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Paul Reubens has died

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> Pee-wee Herman has died

Title should be updated. His name is Paul Reubens. Pee-Wee Herman was a character he played.

Agreed!

Agreed, I'll always know him as The Spleen

The voice of Max:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_of_the_Navigator

"The Hamburger Dude" from Cheech & Chong's Nice Dreams was my first exposure to Paul Reubens.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff-DqTerrnw

RIP Paul

Same, literally for 42 years I have been using “I bid you shalom” and “Unhand me!” thanks to the man.

I would bet most people won't have any idea who that is. I would maybe do something like "Pee-wee Herman actor Paul Reubens has died"

Or like the title of the linked-to page: "Paul Reubens, Pee-wee Herman Actor, Dies at 70 After Private Bout of Cancer".

Sorry, forgot to add a concrete suggestion. Yes, the title should mention both his real name and the character name that he is most famous for.

He was an oddball, but he was my kind of odd and I will miss him.

The world seems strangely less friendly without him

TO this day, my kids don't pass a truck without checking for Large Marge!

Man, that Large Marge scene scared the bejesus out of me as a kid.

Me too! Still think about it decades later.

Pee-wee: Come on, Dottie. Let's go.

Dottie: Let's go? Don't you wanna see the rest of the movie?

Pee-wee: I don't have to see it, Dottie. I lived it.

"You don't wanna get mixed up with a guy like me. I'm a loner, Dottie. A rebel."

Almost 40 years later, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure is still one of my favorite movies.

Give it another watch. I did recently and was surprised how funny it still is. It's rather timeless, mostly innocent, absurdist humor that still makes me laugh.

I watched it w/ my toddlers after the netflix movie came out. The new one wasn't too memorable for me, but Big Adventure and Big Top Peewee still hold up after 30 years.

One of my favorite Pee Wee scenes is the "Amish balloon" scene from his 2016 Netflix movie Pee Wee's Big Holiday. Like Pee Wee, it is funny, absurd, annoying, unique, and endearing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIKHgpnylc8

Delightful

In tears laughing. I skipped this movie but I'll be watching it tonight.

For those wanting more, here's the character: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pee-wee_Herman

And here's the actor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Reubens

Wow this actor's Wikipedia page is something. It makes me wonder what happens to all those digital archivist folks. There's a bunch of them who indiscriminately collect data and put it on hard disks. Inevitably there's going to be stuff there that's not palatable. I wonder what happens if they're ever discovered.

Once someone is dead, I don't think slander/libel laws apply, if that's what you're getting at.

You can't cancel the dead.

It's almost routine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Removal_of_Confederate_monumen...

This made me smile. I'm pretty sure Paul Reubens never fought to maintain a slave state.

Such a typical false equivalency. Never change HN :)

Meka Leka Hi Meka Hiney Ho

One role people don't know him much for that I'm sure you've heard was the voice of the pilot droid in both incarnations of the Star Wars - Star Tours ride in Disney parks around the world.

He reprised the role in an episode of Star Wars Rebels later, and the droid is now a DJ in the Galaxy's Edge cantina.

My favorite Pee-wee trivia which may be apocryphal is that Pee-wee's Big Adventure was an adaptation of Ladri di Biciclette.

The story I heard was that Rubens was originally developing a script around Pee-Wee as a Pollyanna type character. He was walking across the studio backlot and noticed a lot of people use bicycles to get around the lot. He requested his own bike, and the studio gave him an old (40s?) Schwinn which he just fell in love with. He realized Pee-Wee would too, and it became the MacGuffin for a new script.

The original Pollyanna script was eventually developed into the sequel Big Top Pee-Wee.

Funny enough I've had the "Connect the Dots" song earbugging me for weeks

Finally found out who he is. I knew him from: https://wiki.animutationportal.com/Hyakugojyuuichi

Now it can be PeeWee’s ghost who gives Large Marge a ride.

RIP Paul, thanks for all the laughs!

He made my childhood worth living right. https://youtu.be/y8dHJrEig5k

So wait, did we ever figure out what the Secret Word actually was??

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