Pee-Wee's Big Comeback: 18 Years After a Fall, Paul Reubens Returns

Kevin Scanlon
L.A. Weekly | January 22, 2010
Pee-wee Herman is a fey and infantile parody of an awkward child circa 1961, even though the movie Pee-wee’s Big Adventure is set in the 1980s. When called names by the neighborhood bully, he chirps back, “I know you are, but what am I?”

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