Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 Artie, The Strongest Man in the World: Soon you will be like Cheese Boy: melty, melty, melty! Older Pete Wrigley: She`s a girl, and she`s my friend, but she`s not my girlfriend.
[after Younger Pete attempts to break the world`s record for days without sleep]
Joyce Wrigley: Beautiful day, isn`t it?
Younger Pete Wrigley: Dawn was better.
Younger Pete Wrigley: Will I ever see you again?
Artie, The Strongest Man in the World: Worry not, boy. Worry not... for I am Artie, the strongest man
[takes superhero position]
Artie, The Strongest Man in the World: in the world!
Endless Mike Hellstrom: I am the Doctor of Death, and I have come to cure you of your life.
Mr. Throneberry: Aloha maku maku. Don Ho will not emerge from the Valley of Darkness.
Older Pete Wrigley: I`ll give you anything you want. You can destroy anything in the house, tear up the yard, anything.
Endless Mike Hellstrom: Anything?
Older Pete Wrigley: Anything.
[thoughtfully]
Endless Mike Hellstrom: You got any... Neapolitan ice cream?
[Older Pete nods]
Endless Mike Hellstrom: Good, Wrigley. Good.
Don Wrigley: C`mon Pete, we gotta kill Bob while he`s still alive!
Park Ranger Thorsen: You got a license for that tattoo, son?
[Younger Pete shows him a license]
Younger Pete Wrigley: Read it and weep, fungus-lick!
Younger Pete Wrigley: Now begins the Age of Pete!
Artie, The Strongest Man in the World: Begone with you pulpy, before I fold you into some type of brochure!
Older Pete Wrigley: Why is it that when you miss somebody so much that your heart is ready to disintegrate, you always hear the saddest song ever on the radio?
Bus Driver Stu Benedict: Passenger Pete? Back of the bus!
Monica: I am so sick and tired of hearing lucky this and lucky that. Why don`t you take your lucky necklace stuff it down your lucky mouth before I push you down this lucky hill and make you poop in your lucky underpants.
Big Pete Wrigley: Twas the day after Christmas, and all through the house, the Spirit had ended; it had all been doused. The ornaments were yanked from the tree with despair, while dad vacuumed pine needles from his rump.
Bus Driver Stu Benedict: Carrot-top Judas... THOU HAST FORSAKEN ME!
[after being betrayed by Pete while he`s baking him a cake]
Bus Driver Stu Benedict: I`ll just put the finishing touches to my...
[stabbing cake]
Bus Driver Stu Benedict: Trust! Loyalty! Niceness!
[Older Pete has just failed a driving simulator]
Mr. Slurm: Congratulations, Mr. Wrigley... you`re dead.
Fran `Pit Stain`: [to Little Pete] We`ve all got our problems, Wrigley. Mine happens to be glandular, yours happens to be my fist!
Bus Driver Stu Benedict: [grabbing Pit Stain`s arm before he can punch Little Pete] Hi. I`m Stu Benedict, bus driver, and you`re...
[looking down at Pit Stain`s arm, which is still in his hand, with visible disgust]
Bus Driver Stu Benedict: ... sweating all over me!
Younger Pete Wrigley: Hey, Blowhole, wherever you are, in forty-five minutes I`m going to be famous. And you know what you`re going to be? A blowhole!
English Teacher: They shreked Shrek! And I just used a noun as a verb, what`s wrong with me?
Trivia
The names of the slushies that the Petes, and the baseball team they belong to, drink are all named after Biblical figures. Flavors mentioned include Grape Judas, Lime Balthazar and the addictive Orange Lazarus.
The near indecipherable and much-debated lyrics to the theme song are: "Hey smiling strange, you`re looking happily deranged (Can you settle to shoot me,) and have you picked your target yet Hey Sandy...ai yai yai yai... Don`t Ya` Talk Back, Hey Sandy Four feet Away, end of speech its the end of the day We was only funning, but guiltily I thought... You had it comin`, Hey Sandy, Don`t Ya Talk Back, Hey Sandy." The line in parenthesis above has never been revealed by the band members, and "Can you settle to shoot me?" is only one of several interpretations.
This show started out as a series of one-minute shorts that aired during commercial breaks on Nickelodeon between 1990-1993.
Toby Huss`s character of Artie, the Strongest Man in the World, was initially created at No Shame Theatre at the University of Iowa in Iowa City.
According to one of the show`s creators,the show was originally going to be about a boy named Pete and his dog named Pete. But they changed the dog to a younger brother when they realized a dog "wasn`t exciting enough".
The idea for Pete and Pete`s mom having a metal plate in her head came from the story of baseball player and coach Don Zimmer who had to have a metal plate put in his head after receiving a blow to the head by a ball in the 1950`s.
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