Showbiz Pizza's Rock-afire Explosion hacked to rap on stage

Hacking your Roomba to sing and dance is one thing, but reprogramming The Rock-afire Explosion animatronic robot band to belt out rap tunes is undoubtedly on another level. Ripped straight from Showbiz Pizza Place, Fatz Geronimo and crew have apparently been reworked to perform Ms. New Booty, a less than flattering (but entirely comical) piece. So if you're in desperate need of a midday laugh, be sure and check out the video after the break.

[Via BoingBoing]

[V.I. @ Aug 1st 2007 6:55AM]

Awwww man! That was hillarious. I remember Billy Bob and them at Showbiz as a kid LOL!!

[Pacey @ Aug 1st 2007 7:20AM]

That took some serious work, awesome job and planning by whoever did it. If that actually played while kids were in the store, i can only imagine a few upset parents. Still, great job and absolutely hilarious

[strider_mt2k @ Aug 1st 2007 8:11AM]

Okay, but why does the back STILL smell like a blunt?

I had to laugh out loud.

Boing Boing is great.

[Larry @ Aug 1st 2007 9:22AM]

I was waiting for the bear-chick with pom-poms to start singing. Don't most rap songs have a part where a girl moans or something?

SmoothMachine

[dmackdaddy @ Aug 1st 2007 10:54AM]

I doubt he’s hacking anything as much as just plugging in MP3’s at his work when the place closes:
http://www.youtube.com/user/christhrash

[Don @ Aug 1st 2007 11:36AM]

You don't know how these things work, do you? They aren't Teddy Ruxpin, you know. The characters must be programmed for proper timing and to sing the proper parts of the song. You don't just shove it in "Line In" and then "the magic" happens.

[Don @ Aug 1st 2007 11:50AM]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWsYjT7Umik

From the link you provided, it's pretty apparent that he's doing much more than plugging in an MP3. I had no idea that the dog actually drums. Insane. Now I want someone to make an advanced Neil Peart-drumming dog robot.

[CubeGuy @ Aug 1st 2007 12:16PM]

It's not as simple as just plugging in an iPod, but it's not unheard of either. You can actually store a show on an MP3 Player like so...

http://rock_afire.tripod.com/videos/cei/cei_ipod.html

[Jon @ Aug 1st 2007 11:09AM]

That's so wrong it's right!

[CubeGuy @ Aug 1st 2007 12:04PM]

I personally like "The Sign". It's just creepy enough to give you nightmares.

http://rock_afire.tripod.com/videos/rae/fans/index.html

That has a lot of fan-made shows.

[rp @ Aug 1st 2007 6:10PM]

What the hell is Showbiz Pizza? All we had around here were Chuck E Cheese's...

[V.I. @ Aug 8th 2007 9:01PM]

Showbiz was before Chuckie Cheese, late 80's in Chicagoland area.

[Jared @ Aug 2nd 2007 6:18PM]

Haha yeah. Chucky Cheese is the shitznite... Until the animatronics fry out.. Happened to me on my 6th b-day... Chucky has a sezure and started sparking. :(

[illflux @ Aug 3rd 2007 11:58AM]

Anybody know where I can buy some of these robots? I need one!

[Ed_C. @ Aug 11th 2007 3:26PM]

Actually, yes I do:

http://www.robotsandgames.com/page4.html