| Series Name | |
| Season 4, Episode 8 | |
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| Air date | November 4, 1989 |
| Written by | John Paragon |
| Directed by | John Paragon & Paul Reubens |
| Episode Guide | |
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Chairry-Tee Drive is the 8th episode of Pee-Wee's Playhouse season 4.
Episode Plot[]
As the episode opens, Pee-Wee is painting a picture in the style of Pablo Picasso. Mrs. Rene comes over and falls in love with the painting, so Pee-Wee lets Mrs. Rene have it. She accidentally hugs it, and the painting gets printed on her shirt. However, she doesn't seem to mind, and loves what she did to her shirt, and goes to show it off.
Later, Cowntess comes over and tells Pee-wee that he hasn't returned her pencil sharpener—he had borrowed it four years before the start of the series. Pee-wee looks everywhere for the pencil sharpener and finds an old suit that he wore when he was a child (meaning that he's actually a childlike man today), and decides to have a clothing drive. Everyone donates their old clothes, but soon, Pee-Wee remembers the Cowntess's pencil sharpener!
Pee-Wee and friends look for the pencil sharpener everywhere, but can't find it, so Pee-wee has to find the courage to tell Cowntess the terrible news. Fortunately, Cowntess cheers Pee-wee up by letting him know her pencil sharpener was in her barn all along; she then asks Pee-wee to forgive her, and he does, saying if she hadn't lost her pencil sharpener, he wouldn't have gotten the idea to donate some of his old clothes to charity. Cowntess then admits how true Pee-wee's statement is.
Characters[]
- Pee Wee Herman
- Mrs. Rene
- Chairry
- Dog Chair
- Conky
- Globey
- Chandelier (cameo)
- Ants
- Magic Screen
- Floory
- Flowers
- Cowntess
- Randy
- Fish
- Pterri
- Mr. Kite (cameo)
- Clocky
- Penny
- Jambi (mentioned; imitated by Pee-wee)
- Miss Yvonne (mentioned)
- Reba (mentioned)
- Ricardo
- Cowboy Curtis
- Mr. Window
- The Food from the Refrigerator
- Dirty Dog (cameo)
- Cool Cat (cameo)
- Chicky Baby (cameo)
Trivia[]
- Mrs. Rene, Ricardo, and Cowboy Curtis visit in this episode.
- Penny is shown in this episode.
- The title of this episode is a play on "charity drive".
- This is the second time that Pee-wee's iconic suits are referred to as "Pee-wee suits". The first time was in Dr. Pee Wee and the Del Rubios.
- The song that Pee-wee dances in Cowntess's shoes is "Fever" by Peggy Lee.
- Brandon Todd Barrad played Pee-wee as a young boy.
- A new Playhouse set was constructed just for this flashback, depicting the Playhouse as how it would have looked in the black-and-white days of shows like Howdy Doody and The Pinky Lee Show. This seems to suggest (rather strongly) that Pee-wee inherited the Playhouse.
- This episode's events take place in May of 1990, as mentioned by Dirty Dog in Playhouse for Sale.
- Reba is mentioned in this episode; she donates a dashiki offscreen.
- Miss Yvonne is mentioned in this episode; she donates a pair of pink hotpants (which were commonly associated with the sex industry by the mid-1970s, which contributed to their fall from fashion). As a joke on the name, Pee-wee pretends they are hot (as in the temperature) while the sounds of grease boiling in a frying pan is heard).
- Mrs. Rene puts her shirt worn at the episode's beginning into the clothing drive donations.
- A young Pterri was seen in this episode.
- This is the second time Pee-wee said "Wish, Did Somebody Say Wish". The other times were To Tell The Tooth, and I Remember Curtis.
- Cowboy Curtis returned in this episode
- The film that Magic Screen shows is Tomorrow's Drivers from 1954 narrated by famed actor James Stewart of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and It's a Wonderful Life fame.
- The song that plays during the refrigerator sequence is "I'm an Old Cowhand (from the Rio Grande)".
- The animation of the ants spelling out the word "Sorry" is reused from "Reba Eats and Pterri Runs".
Notes[]
- Secret word: wait
- Connect-the-dots: dragster
- Snack: none
- Wish: none