Pee-wee's Playhouse

Pee-wee's Playhouse was a half-hour CBS USA TV Saturday morning "children's show" starring Pee-wee Herman (played by Paul Reubens) that aired from 1986 until 1991 and was enormously popular with both children and adults. The show returned in reruns from 1998 to 1999 on Fox Family Channel (now ABC Family). All 45 episodes (plus the Christmas Special) are now on DVD by Image Entertainment.

The Picturephone

The Picturephone was a prominent feature on the show. It was a videophone. A large booth in the shape of a woman's head was the exterior. The lips served as the double doors. Inside was a TV monitor, a tin can handset, and several levers and other controls that Pee-wee pulled and twisted, as well as lights to brighten the inside. Also, a pull-down drape was often seen; it parodied a lot of modern day artwork, such as American Gothic. In the first season, Pee-wee was the only person that could use the Picturephone, but in later seasons, characters such as Miss Yvonne, Mrs. Renee, and Cowboy Curtis used it. The interior only had one seat, but three people could get inside it, as seen on the episode "Store". Also, it seems that there's more than one Picturephone, as Pee-wee calls a very erotic-sounding phone operator that seems to have feelings for PW. Pee-wee, on occasion, engaged in some kind of phone sex with Miss Yvonne, too.

Related Topics:
Videophone - Woman - Double door - Tin can - Handset - American Gothic - Miss Yvonne - Mrs. Renee - Cowboy Curtis - Erotic - Phone sex

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The "conversations" were actually pre-recorded video films of any character that Pee-wee "called".

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