4. Large Marge
When I was young, my old man convinced me that Pee-wee's iconic "Ha ha!" chortle was actually performed by him and every episode of Pee-wee's Playhouse had his handiwork dubbed into it. Of course, this is the guy who also had me and my siblings believing that Mickey Mantle had a pre-game ritual of going number two. And as the apple falls right below the tree, apparently in my college days I convinced a 7-year old cousin of mine that the reason some breeds of dogs don't have tails is that they're cut off at birth and put into Campbell's Soup. I guess what I'm trying to say is Pee-wee Herman was important to me. In Tim Burton's first feature-film Pee-wee's Big Adventure, our hero's beloved bicycle goes missing. His relationship with Dottie be damned, Pee-wee goes on an epic adventure worthy of the Old Testament. He dances around motorcycle gangs and rescues the occupants of a burning pet shop so smoothly it's like water off a duck's beak. Then he comes across Large Marge, a rough-and-tumble trucker gal who hitches him a ride. Her retelling of the "worst accident I ever seen" is creepy itself, but the revelation later at the diner that the aforementioned accident ten years prior was the one that led to Large Marge's demise deserves a coda by Rod Sterling. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzolCu-QLw0