Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special
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Show Notes
🎄 Tune in as we celebrate the 30th anniversary of Pee-wee Herman’s Christmas special the only way we know how: With lots of screaming, lots of fruitcake, and lots more screaming.
🎙️ Erin Evans, Lindy Kempe, and Joey O. call into the Podcast Phone to embrace the wackiest holiday party of 1988.
📺 The “Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special” is available for free on YouTube.
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💬 Topics & Tangents:
Magic Johnson recorded his segment hours before playing in — and winning — a Lakers game. We don’t know the precise date, but one win was against the SuperSonics, possibly (but probably not) on Ice Cube’s “Good Day.”
One commercial break includes a bizarre Pringles commercial starring a young Brad Pitt.
When did fruitcake become a punchline? Christmas Past has something of an answer. Or is fruitcake a byproduct of the Joys of Jell-O era?
The working script and storyboards for this special.
Who mailed Grace Jones to the Reagan White House?
Pee-wee in “Back to the Beach.”
The King of Cartoons’ cartoon: 1936’s “Christmas Comes But Once a Year.”
My feelings about snow mirror this one, particular Calvin and Hobbes comic strip, published 5 days after this special aired.
The awkward moment when we realize the Dinosaur Family has a pet dinosaur.
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“Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special” © 1988 Paul Reubens.
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