The Adventures of Pete and Pete: Difference between revisions

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** This is also the way that Dad finds Mom at the beach for the first time.

* [[Berserk Button]]: In "Yellow Fever", Bus Driver Stu Benedict's is his and his ex-girlfriend's song - "If You're Happy and You Know It".

* [[Bigger On the Inside]]: Another source of the show's quirky humor. Artie's residence looks like a normal Port-A-Potty, but apparently it's big enough to host a dinner party with a lot of people...?

* [[Bigger on the Inside]]: Another source of the show's quirky humor. Artie's residence looks like a normal Port-A-Potty, but apparently it's big enough to host a dinner party with a lot of people...?

** Artie is a [[Doctor Who|Time Lord]]? That actually makes a lot of sense.

* [[Big Bad]]: Oh god, [[Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant|Endless Mike...]]

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** The show was also crawling with cameos from alternative rock musicians including Iggy Pop (who had a recurring role as Nona's <s>dad</s> pop), Kate Pierson of the B-52's, Gordon Gano of the Violent Femmes, Marshall Crenshaw, Syd Straw, Michael Stipe of R.E.M., David Johansen of the New York Dolls, the rock band Luscious Jackson and Richard Edson (the original drummer for Sonic Youth)

* [[Canada, Eh?]]: In "Grounded for Life", Little Pete attempts to run away from home by riding a riding mower to Canada. A mountie catches him at the border, hitches the mower to the back of his horse and drags him home that way.

* [[Can't Get Away ~~With~~ Nuthin']]

* [[Can't Get Away with Nuthin']]

* [[Catch Phrase]]: "I am Artie! The strongest man...''in the world''!"

** "International Adult Conspiracy"

** "What, you didn't know that?"

** "This is [person]. And this is [person's possession]."

* [[Character As Himself]]: Mom's Plate, the metal plate in Ms. Wrigley's head; Petunia, Little Pete's tattoo.

* [[Character as Himself]]: Mom's Plate, the metal plate in Ms. Wrigley's head; Petunia, Little Pete's tattoo.

* [[Charlie Brown From Outta Town]]: Mr. Bear (Big Pete in disguise)

* [[Cloudcuckooland]]: Wellsville, though the outside world doesn't seem any saner.

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* [[Interactive Narrator]]: Big Pete, who tells the story after the fact. Early on, the show was supposed to mimic the sort of long, rambling stories small children have a tendency to tell, but this angle on the narration was dropped during the series proper when Big Pete became too old for this to work.

* [[I Uh You Too]]: Big Pete cannot spit it out to Ellen ("I...I"), to which Ellen responds "It's OK, I know" and smooches him in the middle of a packed high school stadium.

* [[Keep Circulating the Tapes]]: Season 3's been on it's way since 2006. Don't hold your breath. (See [[Screwed By the Network]] below.)

* [[Keep Circulating the Tapes]]: Season 3's been on it's way since 2006. Don't hold your breath. (See [[Screwed by the Network]] below.)

* [[Large Ham]]: Every guest star. And Artie, of course.

* [[Lyrical Dissonance]]: The main theme, "Hey Sandy," is a peppy alt-rock song that is widely rumored to be about the Kent State Massacre. (Naturally, however, it was a chore to get even ''most'' of the lyrics clarified--finding out the ''meaning'' is all but a lost cause. See [[Indecipherable Lyrics]] above.)

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** And, of course, Pit Stain, whose problem happened to be glandular...and Little Pete's problem happened to be his fist.

** Hell, the only villain to whom this doesn't apply is "Endless" Mike; the nickname is never elaborated upon ([[Wild Mass Guessing|though fans have speculated the "endless" is in reference to his hatred for Big Pete or his tenure in high school.]])

** Those are all Meaningful [[Only Known By Their Nickname|Nicknames]]; Mike's surname "Hellstrom", however, is quite a [[Meaningful Name]].

** Those are all Meaningful [[Only Known by Their Nickname|Nicknames]]; Mike's surname "Hellstrom", however, is quite a [[Meaningful Name]].

* [[Metaphorgotten]]: "The Day Of The Dot"

* [[Mundane Fantastic]]: Spandex-clad superheros, radio signals being picked up by skull plates, sound-proof burp chambers, black-market expired pudding and underwear-inspecting guardian angels are amongst the many bizarre and improbable things no one bats an eye at. Hell, the Wrigleys ones found a fully-functioning car under a beach with a metal detector and drove it home. Perfectly normal.

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:::[[The Spock]] - Monica

:::[[The McCoy]] - Nona

* [[Production Posse]]: Showrunners McRobb and Viscardi would cast Damian Young (Bus Driver Stu) in their [[Too Good to Last]] show ''[[~~The War Next Door (TV)|~~The War Next Door]]'', as well as the film ''[[Snow Day]]'' (which was proposed as a Pete & Pete movie.) Bob Mittenthal, who wrote a couple of episodes, would also go on to co-create ''[[Ka Blam]]'' with McRobb and Viscardi. By a startling coincidence, Rick Gomez (Endless Mike) was cast on another McRobb-Viscardi show -- ''[[Ka Blam]]'' -- without any of the three knowing until production started.

* [[Production Posse]]: Showrunners McRobb and Viscardi would cast Damian Young (Bus Driver Stu) in their [[Too Good to Last]] show ''[[The War Next Door]]'', as well as the film ''[[Snow Day]]'' (which was proposed as a Pete & Pete movie.) Bob Mittenthal, who wrote a couple of episodes, would also go on to co-create ''[[Ka Blam!]]'' with McRobb and Viscardi. By a startling coincidence, Rick Gomez (Endless Mike) was cast on another McRobb-Viscardi show -- ''[[Ka Blam!]]'' -- without any of the three knowing until production started.

** Also, surprisingly, ''[[Scrubs]]''. Several longtime members of ''Pete & Pete's'' production crew ended up working on the show, including ''P&P'''s director of photography Michael Spillman, who would direct over a dozen ''Scrubs'' episodes. The actor who played Teddy on ''P&P'' also had a couple of bit roles sprinkled throughout and when you consider how much of the show's style is eerily reminiscent of ''P&P'' (first-person narration with ending realization, absurdist humor and characters emphasis on music, etc.), it's almost an adult [[Spiritual Successor]].

* [[Put On a Bus]]: Poor, poor Artie. (In retrospect, all Toby Huss can remember of his reasons for leaving is that he did it "of his own accord", according to his commentary on the DVD.)

* [[Put on a Bus]]: Poor, poor Artie. (In retrospect, all Toby Huss can remember of his reasons for leaving is that he did it "of his own accord", according to his commentary on the DVD.)

** Perhaps lampshaded, as Little Pete thereafter kept regular company with Bus Driver Stu.

* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: There actually are a few, Mr. Slurm comes to mind, in fact the Aesop of the episode he's featured in is about Pete overcoming his prejudices about him and shop class in general.

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* [[Rock-Paper-Scissors]]: Papercut, who always threw [[Captain Obvious|paper]].

* [[Running Gag]]: "Sally left me. ''Again''. Over '''''nothing!'''''"

* [[Screwed By the Network]]: More specifically, by the parent company of the network. When Viacom shifted around some key executives at Nickelodeon, it eventually resulted in several "Rewind" DVD releases being postponed and eventually cancelled, leaving the third and final season unavailable on DVD (at least in the US).

* [[Screwed by the Network]]: More specifically, by the parent company of the network. When Viacom shifted around some key executives at Nickelodeon, it eventually resulted in several "Rewind" DVD releases being postponed and eventually cancelled, leaving the third and final season unavailable on DVD (at least in the US).

* [[Serious Business]]: "I created Orange Lazarus... for world peace..."

** That, and just about everything else on the show - family trips, the school marching band, bedtimes, shop class, bowling balls, school tests, dodgeball, favorite songs, baseball, awkward silence, Daylight Saving Time, Halloween, underwear inspecting, fishing, field trips, good-luck charms, pool piss, pool hierarchy, spring fever, Varsity sports...and this troper may have forgotten a few.