I liked you straight from the start, recognizing the scope of your amusing abilities and mirthful methodology, those traits that made you a genius.
Your stage show was a hoot (childlike, though filtered through an adult's view), as was the once Saturday-morning stable, Pee-wee's Playhouse, and its fringing features, Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Big Top Pee-wee and Pee-wee's Big Holiday; along with Pee-wee's cameo in Back to the Beach and your edgy incarnations of the character for Cheech & Chong's Next Movie and Nice Dreams.
Your guest spots in other imagi-productions were as worthy of eulogy (whether you visited in person or through your distinct vocalization). The validation is evident in A Nightmare Before Christmas, Batman Returns, Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Gotham (the series), Mystery Men, Buffy the Vampire Slayer '92, Pandemonium, Faerie Tale Theater: Pinocchio, Pickle and Peanut, Pushing Daisies, Voltron: Legendary Defender, Flight of the Navigator, What We Do in the Shadows, Tron: Uprising, Dr. Doolittle '98, Tom and Jerry's Giant Adventure, Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas, Scooby-Doo! Mecha Mutt Menace and The Smurfs 1 & 2.
And let's not forget the merry and mercurial Life During War Time, Midnight Madness, Meatballs Part II, Matilda, Murphy Brown, Buddy, Dunston Checks In, Accidental Love, The Black List, Pray TV, Mosaic, The Blues Brothers and Blow.
As a further testament to your resilience, Mr. Reubens, you always held you head high, even when maligned. Hell, when compared to a particular CNN celebrity (who was let shamelessly off the hook by many of the censorious commentators who condemned you), you look like a veritable saint.
No doubt you'll summon more than a few robust laughs in the afterlife, where you now reside, rubbing elbows with your peers, the regal beau monde of venerable, high hilarity.
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