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This show never jumped. It was perhaps the most imaginative and surreal kids shows ever developed. Some of the episodes were "youth-Seinfeldian." Mysterious ice cream truck vendors, endlessly ringing telephones. You simply don't see this type of writing or creativity for kids' shows these days.

A small correction. Steve Buscemi played Ellen's dad, Iggy played Nona's. Given the array of great talent who went to New Jersey to guest star on this show (including Patty Hearst!) P&P had the best casting director ever.
I think it jumped after Nickelodeon Pictures yanked Michelle Trachtenberg off the show for Harriet the Spy. That was about the time they realized that it was not going to be renewed, and the energy was gone. The first half of the third season, especially Dance Fever, was great.

For me, there's little good to say about pop culture in the 90s. This show was a shining bright spot. It was really excellent even though I was beyond it's target demographic. And the music was the best genre of the 90s. I hope Pete and Pete are both still doing well.

what made this show irresistable and and hard to watch was that it was the childhood that i'd always wanted. full of magic and wonder

Easily the best show of the 1990s! It faltered a bit after Artie left, but the special feeling you got after watching it never went away.

bring back the 90s!!!

It's hard to say that the show jumped the shark when Artie left. The writing quality was just as good after, and fun characters like Pitstain, Endless Mike, Teddy and Nona got a lot more screentime. Still, it wasn't the same without Artie, who was the most surreal part of this surreal show.

I loved this show and I was in my late teens/early twenties when it aired. It showed the quirky world kids often live in. The line I remember most was little Pete saying "Adults have the whole world and now they get our pool' or something like that. Iggy Pop as Ellen's dad. Michael Stipe as an ice cream vendor. This was a great show.

I think the real dilmmema with Pete and Pete is that they waited a long time to finally transition it into a series. The shorts which proceeded it were so wildy imaginative that they could have easily become full length episodes. I'll have to go with season 3 though on this one. The problem with it was that there were excellent individual moments tied into stories which got repetitive and a little boring. I still think they owe it to everyone to finally pull the trigger on getting season 3 out so we could appreciate the stregths Pete and Pete still possessed into its final year

I love this show and still watch the DVDs... it kinda ran out of steam in the final season, but I felt that was because more and more episodes were about Little Pete and he just wasn't always that interesting... but this show was a masterpiece...

What, you didn't know that?

this was one of the best shows i watched as a kid, it seems like the surreal and kooky ones are the ones that stay with me (pete and pete, Eerie indiana, The Oddessy, Bagpus)and this is one of them, the characters were great but i think the writing was very top notch on this show. someone pointed out before that it shows how skewered a little boys perception of the world can be and its so right. strange how big pete narrates it when it seems to be little petes world...

most beautiful episode: the ice cream one.. it drove me mad wondering who he really was, after all their detective work and sleuthing we got no closer.

i lack the words to describe the pure joy that the petes can bring to my heart.

The show never jumped, although it ran out steam in season 3.

In it's early going, certainly the best show ever on Nickelodeon and probably one of the top five shows on television. Can you even imagine a character smoking a cigarette on prime-time TV, let alone a kid's show today?

Never jumped and actually the iconic Hunter S Thompson never cameoed, it was just someone with the same name. Here's hoping for Season 3 on DVD.