“It’s not like it was the buzz about town,” Garofalo added, “but obviously it was something like, ‘Hey did you see that show?’ The Adventures of Pete & Pete was coming from an extremely creative place that appealed to both kids and I assume other adults because I know I had friends who watched it as well.”Ĭonfessing that she never ended up watching herself as “Ms. “I was here in New York doing SNL, and Pete & Pete was something you would notice if you were flipping through the channels,” recalls Janeane Garofalo when I asked her how she came to be one of many (at least at the time) “indie” celeb cameos on Pete & Pete. It was all part of one gestalt that was filtered into a children’s show,” Dieckmann said. “All of us had come of age with the eighties New York sensibility in music and film and style and everything else, and we were all living in the same world. The sensibility was very much the world where Hal Hartley was making movies and where Jim Jarmusch made Stranger Than Paradise and where Steve Buscemi was doing these performance art pieces.” “It couldn’t have come out of any number of cities you could mention. “That show could not have come out of LA,” Dieckmann continued.
IGGY POP PETE AND PETE SERIES
“It was that downtown Manhattan sensibility,” said Katherine Dieckmann (that’s “Deekman,” to you), who originally worked with her Pete & Pete cohorts to create the show, would later have her hand in more episodes than any other director of the series and bestowed upon the program that “pre-Emo/hipster/indie” sensibility it has become known for. The Adventures of Pete & Pete remains a gleaming paragon of this DIY/indie/punk-integrated-into-children’s-programming mentality. They worked together, played together, traveled similar circles and many of them have maintained their friendships twenty years later.
One of the blazing revelations I’ve had over the last few whirligig weeks of reading about, seeking out and conversing with the progenitors of our favorite old Nickelodeon shows is that, for the most part, this was a bunch of ragtag art kids in their twenties and thirties who - in lieu of heading to the West Coast to fuse a punk-rock ethos to mainstream accessibility in music - brought the “alternative” sensibility to an even more unlikely place than the radio: shows for kids (and, when they really nailed it, shows for each other). “Teen-agers, bohos, camp culturati, photographers – they have won by default, because, after all, they do create styles.” - Tom Wolfe
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