Tag: Pee-Wee’s Playhouse
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A Long Time Ago, Paul Reubens Played A Beloved Star Wars Character
With the sudden passing of actor Paul Reubens after a private battle with cancer, the outpouring across the country and the world has been comforting, to say the least. Reubens will always be most associated with Pee-wee Herman, the character he created and developed when he was a part of the world-famous comedy troupe The…
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Here’s Where You Can Watch Pee-Wee’s Playhouse
We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.In the opening of the 1986 Saturday morning children’s show “Pee-wee’s Playhouse,” a stop-motion animated beaver casually chewed through a tree somewhere out in the middle of the woods. On the tree was an arrow pointing to the location of Pee-wee’s Playhouse, located somewhere deep within…
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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…
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How Paul Reubens Landed Laurence Fishburne For Pee-Wee’s Playhouse
The late, great Paul Reubens didn’t just bring his chipper, friendly, well-dressed character Pee-wee Herman to television with “Pee-wee’s Playhouse.” He also brought total anarchy. In a children’s television landscape dominated by poorly disguised toy commercials and wholesome live-action hosts, “Pee-wee’s Playhouse” was a loud, chaotic, unapologetically strange (and sometimes controversial) TV series where anything…
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The X-Files Theme Song Combined A Spooky Vibe And The Smiths
Composer Mark Snow started his professional music writing career in 1976 with the release of the notorious TV movie “The Boy in the Plastic Bubble,” starring a young John Travolta. Paul Williams wrote the theme song for the movie, but it was Snow who composed the incidental music. He was about 29 years old. Since then,…
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‘Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure’ Screenings Coming to Alamo Drafthouse
In a neat piece of marketing, Alamo Drafthouse has announced that they will be hosting a special summer screening series of Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure—and they’ve even managed to get hold of Pee-wee’s iconic red bicycle just for the occasion. The film – based on the stage show broadcast by HBO in 1980—was spun-off into Pee-Wee’s…