![]() We’re never outright told that it’s weird. Tastee and solving the mystery behind a payphone that’s been ringing for twenty-seven years.Īnd that’s the best thing about the weirdness in Pete & Pete: it’s totally normal. ![]() Totally normal stuff for two redheaded brothers who share the same name (something the show never explains) and live in the fictional town of Wellsville, where the motto is “Come back when you have a minute.” When they aren’t staying up for 11 days straight to set a world record or selling the house while their parents are away, Pete and Pete are tracking down the whereabouts of a missing ice cream man named Mr. Mom’s got a metal plate in her head (which is credited as its own character in the show’s opening) that can pick up radio signals on road trips the scariest bullies in school have names like “Pit Stain” (due to a glandular disorder) and “Nightbrace” (for the mouth guard he never takes off) Little Pete has his own personal real-life superhero, Artie, The Strongest Man in the World (played by Toby Huss), and a permanent tattoo on his forearm of a woman he calls Petunia. According to Maronna, Pete & Pete was “weird in that it confronted suburban kid-centric problems in a way that hadn’t been done on TV before - weird characters, weird street names, and weird adults above all.” The show, written by Will McRobb and Chris Viscardi and primarily directed Katherine Dieckmann, follows the Wrigley brothers, “Big” Pete (Mike Maronna) and “Little” Pete (Danny Tamberelli), and their parents Don (Hardy Rawls) and Joyce (Judy Grafe). On June 17th, NickSplat, TeenNick’s nightly block of ‘90s Nickelodeon shows, will do a two-day “#PeteAndPeteTakeover” which will include a partial cast reunion and a six-episode airing. Because of their popularity, five half-hour specials were created in 1991, and the show would go onto to become a regular half-hour series that ran for three seasons from 1993 – 1996. The Adventures of Pete & Pete first premiered on Nickelodeon in 1989 as a series of minute-long shorts. It’s a love letter to those of us who don’t know how to be anything but authentic, and a reminder that it’s okay to be a little bit strange. At first glance, The Adventures of Pete & Pete may seem like your typical light-hearted coming-of-age drama, but the ‘90s Nickelodeon series deviated far from the norm and gave us an unapologetically weird and whimsical look at what it’s like to make the most out of being a kid, all from a kids’ POV. Two brothers: falling in love, fighting off bullies, and chasing down ice cream trucks in the summer.
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