Tag: Flakes

  • How Paul Reubens Saved Pee-Wee’s Playhouse From An Animated Fate

    How Paul Reubens Saved Pee-Wee’s Playhouse From An Animated Fate

    “Pee-wee’s Playhouse” was an anomaly. It premiered a year after the surprise box office success of Tim Burton’s “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure,” and, like “The Pee-wee Herman Show” before it, seemed to be strictly kids’ stuff. But Paul Reubens’ overgrown child act uniquely appealed to the inner brat in all of us. It wasn’t like Looney…