Inside Pee-Wee's Playhouse


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On the 25th anniversary of the show "Pee-wee's Playhouse," the behind-the-scenes story is being told for the first time by those who experienced it. Complete with an episode guide, biographical information about the cast and key members of the show's creative team, never-before-told anecdotes, and previously unpublished photos.




Pee Wees


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A New York Times bestselling author takes a rollicking deep dive into the ultra-competitive world of youth hockey Rich Cohen, the New York Times–bestselling author of The Chicago Cubs: Story of a Curse and Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football, turns his attention to matters closer to home: his son’s elite Pee Wee hockey team and himself, a former player and a devoted hockey parent. In Pee Wees: Confessions of a Hockey Parent, Cohen takes us through a season of hard-fought competition in Fairfield County, Connecticut, an affluent suburb of New York City. Part memoir and part exploration of youth sports and the exploding popularity of American hockey, Pee Wees follows the ups and downs of the Ridgefield Bears, the twelve-year-old boys and girls on the team, and the parents watching, cheering, conniving, and cursing in the stands. It is a book about the love of the game, the love of parents for their children, and the triumphs and struggles of both.




Pee Wee Scouts: That Mushy Stuff


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Everyone knows that Roger White likes Patty Baker. Patty-cake, patty-cake, baker's man. The Pee Wee Scouts tease Roger and Patty during their Scout meeting. Mrs. Peters is their troop leader. She tells the Pee Wee Scouts how to earn badges for first aid. Then she helps them make valentines that hold messages. Secret messages. Poems. All that mushy stuff. "I want a boyfriend," says Molly Duff. "And I want a first-aid badge." Busy, busy, busy. The Scouts work on valentines and first aid. Molly works on a secret plan. Uh-oh. A certain Scout better watch out!




Pee Wee Scouts: The Pee Wee Jubilee


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The Pee Wee Scouts and their parents are off to Atlanta, Georgia, for the first-ever Pee Wee Jubilee. What does that mean? It means an airplane ride for everyone. (Sonny Betz really gets scared!) It means camping out, bonfires, sports, and crafts. It means a special new song and making friends from far away. It means Pee Wee Scouts everywhere! But, for Molly Duff, it means much more. The Jubilee is far from home. Molly feels all alone. Sometimes it's not easy to be a perfect Pee Wee.




Pee Wee Scouts: Teeny Weeny Zucchinis


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Join the Pee Wee Scouts for fun and adventure as they make friends and earn badges. It's time for the Harvest Fest. There will be rides and booths and lots of fun things to eat. Each of the Pee Wees is going to help out. They can work in the first-aid tent or at one of the booths. And some of them are going to have a stand of their own. Mary Beth is going to sell cookies made from pumpkins grown in her backyard. And Rachel and Jody are going to have a stand together telling fortunes by reading tea leaves. Molly doesn’t know what she’s going to do at the Harvest Fest, but she’s jealous of Rachel. Molly thought that Jody was her friend.




A Big Box of Memories


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Number 40 in the Pee Wee Scouts series.




A Pee Wee Christmas


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It's a special Christmas for the Pee Wee Scouts--Mrs. Peters is about to have a baby!




Pee Wee Pool Party


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Molly has to overcome her fear of water to earn her Pee Wee Scout swimming badge.




Inside Pee-wee's Playhouse


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“Gaines thoroughly explores the innerworkings of the most grownup kiddie show in TV history. Pull up a Chairry and enjoy” (Michael Musto, Village Voice). Between 1986 and 1991, a pandemic swept the nation. Symptoms included talking to furniture, checking the refrigerator for signs of life, and a desire to SCREAM REAL LOUD every time a “secret word” was spoken. For five years, Saturday morning television infect nearly ten million people a week with Pee-wee Fever. Following the twenty-fifth anniversary of Pee-wee’s Playhouse, the behind-the-scenes story of this groundbreaking, successful, and still revered children’s program is told for the first time by those who experienced it, with never-before-seen photos. Come on in and take a look Inside Pee-wee’s Playhouse. “With his inspired, lunatic Pee-wee’s Playhouse, Paul Reubens showed a generation of television viewers that it’s okay to be different. Caseen Gaines has crafted a meticulously researched look at the origin, production, and legacy of this landmark series that is every bit as educational and entertaining as the show it chronicles.” —Jeremy Kinser, senior editor, The Advocate “Caseen not only reveals the genius behind Paul Reubens’ pop culture creation, but also takes us inside Pee-wee’s Playhouse to meet the fascinating team that brought it to life.” —Noah Levy, senior news editor, In Touch Weekly “A must for any Pee-wee fan. Gaines unearths a significant moment in pop culture with the care of an archaeologist, and the vibrant humor of Pee-wee himself.” —John Ortved, author of The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History This book is not affiliated with Pee-wee’s Playhouse nor is it endorsed or approved by Paul Reubens




PEE WEE


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Volume II of PEE WEE, Serial Killer or Homicidal Maniac, focuses on the courtroom drama of his several trials and appeals. Readers that enjoy trial strategy, courtroom personalities and the cloakroom maneuvering of the criminal courts will find a plethora of intriguing twists and turns. Seemingly foregone outcomes are reversed by national events or by the local politics of the farmlands of South Carolina that stubbornly resist change. It is replete with excerpts from actual trial transcriptions and transcripts of out of court statements given under oath. Despite his numerous murder convictions Gaskins manages time and again to avoid the death penalty in real life by virtue of unexpected events that could seemingly occur only in fiction. Told by an attorney intimately involved in the cases, there are pithy descriptions of battles fought in and out of the courtroom on the one hand and on the other of the camaraderie between adversaries. Both often lead to unpredictable outcomes. Pee Wee Gaskins describes the murders to which he will plead guilty in his own words. At the same time by either omission or outright lies, he avoids the inclusion of those murders for which he does not want to admit responsibility. Finally, in one of the most incredible crimes imaginable, the tiny killer foils the safeguard systems of a maximum security penitentiary to murder a fellow death row inmate with plastic explosives.