Bye Bye Pee-Wee

The day that TV died was seventeen years ago today.   It was on July 26 1991 that Paul Reubens was arrested in the South Trail XXX Cinema in Sarasota, Florida.  From that day forward there would be no more Pee-wee’s Playhouse shows on Saturday mornings.  No more Magic Screen or Reba the Mail Lady.  No more Chairry and no more Conky.   Prurient cops with nothing better to do stripped us of our innocent weekend pleasures.   It just hasn’t been the same since.