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Originally Posted by Wormius
Yeah, I watched that too. I feel bad, really. Of the people that had their reputations ruined, I think Paul Reubens and Sinead O’Connor were in the top 2 for being the most unfair.
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I think that would be an accurate statement.
I guess for me, because the show really wasn't for me I didn't really ever think anything of it, went along with the Pee-Wee jokes and just kind of shrugged it off because I didnt care.
Its difficult to understand how things like that really affect some people, not just Reubens himself, but his fans and family and friends.
And the allegations against him during the trials he had to go through? I never realized that most of them were either dropped, found to have been false or were so minor as to be laughable.
But some people just wanted to drag him through the mud.
I remember at one point in the documentary, and I was really young when these events happened so I didnt grasp all of the minutiae but:
"He was caught masturbating in a Porn theater!!!"
Uh...sir...what were you there for? The plot?
But they made damaging allegations and then disappeared into the hedges like Homer and when the Court had to do something they couldnt prove anything and Reubens ended up paying like $50. It was nothing.