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Post by aaaa on Jul 31, 2023 12:17:16 GMT -5
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Post by vahan on Jul 31, 2023 13:04:32 GMT -5
It says he had been privately battling cancer for six years. If there were any signs of the cancer weakening him during those six years, I didn’t notice it. Maybe that’s why we never saw him as Pee-wee Herman again after his cancer diagnosis. I mean, when Jim Varney got cancer, which he died from in 2000, he never played Ernest again.
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Post by Frank on Jul 31, 2023 18:07:54 GMT -5
**** cancer
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Post by CardSharksFan8689 on Aug 2, 2023 10:28:48 GMT -5
I never had any interest in any of the movies that Pee-Wee Herman appeared in, but I did enjoy Pee-Wee’s Playhouse when it aired in the 1980s. However, I enjoyed the first season the most. The second season wasn’t bad. But when Season 3 came around (which had only two episodes due to the 1988 writers’ strike and commitments to producing the film Big Top Pee-Wee) the show’s quality started to decline. In Season 4, the quality went further downhill (though I did like the “Rebarella” episode featuring a makeshift drive-in theater), and Season 5 was when it sunk (in fact, I believe the local affiliate in Detroit, where I got CBS from at the time, likely chose not to air the show in favor of syndicated programming designed for older teens and young adults – but it was just as well). Paul Reubens opted not to produce a sixth season on his own terms due to the deteriorating quality of the show. However, the show was dropped from the schedule several weeks prematurely in late July 1991 after he committed an act of indecent exposure in a movie theater. As a further casualty of his behavior, Toys-R-Us had pulled products depicting Pee-Wee Herman’s likeness off the shelves. Pee-Wee Herman did make his final appearance in the 2016 Netflix movie Pee-Wee’s Big Holiday. It was Reuben’s final film, and after that, he was never heard from again – implying that cancer had set in afterwards.
Pee-Wee's Playhouse would later be rerun on Adult Swim in 2006, and I believe YTV in Canada may have aired reruns of the show possibly in the mid-1990s (YTV would air reruns of shows from the mid- to late-1980s by around 1994 - I know they aired the DiC version of The Chipmunks, and The Super Mario Bros. Super Show in 1994, so I am guessing that Pee-Wee's Playhouse aired during that time). By the late 1990s, YTV would acquire shows mostly from the mid- to late-1990s.
I would like to ask, did Pee-Wee Herman (or Paul Reubens) appear on Bergeron's Hollywood Squares at some point in the series?
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Post by vahan on Aug 2, 2023 10:58:51 GMT -5
Reubens was something of a favorite of Chuck Barris Productions. He appeared several times on The Gong Show (1976-1980), twice as Pee-wee Herman on The Dating Game (1978-1980; his Pee-wee voice was fairly different back then), and non-Barris was the recent run of To Tell the Truth, Celebrity Family Feud, and Celebrity Wheel of Fortune. There is no record of him on Bergeron Squares. The Pee-wee character made a comeback at Spike TV's "Guy's Choice Awards" in 2007.
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