![]() ![]() ![]() Little Pete likes to make Petunia "dance" by flexing his forearm. "Petunia" A tattoo on Little Pete's forearm depicting a prone woman in a red dress, Petunia receives her own credit in the show's opening sequence. He and Big Pete share enemies in Hat Head and Lifeguard Matt "The Urinator" Uplinger. Little Pete's primary nemeses are Pit Stain (for insulting his glandular disorder) and Principal Ken Schwinger (the principal at his school). He showed defiance in throwing scissors, instead of rock, which angered Papercut to swear revenge on him and destroy him in the rematch. Little Pete has various enemies, including Papercut (who was originally Artie's main enemy, besides John McFlemp). He is also known to make irrational decisions in response to problems, like selling the house because his brother hung out with a girl instead of him, without taking responsibility for it (the only exception was in 'Grounded for Life'). "Little" Pete Wrigley ( Danny Tamberelli) Four years younger than his brother, Little Pete is often engaged in struggles against adults and other authority figures. He and Little Pete shared enemies in both Hat Head and Lifeguard Matt "The Urinator" Uplinger. Big Pete's nemeses are "Endless" Mike Hellstrom and Open Face. Big Pete plays trombone in the school marching band. ![]() Aside from typical sibling rivalry, he and his brother are best friends. However, he also grapples with the problem of growing up and thus losing sight of the simple happiness of childhood, often to the disappointment of Little Pete. The fictional Wellsville High School's mascot is a squid.ĭanny Tamberelli (top) as Little Pete and Mike Maronna (bottom) as Big Pete "Big" Pete Wrigley ( Michael Maronna) The show's narrator, Big Pete often acts as a voice of reason in contrast to the strange occurrences and people around him. The football field used for various episodes is that of Bayonne High School in Bayonne, New Jersey. The exteriors of Pete & Pete's house (as seen in the credit sequence and other shots) were filmed on Vreeland Avenue in Leonia. The show was filmed largely in Leonia, New Jersey, with location shots done in a variety of other spots around northern New Jersey, including the Willowbrook Mall in Wayne, New Jersey, and the Wrigley House in Cranford, New Jersey. Certain locations were fictionalized for the purposes of the show Glurt County, mentioned in "Yellow Fever" and "The Good, the Bad and the Lucky", does not exist in any state. The name of the town is also a nod to The Embarrassment's song "Wellsville". License plates in the show refer to "The Sideburn State", and according to the series' canon, the Wrigley house is set miles from the Canadian border, 500 miles from Hoover Dam and "not far from the beach". whose exact geography is never specified. Pete & Pete is set in Wellsville, a fictional town in the U.S. ![]() The first two seasons were released on DVD in 2005 the third was planned for 2006 but was indefinitely postponed. 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". As of October 5, 2015, reruns of the shorts and the shows run on TeenNick as part of the NickSplat block. Owing to 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. The Adventures of Pete & Pete began on Nickelodeon in 1989 as minute-long shorts that aired as interstitials. It centers around 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 is an American sitcom created by Will McRobb and Chris Viscardi for Nickelodeon. ![]()
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