{"id":1050,"date":"2006-07-26T06:07:14","date_gmt":"2006-07-26T11:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/pee-wee-got-a-raw-deal\/"},"modified":"2006-07-26T06:08:13","modified_gmt":"2006-07-26T11:08:13","slug":"pee-wee-got-a-raw-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/pee-wee-got-a-raw-deal","title":{"rendered":"Pee Wee Got a Raw Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Neat interview with Paul Reubens<\/a> at the Onion’s AV Club. I first discovered Pee Wee Herman (I was going to write, “My first exposure to Pee Wee Herman”) when I was watching Cheech & Chong films with my dad at far too young an age (like 11). What’s great is that my father had no idea C&C movies were all about drugs. He just found them funny.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I went from there to HBO’s showing of Pee Wee’s stage act, which was also transformatively weird. I’m glad he’s rebuilt his career, and I hope he can get funding for his Pee Wee movies.<\/p>\n

AVC: The Internet Movie Database says you had “complete creative control over Pee-wee’s Playhouse, with three minor exceptions,” but it doesn’t give any details. Do you remember what the exceptions were?<\/p>\n

PR: In the first episode, the network said “You can’t stick that pencil in that potato, because pencils are sharp, and you might encourage kids to stab things.” So we didn’t do that. Let’s see. There was an episode they got a letter about, where there was a fire in the playhouse, and a firefighter showed up and he and Miss Yvonne were flirting, and he said “You have to have a smoke detector,” and she said “I have one in my bedroom, above the bed.” They asked us to change that for subsequent airings of the show, so we went in and looped dialogue over it, so instead, she said “I have one in my kitchen.” I put it back to the original version for the DVD release. There was a shot of a bathroom door that we held for a really long time, and you could hear Pee-wee peeing. They asked us to tone the sound of the peeing down, and add a score so it was a little less graphic. All the changes they asked us to make seemed really reasonable to me, and we accommodated them. I think in 45 episodes, there were only maybe three other changes they ever asked for.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Enjoy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And if you don’t<\/em> enjoy that, here’s a piece from Foreign Policy about forgotten (but ongoing) territorial disputes<\/a>. I can’t wait for Canada and Denmark to declare war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Neat interview with Paul Reubens at the Onion’s AV Club. I first discovered Pee Wee Herman (I was going to write, “My first exposure to Pee Wee Herman”) when I was watching Cheech & Chong films with my dad at far too young an age (like 11). What’s great is that my father had no … <\/p>\n

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