnMpfG https://t.co/q2AJsF16fe
— Helen Rosner (@hels) November 20, 2020