C&C - Pee-Wee's Playhouse [9/11-9/14]

[Zorak Masaki]

No Pee-Wee talkback thread? Guess its my turn. So is that piano player a recurring character or what?

[veemonjosh]

No Pee-Wee talkback thread?

I'm still afraid Landstander will delete mine like he's been doing lately...

...and I'm the only one who makes them anyways.

[SNS]

How many episodes are left? I would check an episode guide but they don't seem to match Adult Swim's airing schedule...

[TnAdct1]

After tonight's episode, there are seven episodes left.

[90'sCartoonMan]

I liked the piano player. Although Pee Wee interrogating his friends was funnier in Pee Wee's Big Adventure (and it was weird to see those beatnick puppets outside of their wall).

I liked the cartoon they played last night, I had a book about the Little Red Hen (or whatever it was called). "Go ask the cat".

Since when did Randy have friends?

[The Myst]

Maybe it's just me but lately the show feels like they're phoning it in. The Conky Repairman episode was the only real stand-out lately. They've been using more Penny/El Hombre/random cartoons to fill in time, and it overall feels like the concept is starting to get tired. Also, it's focusing more on Cowntess, Magic Screen, and Miss Yvonne for some reason. Cowboy Curtis barely appears, Reba's gone, and some of the puppets (Globey, Randy, Pterri) get like one line an episode while Cowntess babbles on and on. I hate Cowntess. She was only good when they showed her on skis because it was so random.

[jbanks97]

One thing I noticed with the "It's a mystery" episode (I missed last nights)-they spent a good 2/3rds of the show on cartoons. The Tex Avery/farm animals went on for at least 3 minutes (as opposed to the usual 15 seconds of classic cartoon). This along with a Penny AND El Hombre cartoon.

You could tell he was getting bored by this point.

**I did find it ironic that last nights episode was about tabloid scandals only a few months before Pee Wee stared in one of the biggest of the 90's

[Zorak Masaki]

So has clocky taken over the king of cartoons's spot by this point?

[jbanks97]

Ok now they are COMPLETELY out of ideas.

TWO CARTOONS?
(and freddy the freshman or whatever played for about 2-3 minutes itself)

[Zorak Masaki]

I know this show was intended for children, but the entire 1st half was filler galore! And i'd rather see 30 minutes of stewie asking brian about that novel than see that dog eat the food.

[Zyzzybalubah]

That was really weird how they just aired 2 cartoons and show Roosevelt the Dog eating food for a LONG time. They must have either screwed up so many times with lines, wanted to get out of work early, or who knows what, lol. The tango dance scene was pretty funny with Mrs. Rene going off the cliff Looney Tunes-style. :)

[mojokingbee1]

This episode was somewhat boring, but the recap at the end almost made up for it.

[carlaspirit]

Wow, are they strapped for ideas or what? Two cartoons, a couple of clips, a minute long scene of a dog eating and the whole episode sped up at the end. And between all that nothing monumental, except for the camera pulling away from Pee Wee just to annoy him and the tango scene.

[90'sCartoonMan]

I did find it ironic that last nights episode was about tabloid scandals only a few months before Pee Wee stared in one of the biggest of the 90's

Maybe Randy was behind that, trying to help put Pee Wee in the media spotlight but going about it all wrong.

The tango dance scene was pretty funny with Mrs. Rene going off the cliff Looney Tunes-style. :)

That was funny, but weird looking, we never see the outside of the Playhouse like that.

Last night was really light on the Pee Wee stuff. In the dark hi-jinks? Sheesh. I find it funny that the King of Cartoons chose that passage of Hamlet to recite. I mean, it's about contemplating suicide. Maybe the King is getting tired of his life and having a clock substitute for him on occasion.

[Nftnat]

Last night, on Pee-Wee's Playhouse: amid more cartoons than usual, Pee-Wee fed Roosevelt (and watched him eat), taught Mrs. Renee to tango, and looked through the photo album with Cowboy Curtis.

I am surprised at the longer cartoon clips this week. Monday's classic cartoon even had the title. They've been getting more Warner cartoons lately; I still have my copies of One More Time and Freddie the Freshman from when they were in the rotation on Late Night Black & White. I guess not too many of us remember that show.

Is there a place where the cartoons the King of Cartoons (or Clocky) shows clips from are listed? I'd really like to know where they're from. I think I recognize some of them as MGM Color Classics, like the one about spring, and I'm almost certain I have that one about the kid splitting a watermelon with his wild friends on a DVD I got at the mark-down counter at Wal-Mart.

Also, I always knew the King of Cartoons had more range than he usually shows. I'll have to look up some of his serious roles on imdb.

Who got Boston, Harvard, Princeton, Yale & Brown? And this was when those schools were football powerhouses. Raaaaaaazzzzzzzzzz-berries!

[jbanks97]

You know Cowboy Curtis, Miss Yvonne, Cowntess the GIANT COW, all seem to have no trouble coming over-sometimes seconds after calling Pee Wee, and yet the playhouse not only appears to be in the middle of the woods but on top of a giant mountain??

If Mrs. Renee is Pee-Wee's neighbor, where does she live-downstairs?

Poor Reba

(Yes I know I've already put too much thought into this)

[Tobias]

"When did you get a job, Miss Yvonne?"

It's called prostitution, Pee-Wee, she's been doing it in virtually every episode she's in.

[90'sCartoonMan]

You know Cowboy Curtis, Miss Yvonne, Cowntess the GIANT COW, all seem to have no trouble coming over-sometimes seconds after calling Pee Wee, and yet the playhouse not only appears to be in the middle of the woods but on top of a giant mountain??

Pee Wee's playhouse is in the forest area that surrounds Mt. Rushmore, so no, it's not really on top of a giant mountain, it's just a weird perspective they showed us.

I think the Playhouse actually exists in our world, and that's what we see, but there's some sort of portal to "Puppetland" right around the corner, and that's where Miss Yvonne and the others live.

It's called prostitution, Pee-Wee, she's been doing it in virtually every episode she's in.

Too bad she never charges.

This episode had the most pathetic display of tickling from Globey that I've ever seen. I liked Pee Wee hollowing out that watermellon, though. I want to do that.

Anyone else notice Jambi in the parade?

[The Myst]

The episode last night with Playhouse Day seemed to be a return to form after some really weak episodes.

I did however love one thing you all hated. Roosevelt eating. It was so ****ed up. It was like I was tripping on acid.

[Nftnat]

Last night, on Pee-Wee's Playhouse: With Cowboy Curtis, Miss Yvonne, and the Cowntess all busy with their jobs or whatever; Pee-Wee and the Playhouse gang have nothing to do but talk to each other. Amid their bull session, they hit on the idea of coming up with a new holiday, Playhouse Day, combining elements of all other holidays. When the King of Cartoons finds out, he makes it official; and with the day now a holiday, whadda ya know, Cowboy and Yvonne and Cowntess are suddenly not working so they come over to join the party. The celebration culminates in a big parade.

Tonight's cartoon was portions of Fin 'N' Catty, the Warner Bros. cartoon directed by Chuck Jones in 1943, featuring the proto-Claude cat and an occasional 'bayuwhoop' stolen from Bob Clampett. I'm still surprised Monday's episode included the end gag of Farm Frolics with the piglets feeding on the sow.

Of course the King of Cartoons' realm apparently extends into Puppetland, of which Miss Yvonne is the most beautiful lady. Otherwise she'd still be working.

I don't know if this has been addressed before: has anyone noticed the tin cans the different characters talk on? So far I just noticed Cowboy Curtis talking on a can of Ranch Style Beans (Husband Pleasin', or Appetite Satisfyin', or whatever slogan they're using now). I'm reminded of one of those kiddie operas on Mr. Rogers, centering on the Pacific Pineapple Tele-Can Company. Lady Elaine Fairchild preferred tomatoes, or just the color red.

And the moral of the story, boys & girls, is when you want the day off, make up your own holiday, and be friends with someone who can make it official.