This show has many:
- In "Splashdown":Little Pete: (while holding an electric eel, preparing to disrupt adult swim) Who likes electric eels?(Everyone panics and rushes to get out of the pool; Mr. Wrigley raises his hand, then joins the panicking adults in fleeing.)
- Artie dancing to the marching band playing "Love Roller Coaster" in "Day of the Dot".
- ..."attracted Artie like a giant funk magnet."
- Let's just go ahead and include anything involving Artie.
- From one of the 1990s compilation videotapes comes... THE ARTIE WORKOUT!
- Stu: "Who wants to be a bus driver when you could be a bear!?"
- Stu: "Attention passengers, there will be some new regulations: Will passengers please refrain from KILLING MY SOUL?!
- "You're made of straw!" and the rampage that ensues.
- "Grueling coordination tests." "IT WAS A CRULLER! YOU PUT A CRULLER THERE!" Hell, everything Stu does and says in "Yellow Fever" qualifies.
- This classic line from a little girl in "Range Boy": "I can smell his fear, mommy. It smells like bacon."
- "Grounded For Life." All of it.
- The reason Little Pete got grounded for a month? An experiment he did on the front lawn where he placed a humidifier next to a dehumidifier, triggering an explosion.
- "Doggy wee-wee kills grass faster than acid."
- After Little Pete gets sick of being forced to care for the massive scorchmark on the front lawn, he runs away. To Canada. On a driving mower. Little Pete gets deported back to the US by a mountie after customs refuses to believe his story about being a traveling hand lotion salesman. Not only is the checkpoint in the middle of the woods, two hockey players are seen casually walking onto US soil.
- "Pete, get the shovel. Mr. Horsey left a present for the scorchmark!"
- During "visiting hours", Artie tells Little Pete to tunnel his way out of the house by giving him an ant farm as a gift, hoping he'd "dig it." And he does, with a Statue of Liberty paperweight for a shovel. Along with dynamite that he somehow procured.
- The many ways in which Big Pete tries to hide the dirt displaced by his little brother: by putting it in his dad's coffee (his dad actually gets used to the taste!), spilling it out of his shirt onto the lawn, and eventually using it all to discover his passion for ceramics.
- Little Pete's arm sprouting out of the lawn, clutching the Statue of Liberty paperweight as triumphant music swells.
- Little Pete and his new friend Winona getting revenge on Mr. Lerdner by having Winona's dog urinate on his lawn, cutting to stock footage of Niagra Falls.
- "Field of Pete" is full of these.
- All of the slushie flavors have Biblical names: The Lime Balthazar, the Grape Judas, and of course, the Orange Lazarus.
- The first game shown is between the Brothers Wrigley's team, the Prosthetics (their mascot is just a kid with an extra pair of prosthetic limbs) and the Bacon Barn (whose mascots is a giant slab of bacon).
- Little Pete's trash-talking is the stuff of legend.
"You use the legs of dung beetles to ice your cupcakes!"
"Ooh, a hot lather machine! Original!"
"We want a batter, not a reconstituted chum-jockey!"
- Both teams are snapped out of their toxic, competitive mindset by having the Orange Lazarus machine cranked up to its maximum level of coldness. After their break, everyone descends into brain freeze-induced delirium.
- The Mail Lady trying to escape the Earth's gravity in "The Call" because of the freak heat wave passing through Wellsville. Earlier, she had to deliver mail with oven mitts because of the heat and steam billows out of the mailbox.
- The neighbor convinced by heat exhaustion that he's a cowboy, trying to lasso his lawnmower.
- Artie noticing Little Pete struggling with the heat.
Soon, you will be as cheese, boy. Melty melty melty. - In "The Big Quiet", Teddy reveals that he and his dad participate in therapy, involving sock puppets:Teddy: If I say something dumb, he'll treat me like a kid!Teddy's Dad: But you ARE a kid.Teddy: No, I'm not, I'm a talking sock!*pans to therapist*Therapist: Gooooooood!*cuts back to Teddy with the gang*Teddy: It's not so bad; you get to keep the sock.
- This exchange from "Time Tunnel", in which Stu explains to Big Pete his plans now that Sally's dumped him again:Stu: I'm going to drive to Alaska, tattoo her name to my chest, tie myself to a glacier and drift slowly out to sea.Pete: Mind dropping me off before then?Stu: You sure? I brought sandwiches.
- "Congratulations, Mr. Wrigley. You're dead."
- In the first part of "So Long Little Viking," Artie makes the mother of all threats to Papercut, the school bully."BEGONE WITH YOU, PULPY! BEFORE I FOLD YOU INTO SOME KIND OF BROCHURE!"
- Artie clearing out the gutters by blowing into the drain, explosively scattering the wet leaves across the neighborhood.
"He got gunk in my soup!"- Artie and Little Pete goofing off by head-butting each other, using trash cans as helmets.
- The parents' complaints about Artie's "corrupting influence" on the children, such as teaching them to arm-wrestle bacon or say nothing but "boing" for two days.
- So funny in the simplicity of its execution: In the midst of the escalating prank war between the Petes' Dad and Ellen's Dad in "Apocalypse Pete", Little Pete has Artie push Ellen's home sideways by a little more than an inch off; the "change" so miniscule that it only had actor Toby Huss put his weight on the house's side wall to depict it. (So not even the show's only occasional lite special effects were required!) The payoff comes when Little Pete and his Dad watch through their hidden camera Ellen's Dad (played by Steve Buscemi) bemused to find his daily coming-home-from-work routine being disrupted when he places his key a little more than an inch off his front door's keyhole!
- In "35 Hours", Big Pete has to resort to asking Endless Mike for help getting rid of the family who bought the Wrigley home from Little Pete. Endless Mike mulls it over — while caressing a taxidermy cat — and asks if Pete wants a refill. The camera pans down to reveal that in return for the request, Mike has subjected Pete to several pounds of ice stuffed down the front of his pants.
- In 2017, NickRewind did a weekend marathon for the show, and Michael Maronna and Danny Tamberelli reunited to film several segments. Funny moments include:
- The two handing out ice cream to fans a la Mr. Tasty (as well as telling surprise guest Danny Cooksey to stop intruding on their marathon).
- Another segment saw Danny constantly hearing Michael's disembodied voice and being driven to the brink of insanity.Michael: [narrating] No one understands why he chose to sleep in so late.
Danny: Who said that?! - Danny nearly making a pedophile joke about Artie. Michael quickly intercedes it into something appropriate for Nick before he gets there.
- In "Hard Day's Pete", Dad has to sit down and have a talk with Little Pete about the ridiculously high electric bill.Dad: Pete, it's time you and I had a little talk. You know... father to son?Little Pete: (not realizing what he means) That's ok. Artie and I already had that talk.
(Mom, overhearing, gasps and faints)
