History Trivia / TheAdventuresOfPeteAndPete

** Creator/Liza Weil, aka Paris Geller from ''Gilmore Girls'', appeared as one of Endless Mike's cronies in "Yellow Fever" and would later re-appear as Big Pete's crush Margie in the episode "35 Hours".

** Lisa Weil, of ''Gilmore Girls'', appeared as one of Endless Mike's cronies in "Yellow Fever" and would later re-appear as Big Pete's crush Margie in the episode "35 Hours"

* PlayingAgainstType - Iggy Pop as an overprotective dad.

* ActingForTwo: Creator/TobyHuss (Artie) did the body work for Mr. Tastee, though not the voice.
** [[WildMassGuessing So Mr. Tastee was Artie all along?]] Might explain why Mr. Tastee was so secretive about his identity.

** A reverse case in "Dance Fever": [[Series/TheSecretWorldOfAlexMack Larissa Oleynik]], who was a teenager at the time, played a nurse.

* PlayingAgainstType - Iggy Pop as an OverprotectiveDad.

* NamesTheSame: Substitute teacher Shrek might be intimidating, but he is not [[WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}} an ogre]].
** There ''was'' a guy named Hunter Thompson in "New Year's Pete" but it's '''not''' [[Creator/HunterSThompson that one]].

** Rick Gomes was 23 when he debuted high schooler "Endless" Mike Hellstrom (though the "Endless" moniker does hint at him being constantly held back in school).

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The show never addressed any current events or sociopolitical issues of the time, but the blatantly '90s fashions and soundtracks make the time period very obvious.

* ActingForTwo: Toby Huss (Artie) did the body work for Mr. Tastee, though not the voice.

* TheDanza: James "Music/IggyPop" Ostenberg as James "Pop" Mecklenberg.

* [[CaliforniaDoubling New Jersey Doubling]]: A few small towns in the area were used for the filming. The series proper used three different houses for the Wrigleys: Season 1's was in Leonia, Season 2 moved to South Orange, and Season 3 moved to Cranford. This explains why you could sometimes see NJ Transit buses despite the show never identifying the state in which Wellsville was located. A fan has made a [[https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?ptab=2&hl=en&gl=us&oe=UTF8&msa=0&ie=UTF8&mid=1dS28xHaPIOkCR1J5amMxSE_wW24 Google Map Layer]] detailing all the known filming locations.

* EditedForSyndication: Once Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} picked up the series and finally made it into half-hour episodes, the previously-aired specials were re-edited into standard episodes to fill a full season order of 13 episodes. They needed to add the TitleSequence, the "Hey Sandy" song, but that also meant the episodes needed re-scoring with the standard cues. The most jarring example was "How We Spent Our Summer Vacation". Katherine Dieckmann, the director of that particular episode, [[WordOfGod agrees that]] it destroyed part of the special.

* ActorAllusion: Mr. Mecklenberg has several of these in various episodes, including the [[MeaningfulName Meaningful Nickname]] "Pop" Nona employs rather than "Dad".
** In his first episode, he refers to "Endless" Mike as a "stooge".
** Syd Straw is an indie musician; she gets to sing and play guitar in one episode. Not TheCastShowoff because she's in an ensemble lead by Little Pete.

** Also, surprisingly, ''Series/{{Scrubs}}''. Several longtime members of ''Pete & Pete's'' production crew ended up working on the show, including ''P&P'''s director of photography Michael Spillman, who would direct over a dozen ''Scrubs'' episodes. David Martel, the actor who played Teddy on ''P&P'', also had a couple of bit roles sprinkled throughout. And when you consider how much of the show's style is eerily reminiscent of ''P&P''--including the first-person narration with ending realization, the absurdist humor and characters, and an emphasis on music--it is almost an adult SpiritualSuccessor.

* MeanCharacterNiceActor: "Endless" Mike is evil in a sense. Rick Gomez, however...

** And then we have ''Screwed by the Parent Company of the Network''. When Viacom shifted around some key executives at Nickelodeon, it did more than separate the friendly relationship of Viacom and CBS--it eventually resulted in several "Rewind" DVD releases being postponed and eventually cancelled, which included the DVD release for this show's third and final season. This forms the basis of an in-joke between the creators and cast that Viacom must have the DVDs in a warehouse around New York or New Jersey. Everything was ready to be released--audio commentaries and some extras had all been prepared, as had been an official DVD cover--until the plug was pulled.

* ActingForTwo - Toby Huss (Artie) did the body work for Mr. Tastee, though not the voice.

* ActorAllusion - Mr. Mecklenberg has several in various episodes, including the [[MeaningfulName Meaningful Nickname]] "Pop" Nona employs rather than "Dad".
** In his first episode, he refers to Endless Mike as a "Stooge"

** When they were originally casting for Ellen, the only one who fit the role at the end was Alison Fanelli, who hadn't acted before, but was cheerful (compared to the plain other girls who were auditioning for the role) and dressed a little "geekier" than the other auditionees at the time she auditioned.

* DawsonCasting: Quite averted with the show since the actors continually grew up with the characters from the beginning in 1988 to 1996. Quite an straight example, however, would be some of the cameos. For example, pick Selma Blair (before being ''Selma Blair''). She was 24 when playing a ''teenager'' in a Catholic School.
** A reverse case in "Dance Fever"- [[Series/TheSecretWorldOfAlexMack Larissa Oleynik]], who was a teenager at the time, played a nurse.
* EditedForSyndication: Once Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} picked up the series and finally made it into half-hour episodes, the previous aired specials were re-edited into standard episodes to fill a full series of 13 episodes. They needed to add the TitleSequence, the "Hey Sandy" song, but also that meant that the episodes needed re-scoring with the standard cues. The most jarring example was "How We Spent Our Summer Vacation". Not needed to say, Katherine Dieckmann, the director of this particular episode, [[WordOfGod agrees that]] it destroyed part of the special.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Season 3 has been on its way since 2006. Don't hold your breath, though... (See ScrewedByTheNetwork below.)
* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Endless Mike is evil in a sense... Rick Gomez, however…

* PopularityRedo: The show was a series of advertisements for Nickelodeon before becoming a series. Many of the one-minute shorts were expanded or reworked into half-hour episodes throughout the show's run.

** Showrunners [=McRobb=] and Viscardi would cast Damian Young (Bus Driver Stu) in their show ''Series/TheWarNextDoor'', as well as the film ''Film/SnowDay'' (which was proposed as a Pete & Pete movie originally, see below for more details). Bob Mittenthal, who wrote a couple of episodes (and was one of the driving forces behind Nick during the era- having started as a producer on ''Series/DoubleDare1986''), would also go on to co-create ''WesternAnimation/KaBlam'' with [=McRobb=] and Viscardi. By a startling coincidence, Rick Gomez (Endless Mike) was cast in ''WesternAnimation/KaBlam'' for one of their regular shorts, ''Sniz and Fondue''-- without any of the three knowing about it until production started.
** Also, surprisingly, ''Series/{{Scrubs}}''. Several longtime members of ''Pete & Pete's'' production crew ended up working on the show, including ''P&P'''s director of photography Michael Spillman, who would direct over a dozen ''Scrubs'' episodes. David Martel, the actor who played Teddy on ''P&P'', also had a couple of bit roles sprinkled throughout and when you consider how much of the show's style is eerily reminiscent of ''P&P'' (first-person narration with ending realization, absurdist humor and characters, emphasis on music, etc.), it's almost an adult SpiritualSuccessor.

** Nickelodeon messed up a lot with the show during Season 3. Viscardi and [=McRobb=] once replied in an interview that while it was hard to get them to pick it for a third season, as the series didn't exactly have strong ratings (compared to monsters like ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' and ''Series/TheSecretWorldOfAlexMack''), the guys at Nick loved the show and greenlit it. However, the discrepancy between the original airings of the mid season episodes must mean something (hopping from November 1995 to March 1996 and from April 1996 to November 1996)...
** And then we have ''screwed by the parent company of the network''. When Viacom shifted around some key executives at Nickelodeon, besides the separation of the friendly relationship of Viacom and CBS, it eventually resulted in several "Rewind" DVD line releases being postponed and eventually cancelled, leaving to the third and final season's supposed 2006 DVD release being scrapped. There goes the internal joke between the creators and cast that Viacom must have the DVD contents in a warehouse around New York or New Jersey. Everything was ready to be released (audio commentaries and some extras, the art of the DVD cover running around was the official one)... until the plug was pulled.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Even with no real current events or issues of the time being mentioned, the blatantly 90s fashions and soundtracks make the time period very obvious.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The ''Film/SnowDay'' movie was originally supposed to be a [[TheMovie Pete & Pete movie]]. There are various versions of this story confirmed by the creators of the show:

** Viscardi and [=McRobb=] pitched the script of the movie around the time the production of the final season was wrapping up (1995). The executives liked it, but after a time, it was obvious that they lost interest in it and shelved it, they were pretty sure the series could have been forgotten after a certain point.

** By the time the script was picked up again, the original actors were clearly older than they were when the series ended and perhaps, involved and moved on to other projects [[note]](Michael Maronna would have been 20-21, and looked almost the same, but the same could not be said for Danny Tamberelli, since he was 16-17 already, and most of the other kids had also changed noticeably)[[/note]]. So, Nick executives asked for rewrites to change from the established characters to original ones, although it is somehow easy to see who would have been who. However, the spirit was still in there, since not only was the film's director a veteran director from the television series, but Iggy Pop and Chris Elliot also got cast in it.
* WordOfSaintPaul: As mentioned in the main page under the IndecipherableLyrics trope example, there is still doubts that have launched several WildMassGuesses about a misinterpreted and misheard lyric of "Hey Sandy", since neither Viscardi nor [=McRobb=] have any idea of what the line really says, neither the [=DVDs=] subtitles are correct, and probably the only one to know is Mark Mulcahy himself. However, some years ago in an AMA done in Reddit, Danny Tamberelli claimed that the lyric could be "Can you settle a sure bet?", and has also sung that lyric when performing a cover of the song in one of the reunions made around 2011 and 2013. It would make sense, as it properly fits the song's rhyme scheme, but it's still his interpretation of it, not completely confirmed as the real lyric.

* NamesTheSame: Substitute teacher Shrek might be intimidating, but he is not [[Film/{{Shrek}} an ogre]].