Thanks @Vmort for your post I had forgotten how icky the actor who played Pee Wee (Paul Reubens) was.
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PeeWee's Big Adventure Movie
Ha ha...
Interview (2009)
Interview (2019)
Interview (2016)
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Wiki - In July 1991, Reubens was arrested in Sarasota, Florida, for masturbating during a film at an adult movie theater. During a random police inspection, a detective who had observed Reubens detained him as he was readying to leave. (This sweep also resulted in three other arrests.) When detectives examined his driver's license, Reubens told them, "I'm Pee-wee Herman", and offered to do a children's benefit for the sheriff's office, "to take care of this". The next day, after a local reporter recognized Reubens's name, Reubens's attorney made the same offer to the Sarasota Herald-Tribune in exchange for withholding the story.
Bill Cosby defended Reubens, saying, "Whatever [Reubens has] done, this is being blown all out of proportion" & "he hasn't done that to children."
In 1971, Reubens had been arrested in the same county for loitering and prowling near an adult theater, though charges were dropped. Reubens, who for years would not give interviews or appear on talk shows, did make a subsequent public appearance as Pee-wee at the 1991 MTV Video Music Awards on September 5, where he asked the audience, "Heard any good jokes lately?" He received a standing ovation.
Reubens learned that police were at his home with a search warrant, acting on a tip from a witness in the pornography case against actor Jeffrey Jones, finding among over 70,000 items of kitsch memorabilia, two grainy videotapes, and dozens of photographs that the city attorney's office characterized as a collection of child pornography. Kelly Bush, Reubens's personal representative at the time, said the description of the items was inaccurate and claimed the objects were "Rob Lowe's sex videotape, and a few 30- to 100-year-old kitsch collectible images." Reubens turned himself in to the Hollywood division of the LAPD and was charged with misdemeanor possession of obscene material improperly depicting a child under the age of 18 in sexual conduct. The district attorney looked at Reubens's collection and computer and found no grounds for bringing any felony charges against him, while the city attorney, Rocky Delgadillo, formally charged Reubens on the last day allowed by the statute. Reubens was represented by Hollywood criminal defense lawyer Blair Berk. In December he pleaded not guilty through Berk, who also complained that the city attorney failed to turn over evidence to the defense, to which City Attorney Richard Katz countered that prosecutors were not required to do until after arraignment, after which they did; neither side disclosed the contents.
In March 2004, child pornography charges were dropped in exchange for Reubens's guilty plea to a lesser misdemeanor obscenity charge. For the next three years, he was required to register his address with the sheriff's office and he could not be in the company of minors without the permission of a parent or legal guardian.
Reubens later stated that he was a collector of erotica, including films, muscle magazines, and a sizable collection of mostly homosexual vintage erotica, such as photographic studies of teen nudes. Reubens said that what the city attorney's office viewed as pornography he considered to be innocent art and that what they described as people underage engaged in masturbation or oral copulation was, in fact, a judgmental point of view of the nudes that Reubens described as people "one hundred percent not" performing sexual acts. Being an avid collector, Reubens had often purchased bulk lots, and one of his vintage magazine dealers declared that "there's no way" he could have known the content of each page in the publications he bought and that he recalled Reubens asking for "physique magazines, vintage 1960s material, but not things featuring kids".
"One thing I want to make very, very clear, I don't want anyone for one second to think that I am titillated by images of children. It's not me. You can say lots of things about me. And you might. The public may think I'm weird. They may think I'm crazy or anything that anyone wants to think about me. That's all fine. As long as one of the things you're not thinking about me is that I'm a p***phile. Because that's not true." - Paul Reubens on the charges
The Pee Wee Herman Show (1980)
During the course of his busy day, Pee-wee sings and dances, reads pen pal letters "from around the world" (including prison), conducts a hypnosis puppet act with a female audience member who undresses under his command, and shows a cartoon and a condensed vintage 1959 educational film about proper deportment called Beginning Responsibility: Lunchroom Manners.
Hypnotized woman clip.
PeeWee's Big Adventure Movie
Interview (2009)
"And if a kid had seen the original version and caught something in the Saturday morning version, he might be able to laugh at something dirty because he caught the reference. And if a kid didn’t know, it flew right over his head. I always designed things to be double entendres so it could be appreciated either way. I never really viewed it as, “Oh, this is the adult version, and this is the kid’s version.” In fact, when we were doing the adult version, I tried to make it for kids."
Interview (2019)
“I’m still heartbroken that I never got to make Pee-wee Chow. That was the first time they were ever going to allow the Purina checkerboard to be on something that wasn’t animal food. It got right up to the blind taste test, but kids hated it. It wasn’t sweet enough.”
Interview (2016)
MARGY ROCHLIN: Larry “Bud” Melman once appeared in an episode of your show that someone described to me as looking like “Child Molester’s Central.” Was that the effect you were going for?
PEE-WEE HERMAN: No. People read so much into what I do. It’s fascinating to me because some of it’s probably there, but I haven’t thought of it. I mean, why would I, in a million years, want to do anything even remotely having to do with child molestation on a children’s show? See, I take having a kids’ show real seriously. I think it’s an enormous responsibility.
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MARGY ROCHLIN: What son? Is there a Pee-wee Jr. I’m unaware of?
PEE-WEE HERMAN: Not yet. Not that I know of. [laughs] But eventually I hope to have a son who, later on, I can make be Pee-wee Herman. Isn’t that the whole point of having children? To make them do whatever you want? “You will go into show business. It’s three o’clock and it’s time for your tap lesson.” [laughs] No, I’m only kidding.
