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Long ago, I noticed in the first two episodes of Pee-wee's Playhouse, each of the supporting humans gets a scene throughout the episode, and then most of them come back for the final scene (I guess in the second episode they're back a little bit longer at the end). Then the fourht episode is a little reversed, with most of the humans together at the beginning (or perhaps it's more accurate to say they're in the middle of the episode), and then a few of them get their own scene later in the episode.
Recently I saw both The Pee-wee Herman Show and Pee-wee's Big Adventure for the first time, and I noticed it's similar in those two as well. So The Pee-wee Herman Show has many scenes throughout with Jambi, Captain Carl, Miss Yvonne, and Mailman Mike, with the rest mainly getting one scene (Hammy does make a brief return before Pee-wee shouts at him to leave), and then all of them except for Hammy's sister Susan (and Joan, the member of the audience to take part in Pee-wee's hypnotism act), get back together for the final scene. I wonder why Susan only got one scene (I wondered if maybe she did one of the puppets, but according to IMDB that's not the case). Of course that is a live stage show, those tend to keep their actors involved throughout the show, and that was less puppet-focused than Pee-wee's Playhouse would be.
Then in Pee-wee's Big Adventure, most of the characters get just one scene, and then most of them return at the end when the events become a movie. Dottie, Francis, and the characters in Pee-wee's home town get more to do (especially before he starts his trip), I guess with it being a road trip movie there's not much that can be done with the people Pee-wee meets on the road (unless they were to continue traveling with him).
The Cheech and Chong movies seem to be like that a little as well. They don't really have a big finale with the whole cast back, but most of the supporting characters - which in some movies do include Paul Reubens and other future Pee-wee cast members - tend to get just one or two scenes, with the movies having more of a random events plot (well, the Pee-wee stuff often seems like that as well). I know those films were just lightly scripted and relied more on actors with strong improv skills, primarily taking comics from The Groundlings.
Recently I saw both The Pee-wee Herman Show and Pee-wee's Big Adventure for the first time, and I noticed it's similar in those two as well. So The Pee-wee Herman Show has many scenes throughout with Jambi, Captain Carl, Miss Yvonne, and Mailman Mike, with the rest mainly getting one scene (Hammy does make a brief return before Pee-wee shouts at him to leave), and then all of them except for Hammy's sister Susan (and Joan, the member of the audience to take part in Pee-wee's hypnotism act), get back together for the final scene. I wonder why Susan only got one scene (I wondered if maybe she did one of the puppets, but according to IMDB that's not the case). Of course that is a live stage show, those tend to keep their actors involved throughout the show, and that was less puppet-focused than Pee-wee's Playhouse would be.
Then in Pee-wee's Big Adventure, most of the characters get just one scene, and then most of them return at the end when the events become a movie. Dottie, Francis, and the characters in Pee-wee's home town get more to do (especially before he starts his trip), I guess with it being a road trip movie there's not much that can be done with the people Pee-wee meets on the road (unless they were to continue traveling with him).
The Cheech and Chong movies seem to be like that a little as well. They don't really have a big finale with the whole cast back, but most of the supporting characters - which in some movies do include Paul Reubens and other future Pee-wee cast members - tend to get just one or two scenes, with the movies having more of a random events plot (well, the Pee-wee stuff often seems like that as well). I know those films were just lightly scripted and relied more on actors with strong improv skills, primarily taking comics from The Groundlings.
