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In this episode of Defunctland After Dark, Kevin dives deep into the history of Chuck E. Cheese animatronic characters and ranks them based on their star power and exploitability.

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Chuck E. Cheese's Got Talent: An Animatronics Ranking

In this episode of Defunctland After Dark, Kevin dives deep into the history of Chuck E. Cheese animatronic characters and ranks them based on their star power and exploitability.

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GalacticBreaker

This will be neat. Once again haunted by the franchise my dad was a walk around suit actor for. lol

Shamey

Y'know, I'm not sure what I was expecting going into this, but "articulated breasts" was not it.

tumbleweed🍂

If my 5-year old son Brian can't sit at a real solid oak bar with his Mr. Pibb on the rocks and watch a well-endowed hippopotamus shake what her hippopomama gave her on his BIRTHDAY, then we're not going. End of story.

RiaJaize

Biloxi is pronounced "buh-LUX-ee." Not even Chuck E Cheese got it right. The 70s were so weird with their heh-heh sexy times characters for kids.

Katrina Kaufman

Look, man, not to point fingers or anything, but I think Jasper is a liability issue. Just a harassment lawsuit waiting to happen. I think he needs to be sent home, I'm sorry. Also the Michael Jackson animatromic is the most viscerally terrifying thing I have ever seen in my life. I'm going to have nightmares for the rest of my life.

Mike Scollins

Jasper T. Jowls was at January 6th

RiaJaize

Speaking as someone who went to Chuck E Cheese's as a kid and teenager, and then someone who took my own kids to the new bright ball-pit-less incarnation... I have to admit that I like the newer one. It's very open, without dark corners, and I never lost sight of my kids. But I did miss the animatronics. My kids paid zero attention to the Rat on the Screen.

Chrisy

I’ve seen ‘The King’ so many times at Jungle Jims and had no idea - it jump scares me each time he turns on when I’m waiting at the bread counter lol

corvus + crux

Holy shit this is so my jam it hurts

violet.jpeg

The wave of relief I felt when King Kat was sent back home 💆🏻

Miguel Curiel

Bro i was expecting a 20 min vid i jumped up with excitement when i saw an hour and hlaf

Streetcleaner

this is the quality content i pay for

Velocipastor

Notice how they went bankrupt around the time they stopped having sexy sultry animatronics 🤔 something to consider

corvus + crux

Gave this a other watch but wanted to add something that I remembered during the rewatch. Back in the late 90's early 00's I worked for a children's theater troupe and we would go to several hundred chuck e cheeses up and down the east coast for a multi year period. I distinctly remember seeing some of more ... Experimental... characters on the list. But what was really fascinating were the handful of really old (even by standard of the time) locations that had some interesting hybrids from the showbiz / chuck e cheese brand standardization. Youd get Looney Bird hanging out with Jasper Jowels, or the sun and moon still there in the set dressing along with the (definitely not the Rock-a-Fire Explosion) Chuck Gang. Idk why I find this wild brand so fascinating but it goes to so many incredible places. Especially when the brand standardization gets a bit dicey in their more remote / poorly maintained franchise locations 😂😂😂

Matt Sonesen

Fun (?) fact, the Florin Mall store got a slight mention in the video, that was my local Chuck E Cheese growing up. That store would later be turned into the Good Guys electronics store in the mid/late 80s, and later it would be get held hostage and shot up in 1991. I think it was one of the largest hostage takings ever at the time. My mom worked at the mall at the time, and she got evacuated and everything. It was insane.

Bethany

My husband would like to know how you'd rank Fatz Geronimo from The Rock-afire Explosion

Beck

The ending is exactly how I feel

OncomingStorm7

Is there a missing after dark? I only see 4 on the Patreon feed - but this is labeled as episode 5

Moonie Bonzo

I had to immediately call my parents and ask if they remembered a sexy hippo from when they used to go to back in the 70s. They remember nothing smh.

Ashley Bennett

I will 1000% watch ranking the stages!

y2cali

just signed up for the patreon for this video. i'm so sat.

elâ

maybe one of my new favourites and i’m only 30 mins hahaha

Charlotte Rogers

joined just for this video and i think it's my favorite video I've ever seen, it felt like such a thorough investigation into one of my hyperfixations. Thank you

Dallas Hedges

you could never upload a single video on patreon after this one and I would keep paying you $5 a month that’s how incredible this one is. everything I didn’t know I needed.

Elijah Burrus

this was everything i could have hoped for. thank you kevin defunctland

Garrett Catalana

I fondly remember birthday parties at Chuck E Cheese growing up and don't care as much about the history but am just endlessly fascinated by the people who keep up the lore, documentation, and wiki pages, etc of these nostalgia brands. Love them for it (and you Mr. Defunctland) because it is always just pure entertainment

Jon

Kevin please incorporate your Michael Jackson impression into future videos

Allison Carroll

Wait so Madame Oink the French diva pig was based off Peggy Lee and was originally called Piggy Lee… and Miss Piggy the diva pig who frequently speaks French was also based of Peggy Lee and originally called Miss Piggy Lee? Interesting

Jac Schaefer

so we hate bb bubbles but we tolerate the confederates huh

Defunctland

From a moral standpoint, confederate sympathy is worse than bad singing, yes.

TRP

This was such a a great video. So many memories. I do feel like Pasquale should have gotten an updated ranking. Like the OG one was marquee but you didn't really revisit him the way you did with the other main characters. Also I agree the new chuck E is terrible

WuffMusubi

I know it isn't the style to keep on one topic but this video was so good I'm possibly hoping for more Charles Entertainment Cheese content 😢

Laura Rodriguez

omg i grew up around fairfield OH and used to go to jungle jims all the time. (i still do every time i visit home, its so fun) I always referred to the king as the elvis monkey and never knew what it was from until watching this video. my mind is blown!! lol

Laura Rodriguez

jungle jims is a fun topic to dive into, they have some wacky stuff like a giant campells soup can swimming from the ceiling and a beach boys animatronic band except it's cereal mascots, cool stuff

Grace Phenicie

I super loved this, please keep doing more like this!!

Ashton

Incredible

asapaints

absolutely need that ranking the stages video

Danielle Schatten

but luckily as proven by the genre of bro-country this particular venn diagram is rather circular

CosmicSharkGal

OH THATS WHAT THE DAVE LAND JOKE FROM SMILING FRIENDS WAS ABOUT, I GET IT NOW

CosmicSharkGal

Being Irish I was really hoping the ignorant Americans would accidentally have Foxy Colleen sing IRA music

felicitea

dolli dimples deserved marquee

Danielle Schatten

i am american but in favor of direct action against empires so i was also hoping for this

Emily Rose

the Helen Henny name pun is not as loose as that moose!!

L. Swick

this is the video that pushed me to join the patreon and it was absolutely worth it

Zoë Lewis

So happy i joined today, ive been meaning to, but its my birthday so hearing both defunctland and a michael jackson impersonator sing me happy birthday is actually so great lmao

Tabitha Griffin

I’m way late to the party (I’m a newer Patreon) but I’m the person who owns the 1970s portrait Chuck that’s in the center of the thumbnail (in addition to a ton of other characters). It’s always crazy seeing him and these others in the wild

Terry

Okay, I feel like I’m missing something: The video claims this is Episode 5, but I can only see four videos on here?

Defunctland

Episode 3 is supposed to be the second part to my Epcot video and I’ve been putting it off, will get to it eventually but left a spot for it

Jake

Sad to see it gone, but Chuck E Cheese definitely left its mark. I don't think we would have Five Nights at Freddies without the PIzza Gang.

Arielle Holding

Id do anything for another video like this! Any niche theme, tier style

Mike Crocker

My wife and I absolutely love your videos dude. IDK how you're so effortlessly funny, you could ramble on for (more) hours and we'd eat it all with a dang spoon

GhilnaDarkmaster

Oh no, you've unlocked a new hyperfixation for me. This was amazing!!

Victor

I'm a huge CEC fan, it's a big special interest for me. This video was definitely worth the patreon subscription

Emily Rose

Everytime I rewatch this (many times) I literally laugh out loud when "BIRTHDAY BIRTHDAY BIRTHDAY BIRTHDAY" starts 😭😭😭😭😭

Emily Rose

I SAW THE KING LAST WEEKEND AT JUNGLE JIMS

EMST

Mcheese

Becuase I'm bored

I know it was probably for budget reasons but I still blame FNAF for death of Chucky Cheese animatronics.

Spiderdued

The understudies are good but just need stop being “that” kind of southern so hopefully they get taught better then they can be featured players

Kiers

Yeah we used to go a lot a year or so ago and kids not only don’t care about the digital rat but they don’t even seem to give a shit about the costumed one anymore. It doesn’t help that they bring him out with no fanfare most of the time.

Kiers

I think he uploaded one to YouTube publicly and thus didn’t put it here. And the chipotle/capital one guy ones on YouTube are just clips of longer ones from here.

Kiers

OG WITH CIGAR???