Only 2 people have ever been shot in a theatre; Abraham Lincoln & the guy sitting in front of peewee Herman.
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…
The credits for Big Adventure also Pee Wee as being portrayed by himself.
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.
Don’t forget his small but memorable role in The Blues Brothers as a waiter in the snooty restaurant that Jake and Elwood visit.
The Spleen has passed!? Nobody pull his finger.
Hey, I…wait…don’t get this reference. Remind me?
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
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.
My FIL rebuilt and rode this. When he died a few years ago, his wife (my MIL) asked if I’d ride it.
Seriously? 
Pee-Wee shot his load while watching the porn flick… 
Upon arriving at The Pearly Gates, PeeWee said “Large Marge sent me.”
In memoriam:
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!
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.
Do the cops even bother doing that nowadays? I’ve always thought it was an usher who caught Pee-Wee choking the chicken.
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.
How 'bout that Brother Theodore?
The best scene in the movie Blow.
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.