I had a couple of birthday parties at Showbiz Pizza as a kid, which eventually bought out Chuck E. Cheese after they filed for bankruptcy. They ran as separate entities for a while but they decided to "unify" the brand and changed all the Showbiz restaurants into Chuck E.'s.
I used to love their animatronics show and preferred them over Chuck E's. Amazingly enough, people are creating new shows with the old characters . . . this has to be one of the most bizarre videos I've ever seen.
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The same characters I grew up with, but they're doing a Shakira song.

"Uh yeah, Rolfe . . . why don't you put them moves away, we've still got little kids out here watching the show."
I went to a friend's niece's birthday party at a mall Chuck E.'s a few years back, and the lack of animatronics and arcade games was disappointing but they had a somewhat amusing flash cartoon of a rat playing on a screen . . . it sure is a lot different than it was in the 80's.

Surprisingly enough though, the pizza wasn't half-bad.
But the most surprising thing was that they serve beer. I guess it has to be fun for the parents too?
