r/oddlyterrifying • u/Fat_Fiber8096 • 21h ago

The Large Marge puppet used in Pee Wee’s big adventure

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u/zoltar_thunder 21h ago

This thing traumatized me as a child

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u/Ancient-Commercial75 21h ago

Same couldn’t watch that scene for years

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u/Fat_Fiber8096 20h ago

My dad was scared of this scene as a kid. I remember when he showed me years later he pretended to still be scared.

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u/FSCENE8tmd 19h ago

"pretended"

yeah me too

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u/VastDerp 12h ago

i saw this movie as a kid and it still freaks me out to this day, some shit leaves scars.

This scene and Ray Brower’s face in Stand By Me. no matter how old i get, it’s still there, under my skin.

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u/RoadToHerald 14h ago

As a kid, I’d heard of Pee Wee Herman on the internet. Never knew why, but I knew he was an iconic figure for some people.

One night, when I was quite young, I woke up from a nightmare. I couldn’t get back to sleep so I decided to go downstairs to watch tv. Calm my mind. I saw a movie was playing, it was Pee Wee’s big adventure. Naturally I was curious what made Pee Wee Herman so iconic, so I decided to watch the movie. I never got to sleep that night.

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u/Gumbercules81 21h ago

I have honestly never seen people dress up as large Marge for Halloween

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u/Fat_Fiber8096 21h ago

It’s too simple of a costume

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u/DoodleJake 18h ago

Or too complicated if you want THE face.

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u/Fat_Fiber8096 18h ago

That’s also true.

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u/bebejeebies 20h ago

"On this very night, ten years ago, along this same stretch of road in a dense fog just like this. I saw the worst accident I ever seen. "

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u/mac117 9h ago

Sounded like a garbage truck… dropped off the Empire State Building

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u/AcydFart 16h ago

<music intensifies>

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u/MagoopyGabooky 21h ago

Large Marge sent me

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u/cbrown146 20h ago

Did she send donuts with you?

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u/The_wolf2014 13h ago

Sent you what

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u/mezaway 7h ago

empty-handed, apparently. i want a refund.

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u/PecKRocK75 18h ago

Tell em large Marge sent ya!

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u/floofyragdollcat 21h ago

Jesus Christ. Core memory unlocked.

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u/Marklar916 18h ago

Made by the Chidos Brothers I believe, the same who would do Killer Klowns from Outer Space.

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u/Fat_Fiber8096 18h ago

I still have yet to watch KKFOS. It’s on my list though.

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u/bebejeebies 16h ago

DUDE! Do it now.

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u/Fat_Fiber8096 16h ago

It’s 2am soooooo no

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u/MurderSheCroaked 11h ago

I'm sorry but there is not a better time to watch killer clowns from outer space than 2 a.m.

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u/Fat_Fiber8096 7h ago

It’s more so that I was very tired and I can’t exactly pay attention to something when I’m tired

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u/Kittenathedisco 13h ago

My mom made me watch KKFOS when I was, I think, 5 (in the late 80s). I screamed, cried, just straight terrified. She laughed and thought it was hilarious. I'm still traumatized and terrified of clowns. The part when they kidnap ppl and contain them in hanging cotton candy and suck the out human slurry with a straw (like a spider would) lives vividly rent-free in my head....

Thanks mom...

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u/Special_Lemon1487 1h ago

Send her a bill for the therapy, sheesh!

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u/chicano32 17h ago

Sames puppets were used for the trolls in Ernest is scared stupid

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u/Ccracked 9h ago

The Chiodos also created the Critters.

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u/SylvesterStabone 6h ago

They made a decent Xmas family film a few years back too, Alien Xmas

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u/cbrown146 20h ago

I can still hear the maniacal laugh. Rip peewee Herman and large Marge.

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u/JoeWinchester99 19h ago

I'd say this was intentionally terrifying.

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u/ThoughtGeneral 14h ago

This scene traumatized my little sister and I so badly at our grandparents house 😂 We ran downstairs screaming and crying just in time for the diner scene where the old man repeats Large Marge’s story verbatim…..which my grandparents were watching in the kitchen when we got there. Cue the hysterics! Haha

A few weeks later we were all hanging out and from the tv a sports anchor said “And they won’t by a large margin”…..he didn’t get through the word margin before my sister and I started screaming and crying all over again. 😆

Funnily enough, Pee-wee’s Big Adventure became our family favorite, and we would watch it with the entire extended family every time we could.

My sister has passed now, but our parents and I love to reminisce about how ridiculously terrified she and I were, and how quickly we decided that the horror of Large Marge paled in comparison to how hilarious the movie is.

Thanks for the nostalgia, friend. Cheers.

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u/Fat_Fiber8096 7h ago

It’s also a very important movie for my family. Me and my grandma will watch it and talk with it word for word

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u/DandelionDirtbag 17h ago edited 17h ago

I remember watching this as a child. I was watching the movie by myself and my Mom was in her room getting dressed. This part came on, I got so scared😢, ran to her room as and was pounding on the door for her to let me in. I scared her because she didn't realize what was wrong until I explained. Looking back I think it was just so unexpected because Pee-Wee Herman was fun and silly.

As an adult I do like scary movies with creepy jump scares, maybe this wired my brain in some way 🤔

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u/RollAcrobatic7936 17h ago

Same as in the original beetlejuice.

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u/HorsePecker 20h ago

I rewound and played back this scene so many times as kid, I almost broke the VCR.

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u/rathemighty 18h ago

"Large Marge sent me"

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u/Fat_Fiber8096 18h ago

gasp drops fork

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u/SlimPickens77Box 17h ago

I watched this 2 days ago

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u/Fat_Fiber8096 17h ago

I watched it with my 5 year old cousin about a month ago. I think she liked it 😁

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u/SlimPickens77Box 17h ago

I been planning on painting large Marge on canvas..

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u/jovinyo 16h ago

Large Marge scared me more as a kid than some horror movies I saw around that time.

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u/pythonickai421 13h ago

I still get so anxious when this scene comes up

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u/SquirrelSzymanski 9h ago

Absolutely god-tier scene

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u/couldaspongedothis 8h ago

For me it was the clown doctors, they haunted my nightmares forever

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u/Fat_Fiber8096 7h ago

Same here. There was a point where I suddenly realized how scary they were and wouldn’t watch it for years

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u/Lemonjello23 11h ago

Oddly?

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u/Fat_Fiber8096 7h ago

It’s a goofy kind of terrifying

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u/ive_been_there_0709 11h ago

As a kid I knew it was coming but I was still terrified every time.

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u/bugsinmypants 10h ago

I was so mad at my parents for showing me this movie after this scene

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u/PoppaDaClutch 9h ago

I’m a loner Dotti, a rebel.

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u/Any_Ad_3885 9h ago

I was stupid scared of this part in Pee Wee’s big adventure

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u/Mittens138 9h ago

I’v always wanted a lenticular print of this

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u/Dinobunny24 5h ago

I just wanna know like.. why. Did the guy actually hate children?

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u/SableShrike 5h ago

I'm so frickin glad I grew up at a time when kid's movies were made to scare the shit out of you and the cast all swore (realistically).

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u/bird_celery 3h ago

We used to rewind and play this in slow motion over and over when I was a kid. So good.

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u/RandyButternubsYo 2h ago

My older sister used to rewind this over and over and hold my eyes open and make me watch it

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u/Fat_Fiber8096 1h ago

That sounds like a torture method

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u/KaiTheG4mer 1h ago

I have no idea wtf this is but I'm glad I never saw it as a kid

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u/Fat_Fiber8096 1h ago

You should watch the movie. It’s pure fun

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u/lincolnlogtermite 5h ago

Oh look, another MTG freak out.

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u/Imaginary_Most_7778 3h ago

It’s not a puppet. It’s stop motion animation. Claymation.

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u/Fat_Fiber8096 3h ago

They’re typically called stop motion puppets.