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What A Cartoon! - The Adventures of Pete & Pete "The Call" (Patreon)

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2020-04-06 04:00:01
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Just as we did last year, to kick off April we're deviating from our standard subject matter a bit to dive into the world of live-action cartoons! In 2019, we covered the dark and subversive Strangers with Candy, so it's only fair that we follow that episode up with a look at its kid-friendly spiritual predecessor, The Adventures of Pete & Pete. 

It's a series born out of the same circumstances that led to our favorite shows from cable TV's early era: a need for programming so desperate that networks were willing to throw (a small amount of) money at outsider weirdos to fill slots on a barren schedule. And thankfully, the right group of misfits assembled to make Pete & Pete one of the hippest, smartest, and surprisingly sincere kids' shows ever written. So lean back and let our podcast envelop you like warm flannel as we take you on a tour of one of Wellsville's most memorable tales.

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Joe Hodgson

The "laying on a basement floor all summer" segment is all too relatable for me. I grew up in New Hampshire, where summers are short, but brutally hot and humid. No air conditioners in my house or that of any friends, so during the summer I would just try and keep as cool as possible in the basement. That's usually where my older gaming systems were kept and I'd get reacquainted with them each summer. It was often a test of will though to see how long I could just exist in a semi-bored state before giving in and turning on the television, which would gradually cause the basement to heat up little by little. By late afternoon, it was just a sticky den of body odor and potato chip crumbs. This show though was pretty great. And since the production schedule was so unique it felt like appointment viewing whenever a new special aired or when the show finally received that first season treatment. I have a lot of good memories of those early SNICK years and would watch everything (yes, even Roundhouse) with great enthusiasm each Saturday. It felt like such a novelty to have a primetime block of programming aimed just at kids, even though TGIF more or less was as well. When The Adventures of Pete and Pete got the SNICK treatment, I think it's safe to say that's when the block peaked. It went Clarissa, Pete and Pete, Ren and Stimpy, Are You Afraid of the Dark? and then briefly Roundhouse occupied that 10pm slot usually reserved for Bewtiched or whatever Nick at Nite turned to. All future lineups were inferior!

ShyRanger

Listening to this for the first time and I instantly noticed, this show pulls some music from the same library as Spongebob. That clip where little Pete decides to go answer the phone, and big Pete narrates all the kids, that music is the same as when Spongebob went back to the Krusty Krab after forgetting the pickles.

twistedmentat

This was not on in Canada, and so I only know it through stuff like PushingUpRoses video on it. but if i had it available, this would have been immediately my shit.

Brian Hortin

Always love to see Bebe Neuwirth in anything. Cheers, The Faculty, Jumanji, and tons of guest parts on other shows like NewsRadio she’s always great. She was a pleasant surprise in her most recent role albeit small reprising her character of Nora from the original Jumanji in Jumanji: The Next Level.

ChemyChems

I need to find a way to watch this show, being only 27 this was on heavy reruns by the time I was able to see it and I was too focused on cartoons to give it attention. And from the podcast that feels like a mistake.

Matt

One of the funniest episodes has to be when Little Pete sells the house. XD

Guybrush

No other show can transport me to a time and place of my childhood like Pete and Pete. Besides how well these episodes resonated with emotionally, one lasting influence on me was the tendency to apply lore to all the mundane aspects of my life and the world around me.

Mat Segal

You both noted the introduction to indie music but this show's jangly guitars easily set my trajectory to liking Shoegaze music. Yes I'm a soft boy!

rubber cat

I remember Snow Day being decent, give it a chance Bob

Raymond Fernandes

Pete & Pete meant a lot to me as a teen. I am directly in between the brothers ages so, I could still see the perspective of both brothers. I also live in the Hudson River valley of NY and the show being filmed in North Jersey only 30 minutes from where I lived made the show feel very familiar to me because the neighborhoods look like neighborhoods I saw growing up. Also, a bit of correction. Nyack is not in Jersey. It is in Rockland County, NY. I was actually born in Nyack Hospital which is on the western bank of the Hudson River and you can see Sleepy Hollow, NY on the East Bank from the Hospital.

Charles Morgan

I can't/can believe you guys didn't mention Will Mcrobb's "Radio Free Rosco" when talking about his career post "Pete and Pete". A 2003-2005 show from "The N" that was heavily advertised as "from the creator of Pete and Pete". At the time I watching P&P reruns on the channel and was curious to see if it the new show would have that same magic. It didn't, at least not for me. Maybe someone out there has some positive feelings about it, I mean it did run for 52 episodes.

Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag

Where has this show been all my life? I'd heard the name before, but being a Canadian boy (who was born the year the show ended) I hadn't actually watched it before and I LOVED this episode. It perfectly fits the description of live-action cartoon in a way too few TV shows ever do and it's a GODDAMN shame it's not readily available anymore. I recognized Michael Maronna from Home Alone immediately, and I'm glad Bob mentioned that movie "Slackers" because for whatever awful reason I've watched it (think it was on Netflix on the time?). It, thanks to huge sideburns and an awful wardrobe, Michael looks very (intentionally) goofy and unlike himself. If anyone likes watching bad movies it's not too long and there's plenty of "what the hell?" moments in it.

Mike Mariano

Eight years ago I attended a Pete & Pete reunion discussion and concert hosted by The AV Club at the Bowery Ballroom in New York. It was really wonderful to celebrate the cast and let them know they really did create something deeply meaningful to a lot of people. https://tv.avclub.com/inside-the-adventures-of-pete-and-pete-reunion-1798230198 One of my most vivid memories of the series was Young Pete staying home sick from school and noticing the different angles of light coming through the window you'd never see otherwise. It's a detail so specific yet so universal, and it probably isn't more than ten seconds of screen time. This show was deep!

Ned Mulka

I thought of one other instance of someone naming their kids the same name: Hank and Good Hank Hill.

Large Mammal Enthusiast

I remember thinking at the time that Snow Day felt like a spiritual successor to Pete and Pete so its nice to know that it is from the same guys.

Mikey Cox

I'm so happy you guys did this series. Like Bob's Missus, I am from Canada and never came across this gem of a show. I've watched a couple episodes and now am completely hooked, much like how I became with Strangers with Candy when you guys did it last year. Speaking of which, I have a bit of a belated SWC anecdote. When I started watching it, the snooty blond cheerleader captain struck me as being quite familiar when it occurred to me that she is the sister of a good friend of mine! When I met him back in 2005 he mentioned she appeared in the show but as we were in Korea I had no exposure to it and completely forgot about it. I'm one of those people who has never met anyone famous so now it's pretty neat to say that, at the very least, I've hung out and got drunk with someone who was on Strangers with Candy.

Wayne McNally

Enjoyed listening to this. I used to watch this in the UK when I was 16 or 17 as my little sister liked it. As I was just getting into the 'Alt-rock' scene then I'd always like the random cameos from musicians like Gordon Gano, Luscious Jackson, David Johansen and of course Iggy.

Kurono

It`s funny you guys mention scrubs and how it is similar because of the voice over. The german voice of older Pete ( yes, we dub everything not only cartoons and anime) is also the voice of Zach Braff. So the german voiceover of Scrubs and Pete and Pete sound quit literaly the same. Pete and Pete had a run in germany from 1995 to 1998 and than it was gone. In the early 2000 there were a few reruns but it never had a strong presence anymore. I really liked it a lot. It is kind of funny but I thing for an european this series was even stranger and therefore in a wierd way even better. I have at least fond memorys of this show.

Fatamatician

This episode caught me off guard quite unexpectedly. Never experienced tears during a podcast. You captured nostalgia in a really special way here.