The Chuck E. Cheese Challenge will make you nostalgic for ball pits

Munch's Make Believe Band is now a meme.
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Brian Koerber
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Big cheese is going to love this publicity.

YouTube challenges have come a long way since people started stuffing tablespoons of cinnamon in their face. The Ice Bucket Challenge made a difference, the Mannequin Challenge made people stop and think, and now, the Chuck E. Cheese Challenge is just perfectly corny.

If you've never graced the puke-ridden halls of a Chuck E. Cheese "restaurant" and indoor play place, it's sort of like a Disney World that smells like pizza and without any of the cool rides. While there are sometimes people walking around in mouse costumes, they also typically have a stage decked out with a creepy animatronic band called Munch's Make Believe Band. It's horrifying.

Recently, a clip of three extremely talented dudes has been passed around using the hashtag #ChuckECheese challenge, where they attempt to imitate the creepy yet nostalgic Munch's Make Believe Band robotic motions.

The hashtag appears to have been started by _BamTheDancer on Twitter, featuring Marquese Scott and Julius Chisolm. Although there are only a few rebuttals, it's only a matter of time until the internet gets on it.

Scott also released another challenge on his Instagram on Tuesday.

As of Tuesday morning, the clip was ripped from Twitter and re-uploaded to YouTube where it hit the top spot in Reddit's r/Videos.

Stay weird, internet.

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Brian Koerber

Brian was the Culture Editor and has been working at Mashable on the web culture desk since 2014.

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