On this day, December 5, 1937, "Large Marge," of "Pee-wee's Big Adventure," was born.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Large Marge would have been {86} today.

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Large Marge would have been {86} today.

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Pee-wee's Big Adventure

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Plot

Pee-wee Herman has a heavily accessorized bicycle that he treasures and that his neighbor and enemy, Francis Buxton, covets. A bike shop employee, Dottie, has a crush on Pee-wee, but he does not reciprocate it. Pee-wee's bike is stolen while he is shopping at a mall. The police tell Pee-wee that they cannot help him find his bike. Pee-wee thinks Francis took it, and confronts him. Francis' father convinces Pee-wee that Francis did not steal the bike. Pee-wee then offers a $10,000 reward for his bike. Francis, who did indeed pay to have a friend steal the bike, is frightened by Pee-wee's relentlessness and then pays to have it sent away. After holding an unsuccessful meeting to locate the bike, Pee-wee angrily rejects Dottie's offers of help. Desperate, he visits "Madam Ruby", a phony psychic. Ruby, inspired by the Al and Moe's Bargain Basement shop across the street, tells Pee-wee that his bike is in the basement of the Alamo Mission in San Antonio. Pee-wee hitchhikes to Texas, getting rides from a fugitive named Mickey and from Large Marge, the ghost of a deceased truck driver.

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Mon Dec 5, 2022: On this day, December 5, 1937, "Large Marge," of "Pee-wee's Big Adventure," was born.

Sun Dec 6, 2020: On December 5, 1937, "Large Marge," of "Pee-wee's Big Adventure," was born.

[Xavier Breath]

1. Ah yes, Large Marge.

On this very night, ten years ago, along this very stretch of road in a dense fog just like this. I saw the worst accident I ever seen. There was this sound, like a garbage truck dropped off the Empire State Building... And when they pulled the driver's body from the twisted, burning wreck. It looked like this...



A buddy and I saw that movie when we were 18, the summer after we graduated high school, and I love it to this day.