The Adventures of Pete & Pete
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The Adventures of Pete & Pete is an American television sitcom created by Will McRobb and Chris Viscardi for Nickelodeon. It focuses on two brothers, both named Pete Wrigley, and their humorous and surreal adventures in suburbia among their equally eccentric friends, enemies, and neighbors. The Adventures of Pete & Pete began on Nickelodeon in 1989 as minute-long and 30-second shorts that aired as interstitials. Because of the popularity of the shorts, five half-hour specials were made, followed by a regular half-hour series that ran for three seasons from 1993 to 1996. As of October 5, 2015, reruns of the shorts and the shows aired on TeenNick as part of the NickSplat block. Jason Ankeny of AllMusic called the series "the greatest children's show ever", while IGN called it "one of the most well-written kids shows ever". The first two seasons were released on DVD in 2005; the third was planned for 2006 but was indefinitely postponed. Plans for a film based on the show fell through and the script was reworked into the Nickelodeon movie Snow Day, released on February 11, 2000. That film in turn, got a musical remake in 2022 as well.
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| Season | Episodes | Originally released | ||
| First released | Last released | |||
| Specials | 5 | February 9, 1991 (1991-02-09) | January 2, 1993 (1993-01-02) | |
| 1 | 8 | November 28, 1993 (1993-11-28) | January 16, 1994 (1994-01-16) | |
| 2 | 13 | September 4, 1994 (1994-09-04) | December 4, 1994 (1994-12-04) | |
| 3 | 13 | October 1, 1995 (1995-10-01) | April 1, 1996 (1996-04-01) | |
| Broadcast season | Release date | Episodes | Specials | Commentary tracks |
| Season 1 | May 17, 2005 | All 8 from season one | "Valentine's Day Massacre What We Did On Our Summer Vacation Apocalypse Pete New Year's Pete" | "What We Did on Our Summer Vacation Day of the Dot The Nightcrawlers" |
| Season 2 | November 1, 2005 | All 13 from season two | "Space, Geeks and Johnny Unitas" | "Halloweenie Yellow Fever Farewell, My Little Viking" (both parts) |
| Season 3 | Was originally scheduled for release February 28, 2006. However, after the merger between DreamWorks and Paramount Pictures, the third season was removed from Paramount's schedule. | All 13 from season three | N/A | N/A According to co-creators Will McRobb and Chris Viscardi the season three DVDs were actually pressed and are sitting in a warehouse. In a LA Times article they discussed the situation. McRobb said, "The same thing goes on with the mythical third season on DVD. They put out the first two and everyone's thrilled, and the third one doesn't come out, and no one has ever told us why. And they made it, it's in the warehouse." Viscardi added, "It's packaged, it's recorded, we did commentary tracks with a bunch of the cast, there's all these special extras on it. They pressed them, we saw it. Nothing." |
References
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- IGNhttps://www.ign.com/articles/2005/05/03/the-adventures-of-pete-pete-season-one
- Niagara Universityhttps://web.archive.org/web/20160421124239/http://www.niagara.edu/chris-viscardi-84-telling-meaningful-childrens-stories/
- Los Angeles Timeshttps://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-may-29-ca-pete29-story.html
- The Village Voicehttps://web.archive.org/web/20190129122929/https://www.villagevoice.com/2012/02/23/going-back-to-wellsville-six-great-musical-moments-from-the-adventures-of-pete-pete/
- New York Daily News
- Adventures of Pete & Pete, The – Short 15 – "The Dot"
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- Vulturehttps://www.vulture.com/2011/03/the-ten-most-memorable-guest-stars-of-the-adventures-of-pete-and-pete.html
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- Green Room Radiohttps://web.archive.org/web/20051116090048/http://www.greenroomradio.com/?p=13
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- groups.google.comhttps://groups.google.com/g/alt.folklore.urban/c/-OOihwsKYKA?hl=en
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- Los Angeles Timeshttp://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-the-further-adventures-of-pete-pete-will-and-chris-20120831,0,4720092.story?page=2
- family.cahttps://web.archive.org/web/20011104194120/http://www.family.ca/cgi-local/program3.cgi?value=Adventures+of+Pete+and+Pete,+The&type=title&match=exact
- MTVhttps://web.archive.org/web/20110313011235/http://clutch.mtv.com/2011/03/10/nick-at-night-for-twentysomethings-on-the-way
- EW.comhttps://web.archive.org/web/20110311065634/http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/03/10/teennick-goes-retro-with-90s-programming-exclusive/
- PopCulture.comhttps://popculture.com/tv-shows/news/adventures-of-pete-and-pete-reunite-for-nickelodeon-marathon/
- Adventures of Pete and Petehttps://web.archive.org/web/20150120034226/https://www.laweekly.com/arts/adventures-of-pete-and-pete-cast-reunites-again-with-the-band-polaris-2373022
- HuffPosthttps://www.huffpost.com/entry/adventures-of-pete-and-pete-reunion-nyc_n_1314979
- The Adventures of Pete and Petehttps://web.archive.org/web/20120228080628/https://blogs.laweekly.com/arts/2011/11/pete_and_pete_reunion_ciniefam.php
- Peoplehttps://people.com/the-adventures-of-pete-and-pete-danny-tamberelli-michael-c-maronna-still-best-friends-exclusive-8646319