pop lock and drop it huey bowwow t-pain rockafire showbizpizza showbizpizzaplace music rap remix

guh, awesome

its been linked to twice already, but you really need to watch this one to truly appreciate this guy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rock-afire_Explosion

Billy Bob Brockali - Bass Guitar. Located on stage left. He was the mascot for ShowBiz Pizza Place throughout its existence, and his image was on most of the merchandise. Billy Bob is a bear who wears a red and yellow-striped pair of overalls.

Looney Bird - Vocals. Looney Bird shares Billy Bob's stage. His head is the only thing ever seen, the rest of him supposedly hiding in an oil drum. Some shows featured a segment where Looney Bird would answer fan mail; for this, the robot was retrofitted to include a pair of hands which popped up holding a piece of paper for him to read.

Dook LaRue - Drums / Vocals. Dook is a dog who wore a silver space suit. The character is unique in that when setup properly, he has the ablility to actually play a 4 piece drum kit in time with the music.

Fatz Geronimo - Keyboard / Vocals. Fatz is a giant gorilla who wears a gold tuxedo. He is a parody of real-life entertainer Fats Domino.

Beach Bear - Electric Guitar / Vocals. Beach Bear is a "surfer" polar bear who wears beach shorts.

Mitzi Mozzarella - Vocals. Mitzi was a mouse and a cheerleader. Wears a white and green cheerleader uniform.

Rolfe deWolfe - Located on stage right. Rolfe is a wolf, but less of a musician, and more of a stand up comedian and ventriloquist (providing Earl's voice), although he did sing and had a cymbal. Replaced temporarily by Uncle Klunk.

Earl Schemerle - Earl is Rolfe's hand puppet, although he has a personality of his own.

Uncle Klunk - This character was only placed in around 30 stores for a limited period of time, and would replace Rolfe & Earl on stage right. Uncle Klunk was the only human character ever placed in the show. He performed talk show type skits along with his bird "Click" (Later renamed to "Murray D. Bird"). A signature phrase of his was, "Kids, don't smoke Crayolas!" He would also be retrofitted with a Santa Claus costume and stage set for the holidays.

Others - The show also has several smaller prop characters. These characters have only one or two movements and do not usually have speaking roles. All of these characters are located on the center portion of the stage. The "Sun" located behind the trees on the left, the "Moon" located behind the trees on the right, "Antioch" the spider, who drops from the ceiling and "Choo-Choo" the baby bear who hides in a small tree stump.

as much as his craft does amaze me is it so wrong to admit i enjoy him being some creepy crazy southern feller that much more?

but anyway nah we don't have anything like these in england as far as i know ;_;

i did have a magician at my pizza hut party if that helps.

There is also Rock-afire Pizza operating in Southern California, in the desert city of Indio. This venue is in no way connected to Showbiz or Chuck E Cheese restaurant but does boast having The Rock-afire Band and regalia.

this guy should play Coachella.

there are others

as much as his craft does amaze me is it so wrong to admit i enjoy him being some creepy crazy southern feller that much more?

if you ever get a chance to meet the guy be sure and tell him how much his deliciously creepy accent enhances your respect for his work ---

(or then again maybe just keep that to yourself until you get over it)

http://idolator.com/tunes/videodrone/t+pains-country-bear-jamboree-292082.php

XD

T-Pain was on the "2 Step" rmx, not "Walk It Out

I am way more entertained by this than I want to be. even better than the video of Spongebob Squarepants lip-syncing "Crank Dat".

-- Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 18:47 (1 hour ago) Link

my bad.

the video's on pitchfork, too (xpost).

gr8080 ask Nick Denton for 5% of that page's ad revenue

no wait he big upped you
i really should read these things first

haha wtf dude i'm not gonna not credit the man who brought my only joy today

all i have now is the rotted-out animatronic muppets

oh wow u should interview the guy who reprograms them

omg

it will be like when i visited the big johnson t-shirt factory but far, far creepier. i think.

i smell pulitzer

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PLEASE

wtf ILM? we need to represent here. top of this list by tomorrow morning.

-- Wrinklepaws, Tuesday, August 21, 2007 1:35 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

sanskrit - how do these things work? soes it take a day or two for them to log?

A signature phrase of his was, "Kids, don't smoke Crayolas!"
A signature phrase of his was, "Kids, don't smoke Crayolas!"
A signature phrase of his was, "Kids, don't smoke Crayolas!"
A signature phrase of his was, "Kids, don't smoke Crayolas!"
A signature phrase of his was, "Kids, don't smoke Crayolas!"
A signature phrase of his was, "Kids, don't smoke Crayolas!"
A signature phrase of his was, "Kids, don't smoke Crayolas!"

BIG JOHNSON ANIMATRONIC PUPPETS: KIDS, DONT SMOKE CRAYOLAS

this guy should take this shit out of the basement and open a 21+ place with a killer soundsystem and a bar and a dancefloor and a dj to play inbetween sets.

i will take out loans to help him do this.

sanskrit - how do these things work? soes it take a day or two for them to log?

-- gr8080, Wednesday, August 22, 2007 9:10 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link

dude i have no idea. maybe people have to watch it all the way through? shit is random. but i'm pretty sure idolator will be #1 on it tomorrow.

jesus, soulstrut is in the lead. those people are the worst.

the only way i can describe soulstrut is imagine ILM as a record digging / beatmaking board with 800 ethans trying to zing each other then once a month pete rock posts something and everyone gets all reverent.

i found out about this guy on a djhistory thread. all they could talk about was how awful fergie is.

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/07/30/chuck_e_cheese_bots_.html
http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/01/showbiz-pizzas-rock-afire-explosion-hacked-to-rap-on-stage/
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/robots/chuck-e-cheese-robots-hacked-to-play-hip-hop-284313.php

i dont read boing boing

the only way i can describe soulstrut is imagine ILM as a record digging / beatmaking board with 800 ethans trying to zing each other then once a month pete rock posts something and everyone gets all reverent.

-- sanskrit, Wednesday, August 22, 2007 6:40 PM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

ethan with a hint of jaxon?

is "i don't read boing boing"/"i read boing boing" a meme or something?

its not a meme until HOOS is on it.

clap your hoos say yeah.

78 clicks from http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/forkcast/45062-ra...
76 clicks from http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/forkcast/45061-hu...
54 clicks from http://www.soulstrut.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat...
48 clicks from http://www.idolator.com/
28 clicks from http://idolator.com/

I BET DAT BIZZA TASE GOOOOD

if britishers want some kind of idea of what these places were like this guy has a ton of old videos. including several couple training videos for the employees who had to install them??

what i've learned so far in this thread:

southern accents = CREEPY CRAZY/DELICIOUSLY CREEPY

jamaican morphology>southern american morphology GET USED TO IT WHITEY

i'm going to start a website based on the definitive etymology of the boioioioing word up in "Rubberband Banks" but twice and index nerdy shit and whatnot?????

i am the greatest emo morphologist alive pm me for evidence

if ur a girl, otherwise smd

i ain't interested in u fgt ass analysts, writin ur bylines for fgt shit that ain't even on glossy pages

ethan email me if u want 2 cyber jk

mod plz delete my last comment

i h8 myself and i wnt 2 die ?????

ilx pop lock and drop it animatronicks thread: am i a good for nothin type of brother??? i molested my twin sister when we finally declared we would stop trying to do each other last night

i was so proud of this thread.

uh

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wow! this so funny... its really great! any chance of alot more videos like this? love it!

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lol im high

on dvd

http://www.rockafiremovie.com/images/pages/merchandise/lightbox/RAE-DVD.png

http://www.rockafiremovie.com/

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Animatronic-Hillbilly-Family-Musicians-/130742966163

ebay

― gr8080, Tuesday, August 21, 2007 1:32 PM (4 years ago)

Did we have a thread where we talked about that documentary? Because it's worth talking about.

I never noticed the $1200 bid up above for Electric Feel, I guess that's how they ended up in the MGMT music video, I saw that at the gym one day and it blew my mind

reviving to post this video by the original showbiz character creator that he put together in a fit of inspiration last year:
http://www.youtube.com/v/uu4e-Rf6zhc&fs=1&hl=en

there is a cdbaby link for a possible album but I thankfully cannot view it at work

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chuck-e-cheeses-animatronics-may-take-a-final-bow/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8ZjhklL_RU

interstitial video elements with doberman particularly confusing

jump to 3.30 for the "giving/getting head bit"

there was a restaurant in KC called Rockafire that had a working band setup. it closed in march :(

https://inkkc.com/articles/227459289/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PL5ds5Zf40

er, changed focus rather than closed i guess.

oh man, those videos were so classic

those videos are probably my favorite content on the entire internet