Chuck E. Cheese

Chuck E. Cheese is an American YouTube and YouTube Kids channel for the Chuck E. Cheese chain of Family Entertainment Centers (FECs). The channel is operated by their Entertainment Department, which located in CEC Entertainment's Support Center building in Irving, Texas. 
The channel posts kid-oriented videos, such as music videos and skits featuring Chuck E. Cheese and his friends, known as Munch's Make Believe Band, as well as other characters.
==History==
Chuck E. Cheese was founded on May 17, 1977 in San Jose, California by Nolan Bushnellhttps://www.chuckecheese.com/about/ (Co-Founder of the Atari video game company)https://www.fastcompany.com/3068135/the-untold-story-of-atari-founder-nolan-bushnells-visionary-1980s-tech-incubator as "Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre". In the 1980's, a competitor known as Showbiz Pizza Place emerged and was the direct competitor to PTT until 1984, when Pizza Time Theatre, Inc. (The parent company of PTT) was bought by Showbiz Pizza Place, Inc. (The parent company of Showbiz.), as a result of the video game crash of 1983. The newly formed Showbiz Pizza Time, Inc. (A combination of Showbiz Pizza Place and Pizza Time Theatre's names) was renamed to CEC Entertainment, Inc. in 1998, and CEC Entertainment, LLC in 2020.
==Channel==
On February 8, 2010, Chuck E. Cheese (known at the time as Chuck E. Cheese's) created their YouTube channel,https://www.youtube.com/@chuckecheese/about where music videos from shows in the restaurants, TV commercials, dancing tutorials to various songs for the Chuck E. Cheese's Live Show(s) (using the Chuck E. Cheese costume from 2004 to early 2013 including the song "Cupid Shuffle" originally by Cupid), and other skits were posted. Before uploading content based on the franchise, there were videos about a mother recording her daughter doing her dance routines before they were deleted or listed as private. All Chuck E. Cheese's videos before April 2014 are either deleted or private. The first Chuck E. Cheese's video found on this channel was a three-minute overview commercial uploaded in 2010 that can still be found on other YouTube channels.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1nUKXdOVJ0 
In 2014, Chuck E. Cheese started to make kid-oriented videos using their characters, known as Munch's Make Believe Band along with other characters. The content is now puppet-based, although they still use the walkarounds in dance tutorials and live shows. 
They posted 4 different kinds of videos from 2014 to 2019. Chuck E. Dance, which were the live shows played in the stores, Chuck E. Songs, which were the original songs Munch's Make Believe Band performed, and Chuck E. Shorts, which were short skits featuring their characters such as Chuck E. Cheese, Helen Henny, Mr. Munch, Jasper T. Jowls, Pasqually the Chef, and Ronnie the Unicorn (real name Ronaldo Sagittarian).https://chucke.fandom.com/wiki/Ronaldo_Ronnie_Sagittarian?so=search 
In 2020, as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, they started a new season of content titled Afternoon Fun Break. Every Friday, Chuck E. Cheese himself would host a livestream on the channel.
The Afternoon Fun Break name would continue to be used until 2022, when their last Afternoon Fun Break, which was a New Year's Countdown was uploaded.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG96IK2iA_w 
For early 2023, they went completely silent as no new videos would be uploaded until April 2023, when they came back with a new season of content known as “Chuck E. Cheese Originals”, debuted on the channel.https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/chuck-e-cheese-debuts-new-content-for-families-online-301789075.html 
Along with a new intro showcasing a wave of colors appear on screen with the Chuck E. Cheese symbol until it spins off-screen, showcasing the text “Chuck E. Cheese”, and then a long oval with the text “Originals” shows up below, there is also a new thumbnail design for the videos, where the Chuck E. Cheese logo is on the top left, and there are differently colored borders with a rectangle showcasing text saying what type of video it is, along with a background and PNGs of the puppets on a stock background. 
There are now 6 video types, Dance, Music Video, Remix, Compilation, Shorts, and Off-Road with Chuck E. This new season is currently ongoing, but a new show debuted in 2024 called “Off-Road with Chuck E.”, which is where Chuck E. Cheese tells fun facts about racing with Hendrick Motorsports pit crew member Landon Walker, as this show is part of a partnership with Hendrick Motorsports.https://x.com/ChuckECheese/status/1766243656728494172 
This season is currently ongoing.
Category:Music YouTubers
Category:American YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2010