Pee-Wee’s Playhouse
I’m watching the first volume of Pee Wee’s Playhouse on DVD. Surprisingly, this series has held up really well. Yes, it’s remarkably stupid, but it was ALWAYS remarkably stupid. That doesn’t make it any less entertaining. I’m just surprised that it doesn’t come off as more.. dated, I guess. I could easily see this being aired today.
June 24th, 2005 at 3:54 am
Peewee easily gets my votes for being one of the top kids shows ever! Woo!
June 24th, 2005 at 11:57 am
I love Pee Wee’s Playhouse. I wish Paul Reubens would come back and do more episodes or movies. Didn’t he just recently say that he’d like to do a new movie? I think he was talking to a bunch of reporters after he was acquitted for child porn possession or whatever, and he said he wanted to bring the Pee Wee character back. I sincerely hope he does.
Playhouse was awesome because it was good for kids and immature adults alike. Plenty of silly kid humor, but also a lot of weird and/or “adult” humor that would safely go over the kids’ heads, such as all that excessive innuendo involving Miss Yvonne.
Truly a classic.
June 24th, 2005 at 5:11 pm
Man. I used to watch PeeWee’s Playhouse when I was a little kid. Fucking awesome.
Kids need to be exposed to such zany things. It probably does more for their brains than the “educational” crap on today.
BTW, I’m pretty sure it being cheesy/stupid was the point. I believe Paul Reuben’s original PeeWee act was a stage show similar to PeeWee’s Playhouse, but more geared towards adults, sort of as a faux kids’ show. I saw it on HBO once late at night… an example of the kind of humor on it was PeeWee giving Jambi (the genie head in the box) a pair of hands as a gift, and Jambi closed the box saying “Thanks… there’s something I’ve been wanting to do for a looong time..” and smirking. Yeeeeaaah.
June 26th, 2005 at 1:10 am
Miss Yvonne did a psuedo ballet number. Pee Wee tried to look up her dress.
Pee Wee and a visiting pal strap mirrors to their shoes to see up the dress of the pal’s sister. When she notices, she says ‘I’m not even wearing underwear.’ Dissapointed, the boys take of the mirrors.
Pee Wee reads a letter from an Israeli pen pal. He has trouble pronouncing Shlomo. The letter includes ‘I am 9 and have already been in the army 2 years.’
Pee Wee uses his Dr Mongo hand puppet to hypnotize a woman from the audience. He gets her to remove her dress (though she wears a very concealing slip.)
The closing credits follow the still dress-less woman walking home from the theater as a cool jazz theme plays (I can’t remember the lyrics beyond “Talkin’ bout my man Pee Wee”