So I just happened to catch the new re-runnings of Pee Wee’s Playhouse on Adult Swim, and I have to say that I enjoyed it. Pretty creative entertainment for children… I think it could even hold up to todays ever shortening attention spans. Its amazing the little snippets you can remember from your childhood. I probably haven’t seen nor even thought about that show in what at LEAST 15 years, and yet I still recognize all of the characters, and the zany things that ol’ man Herman does.
One of the ladies on the current Law and Order show (S. Epatha Merkerson) was just a young actor at the time, and played the post-ladie who, in this episode, was forced to eat an imaginary breakfast with all the gang. There are so many psychedelic visuals and references in this show; its quite amazing. Inside the fridge there were a bunch of hippie food characters all protesting their own demise (eggs with signs that say “stop poaching”) or some Hendrix-esque guitar playing eggplant or something. Anyway it was crazy, and a definite welcome to my late night entertainments.