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== Film ==
* The film ''[[Made]]'' ends with a birthday party at an unnamed Suck E. Cheese's restaurant. Vince Vaughn criticizes a costumed employee for arriving only after the children have all left for the arcade, then offers him a bribe to go away.
* There's Woody Woodchuck's in ''[[The Pacifier]]''. It does not look like a fun place to be. Kids screaming and fighting, the greeter at the door has those [[Nightmare Fuel|terrible-looking]] [[Braces of Orthodontic Overkill|around-the-head braces ...]]
{{quote|'''Shane''': And they say ''war'' is hell.}}
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[That's So Raven]]'' featured one of these. Raven even ended up ended having to disguise herself as an animatronic pirate.
* ''[[Sister, Sister]]'' had Buck E. Duck for an episode (which had the twins taking their SATs...for the second time... under the tutorship of [[You Look Familiar|that kid from]] [[Intercontinuity Crossover|Smart Guy]]... who is also their brother in Real Life...)
* ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' opened one episode with the [[Patient of the Week]] working in such a hellhole to earn a living for him and his parentless siblings. No wonder he wanted to {{spoiler|perpetuate his illness so that his siblings would be taken into foster care.}}
* ''[[All That]]'' had "Stink E. Cheese's". The mascot was a skunk, and everyone delighted in the horrible smells.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Ted E. Bear's [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|Mafia-Free]] Playland and Casino from ''[[Sam and Max]]: The Mole, The Mob, & the Meatball'', which is Chuck E. Cheese's [[X Meets Y|crossed with]] organized crime.
** Oddly enough, there actually was a real-life Ted E. Bear's in Southern California, a small chain of Chuck E. Cheese knock-offs.
*** Were they mafia-free, just doing business legitimately?
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Kim Possible]]'' has "J.P. Bearymore's Pizza Partytorium" in the "Coach Possible" episode (referenced in the page quote). It is later destroyed in season 4 then rebuilt.
** Note that Jim, Tim and Ron love the place unironically whereas Kim and Mrs. Dr. P view it with amazing amounts of dread.
* ''[[Rugrats]]'' has "Piggy's Pizza Palace".
** ''[[My Gym Partner's a Monkey|My Gym Partners a Monkey]]'' has the very similarly-named Pig E. Porker's Pizza Palace.
* ''[[Dexter's Laboratory]]'' has "Chubby Cheese's", which featured animatronic [[Hanna-Barbera]] characters doing the [[Mushroom Samba]] with Dexter and employees who were part of a [[Milkman Conspiracy|secret conspiracy]], complete with Bond-style hidden lair.
** Y'iss!
* There's a parody called "Yucky Cheese" in ''[[Being Ian]]''.
* Wall E. Weasel's ("We cram fun down your throat!") from ''[[The Simpsons]]''. Also on season ten's "Bart the Mother," there was a place generically called "Family Fun Center." The joke is that this seemingly normal place was featured on one of FOX's "reality" specials of the mid-to-late 1990s (you know, the ones titled, "When Animals Attack" and "World's Wildest Police Chases"), in this case, it was featured on the fictitious special, "When Disaster Strikes 4".
{{quote|''"You're the birthday, you're the birthday, you're the birthday boy or girl!"''}}
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** Also ironic, in [[Real Life]], Chuck E. Cheese's is called Charlie Cheese's in Australia.
* Pinky from ''[[Pinky and The Brain]]'' throws a birthday party for Brain at "Chunky Cheesy."
* ''[[South Park]]'' has Crust E. Crotch, a direct pastiche of Chuck E. Cheese's. It also features Whistling Willy's, a real life knock-off in Denver, as well as Casa Bonita, a real Mexican-themed restaurant and fun house in Denver.
* ''[[Invader Zim]]'' has the rather unsavory Bloaty's Pizza Hog. Being from a [[Crapsack World]] it was probably the worst of the bunch.
** The mascot is disgustingly fat (so much so that children sink into him) and the person under the costume is ''even fatter''.
** To exemplify how far it gets taken, the credits of the episode list an actor as voicing ''Anamatronic Horrors''. [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|The description is]] ''[[Nightmare Fuel|quite]]'' [[Nightmare Fuel|apt]].
* ''[[Tom Goes to the Mayor]]'' has [[Xtreme Kool Letterz|WW Laserz]] in the episode of the same name, a World War II-themed place complete with an animatronic ''doo-wop singing Hitler''.
* ''[[Lilo and Stitch: The Series]]'' had one of these. The [[Monster of the Week|Experiment of the episode]] was convinced to take over the broken animatronics so it could indulge its attention-seeking nature and use its ability to control inanimate objects to help others instead of hurt them.
* Cheezy Sneezer's in ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]''. Although the name brings to mind Caesarland, a Chuck E. Cheese's expy created by Little Caesars.
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* The ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' episode "Raging Bully" featured Gunther Goatcheese's, "the goat-cheesiest place in Drusselstein", and site of Dr. Doofenshmirtz's miserable childhood birthdays.
* An episode of ''[[Duck Dodgers]]'' featured a pasta place with a scary animatronic dinosaur mascot. When he was destroyed by Rocky and Mugsy, the kids all cheered.
* ''[[The Mighty B]]'' had one with an Australian theme to it; the main mascot being a kangaroo with the accent. Which a supporting character fell in love with and stole.
** [[Chowder]] did something similar, with Shnitzel stealing Carlito con Queso's mascot.
* ''[[The Movie|The]] [[SpongeBob SquarePants]] [[The Movie|Movie]]'' had Goofy Goober's, basically Chuck E. Cheese combined with [http://farrellsusa.com Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour], with a dancing peanut named Goofy Goober. Unlike most other parodies, this place is portrayed as not being soul crushingly depressing/scary/awkward/cheap, and is probably the most light hearted example on here as of this edit.
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* One of the members of the Anime Club in KC Greens recent strips reviews a "Whyme R. Reiner's" as a possible location for the new, HQ-less Anime Club.
** They revisit it at the end of part 5, only to find that {{spoiler|[[We Could Have Avoided All This|the club could have just met in Clyde's mom's basement all along.]]}}
* A ''[[Something Positive]]'' strip has Rory blackmailing Vanessa into taking him to the genuine article.
{{quote|'''Vanessa''': I want black olives on my half of the pizza, and for him -- what do you have that goes with emotional blackmail?
'''Employee''': All our pizzas come with hateful gobs of spit already. }}
* [[Wonderella]]'s friends have a surprise birthday party for her every year at "Chunk E. Cheeses," as seen [http://nonadventures.com/2008/08/23/the-da-vinci-load/ here], [http://nonadventures.com/2007/08/25/planet-of-the-japes/ here], and [http://nonadventures.com/2009/08/22/the-hills-have-guys/ here].
* The protagonists of ''[[Scrambled Eggs]]'' tried to avoid attending one of [[Dumb Blonde|Michelle]]'s birthday parties by hiding at Chunky Cheesy's, because no one goes there anymore, at least according to Quint. It turned out Michelle had the place reserved for her party, so the kids ended up attending anyway.
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