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Little parts of the film that make you laugh.

posted 14 years ago by BethH24
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I crack up laughing when Twisted Sister are performing " Burn in Hell ", and it shows the man dressed as Father Christmas/Santa Claus and the dinosaur on the sleigh, chasing after Pee Wee, and the dinosaur falls off the sleigh !. I don't know why , but there's something funny about a Father Christmas/Santa Claus being there while a band are performing a song about burning in hell lol ! xD. And the way the dinosaur falls is funny. It's also funny when Pee Wee says " how ya doin ? " , as he rides past the band on his bike. And the part just after that makes me laugh, when Pee Wee does a " Tarzan " noise, as he swings across the water, and then the guy who is chasing him also does a " Tarzan " noise, and falls into the water !!. Does anyone else find those parts funny ?.

Also, i used to find the Large Marge scene scary when i was little ( when her face changes ) but now i think it's hilarious !!.

[–] bsharporflat 14 years ago

Yes, the Twisted Sister part was funny. I like the sissy-voice super hero and the low voiced maiden, myself. I like the Hollywood version of PeeWee's story also.

[–] suomi7777 11 years ago

fyi, sissy voice super hero is also jombi(jambi?) from pee-wee's playhouse

"...Hey, at least now we know when the next train was due"

[–] cool302 14 years ago

the i know what you are but what am i scene that always makes me laugh!

[–] m-blmz 14 years ago

Haha, I love that story...

[–] kimisan 14 years ago

I think one of the most unintentionally funny parts of the movie is when Simone and PeeWee are watching the sunrise and Simone is talking about dreams. She says, "No, not that kind of dream. I mean a dream you dream about all the time. It keeps you going, dreaming about it." Then her voice drops like FIVE OCTAVES and she says "Did you ever have a dream like that?" Sometimes my parents and I will call each other on the phone and make our voices super-manly and say that line!

And I know Pee Wee's cameo in his "movie" with James Brolin is supposed to be bad, but I laugh so hard when he says "P.W. Herman" and then keeps moving his lips because it's so obviously dubbed. Hilarious!

[–] Brandon Hall 14 years ago

I love that little sound Pee-wee makes when he knocks over the line of motorcycles at the biker bar.

I know you are, but what am I?

[–] BethH24 14 years ago

I just had to post a link to the Twisted Sister scene xD. Here it is http://youtu.be/hUsafOL0kew . It's a shame that the part with the Tarzan noises isn't on that clip, as that part is straight after the Twisted Sister part .

I agree about the part where Simone's voice goes lower when she is talking about dreams with Pee Wee, and Pee Wee's cameo in the film about his life, and about the little sound Pee Wee makes when he knocks the motorbikes over, and about the part with the super hero and maiden's voices.

Another part that makes me laugh is when Pee Wee is dressed as a woman xD. The " Tequila " scene is funny and brilliant too !.

[–] bing-57 11 years ago

> and then keeps moving his lips because it's so obviously dubbed.

Actually, I think he's moving his lips because he is reading the cue cards for the other actors. He is doing everything wrong that extras in a movie are told not to do. He keeps staring at and glancing into to camera and he shuffles his way into the background of the scenes. And, of course, he mouths the dialogue of the other actors.

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What Would Jesus Do For A Klondike Bar (WWJDFAKB)?

[–] HellboundHero 9 years ago

That reminded me of the stories about Will Smith memorizing the scripts on the Fresh Prince of Bel Air and then mouthing his co-stars' lines so he'd know when it was his turn to speak.

[–] stevenackerman69 14 years ago

I like the way Pee Wee storms up to Francis' house and knocks on the door in a weird way and waits to be let in. I did that in high school a year after this film came out when I had to drop off something for my math teacher.

[–] Haaken78 14 years ago

HA! I still knock on doors like that sometimes. BANG BANG BANG BANG taptaptaptaptap.

[–] [email protected] 14 years ago

I just like how the soundtrack is playing this furious, Stravinsky 'Rite of Spring'-style music as Pee-Wee pounds on the door with that matchstick arm of his!
I saw this in the theater when it came out - the audience was really into it, people shouting "GET'im, Pee-Wee!" during this scene.

[–] nikkalas_cage 14 years ago

I laugh at the Pee-Wee/Mickey scene in the car when Pee-Wee says life is unfair and Micky barks at him "YOU TELLING ME??", and the way Pee-Wee looks at him cracks me up

Also when he drives the car off the cliff and as soon as it hits the ground Micky immediately kicks him out
*crash*
"OUT!!!"

[–] orizano 13 years ago

"Yes sir, that was the worst accident I ever seen".

Large Marge cracked me up...

"Remember me, Mr. Schneider? Kenya, 1947."

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[–] pensivewon 13 years ago

"IS THIS SOMETHING YOU CAN SHARE WITH THE REST OF US AMAZING LARRY!"

[–] noone1647 13 years ago

"I say we let him go"

[–] dkgambler 13 years ago

In addition to most of what's been written already, I like the bit when Pee Wee calls Dottie after he craps out at the Alamo and he proves to her he's in Texas by baiting the crowd to sing "deep in the heart of Texas!" followed by his goofy laugh.

[–] pinki3000-140-321411 13 years ago

LIST OF "PWBA" SILLY SCENES:

1.) Pee Wee, Mr. Breakfast & "Mr. T" cereal...Speck being cute.
2.) Pee Wee & Francis' big morning bike argument.
3.) Pee Wee's bike spill "I meant to do that".
4.) Mario & the 3 fake heads (whips out giant Alistair Crowley head *BWWHAHAHAAA!*).
5.) Pee Wee discovers the theft, staggers into Chuck's Bike Shop, "DOTTIE! *WHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNKKKK!*"...faints & knocks over the row of bikes.
6.) Pee Wee & Francis' bathtub battle. Starts off subdued & normal with the Police Woman (the line about the Soviets was funny). Then suddenly, it dawns on him, "FRANCIS!"...The whole deal, the music, the knocking, Oddjob, the swimming pool-like tub, Francis' fat wet pink carcass sliding around, Oddjob's spill, the trick gum....GREAT SCENE!
7.) EVERYTHING in Pee Wee's big "Evidence Meeting". Pee Wee going insane...3 hours of pure pointlessness...Amazing Larry...The bike horn...(Pee Wee)"...Jupiter was aligned with Pluto! The Moon was in the Seventh...."(Chuck)"PEE WEE!!!"...the bit about the pen...Speck being cute.
8.)Pee Wee hitch-hiking. The fake thumb...the long passing of time...Pee Wee asleep, sprawled like a corpse, the drivers still passing by.
9.) Anything involving Mickey. Mickey B.S. cover story involving mattress tags...Oogling Pee Wee in drag...falling off the cliff ("AUUUUGGGHHH!" *thud* "OUT!")...(later, at the end of the movie)The footlong hot dog.
10.) Pee Wee in the dark...cartoon eyeball effect...surrounded by every beast on the planet.
11.) Large Marge, nuff said! Funniest part of the movie! When the old trucker begins repeating the story (back in the day, I was like, "What? You gonna morph into a bug-eyed monster, too?!")...and what kind of truck stop/diner erects an elaborate, gothic, tombstone-like, candle-filled memorial like that?
12.)(Pee Wee)"I'm all alone...I'm rolling a big doughnut...there's a snake wearing a vest..." (Simone)"No! Not that kind of dream!...". Pee Wee has some weird dreams.
13.) Andy chasing Pee Wee.
14.) Pee Wee & Jack the old hobo, singing folk songs...and Pee Wee getting sick of it...especially, (Jack)"...JIMMY CRACK CORN & I DON'T CAAAAARRREEE!!!..." (Pee Wee)"AAAAAAAAUUUUUUGGGHHHHH!" *flies off the train car*
15.) The Alamo Tour & Pee Wee's impatient, eye-rolling expression, the over-enthusiastic gentleman next to him & "thousands of uses for corn...ALL of which I'll explain to you, right now!" (The 'Evidence Meeting's' a cake walk next to THAT!).
16.) More of Andy...The Rodeo...Texans are weirdos.
17.) The whole Biker Bar scene..."I'M TRYING TO USE THE PHONE!"...the weird, pirate-like biker "...then we'll hang him...then we'll kill him!"...TEQUILA!...The Bike Crash.
18.) The Movie Studio...The girl-voice armored space warrior (awesome costume, by the way) & the man-voiced Vegas Showgirl (who's too ugly to be one, IMHO)..."FOLLOW THAT NUN!"...The cops are buffoons...Santa, Godzilla (bug-eyed), A Beach Party & Twisted Sister getting caught up in the chase...Tarzan-style swinging...and Warner Brothers, a modern, respected, big-name studio, apparently still makes movies like it's 1925 (only with sound)...What's Toho Studios doing there?!!!..."GERONIMMMMOOOO!"...Adorable child goes "RADICAL", Pee Wee gives a "Thumbs Up", so cute!
19.) The Pet Shop Fire...The pink puppy...The chimp...The snakes (and Pee Wee's reaction to them).
20.) Pee Wee's movie, a "Secret Agent Flick" that's NOTHING like real life!..."Merci Bleh Bleh"...Pink Puppy is now Speck's girlfriend (*squee*), Speck's still being cute...Mickey's Footlong...Pee Wee's bike launches Francis into the stratosphere!

I LOVE THIS FILM!

[–] MVainn 13 years ago

Pee Wee hustling his way into the studio by laughing extra loud at one of the big wig's jokes.