# Paul Reubens (posthumously) comes out **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** documentary-bio\ **Created:** [January 26, 2025, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paul-reubens-posthumously-comes-out/1013419 "2025-01-26T06:50:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2025, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paul-reubens-posthumously-comes-out/1013419/41 "2025-05-27T18:04:18Z")
Since dead people can now come out I will keep a watchful eye for invitations to Miscarriage Gender Reveal Parties. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2025, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paul-reubens-posthumously-comes-out/1013419/42 "2025-05-27T18:59:25Z")
Moderating: > [@Sitnam](#): > > Since dead people can now come out I will keep a watchful eye for invitations to Miscarriage Gender Reveal Parties. This is a kinda gross thread shit. Please, no one responded to this off-topic post. ---
**Author:** ![SpyChief](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/898d66/32.png) [@SpyChief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpyChief)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2025, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paul-reubens-posthumously-comes-out/1013419/43 "2025-05-27T18:59:44Z")
In the documentary, Sam Kinison is shown speaking about the incident, and his “holier than thou” attitude about it was laughable. Sam was well known for coke-fueled orgies and debauchery on Caligula-like levels. ---
**Author:** ![SpyChief](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/898d66/32.png) [@SpyChief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpyChief)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2025, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paul-reubens-posthumously-comes-out/1013419/44 "2025-05-27T19:04:27Z")
He showed up in 30 Rock and STOLE THE SHOW. [Paul Reubens steals the show on 30 Rock](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ2nDX05rDY) ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2025, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paul-reubens-posthumously-comes-out/1013419/45 "2025-05-28T15:31:55Z")
Oh my god that’s genius. Thank you- I needed that ! It’s always vaguely horrific to see a character subsume the actual human. Kudos to Pau Rubens for, in the aggregate, finding a way to manage it. To a lesser degree but a fair analogy, both Henry Winkler and Leonard Nimoy had to deal with this. ---
**Author:** ![Jay\_Z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Jay\_Z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jay_Z)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2025, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paul-reubens-posthumously-comes-out/1013419/46 "2025-05-28T19:18:34Z")
> [@Cartooniverse](#): > > To a lesser degree but a fair analogy, both Henry Winkler and Leonard Nimoy had to deal with this. I don’t really think it was on the same level. Maybe George Reeves as Superman would be closer. He did personal appearances and was on other shows as Superman. Though that wasn’t really Reeves’ choice. Reubens was appearing on Letterman and hosted SNL as Pee Wee. Even most of his other performances are fairly abrasive, in the Pee Wee mode I suppose, but not the sort of characters that encourage a lot of audience ID. By the time of his big incident his kid’s show was done anyway, he probably was fairly boxed in and felt it. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2025, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paul-reubens-posthumously-comes-out/1013419/47 "2025-05-28T19:56:11Z")
I wonder where his pop-culture collection ended up. Except for the more risque items, it looked like it would’ve made a really neat museum. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2025, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paul-reubens-posthumously-comes-out/1013419/48 "2025-05-28T20:17:47Z")
> [@Kent\_Clark](#): > > Paul Reubens was gay, but Pee-wee was definitely straight, After all, he was on The Dating Game! He must have been on more than once, because they showed a clip with a different “date.” He won in the episode in documentary. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2025, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paul-reubens-posthumously-comes-out/1013419/49 "2025-05-28T20:28:50Z")
> [@Cartooniverse](#): > > It’s always vaguely horrific to see a character subsume the actual human. Kudos to Pau Rubens for, in the aggregate, finding a way to manage it. He embraced it, tho. He chose it. He preferred it, at the time. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2025, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paul-reubens-posthumously-comes-out/1013419/50 "2025-05-28T23:22:07Z")
> [@Kent\_Clark](#): > > Paul Reubens was gay, but Pee-wee was definitely straight, After all, he was on The Dating Game! Uh, and he loved Dottie! ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2025, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paul-reubens-posthumously-comes-out/1013419/51 "2025-05-28T23:48:44Z")
Was Dottie the one with the big but? ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2025, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paul-reubens-posthumously-comes-out/1013419/52 "2025-05-29T00:06:44Z")
Dottie was played by E. G. Daily on _Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure_. [![](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/pee-wee/images/f/ff/Dottie.jpg) ](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/pee-wee/images/f/ff/Dottie.jpg) Daily might be best known as the voice of Tommy Pickles on _Rugrats_. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2025, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paul-reubens-posthumously-comes-out/1013419/53 "2025-05-29T01:01:53Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Was Dottie the one with the big but? - That was Simone. ---
**Author:** ![cieskokid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cieskokid/32/5374_2.png) [@cieskokid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cieskokid)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2025, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paul-reubens-posthumously-comes-out/1013419/54 "2025-05-29T03:16:52Z")
She was also the BF Loryn in “Valley Girl”, wonderfully cute character, just like E.G. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/fxnUDEf-81o/hqdefault.jpg "E.G. Daily in Valley Girl") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxnUDEf-81o) ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2025, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paul-reubens-posthumously-comes-out/1013419/55 "2025-05-29T03:20:41Z")
> [@cieskokid](#): > > She was also the BF Loryn in “Valley Girl” And she performed as a musician in the film _Better Off Dead_, singing the title track of the movie. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/veb3VjZm-_U/hqdefault.jpg "Elizabeth Daily - One Way Love (Better Off Dead...) (1985)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veb3VjZm-_U) ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2025, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paul-reubens-posthumously-comes-out/1013419/56 "2025-05-29T03:26:09Z")
She also had a single Say It Say It. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/KW2LOaCHhOg/maxresdefault.jpg "E.G. Daily - Say It, Say It") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW2LOaCHhOg) ---
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2025, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paul-reubens-posthumously-comes-out/1013419/57 "2025-05-29T03:31:38Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > Daily might be best known as the voice of Tommy Pickles on _Rugrats_. I think of her more as the voice of Powerpuff Girl Buttercup. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2025, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paul-reubens-posthumously-comes-out/1013419/58 "2025-05-29T05:05:40Z")
She’s Babe. That’s the role that matters. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2025, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paul-reubens-posthumously-comes-out/1013419/59 "2025-05-29T05:32:43Z")
Lynn Marie Stewart played Miss Yvonne on the playhouse and Charlie Kelly’s mother on It’s Always Sunny. She passed away in February of this year. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2025, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paul-reubens-posthumously-comes-out/1013419/60 "2025-05-29T13:53:53Z")
Paul Reubens was also excellent in the Buffy movie. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paul-reubens-posthumously-comes-out/1013419.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paul-reubens-posthumously-comes-out/1013419.md?page=4)