Pee Wee's coming! Pee Wee's coming! Yeah!

The Playhouse is open again. The 1988-1991 series of Paul Rubens alter-ego Pee Wee Herman is joining Cartoon Network's Adult Swim line-up this summer. It will be broadcast Mondays through Thursdays at 11pm starting July 10th. They have the broadcast rights to all 44 episodes as well as Pee Wee's Christmas Special.

I am so excited about this - I haven't seen most of these episodes in 15 years... this series definitely had quite a few "before they were famous" actors. Look for Natasha Lyonne as Opal, Laurence Fishburne as Cowboy Curtis, Phil Hartman as Captain Carl and S Epatha Merkerson as the Mail Lady, Reba.

Here's some great Pee Wee's Playhouse trivia:

• The theme song was sung by Cyndi Lauper, but is listed in the credits by her real name, Ellen Shaw.
• The concept for the show actually came from Andy Kaufman with his co-writer Bob Zmuda, who dubbed it "Andy's Funhouse". It was based of Kaufman's experiences doing children's birthday parties and performing for children. But he developed lung cancer and was unable to do the show. Before Kaufman's death, Reubens got permission from Kaufman to do it himself.
• Rob Zombie was a production assistant on the show.

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