4/30/2023 0 Comments Clockey clock peewee hermanOn Tuesday, Pee-wee will re-emerge into the spotlight with a limited engagement of “The Pee-wee Herman Show” at downtown Los Angeles’ Club Nokia. And if the high volume of Twitter chatter and blogosphere interest are any indication, Reubens’ perceived sins have been forgiven. Thanks, in part, to YouTube, goodwill toward the character never faded away. But a funny thing happened on the way to cultural oblivion. The upshot: Pee-wee went into unofficial retirement for nearly two decades. CBS unceremoniously dumped his show late-night comedians and op-ed writers feasted on his predicament and Reubens retreated from the public. That year, Reubens was busted for indecent exposure at a Florida adult movie theater. Until 1991, when everyone stopped laughing with him and Pee-wee became a national punch line. The character’s run continued with “Big Top Pee-wee” (1988) and hit its apogee with the release of his own talking doll, a kitschy toy that brays Pee-wee’s adenoidal catchphrase - “I know you are, but what am I?” His creation was a combination of unbridled silliness and surrealism, childlike naivete and hipster knowingness - a mash-up of subversiveness and magical thinking still rare in mainstream entertainment a quarter-century later. The show enjoyed cult-like popularity with grown-ups and kids alike thanks mainly to the man behind the character, Paul Reubens. The impish man-child with an outsized laugh and an undersized grey suit became an improbable icon, graduating from guest appearances on “Late Night With David Letterman” and cameos in Cheech & Chong movies to his Saturday morning children’s show, “Pee-wee’s Playhouse.” Sometimes he can be seen wearing a tank top (either white or grey).For anyone old enough to have come into pop cultural consciousness in the mid-’80s, Pee-wee Herman casts a long shadow - albeit, an almost transcendently nerdy shadow, one most often recalled dancing atop a bar to the Champs’ jaunty instrumental “Tequila” in his 1985 breakthrough movie “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure.” His athlete attire consists of a blue-and-dark-blue vertical-striped shirt, white shorts, black socks, and white sneakers with a gold necklace. Ricardo is a Hispanic-American man with wavy black hair. His first appearance was in Open House and his final appearance was in Fun, Fun, Fun. Like many of the men on the show, Yvonne had a crush on Ricardo during his time on the show. However, he became very mean and nasty around everyone as a result When Ricardo was away, he found it hard to bring himself to calm down and rest, until he got so weak and sick he had to take Ricardo's advice. Ricardo had to leave for a soccer game that afternoon, but said he would return afterward to see how Herman was doing. When Herman got ill, Ricardo recommended the manchild not exercise, play, or do anything he was used to doing in order to allow his body to rest and battle the illness. Rather than be a lifeguard this time around, Ricardo was a pro soccer player and dancer, and was also knowledgeable about keeping up good health. Ricardo (last name unknown) was a friend of Herman's, who replaced the role of Tito as Herman's athletic friend without any in-show explanation.
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