Pee Wee's Big Adventure Tequila Scene

Pee-wee's Big Adventure is a 1985 film directed by Tim Burton and written by Paul Reubens, Phil Hartman, and Michael Varhol. The original music score is composed by Danny Elfman. The film is marketed with the tagline "The Story of a Rebel and his Bike." It is number 11 on Bravo's "100 Funniest Movies". Pee-wee Herman, a strange man who acts very much like a child, loves his bike more than anything else in the world. One morning he runs into his nemesis Francis Buxton, a fellow man-child and neighborhood rich "kid," who tries to buy Pee-wee's beloved bike at any cost. Pee-wee refuses to even name a price. He takes his bike to town and leaves it elaborately chained to an animated clown statue while he shops. He browses a magic shop to pick up some "supplies," then picks up a bike horn from his friend Dottie and resists her attempts to date him. When he finishes shopping, he discovers that his bike has been stolen despite his significant precautions. Knowing that Francis was behind the theft, Pee-wee breaks into his mansion, accuses and attacks him in his pool-sized bath. After Francis's father breaks them up, Pee-wee admits that he has no proof. He launches a vigorous campaign to find the culprit and recover his bike. Francis, who arranged for the bike theft, becomes spooked by Pee-wee's high-profile campaign and asks the thief to simply dispose of the bike. Pee-wee compiles mountains of tangential evidence to the crime and and presents it to an assembly of his friends, who begin to worry about his sanity. Despondent, Pee-wee visits a fake psychic who tells him that the bike is hidden in the basement of the Alamo. Pee-wee immediately leaves for San Antonio, Texas and hitches a ride with a man named Mickey. Mickey says that he is a fugitive on the run from the law because he cut off a "do not remove under the penalty of law" mattress tag. Pee-wee and Mickey run into a police blockade, but they avoid arrest when Pee-Wee disguises himself as a woman and provides a false beard to Mickey. That night, Pee-wee takes over driving and accidentally drives off the twisty mountain road, nearly killing them both. Mickey leaves Pee-Wee by the side of the road, giving a lame excuse remarkably similar to one Pee-wee used to spurn Dottie. Pee-wee soon gets picked up by a mysterious trucker named Large Marge. In one of the movie's most memorable and widely imitated scenes, the trucker frightens Pee-wee with a vivid description of a terrible fatal truck wreck, finishing the story by briefly distorting her face. Afterwards, at a truck stop diner, Pee-wee learns that Large Marge was actually a ghost, and that her story was about herself. This scene is based on Red Sovine's song "The Ballad of Big Joe and Phantom 309". At the diner, Pee-wee meets Simone, a friendly waitress with a yearning to see Paris. The two watch the sunrise inside one of Claude Bell's dinosaurs. As Pee-wee convinces her to follow her dream, Simone's huge boyfriend, Andy, catches them together and tries to beat up Pee-wee. Pee-wee flees into the boxcar of a moving train. There he collapses and has a nightmare about a dinosaur eating his bike. He is woken by a hobo (played by Carmen Filpi), with whom he passes the time singing folk songs such as "She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain," "Oh Susanna," "Skip To My Lou," and "Jimmy Crack Corn." Eventually, the constant singing of the smelly hobo becomes too tedious and Pee-wee throws himself from the train. Pee-wee discovers that he has made it to San Antonio and hastens to the Alamo, where he takes a tour guided by Tina (played by Jan Hooks). On the tour, he finds that the Alamo has no basement. Pee-wee realizes that his whole trip was a sham and goes to the bus station to return home. There he meets up with Simone, who tells him that he has inspired her to leave Andy and go to Paris. She in turn urges Pee-wee not to give up hope. After a phone call to Dottie, Pee-wee tries to buy a bus ticket, but he encounters Andy again and another chase ensues. Pee-wee disguises himself as a cowboy and gets swept into a rodeo, where he inadvertently breaks the world record for bull-riding. Once Pee-wee's bull throws him off, it chases Andy away. The dazed Pee-Wee cannot remember much after falling off the bull, but when asked what he does remember, he states, "I remember...the Alamo." The assembled Texans shout in approval. On his way home, Pee-wee stops off at a rowdy biker bar to make a phone call and runs afoul of the "Satan's Helpers," a biker gang. After he accidentally knocks over their bikes, the Satan's Helpers threaten to kill Pee-wee, but they first allow him a final request. Pee-wee performs his Big Shoe Dance to the song "Tequila" and wins the respect of the bikers. They give him a motorcycle and wish him luck in finding his bike. As Pee-wee rides away, he immediately loses control of the motorcycle and crashes into a billboard. At the hospital, Pee-wee has another nightmare of his bike being destroyed, this time by evil clown doctors and a figure of Francis dressed as the Devil. After waking in his hospital room, Pee-wee learns from the television that his bike now belongs to Kevin Morton (played by Jason Hervey), a spoiled child star who is currently filming a movie with the bike as a prominent prop. Pee-wee sneaks into Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, California and searches for his bike, soon locating the set on which Kevin is acting. Pee-wee disguises himself as a nun in order to infiltrate the set and steal his bike back. In a wild chase scene, he flees from the Warner Bros. security staff through a variety of sets, causing havoc wherever he goes. Various actors and props, including a boat-shaped car, a Santa Claus sleigh, and a man in a Godzilla costume, get swept into the chase. He also interrupts the shooting of a Twisted Sister music video for "Burn in Hell" from Stay Hungry. Using the gadgets on his bike, Pee-wee manages to evade the guards and escape the studio. As he blissfully rides away, however, Pee-wee discovers a pet shop in flames. After heroically saving all the animals (even the snakes which creep him out), Pee-wee faints on the store's doorstep and is arrested. Pee-wee is brought before a Warner Bros. executive who offers to buy Pee-wee's life story in exchange for dropping all charges. Pee-wee agrees and attends the premiere at his local drive-in. All of the friends Pee-wee made during his trip come to see the film, and Pee-wee greets each of them. He ends with Dottie, having finally fulfilled her demands for a date at the drive-in. As a final act of vengeance, Pee-wee allows Francis to sit on his bike, then triggers the ejector seat and sends him flying. Pee-wee's movie turns out to be a cheesy James Bond-style action film involving soap opera stars James Brolin and Morgan Fairchild fighting ninjas. Pee-wee has a cameo appearance as a bellhop, but his voice is comically dubbed over. His only lines are "No nothing right now, Mr. Herman." and "Paging Mr. Herman. Mr. Herman, you have a telephone call at the front desk." After watching for a few minutes, Pee-wee decides to leave, having already lived the real story. Rejoined with his bike, he rides away with Dottie, happily ever after.