{"id":26169,"date":"2022-12-12T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T08:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/?p=26169"},"modified":"2023-01-08T14:46:07","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T22:46:07","slug":"the-true-story-behind-how-i-got-a-pee-wee-herman-chia-pet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/2022\/12\/12\/the-true-story-behind-how-i-got-a-pee-wee-herman-chia-pet\/","title":{"rendered":"The true story behind how I got a Pee-wee Herman\u00a0Chia\u00a0Pet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Pee-wee Herman Chia Pet<\/em><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A year ago, for Christmas, my longtime friend Cassandra Peterson AKA Elvira Mistress of the Dark, gave me her Elvira Chia Pet. I was immediately extremely jealous. As my envy grew, I started looking on the box for a way to contact the company. I broadened my search to the internet and found a phone number! When I phoned, I heard a message that said my call was being routed to someone in the Chia department and then it rang a few times, then gave me the option of leaving a message. Here\u2019s the message I left: \u201cHello. My name is Pee-wee Herman. My friend Elvira just gave me her Chia Pet for Christmas and I\u2019m so jealous that I\u2019m calling to find out who to talk with about how I could get a Pee-wee Chia Pet. It\u2019s really me, honest. I know Elvira\u2019s real name, Cassandra Peterson, and her manager, Mr M*****. Please let me know who could help me get a Pee-wee Chia Pet. My number is ***-***-****. I\u2019ll be waiting by the phone. Thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As soon as I hung up I realized I should have left a different, less crazy message but it was too late. I waited a couple of days, all the while thinking a friend would inevitably be sending me a link to my message being posted on the internet. Instead, 3 days after leaving the message, SOMEONE FROM THE CHIA PET COMPANY CALLED ME! A very nice woman told me, \u201cPee-wee, you can absolutely have a Chia Pet! In fact, we\u2019d like to work with you on producing a whole line of Pee-wee products if you\u2019d be interested.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, the first product in my EXTENSIVE NEW LINE OF PEE-WEE MERCHANDISE is here. Guess what it is?! Wow\u2014good guess!! THE PEE-WEE HERMAN CHIA PET<\/a> is available NOW!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am almost sure you\u2019re thinking right now about how you lived without it! Well, you don\u2019t have to ponder that any longer!!!!! Buy 2 or more and get no discount at all! Same deal if you buy 10! These things won\u2019t last forever unless you\u2019re into buying a \u2018used\u2019 one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BTW, the photo on the box really doesn\u2019t the product justice. When I took out the first one it was like looking in the mirror!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m going to set up the Pee-wee Chia Pet<\/a> and put it on the windowsill with my two other friends who have Chia Pets\u2014Elvira and David Hasselhoff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Read about how Paul Reubens was so envious of their friend Elvira’s Chia Pet that they went to great lengths to try and get their own Pee-wee Chia Pet. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16,9,10],"tags":[122,119,121,120],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26210,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26169\/revisions\/26210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}