Who ya gonna call when theres an animatronic bear

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About

Who You Gonna Call When Games Are There, continued Who You Gonna Call When You Want Pizza There, or FNAF Pizzaria Song Parody is a viral song parody by BenjiYeti based on the Five Nights at Freddy's fan song "Freddy Fazbear Has Great Pizza." The parody was posted to YouTube in 2017 and has since been made private. It gained viral spread over the following years as people started using it in memes as an exploitable audio clip, becoming popularized on YouTube and TikTok.

Origin

According to the song's Genius[1] page, the song was released on YouTube on April 19th, 2017. The original video has been deleted or privated, but it was reuploaded to YouTube in July 2020, gaining over 65,000 views in a year (shown below).

Hello everybody, BenjiYeti here and this is a remake of the Freddy Fazbear Pizzeria theme song. You ready?
Who you gonna call when you want pizza there?
Who you gonna call when games are there?
Who you gonna call when there's an animatronic bear?
Come down to Freddy Fazbear Pizza Fredbear bear bear

At the start of the track, BenjiYeti explains how the song is a parody of the "Freddy Fazbear Pizzeria theme song," likely referencing a fan-made song titled "Freddy Fazbear Has Great Pizza" posted to YouTube by Zip Zipper in 2015 (shown below). The songs share no discernable similarities.

Spread

On November 19th, 2017, YouTuber The Utensils posted a Marge Krumping meme using the audio, gaining over 18,000 views in four years (shown below). This is one of the earliest memes to use the audio. On December 9th of that year, a Redditor posted the lyrics to /r/copypasta.[5]

On November 29th, 2018, YouTuber wannabe reposted a video from private Instagram[2] user die.tv remixing the song with "Moonlight" by XXXTENTACION, gaining over 39,200 views in three years (shown below).

On October 7th, 2021, TikToker[3] @xms011 posted a video of themselves making a rat dance to a song, gaining over 2.7 million views in three months. On November 16th, TikToker @quandangledingle posted a video of the rat dancing to the Pizzeria parody, gaining over 318,000 views in two months (shown below, left). The original sound was used over 5,000 times in the same span of time (example shown below, right). The video was reuploaded to YouTube[4] that month, gaining over 93,000 views.

On December 9th, the song was reuploaded to SoundCloud.[6] On September 28th, 2020, TIkToker[7] @juggalojinx posted a lip dub video to an original sound consisting of the song. The sound saw an increase in popularity over a year later in December 2021 throughout January 2022 following the release of FNAF: Security Breach in FNAF themed content. The boost was largely due to TikToker @x_moth, who on December 25th started creating an animation featuring chibi FNAF characters dancing, adding characters throughout early January 2022 (examples shown below).

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