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

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  (#1) Large Marge Is Terrifying

  Pee-wee's Big Adventure is mostly a romp about an eccentric man-child who goes on a trip of self discovery in search of his bike. The tone changes once he accepts a ride from a truck driver named Large Marge.

  She gives Pee-wee a ride after he's abandoned on a foggy road in the middle of the night, and on the short ride she tells Pee-wee a story about "the worst accident" she ever saw. Large Marge describes wreckage full of burning bodies, and if that's not scary enough, she reveals her true face: a claymation monster face that's basically the reverse shot of Tim Burton's Beetlejuice.
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  (#4) Pee-wee Rides With An Escaped Convict

  At one point, Pee-wee is picked up by an escaped convict named Mickey. Mickey talks about his anger issues and even brandishes a gun while driving Pee-wee down the highway. Then Pee-wee has to disguise himself as a woman so he and his new friend can escape from a local sheriff who tells Pee-wee to get out of the car because he "wants to get a look" at him.

  Disturbing doesn't even cover how the only authority figure in this scene acts, and Mickey should turn you off from hitchhiking forever. 
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  (#15) Twisted Sister Makes A Cameo

  Pee-wee's Big Adventure shocks the audience out of their timeless reverie with a cameo by Twisted Sister. The cameo happens while Pee-wee is being chased across the Warner Bros. backlot after stealing his bike back from Kevin Morton. He makes his way through the Old West, a beach party, the North Pole, a Godzilla movie - and then he bursts straight into a Twisted Sister video.

  Is there anything more traumatizing than seeing Dee Snider front and center on your TV screen at the end of a whimsical tale about a man-child and his bike?  
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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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  (#7) Pee-wee Tries To Drown Francis

  After discovering that his bike is stolen, Pee-wee goes straight to Francis Buxton's house and tries to drown his nemesis while he takes a bath. Is Francis a creep? Absolutely. Did he hire goons to steal Pee-wee's bike? Definitely. Murder via bath tub might not be the proper way to address the problem, however.

  Pee-wee dives into battle with Francis by sabotaging him in the swimming pool-sized-bath and trying to push his head under the water. In what's ostensibly a children's movie, the main character (who is of adult age) immediately decides that death is the answer.

  In the end, Pee-wee gets his bike back and Francis is thrown into the stratosphere.
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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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