PEE-WEE'S PLAYHOUSE: STORE (TV)
Summary
One in this series of children's programs starring madcap host Pee-wee Herman, featuring animation, puppets, and vintage cartoons. In this episode, Mrs. Rene takes Pee-Wee's exercise belt for a spin, and Corky 2000 reveals the secret word: "more." Pee-Wee prepares a snack, frozen fruit cubes, by pouring various flavors of juice into an ice cube tray and allowing it to freeze. Cowboy Curtis stops by with an addition to Pee-Wee's rubber-band ball, and they jump into Magic Screen and ride a hand car down a train track, narrowly avoiding the train as it speeds out of a tunnel. Reba the mailwoman arrives, and though she is skeptical of their recent adventure, she soon finds herself dodging the train as well when she jumps into Magic Screen. Reba gives Pee-Wee some pen-pal letters, including a message from Olivia in Australia which includes a boomerang.
Next, in the "Penny" cartoon, Penny ponders life with a twin sister. Curtis plays a song on his guitar, and when Miss Yvonne stops by, she and Curtis pretend to be a married couple browsing through Pee-Wee's department store. They learn that the store is having a furniture sale, and quickly decide to buy Chairry for the low price of "a million billion dollars." The King of Cartoons arrives and introduces a short feature about a music recording session, and Pee-Wee retrieves the now-frozen fruit cubes and shares them with his friends. Commercials deleted.
Details
- NETWORK: CBS
- DATE: November 30, 1999 10:00 AM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:24:56
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: B:14513
- GENRE: Comedy
- SUBJECT HEADING: African-American Collection - Comedy; Comedy; Children's programs
- SERIES RUN: CBS - TV series, 1986-1990
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Paul Reubens … Executive Producer, Director, Created by, Writer, Theme Music by
- Steve Binder … Producer
- Prudence Fenton … Animation & Effects Producer
- Andrea Miller … Associate Producer
- Wayne Orr … Director
- Max Robert … Writer
- George McGrath … Writer, Theme Music by
- Mark Mothersbaugh … Music by
- Kevin Carlson … Cast, Clockey / Conky / Floory
- Larry Fishburne (see also: Laurence Fishburne) … Cast, Cowboy Curtis
- Ric Heitzman … Cast, Cool Cat / Mr. Window / Flower
- Suzanne Kent … Cast, Mrs. Rene
- William Marshall … Cast, King of Cartoons
- George Michael McGrath … Cast, Fish / Flower / Globey / Pterri
- S. Epatha Merkerson … Cast, Reba
- Alison Mork … Cast, Chairry / Chicky Baby Flower / Magic Screen
- Lynne Stewart … Cast, Miss Yvonne
- Wayne White … Cast, Dirty Dog / Flower
- Pee Wee Herman (see also: Paul Reubens) … Cast, Himself
- For "Refrigerator":
- Tony Themblay … Director
- For "Penny":
- Craig Bartlett … Director
- Tom Gasek … Director
- For "Dinosaurs":
- Kevin Dole … Director
- For "Paintbox":
- Ric Heitzman … Director
- For "Ants":
- Tom McLaughlin … Director