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An homage to the colorful, boisterous, surreal, absurd, and completely delightful television show that the late Paul Reubens created, and through which he shaped generations.
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/GettyThe influence of Pee-wee Herman—née Paul Reubens—can’t be understated. And in the wake of Reubens’ passing on Sunday night, at the age of 70, it’s an appropriate, if saddening, time to emphatically remind everyone of it. While Reubens’ and Pee-wee’s ubiquity waned following the character’s late-’80s and early-’90s heights, the impact that they left reverberates today in all matters of subversively sweet, cross-generational comedy.Originat