Uploaded September 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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Showbiz Pizza and its animatronic band, The Rock-afire Explosion, were once a cultural phenomenon. But now, outside of its small community, you'd be hard-pressed to find people who know what it was. But why is that? And what is The Rock-afire Explosion, anyway? The answer may not be as simple as you think.

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Timestamps:

0:00 : Intro
0:50 : Act 1: So, Like... Animatronics, Right?
5:41 : Tangent 1: Aaron's Silly Little Guys
10:55 : Tangent 1 ends
14:41 : Act 2: The Rock-afire Explosion Is Awesome, Actually
28:29 : Rock-afire clipshow begins
32:53 : Rock-afire clipshow ends
38:32 : Tangent 2: The Noble American Colander
45:18 : Act 3: The Desperation of Aaron Fechter
51:47 : Tangent 3: Fine, I'll Talk About Uncle Klunk
57:22 : Tangent 3 ends
1:02:20 : Tangent 4: Love, Death, and Robots
1:06:08 : Tangent 4 ends
1:18:17 : Tangent 5: Five Nights at Freddy's is a Plague Upon This Earth
1:21:29 : Tangent 5 ends
1:24:24 : Act 4: Eve of Destruction
1:30:37 : Aaron's tweets
1:41:23 : Tweet montage ends
1:53:44 : Conclusion
1:56:00 : Credits