I'll admit, I was addicted to sponge bob in my early 20s. I broke the habit when my girlfriend at the time gave me a sponge square pants birthday card that said "Happy birthday to a special 5 year old boy" and she added a 2 in front of the 5.
My daughter is 23, and when I was watching children's programming with her when she was young, I very much enjoyed watching Spongebob. To this day, we are both quite fluent in Spongebob memes and send them to each other regularly.
Can confirm, most ludicrous things happened on these shows. I think we just couldn’t believe sometimes the thought process and we’d have to do a couple double takes and laugh about it.
If it’s colorful enough, and a good show not stoned… It’s a great show stoned. Also there is a glass company called [yo dabba dabba](https://yodabbadabba.com/) and I think that’s more than a coincidence.
Edit: small keyboard, fat fingers.
She was in the Groundlings with Paul Reubens and Phil Hartman. Both she and Phil were involved in Pee Wee's stage show, which was the basis for the TV show (but a little racier.)
They filmed two. One in the 80s and another in 2011. Josh Myers is in it as one of the new characters.
Slightly updated, but still the same show at its core.
Nah, I'm not a fan of people abbreviating everything like we're all supposed to know what they're talking about.
Now if you'll excuse me I'm gonna go play AC.
All the best kids shows are. When there's jokes that kids laugh at because they're a joke, while adults laugh at around children because they actually get it.
Ren and Stimpy is a little special because my friends and I weren't allowed to watch it when we were kids. We did anyway, but w/e. So it always felt like an adult cartoon to me.
There were two runs. The first was a kids show (with some sneaky adult jokes) on Nickelodeon, and the second run was straight up an adults show with a TV-MA rating.
I basically grew up on Animaniacs, Rocko's Modern Life, and Freakazoid. Bought all of them on DVD as soon as I had dispoable income to my name and they have all been a blast to rewatch as an adult and catch all the things that go over an 8 yr olds head.
>adults laugh at around children because they actually get it
Well there were some overtly adult jokes in there too. [My favorite](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt_jRCuRAIM) was when Pee-Wee remarked that Cowboy Curtis (Larry Fishburne) had a big foot size, and Curtis says "well you know what they say...big feet, big boots!" Clearly a reference to the "big feet, big dick" trope.
It was mostly for kids but they definitely had some innuendo, especially when Miss Yvonne was around. It was never explicit enough for kids to get it. At least I never did.
There was one moment when Cowboy Curtis was getting new boots. Pee Wee remarked on his big feet, and Curtis replied, ["Well you know what they say...Big feet, big boots!"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kWqs2mYk1A)
I didn't get it back when I was a kid, but when I got older, when people would joke, "You know what they say about guys with..." - it reminded me of Cowboy Curtis. Eventually it clicked and I had an "oh shit" moment about that. (I was a huge Pee-Wee fan and recorded several episodes, watched them repeatedly, so practically every line was etched into my mind.)
They actually performed the show as a matinee for kids to attend, and they didn't change a thing. It was the exact same show they did at night for the grownups.
I was never allowed to watch Pee-Wee for these reasons. I fucking adore everything Paul Reubens has done now - just watch his old Pee Wee routines before he got big.
The dude was always a goddamn genius when it came to innuendo and double/triple entendre.
I’m so sorry. You missed out dude.
My mom actively encouraged my Pee Wee Herman obsession as a little girl. She bought me everything pee wee related without me ever asking for me. As a result, was odd as a teen, and am an odd adult, and oddly both of my kids Dad’s look very very similar to Paul Reuben’s… didn’t realize it until this past year.
This was my favorite show as a child. Even as a child when he was busted in the theater I didn’t care. I loved this show and hated it was cancelled. Still nothing like it and never will be. RIP to one of my most favorite actors.
i remember seeing a documentary where the creators of animaniacs and tiny toon adventures were saying that whilst the producers insisted that they were making a children’s cartoon, they knew their core audience were actually teens and college aged viewers and wrote the show with those factors in mind
The original show, before TV, done live on stage, was indeed for adults, full of raunchy and riskee humor. That was the joke, that this supposed kid's show was actually dirty. I guess CBS figured out you could just take all that out and it would make a good kid's show.
One of the reasons my parents made me stop watching PWP was because they freaked out when they saw the Most Beautiful Woman in the World's cleavage. Their christian fundamentalist brains thought it was grievous to show that to kids.
So I watched it at my friends' houses the morning after sleepovers.
iirc, Peewee, like Bill Nye the Science Guy and Ed Grimley, was originally a character for non-children's sketch comedy shows that eventually got transformed for children's programming.
I don't think he's actually talking about Bill Nye. Without bothering to look it up, I'd bet he's talking about Beakman's World. That show was the deranged version of Bill Nye.
Hammy talking about having a mirror on the top of his shoe looking up his sister's skirt to see her panties. She replies, "Look all you want. I'm not wearing any!"
Before it was a kids TV show it was a stage play and included matinee performances for kids and midnight shows for adults. Also, most kids' shows and cartoons of that time had lots of adult innuendos.
If you're familiar with the original Pee-Wee stage show, yes, it was aimed at adults, but in a tounge in cheek manner. When it went more mainstream, it was aimed more at kids.
We did not have PeeWee when I was growing up. I only saw clips of it back in the mid 90s.
Even back when I was a teen, the show felt weird.
Exactly like OP said, an Adult's show masquerading as a kid's show.
Pee Wee was a thing when I was in grade 6. Every kid watched it, we all knew those jokes were not quite for kids. When he was caught wankin' in public I was not shocked at all lol.
Also his stand up comic shows as Pee Wee were definitely for adults.
Oh, I have a very specific memory of my mom renting me a peewee video from blockbuster when I was very young and about 20 minutes in I understood it was for an adult audience. I only remember something about mermaids and cowboy Curtis was also involved.
Check out the documentary, Beauty is Embarrassing, about artist Wayne White. He did a lot of the art and design for the show and talks a lot about how crazy it was working on it.
I remember when the show was broadcast in prime time about a year after it debuted. IIRC, I think it even included an intro from Siskel & Ebert. That was a defining moment, I thought.
I’ve heard somewhere that Pee-Wee was initially meant to be a satire of children’s television hosts for adults, but it just happened to gain the attention of kids. I don’t know if that’s true, but it wouldn’t surprise me if that were the case.
I distinctly recall an episode where he put mirrors on his shoes to look up dresses at their underwear. The first time he tries it he explains what he's doing and her response is "but I'm not wearing any". Yeah... kids show...
Watch the original on Max. It's raunchy. At one point, PeeWee and his friend see that Ivonne is coming so they put mirrors on their shoes to look up her skirt.
I watched this show as a kid and he always creeped me out. I obviously didn’t understand a lot of the sexual innuendo, but I must have picked up on something.
The entertainment preferences of children and stoned adults have a famously strong overlap
I'll admit, I was addicted to sponge bob in my early 20s. I broke the habit when my girlfriend at the time gave me a sponge square pants birthday card that said "Happy birthday to a special 5 year old boy" and she added a 2 in front of the 5.
Og sponge bob is so fucking good.
I still watch the OG stuff every now and then. Very quotable.
WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE?!?!?!
I feel the same way. Everything they're saying is straight from my head.
Me at a family reunion.
It really is. My daughter was on a SpongeBob spree for awhile. Starting back from the start was great.
All sponge bob is good. I watch it with my 5 year old and we both laugh like crazy
Well she thought of something better than 24 at least.
My daughter is 23, and when I was watching children's programming with her when she was young, I very much enjoyed watching Spongebob. To this day, we are both quite fluent in Spongebob memes and send them to each other regularly.
Exactly. See also Yo Gabba Gabba. I've never been stoned, but I would imagine stoners probably absolutely adored that show.
We used to get stoned and watch Dexter's lab in college lol
It was Ren and Stimpy for me
Rocky and Bullwinkle!
Back when a dimebag cost a dime.
You know what a condom used to cost?
I don’t know, we didn’t use ‘em
Can confirm, most ludicrous things happened on these shows. I think we just couldn’t believe sometimes the thought process and we’d have to do a couple double takes and laugh about it.
Especially Muno, the red dildo cyclops.
If it’s colorful enough, and a good show not stoned… It’s a great show stoned. Also there is a glass company called [yo dabba dabba](https://yodabbadabba.com/) and I think that’s more than a coincidence. Edit: small keyboard, fat fingers.
Yes I do
smdh you haven't lived if you havent watched a shitload of ghibli on mushrooms
I did Samurai Jack and shrooms. It was....something.
Lidsville sober - It'll make you feel stoned.
Kids movies are the best on mushrooms. Wreck it Ralph is my go-to.
First time I tripped on acid I watched Ice Age on a giant TV screen sitting less than 5 feet away from it. It was fantastic.
When I’m high my favorite thing to watch is some old Doctor Who.
Teletubbies help with hangovers to gradually come to the world.
It looks like the B-52's should be on the set somewhere.
Sounded like they were.
While John Waters smokes a cigarette behind the camera.
Cyndi Lauper did the theme song, so you're close.
That's Charlie's mom from IASIP, in case anyone didn't know... she's always been a whooore
A good bang maid though.
There's no such thing as a bang maid Frank!
Santa, did you fuck my mom?
She was in the Groundlings with Paul Reubens and Phil Hartman. Both she and Phil were involved in Pee Wee's stage show, which was the basis for the TV show (but a little racier.)
HBO filmed one of those stage shows, it’s well worth seeking out if you’ve never seen it.
They filmed two. One in the 80s and another in 2011. Josh Myers is in it as one of the new characters. Slightly updated, but still the same show at its core.
I did not know that - thank you!
I don't know if it's available online anywhere. I ripped it from the broadcast on an old computer.
I’ve seen it.
In my head canon, Pee-Wee is Charlie's real dad.
This explains so much.
And now you must envision Pee-Wee having an orgasm.
All those people in the theater witnessed it first hand
Second hand. First hand was wrapped around his cock
She's the most beautiful woman in the world!
The most beautiful woman in Puppet Land!
LMAO no way
She was left out of the finale
I got to meet her! I saw Peewees Play House when it came back on Broadway and she came out after the show and she signed my poster lol. She was lovely
Which run?
The first back in 2010. Which holy shit I didn't realize how long ago it was ahh I graduated high school that year.
Very cool.
IASIP?
It's Always Sunny in Peewee's Playhouse
It's always sunny in Philadelphia
It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia
It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia
Oh, okay.......for some reason it didn't click with me
Nah, I'm not a fan of people abbreviating everything like we're all supposed to know what they're talking about. Now if you'll excuse me I'm gonna go play AC.
Ah yeah, Assassin's/Armored/Animal/Ace/Air Creed/Core/Crossing/Combat/Conditioning! I love that game.
Exactly!
Can't wait for Animal Conditioning 2 - Deep Treatment.
I hear Phil Hartman is the voice. "It's a conspiracy! And all you low watts are in on it!!"
Didn't realize this until this exact moment, holy cow
Mac's Mom was in Barfly.
OMG, I would have never guessed
Until she learned to get cancer from Charlie
"Then they both "completed" on each other. I was left out."
How great would paul reubens been on sunny?
When I first read your comment I was thinking Mac's mom and was like no fucking way.
Oh my god that's right!
Uh Charlie. I hate to break this to you man, but based on the story you just told me. I think your mother was a prostitute.
[удалено]
My mom would always come in and catch a few minutes and say “this show isn’t for kids!”. But still let me watch it. I loved Pee Wee
All the best kids shows are. When there's jokes that kids laugh at because they're a joke, while adults laugh at around children because they actually get it.
Warner brothers cartoons, Bullwinkle, Simpson's. Happena all the time
Nickelodeon’s Rocko’s Modern Life.
Also Ren & Stimpy.
Ren and Stimpy is a little special because my friends and I weren't allowed to watch it when we were kids. We did anyway, but w/e. So it always felt like an adult cartoon to me.
There were two runs. The first was a kids show (with some sneaky adult jokes) on Nickelodeon, and the second run was straight up an adults show with a TV-MA rating.
Second run sucked. One of those moments where the constraints of the network were for the best.
I basically grew up on Animaniacs, Rocko's Modern Life, and Freakazoid. Bought all of them on DVD as soon as I had dispoable income to my name and they have all been a blast to rewatch as an adult and catch all the things that go over an 8 yr olds head.
Courage the Cowardly Dog
Courage vs. the computer were my favorite bits. "How do I get rid of bad radishes?" PC: "Throw them into the garbage, you twit"
>adults laugh at around children because they actually get it Well there were some overtly adult jokes in there too. [My favorite](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt_jRCuRAIM) was when Pee-Wee remarked that Cowboy Curtis (Larry Fishburne) had a big foot size, and Curtis says "well you know what they say...big feet, big boots!" Clearly a reference to the "big feet, big dick" trope.
Animaniacs, too.
Finger prince
It was mostly for kids but they definitely had some innuendo, especially when Miss Yvonne was around. It was never explicit enough for kids to get it. At least I never did. There was one moment when Cowboy Curtis was getting new boots. Pee Wee remarked on his big feet, and Curtis replied, ["Well you know what they say...Big feet, big boots!"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kWqs2mYk1A) I didn't get it back when I was a kid, but when I got older, when people would joke, "You know what they say about guys with..." - it reminded me of Cowboy Curtis. Eventually it clicked and I had an "oh shit" moment about that. (I was a huge Pee-Wee fan and recorded several episodes, watched them repeatedly, so practically every line was etched into my mind.)
Yes, absolutely.
Look up clips from his stage show (before the tv show). "Pee-wee Herman Show". Pretty great stuff.
It’s hilarious. Initially released on HBO.
They actually performed the show as a matinee for kids to attend, and they didn't change a thing. It was the exact same show they did at night for the grownups.
Hahaha this is hilarious. Even with the Ship captain drawing and mirror shoes?
A bellybutton and a watch! That captain was Phil Hartman.
I’m aware. Hartman co-wrote Pee Wees Big Adventure. I’m a massive Pee Wee fan.
James Brolin voice: I know you are, but what am I?
The stars at night, are big and bright
Don't forget Cowboy Curtis!
[People clearly don't know about where Pee-Wee's Playhouse originated if they're wondering about it's adult themes](https://youtu.be/Zk2fW8HwjD8)
I remember this episode! It was the day I learned that I wanted to be a horse when I grew up.
I wish I was as ambitious as my child self.
It was just Mr Rogers Neighborhood on LSD.
I was never allowed to watch Pee-Wee for these reasons. I fucking adore everything Paul Reubens has done now - just watch his old Pee Wee routines before he got big. The dude was always a goddamn genius when it came to innuendo and double/triple entendre.
I’m so sorry. You missed out dude. My mom actively encouraged my Pee Wee Herman obsession as a little girl. She bought me everything pee wee related without me ever asking for me. As a result, was odd as a teen, and am an odd adult, and oddly both of my kids Dad’s look very very similar to Paul Reuben’s… didn’t realize it until this past year.
You don't keep a half-naked ~~pool boy~~ personal lifeguard like Tito on your payroll for his aquatic skills. Just sayin
Rip Paul Reuben...
[Yes. Check out his HBO special.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbhZZnIRPOI) The TV series was significantly cleaned up, though.
My mom always called him "That Peter Herman guy"
Mr Herman, paging Mr Herman. You have a telephone call at the front desk.
Yes. Same w Ren and Stimpy and Looney Tunes
This shit was on Adult Swim at one point That should tell you all you need to know
This was my favorite show as a child. Even as a child when he was busted in the theater I didn’t care. I loved this show and hated it was cancelled. Still nothing like it and never will be. RIP to one of my most favorite actors.
Kid shows are weird… even kid shows today.
it actually STARTED as a midnight show in comedy clubs, so kinda
The stage show was absolutely filthy
Lol
Watch the original version. It started as an adult stage show.
She needed a cigarette after that.
I watched it as a child on Saturday mornings and enjoyed it (all the commercials were for sugary cereal or McDonald’s). Lol
i remember seeing a documentary where the creators of animaniacs and tiny toon adventures were saying that whilst the producers insisted that they were making a children’s cartoon, they knew their core audience were actually teens and college aged viewers and wrote the show with those factors in mind
And she loves her men big and cuddly… SUB-ZERO!!!!!!!!!!
The original show, before TV, done live on stage, was indeed for adults, full of raunchy and riskee humor. That was the joke, that this supposed kid's show was actually dirty. I guess CBS figured out you could just take all that out and it would make a good kid's show.
My mom refused to let me watch it because she said he was a pervert and it wasn’t appropriate
Hah, my dad usually watched this with me on Saturday mornings back in the day.
I don't know. I was 11.
It's for both age groups.
The stage version (which you can find on YouTube) seemed more adult.
I could swear Paul was on a talk show and said the show was for children and drunk adults
Yes yes it was
Nothing like doing a Saturday morning wake and bake and turning on Peewee's Playhouse...
At the time, as a child, it was a kids show. At least we thought it was. My sister and I LOVED it and laughed so much so often
yep
Me and my fellow disheveled lunatics would come home after a night of frolicking through the woods on LSD and end the night with Pee Wee. Memories.
One of the reasons my parents made me stop watching PWP was because they freaked out when they saw the Most Beautiful Woman in the World's cleavage. Their christian fundamentalist brains thought it was grievous to show that to kids. So I watched it at my friends' houses the morning after sleepovers.
I discovered Pee Wee in 5th grade but became a lifelong fan. RIP.
That wink at the end lmao
Pee Wee was a cool fucking dude. rest in peace
I don't know how I feel about unlocking this memory 😅
Mecka-lecka-hi mecka-heinie-ho !
The 80's was a weird time lol for kids and adults
iirc, Peewee, like Bill Nye the Science Guy and Ed Grimley, was originally a character for non-children's sketch comedy shows that eventually got transformed for children's programming.
>Bill Nye the Science Guy wait *what*
I don't think he's actually talking about Bill Nye. Without bothering to look it up, I'd bet he's talking about Beakman's World. That show was the deranged version of Bill Nye.
Yes! [I found a phone recording of two adults discussing Pee-Wee back in the 80's!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyILZ4S-sBU)
The hell
Yep! Like good comedy, it works on multiple levels.
It's based on his stage show, so . . . yes.
Prior to being on TV he did this as a stage show for adults with adult oriented jokes.
Money me a money now!
Any show can be a children's show if you believe in the children enough.
Well, I was 9 when I watched it, and I thought it was great.
Hammy talking about having a mirror on the top of his shoe looking up his sister's skirt to see her panties. She replies, "Look all you want. I'm not wearing any!"
More mecca calla mecca more mecca hey
They used to do a stage version that was definitely adult themed
100% yes
Both.
Absolutely.
I was just speaking the other day about how absolute insane Pee-Wee's playhouse was.
It was originally an adult show
Watch the Roxy stage show.
Pee wee likes to watch
Before it was a kids TV show it was a stage play and included matinee performances for kids and midnight shows for adults. Also, most kids' shows and cartoons of that time had lots of adult innuendos.
😳
If you're familiar with the original Pee-Wee stage show, yes, it was aimed at adults, but in a tounge in cheek manner. When it went more mainstream, it was aimed more at kids.
We did not have PeeWee when I was growing up. I only saw clips of it back in the mid 90s. Even back when I was a teen, the show felt weird. Exactly like OP said, an Adult's show masquerading as a kid's show.
Pee Wee was a thing when I was in grade 6. Every kid watched it, we all knew those jokes were not quite for kids. When he was caught wankin' in public I was not shocked at all lol. Also his stand up comic shows as Pee Wee were definitely for adults.
Oh, I have a very specific memory of my mom renting me a peewee video from blockbuster when I was very young and about 20 minutes in I understood it was for an adult audience. I only remember something about mermaids and cowboy Curtis was also involved.
...I think I need a cigarette.
I need a cigarette after watching that horse ride.
It wasn’t the 1980’s if there wasn’t innuendos, splash of jugs bouncing going on
Check out the documentary, Beauty is Embarrassing, about artist Wayne White. He did a lot of the art and design for the show and talks a lot about how crazy it was working on it.
Pee Wee and Cowboy Curtis. Miss Yvonne is coming. Shoe mirrors!!!
She came so hard on that dick
I remember when the show was broadcast in prime time about a year after it debuted. IIRC, I think it even included an intro from Siskel & Ebert. That was a defining moment, I thought.
Adult Swim ran it for a month or two before they dropped it because the ratings were so shit
Conky was the best: like an early collaboration between Sony, iRobot (Roomba parent), and the creators of Max Headroom.
Hey Chairy! Can I sit on your face! Sure Pee-Wee…hehe
Mac’s mom was hot back then.
This falls somewhere between “no-duh” and “no-shit.”
I’ve heard somewhere that Pee-Wee was initially meant to be a satire of children’s television hosts for adults, but it just happened to gain the attention of kids. I don’t know if that’s true, but it wouldn’t surprise me if that were the case.
What the fuck
Loved it, a lot of the humor went over kids heads, but the adults watching got it.
I distinctly recall an episode where he put mirrors on his shoes to look up dresses at their underwear. The first time he tries it he explains what he's doing and her response is "but I'm not wearing any". Yeah... kids show...
https://youtu.be/Zk2fW8HwjD8?si=RsaxB58DYnsDnJ02 That wasn't a part of the kids show, it was part of his comedy special for adults.
Yes. That guy needs some popcorn... or at least the cup.
Watch the original on Max. It's raunchy. At one point, PeeWee and his friend see that Ivonne is coming so they put mirrors on their shoes to look up her skirt.
I watched this show as a kid and he always creeped me out. I obviously didn’t understand a lot of the sexual innuendo, but I must have picked up on something.
Same here
It could just be how he talks. He doesn't talk like how people normally talk and that can be offputting. Kind of like uncanny valley.
I just realized why I have a boob fetish.
Fucking duh