Chuck E. Cheese’s has 512 corporate-owned restaurants in the U.S., ... The Rock-afire Explosion included such characters as Billy Bob Brockali, a banjo-playing bear; Mitzi Mozzarella, ...

Originally established as a Showbiz Pizza Place, Billy Bob's went independent after the chain merged with Chuck E. Cheese. While most of the original Showbiz restaurants were eventually converted ...

Chuck’s charming rat face was too iconic to kill, so the two restaurants became friendly competition, with ShowBiz’s Billy Bob and Chuck E. Cheese sometimes posing together in ads.

In the early 1980s and ‘90s, a restaurant called Showbiz Pizza was known for featuring the Rock-afire Explosion band, which ...

Instead of Chuck E. Cheese and his “Pizza Time Players,” the ShowBiz show featured the Rock-afire Explosion, an animatronic band which included a wise-cracking polar bear, an alcoholic bird, a ...

Billy Bob Brockali greeted a family at the first ShowBiz Pizza restaurant, located in Kansas City at the Antioch Center. ... “Chuck E. Cheese has a really tangled history,” said Schafer.

ShowBiz Pizza’s Billy Bob Gets a Rare (and Creepy) Collectible. by Luke Y. Thompson. Nov 15 2018 • 2:34 PM. ... buying out Chuck E. Cheese while adopting its better-known branding.

Chuck E. Cheese has a grand total of 19 locations in Illinois, ... ShowBiz had its own animatronic band known as the Rock-afire Explosion, fronted by a bear character called Billy Bob Brockali.

Billy Bob was the band leader, along with Mitzi, Beach Bear, Dook, Rolfe and Fats — the gorilla drummer. In 1988, Showbiz went belly up locally, but Major Magic’s All Star Pizza Revue opened ...

Only 66 Studio C stages remain among the roughly 600 Chuck E. Cheese locations worldwide, with 400 in the U.S. ... (including a bear named Billy Bob), pizza and arcade games.

You, Brian VanHoooker, saw the nightmare animatronics at Chuck E. Cheese, and somehow, ... So if you go to a place like Billy Bob’s Wonderland where they’ve still got their show — man, ...