The Adventures of Pete and Pete: "Yellow Fever" - Nick Knacks Sample Platter

[@aestroai8012]

I can't wait untill you review the full series. You give the show the TLC it deserves. This was my tween years. It reminds me of happy summers with Nick all day!

[@VahanNisanian]

Can't wait for your retrospectives on this show and Clarissa. I'll be binging on both shows until then.

[@matthewhunter1193]

Love that there is more than one video of Nick Knacks (yes I know it's a sample platter, but shut up) of him comparing the show he's watching to classic French films. THIS is why I watch Nick Knacks!

[@KKAkuoku]

1:31 - 1:59 Big Pete’s intro absolutely sells the whole thing like a grand scale drama

[@Saintnick90]

Whoa, I was not expecting to hear a reference to Fairfield in one of these videos! I lived in Solano County for 20 years and still have parents there, so I visit often. What are the odds that a person I watch on KZbin frequently has been to a lot of the same places I have? That's surreal. However, it's not where I spent my youth. I grew up in Maryland which, due to its close proximity to Washington D.C., meant I had a lot of awesome field trips. We went to museums, historical sites, the FBI Headquarters, the National Aquarium, Civil War battlefields and in one case, the kitchen at a local Chevy's because we were studying Mesoamerican civilizations (The school obviously wasn't trying with that last one). I should probably give this episode a rewatch so I can have some fresh thoughts on it, but I generally like episodes where the cast is stranded somewhere. You basically get to see them in new environments and how they interact with others as they try to survive, which is neat. Can't wait until the episode I requested gets covered. I'm sure you'll have some interesting thoughts about Mr. Tastee and ice cream man Michael Stipe.

[@thomasstone3480]

i feel like part of why pete and pete has such a cinematic feeling is that it was shot on 16mm- it gives it a vibe somewhere between 70s shaggy new hollywood and early 90s alt cinema, which i think also helps sell the lynchian surrealism and the extreme deadpan of the humor, whereas like fred the tv show is hamstrung by being shot on brightly lit digital video

[@ProfCoyote]

I can't wait, Pete and Pete was my favorite show when it was on. It captures that end of Gen X- early Millenial time perfectly

[@uuneya]

"Passengers will refrain from KILLING MY SOUL" is, for my money, the funniest line in the series

[@tecpaocelotl]

Wait. You're from central California. I'm from Patterson. I have similar trips. Lol.

[@bakomusha]

I was surprised. I always assumed he was from back east for some reason.

[@PowerInOne22]

The episdode "What we did on our summer vacation" is an absolute gem. Great writing on this show. What a time.

[@trinaq]

This show was my jam as a kid. It was goofy and ludicrous, but that was part of its charm, and what continues to make it so well remembered today.

[@lainiwakura1776]

Sounds like a Pete and Pete episode within the year then? Really looking forward to it.

[@TheDanishGuyReviews]

That's not JUST music used in Ren and Stimpy. Because I recognize it, but I've never watched Ren and Stimpy.

[@christopherwaldrop5293]

The sample platters always leave me wanting more. Granted the full episodes do too but the sample platters are a perfect appetizer that make me eager for the full course.

[@Showsni]

These glimpses of Pete and Pete sample platters have been pretty interesting, I'm looking forward to the full episode. It's not a show I ever caught growing up (we didn't have cable whilst it was running on Nick, I guess). Our school bus was always very... rambunctious. This was when I started secondary school, so I was aged 11 or so. There'd be a crush at the door to get on every time it left school. The sixth formers would sit at the back, spraying deodorant over the chairs and themselves and lighting it on fire, or bringing silly string to spray everywhere on the last day of term. You'd often hear the call "Pile On!", and some poor person would be dogpiled by everyone on the bus leaping on top of them (I normally tried to use my glasses as a shield - not me, you'll break my glasses!). People would be forever using elastic bands and paper to fire missiles across the aisle. This was an old double decker bus, and three times I can remember we ended up knocking windows out of the bus, smashing down outside (one nearly hit a cyclist, and one an ambulance). After one of these the driver drove us back to the bus depot and locked the doors until the police arrived; I'm not sure anything ever came of that (it wasn't like anyone had meant to smash a window). In the end they scrapped the service entirely, so the following year we had to work out alternative methods to get to school, cadging lifts from parents or a combination of walking and the public buses...

[@DigeeTheGenie]

Oh thank goodness. I was worried this was a "me sho shally" nonsense round.

[@Athenor]

Wow. That shot at 7:12 looks like it might be an inspiration for things in one of the offices in Barbie. Like, I know it is done a lot, but the spacing of the cubicles even looks the same.

[@bigguy1960]

Awesome callout to Tati's "PlayTime" - I just watched it for the first time - What a great movie!

[@manzoman96]

I have Polaris' soundtrack for this show on vinyl, one of my favorites in my collection

[@thezenitsufan1249]

The alt rock soundtrack on Pete and Pete definitely reminds me of the soundtrack the pillows did for FLCL

[@ducksoup80]

I thought when you mentioned Stu that you were going to say (Jim Carrey I mean Stu) Because it almost seems like he’s trying to be like Jim Carrey with his personality. Like in the episode Saturday, Stu is running to the back of the bus upset of the light always staying red just reminds me of liar liar when Jim Carrey is trying to lie about a color of a pen. Or in the episode, the bus Stu saying that one day when he’s lying in a ditch, he would look up at big Pete and say he know him well, Or Stu's overreaction Pete, not bringing the bus back just to go on a date with the girl named Penelope. Stu saying a weird sentence, carrot top Judas thou has forsaken meee while he’s punching out the CB radio speaker. Then running, causing mischief on the way to catch big Pete on his date in the bus, finding the bus, he replied, dingdong the witch is dead!! But big Pete returned. The bus and stu dropped being angry, big Pete, not finding out the trouble he caused.

[@Uderscore]

Fitting that the heightened drama the school bus setting makes for such a strong episode, wasn't the short interstitial series "As Our School Bus Turns" basically the precursor to Pete & Pete?

[@sabkin]

Hava Hava nagila, Hava nagila!

[@darktetsuya]

not an episode I remember (I think the only one was the universe/johnny unitas thing in that one episode) but I still appreciate the breakdown. and yay preteniousness I guess? haha good stuff.

[@chelmrtz]

Edward Hopper or the Chicago Bulls: the two genders

[@beipiaosaurus]

So is the "Ren and Stimpy music" actually originally from that show? Obviously I remember it was there, but I always figured SpumCo mostly used royalty free music from the 1950s or something.

[@Saintnick90]

Yeah, it was stock easy listening music from the '50s and '60s. A lot of those songs tended to get used in a bunch of different shows in the '90s because it was inexpensive and often ironic. (Shows still do it today. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia's entire score is made up of similar post-war easy listening music.) It does seem like there was a lot of overlap between Pete and Pete and Ren and Stimpy and their royalty-free music. The last Sample Platter used "Hackney Carriage" over the end credits, and that was used in "35 Hours" when the '50s-style family moves in. I actually just learned what that song was called last year after hearing it in so many different things for years.

[@Ubritoons96]

Ren & Stimpy most often gets its music from preprepared music libraries like APM for example. Which does include some tracks being made during the 50s and 60s. Fun fact: During the making of the OG pilot, John K initially contacted the composer who made music for Ralph Bakshi’s Mighty Mouse (Glen Domm or however you spell that), but he turned down the offer after he looked at the cartoon and called it “Distasteful”. So Spumco co-worker Henry Porch opted to use pre-established music from the APM library, and the rest is history with the show. Occasionally, musician people like Charlie Bessette or members of Die Screaming Lederhosen (which consisted of Ren & Stimpy cartoonists who know how to play instruments like Jim Smith and the late Chris Ricciardi) could supply original organic music if necessary for a specific episode, but for the most part, Ren & Stimpy is full of (and is generally one of the main examples of a cartoon that uses) stock archive music. Hope that helps.

[@christianlech1084]

​@@Ubritoons96 Also, obviously SpongeBob is heavily composed also of that same APM library soundtrack-wise (although it has as well a bunch of original pieces composed for the show itself).

[@tylerferguson3193]

Hope you'll have a good day

[@janedoe0987]

Are you going to cover the Band Geeks episode of SpongeBob? I think it might be relevant very soon...

[@vorca8442]

Why no mr dressed up show on Canada . He was american that did the show. Also was feiends with mr rogers

[@JetstreamGW]

Wait hold up, _was_ that Ren and Stimpy music? I mean, I know Ren and Stimpy used that music but... isn't that stock music used in a lot of shows?

[@beipiaosaurus]

You're late, my friend. ;)

[@SpongeyTheEditor]

"Probably best known for Three to Tangp" Another Cinderella Story erasure Jokes aside, this actually wasn't one of my favorites as the Ellen stuff was a bit annoying to me but that's more my bias creeping in lol. I also found the use use of tracks I know from Ren & Stimpy/later SpongeBob a bit distracting lol

[@kevcalled368]

…you’re straw

[@mightyfilm]

I get the feeling we'd never get another Nick-com like Pete and Pete because they hit such a peak with it, someone decided to say "Screw it! Let's make a lazy series about quadruplets that don't even look like they come from the same parents and have an episode where someone doesn't flush a toilet." At least, for the sake of my sanity, that's what I choose to believe. Of course, the weird thing is the show's closest spiritual successor is, of all things, Sanjay and Craig. Yep. The creators of Pete and Pete were producers on that one.