Paul ReubensPee-Wee’s Big Adventure

During Christmas, Edward carves an angelic ice sculpture modeled after Kim; the ice shavings are thrown into the air and fall like snow, a rarity for the neighborhood.

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• Courtney Love.
• Dan Harmon.
• Dan Aykroyd.
• Daryl Hannah.
• Sir Anthony Hopkins.
• Andy Warhol.

He’s at work on a radio project — something akin to a Pee-wee podcast — and is in talks to develop an animated series centering on Pee-wee and the puppets from his old TV show’s Puppetland.

The Pee-wee Herman Show Paul Reubens auditioned for Saturday Night Live for the 1980–81 season but was not accepted into the cast. Instead, he started a stage show with the Herman character, which made one of his first appearances in the 1980 film Cheech & Chong’s Next Movie.

68 years (August 27, 1952)

If you thought Pee-wee was developmentally challenged, fine, whatever.” That character’s open-endedness is part of why Pee-wee’s Playhouse attracted so many disparate audiences; another aspect of his popularity is that Reubens championed a brand of weirdo inclusion that appealed to kids and adults alike.

1 : pewee. 2 : one that is diminutive or small especially : a small child. 3 : an age-specific level of youth sports also : a member of a team in a peewee league.

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I imagine the people most excited about this news are people my age. But I for one hope that the new film is not an adult-skewing romp that happens to star Pee-wee Herman. Not only is Pee-wee Herman most beloved as a children’s character, he is significantly funnier that way.

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It became one of the year’s surprise hits, costing a relatively modest $6 million to make but taking in $45 million at the box office. After seeing the success of Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, the CBS network approached Reubens with an ill-received cartoon series proposal.

Parents need to know that Pee-wee’s Playhouse is filled with silly slapstick comedy that many adults love as much as kids do. Some of the show’s humor is a bit subversive, but that part will probably go right over most kids’ heads.

Parents need to know that Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure, a quirky 1985 movie, is a cult-classic among devotees of Paul Reubens’ bow-tied alter ego. Although even preschoolers will likely find Pee-Wee’s antics funny, there are some sinister dream sequences and near-fights that might frighten the youngest of viewers.