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Paul Reubens has died
- el_don_almighty 3y agoHe was an oddball, but he was my kind of odd and I will miss him. The world seems strangely less friendly without him TO this day, my kids don't pass a truck without checking for Large Marge!
- TheIronMark 3y agoMan, that Large Marge scene scared the bejesus out of me as a kid.
- ericzawo 3y agoMe too! Still think about it decades later.
- kaycebasques 3y ago> Pee-wee Herman has died Title should be updated. His name is Paul Reubens. Pee-Wee Herman was a character he played.
- TaylorAlexander 3y agoAgreed!
- pathartl 3y agoAgreed, I'll always know him as The Spleen
- thesuperbigfrog 3y agoThe voice of Max: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_of_the_Navigator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_of_the_Navigator
- tanseydavid 3y ago"The Hamburger Dude" from Cheech & Chong's Nice Dreams was my first exposure to Paul Reubens. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff-DqTerrnw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff-DqTerrnw RIP Paul
- kcplate 3y agoSame, literally for 42 years I have been using “I bid you shalom” and “Unhand me!” thanks to the man.
- freedomben 3y agoI would bet most people won't have any idea who that is. I would maybe do something like "Pee-wee Herman actor Paul Reubens has died"
- eesmith 3y agoOr like the title of the linked-to page: "Paul Reubens, Pee-wee Herman Actor, Dies at 70 After Private Bout of Cancer".
- kaycebasques 3y agoSorry, forgot to add a concrete suggestion. Yes, the title should mention both his real name and the character name that he is most famous for.
- wpietri 3y agoFor those wanting more, here's the character: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pee-wee_Herman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pee-wee_Herman And here's the actor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Reubens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Reubens
- bastardoperator 3y agoMeka Leka Hi Meka Hiney Ho
- mattw2121 3y agoPee-wee: Come on, Dottie. Let's go. Dottie: Let's go? Don't you wanna see the rest of the movie? Pee-wee: I don't have to see it, Dottie. I lived it.
- bdcravens 3y agoFunny enough I've had the "Connect the Dots" song earbugging me for weeks
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- jeffwass 3y agoNow it can be PeeWee’s ghost who gives Large Marge a ride. RIP Paul, thanks for all the laughs!
- sys32768 3y agoOne of my favorite Pee Wee scenes is the "Amish balloon" scene from his 2016 Netflix movie Pee Wee's Big Holiday. Like Pee Wee, it is funny, absurd, annoying, unique, and endearing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIKHgpnylc8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIKHgpnylc8
- renewiltord 3y agoWow this actor's Wikipedia page is something. It makes me wonder what happens to all those digital archivist folks. There's a bunch of them who indiscriminately collect data and put it on hard disks. Inevitably there's going to be stuff there that's not palatable. I wonder what happens if they're ever discovered.
- SoftTalker 3y agoOnce someone is dead, I don't think slander/libel laws apply, if that's what you're getting at.
- dotBen 3y ago[flagged]
- lallysingh 3y agoI'm not sure it was a famous people thing - the dismissed charge was a misdemeanor. That seems like something in-scope for many deals with non-famous people.
- retrocryptid 3y agoWhich is why it was mentioned in the article. It's also entirely possible you missed the whole story.
- TheDudeMan 3y agoIt was a huge story back in the day. Huge. He didn't get away with anything.
- esaym 3y agoMy memory is fuzzy but I believe he was a collector of nude art. Nude children were found in some boxes of this art. But there were boxes and boxes, to the point he didn't know what he had and hadn't looked at most of it.
- bb88 3y agoIt's also worth noting that people change, and it was nearly 20 years ago. Also: if the prosecution had a solid child pornography case they wouldn't have plead it out to obscenity with a $100 fine. Also: the prosecution had to be okay with the obscenity charge getting expunged. So AFAICT, he served his pennance for the crime and it was expunged from his record. If the courts feel like the criminal record should be expunged, perhaps a better question is why don't you?
- tootie 3y agoMy favorite Pee-wee trivia which may be apocryphal is that Pee-wee's Big Adventure was an adaptation of Ladri di Biciclette.
- lordfrito 3y agoThe story I heard was that Rubens was originally developing a script around Pee-Wee as a Pollyanna type character. He was walking across the studio backlot and noticed a lot of people use bicycles to get around the lot. He requested his own bike, and the studio gave him an old (40s?) Schwinn which he just fell in love with. He realized Pee-Wee would too, and it became the MacGuffin for a new script. The original Pollyanna script was eventually developed into the sequel Big Top Pee-Wee.
- mstudio 3y ago"You don't wanna get mixed up with a guy like me. I'm a loner, Dottie. A rebel." Almost 40 years later, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure is still one of my favorite movies.
- dan_quixote 3y agoGive it another watch. I did recently and was surprised how funny it still is. It's rather timeless, mostly innocent, absurdist humor that still makes me laugh.
- gremlinsinc 3y agoI watched it w/ my toddlers after the netflix movie came out. The new one wasn't too memorable for me, but Big Adventure and Big Top Peewee still hold up after 30 years.
- Findecanor 3y agoOne role people don't know him much for that I'm sure you've heard was the voice of the pilot droid in both incarnations of the Star Wars - Star Tours ride in Disney parks around the world. He reprised the role in an episode of Star Wars Rebels later, and the droid is now a DJ in the Galaxy's Edge cantina.
- RyanAdamas 3y agoSo wait, did we ever figure out what the Secret Word actually was??
- ucirello 3y agoFinally found out who he is. I knew him from: https://wiki.animutationportal.com/Hyakugojyuuichi https://wiki.animutationportal.com/Hyakugojyuuichi
- artur_makly 3y agoHe made my childhood worth living right. https://youtu.be/y8dHJrEig5k https://youtu.be/y8dHJrEig5k