--- title: Watch Chuck E Cheese Challenge: Dragon House Crew VIDEO description: Professional dancers have mimicked the Chuck E Cheese animatronic band in a viral video. canonical: https://time.com/4599129/chuck-e-cheese-challenge-dance/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-12-13T16:47:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:39:25.690Z og:title: These Dancers Recreated Chuck E. Cheese's Robot Music Show og:description: Some very convincing robot moves og:url: https://time.com/4599129/chuck-e-cheese-challenge-dance/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: These Dancers Recreated Chuck E. Cheese's Robot Music Show twitter:description: Some very convincing robot moves twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # These Dancers Skillfully Recreated Chuck E. Cheese's Animatronic Music Show by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Dec 13, 2016 4:47 PM UTC by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Dec 13, 2016 4:47 PM UTC In a new video [picking up steam online](https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/), a professional dance group showed off its superior robot moves with a [performance](http://time.com/4465184/donald-glover-atlanta-childish-gambino/) in the style of [Chuck E. Cheese’s animatronic band](http://business.time.com/2013/05/14/chuck-e-cheese-where-a-kid-can-gamble-like-an-adult/). Like the esteemed family entertainment chain’s anthropomorphic rat and his pop-culture savvy bandmates before him, Brandon “Bam” Morales, Marquese “Nonstop” Scott and Julius “IGlide” Chisolm of the Dragon House Crew freeze, glide and rotate to the tune of Childish Gambino’s “Redbone” in the video, titled “Chuck E. Cheese Challenge.” These human people created the video for fun, and it’s totally unrelated to the phenomenon of the social media [mannequin challenge](http://time.com/4565174/mannequin-challenge-ranking/), in which high schoolers and celebrities alike record themselves frozen like statutes to instantly achieve viral fame. Scott asked the others to move “robot-like” for the clip on a whim after being struck by the tone the of track from _Awaken My Love!_, the latest album from Childish Gambino (_Atlanta_ star Donald Glover). “The song influenced his idea as well because it sounded like one that would be used at a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant. We didn’t think much of the video and just uploaded it for memories and laughter,” Morales tells TIME. Watch them in faux-mechanical action below and try it at home if you’d like: \[[Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/)\] And here are the inspirational originals getting in on the mannequin challenge with a holiday twist: ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4599129/chuck-e-cheese-challenge-dance/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4599129/chuck-e-cheese-challenge-dance/"},"headline":"These Dancers Skillfully Recreated Chuck E. Cheese's Animatronic Music Show","datePublished":"2016-12-13T16:47:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:39:25.690Z","description":"Very convincing fake robots","url":"https://time.com/4599129/chuck-e-cheese-challenge-dance/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Internet","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4599129/chuck-e-cheese-challenge-dance/","name":"These Dancers Skillfully Recreated Chuck E. Cheese's Animatronic Music Show"}}]}] ```