I wrote with sarcasm... For the one tortorous viewing I had of this show, simply because on a Monday eveningI was...watching the network of which this show is currently airing in reruns one hour earlier and just hadn't gotten around to turning off the TV. How lazy, and how wasteful the time was that I spent watching this mess... which I THINK was either about two red-haired boys named Pete Wrigley (different kids with the same name? Brothers with stupid parents? One kid and his younger self? I had no idea.) One Pete was a high school student who was on the wrestling team. He had to face a very annoying boy named "Endless Mike" (whom I thought was Jason Schwartzman, but wasn't, and I didn't really care anyway)and was trying as best as he could to avoid this. "Fortunatly" Pete was a fourth-string wrestler and Endless Mike was a first-stringer... but for some reason he wanted so badly to face wimpy Pete that he did whatever he could to eliminate the other wrestlers just so they could have their confrontation. And when I say whatever... I mean whatever. One of Endless Mike's tricks was attatching a magnet(or something) to an automatic hand dryer, which an unfortunate wrestler chose to use...and the wrestler was sucked inside. Another wrestler met an untimely death after Endless Mike somehow made their vibrating bed electrocute them...and on it goes.
Considering "Pete and Pete" was a kiddie show made for Nickelodeon, uh, why didn't anyone ever complain about it, especially if the episodes I saw were typical? Was it "alright" to have a bunch of killing and violence that all of the other characters reacted to in a rather "ho-hum" manner because it was "cartoonish?" What if REAL kids had tried to imitate Endless Mike, who was never arrested or anything. The horror!!
Shortly before Pete and Mike had their wrestling match...to which Pete thought he would be able to avoid by losing enough weight to get into a lighter division, but stupid Mike (who wasn't even "skinny") fouled that up to, by losing something like an ounce less than Pete but "made up for it" by pulling a filling out of his tooth with a wrench some character just HAPPENED to have. It was very gruesome and horrifying and really made me wonder why such a junky, disturbing show had even made it past this episode (which, to top everything off, was really just a bad variation of "Three O'Clock High"), much less lasted three years!!!!
Considering "Pete and Pete" was a kiddie show made for Nickelodeon, uh, why didn't anyone ever complain about it, especially if the episodes I saw were typical? Was it "alright" to have a bunch of killing and violence that all of the other characters reacted to in a rather "ho-hum" manner because it was "cartoonish?" What if REAL kids had tried to imitate Endless Mike, who was never arrested or anything. The horror!!
Shortly before Pete and Mike had their wrestling match...to which Pete thought he would be able to avoid by losing enough weight to get into a lighter division, but stupid Mike (who wasn't even "skinny") fouled that up to, by losing something like an ounce less than Pete but "made up for it" by pulling a filling out of his tooth with a wrench some character just HAPPENED to have. It was very gruesome and horrifying and really made me wonder why such a junky, disturbing show had even made it past this episode (which, to top everything off, was really just a bad variation of "Three O'Clock High"), much less lasted three years!!!!