HAHAHA!!! Yep! Farrell’s, Baby!!!
I didn’t realize it was actually filmed AT a Farrell’s. I just figured they took the idea from it.
And while the waterpark may have been FILMED in AZ, it is supposed to represent an actual waterpark which is in SAN DIMAS, CA (Raging Waters). I’m glad you told me about this random fact, though, as I’d always thought it was filmed in San Dimas, too.
damn you yanks have/had some cool places to hang out and have your bday parties.
we never had it so good up here.
damn you yanks have/had some cool places to hang out and have your bday parties.
we never had it so good up here.
What are you talking about?? you live up north where ice cream falls from the sky!!
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grmpysmrf
Now I need a Ziggy Piggy patch to sew onto my denim vest.
Yes Gunnar, Farrell’s was before my time seeing that I’m 25. But I am old enough to remember when Chuck E. Cheese pizza was good. The cheese used to actually hang off the crust like real pizza when I was about 3-4. I lived in Pleasant Hill, CA and my earliest memories of playing with others was @ Chuck’s. They used to kick me out of the play area because they thought I was too old to play when I was just taller than the other kids. Anyways Chuck’s was there til I was about 6 and then they took that out and put a fucking Trader Joe’s in it’s place! The nearest Chuck E. Cheese was in Fairfield, and while it was still pretty kick ass, it just wasn’t the same. Unfortunatley, Chuck E. Cheese is also the place I found out that Chuck E. and all the Disneyland characters was just a costume and not a real person. I miss my innocense sometimes.
Sorry for that Amlux moment.
I’ve not been in a Chuck E. Cheese since High School (20 years ago). My buddies and I used to get drunk and then go into Chuck E. Cheese to be belligerent jackasses. We’d hide in the ball pit and jump up and scare people and get thrown out.
One of my earliest memories of being IMPRESSED by someone was at Chuck E. Cheese. I was probably about 7 or 8 maybe and this little dirtbag Hessian kid (he seemed way older but he was probably like 11 or 12 maybe) came up to me when I was playing SKEE-BALL (the greatest game ever, along with Whack-a-Mole).
“Hey, you wanna get some more tickets?” the little dirtbag asked me. I nodded because you’re damn right I wanted more tickets. Tickets ruled the world, MAN!!! With enough tickets I could buy a model kit of the A-Team van instead of just a yo-yo or a finger trap. So the Hessian kid tells me, “Watch THIS!” and runs up the ramp of the Skee-Ball game and jams his arm down the 100 pt. tube. Ding ding ding ding ding ding . . . my score just started scrolling up crazy high and the tickets were shooting out faster than I could roll 'em up and grab them. It was my first taste of awesome overload and until seeing Teen Wolf (Stiles) or Breakfast Club (Bender) that kid was pretty much my roll model for a few years.
I don’t even remember what I redeemed my tickets for. I did notice about 8 years later when I went to play Skee-Ball somewhere else that they now cover the ramp and net off the targets so you can’t just walk up the ramp and pull a robbery on the game like my crusty little friend.
^ The above story reminds me of the time I went to Billy Bob’s in Texas. (World’s Largest Honky Tonk or some such). And I got hammered. I wanted this cheesy black velvet cowboy that was covered in red flames. Looked like something Vinnie Paul from Pantera would wear.
Anyways. I go up to the girl at the cash and said, ‘listen, I’ll give you 20$ right now, let’s just skip the whole ticket thing’. She said she couldn’t because the tickets redeemed had to equal the prizes given out.
So I was pissed, went and put 5$ in this random video blackjack thing, max bet, and got a blackjack. Tickets were flying out like Gunnar’s story above.
So I went to her and gave her the mess of tickets and got the damn hat.
Got some hot chick’s # that night too. Said she loved my hat. So it worked. Too bad I was married, with people from work, and from Canada. =)
Never been to a Farrell’s. Must’ve been a regional thing that wasn’t in any region I lived in.
Looks like Shakey’s pizza to me.
Farrell’s was before your time, I think, Eureka . . . but for any of y’all 35 years of age or older, you may remember (I hope this wasn’t just a west coast thing) the ice cream parlour . . . FARRELL’S.
One just opened near my house. I don’t know why 25 years later they’ve decided to make a “comeback”. But, we’ll see . . . maybe kids are sick of bouncy houses and laser tag and once again ready to get back to their roots!
Book us a table Pinz!
[reply]damn you yanks have/had some cool places to hang out and have your bday parties.
we never had it so good up here.
What are you talking about?? you live up north where ice cream falls from the sky!!
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grmpysmrf[/reply]
It’s grim up north…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwtSdJaPCSI
I was at Chuck E. Cheese for my wife’s niece’s second birthday not too long ago. It was just like hell on earth, as expected.
There’s a new Chuck E. Cheese in Concord which is the next town over from Pleasant Hill where I now live again. I need to check it out but I know it won’t be the same. I wonder if it’ll have the robots playing music like the old days. People really hate the pizza now but I don’t really mind it that much. Then again I haven’t been to one in 5 or 6 years.
There’s a new Chuck E. Cheese in Concord which is the next town over from Pleasant Hill where I now live again. I need to check it out but I know it won’t be the same. I wonder if it’ll have the robots playing music like the old days. People really hate the pizza now but I don’t really mind it that much. Then again I haven’t been to one in 5 or 6 years.
Give us a full report/ review if you go!
I’ve not had the pizza for at least 25 years but for me pizza has to be REALLY bad for me not to eat it. I’ve eaten the pizzas at drive-in theatres and gas stations. Honestly, I have a pretty easy scale of tolerance for pizza. I am curious if they still have the dancing robots and such.
I remember as a kid going to Chuck E. Cheese and seeing like 12 kids crawling all over and punching the crap out of Chuck. Even as a child I remember thinking, “Wow. What a horrible job that guy has.”
Give us a full report/ review if you go!
there’s a chuck e cheeses around the corner from my house. we went last November when my nieces and nephew came down from Spokane. the pizza crust was buttery and not too too bad but yeah the robots were still there but they had a green screen so kids could be on tv with them. games all sucked. skeeball was missing most of the balls but you didn’t know that till you put your money in. Pass on it
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grmpysmrf
Yeah for sure…even the worst pizza is good pizza…
I even liked the square piece’s of shit they served in the lunchroom cafeteria…I’ll eat any crappy frozen pizza…
I think the worst of the big chain pizza places is Little Cesar’s(don’t know if they are national)…thats why you can get 2 larges for lik $10…but still I will eat that shit up…a life without pizza=death
My friends ex-wife found a turd in the bouncing ball cage…
This thread is awesome this week. I just about crapped my pants when I read that last turd post. But I guess I can hold it until I find a Cheese Crawl to drop it in.
This thread is awesome this week. I just about crapped my pants when I read that last turd post. But I guess I can hold it until I find a Cheese Crawl to drop it in.
Drop that deuce,Gunnar!!!..by the way,it’s a true story…my friends ex went to fish her kid out of that hellish cage and lo and behold saw a shiny babe ruth just sitting there on top of the colorful balls…she grabbed her kid and gtfo[laugh]
Do Chuck E. Cheeses still have those weird anamatronic band members? The pizza was terrible but I dug the weird band.
Do Chuck E. Cheeses still have those weird anamatronic band members? The pizza was terrible but I dug the weird band.
They do.
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grmpysmrf
I thought the animatronic bands had been replaced by video screens and whatnot?
I think I need to do some recon work of my own.