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« on: June 06, 2006, 07:20:06 PM »
Adultswim!

AAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

While watching Adult Swim tonight (it's what Cartoon Network turns into late at night), I caught a brief promo where there was nothing on the screen except the words, "Remember this?" while they play an old t.v. theme song.

And guess what, I did remember. I remembered the comforts of childhood, filled with Chairy and Jambi, grey suits with red bowties and flying scooters.

If you've surmised that Adult Swim is going to begin showing old PeeWee's Playhouse episodes, you'd be right as rain. If you've also guessed that I pulled my old talking PeeWee doll out of the closet to sleep with tonight, you're battin' a thousand.

I'm as gitty as a schoolboy, and you should be too. Too grown up to care, you say? So I'm an idiot, huh? Well, I know you are, but what am I?

Mecca-lecca hi, mecca hiney ho.........
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« Reply #1 on: June 06, 2006, 08:01:23 PM »
I......

THINK.....

NOT!

That show is not something I care to live through again.

Ed
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« Reply #2 on: June 06, 2006, 08:40:37 PM »
PENNY PENNY!

Hello Cowboy Curtis

whats the secret word?
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« Reply #3 on: June 07, 2006, 03:39:41 AM »
One of those times I wish I had television.
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« Reply #4 on: June 07, 2006, 04:05:55 AM »
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One of those times I wish I had television.
No. No you really don't. You may think you do, but you really don't. Trust me on this one.
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« Reply #5 on: June 07, 2006, 04:07:01 AM »
maybe PeeWee is the one

Gawd, that would be hysterical

a send up of the matrix with Cowboy Curtis (Larry Fishburne)  and Peewee
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« Reply #6 on: June 07, 2006, 06:06:07 AM »
So THATs what thats about!  HUZZAH!!!!

PeeWee ROCKS!
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« Reply #7 on: June 07, 2006, 08:39:55 AM »
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Trust me on this one.
Trust you?  I used to watch the show every Saturday morning.  Whaddaya talkin' about?
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« Reply #8 on: June 07, 2006, 06:07:22 PM »
Watch the original skit of Pee-Wee's Play House.

The one that was around before Paul Reubens got signed on as a children's TV host.

It is chock-full of euphemisms, suggestive dialogue, and sexual references.  It was never intended to be a children's show, but merely a parody; for more information, see Death to Smoochy.

And I am loving italicized font and double redundancies. cheesy
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« Reply #9 on: June 07, 2006, 08:07:21 PM »
Well Dionysusigma, if that's the case, it is very apropose that Paul Reubens got the job!  The Reubens version of the show got canceled after he was arrested for whacking off in a gay porn movie theater!  

Lol, I have to wonder if fistful knew that part of the story before he wished for a tv!
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« Reply #10 on: June 07, 2006, 08:31:52 PM »
Sheesh, man, I'm not a hermit.  Yes, I learned about Reuben's activities as soon as everybody else did, and I would still enjoy the show regardless; even though his performance in that Ben Stiller superhero movie was unremarkable.
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« Reply #11 on: June 07, 2006, 10:55:49 PM »
Before:







After:


Cheesy
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"And are you?"
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« Reply #12 on: June 09, 2006, 12:08:10 PM »

before


after
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He only has one purpose--Do bad things to good people! Mit science! What good is science if no one gets hurt?!"

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« Reply #13 on: June 09, 2006, 02:23:06 PM »
Please explain that last post.  If it means what I think it means, then I - well, I guess I regret swallowing the red pill.
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« Reply #14 on: June 09, 2006, 07:21:11 PM »
cowboy curtis = larry fishburne = laurence fishburne = morpheus
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Cowboy Curtis and Pee-wee live within a horseback-ride's distance from the Grand Canyon (okay) so they make a trip out there and play with their echoes for about fifteen minutes. They eat dinner, Cowboy Curtis sings "Amarillo by Morning" or whatever on the guitar, and they go to sleep. But before they do they have one of the sweetest moments in the entire run of the show, and one of the very few times Pee-wee remained serious for more than two facetious seconds.

It's hard to see the stars at night when you're playhouse is fitted with 20,000 lightbulbs and is sitting underneath a sphinx. So Pee-wee is amazed by the beauties of the open night sky. Laying head to head with Curtis he asks whether or not somebody just like them is up on one of those stars, looking back. Cowboy Curtis reckons there has to be. Then they just lay there for a minute, and Pee-wee smiles up at a twinkling star.

It's cheesy, yeah, but it's the same theorem that Futurama used so well: The serious moments will mean a lot more if you aren't expecting them. Pee-wee's Playhouse never said anything deep about our humanity and never pretended to be anything more than a way to get people to scream more than usual. But this moment really works to show that even unbridled insanity should stop every now and then to think about the stars.

It works especially well because the ten minutes leading up to it were Pee-wee and Curtis roasting hot dogs between HOW IS YOUR WIENER COWBOY CURTIS and I THOUGHT YOU WERE GONNA BRING THE BUNS conversations
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« Reply #15 on: June 10, 2006, 04:33:22 AM »
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So Pee-wee is amazed by the beauties of the open night sky. Laying head to head with Curtis he asks whether or not somebody just like them is up on one of those stars, looking back. Cowboy Curtis reckons there has to be. Then they just lay there for a minute, and Pee-wee smiles up at a twinkling star.
Wow.  That is so deep.  Not.

Put me back into the matrix, because the truth about Larry is more than I can bear.  How do you go from Apocolypse Now to PeeWee's Playhouse?
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« Reply #16 on: June 11, 2006, 01:25:41 PM »
but dang, Cowboy curtis could dance

didja know Phil Hartman played Captain Carl?

http://www.x-entertainment.com/messages/509.html

nice clip of pee wee animation
http://www.x-entertainment.com/pics3/peewee.mov
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« Reply #17 on: June 11, 2006, 01:51:01 PM »
Phil Hartman -  I miss that guy.

I totally disagree with the guy that wrote that review, but I also watched the show as a little kid, having little memory of what actually happened.
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