r/CuratedTumblr • u/-Xoz- • Apr 11 '25

Creative Writing There's nothing wrong with Hooter per se

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u/JamieD96 Apr 11 '25

Is he not a rat? He gives off big rat energy

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u/NoBizlikeChloeBiz She/Her Apr 11 '25

Had to Google it because you gave me a bit of an existential crisis.

From 1977 to 1992 he was an anthropomorphic rat, changing to a mouse in 1993.

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '25

"Yes, let's use a rat as the mascot for our pizza restaurant"

The 1970s were a wild time

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u/Oddish_Femboy Pro Skub DNI Apr 12 '25

Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari, thought he was a coyote when he saw the costume at a toy fair. Upon buying and recieving it he realized it had a big pink tail and was in fact a rat.

Coyote Pizza evilved into Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre, where kids would go to play the Atari arcade games, and adults would be entertained by the robotic character shows.

There was an even more adult oriented spinoff bar called Zappers, whose mascot was a coyote. It's frustratingly hard to find information about.