# RIP Paul Reubens {July 30,2023} **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** celebrity-death\ **Created:** [July 31, 2023, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-paul-reubens-july-30-2023/987880 "2023-07-31T17:11:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Mallard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Mallard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mallard)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2023, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-paul-reubens-july-30-2023/987880/61 "2023-08-01T04:08:54Z")
Only 2 people have ever been shot in a theatre; Abraham Lincoln & the guy sitting in front of peewee Herman. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2023, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-paul-reubens-july-30-2023/987880/62 "2023-08-01T05:03:57Z")
I had a lot of the Pee-Wee’s Playhouse toys, including the set itself. Mom and Dad didn’t have a lot of money for toys for me as a child, but they managed to get those for me. Chairee and Jamby and Cowboy Curtis… ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2023, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-paul-reubens-july-30-2023/987880/63 "2023-08-01T05:21:11Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > > [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > > > People need to remember that Pee Wee was a part, not a person. > > Just jumping off from this… When Reubens first started playing Pee-Wee Herman I was too young to realize he was just a character being played by an actor. As a child I did believe Pee-Wee was an actual person. The fact that Reubens often made public appearances in character as Pee-Wee probably didn’t help. The credits for Big Adventure also Pee Wee as being portrayed by himself. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2023, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-paul-reubens-july-30-2023/987880/64 "2023-08-01T10:20:01Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > Taking these two quotes together kind of makes my point: he was arrested for a victimless crime, he was (in effect) incognito, and it only caused him a real problem when the incident became more widely known. I was a little too old to watch his show as a child. Which means i was old enough to be outraged at his arrest. I didn’t even know who he was, that was my introduction to his character. But it felt so unfair and arbitrary. Raiding “adult theaters” and gay bars is so cruel and pointless. So i guess i owe him for teaching me that. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2023, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-paul-reubens-july-30-2023/987880/65 "2023-08-01T12:00:12Z")
Don’t forget his small but memorable role in **The Blues Brothers** as a waiter in the snooty restaurant that Jake and Elwood visit. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2023, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-paul-reubens-july-30-2023/987880/66 "2023-08-01T12:11:13Z")
_The Spleen_ has passed!? Nobody pull his finger. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2023, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-paul-reubens-july-30-2023/987880/67 "2023-08-01T12:25:23Z")
> [@Mallard](#): > > Only 2 people have ever been shot in a theatre; Abraham Lincoln & the guy sitting in front of peewee Herman. Hey, I…wait…don’t get this reference. Remind me? > [@joebuck20](#): > > The credits for Big Adventure also Pee Wee as being portrayed by himself. He was indeed one of those actors who took a character and, for awhile, only appeared as that character everywhere he went. I remember kids at school saying, “His real name is Paul Reubens,” as it if were a great piece of trivia. I was actually glad for him post-1991/1992 when he started appearing as Paul Reubens and even happier when he came back and started his Pee-Wee show and appearances again because he was able to separate himself from that role more. Here is Jemaine Clement’s tweet on Reubens. I had forgotten he revived his Buffy The Vampire Slayer character 30+ years later. Note: they called him “Paul” since they did not get the rights to the character(and his character died in the movie), but Reubens brought the wig and everything. [https://twitter.com/AJemaineClement/status/1686317186619469824](https://twitter.com/AJemaineClement/status/1686317186619469824) ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2023, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-paul-reubens-july-30-2023/987880/68 "2023-08-01T12:27:22Z")
This is just so sad. I’ll ride my PeeWee Herman bike this weekend. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2023, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-paul-reubens-july-30-2023/987880/69 "2023-08-01T12:33:14Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > This is just so sad. I’ll ride my PeeWee Herman bike this weekend Did you steal it? How dare you. No one, except Pee-Wee, can have a bike that awesome. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2023, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-paul-reubens-july-30-2023/987880/70 "2023-08-01T12:43:54Z")
[![](https://i.imgur.com/qkIHA8g.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/qkIHA8g.jpg) My FIL rebuilt and rode this. When he died a few years ago, his wife (my MIL) asked if I’d ride it. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2023, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-paul-reubens-july-30-2023/987880/71 "2023-08-01T13:16:08Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > > [@Mallard](#): > > > > Only 2 people have ever been shot in a theatre; Abraham Lincoln & the guy sitting in front of peewee Herman. > > Hey, I…wait…don’t get this reference. Remind me? Seriously? 🤨 Pee-Wee shot his load while watching the porn flick… 🤭 ---
**Author:** ![Encinitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2023, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-paul-reubens-july-30-2023/987880/72 "2023-08-01T13:18:22Z")
Upon arriving at The Pearly Gates, PeeWee said “Large Marge sent me.” ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2023, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-paul-reubens-july-30-2023/987880/73 "2023-08-01T13:28:52Z")
In memoriam: > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv08vnIlnIw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv08vnIlnIw) ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2023, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-paul-reubens-july-30-2023/987880/74 "2023-08-01T13:40:44Z")
I had a dream last night about a funeral home’s Rube Goldberg device for moving a body from a slab, through the chapel for a five second ceremony and then into a waiting hole. Thanks, Pee-wee! ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2023, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-paul-reubens-july-30-2023/987880/75 "2023-08-01T13:49:34Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I remember seeing him on one of his first national appearances on David Letterman’s show. Nobody knew what the hell this guy’s schtick was, at first. Pee Wee Herman was one of two comics I distinctly remember seeing for the first time on Letterman and just sitting there thinking “WTF? Is this guy for real?” The other was Bobcat Goldthwait. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2023, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-paul-reubens-july-30-2023/987880/76 "2023-08-01T13:55:17Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > Raiding “adult theaters” and gay bars is so cruel and pointless. Do the cops even bother doing that nowadays? I’ve always thought it was an usher who caught Pee-Wee choking the chicken. ---
**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:** [August 1, 2023, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-paul-reubens-july-30-2023/987880/77 "2023-08-01T14:01:11Z")
RIP 😧 Thanks to his Big Adventure I found out you could go up inside the T-Rex at Cabazon and look out of it’s mouth. And also thanks to him we all know just how to dance when we hear Tequila. One of a kind, that’s for sure. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2023, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-paul-reubens-july-30-2023/987880/78 "2023-08-01T14:53:27Z")
How 'bout that Brother Theodore? ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2023, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-paul-reubens-july-30-2023/987880/79 "2023-08-01T15:32:12Z")
The best scene in the [movie Blow](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jkdw5OAIxQ). ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2023, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-paul-reubens-july-30-2023/987880/80 "2023-08-01T15:34:34Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > > [@joebuck20](#): > > > > The credits for Big Adventure also Pee Wee as being portrayed by himself. > > He was indeed one of those actors who took a character and, for awhile, only appeared as that character everywhere he went. I remember kids at school saying, “His real name is Paul Reubens,” as it if were a great piece of trivia. To me the fact that Pee Wee was credited as “himself” just added to the mystique when I was a kid. In my imagination that meant there was this real life guy named Pee Wee Herman who lived in a bonkers house and was probably engaged in all sorts of wacky Pee Wee-esque antics. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-paul-reubens-july-30-2023/987880.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-paul-reubens-july-30-2023/987880.md?page=5)