Absolutely! I live in a big city, I live in Denver Colorado, and the city just cut budgets for low income summer camp and day camp programs for kids. They also are cutting the parks budget which provides programs for children. They are doing this to pay for migrants. The low income families now don’t even have access to free summer camp and day programs for their kids :(
@@cc-terfayThat is absolutely sick. How about we worry about our own people for a while? We don't even have the services to support our own citizens. That makes me incredibly sad. Those programs can be life changing for kids. It gives the kids something positive to do and enables low income parents to work without expensive child care options.
especially third places where kids can get to without being driven. how is a kid supposed to get to a third place when public buses arent available, their parents dont care/too buys, cant drive, or doesnt have a car to drive there?
Isn't it amazing that employees have to give at least a couple weeks notice before quitting but a corporation can just shut down everything in 1 day with no warning? Doesn't seem fair....
We had a family dollar do that a couple years ago with zero warning. Employees came to work in the morning only to find out they were now jobless. It's highly irresponsible to just yank away people's jobs with no heads up or time to look for somewhere else to work.
You don’t “have” to give a two weeks. There’s no law or rule. I’ve been self employed a while now but if I ever had to go back I’d tell them sorry I don’t believe in two weeks notices 😂 for that exact reason
@@bobbobbo5278 convinced everyone that Chuck E Cheese recycles slices of pizza from the trash and sells them as new. As a former employee I assure you, doing so would be a bigger pain in the ass than making a new pizza.
That’s MISTER magical rat to you, pal. Put some respect on his name. Do you not have an Aussie equivalent like Wacky Wally’s Wallaby Wind-up or Kangaroo Kenny’s Kid Korral & Burrito Bar?
@SmokeyChipOatley my apologies! I could be wrong, but I think the only national mascot we had was healthy Harold, who was a giraffe that visited schools
Dude, when I was four, I went to Chuck E. Cheese and that mascot followed me around for the entire birthday party. I was there for like literally four hours. This mascot would not stop fucking following me. I kept telling him to leave me alone, and nobody watched him follow me around the store several times asking me for hugs after I told him no every time I have never felt comfortable in a place like this I don't think most kids do. I think they need to come up with better options but you know what maybe it's a good thing you didn't meet this rat😂
monchmonchmonchmonch uggghhh i keep hearing it and have all week. maybe i should have seen this coming lol. god im gonna miss those ticket eating machines all over again when my kid gets "too old" for chuck e cheese
Hey Scott, I just wanted to let you know my father-in-law actually helped design the Fargo Space Aliens and is part of why it looks as unique as it does!
WAIT SERIOUSLY?? the design was my favorite part of it tbh. the art and colorfulness. it felt like an entirely different world. i haven’t been there in years but i still drive past it from time to time and always appreciate it
I went to a Chuck E Cheese recently and of course the animatronics were gone. What annoyed me though was the "Dance Floor" that was meant to replace them. That thing not only showed a single thing the entire time I was there (Which was like 4 hours), but it was also absurdly small! For reference it barely fit me, my brother, and a toddler on it. My brother and I are also fairly skinny. Like even if it makes me disgruntled I can at least get why they ditched the animatronics. But seeing them on stage powered off was infinitely more charming than the replacement they had for them.
Fun fact from a former Chuck-e-Cheese employee, pretty much everyone had the opportunity to wear the mascot costume. I myself was the rat at least once a work day
Kids will no longer get to experience the pure fear that enters you when you see the Chuck E. Cheese mascot for the first time and the only escape is crying and hiding under the table and I think that’s the saddest part of this
I remember as a child, I went to the bathroom, came out, and saw all the mascots huddled in a dark corner. I was so terrified, I just turned around and walked quietly to my mom and stood next to her the whole time, disturbed. 😆
How is Five Nights at Freddy’s supposed to really resonate with future generations if it doesn’t have that traumatic childhood memory to build upon?! 😭
I went to a birthday party and my friend’s little cousin thought that Chucky from Child’s Play was gonna come out when they said Chucke was coming out. She was so scared.
I have a few name suggestions to avoid copyright problems - Rat A. Touille -"Ch"uck E. "Ch"eese (swap the Ch's obviously) Chester E. Cheetah (the rat...obviously)
I'm honestly amazed that Chuck E. Cheese has stuck around this long. It feels like an artifact of a bygone era, like smoking in restaurants and Ron Popeil infomercials.
Scott, I think this is a blessing in disguise. Chuck E. Cheese from our childhood has been long gone for YEARS now. No animatronics, less fun games, no ball pit, no salad bar, and no physical tokens or tickets?! Even if that place was open it’s not Chuck e cheese without those things. Charles Entertainment Cheese can’t even rest in peace 🪦
It really sucks what’s been happening with Chuck E. Cheese recently! They’ve started removing the animatronics at almost every location and it’s so sad
I loved the animatronics. It was literally the best part, besides the mascot chuck e suit coming out to dance with the kids to give out free tokens, and ofc the games. As an 06 kid, it feels like a part of my childhood died when they announced the removal, I remember going, I think, at least once or twice after the removal, it felt extremely different. They didn't have any walk around chuck e which I came to expect from them, because even though the design changed, they still had him come out. Now I don't think they do that anymore. (correct me if I'm incorrect, though.) It felt dead, it felt more like a cici's or Peter piper's pizza than a chuck e cheese, even the prizes felt like them, I remember the prizes used to be actually pretty okay, now they suck, even Mt parents admitted that most children's arcades prizes suck now. I mean main event and David busters small prizes are okay, don't get me wrong but I remember frequently going to both David and busters and chuck e cheese as a kid when we had the money, and the small prizes used to be actually decent, now you have really look for what you want. Or maybe that's my rose colored glasses coming through who knows. But that's my mini rant over lol
@@vanillaa_spice460 they do still have the characters in the mascot costumes and there are still a bit of locations that have that animatronics, but yeah CEC has definitely fallen off a lot
That’s a real issue in my hometown as well. There’s nothing left for the middle and high schoolers to go do anymore. The movie theaters have closed, the bowling alleys have closed. Indoor skatepark, gone. Apartments which are way too expensive for the locals have been replacing everything which makes no sense. They’re inviting more rich people into town and not showing any concern for the people who already do live here. There’s nothing for the teens and younger adults to do anymore.
Yes! So true. And people wonder why kids don’t care about getting their license these days. Even if their parents could afford to get them a car, when are they supposed to drive?? Teen hangouts are all gone or no longer affordable to adults let one teenagers. When I was in high school the movie theater by me had cheap Tuesday tickets and we could see a movie and go to steak and shake after for less than $10. And that was only 10 years ago
For the segment with Elizabeth, I can hear that scene from (the original) Mean Girls where someone shouts, "SHE DOESN'T EVEN GO HERE!" to the girl talking about rainbows and puppies and whatnot 😂. Also, I have been dying ever since that girl called the mascot a "magical rat" 😂😂😂😂. You have to say "rat" with emphasis, lol!
its kinda crazy how I (a random teenager from England) am so interested in this random American city, but i will fr eat it up every time Scott posts something about it lmao
The women talking about being Chucky just reminded me that my first job I ever had was being a DazzleBear; a mascot for the skating rink in the area. I was like 12 years old and had no idea how to even skate, can't believe that was a moment in my life tbh.
Scott, as a fellow North Dakotan, you should know that 177 miles is just a quick trip down the road! Minot also has the "is this new business a mexican restaurant or car wash" debate every time something is being built haha
i remember when the chuck e. cheese's in my town closed. i was so sad even thought i vividly remember the animatronics traumatizing me at my 5th birthday party, but i'll miss that scary magical rat.
I don't want to be the "back in my day" guy, but I'm genuinely so sad for people growing up in this day and age. The late 90s to early 2000s was the best time to grow up, because you had online gaming sessions with friends, and CZcams, but you also had trips to Chuck e. Cheese, and other family fun centers. These days, most of the games are shit, and all of the in person fun centers are shutting their doors.
We also had more kid centered stores in general; KB Toys, Toys R Us, Zainy Brainy, Discovery Zone, Club Disney, Chuck E. Cheese, Showbiz Pizza, ect. There are still a few things like the Modern Chuck-E-Cheeze, American Girl, Disney Store, Lego Store, ect. But NONE of them are as immersive or themed as they used to be. It feels like the death of childhood, "where kids can be kids."
Be a mascot was also on my bucket list. I got to be the walk around "Safety Pup" at a local school carnival once. I loved the kids reactions. Hated the older kids knocking on the head and pulling the tail. Only been to Chuck E. Cheese's once in my life (Fairview Heights Illinois). My cousin's birthday party.
The last full stage aside from Vegas is in the Chuck E Cheese right down the street from me. They just announced it's finally leaving. All the animatronics work, all the stuff plays, it's sad to see it go.
Come on down to St. Cloud and see how many car washes, storage facilities and Mexican restaurants we got... But on the plus side, while you're there, we could go to Chuck E. Cheese with the kids.
Scott you are very right about the Chuck E Cheese fans being REALLY into it. I don't know all the locations or all the ones that have animatronics left but I do know a lot of history
I also have two boys and they only go to Chuck E Cheese when my parents bring them. It's such a shell of what it was: no play-place, no animatronics, I dont even know that our location has a walk-around Chuck. And so many of the games are on a screen. It just bums me out.
The one I went to growing up in Blaine, MN is still open. If you don't mind driving 200 miles :) There's also on in Maple Grove which is right off I-94
I had a similar loss. In Milwaukee, we had a place called Stonefire Pizza. It was to the level of what Space Aliens would be. Just a couple months ago, the venue closed without warning. I loved going there when I was a kid.
Hi Scott, I am also a junior in high school whose first job is at Chuck E. Cheese (I actually started there a few weeks ago!) Just know that when one Stephanie closes, another one opens
7:56 you’re very right about this Scott. My very best friend and I went through a similaire sort of whiplash with this restaurant we had been going to for years since we were children (and our parents had been going before we were even born). It wasn’t on the level of something like Chuck E. Cheese in the fact that it was just a restaurant, but it held a really special place in our hearts, plus the decor in there was So eclectic and wild; it was just a really special place. We always went there for each others birthdays or to celebrate any big occasion. We both moved away from our home town several years ago, but during our most recent meet-up, we got in the car and headed to the restaurant to find a sign on the door saying they had closed. It was a sad moment for both of us….
When Scott mentioned wanting to be a mascot when he was younger I had an immediate intrusive thought of "He should commission a fursuit" and for some reason I felt that was a thought that needed to be shared.
Minnesota does the same thing with turning old restaurants into Mexican restaurants! We had an Olive Garden and, after it closed, a few months later it turned into El Tequila.
Working at chuck e cheese showed me.That corporate has basically given up on the family friendly atmosphere and cheap chuck e cheese was a day of the two years I work there.They raise prices A lot in just little increment. Then, since most of the staff are high schoolers, they don't really care about the job so the Management gives up extremely quickly with Trying to get them to do the job.
That's funny, I live in a pretty small town in Texas and about the only thing that ever pops up is also somehow Mexican food restaurants, car washes, gas stations, and donut shops.
It’s unfortunate, but they had it coming. They got the one-two punch of the rise of Five Nights at Freddy’s making the concept of animatronics, their primary brand appeal, killing you, alongside Covid generally making life harder for restaurants. Arcades have also been on the decline for decades as phones have generally replaced the kinds of games that used to be there.
First Toys R Us and now the Chuck E. Cheese’s are closing down? It is sad, that my own future children won’t get these experiences that I enjoyed as a kid.
I went to the Fargo location twice and that got me really into Chuck E. Cheese as a kid. Any time my family was driving into Fargo and I saw the big "Chuck E. Cheese this way" billboard I got excited. RIP Fargo location.
Ok, you had me cracking up when you talked about car washes. My home town, Harlingen, TX is starting to get filled up with carwashes. SO much that people have designed a new town logo which has the Letter H, to show a car going in between the H with the Text: Come Wash Your Car in Harlingen
Chuck-E always creeped me out as a kid, especially with the anamotronics. But as someone else stated, there really does need to be more places for kids that dont threaten their parents with bankruptcy.
Jokes aside, there aren't many places left where "a kid can be a kid." Part of a larger discussion about the lack of third spaces.
not to mention how dull and clinical everything has gotten
Absolutely! I live in a big city, I live in Denver Colorado, and the city just cut budgets for low income summer camp and day camp programs for kids. They also are cutting the parks budget which provides programs for children. They are doing this to pay for migrants. The low income families now don’t even have access to free summer camp and day programs for their kids :(
so true :(
@@cc-terfayThat is absolutely sick. How about we worry about our own people for a while? We don't even have the services to support our own citizens. That makes me incredibly sad. Those programs can be life changing for kids. It gives the kids something positive to do and enables low income parents to work without expensive child care options.
especially third places where kids can get to without being driven. how is a kid supposed to get to a third place when public buses arent available, their parents dont care/too buys, cant drive, or doesnt have a car to drive there?
Isn't it amazing that employees have to give at least a couple weeks notice before quitting but a corporation can just shut down everything in 1 day with no warning? Doesn't seem fair....
We had a family dollar do that a couple years ago with zero warning. Employees came to work in the morning only to find out they were now jobless. It's highly irresponsible to just yank away people's jobs with no heads up or time to look for somewhere else to work.
You don’t “have” to give a two weeks. There’s no law or rule. I’ve been self employed a while now but if I ever had to go back I’d tell them sorry I don’t believe in two weeks notices 😂 for that exact reason
@@johnathanlatman2507 lol i was just about to say this.... i only give a notice of leaving if i like/respect who i work for and with lol...
most us states are at will states and the ones that are not do require warnings for employees who are being fired or closed on
You don't have to, but it's irresponsible and unkind not to, unless you're forced by circumstance. It's the same for businesses IMHO.
I love when Scott lets us pretend we are all citizens of Fargo.
As a citizen of Fargo, every struggler is welcome to be honorary Fargonians 🫶
As a citizen of North Dakota, I adore these videos 😂 This is big news here
PLEEEAAASEEE
Im moving to Fargo this summer but it feels like I've already been living there
I’ve never been to North Dakota but it’s always nice to pretend I live in a different city in a different state for awhile.
Never forget that magical rat’s full name is Charles Entertainment Cheese.
Chuck E Cheese is the magical rat. Charles Entertainment Cheese is the powerful rat.
Oh now see I always thought it was Edward
Ew lol
Guess now all there’s left to do is for Scott, Ted, and Eddy to visit every Chuck E. Cheese in America
Eddy
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There's a lot left lmao, tho they could do all the ones with the robots tho
you actually can't go to chuck e cheede without a child. but also i feel like scott's kids are too young (literally infants obviously) for that 😂
@@molls127 nah you can surprisingly lmao, or it depends on the store Manager
Maybe the real magical rat was scott all along
he was in our hearts the whole time
Sad the magical revolver rat trap got him
Weren't you listening? It was actually Stephanie 😢
and the friends we made along the way
Scott Cathown?
I don’t care what anyone says I am blaming this 100% solely on Shane Dawson.
omg i had the same exact thought 😭
Wait why lol? What did he do? 😅
@@bobbobbo5278 convinced everyone that Chuck E Cheese recycles slices of pizza from the trash and sells them as new. As a former employee I assure you, doing so would be a bigger pain in the ass than making a new pizza.
for real 😭
@@navymongoose2589 yup he's to blame
The real reason it closed was because Fargo has had it too good for too long. Space Aliens AND Chuck E Cheese? Jeez, give the other cities a chance!
Sorry for your loss Scott.
From an Australian citizen who has never experienced the magical rat
That’s MISTER magical rat to you, pal. Put some respect on his name.
Do you not have an Aussie equivalent like Wacky Wally’s Wallaby Wind-up or Kangaroo Kenny’s Kid Korral & Burrito Bar?
@@SmokeyChipOatley im not even australian and the burrito bar kinda sounds cool
@@SmokeyChipOatley The only reason i know of it is because of FNAF.
@SmokeyChipOatley my apologies!
I could be wrong, but I think the only national mascot we had was healthy Harold, who was a giraffe that visited schools
Dude, when I was four, I went to Chuck E. Cheese and that mascot followed me around for the entire birthday party. I was there for like literally four hours. This mascot would not stop fucking following me. I kept telling him to leave me alone, and nobody watched him follow me around the store several times asking me for hugs after I told him no every time I have never felt comfortable in a place like this I don't think most kids do. I think they need to come up with better options but you know what maybe it's a good thing you didn't meet this rat😂
i'm gonna need elizabeth to explain exactly what is the chuck e cheese lifestyle
😭😭😭
Eating children, poisoning pizza, being a magical rat.
I'll always remember the ticket machines that used to "eat" your tickets while making those "wonkachika" chewing noises.
monchmonchmonchmonch uggghhh i keep hearing it and have all week. maybe i should have seen this coming lol. god im gonna miss those ticket eating machines all over again when my kid gets "too old" for chuck e cheese
I want that sound as my ringtone now!
Hey Scott, I just wanted to let you know my father-in-law actually helped design the Fargo Space Aliens and is part of why it looks as unique as it does!
FR????? That’s so cool!
Omgg that's so cool I haven't been there yet
I hope he sees this
WAIT SERIOUSLY?? the design was my favorite part of it tbh. the art and colorfulness. it felt like an entirely different world. i haven’t been there in years but i still drive past it from time to time and always appreciate it
It’s on my road trip list because of this channel.
Chuck E. Cheese without animatronics is not Chuck E. Cheese.
Might as well go to Dave & Buster's at that point.
Exactly, we need the children's demographic of building a gambling addiction. But our kids are just buying lootboxes instead.
Except we don’t have Dave and Busters here. 💔😭
I went to a Chuck E Cheese recently and of course the animatronics were gone.
What annoyed me though was the "Dance Floor" that was meant to replace them. That thing not only showed a single thing the entire time I was there (Which was like 4 hours), but it was also absurdly small! For reference it barely fit me, my brother, and a toddler on it. My brother and I are also fairly skinny.
Like even if it makes me disgruntled I can at least get why they ditched the animatronics. But seeing them on stage powered off was infinitely more charming than the replacement they had for them.
Charles entertainment cheese has changed lol
@@jurassicstaff8639 And not for the better.
Fun fact from a former Chuck-e-Cheese employee, pretty much everyone had the opportunity to wear the mascot costume. I myself was the rat at least once a work day
As someone who visited Fargo one time, I will not tolerate this!!!
Kids will no longer get to experience the pure fear that enters you when you see the Chuck E. Cheese mascot for the first time and the only escape is crying and hiding under the table and I think that’s the saddest part of this
i was afraid of the purple monster thing there
I remember as a child, I went to the bathroom, came out, and saw all the mascots huddled in a dark corner. I was so terrified, I just turned around and walked quietly to my mom and stood next to her the whole time, disturbed. 😆
How is Five Nights at Freddy’s supposed to really resonate with future generations if it doesn’t have that traumatic childhood memory to build upon?! 😭
I went to a birthday party and my friend’s little cousin thought that Chucky from Child’s Play was gonna come out when they said Chucke was coming out. She was so scared.
I still have a picture of me from my 4th birthday party sobbing and screaming next to mr charles cheese 😂
This is why we have "Sephora kids" destroying previously adult occupied spaces.
Scott really needs to buy the building and build his own struggler-themed pizza arcade.
The mascot will of course be the magical rat
I have a few name suggestions to avoid copyright problems
- Rat A. Touille
-"Ch"uck E. "Ch"eese (swap the Ch's obviously)
Chester E. Cheetah (the rat...obviously)
Scott-E Cheese
Is Scott going to be in the mascot costume?
@@owlblocksdavid4955 Yes! Scott in a Scott suit. More terrifying than the Magical Rat.
Sneed’s Snuck E Sneeze (Formerly Chucks)
I need to more about the "Chuck E Cheese Lifestyle" as mentioned by the concerned citizen.
Meeee too! 😂
The Chuck E. Cheese lifestyle has been rough on old Elizabeth
Are you telling me that there are Chuck E Cheese Adults out there? Is that like the working class equivalent of Disney Adults lol
Yes, they exist. And despite the looks, I left that fandom long ago cuz its toxic lmao.
I like the concept still, but I'm not hyperfixated anymore.
I'm honestly amazed that Chuck E. Cheese has stuck around this long. It feels like an artifact of a bygone era, like smoking in restaurants and Ron Popeil infomercials.
Incredible. I'm so glad Elizabeth was a part of this story. Changed the whole narrative.
"New dad to a couple of children.....couple of children......" CHILDREN?!?! Congratulations, Struggler! How dare you casually drop that on us.
he had twins
i think
I feel so bad for the employees especially the ones who had to spend time remodling a entire building just so it could shut down
Scott, I think this is a blessing in disguise. Chuck E. Cheese from our childhood has been long gone for YEARS now. No animatronics, less fun games, no ball pit, no salad bar, and no physical tokens or tickets?! Even if that place was open it’s not Chuck e cheese without those things. Charles Entertainment Cheese can’t even rest in peace 🪦
His name is Scott. Who is enthralled with CHUCK E. CHEESE.
SOUND FAMILIAR?
It really sucks what’s been happening with Chuck E. Cheese recently! They’ve started removing the animatronics at almost every location and it’s so sad
Absolutely. As someone who loves animatronics, it’s really sad to see.
I loved the animatronics. It was literally the best part, besides the mascot chuck e suit coming out to dance with the kids to give out free tokens, and ofc the games. As an 06 kid, it feels like a part of my childhood died when they announced the removal, I remember going, I think, at least once or twice after the removal, it felt extremely different. They didn't have any walk around chuck e which I came to expect from them, because even though the design changed, they still had him come out. Now I don't think they do that anymore. (correct me if I'm incorrect, though.) It felt dead, it felt more like a cici's or Peter piper's pizza than a chuck e cheese, even the prizes felt like them, I remember the prizes used to be actually pretty okay, now they suck, even Mt parents admitted that most children's arcades prizes suck now. I mean main event and David busters small prizes are okay, don't get me wrong but I remember frequently going to both David and busters and chuck e cheese as a kid when we had the money, and the small prizes used to be actually decent, now you have really look for what you want. Or maybe that's my rose colored glasses coming through who knows.
But that's my mini rant over lol
@@vanillaa_spice460 they do still have the characters in the mascot costumes and there are still a bit of locations that have that animatronics, but yeah CEC has definitely fallen off a lot
@TheTNTMuffin it fell hard. 😭
@TheTNTMuffin it's all just screens. If I want to do kid friendly gambling, at least make the environment cool 😭 let me gamble in style
That’s a real issue in my hometown as well. There’s nothing left for the middle and high schoolers to go do anymore. The movie theaters have closed, the bowling alleys have closed. Indoor skatepark, gone. Apartments which are way too expensive for the locals have been replacing everything which makes no sense. They’re inviting more rich people into town and not showing any concern for the people who already do live here. There’s nothing for the teens and younger adults to do anymore.
Yes! So true. And people wonder why kids don’t care about getting their license these days. Even if their parents could afford to get them a car, when are they supposed to drive?? Teen hangouts are all gone or no longer affordable to adults let one teenagers. When I was in high school the movie theater by me had cheap Tuesday tickets and we could see a movie and go to steak and shake after for less than $10. And that was only 10 years ago
For the segment with Elizabeth, I can hear that scene from (the original) Mean Girls where someone shouts, "SHE DOESN'T EVEN GO HERE!" to the girl talking about rainbows and puppies and whatnot 😂.
Also, I have been dying ever since that girl called the mascot a "magical rat" 😂😂😂😂. You have to say "rat" with emphasis, lol!
He just has a lot of feelings!
Lmao I’m dying 😂
its kinda crazy how I (a random teenager from England) am so interested in this random American city, but i will fr eat it up every time Scott posts something about it lmao
Having been several times, I'd say Scott is by far the most interesting part of the city
You are welcome to visit us anytime! 😊🫡
You're really not missing much. It gets bitterly cold in the winter
@@hectorg5809 and our winters last 6-9 months.
Yup exact same situation!
You had a second kid? Congratulations!!
omg, i was about to say the same thing!! i'm so happy for him :)
Genuinely, the biggest crime was the barely 1 day warning to the employees that they were about to be unemployed. Like what?!
There was a Chuck E Cheese by me that closed over a decade ago. Now it is a funeral home.
RIP Charles Entertainment Cheese
they put that magical rat to rest...
The women talking about being Chucky just reminded me that my first job I ever had was being a DazzleBear; a mascot for the skating rink in the area. I was like 12 years old and had no idea how to even skate, can't believe that was a moment in my life tbh.
Sounds like Fargo can use a visionary with a passion for pizza and game to open a new CEC franchise.
Bro I’m a Fargo resident and I originally read this as the intro to Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria Simulator and my heart dropped for a sec lol
@@aninotherI don’t even know that much about 5 Nights At Freddy’s and for some reason that was the first thing that came to my mind too.
Missing out on that magical rat 😞💔
I mean there's only one logical thing to do next: Visit all 471 remaining Chuck E. Cheese's locations in the continental US with Eddy Burback!
Hard part about the Chuck E Cheese business model is it’s designed for birthdays and special occasions not a Friday night dinner.
a new father with a COUPLE of kids? did I miss a chapter? all blessings to you and yours!!
Thank you. The way he snuck that in there and no one else acknowledged it had me baffled.
Chuck E Cheese merch idea
“Fargo Chuck E Cheese closure survivor “
With the quote "The worst part is the loss of the magical rat -stephanie"
maybe chuck e. cheese is the scott we made along the way.
Think outside the box a little; maybe it'll become a Mexican Carwash.
Maybe Chuck-E’s Carwash?
Scott, as a fellow North Dakotan, you should know that 177 miles is just a quick trip down the road! Minot also has the "is this new business a mexican restaurant or car wash" debate every time something is being built haha
i remember when the chuck e. cheese's in my town closed. i was so sad even thought i vividly remember the animatronics traumatizing me at my 5th birthday party, but i'll miss that scary magical rat.
is everyone at chuck e cheese named stephanie
I don't want to be the "back in my day" guy, but I'm genuinely so sad for people growing up in this day and age. The late 90s to early 2000s was the best time to grow up, because you had online gaming sessions with friends, and CZcams, but you also had trips to Chuck e. Cheese, and other family fun centers.
These days, most of the games are shit, and all of the in person fun centers are shutting their doors.
We also had more kid centered stores in general; KB Toys, Toys R Us, Zainy Brainy, Discovery Zone, Club Disney, Chuck E. Cheese, Showbiz Pizza, ect. There are still a few things like the Modern Chuck-E-Cheeze, American Girl, Disney Store, Lego Store, ect. But NONE of them are as immersive or themed as they used to be. It feels like the death of childhood, "where kids can be kids."
Fr it feels like I got so lucky being a 90s kid. I just barely made it to adulthood before things went to crap for kids.
I think there’s a Chuck E Cheese’s cookbook, you should throw a party and cook from the book!
There's also videos of Pasqually cooking the pizza ! He could def look at those for reference
You gotta do the cooking by the book! Lil Jon told me so
As a chuck e cheese person, I can confirm. We are REALLY into it.
being scared of the chuck e cheese animatronics is a rite of passage our kids wont get to experience,
I can’t believe the got rid CHUCK “Magical Rat” CHEESE 😢😢😢😢😢😢
First the Whimsical Gorilla now the Magical Rat
“I went to Chuck E Cheese and all I got was this ‘Sorry We’re Closed’ sign”
These truly are unprecedented times.
Be a mascot was also on my bucket list. I got to be the walk around "Safety Pup" at a local school carnival once. I loved the kids reactions. Hated the older kids knocking on the head and pulling the tail.
Only been to Chuck E. Cheese's once in my life (Fairview Heights Illinois). My cousin's birthday party.
I'll miss that magical Rat.
I too, am a concerned citizen
The last full stage aside from Vegas is in the Chuck E Cheese right down the street from me. They just announced it's finally leaving. All the animatronics work, all the stuff plays, it's sad to see it go.
maybe chuck e. cheese is the scott we made along the way
Come on down to St. Cloud and see how many car washes, storage facilities and Mexican restaurants we got... But on the plus side, while you're there, we could go to Chuck E. Cheese with the kids.
To me, both Scott's channels are equally enjoyable. The joke about it being a lady in there had me in tears.
The shirt reads “Gone but not forgotten, you magical rat”
T-shirt: "Missing My Magical Rat."
Scott you are very right about the Chuck E Cheese fans being REALLY into it. I don't know all the locations or all the ones that have animatronics left but I do know a lot of history
I also have two boys and they only go to Chuck E Cheese when my parents bring them. It's such a shell of what it was: no play-place, no animatronics, I dont even know that our location has a walk-around Chuck. And so many of the games are on a screen. It just bums me out.
The one I went to growing up in Blaine, MN is still open. If you don't mind driving 200 miles :)
There's also on in Maple Grove which is right off I-94
I thought the newscaster was gonna say Maple Grove, honestly didn't even know St. Cloud has one
@@roth1038 Same but then again I don't go to St. Cloud very often lol. It's one of those places I only drive through sometimes.
TIL that there is at least one person left that still lives in Fargo.
I had a similar loss. In Milwaukee, we had a place called Stonefire Pizza. It was to the level of what Space Aliens would be. Just a couple months ago, the venue closed without warning. I loved going there when I was a kid.
When they canonically changed him from a cigar smoking New Jersey Rat to a mouse it had already lost all it's magic to me.
Not even the rat utopia experiment could’ve predicted this 😢
7:32 Finally someone else who was petrified by the animatronics band during childhood.
now the only magical rat i have is the one in my wall 😔
Hi Scott, I am also a junior in high school whose first job is at Chuck E. Cheese (I actually started there a few weeks ago!) Just know that when one Stephanie closes, another one opens
Scott is such a real one for pausing to point out it said concerned citizen not the fact that it said Elizabeth
omg the chuck e. cheese closed here near me in south dakota too, my friends worked there and they got less than a weeks notice.
If you want to live the Chuck E. Cheese lifestyle:
1. Eat pizza
2. Play arcade games
3. Be in band
Maybe the real magic were the rats we made asking the way
I’ve only been to the magical rat place 3 times, and I got food poisoning from it 3 times. Good memories, I’ll miss it.
Most costume characters at places like Chuck E Cheese are female because angry children tend to umm... aim their kicks in certain places lol.
I live all the way across the country, but I am a very concerned citizen!
7:56 you’re very right about this Scott. My very best friend and I went through a similaire sort of whiplash with this restaurant we had been going to for years since we were children (and our parents had been going before we were even born). It wasn’t on the level of something like Chuck E. Cheese in the fact that it was just a restaurant, but it held a really special place in our hearts, plus the decor in there was So eclectic and wild; it was just a really special place. We always went there for each others birthdays or to celebrate any big occasion. We both moved away from our home town several years ago, but during our most recent meet-up, we got in the car and headed to the restaurant to find a sign on the door saying they had closed. It was a sad moment for both of us….
Magical Rat 🧙🐀
When Scott mentioned wanting to be a mascot when he was younger I had an immediate intrusive thought of "He should commission a fursuit" and for some reason I felt that was a thought that needed to be shared.
Minnesota does the same thing with turning old restaurants into Mexican restaurants! We had an Olive Garden and, after it closed, a few months later it turned into El Tequila.
Working at chuck e cheese showed me.That corporate has basically given up on the family friendly atmosphere and cheap chuck e cheese was a day of the two years I work there.They raise prices A lot in just little increment. Then, since most of the staff are high schoolers, they don't really care about the job so the Management gives up extremely quickly with Trying to get them to do the job.
at least we still have space aliens
I honestly thought the Chuck E Cheese in Fargo closed years ago. Last time I went there was over 10 years ago and it was virtually empty then.
Scott actually seems like he’s holding back tears in the intro but he still has to make the video professional.
That's funny, I live in a pretty small town in Texas and about the only thing that ever pops up is also somehow Mexican food restaurants, car washes, gas stations, and donut shops.
It’s unfortunate, but they had it coming. They got the one-two punch of the rise of Five Nights at Freddy’s making the concept of animatronics, their primary brand appeal, killing you, alongside Covid generally making life harder for restaurants. Arcades have also been on the decline for decades as phones have generally replaced the kinds of games that used to be there.
"When I put on the mask, I'm no longer Scott... I'm the Mask-Scott"
This is the comment I was looking for lol
I've only had the experience twice in my life and it's one of those american experiences you need to have before your an adult to truly live
First Toys R Us and now the Chuck E. Cheese’s are closing down? It is sad, that my own future children won’t get these experiences that I enjoyed as a kid.
I went to the Fargo location twice and that got me really into Chuck E. Cheese as a kid. Any time my family was driving into Fargo and I saw the big "Chuck E. Cheese this way" billboard I got excited. RIP Fargo location.
Somehow my local chuck e is still open for business. I’ve literally never seen more than 2 cars outside of it since 2011 lol
Ok, you had me cracking up when you talked about car washes. My home town, Harlingen, TX is starting to get filled up with carwashes. SO much that people have designed a new town logo which has the Letter H, to show a car going in between the H with the Text: Come Wash Your Car in Harlingen
I love how Sam's was calling two $25 gift cards for $50 an "EXTREME DEAL!"
I honestly feel the same to this as I did when I learned my childhood playground was shutting down. Just kinda sad
They just want to make the strugglers struggle more😔
We're gonna need a follow up for when the location becomes something else, you've piqued my curiosity
Chuck-E always creeped me out as a kid, especially with the anamotronics.
But as someone else stated, there really does need to be more places for kids that dont threaten their parents with bankruptcy.
This feels like satire. I love local news.