8 Greatest Ever Film Moments Featuring Pancakes

4. Pee-wee's Big Adventure

Though his arrest for public indecency may have soured Pee-wee Herman's image for many people, the comic creation of Paul Reubens remains a fine creation, and his first movie outing in 1985's Pee-wee's Big Adventure deserves its billing as a cult classic.

It's also one of Tim Burton's most underrated movies, and shows a commitment to honouring and parodying great family films of the period. This sequence shows Pee-wee at his idiosyncratic best, taking a leaf out of the great cinematic book of Breakfast Inventions - also featuring Wallace & Gromit and Back To The Future - to create his own elaborate breakfast making device.

For once his invention works well, apart from the flawed pancake delivery system, and it allows for the free expression of both Burton and Reubens' imaginations. Pee-wee also goes the traditional breakfast face route, turning his stack of pancakes into a face before conversing with it about Mr T cereal, for some reason.

It's odd, but cheerfully so, and it shows some touches that would go on to characterise director Burton's work...