NOTES: Reba gets Annette Funicello's lines, because Annette's equivalent isn't here yet.
In the original special, the cartoon was preceded by Joan Rivers on Hollywood Squares....and her replacement wasn't initially Count Floyd! Her cameo would have been replaced by the Max Headroom hijacker, breaking in on Pee-Wee's signal to deliver an obscene and insulting greeting. That changed when I saw a "Retro Glow Dracula" figure on NECA's Facebook page, and I thought the prototype looked a little bit like Joe Flaherty as Count Floyd from SCTV.
I didn't quite know exactly how tall Drac would be, so I painted the sets months before he arrived. Everything is weirdly out of scale, and the two walls make no sense whatsoever when put together, which works for the internal logic of it: my head-canon was that Monster Chiller Horror Theatre had borrowed the sets from a high-school production of Dracula, and the set painters were working off of actual references but had forgotten to scale the brickwork down to smaller flats. After the play ended, the school then donated the sets to the SCTV station.
Fun fact: In 1988, right around the time when Pee-Wee was enjoying its biggest success, NBC commissioned Hanna-Barbera to produce The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley, an animated Playhouse follow-the-leader starring Martin Short's manchild character from SCTV and Saturday Night Live. And Count Floyd made appearances on Grimley.
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