Random 'Pee-wee's Big Adventure' Is Actually Super Traumatizing (15 items)

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  (#6) Pee-wee's Trick Gum Is Downright Disturbing

  One of the quickest gags in Pee-wee's Big Adventure is also one of its most traumatizing. After Mr. Buxton catches Pee-wee trying to maim his son, Pee-wee gets out of the whole thing by offering both of the Buxton men a stick of gum. They each take the gum and black liquid begins spilling out of their mouths like blood as Pee-wee makes his escape. 
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  (#11) Simone's Boyfriend Tries To Kill Pee-wee

  After spending the night in the empty head of a T-Rex with his new friend Simone, Pee-wee is almost beaten to death by Simone's jealous and xenophobic boyfriend Andy.

  Simone tells Pee-wee that Andy hates it when she speaks French because he thinks the French think they're better than him. When Andy sees Pee-wee the morning after his dino-getaway, he chases our hero with a giant bone. Luckily, Pee-wee escapes because Andy is attacked by a bull. 
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  (#2) The Creepy Clown Dream Is A Literal Nightmare

  Pee-wee spends the majority of the film focused on getting his bike back. In fact, the need so consumes his thoughts that the second act ends with a dream in which his bike is kidnapped and tortured by crazy clowns.

  The dream begins with the bike being stolen by demonic-looking clowns who break the bike down and take it to an operating room that's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari meets Duran Duran. The clowns set the bike on fire before a giant claw machine picks it up and literally takes it to Hell. 
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  (#14) Pee-wee's House Is A Neat-Freak's Worst Fear

  The interior of Pee-wee's house may be a dream for production designers and Tim Burton fans, but for anyone who's ever had to clean a space full of knick-knacks and tchotchkes the house is a total nightmare.

  Each room is filled with globes, monster heads, wooden dummies, and train sets that run by themselves. The amount of dust and grime this place would collect is anxiety-inducing at the very least. How much do you think Pee-wee pays someone to clean? Or is there some kind of Rube Goldberg cleaning machine that's in a deleted scene?
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  (#5) A Pet Store Burns Down

  After escaping from the Warner Bros. lot with his bike, Pee-wee stumbles upon a pet store that's engulfed in flames. Pee-wee, being the hero he is, runs inside and the scene gets even more upsetting.

  Although Pee-wee's rescue attempt is a noble effort, the poor pets inside have to rely on a grown man in a red bow tie to make it out. Luckily, Pee-wee saves just about everything in the building, including an especially frightening moment when he runs out of the fire with handfuls of snakes. Unfortunately the fish don't make it because, after all, Pee-wee is just one man. 
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  (#12) Pee-wee's Morning Routine Is That Of A Seven Year Old

  Pee-wee's morning routine is perhaps one of his more bizarre attributes. After setting off a Rube Goldberg machine to fix his breakfast of pancakes, toast, eggs, bacon, and one strawberry, he waits in his bathroom and covers his face with scotch tape like a child. Once his breakfast is ready, he sits down and screams at his pancakes before pouring Mr. T cereal all over the plate and pretending to eat it like a dog.

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