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Why Chuck E. Cheese Has More Brawls Than a Biker Bar

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BadUncle
12/09/08

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I attended a wedding reception at a Chuck E. Cheese, which was funnier in concept than execution. for one thing, they had no nourishing alcohol. Fonely it had been Toledo.
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City_Dater
12/09/08

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There's one in Brooklyn in or near the Atlantic Center Mall. Brooklynites of all socioeconomic levels reveal this with a little moue of annoyance and disgust.
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Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate
12/09/08

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My husband and I showed up to babysit our nephew (5 at the time), and his parents (NOT MY SIDE) said- we promised him you'd take him to Chucky Cheese. We said OK, if that's what you want.

Terrifying. Bad food, unclean, half the games don't work, the other children were not nice and mostly unsupervised while their parents drank piss beer and ate less-than-microwave quality pizza.

BookishLatkeish- I'm stealing that excuse for future use.
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BookishLookish
12/09/08

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True confession: A friend of my kid's had a birthday party there and I called his mom and told her my kid was sick and could not attend.

I have never been inside a Chuck E. Cheese's and I will go to my grave that way. Now, other venues of moderate white trashdom--the NJ State Fair in the Meadowlands every summer, the little play area inside the Chick-fil-A--now we're talking!
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Smitros
12/09/08

@BookishLatkeish:

I've done it for you, but not recently.

In the words of REO, I'm not missin' a thing.
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Botswana Meat Commission FC
12/09/08

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Having the police show up to your Chuck E. Cheese birthday party is one of those rites every white trash kid experiences.

Like a first communion.
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DavidWatts
12/09/08

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Well, let me tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that I myself once worked at Chuck E. Cheese's. Yes, there was alcohol, and yes, occasionally, some poor bastard father who had been there all day "watching" the kids and at the same time "getting blind drunk" would have to be cut off by some just-turned-18 girl, and they would sometimes get in shouting matches about it. Also those moms do get testy as shit about the plastic tablecloth being just so at little Brandon's party. Never saw an actual fight. I did once trick someone into cleaning up urine, though, and I felt pretty good about myself.
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Mediahohoho
12/09/08

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Yet another reason my kid is never leaving the fucking house.
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happymisanthrope
12/09/08

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The first and only time I have ever set foot in Chuck E. Cheese was a few months ago and I was so disappointed. I never realized that it is a casino for the Yo Gabba Gabba set.

There is something terribly wrong in the world when you're beaten by a six year old at a Playskool roulette wheel...
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ObtuseIntolerant
12/09/08

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Yep it's totally Road House for the wee'uns...I thought that was the point?

That place was so much better when it was Showbiz Pizza. You know you loved The Rock-afire Explosion...

The whole ridiculous scenario makes for some delicious possibilities that some people have already taken advantage of:
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dado
12/09/08

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Last time I went there a kid barfed in the plastic ball bin. The plastic ball bin, as it turns out, is the perfect mechanism for spreading vomit over the largest surface area possible.
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Botswana Meat Commission FC
12/09/08

@dado:

Holy shit that's hilarious.

Also, what do you mean "last time I went there..." Are you a childless adult Chuck E. Cheese Fan?
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dado
12/09/08

@Botswana Meat Commission FC: Fatherly duties...my do they grow quickly
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Rumpelstilskin
12/09/08

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As I've said on here before, the only time I suffered credit card fraud was when someone got my Visa number and charged $400. at a Chukee Cheese in California.

Word.
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QuarterlyProphet
12/09/08

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Discover Zone was way better anyway.
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Botswana Meat Commission FC
12/09/08

@QuarterlyProphet:

Showbiz Pizza was way better anyway.
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♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
12/09/08

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I vividly remember this from my childhood... I went to Chuck E. Cheese with my family for my little brother's 2nd birthday. I'm 7 years older than him, so I was 9 at the time - probably a year or two older than the typical Chuck E. Cheese crowd and I was tall at the time.

WELL - I'm on the wack on mole and there's SOME KID behind me... I don't know this kid. He's not with our party, I've never seen him before. His dad comes up and *grabs my wrist* and tells me not to ever fucking butt in front of his kid again.

I WAS TERRIFIED! I didn't butt in front of the kid and I had no idea what to do lol.... I just ran off and told my dad and they got INTO IT - BIG TIME!

I'm 21 now and I remember this like it was yesterday lol.
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Jaffa Cakes
12/09/08

@BeccaThePromoMami:
God that makes me fucking livid! What kind of asshole goes up and grabs someone else's kid?! In a public place! I'm a 26 year old girl (woman?) and I can safely say I would savagely beat down the person who did that to my child!
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crashedpc - Haifisch
12/09/08

@Jaffa Cakes: You tell 'em, Mama Bear! *ducks*
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Baroness
12/09/08

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Saw a recent article where some public-health sciency-guy went and swabbed dozens of surfaces at a Chuck E Cheese. Forget the brawling parents, the place is a seething petri dish of bacteria. Chuck E Cholera, more like.
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oneinsixbillion
12/09/08

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I blame rising prices for sexual favors. When you can't get a blowjob at Chuck E. Cheese's for under $40 bucks, shit, what's the point of going?
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Mike_Jahn
12/09/08

@oneinsixbillion: For blowjobs you have to go to Chuck E. Headcheese.
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