The Adventures of Pete & Pete (Season 0)
Two brothers, same name.
The Adventures of Pete & Pete is an American children's television series produced by Wellsville Pictures and broadcast by Nickelodeon. The show featured humorous and surreal elements in its narrative, and many recurring themes centered on two brothers both named Pete Wrigley, and their various interactions with family, friends, and enemies.
The show was created by Will McRobb and Chris Viscardi and began as minute-long shorts in 1989 that aired in between regular programs. 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 and continued in reruns until around 1999. The N aired reruns of the show between 2002–2003. 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."
Valentine's Day Massacre (Episode 1)
Air date: 1991-02-09
Runtime: 24 min
Overview: Big Pete accidentally kills the school mascot, the Squid, and only the Petes and Ellen know. But when a hooligan named Open Face wants dirt on Big Pete, he gets cozy with Ellen hoping to extract the vital info.
What We Did On Our Summer Vacation (Episode 2)
Air date: 1991-09-08
Runtime: 24 min
Overview: After the Petes and Ellen scare away Mr. Tastee, the ice cream man, they go on a search to bring him back to Wellsville.
Space, Geeks, and Johnny Unitas (Episode 3)
Air date: 1992-06-20
Runtime: 24 min
Overview: Ellen and Big Pete are stuck doing reports on different topics for their end of the year projects in science class. When Ellen has trouble finding an alien for her project, the school geek might be able to provide the answers to her questions.
Apocalypse Pete (Episode 4)
Air date: 1992-10-04
Runtime: 24 min
Overview: There's a neighborhood war between Mr. Wrigley and Ellen's dad, Mr. Hickle. They both try to get the best of each other by numerous pranks during their 'Great Prank War.' The war later ensues to a race between the Wrigley's station and a little Mr. Hickle doll driving a remote controlled car.
New Year's Pete (Episode 5)
Air date: 1993-01-02
Runtime: 24 min
Overview: Little Pete doesn't understand the thrill of celebrating New Year's Eve. He becomes a crossing guard, but he loses all of the regular crossing guards trust when he charges people to cross the street. After he sees how lonely the crossing guard is, never being able to celebrate New Year's Eve, he decides to make a celebration for the two of them.
Revenge of the Petes (Episode 6)
Runtime: 1 min
Overview: Artie must save the Petes from the evil bully Hat Head.
Pete-Less (Episode 7)
Runtime: 1 min
Overview: While painting parts of the human body for a model, Ellen gets her feelings hurt after giving Pete a valentine. He says that the heart-shaped valentine is about the average size of an older, male baboon's heart. This causes her to go to Little Pete for advice.
Crack the Whip (Episode 8)
Overview: The Petes make the mistake of allowing Hathead to play Crack the Whip with them.
Flossing (Episode 9)
Overview: The first of several shorts in which the Petes use their new video camera, this time to catch Dad flossing.
Licking (Episode 10)
Overview: The Petes use their video camera to spy on Mom and Dad discussing Little Pete's habit of licking his desk at school.
Dr. Pratt (Episode 11)
Overview: The Petes set up their video camera to catch their neighbor, Dr. Pratt, spitting on their lawn.
Artie (Episode 12)
Overview: The Petes use their video camera to keep Artie under surveillance so as to discover his secrets.
Car Ride (Episode 13)
Overview: The Petes convince Dad to drive them to Czechoslovakia so they can use their video camera to spy on on the Soviets.
Mom's Plate (Episode 14)
Runtime: 1 min
Overview: This short featured the metal plate located inside of Mom's head and the many uses for it.
The Burping Room (Episode 15)
Runtime: 1 min
Overview: When Dad gets sick of Little Pete's constant burping, he builds Pete a special room in which to burp. He learns his lesson, but Big Pete still sees him collecting burps in a bag in the backyard.
Route 34 (Episode 16)
Runtime: 1 min
Overview: Instead of getting a fun summer job, Big Pete ends up mowing the long stretch of grass that runs down Route 34.
Halloween (Episode 17)
Runtime: 1 min
Overview: The evil Hat Head is smashing all of the local pumpkins. Artie, the Strongest Man...In the World must put a stop to this!
The Dot (Episode 18)
Runtime: 1 min
Overview: Ellen prepares to be a dot for an upcoming band performance.
The Big Race (Episode 19)
Runtime: 1 min
Overview: Mr. Wrigley and Mr. Hickle get into an argument, causing them to duke it out in a race.
The Punishment (Episode 20)
Runtime: 1 min
Overview: Pete crosses the line with Dad after he decides to wax the lawn as a Father's Day gift.
The Launch (Episode 21)
Runtime: 1 min
Overview: Big Pete, Little Pete, and Ellen launch a rocket.
Pete's Theory (Episode 22)
Runtime: 1 min
Overview: Little Pete believes that the first man to swin the English Channel was Santa Claus. In an attempt to humor him, Mr. Wrigley dresses up like Santa Claus and plans to swim himself.
Artie, the Strongest Man... in the World! (Episode 23)
Runtime: 1 min
Overview: A short all about Artie, the Strongest Man...in the World and his poly-cotton blend outfit.
X-Ray Man (Episode 24)
Runtime: 1 min
Overview: After Little Pete stares at a lunar eclipse, Big Pete realizes that his brother has X-Ray vision. This becomes especially apparent when he catches Little Pete watching television outside of the house.
The Artie Workout (Episode 25)
Runtime: 3 min
Overview: Artie demonstrates the best way to get a good workout.
StareMaster (Episode 26)
Runtime: 4 min
Overview: Little Pete shows off all of his tricks for a staring contest. Afterwards, you get to go head to head with Little Pete.
Hathead (Episode 27)
Runtime: 1 min
Overview: The introduction of Hathead and how he got his nickname.
Freeze Tag (Episode 28)
Runtime: 1 min
Overview: Little Pete stays frozen after a night game of stocking freeze tag.
Nona All This Month (Episode 29)
Overview: A promo featuring Michelle Trachtenberg.
What Would You Do For a Dollar? (Episode 30)
Air date: 1991-02-09
Overview: Little Pete, Big Pete, Ellen, and another boy all play the game What Would You Do For a Dollar?. They also discuss about all of the things that Little Pete has done in the past for a buck.
Christmas (Episode 31)
Air date: 1991-09-08
Overview: The Petes and Ellen go caroling, with Little Pete using a bullhorn.
X-Mas Eve (Episode 32)
Air date: 1992-01-01
Runtime: 1 min
Overview: It's Christmas time, and Little Pete gets the same gift that he got last year- a fish wrapped up in paper. Little Pete and Big Pete spy on dad on Christmas Eve. He opens his gift, a glow-in-the-dark discus, in secret and plays with it for hours.
