Many of us grew up on Warner Bros. cartoons that contained a lot of sexual innuendo, but that was because they were written for adults, back in the days when all ages watched the same movies and animation wasn't specifically aimed at kids. Pee-wee's Playhouse, on the other hand, was a Saturday morning show written for children. However, Paul Reubens, the artist behind Pee-wee, wasn't above some suggestive double entendres, which flew over the heads of little children, but delighted their parents and other adults.
These jokes walked a fine line, since Pee-wee's Playhouse avidly promoted good behavior such as friendship and sharing, but also acknowledged the silly side of life. When Pee-wee or the other characters "went there," they had a thick layer of plausible deniability for anyone who might complain, but if you knew what they were alluding to, you just knew. The exceptions are a couple of instances of Pee-wee looking up someone's dress, which all children of the 80s knew was just naughty enough to be funny. Don't expect anything shocking in a list of eight Pee-wee's Playhouse scenes that could be classified as dirty jokes, but you will be impressed by their cleverness in being something that could be blamed on your dirty mind instead of the writers having a good time.
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