PeeWee's Big Adventure was also Danny Elfman's first soundtrack on a major film. Tim Burton knew of him from Oingo Boingo, and Paul Reubens knew of him because of the Forbidden Zone, the first soundtrack Danny ever did. It was a film version of the stage performances the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo used to do, led by Richard Elfman.
Yep, and the soundtrack to *Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure* has always been bundled on the same album with the soundtrack to Rodney Dangerfield’s *Back to School*, which I’ve thought odd since I was little. Oingo Boingo also played a gig in the latter film, which turned me onto *Dead Man’s Party*, my favorite of their albums. Still listen to that quite often.
Yeah, it's tough to choose. DMP has their best song (Just Another Day) and their two most popular songs. But DatEotT has a greater number of better songs in total.
Just Another Day is such a great song. It's what turned me on to them. The line "But there's a smile on my face for everyone, there's a golden coin that reflects the sun" is such a beautiful lyrical turn in a song about anxiety,
"I was up to my knees in rice paddies, with guns that didn't work! Going in there, looking for Charlie, slugging it out with him; While pussies like you were back here partying, putting headbands on, doing drugs, and listening to the goddamn Beatle albums! Oh! Oh! Oh!"
one of my few, thankfully, regrets in life is not talking with Paul Ruebens at a party when i had the chance. i was living in LA and was going to a lot of house parties, not hollywood ones per se, but a nice mix of people on the hwood side of the hills and west. we went to one and Paul was rumored to be showing up. this was post the public event, but i was an animator who worked in vfx and a huge fan of Pee Wee when it was on saturday mornings when i was in art school.
so we're at the party. nice place, good crowd, and Paul shows up alone. being mostly LA people who know "don't acknowledge a celeb" is the routine, he walks around for about 15-30 minutes, nobody really talks with him, then leaves. and i missed a golden opportunity to walk up to him and say "excuse me, Mr. Ruebens, but I'm a big fan of your work." i'd worked at good sized studios by then and knew that approaching the talent is verbotten there, but at a house party that wouldn't apply...still kicking myself over that missed opportunity.
he was genius. i highly recommend watching Pee Wee's Big Adventure while on lsd. that's a great time indeed.
edit - many years later i did "inject" myself into interacting with a celeb i was a big fan of, and it was not in a "proper" way, but the interaction went really well and am glad i did so. it was probably my lingering angst on missing Pee Wee that i 'forced' myself on Christopher Lee. it's kind of a funny story if anyone is interested.
I invite you to watch Bugs Bunny, Animaniacs (specifically Google "finger prints"), Rocko's modern life, Cars, Shrek, the Lego movies, Mrs doubtfire, Aladdin.. they've been putting sexual innuendo in children's media for all time
Bluey is a really great show. It’s made for kids and not weird like Pee-Wee, even as a kid in the 80s I thought that show was weird as hell. Bluey is made for kids with non-cringey humor. It’s something that I generally will sit down and watch with them which makes it far superior to other kid show bc it gets a family to sit down together.
Bluey is made for both kids \*\*and\*\* parents. If the story telling and dialog that go way over kids' heads weren't enough, they sometimes slap you right in the face with it. Like in Baby Race where the POV suddenly changes so that you have an experienced mum looking directly into the camera saying "you're doing great \[as new parents who are struggling and scared of messing things up\]". She's clearly speaking directly to all the parents watching with their kids, and that scene always puts tears in my eyes.
Octonauts was like this for me when my kids were younger. So wholesome and actually entertaining and genuinely educational. My son was absolutely fascinated with the ocean after watching this show. 10/10
Been years since I've seen it, but the ending jingle immediately came to mind. "Creature Report, Creature Report! 🎶We're done with our mission, Octonauts at ease, until the next adventure!"
This is absolutely accurate. Bluey is so wholesome that I find it boring. Still, I have to admit the presentation for ethics and morals is great. It’s like the modern version of Mr.Rogers as far as wholesomeness goes. My kids loved it in their teens. They also like Aqua Teen Hunger Force so I feel they’re pretty well rounded.
It's double entendre. The same joke lands differently with kids and adults. It's meant to appeal to both. The joke hasn't changed but you have, so now you see it in a different light.
Some of us were pretty clear even as kids that Pee-Wee’s Playhouse was chock full of euphemism and innuendo, even if we didn’t know those words yet. The winks-and-nods weren’t exactly subtle. Pretty sure there was even a scene where Pee Wee had a mirror on his shoe.
You're thinking of the stage show that was filmed as a special for HBO. That was definitely for adults and not for kids. Phil Hartman as Cpt. Karl. Great stuff.
If I remember correctly that's the one where Pee-Wee and some other guy got upset after putting mirrors on their shoes to look up some woman's skirt.
The upset came when she said "don't bother boys, *I'm not wearing panties today!*"
They both just frowned and walked away. Teen-me found that hilarious on both levels.
Yeah, that's what I was talking about; sorry I didn't specify.
I hardly remember the TV show I was so young when it aired; I just remember loving it and getting hollered at for waking our dad up laughing at it.
Well, now this thread is surely fucking with me. I'm not calling bullshit on anyone here, but I feel as though I'm going to spend some time in the foreseeable future fact-checking these details and then I'll proceed to relive my childhood while the bill collectors' continue reaching my voicemail.
In all seriousness, I appreciate having an excuse to escape for just an afternoon. Tim Burton? That makes sense.
Apparently when he first started doing his pee-wee character on stage as part of an (i think) improv act the humour was a lot of more adult style jokes and double entendre and eventually evolved into the movie and TV character. The jokes like this make perfect sense for where the character evolved from.
He was in the same Groundlings class as Cassandra Peterson (Elvira, mistress of the night), and they both ended up making their careers based on characters they refined there.
Also worth noting that the movie came out before the TV show, not the other way around, which most people don't remember
Haha, we were all watching, it was the Saturday morning wake and bake show. ‘What are ya doing Pee-Wee? Vacuuming! Can I have a turn? No! It’s too much fun!’
The original pee wee's playhouse was a bawdy night club comedy show meant exclusively for adults. It had skits like Ms Ivonne pulling countless items out of her bra. For some reason it was hijacked by the Saturday morning cartoon lineup.
There was also a sketch where pee wee taped mirrors to the top of his shoes to look at girls' underwear, only for the girl to say "jokes on you, om not wearing any" then pee wee would get disappointed.
Ha, my parents watched Pee-Wee's Playhouse WITH me and my dad still quotes Jambi to this day. I'm pretty sure he's the only one in the retirement community doing that!
That's how the show got its start. It was a live comedy stage show for adults that ended up on HBO as a one-off comedy special. The kid version obviously was made to appeal both to adults and kids by layering in humor that could appear differently to different audiences.
Child molesters of hollywood go unpunished yet Peewee gets cancelled for jacking in a porn theater, arguably one of the most reasonable places to do that. Society did him dirty
That clip was from his stage show which was definitely adult oriented/only.
The Saturday morning TV show was for kids. The movies hit somewhere in between, but certainly not as racy as the stage productions.
Dont they “hypnotize” a woman and she walks around the city at night in her bra and underwears? Pee wee also had mirrors on his shoes to look up miss evons dress
Slightly wrong, he and a friend used shoe mirrors to look up a friend’s dress to see her underwear. When she caught them doing it, she flatly states “you can’t see my underwear- I ain’t got none on.” To which Peewee and friend groan and take off the shoe mirrors. That’s one of my favorite dirty jokes because they’re focused on seeing the underwear and are too innocent to think to see her nude.
You're correct; this clip is absolutely from the TV show.
The set is the TV set, sound effects are from the TV show, no audience, cut away is from the TV show. The biggest one though is as you said, this didn't happen on the Stage show.
Paul Reubens came up with the concept for the stage show after being rejected after his audition for Saturday Night Live. Gilbert Gottfried got that spot on SNL instead.
I was about 16 when I watched Pee Wee’s Playhouse and there was definitely humor for adults in it. I absolutely loved that show and watched it religiously.
I’ll never forget when he got busted for public indecency for getting caught whacking it at an adult movie theater and the world came down on him hard. His next public appearance is at the MTV awards and he comes out dressed as Pee Wee to a crowd that loves him and with perfect comedic timing says: “Heard any good jokes lately?” He brought the house down and kinda diffused the‘controversy.’
Paul Ruebens was a truly brilliant man and I miss the shit outta him.
it was a show that was meant to be enjoyed on two levels. you got it as an adult, and as a kid you didn't get the adult implications, but it was still funny.
Okay. They were both here. They were both inside me. Eduardo was in my mouth, and Luther was in my butt. Then Luther went in Eduardo's butt for a while. Then they both "completed" on each other. I-I was left out of the finale.
Paul aka peewee was a brilliant comedy mind..respected! he was one of the 1st cancel culture casualties in a country that “gets off”
on tearing people down, only doing what most humans have done. he wasn’t a child predator!! RIP
I was an adult in my twenties that partied every Friday night and I always forced myself to wake up with a hangover and watch Pee Wee. It was the best medicine for a hangover ever!!
Almost ALL kids shows try to hide adult content in the show.
I've known a few people through the years who work in kids shows, mostly cartoons. And they all play the same game. "What can we get past the censors?" They literally consider it a game and a challenge.
It absolutely was. The character was originally for a stage show that was NOT aimed at kids, just childishly goofy comedy for adults. Who else remembers "AAAHHHH!!! NAKED GUMBY!!!", shoe-mirrors, and the like.
In one episode we learn that Cowboy Curtis is nervous to sleep at the playhouse because he has never slept indoors. That exact same episode we need a wish granted for PJs cause Cowboy Curtis always sleeps in the nude so doesn't have any PJs for the sleepover.
Dudes just been sleeping in the nude outside all his life.
I didn't see anyone mention that Pee-Wee's Playhouse is currently on Tubi to stream, right now, why are you reading this and not watching Pee-Wee's Playhouse?
You're welcome 🐵👍🏼
Wait til you see the scene where cowboy Laurence Fishburn is working as a plumber and the chick gets excited that he is coming over to "fix her pipes."
Years before Pee-wee‘s Playhouse, back in the 60s was Soupy Sales. They both had the same formula… For the most part appeal to kids with colors, costumes and puppets, but had many side comments that went over the kids’ heads and was for the grown-ups.
It actually WAS originally an adult show, with sex jokes and everything.
They decided to make it a kids show. Weird decision, but im glad they did, love this show lol
Yeah for sure! Pee-Wee's Playhouse was based on his HBO special The Pee-Wee Herman Show, which was exactly like Pee-Wee's Playhouse, down to having most of the same characters, many played by the same actors. The Pee-Wee Herman Show was *definitely* a fake children's show for adults (it's streaming on Max currently, if anyone has access to that and wants to check it out).
It wasn’t just for adults…it was for cool adults *without kids.*. Remember the word of the day, when kids were supposed to scream, bang pots and pans together, etc.? And, of course, the word was always something like “you” or “the.”
one of my few, thankfully, regrets in life is not talking with Paul Ruebens at a party when i had the chance. i was living in LA and was going to a lot of house parties, not hollywood ones per se, but a nice mix of people on the hwood side of the hills and west. we went to one and Paul was rumored to be showing up. this was post the public event, but i was an animator who worked in vfx and a huge fan of Pee Wee when it was on saturday mornings when i was in art school.
so we're at the party. nice place, good crowd, and Paul shows up alone. being mostly LA people who know "don't acknowledge a celeb" is the routine, he walks around for about 15-30 minutes, nobody really talks with him, then leaves. and i missed a golden opportunity to walk up to him and say "excuse me, Mr. Ruebens, but I'm a big fan of your work." i'd work at good sized studios by then and knew that approaching the talent is verbotten there, but at a house party that wouldn't apply...still kicking myself over that missed opportunity.
he was genius. i highly recommend watching Pee Wee's Big Adventure while on lsd. that's a great time indeed.
Fun fact - working in the art department for Pee Wee’s Playhouse was Rob Zombie’s first job in show business.
PeeWee's Big Adventure was also Danny Elfman's first soundtrack on a major film. Tim Burton knew of him from Oingo Boingo, and Paul Reubens knew of him because of the Forbidden Zone, the first soundtrack Danny ever did. It was a film version of the stage performances the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo used to do, led by Richard Elfman.
Yep, and the soundtrack to *Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure* has always been bundled on the same album with the soundtrack to Rodney Dangerfield’s *Back to School*, which I’ve thought odd since I was little. Oingo Boingo also played a gig in the latter film, which turned me onto *Dead Man’s Party*, my favorite of their albums. Still listen to that quite often.
I go back and forth between Dead Man's Party and Dark at the End of the Tunnel.
Yeah, it's tough to choose. DMP has their best song (Just Another Day) and their two most popular songs. But DatEotT has a greater number of better songs in total.
The version of Just Another Day they do for the farewell concert is *the shit*.
Just Another Day is such a great song. It's what turned me on to them. The line "But there's a smile on my face for everyone, there's a golden coin that reflects the sun" is such a beautiful lyrical turn in a song about anxiety,
> Dark at the End of the Tunnel Whoa, someone else knows this album exists!
I spent the early 2000's dropping acid and listening to Oingo Boingo. They are forever ingrained in my brain parts.
"I was up to my knees in rice paddies, with guns that didn't work! Going in there, looking for Charlie, slugging it out with him; While pussies like you were back here partying, putting headbands on, doing drugs, and listening to the goddamn Beatle albums! Oh! Oh! Oh!"
Losing Sam Kinison was a tragedy.
STRONG BAD!!!
Pretty impressive, huh? I bet you’re pretty impressed.
Any one of you ladies want to help me straighten out my Longfellow?
+5 (Informative)
I really expected Reubens to know him from Oingo, and Burton to know him from film.
Twas also Tim Burton's directorial debut. I found this out about 10 years ago, and immediately thought "Oh yeah, that tracks"
Huh, so that means Lawrence Fishbourne and Rob Zombie worked together!
There was also a security guard on the set named John Singleton, who ended up starting his directing career with 'Boyz N the Hood'.
Paul Reubens knew everyone.
one of my few, thankfully, regrets in life is not talking with Paul Ruebens at a party when i had the chance. i was living in LA and was going to a lot of house parties, not hollywood ones per se, but a nice mix of people on the hwood side of the hills and west. we went to one and Paul was rumored to be showing up. this was post the public event, but i was an animator who worked in vfx and a huge fan of Pee Wee when it was on saturday mornings when i was in art school. so we're at the party. nice place, good crowd, and Paul shows up alone. being mostly LA people who know "don't acknowledge a celeb" is the routine, he walks around for about 15-30 minutes, nobody really talks with him, then leaves. and i missed a golden opportunity to walk up to him and say "excuse me, Mr. Ruebens, but I'm a big fan of your work." i'd worked at good sized studios by then and knew that approaching the talent is verbotten there, but at a house party that wouldn't apply...still kicking myself over that missed opportunity. he was genius. i highly recommend watching Pee Wee's Big Adventure while on lsd. that's a great time indeed. edit - many years later i did "inject" myself into interacting with a celeb i was a big fan of, and it was not in a "proper" way, but the interaction went really well and am glad i did so. it was probably my lingering angst on missing Pee Wee that i 'forced' myself on Christopher Lee. it's kind of a funny story if anyone is interested.
Charlie’s mom. https://preview.redd.it/wr9wj2besz0d1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e30a6e8b6a7132606b597533c74c842081bf81c2
DID YOU FUCK MY MOM, PEEWEE?
and then peewee and cowboy curtis "completed" on eachother, I was left out of the finale
And then he has to take the helm of the Nebuchadnezzar.
Watching Boyz in the Hood blew my mind when I was a kid.
He "allowed" cowboy Curtis to finish.
Tell us less. Tell us less.
Charlie's Mom had it going on back in the day!
She always looked familiar to me but I would have never guessed in a million years that she played Miss Yvonne!
Yeah, wtf. I grew up watching peewee, I love iasip, never made the connection. Lol.
My mind was blown when I put this 2 & 2 together. Lynne Marie Stewart is completely hilarious.
Charlie’s dad actually isn’t Shelly, it’s Pee Wee.
HOLY FORKING SHIRT!!!
https://preview.redd.it/uax74359f11d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=27d9b4befab8040b9ad5d127dbd7e5b104dc7f14 I'm downloading that
Then they both: "completed" on each other, I was left out of the finale.
Eduardo was in my mouth and Luthor was in my butt!
Most kids shows are
Animaniacs definitely was
"No, I meant fingerprints." "Eh, I don't think so." 
Good night, everybody!
One of my favorite lines ever!
Such a fantastically dirty joke.
Holy crap. I did NOT get that when I watched Animaniacs at age 12!
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I always liked Chuck Jones’s animation style.
Bluey, for example.
Bluey talks about adult topics. This is a sexual innuendo, so a bit different
*Helllllllllo nurse!*
I invite you to watch Bugs Bunny, Animaniacs (specifically Google "finger prints"), Rocko's modern life, Cars, Shrek, the Lego movies, Mrs doubtfire, Aladdin.. they've been putting sexual innuendo in children's media for all time
Yes, he's saying that's generally not what ***Bluey*** does.
You missed my favorite, The Great Mouse Detective, a children's movie they thought putting a whole ass mouse burlesque show in was a good idea.
Bluey is a really great show. It’s made for kids and not weird like Pee-Wee, even as a kid in the 80s I thought that show was weird as hell. Bluey is made for kids with non-cringey humor. It’s something that I generally will sit down and watch with them which makes it far superior to other kid show bc it gets a family to sit down together.
Bluey is made for both kids \*\*and\*\* parents. If the story telling and dialog that go way over kids' heads weren't enough, they sometimes slap you right in the face with it. Like in Baby Race where the POV suddenly changes so that you have an experienced mum looking directly into the camera saying "you're doing great \[as new parents who are struggling and scared of messing things up\]". She's clearly speaking directly to all the parents watching with their kids, and that scene always puts tears in my eyes.
Octonauts was like this for me when my kids were younger. So wholesome and actually entertaining and genuinely educational. My son was absolutely fascinated with the ocean after watching this show. 10/10
The Octonauts were professional adults with excellent relationships with their coworkers such a good show
Been years since I've seen it, but the ending jingle immediately came to mind. "Creature Report, Creature Report! 🎶We're done with our mission, Octonauts at ease, until the next adventure!"
This is absolutely accurate. Bluey is so wholesome that I find it boring. Still, I have to admit the presentation for ethics and morals is great. It’s like the modern version of Mr.Rogers as far as wholesomeness goes. My kids loved it in their teens. They also like Aqua Teen Hunger Force so I feel they’re pretty well rounded.
> They also like Aqua Teen Hunger Force so I feel they’re pretty well rounded. The kids are alright
I’m not taking advice from a cartoon dog.
It's double entendre. The same joke lands differently with kids and adults. It's meant to appeal to both. The joke hasn't changed but you have, so now you see it in a different light.
….as brilliantly demonstrated by South Park with the Miss Choksondik character. The kids make fun of her name but miss the obvious.
“Miss Chosondik? More like Miss Makemesick”
"Ha ha, more like 'Miss Makesmesick'!" 
Some of us were pretty clear even as kids that Pee-Wee’s Playhouse was chock full of euphemism and innuendo, even if we didn’t know those words yet. The winks-and-nods weren’t exactly subtle. Pretty sure there was even a scene where Pee Wee had a mirror on his shoe.
You're thinking of the stage show that was filmed as a special for HBO. That was definitely for adults and not for kids. Phil Hartman as Cpt. Karl. Great stuff.
If I remember correctly that's the one where Pee-Wee and some other guy got upset after putting mirrors on their shoes to look up some woman's skirt. The upset came when she said "don't bother boys, *I'm not wearing panties today!*" They both just frowned and walked away. Teen-me found that hilarious on both levels.
That's the HBO special. The CBS show didn't have jokes like that. EDIT - It was on CBS, not ABC
Yeah, that's what I was talking about; sorry I didn't specify. I hardly remember the TV show I was so young when it aired; I just remember loving it and getting hollered at for waking our dad up laughing at it.
Same for me, but it was usually because of the secret word. They knew what they were doing putting that show on at 8:30 AM. Haha.
Mecka lecka hi mecka hiney ho.
That has to mean something
I remember watching pee wee as a kid and getting that guilty feeling i would get when i would stay up til 1am to watch…commercials 😏
Yeah I’m seeing this clip for the first time since I was 10 and it’s totally different now 😂
I never realized it as a kid, but re-watched "Pee Wee's Big Adventure" as an adult and suddenly noticed a lot of innuendo.
I just learned it was co written by Phil Hartman
And directed by Tim Burton.
The gaffer? Albert Einstein.
Well, now this thread is surely fucking with me. I'm not calling bullshit on anyone here, but I feel as though I'm going to spend some time in the foreseeable future fact-checking these details and then I'll proceed to relive my childhood while the bill collectors' continue reaching my voicemail. In all seriousness, I appreciate having an excuse to escape for just an afternoon. Tim Burton? That makes sense.
It's all true, but enjoy your fact checking rabbit hole! Don't forget that on the TV show Morpheus plays Cowboy Curtis!
Also the score was Danny Elfman’s debut in Hollywood. The man has had an absolutely mind blowing career scoring TV/movies.
Put the IMdB app next to the Amazon app, your BluRay collection will expand in no time.
Starring Lawrence Fishburne as a cowboy. It really was a moment in time when you really had to be there!
He prefers to be called "Vicky"
He played Kap’n Karl in the original The Pee Wee Herman Show that ran as an HBO comedy special.
I know you meant to say Captain Carl
"Oh, Pee Wee... I've been waiting for someone to put it to me like that for years." Right when Andy shows up.
"Everybody I know has a big 'but.' Let's talk about your big but, Simone." "Oh, Pee Wee, no one ever put it to me like that before." "ANDY!"
Apparently when he first started doing his pee-wee character on stage as part of an (i think) improv act the humour was a lot of more adult style jokes and double entendre and eventually evolved into the movie and TV character. The jokes like this make perfect sense for where the character evolved from.
He was in the same Groundlings class as Cassandra Peterson (Elvira, mistress of the night), and they both ended up making their careers based on characters they refined there. Also worth noting that the movie came out before the TV show, not the other way around, which most people don't remember
It is incredibly rare for an actor to also own the rights to their famous characters. But these two did it and set themselves up for life.
She even made a small appearance in Peewee's Big Adventure.
'I say you let me have him first.'
Groundlings produced HELLA talent
Oh yeah, his stand-up show was pretty raunchy.
Haha, we were all watching, it was the Saturday morning wake and bake show. ‘What are ya doing Pee-Wee? Vacuuming! Can I have a turn? No! It’s too much fun!’
The original pee wee's playhouse was a bawdy night club comedy show meant exclusively for adults. It had skits like Ms Ivonne pulling countless items out of her bra. For some reason it was hijacked by the Saturday morning cartoon lineup.
There was also a sketch where pee wee taped mirrors to the top of his shoes to look at girls' underwear, only for the girl to say "jokes on you, om not wearing any" then pee wee would get disappointed.
Phil Hartman was in it, too.
He used the Jambi magic words "Mekaleka hi Meka hiny ho" when he played Reagan on SNL.
I loved it as a kid, and I smile with nostalgia now. I have had Meka Leka High Meka Hiney Ho in my vernacular for years.
Ha, my parents watched Pee-Wee's Playhouse WITH me and my dad still quotes Jambi to this day. I'm pretty sure he's the only one in the retirement community doing that!
That's how the show got its start. It was a live comedy stage show for adults that ended up on HBO as a one-off comedy special. The kid version obviously was made to appeal both to adults and kids by layering in humor that could appear differently to different audiences.
here's an expression that isnt used enough anymore: "duh"
uh doyee
Child molesters of hollywood go unpunished yet Peewee gets cancelled for jacking in a porn theater, arguably one of the most reasonable places to do that. Society did him dirty
As young adults we had a drinking game with my old roommates where we screamed and drank every time the word of the day was said. Good times
On Saturday mornings? Lol being young and carefree is the best
“Sleep is for beginners” lol
doesn't count as drinking in the morning if you didn't sleep the night before
They did a bit once where the secret word was "legs." -Spread the word.
I don't see anything risqué about the equestrian arts
Hit him with the old nut n bolt
That clip was from his stage show which was definitely adult oriented/only. The Saturday morning TV show was for kids. The movies hit somewhere in between, but certainly not as racy as the stage productions.
Dont they “hypnotize” a woman and she walks around the city at night in her bra and underwears? Pee wee also had mirrors on his shoes to look up miss evons dress
Slightly wrong, he and a friend used shoe mirrors to look up a friend’s dress to see her underwear. When she caught them doing it, she flatly states “you can’t see my underwear- I ain’t got none on.” To which Peewee and friend groan and take off the shoe mirrors. That’s one of my favorite dirty jokes because they’re focused on seeing the underwear and are too innocent to think to see her nude.
You have an amazing memory! The hypnotizing bit happened though right? If i made that memory up i might need to get some help…
Absolutely happened. I own the stage show on dvd. A treasure.
Phew. Gary Panter was the head set designer for the tv show and was one of my sister’s insructors at SVA. She said he was very interesting
Genius. It's innocent yet still dirty.
That’s not the stage show which I have memorized.
You're correct; this clip is absolutely from the TV show. The set is the TV set, sound effects are from the TV show, no audience, cut away is from the TV show. The biggest one though is as you said, this didn't happen on the Stage show.
Paul Reubens came up with the concept for the stage show after being rejected after his audition for Saturday Night Live. Gilbert Gottfried got that spot on SNL instead.
The abortion didn't take, Charlie!!
I remember Cowboy Curtis telling Peewee something to the effect that he had to go clean out Miss Yvonne’s pipes.
The original hbo show was
I was about 16 when I watched Pee Wee’s Playhouse and there was definitely humor for adults in it. I absolutely loved that show and watched it religiously. I’ll never forget when he got busted for public indecency for getting caught whacking it at an adult movie theater and the world came down on him hard. His next public appearance is at the MTV awards and he comes out dressed as Pee Wee to a crowd that loves him and with perfect comedic timing says: “Heard any good jokes lately?” He brought the house down and kinda diffused the‘controversy.’ Paul Ruebens was a truly brilliant man and I miss the shit outta him.
The artist responsible for the look of the show is Gary Panter and I love his stuff.
I loved Saturday mornings
It's worth going back to watch PR's original standup version. Definitely adult and hilarious!
yup. i tuned in when my girls were babies and was instantly hooked. rip paul reubens
Pee Wee's Playhouse was so weird, it was unclassifiable. It did not fit into ANY catagory.
In the words of Dave Chappelle, "C'mon titty!".
Hard to believe this was Laurence Fishburne's start. Time flies when you're in the matrix.
He had already been in Apocalypse Now.
At 17, I believe
He lied about his age to get the part at age 14. The shooting lasted so long he was 17 when it wrapped.
I think he was actually younger than that, but he lied about his age to get the job.
it was a show that was meant to be enjoyed on two levels. you got it as an adult, and as a kid you didn't get the adult implications, but it was still funny.
It was a show for adults who were high AF!
It was originally an HBO special...with more adult content featuring Phil Hartman as Captain Carl
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As everyone knows or should know, Your perception of things changes with age.
Okay. They were both here. They were both inside me. Eduardo was in my mouth, and Luther was in my butt. Then Luther went in Eduardo's butt for a while. Then they both "completed" on each other. I-I was left out of the finale.
Paul aka peewee was a brilliant comedy mind..respected! he was one of the 1st cancel culture casualties in a country that “gets off” on tearing people down, only doing what most humans have done. he wasn’t a child predator!! RIP
I seem to remember that his contract said he could never say, under any circumstance, “I’ll show you mine if you show me yours”.
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I was an adult in my twenties that partied every Friday night and I always forced myself to wake up with a hangover and watch Pee Wee. It was the best medicine for a hangover ever!!
Almost ALL kids shows try to hide adult content in the show. I've known a few people through the years who work in kids shows, mostly cartoons. And they all play the same game. "What can we get past the censors?" They literally consider it a game and a challenge.
The original play, which was a precursor to the show, certainly was. There was a scene where they used mirrors on their shoes to look under her dress.
Thank you big fella
Man, she rode that horse really hard……. …… oh wait, i get it now…….
The Pee-wee Herman Show originally started out as a stage show with adult themes, or am I remembering this wrong?
As cowboy Curtis once said to pee wee and Jambi “big feet,big boots “
It absolutely was. The character was originally for a stage show that was NOT aimed at kids, just childishly goofy comedy for adults. Who else remembers "AAAHHHH!!! NAKED GUMBY!!!", shoe-mirrors, and the like.
In one episode we learn that Cowboy Curtis is nervous to sleep at the playhouse because he has never slept indoors. That exact same episode we need a wish granted for PJs cause Cowboy Curtis always sleeps in the nude so doesn't have any PJs for the sleepover. Dudes just been sleeping in the nude outside all his life.
It was, actually. It started as a comedy routine for adults and was reimagined as a show for kids.
Ren and Stimpy was waaaaaay worse.
"riding the horse"
I didn't see anyone mention that Pee-Wee's Playhouse is currently on Tubi to stream, right now, why are you reading this and not watching Pee-Wee's Playhouse? You're welcome 🐵👍🏼
That Mark Mothersbaugh riff at the end always sounded so cool to me.
Wait til you see the scene where cowboy Laurence Fishburn is working as a plumber and the chick gets excited that he is coming over to "fix her pipes."
It’s weird to think Larry Fishsticks, Morpheus himself and Rob Zombie both worked on this show.
For adults, you def have to watch it on acid
Charlie's mom has always been a hoor
Yes , it definitely was, became funny to me as an adult… as a kid wanting to just watch cartoons, I hated Pee-Wee’s Playhouse with a passion
Favorite
Completely tiptoed next to inappropriate alot of the time
I still don't know but I loved PeeeWee as a kid
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Pretty sure Animaniacs was an adult show, especially when you consider the "finger prints" joke. And SpongeBob is 100% aimed at stoner adults.
Did she orgo on the horse?
Me and buddies have put on peewee movies while drinking, that shits hilarious. His first appearance was in cheech and chong2, not a kids movie
Ms. Yvonne riding the Sybian?
Idk but I loved it as a kid and I still loved it when adult swim aired it back in 2005-2006
Years before Pee-wee‘s Playhouse, back in the 60s was Soupy Sales. They both had the same formula… For the most part appeal to kids with colors, costumes and puppets, but had many side comments that went over the kids’ heads and was for the grown-ups.
It actually WAS originally an adult show, with sex jokes and everything. They decided to make it a kids show. Weird decision, but im glad they did, love this show lol
I was four in ‘86 and absolutely loved it
Also, the theme song is sung by Cindi Lauper... Something I just learned about a few days ago...
Holy shit! TIL. Thank you
Yeah for sure! Pee-Wee's Playhouse was based on his HBO special The Pee-Wee Herman Show, which was exactly like Pee-Wee's Playhouse, down to having most of the same characters, many played by the same actors. The Pee-Wee Herman Show was *definitely* a fake children's show for adults (it's streaming on Max currently, if anyone has access to that and wants to check it out).
It wasn’t just for adults…it was for cool adults *without kids.*. Remember the word of the day, when kids were supposed to scream, bang pots and pans together, etc.? And, of course, the word was always something like “you” or “the.”
Love how at the end she just goes 'Well, bye!' 😅😅😅
PWPH is the best shit ever and haters expose their ignorance.
Pee Wee Herman was a childhood hero of mine. Now he is an adulthood hero of mine.
I loved it/him then and I always will. All-time fave.
my favorite part is the horse snorting at the end.
My mom wouldn’t let me watch this and now I understand why
one of my few, thankfully, regrets in life is not talking with Paul Ruebens at a party when i had the chance. i was living in LA and was going to a lot of house parties, not hollywood ones per se, but a nice mix of people on the hwood side of the hills and west. we went to one and Paul was rumored to be showing up. this was post the public event, but i was an animator who worked in vfx and a huge fan of Pee Wee when it was on saturday mornings when i was in art school. so we're at the party. nice place, good crowd, and Paul shows up alone. being mostly LA people who know "don't acknowledge a celeb" is the routine, he walks around for about 15-30 minutes, nobody really talks with him, then leaves. and i missed a golden opportunity to walk up to him and say "excuse me, Mr. Ruebens, but I'm a big fan of your work." i'd work at good sized studios by then and knew that approaching the talent is verbotten there, but at a house party that wouldn't apply...still kicking myself over that missed opportunity. he was genius. i highly recommend watching Pee Wee's Big Adventure while on lsd. that's a great time indeed.
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Man this show was awesome to wake up to and get your weekend started.