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Wednesday 7 December 2011

Pee-wee's Christmas Special (1988)

I can't get that opening tune out of my head.

Here's your typical television Christmas special gone right. Featuring an array of special guest stars including Cher, Little Richard, Magic Johnson, Joan Rivers, k.d. lang and Zsa Zsa Gabor, it's a perfect snapshot of the 1980s. Full of Pee-wee's trademark imagination and some really weird innuendo (Floory asking Miss Yvonne to "stand over him" and an unexplained shirtless construction worker), it stands the test of time despite all the dated appearances. I shared this with my cousin a few years back and it still had the same impact on him as it did on me when I was a kid.

4 Christmas fruitcakes out of 5
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9 comments:

  1. cuckoo7 December 2011 at 04:58

    :shock: I haven't seen this since I was a wee lad.

    I always loved this one too.

    Jon's family was great.

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  2. cuckoo7 December 2011 at 04:59

    Wrong one. :p

    :rofldata:

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  3. budarc7 December 2011 at 06:25

    You know you can delete comments, right? ;)

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  4. cuckoo7 December 2011 at 06:27

    Yeah.

    ...but it's funnier this way and wastes more space. :D

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  5. budarc7 December 2011 at 06:30

    In that case...

    Waste we shall.

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  6. Dr Faustus12 December 2011 at 22:12

    I didn't get the emails about these wasteful comments. Did you guys?

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  7. cuckoo12 December 2011 at 22:13

    I don't remember.

    6 days ago.

    My brain doesn't go that far anymore.

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  8. cuckoo12 December 2011 at 22:15

    Just checked my sexy trash bin.

    Yes. Yes, I did.

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  9. Dr Faustus12 December 2011 at 22:20

    I must have done, then. They maybe crept past me while I was busy... er... polishing my collection of brass nipples.

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