How well does "Pete & Pete" hold up

[TMC]

http://officialfan.proboards.com/thread/490593/pete

Good show, better theme song. I remember the wrestling one, where Big Pete beat Relentless Mike, the one with little Pete stats his own garage band, and the one where Little Pete and his friends stay up all night to protest bedtime. And Artie the worlds Strongest man.

It's really good. I enjoy it more looking back than I did when it was actually on. It doesn't feel much like a kids show, it's pretty understated and the humor has this surrealist bent to it, so it almost feels like it was designed more for a college age crowd than for kids. A big part of that is how much things have changed in the last 20 years, as 4TheGlory said. Also, the people that grew up with Nickelodeon are the taste-makers now, so that may have something to do with it.

It had such a strange charisma. As a show, it's kind of it's own deal.

It was like a standard Wonder Years or Boy Meets World type of situation if it were written and produced by someone on indulgent amounts of doctor prescribed cough medicine.

It was poignant, it was ridiculous, it was hard to turn away from if you were in front of it.

A true piece of Nick history.

[Blackout]

i think it holds it's own


should be re-ran on nickelodeon

[Steely Dan]

I think it's timeless. The character's are so bizarre that they're funny in any time.

I hope they don't try to remake it. It's one of a kind.

[TMC]

http://collider.com/nickelodeon-90s-...-pete-and-pete

How Well Does It Hold Up? Exceptionally well. The Adventures of Pete & Pete may have weathered time better than any other show of the era, thanks to it being both firmly rooted in a place (the 90s fashion, the soundtrack and theme song by Polaris) yet completely in its own world. Everything is so incredibly weird and gloriously unique. From the exclamations (“blow hole!” “Kill me with a brick!” “rat fink!”), to the mystery of Mr. Tastee, to chowing down on riboflavin, to Krebstar, to Endless Mike, and so much more, the show created a fantastic fictional world that felt (and still feels) completely real. It’s so insular and so bizarre, and yet, grounded through the authentic emotional moments the Petes and Ellen experience. It’s also still really, genuinely funny.

If the kid psyche of the 90s could be distilled into a spirit, it would manifest as The Adventures of Pete & Pete. (Plus, the celebrity cameos — Iggy Pop, Steve Buscemi, Michael Stipe, Janeane Garofalo, and many more — cannot be matched). No series on the list had a stronger sense of itself, and executed that vision more perfectly than this one. You are missed, my little Viking.