My how time flies! It was 20 years ago today that Pee Wee's Playhouse debuted! I remember those early Saturday mornings when I lived in The Land Of Chalk Drawings (the world's tiniest apartment)...freshly graduated from college, yet sitting cross-legged on the couch, eating Cap'n Crunch and watching Pee Wee before heading off to work.
Besides the brilliance of Paul Reubens, the show also starred Phil Hartman, Laurence Fishburne, S. Epatha Merkerson, Jimmy Smits, and, my favorite - The Most Beautiful Woman in Puppetland, Lynne Stewart. And the exhausting, wonderful theme song was performed by none other than Cyndi Lauper. And let's not forget the worst SecretWord EVER : Zyzzybalubah! (you had to be there, Friends!) Then there was the Dinosaur Family (who lived in a mouse hole), A Penny Cartoon...AND GIANT UNDERPANTS
(a longtime, sure-fire favorite)!
Not just a show for the tykes, in its entire run, the Playhouse took home 22 Emmy Awards.
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