Pee-Wee Herman

Whatever your feelings on FOX’s Gotham, few would argue that Robin Taylor’s Penguin proved an early highlight of the show, accented by screen legend Carol Kane as his eccentric mother. Now, the Penguin family lineage grows even odder, as Pee-wee Herman himself, Paul Reubens signs on to play Penguin’s father (again) in Gotham Season 2.

We've profiled some awesome amigurumi artists here at CA, but somehow we missed the comprehensively amazing works of Allison Hoffman. As spotlighted by Conan O'Brien, Pee-Wee Herman, Jimmy Kimmel, Martha Stewart and more, the artist has a way with yarn...

Kudos to Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and Paul Reubens for making us LOL IRL with this video, which replaces all the voices in a Dark Knight Rises advertisement with that of Reubens' enduringly popular Pee-Wee Herman character. Reubens, as all hopelessly geeky Batman fans know, played the father of Danny DeVito's Oswald Cobblepot -- aka The Penguin -- in 1992's Batman Returns...