Comments on: Nagging Pee Wee question

Question: Nagging Pee Wee question

Astro Zombie — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 21:58:41 -0800

At the start of Pee Wee's Big Adventure, when the titular character wakes in his bedroom, a portable record player automatically starts to play an old children's record. What is that record?

Seriously, this has bugged me for years.

By: Brian James

Brian James — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 22:20:09 -0800

It always sounded like some kind of opera to me.

By: frecklefaerie

frecklefaerie — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 22:30:59 -0800

Is there a clip anywhere?

By: chrisamiller

chrisamiller — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 22:34:13 -0800

Is it this song?
http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/43524#668333

By: salvia

salvia — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 22:36:58 -0800

Yeah, I think chrisamiller and the linked comment have the song right.

By: Brian James

Brian James — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 22:47:47 -0800

I'm dying to know this too, so I made an mp3 clip. LOOK OUT MISTER POTATO HEAD!

Looks like my "opera" guess was pretty far off the mark.

The song the questioner is asking about is not Breakfast Machine. This is a satirized version of Breakfast Machine.

By: kookoobirdz

kookoobirdz — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 22:52:19 -0800

I pity the poor fool who don't eat my cereal!

By: zardoz

zardoz — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 22:56:30 -0800

Great litte ditty!

By: Danelope

Danelope — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 23:16:37 -0800

From Brian James' clip, the song in question includes the phrases "blue skies and sunshine" and (repeatedly) "all on a beautiful day". Google doesn't seem to turn up any matching songs with those lyrics, however.

By: unSane

unSane — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 05:59:27 -0800

I bet the song in question is another Elfman composition that was vinyled-up in post to sound like an old kids' record.

By: unSane

unSane — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 06:02:27 -0800

update: listening to it again I'm even more sure that it's a composed tune. There's a ful orchestra backing the vocals, which would be very expensive for a kids' tune, and towards the end of the clip the music fades up to what sounds like a full backing track seamlessly.

By: Tuwa

Tuwa — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 06:29:51 -0800

For what it's worth, the only two songs lised in the credits are "Burn in Hell" by Dee Snider/Twisted Sister and "Tequila" by Chuck Rio/The Champs.