Pee-Wee had his sayings, but here's......

    What the Grown-Ups
    are Saying Now!
        To pay tribute to Pee-Wee's smart, irreverent, witty, snotty, and most of all playful attitude toward the media, all the articles, reviews and commentaries published on this website were shamelessly and blatantly lifted from their original sources without prior permission.

        Oh, Pee-Wee! You're such a scalawag!


      Was he perverse, innocently wacky, or an unmitigated genius?
      Check out these selected commentaries and judge for yourself.

      Media Virus: Hidden Agendas in Popular Culture
      October, 1994
      Excerpt from Chapter 4, "Kid's TV", a savvy commentary on Pee-Wee's Playhouse from a guy who understands.
      " Pee-Wee was not a Saturday-morning character, but a performance art piece -- mostly intentional -- that used a kid's television slot as merely one canvas in a giant multimedia event."
      by Douglas Rushkoff, author of The GenX Reader, Cyberia:Life in the Trenches of Hyperspace and The Ecstacy Club.


      Salon, online magazine, August 27, 1996
      The Video Release of Pee-Wee's Playhouse gives a Saturday Morning TV Classic its Due.
      "Compare Pee-wee's ordeal to the relative quickness with which Hugh Grant was welcomed back into America's good graces after his much publicized sex scandal." By Joyce Millman


      "Life in the Fridge"
      Remember the"Life in the Fridge" segments on Pee-Wee's Playhouse? Well, here's a few comments from the guy who did 'em!
      Bill O'Neil