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The Adventures of The Adventures of Pete & Pete

by | February 20th, 2012

“Teen-agers, bohos, camp culturati, photographers – they have won by default, because, after all, they do create styles.” — Tom Wolfe

One of the blazing revelations I’ve had over the last few whirligig weeks of reading about, seeking out and conversing with the progenitors of our favorite old Nickelodeon shows is that, for the most part, this was a bunch of ragtag art kids in their twenties and thirties who — in lieu of heading to the West Coast to fuse a punk-rock ethos to mainstream accessibility in music — brought the “alternative” sensibility to an even more unlikely place than the radio: shows for kids (and, when they [...]

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The Ten Most Memorable Guest Stars of The Adventures of Pete and Pete

by | March 14th, 2011

Last week, Nickelodeon announced that beginning this fall, they would start airing many of their most popular shows from the early- to mid-1990s, including All That, Clarissa Explains It All, and, my personal favorite, The Adventures of Pete and Pete, the ultimate nostalgic example of, “Nick’s not as good as it used to be.” There are so many things to like about Pete and Pete — the main cast, the odd plotlines that somehow made sense to all us kids, the music from Polaris — but the show’s most underrated aspect was its guest stars. Below are 10 of the most memorable.

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