The show was notorious for its campy undertones and double entendre.
As soon as it first aired, Pee-wee's Playhouse fascinated media theorists and commentators, many of whom championed the show as a postmodernist hodgepodge of queer characters and situations which appeared to soar in the face of domineering racist, sexist, and heterosexist presumptions.
The music for the show was provided by artists such as Mark Mothersbaugh, Todd Rundgren, Danny Elfman and Van Dyke Parks.
The opening prelude theme is an interpolation of Martin Denny's "Quiet Village."