In 2014 one of the original bikes from Peewee’s Big Adventure was put up for auction on eBay. The seller was hoping to get around fifteen grand for the red bicycle but ended up with $36,600 dollars in his digital pocket.
Jambi’s Iconic Catchphrase Was Jibberish
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John Paragon who played Jambi the floating head fortune teller in Pee-wee’s Playhouse disclosed on a Pee-wee’s Playhouse Blu-ray collection that he completely made up “mekka lekka hi mekka hiney ho. Mekka lekka hi mekka chany ho.” He went on to say, “So I’m in The Groundlings and we’re doing a sketch and it’s customers in a Hawaiian restaurant and I’m wearing a Hawaiian shirt and doing Hawaiian gibberish. So that’s where that line came from. It was supposed to be bad Hawaiian.”
Pee-wee’s Big Adventure Was Danny Elfman’s First Feature Film Score
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Tim Burton approached Danny Elfman about scoring the movie after seeing his band Oingo Boingo play. Elfman was very hesitant about joining the film as he had never scored anything before. Elfman told Rolling Stone, “He showed me scenes from the movie and I recorded a piece and sent in a cassette. I never expected to hear from them again. About two weeks later, I got a call saying, ‘You got the job.’ My first reaction to my manager was to call him and tell him I can’t do it. He goes, ‘I’ve been working on this for two weeks. You call and tell them you can’t do it.’ I slept on it and decided the single piece of anything that’s guided my entire life was saying, ‘F*ck it.’ Like, ‘I hope I don’t wreck their movie.’”
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