Unsettling ’80s ad for Talking Pee-wee doll

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There’s an undercurrent of evil in this old commercial, with the obsessed father and son visiting the family of chimps and playing with the Pee-Wee Herman doll. The creepy jingle doesn’t help.

—Posted by Tim Nudd

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