Cowboy Curtis

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Cowboy Curtis is a character from the highly popular children's show, Pee-wee's Playhouse, played by Laurence Fishburne. He enjoys square dancing and in one episode, he teaches the gang how to square dance.

In "I Remember Curtis" the Playhouse gang remembers the day they met him.

His catchphrase is "Whoo-weee!!", which is generally his response to shocks and surprises. Laurence Fishburne said he developed Cowboy Curtis's voice by imitating Gomer Pyle. Curtis is also talented with a lasso. At one point, he briefly dated Miss Yvonne, the source of much innuendo on the show.

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This character is mentioned as one of the combatants in the song "Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny."

In the video game Enter The Matrix, one of the passwords to unlock features is "cowboycurtis", a reference to Laurence Fishburne, who plays Morpheus.

He also made an appearance in a sketch in Robot Chicken, in which he had malignant cancer and was not taken seriously by Peewee, who said that "cancer" was their secret word of the day.