This show was incredibly expensive to produce and it shows!! It was so diverse with animated segments, claymation, special fx, puppetry and such! Amazing show I will always love
Fun fact, Paul Reubens kept all the master tapes of the visual effects, which paid off when it was time to upscale the show and put out an HD version. Otherwise that would have been impossible.
I am so saddened by the news of Pee Wees passing. I grew up with him and all of the characters as well as guests who visited the Playhouse. I was and still am In shock that Mr. Rubens is gone. He will be missed very much by those who grew up with him and also his movie roles like in the Mystery Men
I’ll always like the toughness of the first season, I just like the claymation and the Playhouse looks more realistic without being so bright with colors.
The first season was definitely the best, even though Reubens said on several occasions that he hated doing that season, mostly due to the working conditions (a sweatshop in NYC's SoHo converted into a loft).
After I heard that Paul Reubens passed away, I want to say this, thank you for everything, thank you for giving us one of the most iconic characters in everyone's childhood, love him or hate him, you can't lie that he impacted a lot of children when he was on television, so thank you Pee Wee, you will be dearly missed 🙏
I find people who hated the guy I’LL TIE THEM TO A CHAIR WHERE IT HAS STRAPS TO KEEP EYEBALLS OPEN AND FORCE THEM TO WATCH THE SHOW AND THE MOVIES AND THE LIVE SHOW!!!!!!! And make it an option for those who liked him to watch the haters suffer
I can't believe all the negative comments. This show was fantastic and freaky. It reminded me of the 50's shows I'd watch as a kid but this show was more entertaining. Alot of clever and talented people put this show together,
people wouldnt know talent if it jumped up and kicked them in the jaw. Pee Wee and Mr Bean are 2 of my favorite comedians of all time. Both very much on the same page of different humor.
Fact1: Cyndi Lauper didn't want people to know she sang the Pee-wee's Playhouse theme, because she was afraid it might hurt her album sales, so she was credited as “Ellen Shaw”. Fact2: Paul Reubens was a guest vocal at the end of track 9 "911" on Cyndi Lauper's 1986 TRUE COLORS album as Pee-wee saying "The 911 emergency number is not in effect in the area where you are. Please hang up and dial O for Operator. This is a recording. (laughs)."
Part of the first seasons vibe was the fact they were in a TINY New York studio. Virtually all of the show takes place in the same plane of action. It was the move to LA that gave the show the sense of depth (and also resulted in much of the first season cast being replaced)
yes but I do like how they didn't just scrap it all they kept some of the original in there so it was more like it grew with the viewer as you watched the show and didn't change only added to it.
Fun Fact: Pee-Wee’s Playhouse was the first TV show scored by DEVO lead singer, Mark Mothersbaugh. Mothersbaugh found the experience of scoring TV shows to be far more fun and enjoyable than being in a band because it allowed for more creative freedom and there was no interference from record labels. Mothersbaugh would later compose music for Rugrats, various Wes Anderson movies, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Thor: Ragnarok, The LEGO Movie, and also Pee-wee’s Big Holiday
@@Whocareslol420 yeah, and Mark wasn’t the only member of DEVO who worked on Rugrats. His younger brother Bob aka “Bob1” (who played lead guitar in DEVO) joined the series in season 4 and co-wrote much of the music until the series ended in 2004. Finally, the late Bob Casale aka “Bob2” (he played rhythm guitar and keyboards in DEVO) worked as the music engineer (he is listed in the credits as Robert Casale)
@@bostonrailfan2427 their core fanbase didn’t care about radio airplay. You should seriously consider listening to some of their other songs Here’s a shortlist Girl U Want Freedom of Choice Uncontrollable Urge Jocko Homo Satisfaction (Cover) Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA Secret Agent Man Beautiful World Through Being Cool That’s Good Big Mess Time out for Fun Shout
According to an interview with Entertainment Weekly: CBS was interested in doing a sixth season (1991-92) but Paul Reubens said he felt worn out and wanted to try other things. His infamous 1991 arrest for indecent exposure and lewd conduct in a porno theater in Sarasota, Florida happened mere months later, but contrary to rumors, *Reubens and others say that the show getting canceled was because Reubens decided to end the show, not because of the arrest* (though the reruns were taken off the air and Pee-wee Herman's mainstream popularity was tarnished, at least for a time). He didn't want it to go stale from staying on the air for too long. Reruns of the series was supposed to air at 11:30am throughout the 1991-92 season, until September 12, 1992.
Remember that each episode took a long-ass day to do--about 16 hours per day. On top of that, he was also signing merchandise deals and doing Make-a-Wish. (And he was starting to wonder where Pee-wee ends and Paul Reubens begins...and if there wasn't a gradual blurring of the two. Scary stuff on an existential level.) The show was, in its last couple of years, relying more and more on Pee-wee catching cold, having a toothache, or otherwise stepping out and letting the supporting cast and cartoons carry the show...indeed, for most of the final episode, Pee-wee is trying to find part of a sign which had blown away. (A more fitting conclusion IMO would have been for Paul Reubens to take the helm and give the game away, allowing the set crew and everyone involved in the production to take a bow and say _arrivederci_ once and for all.) There was a show called "Riders in the Sky," which used the singing cowboy troupe, as a kind of "Pee-Wee Goes Cowboy"--perhaps it took place in Cowboy Curtis' world? It was 13 episodes, with Wayne White as art director, slapped together specifically to emulate Pee-Wee and take over his space in the reruns.
@nicholastosoni707 this makes so much sense! I never gave the last season real thought. The other episodes that stand out about these are when Cowboy Curtis came over but Pee-Wee was hiding in Jambi's box, the one where Pee-Wee stepped out to play with the gang, and when the cartoons were more extended!
There’s a final episode of the show too which obviously was filmed months- over a year in fact- before the arrest. He said he was traumatized as a kid by the last episode of “Howdy Doody”, which very much gave impression the show was going away forever and I think a character weeps in the final moments. With pee wee, the characters all think he’s sold the playhouse and they series reminisce. He appears in the final minutes to say the playhouse will go on forever.
Actually, the one on the right was only used in Season 5. Originally, they continued to use the Season 2 intro on Season 4, but all post-1990 airings and home video releases, plastered it with the Season 5 intro. I know this, because I've seen commercials from the original broadcast of "Sick? Did Somebody Say Sick?".
@@cellytron And it wouldn't really make any sense at all for S4 to originally have the S5 intro, because the S5 intro had clips from S5 episodes ("Front Page Pee-wee", "Playhouse Day", and "Something to Do").
As a teenager I would watch this show and the Canadian Red Green show with fascination! I dreamed about being a prop person on these shows. Look at all that prop work on that play house! What are there, 20 people falling all over each other running all that?! Someone had to make all that!
I loved this show as a Kid. I was not alive when it was on. I was born in 2004. But my mother had bought me the entire series on DVD. I watched that all the time. Until I was about 5. I didn't stop watching cause I lost interest. We had moved and lost most of the box set. We now only have 1 case with 2 disk and I haven't tried watching it as it is nowhere near the beginning of the show. But I love this show. I guess I should buy it again on DVD or maybe even BluRay if they have it. And I should show my brothers and baby Sis. They've never seen it before. My brothers and I may be too old for a show like this, but I'm sure that we could still really enjoy it. It would be cool to show them a show from my, and even my mothers childhood. Who knows my baby Sis might love this. She is only 3 and that is when I first watched it. Although... It might scare her. It did me. I always hated that Door To Door Salesman. Especially since the screen went crazy and Pee Wee freaked out every time. I hated it. But that was the only part that scared me. I guess I'll see about buying it. I'm sure it's not gonna be too expensive for a Box Set of this show. Unless of course they stopped manufacturing it when I was a kid. then I might be in trouble. Let's hope not! I'd really love to show my brothers and sister this.
My Favorite Old School Show, Pee-Wee's Playhouse, I Watched All Time Over The Years, Pee-Wee Is Funniest Cool Man Played by Comic Funny Lookin Man Named Paul Reubens. That's 45 Episodes, Complete 1-5 Seasons, Since CBS Debuts In September 13, 1986 To November 17, 1990.
So often the case with a new show vs. a matured show. The opening for the new show is often entirely original footage, designed to give an overview of what the show is about. An established show that has matured turns to clips from past episodes to fill out a new opening. The biggest piece of new content in the final opening, after all, was the redone jungle scenes. The actual song part contains very little new footage, mostly using clips culled from the past four seasons. Muppet Babies is similar, using a lot of recycled footage in the later versions of the opening.
Ben Schumin if you want to know something even more strange, for the 1989-1990 opening they actually filmed the long hair wig falling from the ceiling they just didn’t use it. HOWEVER if you use your dvd and slow down when Pee-Wee wishes for the day to happen all over again in “Tango Time” you can see that wig deleted scene from the intro lol I was like awww I wish they would’ve used it!
It was pretty wild watching this as a teenager. They aimed it mostly at kids, but there were some adult humor jokes in there too. I know my younger cousin who's at the start of the Millennials (born 1977) loved it since he was a kid when this aired, too young to get the adult humor it had.
Loved watching this show as a kid! I love both the pilot and the final version. He did more of his fair share of entertaining the world. So sad that he is gone🥺
I Am Sad To Admit That I Did not know of Paul Reubens Passing In July For Some Reason The News didn’t reach my corner of the internet until Now, I Have Not Seen Pee Wee Herman’s PlayHouse at all but there was another role I was aware of That He Played But I didn’t Know he played that character Until Now
When I was in middle school, I would go in the living room during the summer to play some wii in the middle of the night when i couldnt sleep. Adult swim used to play this in the dead of night and i would also leave the living room tv on cartton network so i would turn on the tv to this. Always gave me an uncanny valley feeling in the dead of night watching this bizarre kids show
@@Matthewsmollen4 I don't know. I don't wanna be too hard on Paul Reubens (who just died), but he made a lot of changes that just didn't make any sense after the show ended. Another example is how in Season 3 episode 1, Pee-wee originally sang the "My Name Is Pee-wee" song. That scene is gone for good. I thought it would be restored on Blu-Ray, but it wasn't.
The beauty of 80s and 90s TV: the intros were recognizable, and repeatable in a way that draws you in each time, and uses up to 2 minutes to explain everything about the show to a first time viewer. ThunderCats, Sesame Street, Pokemon, Rugrats, Full House, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, to name a few, are some examples of those long intros that don't get tiresome.
Boy did they FUCK UP not making a Pee Wee’s Playhouse movie before Rubens died. It could’ve been a more satirical, adult humor take on the show and expanded the world. Hollywood continues to screw up everything, just like not utilizing the three Star Wars actors before Carrie Fisher died or not making more Batman ‘66 animated movies before West died. Utilize these actors in their iconic roles before it’s TOO LATE.
Sweet memories, watching this with my dad and brother, i was 6 years old. My mom tsking my dad, "why are you letting them watch thus reprobate?" Lol shut up mom. Love you mom and dad.
Someone told me that the first video image was taken before he got busted for having an "art collection" and using his left hand to remove a chocolate stain off his slacks and the other was taken some years after he did a PBS don't do drugs add as punishment. True story.
This show was incredibly expensive to produce and it shows!! It was so diverse with animated segments, claymation, special fx, puppetry and such! Amazing show I will always love
yup $300,000 a show
So that's what the richest stoner in the world lives
Fun fact, Paul Reubens kept all the master tapes of the visual effects, which paid off when it was time to upscale the show and put out an HD version. Otherwise that would have been impossible.
Fun fact: the theme song is actually sung by Cindi Lauper doing a Betty Boop impersonation!
Love it!!!!
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA That's wild! 👏
WHAAAAAT?!
WHY IS IT NOW PEAPLE ARE REACTING TO THIS?
@@1Dad1 because no one told us this until now
Who’s here after hearing the sad news?
Rest in peace Pee-Wee😢
I am so saddened by the news of Pee Wees passing. I grew up with him and all of the characters as well as guests who visited the Playhouse. I was and still am In shock that Mr. Rubens is gone. He will be missed very much by those who grew up with him and also his movie roles like in the Mystery Men
He's restin with Large Marge now on that same stretch of road on a night much like tonight
WE WILL MISS YOU PEE-WEE😢
I was in tears 😭
good riddance, I hope that pedo suffered
I can’t even begin to fathom the IMAGINATION and talent that went into creating this intro!!
I’ll always like the toughness of the first season, I just like the claymation and the Playhouse looks more realistic without being so bright with colors.
The first season was definitely the best, even though Reubens said on several occasions that he hated doing that season, mostly due to the working conditions (a sweatshop in NYC's SoHo converted into a loft).
@@VahanNisanian it's looks like I was in at my brother's house looking like in before I was looking back flash back past life look back
After I heard that Paul Reubens passed away, I want to say this, thank you for everything, thank you for giving us one of the most iconic characters in everyone's childhood, love him or hate him, you can't lie that he impacted a lot of children when he was on television, so thank you Pee Wee, you will be dearly missed 🙏
I find people who hated the guy I’LL TIE THEM TO A CHAIR WHERE IT HAS STRAPS TO KEEP EYEBALLS OPEN AND FORCE THEM TO WATCH THE SHOW AND THE MOVIES AND THE LIVE SHOW!!!!!!!
And make it an option for those who liked him to watch the haters suffer
@@ECtransformertoysOffical less unhinged pee wee herman fan be like
I used to love waking up to watch this show and eating cereal while watching it. It was like my week end reward in life. Childhood golden moment.
I'm over 50 now and STILL do lol.
That laugh at the end of the song was something I imitated throughout my childhood. Thank you Peewee. You made life fun.
I watched this show as an adult in my 30s every Saturday morning. It was a joyful way to begin the weekend!
RIP, Pee-Wee (Paul Reubens).
I did the same thing, and I was the same age as you too.
Same here, watched it on many a morning while nursing a hangover. In the olden days, that was the only way to catch something,
@@ClueSign Ditto!
I can't believe all the negative comments. This show was fantastic and freaky. It reminded me of the 50's shows I'd watch as a kid but this show was more entertaining. Alot of clever and talented people put this show together,
people wouldnt know talent if it jumped up and kicked them in the jaw. Pee Wee and Mr Bean are 2 of my favorite comedians of all time. Both very much on the same page of different humor.
What negative comments?
Rest In Peace Paul Reubens. August 27, 1952-July 30, 2023 you’ll be missed.
Fact1: Cyndi Lauper didn't want people to know she sang the Pee-wee's Playhouse theme, because she was afraid it might hurt her album sales, so she was credited as “Ellen Shaw”.
Fact2: Paul Reubens was a guest vocal at the end of track 9 "911" on Cyndi Lauper's 1986 TRUE COLORS album as Pee-wee saying "The 911 emergency number is not in effect in the area where you are. Please hang up and dial O for Operator. This is a recording. (laughs)."
yeah, She also sang on Hulk Hogans theme song and didnt put herself in the credits either
Part of the first seasons vibe was the fact they were in a TINY New York studio. Virtually all of the show takes place in the same plane of action.
It was the move to LA that gave the show the sense of depth (and also resulted in much of the first season cast being replaced)
Also by the last season they had a lot more archival footage that they could use to work into the intro.
I hated that they replaced the Playhouse gang by Season 2!
@@melissacooper8724me too
Laurence Fishburne as the cowboy in Playhouse... Maybe this was Morpheus's life before he was unplugged from the Matrix and brought into Zion...
Cowboy Curtis!
@@zakdean3002 no, this is the earliest version of the matrix, where everyone was intended to be happy.
I love how in the later seasons they put a little added touch to the theme song. That’s what makes a tv show good.
yes but I do like how they didn't just scrap it all they kept some of the original in there so it was more like it grew with the viewer as you watched the show and didn't change only added to it.
"That's what makes a TV show good"
"It is going to be that kind of morning."
Fun Fact: Pee-Wee’s Playhouse was the first TV show scored by DEVO lead singer, Mark Mothersbaugh.
Mothersbaugh found the experience of scoring TV shows to be far more fun and enjoyable than being in a band because it allowed for more creative freedom and there was no interference from record labels.
Mothersbaugh would later compose music for Rugrats, various Wes Anderson movies, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Thor: Ragnarok, The LEGO Movie, and also Pee-wee’s Big Holiday
That is a fun fact, thank you!
@@Whocareslol420 yeah, and Mark wasn’t the only member of DEVO who worked on Rugrats.
His younger brother Bob aka “Bob1” (who played lead guitar in DEVO) joined the series in season 4 and co-wrote much of the music until the series ended in 2004.
Finally, the late Bob Casale aka “Bob2” (he played rhythm guitar and keyboards in DEVO) worked as the music engineer (he is listed in the credits as Robert Casale)
it didn’t help that the band was well past their prime and struggling to get airtime on the radio outside of Whip-it
@@bostonrailfan2427 their core fanbase didn’t care about radio airplay.
You should seriously consider listening to some of their other songs
Here’s a shortlist
Girl U Want
Freedom of Choice
Uncontrollable Urge
Jocko Homo
Satisfaction (Cover)
Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA
Secret Agent Man
Beautiful World
Through Being Cool
That’s Good
Big Mess
Time out for Fun
Shout
And Regular Show, which I loved as a kid.
According to an interview with Entertainment Weekly: CBS was interested in doing a sixth season (1991-92) but Paul Reubens said he felt worn out and wanted to try other things. His infamous 1991 arrest for indecent exposure and lewd conduct in a porno theater in Sarasota, Florida happened mere months later, but contrary to rumors, *Reubens and others say that the show getting canceled was because Reubens decided to end the show, not because of the arrest* (though the reruns were taken off the air and Pee-wee Herman's mainstream popularity was tarnished, at least for a time). He didn't want it to go stale from staying on the air for too long. Reruns of the series was supposed to air at 11:30am throughout the 1991-92 season, until September 12, 1992.
I’ve spent HOURS staying up at night wondering what the show look and feel like as the 90s began. Considering that Season 4&5 were created in 89….
Remember that each episode took a long-ass day to do--about 16 hours per day. On top of that, he was also signing merchandise deals and doing Make-a-Wish. (And he was starting to wonder where Pee-wee ends and Paul Reubens begins...and if there wasn't a gradual blurring of the two. Scary stuff on an existential level.)
The show was, in its last couple of years, relying more and more on Pee-wee catching cold, having a toothache, or otherwise stepping out and letting the supporting cast and cartoons carry the show...indeed, for most of the final episode, Pee-wee is trying to find part of a sign which had blown away. (A more fitting conclusion IMO would have been for Paul Reubens to take the helm and give the game away, allowing the set crew and everyone involved in the production to take a bow and say _arrivederci_ once and for all.)
There was a show called "Riders in the Sky," which used the singing cowboy troupe, as a kind of "Pee-Wee Goes Cowboy"--perhaps it took place in Cowboy Curtis' world? It was 13 episodes, with Wayne White as art director, slapped together specifically to emulate Pee-Wee and take over his space in the reruns.
@nicholastosoni707 this makes so much sense! I never gave the last season real thought. The other episodes that stand out about these are when Cowboy Curtis came over but Pee-Wee was hiding in Jambi's box, the one where Pee-Wee stepped out to play with the gang, and when the cartoons were more extended!
There’s a final episode of the show too which obviously was filmed months- over a year in fact- before the arrest. He said he was traumatized as a kid by the last episode of “Howdy Doody”, which very much gave impression the show was going away forever and I think a character weeps in the final moments. With pee wee, the characters all think he’s sold the playhouse and they series reminisce. He appears in the final minutes to say the playhouse will go on forever.
@@jbanks979And indeed it will.
Rest in Peace, Peewee Herman.
Ever watch a marathon of Pee Wee's Playhouse, hearing this theme more than 5 times in one day, enough to MAKE YOU INSANE.
Shit like this wasn't meant to be binge watched. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The opening on the left is Season 1. And on the right is Seasons 4 and 5.
Actually, the one on the right was only used in Season 5. Originally, they continued to use the Season 2 intro on Season 4, but all post-1990 airings and home video releases, plastered it with the Season 5 intro. I know this, because I've seen commercials from the original broadcast of "Sick? Did Somebody Say Sick?".
@@VahanNisanian yep, you're right, there were s4 episodes on IFC today and they had the 1990/s5 opening.
@@cellytron And it wouldn't really make any sense at all for S4 to originally have the S5 intro, because the S5 intro had clips from S5 episodes ("Front Page Pee-wee", "Playhouse Day", and "Something to Do").
Childhood memories. R.I.P Mr Paul Reubens aka Pee Wee Herman
Without Pee-Wee Herman, there is no Fun at Pee-Wee Playhouse... RIP Paul Reubens...
That’s true, but whether he’s gone or not, the Playhouse will be here for everyone to enjoy….
As a teenager I would watch this show and the Canadian Red Green show with fascination! I dreamed about being a prop person on these shows. Look at all that prop work on that play house! What are there, 20 people falling all over each other running all that?! Someone had to make all that!
This was freakin’ INCREDIBLE! Those guys had to work In harmony as a team. The end result is miraculous.
I never heard Pee Wee but rest in peace. Respect from Indonesia 🇮🇩
I don't remember math or most of what I learned in school, but by god I remember that Jambi, Globey and the fish were different in season 1
and pteri
And the band
Pteri looked different in season 1 also.
He was one of the greats. Funny and cute af.
SUCH an earwig that intro!
Infectious in the best way!
Not likely there will ever be another intro like it!
He had probably one of the most unique and creative gimmicks in the entertainment world.
I loved this show as a Kid. I was not alive when it was on. I was born in 2004. But my mother had bought me the entire series on DVD. I watched that all the time. Until I was about 5. I didn't stop watching cause I lost interest. We had moved and lost most of the box set. We now only have 1 case with 2 disk and I haven't tried watching it as it is nowhere near the beginning of the show. But I love this show. I guess I should buy it again on DVD or maybe even BluRay if they have it. And I should show my brothers and baby Sis. They've never seen it before. My brothers and I may be too old for a show like this, but I'm sure that we could still really enjoy it. It would be cool to show them a show from my, and even my mothers childhood. Who knows my baby Sis might love this. She is only 3 and that is when I first watched it. Although... It might scare her. It did me. I always hated that Door To Door Salesman. Especially since the screen went crazy and Pee Wee freaked out every time. I hated it. But that was the only part that scared me. I guess I'll see about buying it. I'm sure it's not gonna be too expensive for a Box Set of this show. Unless of course they stopped manufacturing it when I was a kid. then I might be in trouble. Let's hope not! I'd really love to show my brothers and sister this.
Nice job keeping some parts in sync!
RIP to a comedy legend😢
Never saw the Final one and I’m glad. I bet the first one was straight out of the mind of “Pee Wee” and perfect.
Thank you for the great memories Mr. Paul Reuben aka Pee-Wee…
Left: 1986-1988
Right: 1989-1990
Paul Reubens
1952-2023
We’ll miss you, pal.
I loved this show, one of the best highlights of my childhood
he sure did have a lot of fun in that playhouse
This was my childhood and I still love it. Pee Wee is in the great playhouse in the sky now.
The great Playhouse in the Sky sounds like a Pink Floyd parody
Saturday mornings in the 80s
Rest In Peace Pee Wee
Its the chair that freaking talks!
-Hey Look!
And the fish who five advice!
- Holy crap!
Its screwy at peters playhouse!
Kind of trippy there at the beginning...
Have you not seen the show? The whole thing is really fucking trippy! Don't go into the playhouse without a rape whistle!
My Favorite Old School Show, Pee-Wee's Playhouse, I Watched All Time Over The Years, Pee-Wee Is Funniest Cool Man Played by Comic Funny Lookin Man Named Paul Reubens. That's 45 Episodes, Complete 1-5 Seasons, Since CBS Debuts In September 13, 1986 To November 17, 1990.
Man, if this show were made today, it'd get a full 24 seconds of theme song instead of the typical 5 to 10.
So often the case with a new show vs. a matured show. The opening for the new show is often entirely original footage, designed to give an overview of what the show is about. An established show that has matured turns to clips from past episodes to fill out a new opening. The biggest piece of new content in the final opening, after all, was the redone jungle scenes. The actual song part contains very little new footage, mostly using clips culled from the past four seasons. Muppet Babies is similar, using a lot of recycled footage in the later versions of the opening.
Ben Schumin if you want to know something even more strange, for the 1989-1990 opening they actually filmed the long hair wig falling from the ceiling they just didn’t use it. HOWEVER if you use your dvd and slow down when Pee-Wee wishes for the day to happen all over again in “Tango Time” you can see that wig deleted scene from the intro lol I was like awww I wish they would’ve used it!
This intro is so long! No current show has a 3+ minute opening.
I love this show.
It was pretty wild watching this as a teenager. They aimed it mostly at kids, but there were some adult humor jokes in there too. I know my younger cousin who's at the start of the Millennials (born 1977) loved it since he was a kid when this aired, too young to get the adult humor it had.
I have come here to pay my respects to Paul Ruben 😔
R.I.P Paul Ruben; the best Peewee Herman we ever had 😢😭🙏👼
The "pilot" version is the intro I *always* saw when this show came on. The "final" version is new to me. Later seasons?
That's what I thought too. I remember the "Pilot" version as being the one I actually saw.
Mandela effect maybe 😮
Loved watching this show as a kid! I love both the pilot and the final version. He did more of his fair share of entertaining the world. So sad that he is gone🥺
I am really gonna miss him
We will miss you😢
Funny, I only remember seeing the "Pilot" opening, never the "Finale".
I LOVE I LOVE I LOVE THIS "PEE-WEE'S PLAYHOUSE" TH-cam VIDEO SO MUCH!!! :-D
Fun fact: Rob Zombie worked as a set designer on the show
I Am Sad To Admit That I Did not know of Paul Reubens Passing In July For Some Reason The News didn’t reach my corner of the internet until Now, I Have Not Seen Pee Wee Herman’s PlayHouse at all but there was another role I was aware of That He Played But I didn’t Know he played that character Until Now
I wish they could have included the bunnies in the finale.
RIP Paul Reubens
We will miss you
I have no fucking clue how those were so disjointed at the beginning and then SEAMLESSLY flow into each other???
The Final version looks entertaining!
RIP Paul Reubens.😢 ⚰
Great video !
Great Work !
I forgot how long this intro was.
RIP Paul Reubens 👑👑.
The original music score from the pilot always fascinated me.
When I was in middle school, I would go in the living room during the summer to play some wii in the middle of the night when i couldnt sleep. Adult swim used to play this in the dead of night and i would also leave the living room tv on cartton network so i would turn on the tv to this. Always gave me an uncanny valley feeling in the dead of night watching this bizarre kids show
Left is Season 1, right is Season 5. In the original CBS airings of Season 4, they continued to use the Season 2 intro.
How come for Season 4 in reruns years later, they used the season 5 intro?
@@Matthewsmollen4 I don't know. I don't wanna be too hard on Paul Reubens (who just died), but he made a lot of changes that just didn't make any sense after the show ended. Another example is how in Season 3 episode 1, Pee-wee originally sang the "My Name Is Pee-wee" song. That scene is gone for good. I thought it would be restored on Blu-Ray, but it wasn't.
1:31 Pee-Wee As A Pirate 😂
Yeah, he was iconic for everyone, but too much for my young mind, a bit too much chaos for my speed.
Most sane American tv show:
RIP Paul Reubens (aka Pee-Wee)
There's another intro you missed and that's the one used for seasons 2-3
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This video covers the openings used for the pilot and the finale. It doesn’t need the opening from the 2nd season.
Five years of fun and laughter:)
Should do another one comparing the Finale Intro to the 2nd Season Intro.
True story I was 10 years old at my grandparents house at 3pm I turned on tv this intro scared the hell out of me 😅
I must've stopped watching the show at some point, but I've never seen that intro used for the last one.
Wait this is just an intro? christ, imagine sitting through that every time.
Yes and i loved it every frickin' time.
The beauty of 80s and 90s TV: the intros were recognizable, and repeatable in a way that draws you in each time, and uses up to 2 minutes to explain everything about the show to a first time viewer.
ThunderCats, Sesame Street, Pokemon, Rugrats, Full House, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, to name a few, are some examples of those long intros that don't get tiresome.
There's so much going on that as a kid you'd pay attention to new things every time. We'd also imitate the voices (both Chairy and Pee-Wee).
Back when folks had more than a 15-second attention span.
What is that white toilet looking thingy with teeth called?
Don't know how old you are but that's not the pilot that was season 1 intro
This stuff Is timeless
Rest in Peace Paul Reubens..
Always liked the original one more.
Boy did they FUCK UP not making a Pee Wee’s Playhouse movie before Rubens died. It could’ve been a more satirical, adult humor take on the show and expanded the world. Hollywood continues to screw up everything, just like not utilizing the three Star Wars actors before Carrie Fisher died or not making more Batman ‘66 animated movies before West died. Utilize these actors in their iconic roles before it’s TOO LATE.
I kind of like the new one better than the old one.
My favorite is actually the left side
I watched this while high & must recommend others to do the same.
Was the finale an actual planned finale though? Didn't the show end suddenly because of the theater thing?
According to a comment above, No. He did an interview saying he would not do a 6th season.
I hate that I was deathly afraid of PeeWees playhouse as a kid. I should have loved this
Sweet memories, watching this with my dad and brother, i was 6 years old. My mom tsking my dad, "why are you letting them watch thus reprobate?" Lol shut up mom. Love you mom and dad.
Someday, I'll have a complete series of Pee-Wee's Playhouse.
My mom’s childhood rip Paul Reuben
R.I.P Pee-Wee Herman.
Why did Paul Reubens get tired of playing Pee-Wee Herman after filming season 5, and why did he want to end the show?
That is answered in a comment above. Basically he was worn out from the work it took and he wanted to go onto other things.
I would listen to this show in the car, the cbs station in my area was simulcast on FM
I wonder if Cyndi Lauper ever made an appearance on Pee Wee Herman show
Completely incomprehensible! I’ve met with a terrible fate
Someone told me that the first video image was taken before he got busted for having an "art collection" and using his left hand to remove a
chocolate stain off his slacks and the other was taken some years after he did a PBS don't do drugs add as punishment. True story.