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00:00Slow Ken Burns effect. Zoom it in real slow. Make it real dramatic. I'm gonna move closer.
00:07Everyone always asks, what happened to Pizza Hut? But what if it never really left? Except this one.
00:13This one left. It's just a empty, empty carcass. Also, who is asking that? Look, I know deep down
00:21you're all horned up just thinking about that stuffed crust. Don't like that. Recently on a
00:26road trip I found a Pizza Hut that looked exactly like it did in the 90s.
00:30Let's revisit the glory days of Pizza Hut. Ya old dirty birdies.
00:56No! No! Damn you, Domino's! Damn you!
01:04Over the years, I've made way too many videos at Pizza Hut. I don't know why.
01:09Probably because it's delicious. This was the day my childhood Pizza Hut in Howell,
01:14New Jersey finally shut down. I handled it like a rational adult.
01:18Damn you! I threw a temper tantrum and I stole the carryout sign.
01:23Can you believe they just left it there to rot? Because when my Pizza Hut left, it felt
01:28like something bigger left with it. Have you ever looked around and thought, what the hell
01:33happened to Pizza Hut? If not, go ahead and check your pulse because you might be dead inside.
01:38In the 80s and 90s, Pizza Hut wasn't just pizza. It was the place. Pizza Hut was king. Or queen
01:45because she's my lady. At Pizza Hut, we go all out to make it fast, hot, and delicious.
01:52Making it happy. I mean, look at these people. They're not acting. They're thriving. On dark,
01:59cold nights when my parents didn't feel like cooking, we went there. The pizza came out sizzling
02:04in a cast iron pan and sat on a corkboard like it was sacred. There were red cups on the
02:10table,
02:10the low lights, the smell. I mean, it was probably butter. They used so much butter. My local Pizza
02:15Hut had everything. A jukebox, a buffet, an actual atmosphere, and those absolutely desirable Casper
02:23the Ghost toys. There's somebody over there in a truck just watching me film this whole thing.
02:27You see them? Bunch of dirty birdies. So what happened? It's not like Pizza Hut just disappeared
02:33overnight. It faded. I've been to a lot of different Pizza Huts over the years. Like the weird ones inside
02:39Target that never seems to have any food. It's one with the early 90s delivery phones that no one
02:45could explain. I mean, they're not bad. They're just empty. Not just devoid of people. Oh, plane.
02:51Plane's coming. Paparazzi. You guys follow me everywhere. I can't get away from them. Let's wait on
02:57the plane here. It's got five engines and somehow is going two miles an hour. There we go. Just taking
03:04our
03:04time. They're not just devoid of people. It's like somebody took the soul out and left the lights on.
03:10And I started wondering if the Pizza Hut I remembered was even real or if it was just nostalgia doing
03:16the
03:16heavy lifting. Until a recent road trip, I stumbled across something I'd only heard rumors about.
03:21Something I assumed didn't actually exist. A classic Pizza Hut. And when I saw it, I pulled over
03:29immediately. I mean, it looked like an old Pizza Hut. It smelled like an old Pizza Hut, but more
03:35importantly, it felt like one. I don't know what I expected walking in, but somehow my expectations
03:41were still exceeded. They might as well have had Clarissa Explains It All on the TV while watching
03:46kids skating outside with lightning bolts shaved in the sides of their heads. I mean, it just felt like
03:52the 90s. The lights were low. The boots were right. The red cups were back. I tried to steal all
03:58three of
03:58those things. We'll just say the staff is diligent. Great people. Great people. For the first time in
04:07years, Pizza Hut didn't feel like a brand. It felt like a place. And standing there, I've realized
04:13something. If I brought three other people as decoys, I could probably steal one of the booths. But also,
04:21Pizza Hut didn't fail because people stopped loving it. It failed because it forgot why people loved it in
04:28the first place. It wasn't just the pizza. It was the permission to slow down, to sit, to stay. And
04:35that carryout sign I borrowed? I thought I was taking a souvenir. Turns out, I was just holding on to
04:41proof that this place once mattered. And it still does. And it still can. I hope more Pizza Hut's return
04:47to this style. Not just for nostalgia, but because the world could really use a little more red plastic
04:53cups, low lights, and pizza that shows up sizzling. And tells you to stay a while. And maybe we can
05:00also do with a couple more Pizza Hut employees who are willing to help me walk out with an entire
05:05booth,
05:05lighting rig, and Pizza Hut lamp. And take it to my car. Minor theft. I don't know. Just a couple
05:13different ideas we're just going to throw out and see what sticks to the wall. Thanks for watchin'.
05:27Hold for annoying car. Hold for annoying car with sh**ty music. Keep holding.