#I remember PeeWees playhouse being insanely popular for a while. God I'm old.

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Let's Read Peanuts (Only 45 more years to go!) – May 1955

There are lots of great strips I just don't have room to comment on. I strongly encourage everybody to read the full month at the official GoComics page. Today's month starts HERE.

May 2, 1955

She’s correct, just not in a literal sense.

May 10, 1955

He’s into it.

May 17, 1955

“I meant ~constructive~ criticism!”

“Oh... You you would be more successful if you were less stupid.”

May 19, 1955

No, this is the correct move. Eating the clover gives a smaller stat boost than using it as an accessory but the bonus is permanent.

May 20, 1955

Let the kindergartner write an editorial you cowards! It can’t be worse than what you let the adults submit!

May 22, 1955

God I love it when he draws backgrounds.

May 30, 1955

God damnit. Guess we're doing this thing again...

~googles~

Okay, so ‘Pinky’ Lee was a children’s TV performer who hosted a popular kids show in the 50s called The Pinky Lee Show. It was your classic collection of skits, jokes, stunts, dance numbers, and hard-selling preschoolers on sponsored products and services. Basically, a black and white version of the Krusty the Clown show from The Simpsons. You can see an episode of it here.

Personally I find it to be an weird mix of obnoxious and off-putting and gave up on trying to get through it only a few minutes in. Kids apparently loved it though and it won some awards.

As an interesting side-note The Pinky Lee Show was one of the main inspirations for PeeWee’s Playhouse, another kid's show that was incredibly popular despite being insufferable. You can really see the similarities if you watch them back to back.

Anyway, Pinky’s run on the show would end about 4 months after this strip was published after having some sort of medical episode on-set which forced him to step down. Sad but hardly surprising considering the guy was either on some serious drugs or pushing himself WAY too hard.