4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2014
⏱️ 96 minutes
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The HDYR gang packs up the station wagon and heads back to Wellsville to discuss three of their favorite episodes of The Adventures of Pete & Pete - "What We Did On Our Summer Vacation", "King of the Road", and "Hard Day's Pete".
After sharing their memories of the series, they offer their own explanations for why it struck such a nerve back when it debuted and why it continues to resonate so strongly with them now. Chris realizes it probably informed his sense of humor to a greater degree than he was even aware of, Donna recalls being won over by the open-ended nature of the storytelling, and Carlos laments the current state of children's programming.
Pete & Pete may have had an offbeat tone, but it was also filled with very genuine musings about growing up - so there's a lot of talk here about the fleeting nature of childhood, that awkward pre-teen phase where you're just imitating older people's behavior without understanding it, the way we suppress the things that we love in favor of fitting in, and the value of the sort of nostalgia we're celebrating here vs. being inspired to create something new.
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0:00.0 | Hey, do you remember the adventures of Pete and Pete? |
0:07.0 | Hello and welcome to Hey Do You Remember, a show where we reminisce about a movie or TV series we grew up with, then take off the rose-tinted glasses to see how it holds up. |
0:31.3 | I'm Chris. |
0:32.0 | I'm Donna. |
0:32.7 | And I'm Carlos. |
0:33.8 | And today we're revisiting the adventures of Pete and Pete. |
0:53.0 | Thank you. And today we're revisiting the adventures of Pete and Pete. Okay, so before we get started with the show, our regularly scheduled programming, |
0:59.3 | a couple episodes back, I asked you guys to leave us reviews on iTunes, and if you could, |
1:05.2 | find a way to work in one of the running jokes from the show that we would read those parts of the review on a future episode. |
1:13.0 | So I've got two here that have come in that I adore, |
1:16.5 | and I cannot wait to share. |
1:18.6 | So the reason I don't want to read the whole review is |
1:21.7 | I thought it would just feel like us like patting ourselves on the back too much, |
1:25.9 | and that's why I was just going to... |
1:27.1 | But these are really... They're so nice. both I mean I wrote both of them so oh okay well that I was |
1:32.7 | these are very well written there's a lot of praise for Carlos it's strange it's about |
1:39.6 | Charles Carlos Carlos Carlos Chris and Donna, then Carlos is the same. |
1:51.3 | So, okay, so the first one, I believe, is, I mean, this has to be from that guy, Michael, |
1:54.4 | the musician that wrote to us, sent us that really, really nice message. |
1:54.9 | Yeah, no. |
1:55.7 | Who's Michael. |
1:56.2 | Yeah. |
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