JCC You know you feel old when...

The newest hire in your department was born the day you graduated high school.

 

When people start re-habilitating George W. Bush in your life-time.

 

... you don't know what Werner Syndrome is.

 

Ha! This will never happen to me! Someone who was born when I graduated high school would be having a birthday in about a month and turning....

18


Welp, guess it's almost over now.

 

You join a Discord server, they call their 30-something members old, and you could be the father of any member of its staff as well as of most of its members

 

According to our school census the average age is like 28 so it's not quite that dire..still though, feels bad.

 

It doesn't, I'm having a right laugh out of it ^^

 

@Juliet316 Funny I came across that picture of a Pizza Hut restuarant since I was just explaining to my kids that Pizza Hut was one of the go to places for birthday parties:



Also as shown in "The Bad News Bears" (the original) it also was where you had like baseball team parties and stuff. That of course is if you didn't get to your birthday party at the holy of holies, Showbiz Pizza:



I had one big birthday party growing up as it was when I was in kindergarten and my parents decided to invite the whole class because I was new still to the school as we just moved a few months earlier. It might be still my favorite birthday ever.

 

When you have to ask how TikTok works...

 

When you watch a Werther’s Original ad and realize you look like the “old” person in the commercial….

 

When someone uses a meme featuring a commercial they didn't even know existed, but you remember from your childhood

 

You're watching Maude and it dawns on you that you are the same age as Maude and Vivian.

 

Sort of…..

Chuck E. Cheese failed as a business in the 80s. Showbiz Pizza bought the failed Chuck E. Cheese. Chuck E. Cheese was better know and Showbiz had a legal dispute going over ownership rights for it’s characters.

After the buy out / merger all Showbiz Pizza’s changed to become Chuck E. Cheese and had their animatronics repurposed to be the Chuck E. Cheese characters.

Today there are no Showbiz Pizza anamotrinic restaurants. But all Chuck E. Cheese restaurants are owned by Showbiz Pizza. Chuck E. Cheese the original company no longer exists.


It’s like if Pepsi bought Coca Cola and then Pepsi started making only Coke products and discontinued everything Pepsi.

 

You rewatch any of your favorite shows from the 80s and realize you're older than the actors playing those characters you always thought were 'old'.

Did you know Patrick Stewart was 46 when he played Picard in TNG S1.(Picard, the character was 57) That's only 1 year old than me.

 

There is a great podcast...sorry, I have to track down the title...that details the "animatronic pizza wars". It's a fascinating story!

 

@Jedi_Sith_Smuggler_Droid Yep and the thing was Showbiz was the much better product then Chucky Cheese. It had better pizza, they were overall cleaner (except the ball pit since all of those are just a petri dish of infection as my wife puts it), had a better video game system, and even a better animatronics show. I mean who doesn't want to watch the legend Big Bob Brockali sing about having a roast beef sandwich a pizza:



But for some reason they went with Chucky Cheese over Showbiz even though as you mentioned it was Showbiz who bought out Chucky Cheese after they went bankrupt. And Chucky Cheese is quickly fading away thanks at first due to the pandemic but now air trampoline places have become all the rage to have kid birthday parties and stuff. I lost count of how many birthday parties the kids been to the past year at one of them. And they are independently owned therefore none are run the same, not even when it comes to how they handle their food. Some make their food in house while others outsource to a pizza point. I honestly wonder if they all start getting bought out and become a franchise that is the place for kids birthday parties....until the next place takes off and puts all these air trampoline places out of business.

 

I think I went to friend's bday part at one once. All I remember is that they had like a 4 story 'tree house' slide. It was all carpeted, you'd climb up inside through varying ladders and levels. There was tinted plastic glass. And then a slide at the top.

And then the pizza and weird animal animatronics of course.

 

@DarkGingerJedi Showbiz was my jam between ages 4-7. There was one next to my dad's work so we would go to work with him on Saturday mornings with my brother and I yes stuffing coins and stuff (yes my dad put me to work at like four years old) and our reward was to go to Showbiz for lunch and video games since they always had good coupons:



i would play skeetball a lot with my dad and then my brother would use me as a guinea pig on Dragon's Lair at least in 1983-1984 when it was all the rage. He make me try different moves and I often get killed so I got use to see this a lot:



Funny thing is I eventually got Dragon's Lair for Sega CD when I was in high school (Christmas 93 I want to say when I was a Sophomore) and realize how easily the game was to beat once you figure it out plus being Sega CD it didn't scratch and get beat up like the arcade did.

 

God. The 70s really went to town with creepy animal kids mascots. lol.

 

Showbiz lost the rights to their characters but owned the Chuck E. Cheese characters.

Here is a 30 minute video that goes into great detail on all of it.




You’re welcome.

 

When all your favorite films & shows are now celebrating 30 and 40 year anniversaries.

 

I heard the Show Biz/Chuck E Cheese story a few years ago and was refreshed by John Oliver last week. We definitely had a retrofitted Showbiz . By age 12 I realized the place was a scam making you spend several dollars to win tickets to collect prizes worth pennies. And their pizza was gross. Loved it when I was a kid, though