dmax wrote: 
I always thought the scene with PW and Cowboy Curtis roasting hot dogs was almost R rated with all the bizarre innuendo. I wish I could find YT video but no luck. 

 DaveInVA wrote: 

Bada boom! Please tip your waitresses and bartenders; they work hard so you don't have to! Seriously though, I think Paul Reubens is tremendously talented; Pee Wee's Big Adventure is a very good movie too!

 jagdriver wrote: 
Before I even had kids I used to watch those. Bought them all on DVD recently.

Remember Cowboy Curtis telling Pee Wee that cowboys had a dance they do when happy. Pee Wee: If you show me yours, I'll show you mine!

Or Floory telling Miss Yvonne "Stand on me, Miss Yvonne." And she gives him a sly smile but doesn't. 

 cc_rider wrote: 
He made his comeback a long time ago, though. And he's still finding a lot of success with the PWH franchise - even a broadway version. 

 DaveInVA wrote:  I read an article about the incident not long ago. Apparently the cops raided the place, and just arrested everybody in the joint, no matter what. His attorney(s) told him he should just plead no contest or whatever, and let it go without creating a media circus. He would have been better off fighting it. The cops basically had no evidence against him, they had just swept up everybody in the joint. He got railroaded.

Of course, he probably should not have been in one of 'those' places to begin with, but they are perfectly legal after all.

 jagdriver wrote: 
Then he got caught whacking off in a theater and he seemed to go downhill from there. He did ask the judge to go easy on him as he said he now had the problem well in hand...

 Manbird wrote: 
Thx

Here's one that flew under the radar...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakersfield_P.D.

This was a very short lived classic.

 cc_rider wrote: 

 Proclivities wrote:  Why bring Manbird into this?

 jagdriver wrote: 
PeeWee's alive and well. I really dig some of his posts. 

 jagdriver wrote: 

I'm going to really date myself I start mentioning shows such as Rough & Ready. But on the topic of wacky Saturday morning shows, I sure enjoyed those mornings I could sit down with my kids and be thoroughly amused by Pee-Wee's Playhouse. His refrigerator alone was worth sitting down for, never mind "today's secret word."

 

 dmax wrote: 
Loved all of those shows! Kinda explains a lot.

 Alexandra wrote: 
Yes, I only watched some of those (later) shows if it was raining outside or if I were sick.

 Proclivities wrote: 

Exactly. And about the time "Land of the Lost" was on, on Saturdays...it was time to go out and play. So I only watched about half of those episodes.

 dmax wrote: 
Yeah, I remember watching all of those shows at one time or another.  We didn't really think they were "good" shows (there was much better Saturday morning fare at different times on TV), but they were "fun".  I remember that Lidsville featured game-show denizen Charles Nelson Reilly.

 cc_rider wrote: 
There were other Krofft productions (or things that they were involved in) that were equally weird:

• Land of the Lost (1974)
• Sigmund and the Sea Monsters (1973)
• Lidsville (1971)
• The Bugaloos (1970)
• H.R. Pufnstuf (1969)
• The Banana Splits Adventure Hour (1968) - they designed the costumes, didn't produce.

 cc_rider wrote: 

I concur. There is wide speculation that the show's name originated from "stuff."  In any event, it was kind of a cool show—-I was so little I just barely remember the details. I just remember liking it.

 cc_rider wrote: 

What do you mean by "weird"?  Okay, maybe those white boots were a bit inappropriate.