# What is Chuck E. Cheese's middle name?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** food-cooking\
**Created:** [April 20, 2022, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-chuck-e-cheeses-middle-name/963140 "2022-04-20T21:16:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2022, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-chuck-e-cheeses-middle-name/963140/1 "2022-04-20T21:16:45Z")

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Just curious, I guess.

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**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2022, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-chuck-e-cheeses-middle-name/963140/2 "2022-04-20T21:19:41Z")

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“Entertainment” is literally the middle name.

> **[The surprising and horrifying backstory behind Charles Entertainment Cheese](https://www.insider.com/chuck-e-cheese-backstory-origin-2017-6)**
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> Chuck E. Cheese was once an orphan living in a pizza shop, according to the company's official story.

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**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2022, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-chuck-e-cheeses-middle-name/963140/3 "2022-04-20T21:25:07Z")

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Thanks for that useless bit of trivia.

I read that article and thought, “A mouse? I could have sworn Chuck E. Cheese was a giant rat.”

Consulting Wikipedia, I find that “From 1977 to 1992 he was an anthropomorphic rat, changing to a mouse in 1993.”

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**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2022, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-chuck-e-cheeses-middle-name/963140/4 "2022-04-21T00:29:19Z")

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He’s certainly a lot more talented than his brother Cedric.

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**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2022, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-chuck-e-cheeses-middle-name/963140/5 "2022-04-21T00:55:04Z")

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BTW, did anyone other than me have to dress up as Chuck E Cheese? I worked at one of their locations as my very first, minimum wage ($3.35 per hour) job and occasionally was told to put on the costume to entertain the kids. A couple of times we were sent to a remote location. And I (as the rat) was one of the judges of a sand castle building contest, though I was outvoted by the mayor of the city.