Really, how DID the thieves steal Pee-Wee's bike?

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I mean, c'mon! There is a medium-large crowd of people walking all around it, it's in broad daylight, and the thing is chained better than Jacob Marley. And yet, Francis' goons manage to somehow abscond with the bike within five minutes, and none of the bystanders even saw that anything odd had happened? The gray-suited mega-nerd steps out of the bike shop, and everyone is just acting normal and going about their days. Houdini would be proud!

If you can suspend your disbelief long enough to accept that a character like PeeWee can walk around looking and behaving the way he does and absolutely everyone treats him as though he were perfectly normal, why does the possibility of someone snatching a nerdy-looking bike in broad daylight in mere seconds without causing a stir seem so implausible? Those people wouldn't blink if the Hamburgler ran up and peed on their shoes. PeeWee's reality is clearly not our reality, though his movie world more closely resembles ours than does the world in which his Playhouse resides. At least in the films, the chairs don't talk.

Good points.

Bikes get stolen in broad daylight all the time. Granted, he used a lot of chain, but it was skinny chain.

I haven't thought about that movie in a long time.

LULZ this is a fantastic topic Ragtime