Chuck E Cheese's Middle Name is a Glorious Bit of News in Our Dark World

These guys scream Entertainment

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Recently it was "found out" that the E in Chuck E Cheese stands for Entertainment. That means the character Chuck E Cheese's full name is Charles Entertainment Cheese. A lot of people have come out saying how this is incredible, wonderful, perfect, everyone is in love with this "news". Me, I love it too, but I find it way more fitting than something to be enamored with.

What else could the E stand for? Chuck E Cheese is a born entertainer. His lot in life is to perform for kids, dance with families, throw parties, hand out presents, front a band, eat pizza and hand out fistfuls of tickets for crappy prizes. That screams entertainment.

I can't look at a name like Chuck E Cheese and picture a giant party rat as anything else but an entertainer. Would a law firm hire him? How about a bank? Maybe he could be a temp? There's no way he would be in the food service industry. Although, he does give out pizza, but, he doesn't make the pizza. That's a major health code violation. In reality, look at Chuck E Cheese and you know that rat likes to party. Always has a smile on his face, belly full of pizza and always dancing.

He is, as already stated, a born entertainer. Also, what else did people think the E would stand for? Did anyone out there think the E was for Ernest? Everton? Eddie? Enrique? Ezekiel? Eugene? None of those fit a party rat. Ernest is fitting for a buffoon that gets himself into needless trouble.(RIP to Jim Varney, dude had a niche and made an entire career out of him. Kudos to that) Everton is too regal. A party rat is not regal. No offense. Eddie is too "normal" a name. That is a legit middle name handed down generationally among many families. Enrique is too sexy a middle name for a rat. It would be awesome if that was Chuck's middle name, but it doesn't fit like Entertainment does. Ezekiel is too old timey and a little too religious for my taste. And Eugene, that would only make me think of Eugene Mirman, one of my favorite stand up comedians and voice actors. Entertainment is just too perfect.

I'm happy that this was announced. This was a pretty cool move by a "restaurant" that I despise. It actually almost, but not quite, makes me want to take my kids there. This is a fun story, and it was a much needed break from all the grim and depressing stuff that is out there right now. I'm curious to see what RD has to say about all this. He was, at one time, an employee of this franchise, and as he and I have said on previous podcasts, he's donned the Chuck E Cheese suit. I wonder if he felt like a true entertainer while "in character"? But, I really do like this story, and this was a lot of fun for me to write. Charles Entertainment Cheese, it is so wonderful and so perfect.

Ty

Ty is the Pop Culture editor for SeedSing and the other host of the X Millennial Man Podcast. He is wondering what the editor thinks of the "E" news. When RD was in the Chuck E Cheese costume, he assumed the E stood for Exit-None. The name was a variation on the Jean-Paul Sartre play "No Exit" where the moral is that "hell is other people". When you work at Chuck E Cheese, you quickly learn about the damnation of being around those customers.

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