Paul Reubens, aka Pee-wee Herman, dies at 70

[sonnymax]

NBC notice

Edited July 31, 2023 by sonnymax

[JSngry]

Oh no... 

[clifford_thornton]

I'm really gutted by this news. He was like Mr. Rogers to me.

Many thanks for the art.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

I watched Pee Wee's Playhouse with my daughters when they were very young and thought he was great. Mr. Rogers is a perfect comparison.

I also thought his death scene in "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" was great.

 

[JSngry]

I would VHS all the Playhouse shows on a separate tape. My son would ask for them specifically. He was 3.

The first season in particular was sheer genius. 

Also I that first season, Playhouse was followed by the Ralph Bakshi Mighty Mouse, which was its own kind of brilliance.

RIP, dammit. 

[clifford_thornton]

Texas artist Gary Panter was the set designer for Pee-Wee's Playhouse. Definitely a lot of very avant-garde work being done in those table workshops I'm sure.

[JSngry]

The transition from The Pee Wee Herman Show to Pee Wee's playhouse was amazing, how the kept all of the out there stuff while also making it a kid-friendly show. Lines were skirted, but never crossed.

Groundbreaking stuff! 

[Teasing the Korean]

Pee-Wee helped me get through that most dreaded of decades, the 1980s.  David Lynch and Tom Waits helped me in this regard also.

Edited August 1, 2023 by Teasing the Korean

[Teasing the Korean]

In Paul's honor, we watched Pee-Wee's Big Adventure last night.  It was the first time I'd seen it since the 1980s.  Composer Danny Elfman channels a number of film composers in various places, most notably Nino Rota and Bernard Herrmann.

[JSngry]

Don't overlook Big Top Pee Wee. It's nowhere the epic that Big Adventure is, but it does create it's own zone and works within it quite nicely. 

[mhatta]

Pee Wee was very popular in Japan in the early 1990s (appeared in some TV CMs). His recent work as a character actor (Mr. Vargas in The Blacklist) was also impressive.  RIP.

[Teasing the Korean]

1 hour ago, JSngry said:

Don't overlook Big Top Pee Wee. It's nowhere the epic that Big Adventure is, but it does create it's own zone and works within it quite nicely. 

We just watched the luau episode of Pee Wee's Playhouse, and it was scored by Todd Rundgren!

[sgcim]

 

[JSngry]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hlieo6mM7rk

[Teasing the Korean]

On 8/6/2023 at 9:03 PM, sgcim said:

 

What on earth is that woman wearing?  She looks like the female Ed Grimley!

[JSngry]

You had to be there... 

[Teasing the Korean]

13 minutes ago, JSngry said:

You had to be there... 

Glad I missed it!

[sonnymax]

Olivia Newton-John on heroin?

[sgcim]

3 hours ago, Teasing the Korean said:

What on earth is that woman wearing?  She looks like the female Ed Grimley!

Speaking of Les baxter, I was just reading Brian Wilson's 'odd' autobiography, where he said that he loved listening to Les Baxter, because he did all these big productions that sounded sort of like Phi Spector productions"(!)   Everything to Brian was either Phil Spector or The Four Freshman.