Morning, Pee Wee. Look, Francis, today is
my birthday and my father said I can have anything I want. Good for
you and your father. So guess what I want? A new brain?
No. Your bike.
Oh, what's so funny, Pee Wee?
It's not for sale, Francis.
My father says everything's negotiable, Pee Wee,
I wouldn't sell my bike for all. The money in the world. Not for a
hundred billion, million, trillion dollars. Then you're crazy.
I know you are, but what am I? You're a nerd. I know you are,
but what am I? You're an idiot. I know you are, but what am I?
I know you are, but what am I? I know you are, but what am
I? I know you are, but what am I? I know you are, but what
am I? I know you are, but what am I? Infinity. No, I'm not.
You are. No way. Knock it off.
Cut it out. Oh, shut up, Peewee. Why don't you make
me? Why don't you make me? Because I don't make monkeys. I just trade them.
Pee Wee, listen to reason.
Come on. I'm listening to reason. Pee Wee.
That's my name, don't wear it out. Remember the first time I saw your bike?
You were riding past my house and. I came running out to tell you.
How much I liked it. Even way back then. I love that story.
You'll be sorry, Pee wee Herman.
It's 2 Dads 1 Movie. It's the podcast where two middle aged
dads sit around and shoot the shit about the movies of the 80s and 90s.
Here are your hosts, Steve, Paulo and Nick Brianna.
Hello, everybody. It's another episode of 2 Dads 1 Movie.
I'm Steve. And I'm Nick. And today we are Talking about the 1980s,
85. Absurdist,
bizarre, amazing classics. Yeah. How do you describe it? Right. Peewee's Big Adventure.
This of course being the first movie about the Pee Wee Herman character and also
Tim Burton's directorial debut. So, like very
much, you know, a lot of talk, a lot to talk about. Nick, this was
your pick. Tell us a little bit about your history with Pee Wee's Big Adventure.
Yeah, so this is one I think I probably got into after the movie came
out, when the Saturday morning show was on, which I think happened in
like the late 80s, right? This was 85 and that show was on maybe
like late 80s. So that got me introduced to the Pee Wee character, which I
loved, as did a lot of kids at that time. And this was a movie
that I remember seeing. I thought it Was really cool to see, like, one of
my favorite characters who seemed like a kid's character, but he's on a real movie.
He's not just on Saturday. Like, I didn't really know the origins of him doing
the character for adults at theaters where everyone was smoking and stuff.
But, yeah, so I always thought this was a fun one.
I haven't watched this in a long time. But another thing about it is a
mutual friend of ours, Matt Gilbert, who you remember from
high school, he's like, the closest to a filmmaker of the friends that I know.
I mean, he is a filmmaker, but does, like, other video stuff. But he was
always, like, into certain movies for reasons. And I always like to give his favorite
movies another look because he would, like, have this perspective of,
like, why certain things were cool. And this was one that he would talk about
a lot as being, like, you know, inspirational to a lot of stuff that he
did because he ended up working like, puppets and stop motion and stuff like
that. So. Shout out Matt Chilbert. Yeah, so I thought this was kind of cool
as, like, a fun kids character, but also something that, like, film people could appreciate
for a lot of reasons. Yeah, the. The. The show Pee Wee's Playhouse debuted just
the next year in 86, ran until 91, which, yeah, it was like prime time
for us to be into that, you know, at our age. I was a huge
fan as well. I think I also saw the movie after
having watched the. The show a bunch, you know, and, like, not in the theater
anything. So more about, like, you know, got into the show on Saturday mornings and
then, you know, one day at Blockbuster, some Friday evening when my parents, like,
oh, you go pick something out from, like, the kids or the comedy section,
you know, I found it went, whoa, wait, wait, wait. There's a Pee Wee movie?
Yeah, it's like, we didn't, like, find things out back then. Right. There's no Internet.
There was no, you know, how did you discover things if you were a kid?
If it wasn't advertised on tv? There was one stumbling upon exactly.
Just seeing it at a record store or video rental or whatever. So, yeah,
that's my take, you know, or my history with it as well, is just,
like, definitely saw it from a young age. I think of the movies that we've
done on the show here that I had seen before, which obviously not.
Not all of them. You know, we've both had new experiences on this show,
which is great. This is the movie that it's. It's like, been the longest since
I'D seen it. Yeah. Of anything that we've done. I think I probably haven't
seen this movie since I was, like, 12. Okay. Nice. Really, really long time ago,
like, probably pre high school. And I think that that's probably a combination of,
like, I got into. I got to be very big movie snob when I was
a teenager. I got in, like, I saw my first, like, Kevin Smith movie and
Quentin Tarantino movie, like, in the same year, and suddenly I thought I knew everything,
you know, about what was a good movie or not, whatever. And, like, Tim Burton's
the kind of person that I definitely did not respect enough at that age.
Like, I was not kind of, like, I was too much of a douche,
basically. Like, I needed to, like, appreciate the massive inventiveness of his
mind. Yeah. You had too much Boondock Saints in your blood at that time.
That kind of. I was way into that. Yeah. And thankfully have walked away from
that. From that as, like, an identity. So that's good. But. Yeah. Cool. All right,
well, let's jump into the facts. Yeah. Peewee's Big Adventure. It was
released on July 26, 1985, with a PG rating.
It runs for 91 minutes. Directed by Tim Burton,
written by Phil Hartman of SNL fame,
Paul Rubens and Michael Varhol. Starring Paul Rubens,
though obviously credited at the very beginning of the movie as Pee Wee Herman.
So it's sort of like he's the character and the actor.
Yeah. Which is very interesting. Kind of a Mr. T style.
Yeah. Or phenomenon. Larry the Cable Guy sort of thing. Right. You know,
that thing. So that the Persona sort of precedes the actor scores. Rotten tomatoes,
78%. In retrospect, I thought that
was actually kind of low. Like I was. When I saw that. I was expecting
something higher after having watched the movie again. But. But there it is. IMDb 7.1,
which is kind of where we live a lot of the times. I feel like
our show, our movies often fall in that 7.1 category.
Did not win anyone. 2Dads, all sevens podcast.
They did. The show, the movie did not win any awards. It was nominated for
a couple minor awards. Did not win any on a $6 million budget.
However, it earned 41 million at the box office in the mid-80s, which is amazing.
A 6.8 times its budget. That's obviously a huge hit. And this is,
you know, definitely helped to push Tim Burton's career along.
And, you know, obviously one of the reasons he ended up scoring the two Batman
films he got to do was the success of movies like this. Absolutely. So congratulations,
obviously, to Tim Burton, who, of course, we've seen before. This is. This is the
Tim Burton movie we're doing. But we've seen him before. We saw him as a.
As an actor. Right. In a very early episode of our. Podcast, the Movie
Singles, he played a character who was a videographer for
a dating website. Or not website, obviously, for a video dating service.
Yeah. But he got to do that. And so we've seen Tim Burton before,
but this is the first time that we've got a Tim Burton behind the camera
production, which is great. Welcome back, Timmy. We hardly.
We missed you, buddy. Well, and then the other thing is, as we're seeing
the credits, the opening credits to this, that the music is done by Danny Elfman,
which just adds so much to the. The feeling of this film.
And. And Elfman and Burton went on to collaborate several times after this and.
And to fantastic results. Yeah, Like, Elfman and Burton together are just really
great. It's almost like David Fincher and Trent Reznor doing amazing
things together as a director and composer. Yeah. They just belong together. They seem
to understand each other. Like, I know the audio version of. What you're trying to
show, the whimsy and the sparkle.
Really great. And we start off with. With some
of that. I think the. The opening credits of this film are actually kind of
very restrained. Like, there's not a whole lot of wackiness or
anything wild. Yeah. It's good to see Phil Hartman's name, though. That's always. That's always
great. So we open basically on a dream sequence,
right. Where Pee Wee is having a dream about, you know, the greatest sporting
event in the world. The Tour de France. Yes. And. And, you know,
the Tour de France, and they're all wearing these cool, like, aerodynamic mullet helmets
and stuff. And Peewee whizzes by them on his, like, souped up Debo beach
cruiser. And. And it's just kind of a fun thing because,
you know, his posture does not change the way he rides the bike. He's not
leaning forward or anything. You know, the same way that he. Always does, even with
the saddlebags, which can't possibly help the aerodynamics of the bike. It's still.
He's winning because it's his dream. So he's winning the Tour de France. Yeah.
But we get. We get kind of a fun little, like,
montage, or not really a montage, but just a little sequence of what
Peewee's morning is like. Right, Right. So this is kind of funny. You know,
he first wakes up out of bed, he picks up these 1 pound weights,
he does a couple of very restrained reps with them, and then
he has this fabulous Rube Goldberg machine that makes
his breakfast for him, which is really fun. And that's one thing as a kid
I for sure remember from this movie. Like, we talk about not seeing it in
a while. There's a couple things of this in this movie that really stuck
with me. And this was definitely one which is like, where do you see this?
This is not in movies. You know, this is like. Right. It was
really cool to see that. Funny enough, 1985, of course, was the year of Rube
Goldbergian breakfast making contraptions. Because the opening sequence of Back to the
Future has Doc Brown's crazy kitchen contraption giving Einstein
his food right when Marty comes over to Doc's house to play around with his.
With his amplifier. So, yeah, there's actually the same year two movies that do
this kind of thing. Much more elaborate here Pee Wees is a much more elaborate
crazy Doc Brown. Big Adventure traveled back in
time with that great idea. He certainly could have. Yeah, yeah. Well, shout out
to Rube Goldberg contraptions. It's way better than just shoving a toaster button down.
A couple of things I noticed when he first wakes up, there's a rug on
his floor, and it's like, got woodland creatures on it, but they're clearly actually the
characters from Bambi, the Disney movie, like, in the exact art style and everything.
So there's a little bit of a Disney reference there. I don't know if they
had to get, like, permission to use something like that or not, but yeah,
he's got a Bambi rug, he has a fire pole. And as he slides down
it, right, he's wearing his pajamas. And when he comes down, he's wearing the classic
gray suit and tie. So he's ready to go for the day.
I also noticed there was among the many elements that
move around the kitchen to get his breakfast ready, there's like a pterodactyl model
that is carrying two pieces of bread to drop in the toaster. I definitely had
that exact pterodactyl model, like, hanging from a string.
Oh, nice. You know, as in my childhood bedroom. And it was like an instant
core memory. When I saw it, I was like, oh, my God. I remember like,
literally putting that together and it would fall apart and you try to put it
together again, and it was never that good. But yes, and in
his breakfast is finally kind of in front of him. And he covers the plate
with Mr. T cereal. Shout out to that didn't mean to be fair.
He's feeding his breakfast the cereal, right? That's right.
The pancake has a face. And then.
And then, you know, he takes one bite with a fork, which is basically like
three cereal morsels, and chews it a bunch of times. So he's being very macrobiotic
about it, and then, like, dabs his mouth. That always. That always really,
really cracked me up. Yes. And we're kind of shown, like, through all these things
that this is obviously a grown man who lives on his own and stuff,
but all of his interests are right in line with, like, the age of boy
I was when I saw this movie. Yeah. So being like 8, 9 years old,
and you're like dinosaurs riding your bike, Mr. T. Like sugary
cereal. Having a pole instead of stairs, man. I mean, he's really
living the dream. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. And so he. He heads out
to leave for the day, to start his day. And he's got, like,
this wild front yard, right? There's, like, statues and, like, looks like
kitty amusement ride vehicles, all kinds of stuff everywhere. And he
says hi to his neighbor who's looking out his window and says, oh, I'm gonna
water my lawn now. And he's got one of those. I don't know what they
were called, but the little, like, floppy hose, little water.
It's the worst possible way to water your lawn, but. But that's what he uses.
And it obviously, you know, sprays the neighbor's window. So it was very nice of
him to warn him and let him know. And then the next piece is sort
of like one of the coolest things early on that shows us. I mean,
obviously, everything we see to this point is already, like, peewee lives in sort of
this enchanted semi reality. Right. I mean, there's definitely, like, things about his
existence that, you know, aren't real. Well, this is another one of them, but it's
maybe the best, which is the secret garage that holds his. His prized
bike, his prized possession. So he's got a little keypad on the side of his
house, and he, like, is tapping a bunch of stuff. And he, like, you know,
it opens up like a. Like a hedge opens up. It's very cool. Like,
I always loved that. And I want to talk about the bike for a minute,
because this is when we first see the bike. He wheels it out. He's talking
to it. He's rubbing it with a little cloth. He's over. What was your Honest
take about the bike when you were a kid. Like, did. I did. I think
that that's a cool bike. That looks like, you know, the way an 8 year
old boy does. Can you lust after the bike? No, because cool bikes were BMX
bikes at our age. Completely agree with you. I thought a parent showing their kid
this movie would be like, isn't that a cool bike, son? Like, it's exactly marketing
to the people who are paying money for it. Totally fair. That's a great question
because it is like, oh, no. Not a cool guy though. He has a bunch
of friends who ride those. Yeah. Because the. Right. Because the kids who have like
the BMX like outfits, like the little armor, the little shoulder pads and stuff,
they were cool, right? When, when we were kids, like, that was who I want
to be. And the guys who like did the, you know, riding the BMX bikes
near the beginning that are like twisting the wheels around. I'm like, that's awesome.
You know, his is like, it's neat and it certainly has a lot of useful.
Right. Has a lot of great features that appear at different points in the movie.
And it practically flies at one point almost. Yeah. So that's all neat.
And I just always thought that the lion headed speaker with the walkie talkie piece
or that was kind of a cool. I would have liked to have that.
But yeah, in general I was like, this is like a pretty, like as a
kid thinking this is a pretty lame bike like this. You can't really go fast
on it. Yeah. Even if he is winning the Tour de France in his dreams,
like, you know. But yeah, I just was wondering with that because I was watching
this going, man, I think even as a kid I thought the bike's okay.
Yeah. Like, it's all right. Hey, seems like a nice guy. I hope he gets
his bike. I don't see why he cares so much. Yeah, yeah. Cared way more
about Pee Wee being happy than the actual bike being cool. You know, like.
Yeah. He basically comes, you know, he's about to go take
his bike out for a ride and he encounters the nemesis. Yes. Of the
neighborhood. Who's Francis. And we kind of are shown, you know,
Francis is like a snobby rich kid, very entitled. It's my
birthday and my dad said I can have anything I want and I want your
bike. Right. You know, so that's what he tells Peewee. And Peewee is just like,
you're not gonna. I'm not gonna do the voice anymore. That's can become insufferable.
Quickly ask my family when we're on a car. Car ride.
Insufferable. I know you are, but what am I? Yeah, that's my only child.
It's not even a good one. So we're not going to do that anymore.
But you know, Francis is very kind of bulletin. And in this
world, like the world that Peewee exists in, like almost everybody
is really nice and really cool to him. Right. As much as he's like a
weirdo and like, you know, people are very nice to him and very helpful.
So like someone like Francis, they. He stands out a lot. Nobody's like that.
Peewee seems to instantly win over almost everyone that he encounters. You know,
maybe not instantly, but like very quickly. Makes friends very easily, all this stuff.
And I'll notice too, or I'll note rather as well. Peewee is this,
yeah, like adult person, but obviously with incredibly childlike
interests and mannerisms and whatever. And Francis is as well, right? He's clearly also
like, yeah, in his like late 20s, early 30s or whatever. He's around a 30
year old person, but all very, very childlike, childish, et cetera. Whereas everybody
else in the movie really appears to be just like normal people for their age.
Like the kids act like kids, the adults act like adults, you know, with maybe
the only exception being like Dottie's infatuation with Peewee is maybe a little odd.
But like other than that, like everybody else is normal. Like Frances and Peewee stand
out as like these man children. Yeah. And it's just interesting because I feel like
it makes the most sense to either have everybody act that way
or only one person act that way. Having two is almost a little stranger,
you know what I mean? Which maybe that was the idea, but like, yeah,
they are perfectly, you know, antagonistic towards each other partly because they're both
have the, you know, minds and interests of 6 year olds basically. Right. And even
going to Francis not having the imagination to be like, well, I'm super rich,
I could get an equivalent bike made or whatever. Just that like I need.
He can't see beyond like what's right in front of him. Exactly. Yeah.
So Peewee, you know, rides his bike away and then he's kind of encounters
some of these dudes who are doing the bike tricks and he's like, oh.
He says in a very normal voice, watch these tricks that I can
do. And it's funny, like sticking his feet up and like sitting sideways
and all that. These ridiculous looking tricks. The legs all the way up on the
handlebars is the One that made me nervous watching this as an adult. I'm like,
that is not safe, dude. Like, you should really be careful. You are going to
fall over, and you have no way to brace yourself. Like, the other thing.
Helmet his bike. Tricks don't look fun. No. Like, they're very
technically difficult. They don't look that fun. So another point against the bike. That's fair.
That's fair. I'm glad we're not rating the bike. No, no. The bike is not
up for debate. It just exists within the world. So, yeah, so he has
some shopping to do, as you know, it seems like. So he heads to the
local mall. It's like this outdoor mall. And he's passing by all these bikes that
are locked up on a normal bike rack. And he comes to this, like,
clown that's like, you know, one of those advertising sort of things. Like, it's like
a mechanical clown. And he pulls. It's. I love gags like this. It's obvious.
The way they do it is that there's a hole in the bottom of the
saddlebag. And. Yeah, but the amount. Ridiculous.
And he. I mean, and they really. This is another one of those marks of
sort of like, really fun, absurdist comedies is when the joke is funny
and then goes long enough that you kind of like, I'm getting kind of tired
of this. And then keeps going longer, and you're like, okay, it's funny again.
And I feel like the chain yanking on this one is like that, where by
the end of it, you're like, oh, my God, have we really been sitting here
for, like, you know, 60 seconds watching him pull chain out of the bike?
And I didn't time it, but I think it was about there. Yeah, it was.
It was good. But getting that timing down is very difficult to do. And I
think it successfully. Successfully does it. Right. Yeah. So.
So Peewee's got to go in, and he's picking up, I think, a new horn
for his bike. Well, first he goes to the magic shop. He goes, mario's Magic
Shop is good. And. And it's funny. It's interesting, too, because he. He goes inside
the magic shop, and the. The. The writing on the door that tells you,
this is Mario's Magic Shop is. Is. We can read it. So it's like backwards.
If you were outside the shop, you would. It would be backwards, which is an
interesting choice. But Mario seems like a cool guy. He's got some interesting stuff,
you know, with him. I think the main things that kind of
come into play later Is he gives him some trick gum. Right. And we don't
know. He doesn't really say what's tricky about it, but trick gum. And then I
think it was goggles with, like, headlights, like headlight glasses. I think those are the
things that he's sort of like that. If I remember correctly, he takes buys from
the magic shop that kind of matter later. Yeah. The rest of it sort of.
There's just stuff that he's, like, playing with or whatever. It's a lot of just
gags, very Pee Wee Herman style, you know, just sight gags and different things.
And his little chuckle, you know, every 15 seconds.
He loves that magic shot. Who's the. Is it Q or M,
the character from James Bond that, like, gives him all his gadgets?
It's Q. M is the boss. Q is the tech guy. Yeah. This magic shop
owner is basically Q for Peewee's. Peewee's adventure here.
But so is Dottie, in a way. Yeah. Maybe she's Moneypenny NQ as well.
For doing Suddenly Pee Wee is James Bond. Which makes sense later.
Bow tie. That's right. But so then after going the magic shop, he goes
over. In fact, he kind of even notices his bike. He taps his bike and
says, okay, you're still here. Goes into Chuck's bike shop,
right, Chuck. Yeah, that's where Dottie works. And Dottie is.
First of all, Dottie is hotter than I remember.
I was. I was shocked by that, too. Because, like, when you're a kid,
you have these, you'll be like, oh, yeah, he had a pretty girl. And watching
it again and be like, they really had to make her look silly so that
it wasn't, like, visually too striking to see her in the Peewee character.
Strikingly attractive actress. I don't know if she's been in a lot of other stuff,
but, like, it was very much like, man, Peewee is a moron if he's
not like, this chick is into you, dude. Like, what are you doing? But,
yeah, he's there to pick up this, like, the loudest bike horn that has ever
existed. Dottie has special made. That's the thing, is that she's like a bike person.
She does special things on the bike. Like, they couldn't be better together in so
many ways. Again, kind of like in Rounders, where Famka
Jantz's character is into all of his stuff and she's beautiful and
she obviously loves him. It's like, what are you doing, Peewee? What are you doing,
Mike? Mike McDwee. Mike McDwee. Yeah. So pee Wee has
the world's largest or loudest bike horn. And at some point during this recording,
I'm sure he will drive by blaring it. I guarantee I'll edit
that out, but that happens just about every week. Yeah. So,
yeah, definitely. You know, he gets that. They chat for a while, and Dottie's kind
of like, hey, like, why don't you, like, take me out to the drive in?
Like, I'd love to, like, go out with you, whatever. And it's like, he says
one of the, like, lines that has definitely survived the decades since this
movie came out, which is like, you don't want to get mixed up with me.
I'm a loner, Dottie, a rebel. You know, and it's like,
there's T shirts and stuff. Like, literally, my wife found a
T shirt with, like, Pee Wee Herman in, like, an X wing Rebel alliance fighter
flight jacket, like, flight suit. And it says, like, I'm a loner,
Dottie, a rebel. In, like, the Star wars script. I'm like, okay, that's a fun,
fun mashup there. But, yeah. So then he goes, you know, he basically
says, like, hey, thanks. Talk to you later. You know, whatever. And Dottie kind of
resigns herself to. To pee's going to go now. But he goes
outside, goes back to his bike, funny enough, right. Walks all the way over to
where his bike. Yeah, he could see it from the store. From. From the front
door of the store. He could see that it's just a pile of chain now.
A few loose links on the ground. I like him picking up the broken pieces.
Yes, exactly. But now he is. He is distraught,
runs back into the bike shop and screams about his bike being stolen and
kind of passes out. And the cops show up and, like, you know, it's a
wild sort of situation, but they basically tell him, like, look, we can't really do
anything. Yeah. About, like, we're sorry your bike's missing. We'll keep an eye out for
it. But, like, this isn't a police emergency. Like, so sorry. Because he's like,
you know, lock down the mall. And he's like, this is so crazy.
It cut to. When it cut to him telling. I think maybe he was
talking to police officer basically about his bike being stolen. And her line was,
what exactly leads you to believe the Soviets were involved?
Just. Just great, because, like, Peewee immediately became
super schizophrenic the second the. The bike disappears.
Yeah. So obviously, like, it was Francis.
Like, Francis is the Guy who's been after him, he's been after the bike.
He stated his intentions basically earlier. So we get to go confront Francis
at his house and he is like, taking a bath and basically
like Don Corleone's like, indoor swimming pool
size bathtub playing with these really cool ships. It looks like a hell of a
time, honestly. But changing that water sure is a waste. Well, and it's,
it's. Even the faucets are enormous. Like, if you look at like the actual,
like, like the knobs and the actual faucet, they're huge. Like, everything is
just, you know, made to. The actor who plays Francis is a bigger guy and
relatively tall, but, you know, this tub is so big he looks like an infant.
Yeah. In it. Right. You know, which I'm sure is kind. Of the point right
there. He's. He's the big baby the entire time. Basically, Peewee Lav
runs in, jumps in, tackles him and they're like fighting in the water and,
you know, all this stuff. And then finally Francis's dad, you know, is able to
bust in through the door and, and confront them and just be like, oh,
you know, you two are supposed to be friends. Like, you know, did you take
his bike, Francis? No, daddy, I didn't. You know, that whole thing. Oh, well,
he said he didn't take it, Peewee. You two shake and make up. And so
Peewee, like, shakes his hand again, the situation, but then offers them both pieces of
the trick gum that he got at the magic shop. Yeah, it looks like there
were fruit and spearmint. The fruit one that the father took,
apparently spicy because he starts screaming pain, basically. And then
Francis is. Oh, God, it's like devolving into this black ink in his mouth,
pouring out really horrific. And also clearly Tim Burton's inspiration several
years later for the Penguin in Batman Returns. And that whole,
like, grossness going on very big. Also, shout out to Ernest Goes to
jail. He's chewing on his pen while he's at jury duty. So that's
the ink. That's the ink trifecta. There you go. That's right. But yeah.
And again, the. The way that Francis's dad reacts to this whole
situation. Right. Is like, it kind of shows
you how the movie's gonna go. He's not like, this maniac's in my house trying
to attack my son. He's like, yeah, you boys are friends. You figure like,
it's this world where you're not treated like authority figures, don't treat
you like police or the law. Would treat you. They treat you like a nice
parent would treat you. Or like maybe a teacher. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's interaction with
the real adults in this world for Peewee is very much there. They give him
all the benefits of the doubt and all the sort of like assumptions of innocence.
You would give like a small child. Right. Yeah. Whereas, yeah, really it was a,
you know, 30 something year old man just broke into your house, jumped into your
son's tub and is trying to drown him. So maybe you might want to do
something about that, Mr. Buxton. Be a little harsher there. So Pee
Wee basically gathers the whole town and has this like meeting in the basement
where he's laying out all his clues. And this is a funny scene as he's
going through like exhibit A, you know, and going through these different things.
You know, here's a picture of me with my bike and here's another picture of
just me. You notice what's different? My bike's not in it. But he's going on.
And they make a comment, comment, basically that the meeting has lasted
like three hours, which is craziness. Yeah. And Peewee says something
like, it's like you're unraveling a cable knit sweater, but someone
just keeps knitting and knitting and knitting. And that's another joke that went
on too long but then became funny again. Also inspired Weezer
years later. Not. Yeah, not. Yeah, yeah,
yeah, that's true. Yeah. So, yeah, so he's been funny. And then
this is good. When Peewee leaves the meeting in the basement
and he is just esteemed. He's determined, he's getting his bike and nobody's gonna
get in his way of it. And he's encountered by this group of like street
tough. Yeah, yeah. Who are all like leather jacket in an alleyway. And he's just
like hisses at them and they all back away, which I thought was really funny.
Fun fact, fun little bit of trivia. The, the, the head thug that walks
up to him and is like, you're new here. We don't take Kylie to new
people in this neighborhood. That guy. Yeah. Tim Burton. Oh, nice. All right.
Decided to insert him putting himself in the film. So, yeah, so he's out,
it's raining, he's walking the streets. He's running to these street tufts and sort of
hissed at them and they've run away. But he sees in the window, you know,
sign for Madame Ruby, a psychic. And he decides to go in and,
you know, maybe she can tell him where his bike is.
Yeah. And so, and I like that her office is tarot,
slash, palm reader, slash income tax. As an income
tax person, I do it say, sometimes people documents. People's documents
are in worse shape than their lifelines on their palms. Little harder
to read. Faxes of faxes of copies of faxes.
Yeah. So he. So she tells. First of all, she takes
his wallet from him in a way that he doesn't seem to notice. Or maybe
he put it on the table because he goes to pay her. And she says,
like, you know, 20 bucks, I'll tell your future. 30 bucks, I'll tell you a
little more. 50 bucks, I'll tell you everything. So he gives her $50. And at
some point, she, like, either takes the wallet from him or he sets it down
and she takes it. But she's able to look through the photos and she sees
several pictures of him with his bike. And so she's, you know, said,
oh, I see a bike. And he's like, oh, my God, where is it?
Where's it was? You know. And then I. Kind of. Apropos of. Oh, no,
that's right. She looks outside the window across the street and there's something. There's a
sign that says, Alan Mo. Right? So she says, it's in the Alamo. In the
basement. In the basement of the Alamo. And yeah, so. So he,
you know, super excited. He's like, cool, it's time for me to go. I'm going
to. I'm going to go to the Alamo right now. We don't actually know where
Pee Wee Herman is initially. Doesn't say, do we assume it's
la? Because he's back at the film studios later. I feel like it's SoCal.
Most likely you got the classic. And again, partly because they probably just
filmed it somewhere in the area, but it's like they got the classic brown suede
hills of California and all that. But he has to head to Texas, to San
Antonio. Right, to go find the Alamo. Yeah. So he decides to hitchhike. And he's
got the, like, he's a very cute sign. It looks like he went to Hobby
Lobby for his hitchhike into Texas sign. It's like a cutout of the shape
of Texas. And then, yeah, the perfect hobo bindle.
So he's ready for the road and. He'S not getting any. And nobody's
stopping for him, at least not initially. So he puts on a really enormous fake
thumb. I don't remember if that came from the magic shop at the beginning or
if he just Happened to have. I think he might have just busted. It out,
but yeah. So he busted to try to hitchhike. And he's so amused by the
thumb. Yes. He loves the thumb. Like, he's having such a better time hitchhiking.
I wish I could be. And again, this is a fictional character, so that's why.
But I wish I could be as happy about almost anything in life as he
is about everything happens to him. I mean,
yeah, he's. He's really, like, taken everything in stride.
Yes. So he ends up getting picked up. Yes. By guy in a convertible.
Right. Who clearly has, like, a broken handcuff on his right hand.
Two of them. Yeah. On each. Oh, he's got him. He's got him. He was
able to break the chain in the middle, which is why they don't make those
that way anymore. But. But yeah. So he picks him up. His name is Mickey,
I think he introduced himself. And. And they chat for a while. And at
one point, there's a point where they take, like, a left on the highway or
whatever. And then going past them, when Peewee's not looking is this big pickup truck
with his bike's right back of it. Because we did see exit. I think we
missed it. Right. Earlier, Francis told you there was, like, a thug talking to Francis
in his room. And he basically said, like, I don't want the bike anymore.
So the guy did steal the bike for Francis, but he's now saying, like,
it's too much trouble. I'm going to get in trouble. I don't want it anymore,
so just get rid of it. It. Yeah. Which is, like, insane. Can't you just
be like, can you just, like, drop it off at his house in the middle
of the night and run away? Yeah, like, that would be not that hard.
You know, something like something. But get rid of it. Peewee asked so
Mickey. Because it now it's like, okay, this is an escaped convict. This is
a scary guy. But again, the world that we live in. Peewee asked Mickey what
he did to get arrested. And he's like, oh, you know those tags on a
mattress that say, do not remove whatever. Like, I cut one off. Right. Which is
such an 80s joke, by the way. And this is like, every hack comedian was
like, oh, you know what it is? Yeah. So when they're
driving by, the bike goes by, and then they're coming up on a checkpoint because
there's kind of like a manhunt, obviously, for Mickey. And they
pull up to it, and Peewee's like, oh, I got an idea. And basically he
gives Mickey like a very shoddy looking
beard and goatee. Terrible goatee. Goatee and mustache. Right.
And glasses. And then Pee Wee is dressed like a lady from head to toe.
We find out, right? I mean, the quick change artistry by him.
And like, I mean, he really has got everything. So they get stopp by these,
you know, they come to the checkpoint, this like really big fat old shitty cop
talks to him about like, whatever. And it's basically openly hitting on Peewee who like,
even in, you know, the best of circumstances is not. Does not make an attractive
woman, per se. Right. But he is like really hitting on her when this is
clearly like a couple. And he's like, why don't you step out of the vehicle
just so I could get a look at you. I mean, it's just the grossest,
like, abuse of power shithead cop, like, ever.
Like, I didn't think I'd be so upset by a police officer in this movie,
but here it is. Yeah, so. But it works,
you know, and they're able to. They're able to drive off. So immediately
they drive off. Mickey's like ripping his fake beard and mustache off and everything.
And Pee Wee is happy as a clam still in his outfit,
which is so funny. He's just enjoying every bit of the drive, like wearing
his pretty lady outfit. Even as they drive and everything. Yeah, even as they drive,
like kind of away from us. We can see him bouncing back and forth,
like sitting in the passenger seat, just not a care in the world. So night
falls, they continue to drive. Now we've switched and Peewee is now in the driver's
seat and back in his normal clothes. And Mickey is actually asleep, you know,
because they're obviously taking turns driving. And I just want to say, like, from this
point through to, you know, to what we'll get to, a kind of famously
remembered character comes up very soon. But there's this big sequence
right here that starts right about here that to me is like such peak Tim
Burton. It's just like darkness around Peewee all
the time. Really all we're ever seeing is like the car, the two actors,
and maybe one or two other important sort of pieces of information. But like,
generally speaking, this is, you know, something that.
That is just all in our minds. Like the low budget magic. Yeah,
it really is. And it's just you know, really kind of special. And it's a
thing that Tim Burton got really good at doing obviously over the years. But I
just love it, like, when I was watching this, I was like, man, this is
really, like. This is like, peak Tim Burton. And reminds me a lot of,
in a lot of ways, of Terry Gilliam. Like, his style as
well, feels very like this. Like, the way the whimsy and
absurdism plays out. I really feel like this sequence just kind
of nails that, like, Burton really hit it. Yeah. And there's a few good ones
in a row, right? Yes. So Pee Wee's driving now.
Mickey's asleep in the car. And we're kind of showing these series of road signs,
yellow road signs showing curvy road. And they get increasingly.
So, again, the cartoon element of this. I mean, this movie
is kind of. It's a cartoon, basically. And so
that's a great way of just raising the stakes of that joke until it gets
to a point where one of the signs is just crazy amount of squiggles.
And he ends up driving off this cliff. And Mickey's
still asleep. So he wakes him up just in time for him to start screaming.
And then the ragtop of the car goes up and it acts as
a perfect parachute that just gently sets them. Down onto the peewee, hit the button
and started pulling up the rag top. And, yeah, it acted
like a parachute. Was fantastic. Good call. So Mickey basically is. Is, you know,
I got it. I'm done. Like. Like, whatever. At first it seems he's, like,
mad at him, but then he even says, like, no, Pee Wee. Like, you can't
join me where I'm going. It's too dangerous. You know, it's that kind of thing.
Yeah. So he leaves Pee Wee on the side of the road, which is still.
Again, we're just in pitch black. Like, there's really nothing to see or anything.
And we get this great sequence where it's just, like, cartoon eyes.
Right? And it's just Pee Wee's eyes, but they're clearly just. Just animated.
Like, it's not. You know, which is a fun. A fun little moment. So well
done. Yeah. And I wrote down even, like, you know, young director and underlined it
a bunch of times. Like, this is why you get somebody like a Tim Burton
to do a movie like this. Because he has these ideas and will take it
in these directions that you're not thinking of if you've already done, like, 25 movies
or whatever. And then. Yeah. So the animated eyes in the dark. And then
when the lights come on, he's surrounded by, like, a million animals, but they're all
clearly, like, taxidermy animals. Like the foreground. Yeah, yeah,
yeah. Yeah. In the back, there's clearly a couple live ones. Like, there's definitely,
like, a mountain lion that's, like, real. That's, like, kind of behind him and to
the left. And so it's like everything in front of him. So I wonder if
there was maybe even, like, glass or something we can't see that was, like,
separating him from the live animals. I don't know. But, like, right in front of
him. Yeah, it's, like, hilarious because it's like, you know, he didn't realize what was
going on around him. And surrounded by wildlife that could be dangerous. And it
was. It was a funny way to do that because. Yeah. I mean, if you
kept it animated, it wouldn't have had the same effect. So it was good to
just use that tiny bit of animation. Yeah, it was smart. When the lights come
back on and we actually see him, it's like, if it had been animated at
that point, then that becomes harder to explain. Within the world of the.
You know, even this kids, even in this crazy world, that would have
been hard to explain. But just the eyes works great. And so then he.
He keeps on heading down the road, and headlights come at him. And it's
a huge, big rig, Right. It's a big truck. And this was one of the
moments that, again, I hadn't seen this movie in so long. This is one of
the moments where I didn't, like, remember the thing happening until it
started. And I immediately thought to myself, oh, my God, this chick has a scary
face in, like, a minute. Yeah. And sure enough, it's Large Marge. And she tells
him the story of, like, you know, on the night, just like this, a horrible
wreck, the worst you ever seen. Like, whatever. And then, you know, says something like.
And when they looked, the victim looked like this. And she looks at him,
and it's like a claymation, like, monster face, whatever. And Pee Wee kind of yells
like he's scared, but he's not really, like. But he's just playing it off or
whatever. He's very, very brave for somebody that acts so childlike.
And we were talking before we recorded about just what we remembered
about this. And I just commented that in my memory, Large Marge
was in, like, a. Third of this movie. Like, she had an incredible amount of
speaking parts. And most of the movie was pg Pee Wee and Large Marsh.
And it's like, I don't know, 30. Seconds, give or take.
Yeah. Yeah. One thing. When Large Marge is describing this
accident, you know, that's the worst accident I've ever seen. It's like a
garbage truck dropped off the Empire State Building. And I wanted
to ask you because I remember as a kid, we always used to talk about
the Empire State Building as a reference for, like, you know,
jump off the Empire State Building and landing on a bike with no seats.
Like one of those, like, grosser than gross things or whatever. We don't do that
anymore. I mean, Sears Tower comes along, takes its. Or the CN Tower,
whatever, was the next one. And now we get the Burj Khalifa, which a lot
of people are probably not even aware of or pronouncing right. It doesn't like,
I don't know, Empire State Building has a musicality of it that makes it sound
fun. Like, dropped off the bump, bump up. Bump, bump, bump it. Like, it sounds
good. Burj Khalifa sounds like someone might be like, what is that?
Right? Yeah. I don't know. I feel like there's an element
of tall buildings in New York City, synthesis a particular date
24 years ago. I don't know what it is. We always used to talk about
how tall they were and how they'd never. Anyway.
Anyway, I just. To go along with, like,
Doberman's and our 80s things. I feel like Empire State Building
was like, something that we always talked about. As a frame of reference.
Yeah. That would be like. You know how you refer to something being ridiculously
tall. Exactly. Yeah. So Marge's face change. And I remember being
scared of that when I was a kid and kind of, like, worried to show
my daughter this movie, thinking that it was too scary. And it's like,
it's not that bad. I mean, it's like. It's startling to see that.
Right. Because it's claymation out of a movie that's had zero claymation.
Yeah, but. But, yeah, that's a good, good memorable scene.
And tell him Large Marge sent you. That's right. So he goes. She drops
him off. He goes into this diner and is like, you know, looking for a
bite to eat, whatever. So he says, large Marge sent me, which causes everybody in
the place to start, stop what they're doing. Stop talking. Look over at him.
And he's like, you know, what did you say? Large Marge. You know, and they
tell him, large Marge died 10 years ago. And then they described the exact same
accident that she described and how horrific it was, everything. And there's even a plaque,
like, with her picture on the wall, like, you know, in Memoriam. Large margin.
It's definitely the same woman. It's like, wow, so Peewee got a Ride from a
ghost. Like, it's pretty wild. And the place he got dropped at, it's a in
slash diner. And then there's these dinosaur. These big dinosaur sculptures.
Yeah, yeah. It's kind of funny. A couple movies ago, Tommy Bo boy, didn't they
end up like at the prehistoric something? They were on the side of the road
and it was like, yeah, prehistoric. For your prehistoric forest. Yep, exactly. So we're.
We're stopping at random prehistoric stuff. Roadside attractions everywhere.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And honestly, as somebody who really is like rooting
for Peewee and invested in his happiness, he's got to be psyched about this
dinosaur situation. That's true. They're pretty awesome. They do look pretty cool. That's somewhere
in Southern California. Have you ever been there? It's one of those things where like,
I would love to accidentally drive by it, but it would be hard to plan
a trip just to go see it. I think if you are in LA and
you're driving to either like Phoenix or Vegas, you're almost guaranteed to pass it.
But like from up here, it's a little different. I also believe I've heard that
that was bought. That attraction was purchased by a bunch of like young earth
creationists who treat it now as proof that dinosaurs never
existed. Because they were obviously fantasy, like dragons and stuff. Oh, dinosaurs aren't fake.
Please explain all these fake dinosaurs thing. Look how fake these are. This is what
everybody. He thinks it's dinosaurs. They're so fake and so dumb.
All right, well, shout out to the Noah's Ark museum or whatever they put up
there. Exactly. So Peewee went in and he had some food and
everything and was talking to a waitress, Simone, who was very nice to him.
Yeah. And seemed like borderline into him. But she was also just saw him
as like. Because later we meet her boyfriend. So clearly just any
man who didn't seem like an asshole was like a sweetheart to her.
And he has to wash dishes because he doesn't have his wallet. He has to
wash dishes to pay for his food. Madame Ruby took his wallet to like look
at his photos, whatever, never gave it back to him. Yeah. So that's. So he
doesn't have his wallet with me, so he with him. So he ends up doing
dishes to pay for his meal. And you know, Simone comes in to
the kitchen is like, you know, you've. You've done plenty of dishes. Like all you
had was like, I don't know if you should like a peanut butter jelly sandwich
or something. Oh, this was his order because it was funny. It was that.
I think the tuna plate. Okay. And a milkshake.
What are you doing? Dude, you're. You better hope everyone who picks
you up has a convertible if you're hitchhiking. You're a
ticking time bomb dog. That is. You gotta be in an open top vehicle if
you're gonna do stuff like. That to yourself or an rv and you're stressed.
Come on. See, this is also where he's childlike
because kids can pull off eating crap. Right? You right, do it. It's all over.
It's nightmare time. Yeah. So. And a couple little things I
just want to mention. There's yet another, because I made a reference to Batman Returns
earlier, which of course was also a Tim Burton movie. I will be making two
more. One of them is here, which is that Simone, the actress who plays Simone,
was brought back by Tim Burton into Batman Returns. She plays a very brief
appearance as Oswald Copplepot's mother who throws
him into the river there in Gotham where he gets sent down into the sewer.
Yeah, so she very briefly appears in that movie, but it's clear that, you know,
Burton liked her look, wanted her. Back, brought her back. So. Yeah, she does.
I mean, she has a good Burton character look. She has like a very like
angular jaw, like a really cool look of a long neck.
Yeah, yeah, she's very, very. I mean, she's like. I don't know that I would
call her like hot or attractive necessarily, but she's very striking looking. Like she's very,
very interesting looking person. And. And yeah, so. But yeah, so Simone
asks Peewee if she will. If he will watch the sunrise with her.
And to do that, they go up into like the mouth of one of the
dinosaurs and kind of they sit looking out of the mouth of like the T.
Rex or whatever and she tells him about her dream of going to Paris someday,
but she can't because her boyfriend and doesn't want her to or something.
And you know, she talks about this boyfriend, Andy, and you
know, again, even. The boyfriend's reasoning for not wanting to go to Paris, what she
says is that he flunked French in high school and he thinks that
everything there is set up to make him look dumb. Right? Like that's such a
he. It could be like he hates French people and he can't say it's
not anything like, it's just such like an individualized reason that he
doesn't like them or not that he's an asshole or anything like that.
Yeah, yeah. But, yeah, she Says she wants to go to Paris. And she's
like, I really want to move to Paris. But. And then Peewee's
like, everyone I know has a big butt. Right, Right. It's just
good. Good thing. That didn't like elicit a laugh. But it was just like,
ah, Peewee. Well, and then, and then so Andy, the boyfriend has seen.
Watch them walk into the dinosaurs. Now listening at the door. And there's the comment
about like, you know. Yeah, everybody I know has a big butt. And he says
something like, you know, you gotta, you gotta, you know, follow your big. Or like
something about your big butt. Right. And then also says something about something that is
suggestive. Could be a double entitled. Yeah. About. Oh man,
I didn't write it down. So. But yeah, there's definitely like things that could make
the boyfriend think. Yeah, they're like making out. Oh, she says something like.
Nobody's ever put it to me that way. There it is. Put it to me
like. Yeah, like that or something. Which is, you know, obviously it's subtle enough
innuendo that it went completely over my head as a kid. But this time I
picked up on him when like. Oh, they went a little, little risque there.
Okay. And they walk out of the dinosaur. It's like, you know, after watching the
sunrise, it looks like it's 10am when they leave the dinosaur. It doesn't look
like like sunrise anymore. But you know, that's just me being nitpicky
and jerky. So. So Andy, who is Simone's
boyfriend, who's this like seven foot tall guy? I looked him up. I was thinking
he was the wrestler Big John Stud. He's not, but he was another wrestler.
But he had like a kind of a jobber type guy. Like a guy that
we would see on free tv. Not a, not a pay per view guy.
No. Constantly loses to the ultimate warrior. Exactly. He's savage.
Yeah, exactly. So he like pulls a dinosaur bone off the
sign for the dinosaur park and goes chasing after Pee Wee with it,
you know, as a weapon. Pee Wee is able to get,
you know, jump onto a train car, right? And then this guy breaks the
bone over his knee like he's Bo Jackson. Which is pretty cool.
Yeah. So now Pee Wee's gonna ride the rails the rest of the way to
San Antonio. He meets a bum, you know, a hobo
or whatever, and they're, you know, kind of hanging out together and singing songs.
And they're singing like all these like. Kind of all the royalty free songs you
can think of. Jimmy Crackhorn and I don't Care and like, oh, Susanna and like,
all this different stuff. And finally, Peewee just kind of is having enough of it.
Even he's getting irritated. Which, I mean, this is a character that is hard to
irritate. Right. Like, clearly he's more likely to be irritating irritated.
But he is very irritated by the hobo. So he ends up just jumping off.
Like, he leaves his bindle. He doesn't have any of his stuff with him.
He just jumps off the train. He just bails. Luckily, he jumps off
the train right at the Alamo. Yeah. And. Right.
One thing about the hobo I thought was funny. So right before this, Paul Reubens
character falls asleep in the train and
he has a dream sequence and it's another claymation sequence,
which is a T. Rex just eating his bike. That's right.
Really cool. Really well done claymation. So another good chunk of
it that was interesting. And like, you know, all his dreams have this,
you know, surreal element to it. And he wakes up
and that hobo guys, like, right in his face and he's like, you want a
sardine? He's, like, eating sardines. Right? Imported. Yeah.
Actually, so funny enough about that claymation thing. I was noticing while watching it,
it was like. It was. It was. It was fine. It was 1985. So I'm
not, like, trying to be a dick about it, but it's like, it was,
like, much herky jerkier than, for instance, like, what we saw in, like, army of
Darkness, which came out, what, six years later or whatever. But, yeah, like the
sort of claymation model type animation in that dream
sequence was like. It was fine, but it was pretty dated. Like, I definitely,
like, felt like the. More Rankin Bass. Yeah, the movement was not very
smooth. Yeah, it felt very Rankin Bat. Rankin and Bass, that kind of thing.
Versus, like. Like, again, what Sam Raimi was able to accomplish a few years later.
But that's nitpicking. I mean, I'm not like. But even that. I mean, I wonder
if there's an intentionality to like it looking a certain way.
I wouldn't be surprised if that were the case. Yeah, it's true. But the
characters look very cool. And it was a. It was a good way to just
show, like, Peewee's anxieties continuing to haunt him.
And. Yeah, jumping off the train and landing right in San
Antonio is really good. So he walks up to the Alamo.
He's going to get on the tour. Hoping, of course, that the tour will go
to the basement. And who's the tour guy. Jan Hook. SNL alum Jan Hooks,
who I'm great. Is involved in the movie, partly because Phil Hartman was involved in
the movie, and I feel like they'd been colleagues, you know, for quite a while.
And so, yeah, so she is the tour guide. Super thick
Texas accent. Very funny Texas accent from her.
I have a quote from her here. Yeah, so.
So Jan Hooks. And she's telling. As Peewee starts to ask her
about, you know, he's trying to find his bike. Where's the bitch? We got to
hold our questions till the end. And she has her Texas accent, and she's like,
here's Juan Inez. And this is what she says
about this, like, diorama. Inez is holding a clay pot
that she seems very proud of. She's carefully detailed it
with lots of paint and glaze. It's like.
It's like a zero information statement.
Like, you're learning nothing about, like. It's like she stole
the costume of the tour guide and is right. But, yeah, she's a really funny
character. She does a great job. And at that point, I think, too, she says,
like. And Juan is holding an adobe.
Who can say adobe? And, like, the whole crowd said,
like, adobe. It's just very, very funny. There's a few scenes of showing
that this tour is incredibly boring. It's finally over.
So are there any questions? And then his hand shoots up.
He's very patient. Oh, yeah. Pee Wee is extremely patient.
And he's told. He asks, where's the basement? When are we
going to see the basement? There's no basement at the Alamo. And this is the
one part where everyone's kind of, like, mean to. Everyone's, like, laughing at him.
Yeah. Yeah. So he's got to storm off. He's no.
Very cruel. He's upset. Yeah. So he. I believe this one
ends up back at the. Is this
the bus station? He's at the bus station. Yeah, right. That's right, the bus station.
He sees Simone, and Simone tells him, pee Wee,
I'm finally doing it. I'm going to. I'm going to Paris or whatever. I'm not
quite sure where she's going in a bus from San Antonio to get
to Paris. I was paying a lot of attention because, like, in the world of
this movie, I was fully expecting, you know, like, the. The. The head. Oh,
yeah. The heading of a bus that says where it's going. I was expecting it
to say Paris just because of the world. But it didn't. It didn't really show
it. In which case, it probably wouldn't go into Paris, Texas if it. If it
was saying. Yeah, true. But yeah,
so he. So he sees Simone and I
think Andy sees Pee Wee. Right. And then chases him around. Yeah.
So before that, Pee Wee is on the PH with Doy. Oh, right. He's got
a. He's such an idiot. With Dottie telling her, you know, where he is and
what's going on. And he tells her he's in Texas. And she's like,
we'll prove it. And then he like, yeah, he gets off the phone, he goes.
The skies at night are big and bright. And then everyone's simultaneously
deep in the heart of Texas. Everyone. That was
a good. That was really fun. See, it must be in Texas.
So Andy spots him. That's right. Yeah. So Andy now is coming after Peeway.
And Andy is like legitimately 7ft tall. He looks so much. I don't know,
in the dinosaur scene maybe because there weren't a lot of other people around in
this scene. It's like apparent that this guy's a monster. When he was chasing Peewee
around at the dinosaurs. It was also like shot kind of from further back because
we wanted to keep the dinosaurs kind of in the frame. So we saw them
running around them and around their legs and all this kind of stuff. And so
it just was a little further away, which I think does skew that scale with
a more standard sort of shot where the human beings were expecting to take up
most of the. Of the screen. Yeah, Andy just towers over everybody.
He's just enormous. So Peewee dives into like
a, like a trailer or something and comes out in this ridiculous
get up a huge cowboy 10 gallon hat and like the vest and the chaps
and the spurs. And he's got a big mustache on, so he's kind of hiding.
Andy's still looking for him, but, you know, Peewee figures, okay, I can get away.
Until he gets sort of grabbed by a couple other guys and brought towards a
bull riding ring. Yeah, they pop him right on the back of that thing.
They throw him up on the bull and he starts riding the bull. And they
can hear the announcers talking about like, oh, he's going for a new state record.
Oh, he's going for a new world record, you know, because I think bull riding
is like, if you're on for like what, six to eight seconds, that's like amazing,
right? Like that's like the goal or whatever. So he's just doing, doing all
that. Andy spots him and Jumps into the ring to go
get him. And the bull kick. The bull kicks Pee Wee off and then Andy
realizes he's wearing a red shirt. And the bull notices his red shirt,
which isn't actually the way bull fighting in the red cape thing works. That's more
of a motion thing. I think bulls are colorblind. But anyway, it's more like this
is the guy that put a sword in before this thing started. That's why I
hate him. But he. The bull chases Andy and the funniest jumping
bull thing ever. Andy gets over the, you know,
fence of the ring and goes away. And the bull just clears it like a
hurdler. Just like jump, like one leap, jumps over this incredibly high
fence and continues chasing him, which is hilarious. Yeah. And. And Pee
Wee, he gets dragged off and it.
He wakes up and there's all these kind of cowboys surrounding him. And he comes
to and they're like, what's, what's going on? He's like, I can't remember.
And they're like, what's the last thing you remember? And he goes, goes. I remember
the Alamo. And they all start going, woohoo. Yeah. All right.
There's some nice, like light hearted barbs at Texans. Like this is
before a lot of them determined to like destroy the entire country when
it was just all those, those goofy little guys. The whole like,
everything's bigger in Texas was sort of like goofy and fun. And now
you're like, yeah, including the authoritarianism. Okay. He shows up
to this bar and he goes in and it's just like, like he wants to
make a phone call, I think is the only thing he's there to do.
Yeah. But they all notice him and they're like, hey, this is, this is.
He's on the phone and they're all talking and he turns around and he's just
sh. He shushes this whole bar. So they're all
like inching towards him. So they come towards him and then the kind of head
guy is like, don't you know this is a private clubhouse for the Satan's Helpers?
And I just like, I just love thinking of like Santa's Little Helpers and
Satan's Helpers. That's funny. Yeah. You know, but of course he didn't. So he tries
to just excuse me. And he like decides he'll leave, but they're like, you know,
kind of don't look like they're let him go. They do. He leaves. But then
he like bumps into, you know, the first bike in a row. And motorcycle
dominoes. I love it. I love to see it.
Yeah. They drag him back in and he's got to, like. He's got to,
like, save himself, win them back, do something. Right. Because he's in deep trouble.
Yeah. So they basically, they pull him in there, like, okay, I'm going to.
Let's kill him. Let's hang him and then kill him. Let's hang him and then
stab him and then kill him. And then this woman steps in and grabs,
and she's like, he's mine. And that woman's actually Cassandra Peterson. Alvira.
Oh, no. Yeah, I was. She looked kind of familiar. I saw her in the
credits. But basically, Peewee says, can I have one last
request? And his last request is,
for whatever reason, and he walks over the jukebox, puts some money in,
borrows these, like, high heel kind of platform shoes from one of the bus boys,
who then becomes like two feet shorter. Well, because he was like, he was Pee
Wee's height. And then he takes off. Yeah, These are like 8 inch platform heels.
And so, yeah, the guy is suddenly very, very short. But, yeah, he does the
great. The classic sort of Pee Wee Herman tequila dance that everybody remembers.
And. And this is something as a kid I remember. And I can't tell you
we had a stretch because my parents are both, like, on the older
side of their siblings. So when my brother and I were like, you know,
8, 9, 10, some of their younger siblings were getting married, so there were like,
a lot of family weddings and stuff. Stuff. And I remember just tearing up doing
the peewee dance. Being specifically asked before a
wedding to not do the Peewee Herman dance. My brother and I were, like,
sat down and that was demanded of us. So this was really, like, sunk into
our DNA. That is. Yeah, that is. That is core. I mean, I guess you
are just kind of like thrusting and pointing at your wiener in your butthole.
Yeah, there's that. I did. I don't remember feeling like the dance
was sexual when I saw it as a kid. I had no idea watching it
this time. And of course, knowing, you know, the. The kind of trouble Paul Rubens
would get into later in his life after this movie and everything, it felt
a tiny bit more sinister than I remember. Not like
sinister. That's probably too mean. But like, you know, it just definitely was like,
oh, okay, he's continually pointing at his penis and his butthole in a kid's movie.
Okay. Yeah. Cool. All right. Well, that's the song Tequila. That was around a lot
for a while. Yeah. I remember it featuring prominently in Teenage Mutant Ninja
Turtles as well. The first Ninja Turtles. Yeah. Yeah. Movies. Yeah. So. So they
love him, of course. So it goes immediately from Peewee finishing his dance
to, hey, good luck, buddy. And they have him on one of their motorcycles.
Could not love him or support him more. I hope you find your bike.
You know, and they send him off, and he takes off on the hog and
is immediately out of control and, like, crashes into this sign right through. Like,
a big billboard. And so then an ambulance has to come help him. And I
remember being more scared of the next few moments as a child than
the large Marge thing. The. The clown EMTs are terrifying.
Yeah, we don't. Absolutely terrifying. I don't want to see that anymore. But I did
think that this whole sequence was super, super,
obviously, like, reminiscent, but. But in reverse order of what some of the things
Tim Burton would do for Beetlejuice. There was like, a very kind of Beetlejuice vibe
in this sort of sequence with the clown EMTs and stuff like that. That.
Yeah. So. Yeah.
And then. So is he. He's at the hospital, and I. He's in his
hospital bed. Peewee's recovering in the hospital and still has
the bow tie done, despite how much they would have had to, like, open up
his breathing pathways and everything.
And then does he see something on tv? Right. So it's
this, like, child actor has been gifted his bike. And the child actor, of course,
I don't know the actor's name. I didn't write it down, but he's the older
brother from the Wonder Years. Wayne from the Wonder Years. Right, Exactly. Exactly. And so
Jason Hervey. Okay, I just pulled that out of my. Congratulations, sir.
He's been gifted the bike. We don't really know why or how or
how it got to him, but it's like, you know, he's just like, oh,
this is the bike every boy would ever dream of, you know, kind of thing.
And it's like. But now that means that Pee Wee knows it's in Hollywood,
right? This is. This is where this kid is. And so he, you know,
heads to Hollywood and kind of instantly is at the movie studio, like the Warner
Brothers movie studio or whatever. Milton Berle walks by with a cadre of
people heading into the studio, and so Pee Wee can kind of like, like,
walk with them and laugh at Milton Berle's joke and then, you know, just go.
Blends in as one of, like, the yes Men, one of executive fans or whatever.
But that was a fun little cameo for Milton Berle. And then so he ends
up on a movie set and it's. And it's the same actor. Yeah, child actor.
And the bike is now going to be in the movie, I guess. Very strange
thing that is happening. But that's where we're taking some shortcuts. They're like,
look, studio said it's going to be an hour 35 minutes on
hour 42. Yeah. So they're in this scene where it's. And.
And this. The character played by Wayne from the Wonder Years is
named Kevin Morton. And he is just like your prototypical entitled child
actor. Right. So on screen, he's the sweetest, most adorable, kindest guy.
And then the second they cut, he's like, I wanted this. Yeah. You know,
there's a point where he's yelling at the director, being like, I've been ready.
I've been ready since first call. He's like screaming at the hole. He's doing like
the Tomorrow Cruz Covid rant. Okay. To like, to accept that
he's a little kid yelling at everybody. It made me think of when. When Christian
Bale screamed at that, like, for being in his eye line or whatever, his sightline.
And just like, that all got came out because somebody was recording. And so,
yeah, like, that's. It's exactly like that. And it's. It's hilarious and, like,
horrifying. But, yeah, the kid is super, super, like, mean to this other actress that's
there. And, like. And so Peewee has dressed him so it's a bunch of nuns
basically, like, around, you know, the kid, and they're, like, sending him off to his
adoptive parents along with the bike, you know,
in this movie that's being filmed. And so Peewee gets on a nun's habit,
and it's like the. It's like the old school Sally Field flying nun. Like a
really wild, big, like, hood piece or whatever of the habit. And he's
just standing there, but, like, something about like, oh, you should donate the bike to
the needy children. I just want to give, or whatever. And people goes, okay.
And he, like, takes it. Yeah, I'll just take this with me. And, like,
goes. And he starts riding off with it. And they realize, wait a minute,
that guy's stealing the bike. Yeah. And so now we have a, you know,
a scene that, to me, is very reminiscent of Blazing
Saddles. The end of Blazing Saddles is like a chase through a movie studio.
And then also, because this, I think, movie was directly referencing this
Jay and Silent Bob strike back in 2001 has a significant movie studio
chase scene. Oh, nice. Go through several different sets and things. But I think that
was meant to be referencing this because Kevin Smith is a professed Tim
Burton fan. So. But yeah, like this also. Yeah, this is a great scene.
And I checked the time on it, and this is like, a little more than
five minutes from, like, when he first gets on the bike. Yes. Until the
end of the scene. And it's very satisfying. And this is Danny Elfman
at his best that,
I mean, it's just. Oh, it's so good. And he
keeps, you know, going through all these funny things. They give him so much that
he can do because he can ride through different movie sets that are happening.
He's getting chased by all the studio security guards who are on these electric
golf carts. And it's funny, right before the scene starts, it shows him each,
like, running outside in a line unplugging their golf cart from the
wall, which. Which is good. So he's got golf carts after him,
and then he'll go through a set and then someone from that set is coming
after him. So he's being chased by, like, a prop speedboat with people
that are on, like, skateboards that are supposed to be water skis. He's being chased
by dirt bikes and then these golf carts. It's really good. But this scene is
just so much fun. And, like, I realized I was smiling during the entire time.
Like, this is so good. Like, this is exactly. It's one of those kind of
movies about how much we love movies kind of thing. But it's like, all right,
this. This is that very. Yeah, I'll be honest with you. Like, yes, 100% agreed.
This was so much fun as a scene. Just everything from the moment he
shows up in the. In the studio, Milton Burl and all that, all the way
through to. To. To where we're going to get in a few minutes when he's
done, you know, when he's kind of done with this chase. But I've always loved,
like, movies about movies. Yeah. So, like, any movie that, like, references the
making of movies like it, I am a sucker for it. I know that.
It's like, you know, I'm an easy mark for that kind of stuff.
And so this was a great sort of moment. And as he's going through,
he's like. I mean, he goes to a set of, like, a Godzilla movie.
Yeah. Is it Gamera? The Three Headed Dragons, one of the, you know, Godzilla villains.
It's like, flying around and. And there's Just, it's so much fun. And then he
ends up in a Twisted Sister music video. And it's actually Twisted
Sister, I love. It's Dee Snider, and the whole band is there, they're on a
car and, you know, recording this music video. And he ends
up, like, flying right through the whole chase flies through the music video thing.
And, like, I just love that, like, somebody like Dee Snider who, you know,
Twisted Sister was never the biggest band in the world or anything like that,
but, like, they were very popular at this era.
This mid-80s was their heyday. Right. So to be in this movie for only
a moment, it's, like, kind of cool. But then years later, Dee Snider
has proven himself to be, like, the most I'm available celebrity that I've ever
seen in my life. Anytime they do one of those piece of shit, like,
oh, we're gonna do Celebrity Survivor, or we're gonna be Celebrity
the Mole or whatever, he was on all of those. For some reason, him and
Coolio came as a package, I think. And television was better
off. Yeah. But, yeah, I did like that. It was
a real, real video and a real song going on.
He ends up when. So when he gets
through here, the. The music video is kind of the last major thing he goes
through. And he ends up pulling up and there's a pet
shop that's on fire. Yeah. So it's like, dude, I'm free. Yeah. I have the
thing I care about, Right. I'm ready to roll. Mission accomplished. He does, like an
ET Style jump over, like, a hedge or whatever to get out of the studio,
essentially. Or at least a little further away. And then, yeah, there's a pet shop
that's on fire. So he's running in. Super brave, right? Running into the
fire. Letting out. Obviously starts with, like, in order of cuteness. Absolutely. Order of cuteness.
Because he keeps passing the snake tank and kind of. And, like, keeping it.
I'm like, honestly, I don't blame you, buddy. And so, yeah, he lets out the
cats and the dogs, and then he's letting out, like, mice and, like, turtles and
he's letting out, like, birds and whatever and all the stuff. Oh, there's a chimpanzee
helping. Yeah, too. That he freed first, you know, and then, you know, he's,
like, picking up fish. Fish. And putting them in a little bowl and taking them
out. Little goldfish. Finally he gets back in, and it's like the snakes are kind
of the last thing left. Yeah. And so he runs out screaming, holding These
little baby garter snakes or whatever. Yeah, they're totally harmless little
snakes, but, like, he's got probably 30 or 40 of them in each hand,
just running, screaming. Ends up falling down, kind of passing
out, I think almost or something. But he falls in, and these. The emt,
the firefighters show up. You know, they're responding to the fire, and. And they helped.
And I swear to God, at least one of those guys stepped on one of
those snakes. And those look like real snakes. Yeah, I was watching that too.
There for sure was. Or it was like, a very close call. Also, the animals
that he rescued are sitting so nicely outside of the pet store. They're all
just like, oh, well, hopefully this gets fixed so I can be sold as a
pet again. My favorite ball is in there. I really hope that it survives.
The vet is my favorite ball.
So he ends up, you know, now he's got the
EMTs around him, and they're basically like, okay, we have to. To help this guy.
And then they're like, well, you know, we're not helping you. You're in big trouble.
So when they're showing the surveillance footage, which is all film that was taken
from these actual sets, it's kind of funny that they're watching this reel of
film of him, like, going through the sets on his bike and everything. It's all
the dailies. Yeah. From those. From those movies being made. It's really funny.
And then I think this is a great technique they used to
wrap this movie up in a neat little bow where it's like. Like, all right,
you're in trouble. You've destroyed this studio or whatever. But I love your story,
and we'd love to make a movie about it. Oh, by the way, real quick,
before. Before we move past it, do you know who the pink poodle was that
he saved from the pet shop? No. The pink poodle is
Darla. Darla Precious in Darla from Silence of
the Lambs and Queenie in the burbs. And. Yeah, like, one of the most famous
poodle poodle actresses of all time. Time. We'll see Darla in a few weeks.
Wow. Okay. First screen credit for Darla. So, yeah,
good on Darla. But, yeah, so they basically, the studio head tells him, like,
you know, hey, the studio loves your story. You know, let us. Basically, let us
make the movie of your story, and we will let you go. You know,
we won't. We won't press charges, like, whatever. And so that pretty much cuts us
right away to the drive in back home, wherever home Is.
And it's this wonderful wrap up right where. Yeah. It's like the movie's playing.
It stars James Brolin as P.W. hernan Herman. Yeah. And Morgan Fairchild
is Dottie. And you know, two very like attractive sort of soap stars of
the day. And they're doing like more of a James Bond style.
Yeah. You know, play on this where the bike is a motorcycle called
the X1 and it's an experimental and the Russians can't get it and da,
da, da, da. But he's walking around the drive in with a bunch of snacks,
meeting everybody who we saw throughout the movie, which is really fantastic.
It's so great. And it's like, oh, okay, these are all my friends I've met
on my journey. Exactly. And they're all here to support me at the end.
Even Mickey. Yeah. Who's in the prison bus. I love that scene.
So I'm going to go buy what in. In 2025 is
equivalent to seventy five hundred dollars worth of movie snacks. Take a mortgage out.
But good on him. And good on him not getting the snow cones out
first. I mean, he's going in order. Like, he's a very fair man. But yeah,
he's going through. And he's meeting all of his friends. And again, this is just
like the spirit of the movie that makes me very happy to watch is just.
Just everyone is so sweet and everyone is so nice to this guy.
So if you're like a kid watching this and you feel like a weirdo or
an outcast, whatever, it's like it's a movie about a weirdo who everyone likes because
he has a good. He has good intentions and he's just like a dude.
But he goes. And his friend Mickey, the prisoner, the guy, the mattress
tag cutter is there at the drive through in the prison bus,
which. Excellent gag. Really good gag. And Peewee
goes and hands him. Okay, here's your soda and here's your footlong. Wink, wink.
And the guards, like, hold on a second. And it's just a file,
like in a hot dog bun with mustard on it. And they.
It's so classic. Like, trying to sneak the Beagle Boys out of, you know,
jail. And duck Bill. And DuckTales. Exactly.
Again, just such a cartoon trope. The file to
the prisoner in the food. Like, my God.
So they. They packed this end scene because this could have been kind of a
boring. Okay, wrap it up. Everything's fine. Everyone's calm. But they're showing
all these characters. They're revisiting everyone. And then the movie's showing, right?
Ridiculous, obviously. But Peewee himself is in this movie
as a hotel bellhop. Yeah, yeah, yeah, basically. But his voice was overdubbed.
His voice, clearly not his voice. Voice sounds psychotic. But, you know,
basically, yeah, he gets to interact with James Brolin. You're like, oh, any. Any messages
for P.W. herman? You know, and it's like, it's a fun thing, I would say,
too. I think that. I think you're right, that the ending working this way was
kind of the only way to do it in a lot of sense, because the
stakes in this movie realistically. Right. Are so low. He's looking for a bicycle.
Yeah. Like, this is not life or death. This is not the end of the
world. Like, how do you wrap up? Like, okay, he got his bike. Crickets.
Like, what are you supposed to do? Right? So. So having this become this thing
where he. His story gets turned into a movie and we get to see pieces
of it and he interacts with all the people that he's met through the movie
is great. He ends up at the very end, of course, with just a.
Some. A box of candy or whatever he gives to Dottie, you know,
and the two of them are sitting on their bikes, you know, like to watch
the movie until Francis comes over with a cadre of reporters for
some reason, talking about how he's Pee Wee's best friend and they've known each other
forever. And he's like, how about we get a picture of me on the bike?
What do you say, Peewee? And Peewee's like, okay, Francis. And then
reveals one of the tricks of the bike we hadn't seen yet, which is the
ejector seat. Yes. Which really looks painful as all hell. I mean, that thing is
a six foot tall pole. That is. I don't know where that pole resides when
it's down without dragon on the. Yeah, exactly.
But yeah, yeah, blast Francis up into. Up into
space. Which is good. The voice that they give Pee Wee.
So he's like, Mr. Harmon. Paging Mr.
Harmon. It's the most ridiculous voice. It's really funny.
Did you have a computer in the house, like, as a young kid? Doctor?
Holy shit. Yes. Yes. If you had a Sound Blaster
audio card, it came with a program called Doctors Bates. So. And you would.
It was text to speech in 1989, way back when, but it
sounded like RFK Jr. Yeah. And you would type in
like your. Was it supposed to answer, like medical stuff
or did it. No, no. Dr. First of all, Dr. Speech. So for like,
no good reason. Bates. Oh, SBA, TSO or something. Yeah. Give yourself
an unpronounceable name when it's like an early stage, like voice technology.
I think it was an acronym. I think it was Sound Master. Artificial Intelligence.
Text to speech something or other operation or something like that. Like. Yeah. So.
But yeah, Dr. Spates. It's so crazy, but yeah, I remember you used to have
to, like, you'd try it and it would mispronounce things horrifically and you'd have to
try to spell them phonetically to get it to say the right thing. It was
a lot of fun. But that's what he sounds like to me, is the old
doctor Spa. So thing. And yeah, very funny voice.
Much funnier than his own voice, frankly. Yeah, yeah,
yeah. The fake voice. Because it was very, like, shocking to see.
Yeah. So then it kind of ends. It's like we get the perfect movie ending
while perfect movie is happening on screen and everything.
And. And that's it. It seems like he's got his bike back, he's got a
lot of new friends. And yeah, everything's coming up Peewee. And hopefully
he explores his, you know, budding feelings for Doy, I would hope,
because. Hope he doesn't. Because, look, it's a town full
of people that, you know, are probably going to be less of a challenge to
date than Peewee if I'm being. For being nice about it. So if she's willing
to put up with him. Yeah, she's got a lot of suitors out there.
Oh, man. Very cool. All right, so that is Peewee's big adventure.
Yeah. Yeah. Let's see. Well,
why don't I. Should I give my rating first? Yeah, you go pick up this
one. Yeah. So this was fun to watch again. And I think I
definitely had an appreciation for a lot of it just from
not really remembering how, like, original, like all this cool stuff that went
into this movie and how different it was, especially being the first Tim Burton
like that we got. Got Beetlejuice and all these great things afterwards
of Batman and Edward Scissorhands or whatever and
Paul Rubens. Did you watch the documentary recently? There was a Paul Reubens
documentary on HBO or Netflix. Peewee himself or Peewee has himself or
something. I have not seen it. It's very good. I recommend it.
But I think that gives an additional appreciation
for what he was doing with this character and maybe some understanding as to why
he's billed as Pee Wee Herman in this film and not as Paul Rubens.
Interesting. And I know he did have this.
This controversy that came up in the 90s
where he was arrested in this adult theater,
which I remember as a kid, that mug shot picture
was in the paper, and my cousin and my brother, because my mom and my
aunt were like, so disgusted by him. It was like he was jacking
off in the jack off place. What are we doing here?
So. But they were, like, so disgusted by it. And we cut the picture out
of the paper and we would, like, bring it out at holidays and stuff,
and they'd just be like, jesus Christ, put that away. Oh, I can't look at
him. Oh, he's disgusting. So I feel like he was certainly unfairly maligned
for that, and a lot of that had to do with the. The character that
he was playing. So I do want to say, if you watch this film,
it gets into that and it. I think it's worth watching because he really was,
like, screwed over by this incident, that if you're looking at it as an adult,
you're just kind of like, well, who cares? Like, are we busting everyone for that
or are we busting selectively for that or whatever. If he had been celebrity,
famous, et cetera, but not as a quote, unquote, like, child's entertainer, but just like
a regular actor, it would have blown over pretty quickly, Right. You know,
if it really was a story at all at the time. And it would have
been a story. Any celebrity in that kind of situation would have been a story.
But it would have blown over if he was like, you know, James Brolin,
for instance, like, would have blown over. Yeah, yeah. So very,
very unfair, you know, what ultimately happened to Paul Rubens. But we're
talking about this film. I think that this movie was super enjoyable.
Again, like I said, I had a smile on my face. The Danny Elfman,
so good, added so much. I mean, just a perfect synergy with Burton and Elfman.
And we'll see this again and again. I thought I'd go
lower on this. I'm going to give this one of four and a half because
I feel like there was a lot in here that we hadn't seen before.
And even if it's not, you know, the best movie of all time,
I think it's one that someone who enjoys films should definitely watch. So I'm going
to go four and a half to Rubens and Burton and company. Yeah, that's great.
I do love to real quick on the whole, like, you know, Izzy Peewee Herman,
who's he? Paul Rubens thing. You know, he kind of did what Prince did when
Prince had to change his name to the Artist Formerly Known as Prince or the
Logo. Yeah, right. And then. But all of his albums are still produced by Princess.
So Reuben's is still credited as the screenwriter. Right. It's not co
written by Pee Wee Herman, it's co written by. Okay, so the actor is Pee
Wee Herman. Exactly, yeah. Pee Wee Herman playing the character Pee Wee Herman. But Paul
Reubens is the screenwriter. So it's an interesting thing. I always find that fascinating.
I don't know if, you know if it's universally means that the artist is
particularly creative or if he could just be off his rocker or what you know,
kind of thing. Right. But it does seem to be particularly creative people who sort
of like embody that duality. Yeah. So I just, to be
totally honest with you, when you. You picked this movie for us and I was
not. Not dreading it. That's the wrong word. But I was not looking forward to
seeing it. It had been forever since I'd seen it. In my mind it was
like silly, but not the kind of silly that I love. Not the like,
you know, Tim Robinson sort of Monty Python, whatever.
Mel Brooks silly. Like it felt like I thought it was in my memory more
just kids, more childish. Yeah, exactly. I loved
it. I. This was. I can't believe it's been so long since I've seen it.
Like, I absolutely am going to show this to my kids. They're 7 and 11,
so the part's perfect for them to watch this.
This was a really fantastic movie and it really is. It is like
really great absurdism. I think. Honestly I didn't. Now that I think about it,
I always thought. I've always attributed my love of absurdity and comedy to like Mel
Brooks and Monty Python and some of the stuff that I watched early. But I
think being into Pee Wee's Playhouse and Peewee's Big Adventure was a big part of
that too. Really priming me for this. Tim Burton is so maddeningly
inventive and Danny Elfman is so ridiculously creative of the two
of them together are just absolutely like peaches and cream. I love it.
So I'm giving this one a four out of five. I think it's a fantastic
movie. You know, if you haven't seen this ever, you should
absolutely see it. If you haven't seen it in a while. But it's like stuck
in your memory of things like Large Marge, you know, and Mickey the Convict are
like in your brain somewhere. Do yourself the favor of watching it. Again,
if you've got young kids, you can watch it with them. It's PG and it's
a nice, solid, family friend friendly pg. This is definitely. This isn't Spaceballs
or Gremlins or something that's pushing a boundary. Yeah, exactly. This is a really
clean cut. Pg. Great for kids. And. Yeah, so the two dads
are eight and a half out of ten on Peewee's Big Adventure. Well deserved.
Like I said, I was a little surprised when the Rotten Tomatoes score came back
at like 71%. I thought this would have been more appreciated by critics at the
time. Yeah. Given Burton's creativity and inventiveness. But. But that's
where it is. All right, so, well, that's Pee Wee's Big Adventure. Now we
got something coming from you. Next step. But we're coming into October.
That's right. So the next episode that you all hear from us listeners is going
to be the first Wednesday in October. And we've decided to do something a little
different now. You know, we're. We're what, 20. This is like our 28th episode.
We're 28 episodes in. Obviously, we know what the hell we're doing. We're big time
now. We're not big time at all. Please continue to tell people about the podcast.
We really want to have more audience, but we thought, hey, we're getting the hang
of this. We're getting the feel for it. And we wanted to put some parameters
around maybe the next few selections. So we're going to do a series actually of
theme months. And the first one we're doing is October. We're calling it Shocktoberfest,
which I'll try to put some kind of reverb on that. We're calling it Shocktoberfest.
It's not necessarily horror movies, although that will absolutely be part of it. But it's
like scary, creepy, dark thrillers and horrors and
just kind of like everything dark and silent. Scary. Yeah, that's kind of what we're
aiming at. We've got five pictures lined up. We've already picked them, but we're gonna
meet them out to you guys, you know, bit by bit. You'll have to wait
every week to see what we'll do next. But for the first movie that we're
doing for Shocktoberfest, I decided I might picks. I decided I really wanted to go
with like the Clap, one of the classics of 80s horror.
And when I say classics, what I'm talking about is like, in my opinion,
in the 80s and 90s, there is a very clear, clear, clear cut it.
Mount Rushmore of horror movie Monsters. There are four
absolutely perfectly classic movie monsters from this era.
Chucky, the doll from the Child's Play movies, which was like a little more 90s
than 80s, but like massively popular throughout the entire decade. Jason Voorhees,
right from the Friday the 13th pictures. Michael Myers from Halloween. The first
one was in 19, like 78. But you know, there were like seven or eight
Halloween movies in the 80s and 90s. Ton of them. Not, not quite. I think
like seven. There were, there were nine. Friday the 13th, like it was ridiculous,
right? And then there was this guy, he's got the hat,
he's got the burned face, the red and green sweater and the bladed glove.
We're going to watch the original A Nightmare on Elm street, the movie that brought
us Freddy Krueger. Oh boy. It's going to be a lot of fun. Oh boy.
It's been a while since this one. I'm very excited to see this, to see
this and I've seen a few of the sequels and everything and yeah,
it'll be great to see how the original like sets the table for us and
introduces us to the old Fredster. Absolutely. And much like this picture, it is
really inventive. I mean, you know, we all think of Freddy Krueger. The monster that
attacks you in your dreams is the thing that exists now. But in 1984 when
this movie came out, that was a very fresh concept, that was a very new
idea. Wes Craven, this was not like his film and directing writing debut
but it was early on for him in his career and obviously Krueger, you know,
Freddy, the Freddy Krueger pictures and Scream are probably the things Wes Crib is most
known for. And so yeah, this was that. And it was the very first
ever acting credits silver screen or television
for one Mr. Johnny Depp. So that would be a fun little thing to go
into. So yeah, next week we are going to kick off Shocktoberfest with A Nightmare
on Elm Street 1984. All right, that about wraps it up. So if
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been Pee Wee's big adventure, another episode of 2 Dads 1 Movie. I'm Steve.
And I'm Nick. Thank you so much for listening, and we will catch you next
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