![]() Younger Pete's personal superhero, who is very eccentric but quite powerful - for example, he can skip stones on Neptune and hit a golf ball 300,003 feet. ![]() He is an extremely competitive driver, particularly on the family's excursion to the Hoover Dam.Īrtie, the Strongest Man in the World (Toby Huss) He and Joyce met when the metal detector he was using on a beach led him to the metal plate in her head. "Mom's Plate" is also listed as a separate character in the opening credits.īetter known as " Dad," is the Petes' father. She has a metal plate in her head from a childhood accident it can pick up radio stations - and, in the case of little Pete's "WART Radio," it can broadcast them too. More often simply called " Mom," is the Petes' mother. ![]() At one point she labored under the misconception that she was "a dot," due to her placement "riding the I" in the Wellsville marching band's show. "Petunia," a tattoo on younger Pete's arm depicting a woman, is frequently made to "dance" and gets its own credit in the show's opening sequence the origins of that tattoo, and one of a sailing ship on younger Pete's back, are unclear, but there is a theory that Will McRobb & Chris Viscardi made a short where he got the tattoos was never aired and remains lost.Įllen is older Pete's best friend though romance develops between the two on rare occasions, Pete generally sees Ellen as "a girl and a friend, but not a girlfriend". He frequently uses insults like "blowhole" and "dill weed" - since Pete & Pete was a children's show, actual swear words could not be used. Typical sibling rivalry aside, he and his brother are best friends.įour years younger than his brother, is often engaged in struggles against adults and other authority figures. Older Pete serves as the narrator of each episode (except for "New Year's Pete" and "Crisis in The Love Zone"), often acting as a voice of reason in contrast to the strange happenings and people around him. In the third season filming was moved to Cranford, New Jersey.Ĭharacters Big Pete Wrigley (Micheal Moronna) It was originally filmed in Bayonne, New Jersey (school scenes) and South Orange, New Jersey (neighborhood scenes). The state Wellsville was in was never mentioned, however some believe that Wellsville was in New Jersey or New York. It was set in the fictional town of Wellsville. The show featured many humorous and surreal elements both in its narrative and its recurring themes.
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