joshwinkler87 The summary was a quote from Robert Lloyd of the LA Times which he wrote about this marvelous show.When old school Nickelodeon fans talk about their best remembered and most liked shows (especially live action shows) The Adventures of Pete & Pete is sure to come up. When Nickelodeon introduced their Nick Rewind DVD collections back in 2005, The Adventures of Pete & Pete was the first show ever released.But what made Pete & Pete so great was its wittiness, its intelligent humor, its beautiful portrayal of the New Jersey state, and the 'loving' relationship between Pete and Ellen. The show was like The Wonder Years with a touch of surrealism.I discovered Pete & Pete around 1998, unfortunately it went off the air shortly after that. But in 2005, the first and second seasons were released on DVD, however the third season was scheduled to be released but was cancelled for unknown reasons. I highly recommend renting them on Netflix or better yet buying them because this show is so great you will want to relive it again and again.

annevejb The Adventures of Pete & Pete: Season 1 [1993] not including Michelle Trachtenberg. I was slowly trying to get a collection of the earliest works of some actors and M T is one. She appears in some episodes of season 2 and 3, but not in any of season 1. This will be her just before Harriet and those immediately after do not show an obvious typecasting the way that her role as Dawn might imply. In Richie and Gadget the blatant aspect was not enough of the tract berg. Real nice girl stuff. Apart from the Penada. For those who look to Nickelodeon Rewind Collection for boy stuff, this seems to be one of those typically rated as 5 by 5. I found the Valentine's Day Massacre episode, death of the school squid, useful as both Elle and Grave y Breath showed me that some of those including Tracht might be that 5 by 5 for me too. Otherwise I needed to rate this collection lower, but some of the others are obviously special. For me this season varied between 1 and 5 if out of 5, but now I rate it all. From the commentaries, Valentine's Day Massacre was likely to be a special, possibly the first made as it does not include The Strongest Man. The five specials as full length Pete Pete that followed on from the 60 second fillers that started the thing going, all a lead in to the eight episode 1993 series and then seasons 2 and 3. End credits say 2005, which is when the collection I have was made: Two shorts and four specials and season one. * Season 2. This two disk set has another special. It also has five shorts, giving glimpses of the main characters when the whole thing was just starting. These shorts also say something about some ideas in the series. More than that, they are fun. Big Pete continues with Elle and little Pete continues with The Strongest Man, but only for a while as what lasts with little Pete is Mona and maybe Nona. The approach to background music is of interest as it is not overdone in the few other series I know. The approach to guest stars in X=WHY stands out as distinctive. Re early Tracht, this is two or three years after Law And Order, 2-5, God Bless The Child, October 1991, but this is a speaking role. Nona is so amazing, while also pointing to the other things I have of hers. A commentary gives a pronunciation of Track Ten Burg, which helps me as Harriet had pointed me to Tract en Berg and EuroTrip had pointed me to Trash Hen Berg. Variety, but I can like Track more. A wiki points to this series as Tracht's earliest credited role, her appearances in All My Children being done parallel to this. Before that it was adverts and one uncredited role, Law And Order. This is essential Track and more optimistic than more modern series I know. It helps re musing on the differences. This is still rough tough, warrior Tracht with a doll as a figurehead strapped to the basket of her war bike, her ready to do battle for Pete. * The season 2 DVD set includes a printed advert for a season 3 collection, but at January 2013 this is still cancelled. Recently I found a downloadable copy of The Pete And Pete Reunion, 2012. This has some cast and crew and Polaris. Most is a discussion of assorted points re the series and Season 3 does get some mention, I found this to be a much more helpful discussion than in their 2011 reunion. Endless Mike Hellstrom, aka Rick Gomez, mentions his approach to watching season 3 with his family, Endless Mike can manage it okay. Surprisingly I went along with it and, consequently, I now have a You Tube copy of most of season 3, all but the last quarter of 3-06, Crisis In The Love Zone, where little Pete gets smitten by a deadly love disease and Nona, at the three quarter mark, appears to be about to give up on finding a cure, maybe tooling up for running away from the series instead. The YT versions are around 10% of DVD quality, not a substitute for the real thing, but still amazing. Season 3. Big Pete mostly ignores Elle, who occasionally notices big Pete in a big way. Little Pete starts with Nona, who then disappears half way through, leaving little Pete with Mona The Kreb Scout. The music continues to be worthwhile. I also checked for the soundtrack CD, Music From The Adventures Of Pete And Pete, and found an Amazon advert for a second hand disk at around UK£140, way above My Price. Check a day later, it was no longer there, likely sold. Except that Amazon also had mp3 downloads at close to My Price. They do not appear to be shackled by digital rights management, either. A nice 254kbps stereo collection. Amazon also had other stuff by Miracle Legion, the real id of this particular Polaris.

cheskie_b This is a classic. Quality preteen television. Preteen shows now just show slapstick humor and kids shouting and bouncing about. I'd watch one of these new shows and wouldn't remember anything memorable about it. I would probably completely forget them a few years down the road. 'The Adventures of Pete and Pete' is different from most of these new, hip, pop shows. It's been, what, 6-7 years since I last saw this on TV. But I still remember and I miss it. It had very unusual elements in it. But the situations were real. A little exaggerated, yes.. but real. The humor isn't the usual slapstick that you see. It was subtle but had a lot of impact. The romantic scenes between the characters were, at times, cheesy but it never failed to make me go 'aaawww..' Nick should bring back a taste of shows like these.

Scoopy Unlike many who commented on this show, I didn't grow up watching Pete and Pete. You see, I'm nearly 60 years old.I discovered it by accident, or I should say that my stepdaughter discovered it by accident, then I walked by and got hooked like Bob the bass. I ended being the show's biggest fan. As I re-watch it on DVD, I love it more than ever. Today I got season two and was going to watch one episode to pass the time. That had a prayer. As soon as I saw the episode names, I knew I had to watch them again: The Time Tunnel, Inspector 34, The Phone Call.Those three episodes alone will demonstrate to you that this series is good in ways that no other series has ever touched. It says as much about America as any Ken Burns documentary, it makes me laugh as much as the best episodes of Seinfeld, and it's cooler than anything which ever sprang from the mind of Slushmaster Bob. Its narrative flow is deeply cynical, yet there is a strong undercurrent of warmth and hope, as if it despairs of what people are, without forgetting what they yet might be. It never forgets that we, like the Petes when they time-travel, may yet find a way to do it over, and get it right. Even without Riboflavin.I have been a major league TV addict for 50 years, and if you ask me to name the best show I have ever watched ... well, I don't know if I could name just one ... but this obscure Nickelodeon show would be one that would come to mind - alongside I, Claudius and The Civil War and The Simpsons and all the other greats. It's sheer genius, with more than a touch of poetry.In the words of Inspector 34, it's so much better than underpants.