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    Pee-Wee’s Playhouse

    Since I’ve had a weekend to myself, I’ve been revisiting nostalgia. Here’s my observations. Dixie is way frickin’ hot. I don’t know how I didn’t see it when I was a kid. King Cartoon is high all the time. He’s got to be. He talks like slowed-down Neil DeGrasse Tyson. His eyes are always half-closed. He’s obsessed with old Max Fleischer cartoons. And he thinks his taxi driver is his royal herald and coachwoman. He seems like an old blues musician who smoked reefer. There was some amazing stop motion in this. Like a lot. I’m surprised how much Will Vinton was able to produce. Between Pee-Wee’s “toys” and Sid’s…