I saw Pee-Wee Herman Show LIVE last night!

First of all, if you don't like Pee-Wee, you can just fuck right off. I will have none of your anti-Pee-Wee sentiments here. Pee-Wee haters can DIAF. With that having been said...


The Pee-Wee Herman Show was probably the greatest thing I've ever seen! First of all, props to the man himself: Pee-Wee is exactly the same as when I watched him when I was a kid, and still a complete joy to watch. It was damn magical to see him there on the stage in front of me. The set design was amazing, it was Pee-Wee's Playhouse, right down to Chairy. Aside from Pee-Wee, the original Miss Yvonne and Jambi the Genie performed, and almost all of the characters with the notable exceptions of Captain Carl (RIP Phil Hartman) and the Jazz-playing/beatnik puppet trio were present and accounted for. Even better was that Phil LaMarr played the role of Cowboy Curtis, and did a great job I might add! Love that dude and that was a very pleasant surprise. Oh! And I almost shit myself when the King of Cartoons came out! I don't know where they got those old cartoons but they were great. And the secret word was FUN and every time someone said FUN the entire audience screamed real loud and it was amazing. It was FUN. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh! And Pee-Wee even danced the Pee-Wee. Each time I think I'm done writing this paragraph, I think of some other amazing moment.

Truly a magical experience. Unlike most of the things that I loved when I was a child, Pee-Wee has actually gotten better as I've grown older. The only bad thing about the whole affair was that Andy Dick was there, and I hate that guy. Not in the production, of course, but just as a fan of Pee-Wee I guess. I walked right by him without even noticing that it was him, and it was kind of funny because on the car ride up I was talking about what a piece of shit he is. Afterward a bunch of people were lining up to get their picture taken with Andy Dick and I'm like what kind of person wants a picture with Andy Dick? Answer: A person incapable of having my respect.

Still, having to spend two hours in the same building with Andy Dick was a small price to pay for the greatest thing I have ever experienced. I loved it so much, why don't I marry it!?

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SUCH THE MAN

What the hell. No Pee-wee love? WHAT THE HELL!?!??!

Hahaha! That's great! Never seen the Buffy film, I was under the impression that it was similar to the tv show (which I found dumb as hell, for the most part). That looks pretty funny though.

I have seen early footage of him doing the show before it was a show and it was much more adult.

*jealous*

I completely forgot he was doing these, man I wish it was going on tour. Hopefully it gets filmed for a subsequent DVD release.

I have no clue what Pee Wee's Playhouse is, can I be educated on the matter? Thank you all kindly.

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Originally Posted by Guntz

I have no clue what Pee Wee's Playhouse is, can I be educated on the matter? Thank you all kindly.

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:shock: No clue what Pee-wee's Playhouse is!? What do they teach you kids up in Canada, anyway?

Pee-wee's Playhouse is one of the greatest shows of all time. It ran from the mid-80's through the early-90's. It was a kids show with a sly, subversive sense of humor that much older audiences could enjoy as well. And it was also just really funny. It aired on Adult Swim a few years back, but they took it off after a few months for God knows what reason. And it starred Pee-wee Herman, the most lovable boy in Puppetland! You seriously owe it to yourself to check out the series, as it is completely available on DVD these days.



You should also check out Pee-wee's Big Adventure, which predated the series by a year or so. It's hysterical, and it's also Tim Burton's best film as far as I'm concerned.

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Originally Posted by jerry coeurl

:shock: No clue what Pee-wee's Playhouse is!? What do they teach you kids up in Canada, anyway?

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Pee-wee Herman is well known up here, north of the wall.

I'd sooner blame youth than location. The guy was likely born after 1990.

Well, I can understand the appreciation for the humor, but is it a kid's show in the sense of education or entertainment?

Also, it was several years before I spent any real amount of time watching TV. I was a video game kid in my early years.

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Originally Posted by Knuckle Duster

Pee-wee Herman is well known up here, north of the wall.

I'd sooner blame youth than location. The guy was likely born after 1990.

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You'd be right, but I don't see how that means I'm less of a person for being younger. I absolutely love Duck Tales but I never watched it when it was new for example. :(

lol @ assumed inferiority.

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Originally Posted by Guntz

Well, I can understand the appreciation for the humor, but is it a kid's show in the sense of education or entertainment?

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It is a kid's show in the sense that it was shown on tv during the saturday morning "cartoon" slot. While there were "lessons" that Pee-wee taught, it was hardly a focus of the show (and they were usually delightfully wacky, rather than saccharine). As far as entertainment is concerned, anyone can enjoy Pee-wee. It's surreal, it's wacky, there's plenty of subtle adult humor if you pay attention... it's just a great show. They incorporated traditional hand-drawn animation with newer claymation stuff and puppets and live actors (Morpheus of The Matrix also got a lot of exposure here as Cowboy Curtis). Really, you should just watch it. Even if I could explain it perfectly, it would still pale in comparison to enjoying it yourself first hand.

I don't think Knuckle Duster was knocking you for being younger, just pointing out why you were probably unaware of it. I was just kidding anyway, I got nothin' but love for my neighbors to the North!

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Originally Posted by Knuckle Duster

lol @ assumed inferiority.

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You obviously haven't been around the internet have you? Go read Sega_fan's one quote...

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Originally Posted by Guntz

You obviously haven't been around the internet have you? Go read Sega_fan's one quote...

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That's why I laughed.

I'm still coming to terms with seeing the post-1990 scene legally drinking beside me in bars or at wide open parties. :p

Odd how it became a kids show.

There's only one reason I know of Pee Wee Herman.

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Originally Posted by Metal_Sonic

There's only one reason I know of Pee Wee Herman.

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Jerking off at a porno theater & losing his show due to the idiot media backlash?

Yea that's it.

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Originally Posted by Metal_Sonic

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You should get some better reasons, imo. Pee-wee's Big Adventure is a good place to start.

I'm glad the thread got to the second page before someone brought that up, though. Shows Pee-wee's making some headway in society. I swear, you jerk-off to one pornographic film and the entirety of the United States wants to crucify you...

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Originally Posted by Knuckle Duster

Jerking off at a porno theater & losing his show due to the idiot media backlash?

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Even more ridiculous was that the show had finished its run at that time, but still, all reruns were cancelled, Toys R Us stopped carrying his toys, etc. Very sad. I've never understood the whole deal with the porno theatre anyway. So you're not allowed to jerk it, what are you supposed to do? Take notes?

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Originally Posted by jerry coeurl

You should get some better reasons, imo. Pee-wee's Big Adventure is a good place to start.

I'm glad the thread got to the second page before someone brought that up, though. Shows Pee-wee's making some headway in society. I swear, you jerk-off to one pornographic film and the entirety of the United States wants to crucify you...

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Pee-Wee needed to cool off anyway, it was getting stale.

It's good that he's back at it though. I remember reading about him planning new Peewee movies a few years ago, & I totally didn't expect to see him on the second last 'Tonight Show with Conan', smashing action figures together.

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Originally Posted by Knuckle Duster

Pee-Wee needed to cool off anyway, it was getting stale.

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From what I've read, Paul Reubens was getting a little sick of the character at the time, and used the whole backlash as a way of escaping it for a while. Which is good, but I'll still never forgive all the jerks who went out of their way trying to run his career into the ground! :mad:

If the stage show is any indication (and I should think it is), a new Pee-wee movie would be amazing. Supposedly he's working on it, and all I can say is I'm very excited for another big screen adventure.

I, JDB1983, Gamesmaster, Knight of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Monocle wearing, crumpets for breakfast on a Sunday, defender of the crown, have NO idea who Mr Herman is. Perhaps you'd like to enlighten me?

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Originally Posted by jerry coeurl

It is a kid's show in the sense that it was shown on tv during the saturday morning "cartoon" slot. While there were "lessons" that Pee-wee taught, it was hardly a focus of the show (and they were usually delightfully wacky, rather than saccharine). As far as entertainment is concerned, anyone can enjoy Pee-wee. It's surreal, it's wacky, there's plenty of subtle adult humor if you pay attention... it's just a great show. They incorporated traditional hand-drawn animation with newer claymation stuff and puppets and live actors (Morpheus of The Matrix also got a lot of exposure here as Cowboy Curtis). Really, you should just watch it. Even if I could explain it perfectly, it would still pale in comparison to enjoying it yourself first hand.

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Sounds interesting. I'll definitely look into watching some of it. Thanks for the help! :D

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I don't think Knuckle Duster was knocking you for being younger, just pointing out why you were probably unaware of it. I was just kidding anyway, I got nothin' but love for my neighbors to the North!

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That's why I didn't go and say "WTF is Pee-Wee's Playhouse? It must suck because it's old!", because that would be stupid and ignorant. I've heard the name a few times but for the longest I knew absolutely squat about it.

Although it begs the question, if it was so popular, how come it was never given long syndication?

EDIT: Scratch the above, I think the further posts answered this question... Wow...

@all the posts on the second page: Why am I suddenly reminded of Michael Jackson? Also, WTF are you guys talking about?

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Originally Posted by Knuckle Duster

That's why I laughed.

I'm still coming to terms with seeing the post-1990 scene legally drinking beside me in bars or at wide open parties. :p

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I missed this one post.

Lucky for you I don't drink. :p

I loved Big Adventure, but Big Top Pee Wee stunk...

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I, JDB1983, Gamesmaster, Knight of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Monocle wearing, crumpets for breakfast on a Sunday, defender of the crown, have NO idea who Mr Herman is. Perhaps you'd like to enlighten me?

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Here you go, good Sir! Educate yourself!

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Originally Posted by tz101

I loved Big Adventure, but Big Top Pee Wee stunk...

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You know, I've never seen Big Top Pee-wee but I have heard that. However, Pee-wee's Big Adventure is one of my favorite films, period. It's just so funny!

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Rutger Howard and Paul Reuben in the same scene?! My head just exploded.

I loved that show!
I'll still never forget getting all baked & walking around TRU & stumbling upon a PeeWee talking figure. My buddy said don't do it but i just had to. We drove around for hours listening to it spew PeeWee'isms, laughing our ass off.
The shit THC makes you do.
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I loved that show!
I'll still never forget getting all baked & walking around TRU & stumbling upon a PeeWee talking figure. My buddy said don't do it but i just had to. We drove around for hours listening to it spew PeeWee'isms, laughing our ass off.
The shit THC makes you do.
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:D Love this story. Was it one of those pull-string dolls? Those were awesome!

Yup. Thats the one.
Don't recall what ever happened to him.
He was always a hoot to bust out at parties when you're all gooned up.

I'm looking on eBay for one right now. I know you are, but what am I!?

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I loved Big Adventure, but Big Top Pee Wee stunk...

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I don't know why, but whenever he dances with the sheep in the cellar when they're sheltering themselves from the storm I always laugh my ass off. Movie is solid for that one part alone. Nothing compared to Adventure though...

I LOVED Pee-Wee Herman, in my earliest years I worshiped the ground the guy stood on, watched Pee-Wee's Big Adventure everyday for a year, watched Pee-Wee's Playhouse every Saturday morning AND had the Pee-Wee talking doll and wore out it's chord from pulling it too often. I really hope the show tours, I want to see it live!

Easily one of my desert-island movies:





Every time I watch it, there's something new I never noticed before that makes me laugh my ass off.

Great thread. I grew up watching Pee Wee's Playhouse whenever I could. Hilarious and ingenius -- and I mean that. I've never seen any show remotely like it, and imagine how hard it would be to make your own show and think of all that stuff: furniture puppets, robots, old-fashioned cartoon clips, claymation, live acting, flying bicycles, and ridiculous comedy.

That whole porno-theater incident was just blown up so unnecessarily by the parasites in the media. I couldn't care less how anybody likes to get off, as long as they're not harming anyone obviously. The media is so obsessed with any details that surface of anyone's sex life, and then consumers eat that shit up, and all the while everyone pretends that they're disgusted by it, instead of admitting that they're a bunch of perverts who enjoy the cheap thrill of reading and imagining other people's sex lives.

The way I heard it, it wasn't even a big deal to begin with that he regularly visited porno theaters. That was apparently known already and no one blew it up. Then some one realized that if he caught him actually "pleasing himself" in the theater, then they could blow it up, make the beloved kids' star look like a pervert, ruin his career, and get rich from the report! What bullshit. Like someone said before, WTF else would people be doing in porno theaters???

I was young when it happened, and kids didn't even understand what happened. Until I got older, I thought he was caught "pleasing himself" in a normal movie theater, watching some animated kids' movie, and he just whipped it out and went at it, right next to some young kids... LOL!!!

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*watches up til the video ends* Awwww, I was enjoying that... :(

Was that Pee-Wee's Big Adventure?

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Holy crap, he said "crappy".

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*watches up til the video ends* Awwww, I was enjoying that... :(

Was that Pee-Wee's Big Adventure?

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Yes, these are both from Pee-Wee's Big Adventure.

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Holy crap, he said "crappy".

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So? the movie's PG, and I've heard worse in G-rated Disney flicks.

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So? the movie's PG, and I've heard worse in G-rated Disney flicks.

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So what's the youngest age demographic Pee-Wee appeals to?

Very jealous of you, jerry coeurl, but also mad that you didn't bootleg it for us. ;)

Just kidding of course, that must have been an awesome experience. Pee-Wee was such a big part of my life growing up. That pull-string doll was hilarious but I remember also spending a lot of time with the action figures and fold-out Playhouse playset. The funniest part is when the media storm about the adult theater incident broke loose our dad actually explained it as "he mooned a movie theater audience" to "shield" us from the truth.

My older brother got the impression that Pee-Wee was cancelled, which was true to an extent of course but looking back now the show definitely had wrapped itself up nicely. But he still had nothing but contempt for the "Riders in the Sky" show that replaced it.

And Guntz, for what it's worth, he was about 7 and I was 5 at the point Pee-Wee's reign had ended.