Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure

…directed his first feature film, Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure, in 1985. A box-office success, the family movie centred on a man-child (played by Paul Reubens) looking for his stolen bicycle. With the dark comedy Beetlejuice (1988)—starring Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Winona Ryder, and Michael Keaton—Burton established

…such as Sixteen Candles (1984), Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (1985), Family Matters (1989–98), The IT Crowd (2006–13) and The Big Bang Theory (2007–19). Some experts have even argued that “geek culture,” formerly defined as outside conventional trends, has become the mainstream. Formerly geeky interests such as comic books, science fiction,