Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special
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English - December 21, 2018 05:21 - 1 hour - 75.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsTV Reviews TV & Film christmas holidays holiday specials christmas specials christmas commercials classic tv advent calendar christmas tv Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Tune in as we celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special the only way we know how: With lots of screaming, lots of fruitcake, and lots more screaming.
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🎙 Guests:Erin Evans (@mserinmevans).
Lindy Kempe (@ieatvideogames).
Joey O. (Y-Not Radio, Words with Nerds, @ImGonnaDJ24).
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💬 Topics & Tangents:1. Magic Johnson recorded his segment hours before playing in — and winning — a Lakers game. We don’t know the precise date, but one win was against the SuperSonics, possibly (but probably not) on Ice Cube’s “Good Day.”
2. One commercial break includes a bizarre Pringles commercial starring a young Brad Pitt.
4. When did fruitcake become a punchline? Christmas Past has something of an answer. Or is fruitcake a byproduct of the Joys of Jell-O era?
5. A mini ode to the Picture Phone, a giant, stationary Skype machine.
6. The working script and storyboards for this special.
7. Who mailed Grace Jones to the Reagan White House?
8. Pee-wee performing Surfin’ Bird in Back to the Beach.
9. The King of Cartoons’ cartoon: 1936’s Christmas Comes But Once a Year.
10. My feelings about snow mirror this one, particular Calvin and Hobbes comic strip, published 5 days after this special aired.
12. The awkward moment when we realize the Dinosaur Family has a pet dinosaur.
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“Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special” © 1988 Paul Reubens.
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Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.
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