Pee-wee's Playhouse: "Playhouse for Sale"Come on in, and pull yourself up a chair (Like Chairry!) Kevin Cafferty joins us for the series finale of the hugely popular fusion of Saturday Morning kids edutainment and underground surrealist performance art, and its melancholy clip show goodbye inspired by Howdy Doody. We get into the alt-comedy and punk roots of the Pee-wee Herman character, Pee-wee mania in the 80s, the horrible ways Paul Reubens and his sexuality was handled by the media, and why this finale centers on Miss Yvonne and the playhouse puppets rather than Pee-wee himself.Check out Kevin's Podcasts:Gleaming the TubeBest Stuff in the WorldA proud part of The Glitterjaw Queer Podcast CollectiveTip us on Ko-Fi | Gimmicks WebsiteEmail:
[email protected] | Bluesky | InstagramTheme song: "Disco Tears" by Raven | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0Sources: Inside Pee-wee’s Playhouse: The Untold, Unauthorized, and Unpredictable Story of a Pop Phenomenon (2012) by Caseen GainesPee-wee as Himself (2025) a documentary by Matt WolfNo Trick, Just a Treat (2021) by Chris Azzopardi for Philadelphia Gay NewsCritics Notebook: ‘Pee-wee’s Playhouse redux: Bonus talk with Paul Reubens” by Robert Lloyd for the LA TimesAlison Mork - Under the Puppet #91Kevin Carlson - Under the Puppet #9