Must admit, even tho’ I was a young adult when the show came out, I loved it.
ogawd so ‘old millenium.’ I can’t imagine what a pee wee for the new millenium would be like. either really lame or really bizarre.
His show was funny when I was a kid.
And with the Internet, he can keep his wanking private.
“Big feet, big boots!”
I last saw Paul Reubens on an episode of “Hung,” playing the hen-pecked husband of the main protagonist’s client. For a moment, I thought that HE would be the client and almost turned it off.
Reubens did the voice of the spaceship in Flight of the Navigator (1986). It was a cute movie.
I used to watch this show with my daughter when she was little...it cracked me me up. Who was the famous actor who got his start on it? Memory fails me...
so a guy who was a registered sex offender and was arrested for possession of child porn is going to be doing a kids show?
I guess if Vick has a right to a second chance Pee Wee does too.
Choking your chicken doesnt actually damage the chicken.
I believe Phil Hartman was a character on Pee Wees Playhouse too.
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FWIW, before becoming an actual kid’s show, Pee Wee’s Playhouse was a risque night club act. I saw one on HBO. It was full of double entendres and very funny, but not for kids.
A few of the gags:
Pee Wee and his buddy put on shoe mirrors to try and see the underwear up a girl’s dress. She tells them “I’m not wearing underwear.”
Pee Wee gets a fan letter from a guy and about half way through the guy says, “In fact, the other guys kid me that you are my girlfriend.” It’s signed “Lou, from prison.”
Prior to Robot Chicken, which follows the formula of taking cartoon characters like the Flintstones and having them kill each other, PeeWee Herman was very odd, and came at you sideways. It was both very innocent and very perverse at the same time.
My reaction when he was arrested was, “So?” but I was familiar with his very early work where half the jokes were about masturbation.
Mike Dukakis had the nickname Pee Wee pinned on him, probably by Howie Carr, perhaps due to his slight, suit-wearing image. The old Jerry Williams show used to play a doctored bit of
the Pee Wee Show:
PEE WEE HERMAN: “here’s today’s secret word”
MIKE DUKAKIS: “...taxes”
(SFX: Woman screaming)
PEE WEE HERMAN: “...so when you hear today’s secret
word...scream real loud!”
Harvard Crimson, 1990
http://74.6.239.67/search/cache?ei=UTF-8&p=mike+pee+wee+dukakis&fr=yfp-t-701&u=www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx%3Fref%3D234652&w=mike+michael+pee+wee+dukakis&d=Zz6KORlMTS1F&icp=1&.intl=us
>>Conservatives Attack Dukakis’ Defenders
Boston Herald columnist Howie Carr blamed the problem in state government on a group of unscrupulous politicians who use public office for their own personal financial gain. He began his talk with an attack on Governor Michael S. Dukakis, whom he regularly calls “Pee Wee.”
From a Howie Carr column on the departure of Jerry
Williams from WRKO:
>>Even Jerry’s arch-nemesis, Pee Wee Dukakis, was a listener going all the way back to his college days at Swarthmore.
So, when the name of Pee Wee Herman comes up I can only think of Mike Dukakis. (And when the name of Mike Dukakis
comes up I can only think of that ride in the tank...)
The public must’ve missed when he snorted coke in one of the Cheech and Chong movies of the 1980s.
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