Some people, hipsters, like to analyze this show to death. Theories on who Artie actually was, metaphors that are clearly not there, etc., but you can't do that. It ruins moments like these. The main point is that little Pete is growing up and Artie just needed to let him be on his own.
Artie was just a superhero in the neighborhood and when you live in Wellsville, that's normal.
I think what makes that speech so effective is that it calls upon the fleeting nature of what this show was all about: the whimsey of childhood. The older brother tells the stories because he's gaining adult perspective, now little Pete is getting there too, and it's amazing how fast the time went. I think that's how a lot of us feel watching this show who watched it in the early 90's.
I hear yah man! I think for everyone who loved the show, even back then. We knew when this episode came out - it was over. A good end to an amazing show, a type of show that they just don't/wont make anymore
Pete & Pete somehow managed to mix absurdist non-nonsensical humor with real characters that actually had heart and interest to them. As in Artie was simultaneously a completely stupid joke of a grown man, and the scene where he leaves Pete is fantastic and even moving.
Figuring it's low-key tone and the fact it had a short run it's kind of astounding how good this show was.
@battousaiashe Yes, but it wouldn't have feel right in the millennium/00s culture because the show runs on such a simplicity that no longer exists. How many times did computers frequent this show? How about a mention of them? It seems as if the 00s has become a very tech savvy decade, there really is no place for the kind of simplistic and overly imaginative and colorful world Little Pete and his friends live in.
@Sshelly34213 While I don't completely disagree, I would argue that that's even more of a reason for it. Harry Potter doesn't make mention of computers but we all know how well that's done. And I say that the Petes and their friends are their own magical world. As the Tor.com article that sent me on my little P&P binge this evening put it, the show is "happily deranged." And we need more of that in our lives.
@battousaiashe I think you misinterpreting what I'm trying to say, pop culture is reflective of the population and the atmosphere we live in. We live in a time where instant gratification is important and desired-one reason why harry potter is so fascinating to children. It's also a reason why computers can be so addictive. if I don't have anything to do, I'll spend the entire day on here. I want instant gratification and I can get it here. This is simply the time period we live in currently.
@battousaiashe I firmly believe that is the cycle of pop culture. We go from a time where we want instant gratification, and the reaction to that is a time where we slow down and adsorb things and relax. The 90s was a very lackadaisical decade, just watching shows like this it's quite obvious that the tone is carefree, sleepy, surreal. Now it's upbeat, but urgent, needy, etc..
The 80s was very much a decade about this, the 70s was more laid back. The 60s was urgent, the 50s was suburban bliss
@battousaiashe Pop culture reflects our feelings, not the other way around. We can't influence moods by pop culture, so to bring a show back like this in the current atmosphere wouldn't really do us any good. We just have to wait until the tides change.
@battousaiashe Sorry to make this so lengthy, but kids will always be kids. You are true in that sense. Kids can have fun with a pile of dirt, they don't really become interested in toys or material things until they reach the age of 8. They start to see the world in a different way. So there will always be that "simplistic" world for younger kids no matter what's on tv.
@Sshelly34213 And again, I agree with your point. I'm just...stubborn haha. I can be an anachronism too though so I'm coming from a different mindset. And I get that and acknowledge it. I just think we need more reminders that life isn't urgent and needy. But, that goes beyond just TV for me though. We could probably have a fairly fantastic discussion about it too. All spawned from Pete & Pete hahaha.
@battousaiashe lol, I tend to make mountains out of molehills, I can be watching Pete and Pete and suddenly I'm giving you my philosophical view points.
Nothing wrong with anarchy, we need little of that every once in awhile.
i remember this episode, so sad. the first time i saw it on nick it was like a 6 month series ending. but i guess it was time for both pete and artie to move on cause pete must fight his own battles now
Does Anyone Know the name of the song at the end of the show that song go hard as hell....They just don't make shows like this and that sucks If they have all the seasons on dvd then I'm gonna buy it....ARTIE IS THE MAN
what is it that makes a super hero? is it muscles of steel? The ability to see through brick walls? the ability to turn into a human butane torch. Or is it small, like with Ardy? a way of looking at the world, and making everything in it, a little bit stranger... and a little bit better
I remember this episode so well but however I didn't remember the ending and that he really did leave. I think it's because Toby Huss (Artie) Wasn't going to continue the show onto season three so they had to make a farewell episode like this. I still don't remember him ever leaving though. It's pretty sad, he was the heart of the show for me. I was pretty young around the time though. I loved this show a lot, wish they would make them like this today. Dunno what else to say, I feel nostalgic.
i really think when they lost artie they started losing the true soul of the shoe, in season 3 (without artie) it was like the show lost its young unique weirdness. i didnt like season three 1/3rd of the amount that i loved seaons 1-2 and i think artie was a major factor of that
lol i miss this show but the editing isn't that good lol looks like an old martial arts film with the voices and sound lol but still pretty sweet seeing childhood shows i wanna see salute your shorts
In reality Artie would be falsely accused of molesting Pete and driven away by those who would unquestioningly believe it.
Fronzel41 3 months ago
Like the heroes in our dreams, like the stars in the sky.
anthonysob4 4 months ago
When you give up on your childhood, you don't grow up. You grow old.
And growing old is the first stage of growing DEAD!
MiHiVidz 6 months ago
Some people, hipsters, like to analyze this show to death. Theories on who Artie actually was, metaphors that are clearly not there, etc., but you can't do that. It ruins moments like these. The main point is that little Pete is growing up and Artie just needed to let him be on his own.
Artie was just a superhero in the neighborhood and when you live in Wellsville, that's normal.
ZyxthePest 7 months ago 2
I saw this wen I was a kid and wen I saw a commercial for the DVD of this show I broke down remembering this episode long live the 90s
acesqmonky 7 months ago
I remember always being so jealous that Pete had a friend like Artie.
courtbahh 9 months ago
Best character exit in any TV show, ever.
spinhook888 10 months ago
This show was trippy as hell, and still, I loved it! And the music in this show was awesome too.
SidheKnight 11 months ago
Artie DON'T GO!! :(
gadgetvsclaw 1 year ago
I just ask myself: why are tv shows (specially that for kids) not like THAT today?
It's about friendship, teamwork and helping others with a very strange and funny touch!
Oh man, build a time machine or whatever and bring back the 90s!!!
steilbergauf 1 year ago
FUCK THIS EPISODE WAS SAD
MoeMableFrancois 1 year ago 3
made me tear up
duba3988 1 year ago
Same but I'm 22
And a redhead named pete
deathbypowerglove 1 year ago
so touching, it makes me cry
gentonks 1 year ago
I miss the days when Nickelodeon had shows like this that made you laugh and cry at the same time
cavell19 1 year ago 3
anyone know where the music is from that they play when Artie is talking to Pete at 4:15?
FVLMcSweeny 2 years ago
Wow I remember when I saw this when it first came out and it made me cry as a kid. I guess some things never change.
cruehead275 2 years ago
so sad.
championofidiots 2 years ago
wow this is sad, but we all have to move on
eishikibahamut 2 years ago 3
I think what makes that speech so effective is that it calls upon the fleeting nature of what this show was all about: the whimsey of childhood. The older brother tells the stories because he's gaining adult perspective, now little Pete is getting there too, and it's amazing how fast the time went. I think that's how a lot of us feel watching this show who watched it in the early 90's.
happyicecream1234 2 years ago 9
Amazing show!
And I love this episode because they gave some purpose for Artie, being the way he is.
standardbearer 2 years ago 2
I hear yah man! I think for everyone who loved the show, even back then. We knew when this episode came out - it was over. A good end to an amazing show, a type of show that they just don't/wont make anymore
Thanks so much for uploading this.
ARTIE!!!!!!
Kriegfreak 2 years ago 2
This isn't the last episode. There's one more season after this.
Kidmarvel09 2 years ago
Aware of that, but this was an episode where most people figured the show was going to go bye bye soon. Either way - the show rocks!
Kriegfreak 2 years ago
This episode honestly makes my eyes well up, and I'm fucking 24 years old.
LeLimeLine 2 years ago 56
it made my eyes a bit wet too...I get this .bitter sweet feeling when ever i watch this show thanks for the upload...
PIPE!!!!
maxx88 2 years ago
@LeLimeLine
HOLY SHIT im 24 too and i had to find this because i was soooo sad watching this when i was a kid
lwturk18 8 months ago
@LeLimeLine such language
NegaZxyz 6 months ago
i think its safe to say that we were all artie's little vikings :..) VIVA LA PETE & PETE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
spaceturtle33 2 years ago 7
Pete & Pete somehow managed to mix absurdist non-nonsensical humor with real characters that actually had heart and interest to them. As in Artie was simultaneously a completely stupid joke of a grown man, and the scene where he leaves Pete is fantastic and even moving.
Figuring it's low-key tone and the fact it had a short run it's kind of astounding how good this show was.
Landstander1 2 years ago 36
Well after 96, the 90s changed drastically. The show would have been really out of place in the late 90s.
Sshelly34213 1 year ago
Yeah it definitely had an early 90s feel. Though I rather like that, myself.
Landstander1 1 year ago
Indeed, that was the best part of the 90s.
Sshelly34213 1 year ago 2
@Sshelly34213 Out of place? Probably, but so in place in its out of placeness. Because that was the spirit of the show. Artie lives on in our hearts.
battousaiashe 1 year ago
@battousaiashe Yes, but it wouldn't have feel right in the millennium/00s culture because the show runs on such a simplicity that no longer exists. How many times did computers frequent this show? How about a mention of them? It seems as if the 00s has become a very tech savvy decade, there really is no place for the kind of simplistic and overly imaginative and colorful world Little Pete and his friends live in.
Sshelly34213 1 year ago
@Sshelly34213 While I don't completely disagree, I would argue that that's even more of a reason for it. Harry Potter doesn't make mention of computers but we all know how well that's done. And I say that the Petes and their friends are their own magical world. As the Tor.com article that sent me on my little P&P binge this evening put it, the show is "happily deranged." And we need more of that in our lives.
battousaiashe 1 year ago
@battousaiashe I think you misinterpreting what I'm trying to say, pop culture is reflective of the population and the atmosphere we live in. We live in a time where instant gratification is important and desired-one reason why harry potter is so fascinating to children. It's also a reason why computers can be so addictive. if I don't have anything to do, I'll spend the entire day on here. I want instant gratification and I can get it here. This is simply the time period we live in currently.
Sshelly34213 1 year ago
@battousaiashe I firmly believe that is the cycle of pop culture. We go from a time where we want instant gratification, and the reaction to that is a time where we slow down and adsorb things and relax. The 90s was a very lackadaisical decade, just watching shows like this it's quite obvious that the tone is carefree, sleepy, surreal. Now it's upbeat, but urgent, needy, etc..
The 80s was very much a decade about this, the 70s was more laid back. The 60s was urgent, the 50s was suburban bliss
Sshelly34213 1 year ago
@battousaiashe Pop culture reflects our feelings, not the other way around. We can't influence moods by pop culture, so to bring a show back like this in the current atmosphere wouldn't really do us any good. We just have to wait until the tides change.
Sshelly34213 1 year ago
@battousaiashe Sorry to make this so lengthy, but kids will always be kids. You are true in that sense. Kids can have fun with a pile of dirt, they don't really become interested in toys or material things until they reach the age of 8. They start to see the world in a different way. So there will always be that "simplistic" world for younger kids no matter what's on tv.
Sshelly34213 1 year ago
@Sshelly34213 And again, I agree with your point. I'm just...stubborn haha. I can be an anachronism too though so I'm coming from a different mindset. And I get that and acknowledge it. I just think we need more reminders that life isn't urgent and needy. But, that goes beyond just TV for me though. We could probably have a fairly fantastic discussion about it too. All spawned from Pete & Pete hahaha.
battousaiashe 1 year ago
@battousaiashe lol, I tend to make mountains out of molehills, I can be watching Pete and Pete and suddenly I'm giving you my philosophical view points.
Nothing wrong with anarchy, we need little of that every once in awhile.
Sshelly34213 1 year ago
@Sshelly34213 Nah, it's fine. I enjoy stuff like that. Although, I said anachronism not anarchism. Although I'm an anarchist too haha.
battousaiashe 1 year ago
@battousaiashe Oh whoops, it was pretty late at night when I was typing my last comment.
Sshelly34213 1 year ago
@Sshelly34213 No worries, little viking!
battousaiashe 1 year ago
@battousaiashe All is pipe :)
Sshelly34213 1 year ago
PIPE!
toKs1c 2 years ago 2
after artie left this show i think lasted another season
JSuelto1 2 years ago
i remember this episode, so sad. the first time i saw it on nick it was like a 6 month series ending. but i guess it was time for both pete and artie to move on cause pete must fight his own battles now
squall600 2 years ago 2
The music on this show rocked!!!
harlemw651 3 years ago 6
It really was....
IABLCKMAN 2 years ago 3
yeah, the closing credits song is the magnetic fields (such a good song)!
thisbemyteevee 2 years ago 3
Life was so much simpler when these shows were on!!!!
IABLCKMAN 3 years ago 14
My thoughts exactly!
RollandB 2 years ago 4
Does Anyone Know the name of the song at the end of the show that song go hard as hell....They just don't make shows like this and that sucks If they have all the seasons on dvd then I'm gonna buy it....ARTIE IS THE MAN
IABLCKMAN 3 years ago 2
the magnetic fields - why i cry?
TheCoveShorts 2 years ago 4
Thank you very much!!
IABLCKMAN 2 years ago
what is it that makes a super hero? is it muscles of steel? The ability to see through brick walls? the ability to turn into a human butane torch. Or is it small, like with Ardy? a way of looking at the world, and making everything in it, a little bit stranger... and a little bit better
TheCoveShorts 3 years ago 8
Dude thats the best and deepest pete n pete quote ever...we'll miss you artie
Boonuts12 2 years ago
artie is totally wearing BC's!!!! nice!
xanfus 3 years ago 2
if you trace back my life in therapy you can see the reason im fucked up is the episode when artie left, I WAS SO SAD ! lol
ilovekatelynn88 3 years ago 7
I wonder whatever happened to that prick McFlimp.
DLAbaoaqu 3 years ago 2
Fuck I hate when the audio is off from the video.
TheLastReplicant 3 years ago 3
I do to but i just open it up in another tab and mute it perfectly so it fits
Misterkooldude 3 years ago 6
Good idea.
Stryongo 3 years ago
I remember this episode so well but however I didn't remember the ending and that he really did leave. I think it's because Toby Huss (Artie) Wasn't going to continue the show onto season three so they had to make a farewell episode like this. I still don't remember him ever leaving though. It's pretty sad, he was the heart of the show for me. I was pretty young around the time though. I loved this show a lot, wish they would make them like this today. Dunno what else to say, I feel nostalgic.
usedcarparts 3 years ago 6
i really think when they lost artie they started losing the true soul of the shoe, in season 3 (without artie) it was like the show lost its young unique weirdness. i didnt like season three 1/3rd of the amount that i loved seaons 1-2 and i think artie was a major factor of that
PIPE
zacafreakingriah 3 years ago 3
y artie left uos yyyyyyyyyyyyyy
GOBEY THE STRONGEST MAN IN THE WORLD :(
ronald629 3 years ago
hahah
024yeknom 3 years ago
Amazing episode, I'll probably buy the dvds of season one and two in a few days.
Any way, what was the name of the song that played at the end?
Baligouxji 3 years ago
why i cry by the magnetic fields!
grizzlybrah 3 years ago
just when you think the episode can't get any better...
they hit you with the magnetic fields at the end. so good.
pizzaforeveryone 3 years ago
this was one episode that made me sad...it was good one!!! (brings memories of my childhood...)
deep388 3 years ago
lol i miss this show but the editing isn't that good lol looks like an old martial arts film with the voices and sound lol but still pretty sweet seeing childhood shows i wanna see salute your shorts
juggalotus20 3 years ago
I'm lucy to have been a kid when this was around. What a kick ass heartfelt show.
RedHeadRach6 3 years ago 9
Upload more please T_T
My childhood depends on it!
Persiana 3 years ago 3
lol MINE TOO
kalindoscopy 3 years ago
saddest thing ever
knobz18 3 years ago
My favourite episode as a child. I just feel I'm getting old... and, I kind of like this nostalgia.
cronosmu 3 years ago 2
Why I Cry by the Magnetic Fields is the song at the end.
DasStimmt 3 years ago
I NEED THAT SONG AT THE END!! :|
michikoww 3 years ago
The song is "Why I cry" by the Magnetic Fields
remus1812 3 years ago
ya pretty cool what was that song at the end
tghooker 3 years ago
i havent seen the end yet but i better not cry
tghooker 3 years ago
i was remembering this episode on the afternoon, im lucky because ive found it. i really miss this show.
salimgovea 3 years ago
:(
artie...
strongest man...
in the world.
StanleyTheShark 3 years ago 4
that was so sweet.
this show used to touch me, and still does...
queenNichita 3 years ago 2
little boy with a knife, i loved the 90s
nirvanafly 3 years ago
real tv show !!!
mic599 3 years ago
aw dammit, am I? yep crying, an episode of pete and pete made me cry. I feel like such a bitch.
charliethegent 3 years ago 3
damn - i was actually touched. This is amazing
Redparrot5 3 years ago
This is easily one of the saddest moments in television history.
Idontlikemovies 3 years ago 7
brings me back so much...amazing
503miles 3 years ago 2
wow. . .I never knew Artie ended up leaving the series. Kind of sad, really. . .
I'm feeling nostalgic here.
shinobivega 3 years ago 2
at the very end the shirt pete's dad was wearing said never give up hope, which is true to the episode too
ageisen2000 3 years ago 3
i'm feeling unbelievably nostalgic right now.
johnnyboi828 3 years ago 3
i just had to choke back some tears.
jonnysnee 3 years ago 2
favorite show ever
thesongsyouwrote 4 years ago 2
Bravo!
EmperorCesar 4 years ago
wow what a powerful episode why doesn't T.V speak to us like this anymore?
kmiller555 4 years ago 3
ok i have to admit the ending and arties speech to pete ......too good...
i teared up...
damn
kicksex 4 years ago 3
This episode always makes me cry like a baby
Speli 4 years ago 7
amazing
mdmr2 4 years ago 2