(This was intended to go out on 12/2/24, but I wanted to really hit the ground rolling with this.)
NOTES: The musical number…Again, nice, but unworkable in still photography. Also, how to do it? I thought of an army of Star Wars Stormtroopers standing in for the Marines/UCLA glee club at the beginning to riff on the comedic way they're treated at the opening of Star Wars Rogue Squadron (the LucasArts logo) and the LEGO Star Wars games, but…Too expensive for just a few shots, and they’d be out of scale anyway. Dancing Stormtroopers are only funny when they’re dancing. (Also because there really aren't any figurines of Marines in dress uniform on the market. In fact, that's the main reason--if I could find them, I would have used them.)
So the opening number was out and the Visit from St. Nicholas parody was in. I did have the opening number in, at least in some form, with the final line.
Since there wasn’t a figure of Cher on the market, and I wasn’t going to have one commissioned (in hindsight, Evil-Lyn from He-Man is closest to her 80s appearance), I simply moved the secret word up to the beginning of the episode. This had the benefit of demonstrating that Pee-Wee isn’t treating Christmas Eve in a very special way with any extra effort. He’s not thinking about decorating, or preparing dinner, or anything else. Just typical Playhouse fun. It also gave the Puppet Band a line and allowed me to show off a brick-wall background for their area. Look carefully, and you will notice that I even drew the little fire escape.
The final panel is a pickup shot done around mid-September or so, well after I wrapped on most of the principal photography. I can tell because you're looking at the Super Hero Pee-Wee figure, which I found later on. Most of the photobook stars the Hero Pee-Wee--you can tell them apart by the head-sculpt, the slight staining on the jacket from age, a truly awful join between head and body, and a little bit of paint on the peak of his hair having rubbed off.
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