History Film / BigTopPeeWee

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Winnie really loves her egg salad sandwiches. And so do the Piccolapupula Brothers. Pee-Wee lied that they're his favorite too, but he much prefers a cheese sandwich instead (to the point of flinging his egg salad clear over the horizon when she isn't looking).
** She probably remains oblivious to this fact, as she threw both his and her sandwiches to the river in anger after seeing Pee-Wee cheat on her.

This not-sequel to ''Film/PeeWeesBigAdventure'', released in 1988, draws a great deal of inspiration from the classic story ''Film/{{Pollyanna|1960}}'', which Creator/PaulRuebens had wanted to do with this film's predecessor. This time around the director is Randal Kleiser (who also directed ''Film/{{Grease}}'' and ''Literature/TheBlueLagoon''), so the film has a different style (not to mention that there's a lot of jokes and references reused from the earlier film and the ''Series/PeeWeesPlayhouse'' TV show).

This not-sequel to ''Film/PeeWeesBigAdventure'', released in 1988, draws a great deal of inspiration from the classic story ''Film/{{Pollyanna|1960}}'', which Paul Ruebens had wanted to do with this film's predecessor. This time around the director is Randal Kleiser (who also directed ''Film/{{Grease}}'' and ''Literature/TheBlueLagoon''), so the film has a different style (not to mention that there's a lot of jokes and references reused from the earlier film and the ''Series/PeeWeesPlayhouse'' TV show).

Pee-wee Herman lives in a farm, with his animal friends including a talking pig named Vance. He has also invented trees that grow hot dogs. One day, a tornado hits the farm bringing a bunch of displaced circus performers with it. The performers include ringleader Mace Montana(Creator/KrisKristofferson); his 5-inch tall wife, Midge, and an acrobat named Gina (Creator/ValeriaGolino), whom Pee-wee falls in love with, despite the fact that he is engaged to Winnie, a local school teacher. Also, many of the other townspeople and the sheriff are not happy with the circus being in town, and threaten to have Pee-wee arrested, but Pee-wee has a plan of his own.

Pee-wee Herman lives in a farm, with his animal friends including a talking pig named Vance. He has also invented trees that grow hot dogs. One day, a tornado hits the farm bringing a bunch of displaced circus performers with it. The performers include ringleader Mace Montana; his 5-inch tall wife, Midge, and an acrobat named Gina (Creator/ValeriaGolino), whom Pee-wee falls in love with, despite the fact that he is engaged to Winnie, a local school teacher. Also, many of the other townspeople and the sheriff are not happy with the circus being in town, and threaten to have Pee-wee arrested, but Pee-wee has a plan of his own.

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* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Big Adventure'', though only Pee-wee himself and composer Music/DannyElfman return.
** Lynne Marie Stewart who played Miss Yvonne on the TV show appears and had a small role in the first film, appears in the supporting role of Zelda the Bearded Lady.

Pee-wee Herman lives in a farm, with his animal friends including a talking pig named Vance. He has also invented trees that grow hot dogs. One day, a tornado hits the farm bringing a bunch of displaced circus performers with it. The performers include ringleader Mace Montana; his 5-inch tall wife, Midge, and an acrobat named Gina, whom Pee-wee falls in love with, despite the fact that he is engaged to Winnie, a local school teacher. Also, many of the other townspeople and the sheriff are not happy with the circus being in town, and threaten to have Pee-wee arrested, but Pee-wee has a plan of his own.

* InterspeciesRomance: Vance (pig) and Zha-Zha (hippo), whether Vance likes it or not. Of course, he appears to take a liking into her at the end.

* TheBigDamnKiss: Between Pee-Wee and Gina. At least 90 seconds of screen time; other than the camera slowly pulling back, it is one continuous shot. The BGM even crescendos and ends in the middle of kiss, restarting halfway in. One can easily picture the composer shrugging and striking up the band again. They then do another right before and almost into the credit roll.

* HereWeGoAgain: Vance says this when Zha-Zha starts chasing him again when he's giving some advice to Pee-Wee.

* IHaveThisFriend: Pee-wee uses this when asking Mace about his problem. Though Mace likely knows Pee-Wee was talking about himself, and guessed correctly that it was a "girl problem", since he noticed Gina was ignoring Pee-Wee.

* StupidestThingIveEverHeard: When Pee-Wee tells a spurned Gina that he won't blame her if she never wants to see him again, she laughs her head off.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Kids wouldn't understand why Pee-wee is so excited every time he gets to touch a girl's hair, while their parents are probably impressed that Pee-wee managed to work a blatant sexual fetish reference into what's ostensibly a children's movie. There's also his remark to Winnie about two clouds resembling a train going into a tunnel, which she claims to not see ([[LosingHorns womp womp]]).

** She probably remains oblivious to this fact, as she threw both his and her sandwiches to the river in anger after seeing Pee-Wee cheat on her.
* YourCheatingHeart: Subverted. Pee-wee cheats on his girlfriend, but didn't realize it until Winnie showed up (he had completely forgotten about her).
** In any case, he ultimately realized that he didn't really love Winnie as he originally thought.
*** Also see PairTheSpares.