History Film / PeeweesBigAdventure

** "Be sure and tell'em Large Marge sent ya!"

* AdaptationalBadass: "P.W." Herman (the version of Pee-wee of the film adaptation at the end) is a Franchise/JamesBond-style super-spy badass. The bike as well becomes an experimental vehicle of some sort called the X-1. Dottie becomes a sultry Morgan Fairchild who's the HotScientist "Bond-Girl Expy" love-interest.

** Pee-wee enters a diner, but when he says, "Large Marge sent me," everyone drops what they're doing, and turn towards him, all with shock and disbelief on their faces.
** It happens again when Pee-Wee visits the biker bar. It doesn't happen though until Pee-Wee draws attention to himself by [[TooDumbToLive shouting at the bikers to be quiet]] since he wants to use the phone.

* BigRedDevil: Pee-Wee's second nightmare ends with his bike being taken to Hell, ruled by Francis as the Devil. There are other devils dancing around the giant cauldron.

** The armored warrior Pee-wee gets directions from on the WB backlot is wearing an outfit from ''{{Film/Krull}}'', in an odd costume example[[note]]Krull was filmed overseas and distributed by WB's competitor Creator/ColumbiaPictures. It makes sense because from 1972 to 1989 Columbia rented out half of WB's studios to save money; they eventually moved into the old MGM lot in Culver City when WB merged with Creator/{{Lorimar}}-Telepictures in 1989; Lorimar had bought the lot when UsefulNotes/TedTurner had bought MGM/UA for 74 days in 1986 then returned it thanks to a crippling debt load. They sold the MGM lot to Columbia so they could kick them out; the MGM lot today is now known as the Creator/SonyPicturesStudios[[/note]]. The actor playing said warrior is John Paragon, aka Jambi the Genie from Pee-wee's stage show and later, ''Pee-wee's Playhouse.''

** The BadassBiker that says "I say you let me have him first" is played by Cassandra Peterson, aka Elvira.
** James Brolin and Morgan Fairchild play "P.W." and Dottie, respectively, in the [[ShowWithinAShow "movie within a movie"]] at the end.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Pee-Wee Herman, especially with all of his zany antics throughout the movie.
* CoincidentalBroadcast: Twice - The radio talking about Mickey's escape, and the TV talking about Pee-wee's bike at the hospital.

** Tim Burton is a thug in the alley way.

* DreamIntro: The film begins with Pee-wee winning the Tour De France, but as the crown is about to be placed on his head, an alarm is heard, prompting everyone in attendance to just up and leave; we then fade to Pee-wee waking up to the sound of his alarm clock.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Since this was Creator/TimBurton's first film, its very lighthearted than the rest of his work and has no horror elements expect for Large Marge's JumpScare and the Nightmare scene.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: At the bike shop, Pee-wee tells the BMX bikers that he's doing some top-secret "James Bond" stuff to his bike. We later see that the bike has been outfitted with an EjectionSeat, rocket boosters, and a mechanism that can create an OilSlick. The [[ShowWithinAShow movie-within-a-movie]] also has Pee-wee, here portrayed by James Brolin, doing some ''actual'' James Bond stuff.

* ForgottenPhlebotinum: The boomerang bow tie. It only gets used in a DeletedScene on the DVD, which extends the chase scene through the Warner Bros. studio lot. At one point, Pee-wee hides out on the set of an old western town, and as the guards make their way through, he tosses the bow-tie to disorient them long enough to allow him to slip away once again.
* TheFriendlyTexan: a scene where Pee Wee is at the Alamo and he calls his friend Dottie. In order to convince her that he's in Texas, he sings, "The Stars at night, are big and bright!" Cue the exuberant, friendly Texans all around him clapping the beat and singing the refrain, "Deep in the heart of Texas!"
* GadgeteersHouse: Pee-wee Herman's home got itself an upgrade on with a fully automated breakfast-making machine.

'''Pee-Wee:''' But--\\

* GhostStory: Large Marge tells Pee Wee the story of a driver who died in a gruesome accident a decade earlier. Wether or not she was referring to herself or someone else, we don't know. Afterwards, the people at the diner tell Pee Wee one for one the very same story, and that it was her, and the "Large Marge" he was riding with was her ghost.

** Peewee pulls hundreds of pounds of chain out of that tiny bike compartment. This was rather infamously ruined in a version of the film re-cropped for home video, which reveals the chain being fed up from the hollow bottom of the compartment.

** Mickey is established as a hardened criminal early on, but he never harms Pee-Wee, and he kicks him out of his car because he knows Pee-Wee is too innocent for his own good and doesn't want him to get mixed up in his run ins with the law.

* LikeRealityUnlessNoted: The world seems to mildly run on CartoonPhysics. Big-budget Hollywood studios film their movies in the same manner as very-early Silent Films. Car convertible canopies can act as parachutes for said cars. Chimps are sold as pets in pet stores. Tiny bike horns can emit massively-loud truck horn sounds. Ghosts in ghost vehicles can transport living flesh-and-blood people. Attempting to break an acquaintance out of prison will just get you a disapproving look from a prison guard. Said prison will happily take a presumably-dangerous convict to see a movie based on an acquaintances' life. A major Hollywood studio would be willing to forgive you for trashing the entire studio in exchange for creating a movie about your adventure (which will be retconned as a cheesy spy flick).

--->'''Trucker:''' Did- did you say Large Marge?\\

* PhotoIdentificationDenial: At the traffic stop, Pee-Wee (in drag) and his escaped convict pal (in disguise) are shown a picture of... the escaped convict pal. The convict, thanks in part to Pee-Wee's over-the-top cutesy shenanigans, successfully fools the police officer into believing that he doesn't recognize his own photo.

* ScareChord: When the diner patrons tell Pee-Wee [[DeadAllAlong the identity]] of "Large Marge".

* UniversalGroupReaction: After hitching a ride with a trucker named Large Marge, Pee-Wee goes into a bar and tells them that Large Marge sent him. One patron explains that Large Marge died in a fiery crash (which she'd told Pee-Wee about as a third person. Pee-Wee looks astonished and say it must have been, prompting the whole bar to state the obvious at once, "Her ghost!"

* PhotoIdentificationDenail: At the traffic stop, Pee-Wee (in drag) and his escaped convict pal (in disguise) are shown a picture of... the escaped convict pal. The convict, thanks in part to Pee-Wee's over-the-top cutesy shenanigans, successfully fools the police officer into believing that he doesn't recognize his own photo.

** The BikerBabe that says "I say you let me have him first" is played by Cassandra Peterson, aka Elvira.

'''Mickey:''' '''''OUUUTTT!!'''''

* UniversalGroupReaction: After hitching a ride with a trucker named Large Marge, Pee-Wee goes into a bar and tells them that Large Marge sent him. One patron explains that Large Marge died in a fiery crash (which she'd told Pee-Wee about as a third person. Pee-Wee looks astonished and say it must have been, prompting the whole bar to state the obvious at once, '''"Her ghost!"'''

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Yes, [[TieInCereal Mr. T Cereal]] [[http://www.mrbreakfast.com/cereal_detail.asp?id=244 actually existed]].

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Yes, Creator/MrT breakfast cereal [[http://www.mrbreakfast.com/cereal_detail.asp?id=244 actually existed]].

* NoAntagonist: While Francis ''is'' the antagonist of the opening act, and is the person responsible for Pee-wee's bike going missing in the first place, he has no involvement with anything that happens throughout Pee-wee's journey to the basement of the Alamo and back. Apart from that, Pee-wee has a few run-ins with Simone's BastardBoyfriend, some bikers (who he quickly befriends), and security at Warner Brothers Studios, but otherwise only has to contend with the world around him.

%% BastardBoyfriend has been rehauled into FetishizedAbuser (for then the narrative portrays an abuser as sexually desirable). Otherwise, it's an example of DomesticAbuser. If both people display toxic behaviors, it's RomanticizedAbuse. If the romantic partner is an unpleasant person but not outright abusive, then they are just a JerkAss. Please sort accordingly.

* TheUnintelligible: Simone's BastardBoyfriend, a giant, oafish, [[Franchise/{{Popeye}} Bluto]]-esque guy who's dialogue consists entirely of "RAAAAHHHRRR!"

** The actress portraying Mother Superior is portrayed by none other than Creator/LynneMarieStewart, who played Miss Yvonne in ''The Pee-wee Herman Show'' and, of course, ''Pee-wee's Playhouse''.

* MissedHimByThatMuch: Pee-wee's bike is being towed on a trailer, as he's riding alongside it in Mickey's car, but he fails to turn his head and see it.

** Everyone at the diner fall silent when Pee-wee said "Large Marge sent [him]".

* SanityBall: Despite being a [[ManChild childish]] {{Cloudcuckoolander}} [[JerkassBall with a mean streak]], Pee-wee assumes the role of the OnlySaneMan in most scenes after he hits the road by virtue of all the people he runs into being [[UpToEleven even weirder than he is]].

** The actress portraying Mother Superior is portrayed by none other than Lynne Marie Stewart, who played Miss Yvonne in ''The Pee-wee Herman Show'' and, of course, ''Pee-wee's Playhouse''.

* SquirtingFlowerGag: Pee-Wee goes to the joke shop to "stock up". One of the things he buys is a squirting flower.

The 1985 [[TheMovie big-screen adaptation]] of Creator/PaulReubens' nightclub comedy act, starring Paul Reubens as Pee-wee Herman (though the credits say "Pee-wee Herman AsHimself").

* AccidentalInnuendo: "Everyone I know has a big 'but'. Come on, Simone, let's talk about your big 'but'."

* CoincidentalBroadcast: Twice - The radio talking about Mickey's escape, and the TV talking about Pee-wee's bike at the studio.

* LikeRealityUnlessNoted: The world seems to mildly run on CartoonPhysics. Big-budget Hollywood studios film their movies in the same manner as very-early Silent Films. Car convertible canopies can act as parachutes for said cars. Chimps are sold as pets in pet stores. Tiny bike horns car emit massively-loud truck horn sounds. Ghosts in ghost vehicles can transport living flesh-and-blood people. Attempting to break an acquaintance out of prison will just get you a disapproving look from a prison guard. Said prison will happily take a presumably-dangerous convict to see a movie based on an acquaintances' life. A major Hollywood studio would be willing to forgive you for trashing the entire studio in exchange for creating a movie about your adventure (which will be retconned as a cheesy spy flick).

* TheFriendlyTexan: a scene where Pee Wee is at the Alamo and he calls his friend Dottie. In order to convince her that he's in Texas, he sings, "The Stars at night, are shining bright!" Cue the exuberant, friendly Texans all around him clapping the beat and singing the refrain, "Deep in the heart of Texas!"