It's incredibly admirable that when McRobb and Chris Viscardi sat down to launch this series, they sat down with an overriding idea in mind: Everyone is a mutant, but everyone is great in their own way.
It was so far ahead of its time in the early '90s that it still feels cutting edge.
ScreenCrush
January 24, 2019
The show worked not just because of the chemistry between Michael Maronna and Danny Tamberelli, as the eponymous siblings, but because of the quirky depiction of small-town life in a way you can't find in a lot of kids' TV.
Despite its stated objective to focus on the small and the odd, The Adventures of Pete and Pete mattered in the way Big Things matter: it spoke to kids on a level that they could understand.
The Adventures of Pete & Pete may have weathered time better than any other show of the era, thanks to it being both firmly rooted in a place (the 90s fashion, the soundtrack and theme song by Polaris) yet completely in its own world.
