Movies and TV shows like The Adventures of Pete & Pete

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The Adventures of Pete & Pete (1992)
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The Adventures of Pete & Pete (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The Adventures of Pete & Pete is an American children's television series produced by Wellsville Pictures and broadcast by Nickelodeon. The show featured humorous and surreal elements in its narrative, and many recurring themes centered on two brothers both named Pete Wrigley, and their various interactions with family, friends, and enemies. The show was created by Will McRobb and Chris Viscardi and began as minute-long shorts in 1989 that aired in between regular programs. Owing to the popularity of the shorts, five half-hour specials were made, followed by a regular half-hour series that ran for three seasons and continued in reruns until around 1999. The N aired reruns of the show between 2002–2003. The first two seasons were released on DVD in 2005; the third was planned for 2006 but was indefinitely postponed. Jason Ankeny of Allmusic called the series "the greatest children's show ever," while IGN called it "One of the most well-written kids shows ever."
Style: sitcom, offbeat, humorous, surreal, witty, not serious, mad, cult film
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: youth, mischievous children, middle school, atmosphere, town, tunnel, small town, friendship, friends, misfit, family relations, parents and children, teenage life, young lovers, suburbs, lifestyle, suburban life, coming of age, partner, disorder, siblings relations, buddies, small town life, eccentric family, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 1990s
Keyword: oldies, partners

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, sitcom and feel good films and TV series with plots about youth, teenage life, family relations, teenager, friends, teenage girl and high school mostly in Comedy, Family and Drama genres. Some movies like The Adventures of Pete & Pete: Freaks and Geeks (1999), Salute Your Shorts (1991), Gilmore Girls (2000), Even Stevens (2000), Mr. Belvedere (1985). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Freaks and Geeks (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 799 min.
TV show
Story: High school mathlete Lindsay Weir rebels and begins hanging out with a crowd of burnouts (the "freaks"), while her brother Sam Weir navigates a different part of the social universe with his nerdy friends (the "geeks").
Style: humorous, retro, light, semi serious, sitcom ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: nerd, coming of age, socially awkward, weed, cheerleader, friendship, social relations, teenager, teenage life, teacher, teacher student relationship, youth ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1999, 2000s, year 1980 ...
Place: detroit, michigan, usa
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Salute Your Shorts (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Salute Your Shorts is an American comedy television series that aired on Nickelodeon from 1991 to 1992 and in reruns until early 1999. It was based on the 1986 book, Salute Your Shorts: Life at Summer Camp by Steve Slavkin. The series, filmed at ...
Style: sitcom, realistic, not serious, exciting, offbeat ...
Audience: kids, teens, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: mischievous children, summer camp, teenager, punishment, friendship, spoiled brat, prank, young heroes, against the rules, youth, friends, disorder ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
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Gilmore Girls (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Set in the charming town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut, the series follows the captivating lives of Lorelai and Rory Gilmore, a mother/daughter pair who have a relationship most people only dream of.
Style: feel good, realistic, humorous, witty, talky ...
Audience: teens, family outing, girls' night, kids, teen drama
Plot: small town, teenager, mother daughter relationship, boyfriend, friends, female protagonist, small town life, teenage life, looking for love, single mother, first love, everyday life ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: yale university, connecticut, usa, new england
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Even Stevens (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Even Stevens is an American comedy television series that aired on Disney Channel with a total of three seasons and 65 episodes from June 17, 2000, to June 13, 2003. It follows the life of the Stevenses, a Jewish family living in suburban ...
Style: sitcom, feel good, witty, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: teens, kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: cheerleader, family relations, sibling rivalry, siblings relations, teenage life, parents and children, high school life, youth, classmate, disorder, eccentric family, family life ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: california, usa, sacramento california
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Mr. Belvedere (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Mr. Belvedere is an American sitcom that originally aired on ABC from March 15, 1985, until July 8, 1990. The series is based on the Lynn Aloysius Belvedere character created by Gwen Davenport for her 1947 novel Belvedere, which was later adapted ...
Style: sitcom, semi serious, realistic, humorous, witty ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: family relations, power relations, disorder, friends, suburbs, siblings relations, suburban life, fish out of water, workplace situations, friendship, culture clash, family life ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
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Family Ties (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Former 1960s flower children Steven and Elyse Keaton raise their conservative son Alex, daughters Mallory and Jennifer, and later, youngest child Andrew.
Style: sitcom, realistic, humorous, semi serious, witty ...
Audience: family outing, kids
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Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: usa, ohio, columbus ohio
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I Didn't Do It (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Ultra-competitive fraternal twins Lindy and Logan Watson, together with their four best friends, navigate their freshman year of high school. Each episode begins with a comedic "what just happened?" situation as Lindy and Logan each spin ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, sitcom
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: high school life, high school, twins, siblings relations, youth, teenage life, family relations, best friend, coming of age, friends, buddies, brother sister relationship ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide is an American live action sitcom on Nickelodeon that debuted in the Nickelodeon Sunday night TEENick scheduling block on September 12, 2004. The series' actual pilot episode aired on September 7, ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, semi serious, realistic, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, pre-teens
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Malcolm in the Middle (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
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Style: sitcom, humorous, witty, realistic, funny ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: youth, siblings relations, prodigy, eccentric family, social satire, teenage life, suburban life, sibling relationship, dysfunctional family, suburbs, teenager, family life ...
Time: 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, nova scotia
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Cousin Skeeter (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Cousin Skeeter is an American children's television show, which ran on Nickelodeon from 1998 to 2001. It starred Robert Ri'chard as Bobby, a young boy whose life changed when his strange cousin Skeeter came to live with his family. With ...
Style: sitcom, semi serious, humorous, family comedy
Audience: kids, teens, family outing
Plot: black, urban, carnival, partner, studying, friends, family relations, disorder, friendship, buddies, nothing goes right, youth ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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Drake & Josh (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Drake & Josh is an American television sitcom created by Dan Schneider for Nickelodeon. The series follows the lives of two teenage boys with opposing personalities, Drake Parker and Josh Nichols, who become stepbrothers. Both actors had played ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, captivating, feel good, realistic ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, pre-teens, family friendly
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Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Cory in the House (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Cory in the House is an American television sitcom, which aired on the Disney Channel from January 12, 2007 to September 13, 2008 and was a spin-off from the Disney show That's So Raven. The show focuses on Cory Baxter, who moved from San ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, not serious, feel good, light ...
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Unfabulous (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 24 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Growing Pains (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Growing Pains is an American television sitcom about an affluent family, residing in Huntington, Long Island, New York, with a working mother and a stay-at-home psychiatrist father raising three children together, which aired on ABC from September ...
Style: sitcom, semi serious, realistic, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
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Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: long island, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Torkelsons (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The Torkelsons is an American sitcom which aired on the NBC television network from September 21, 1991 to June 6, 1993. Produced by Walt Disney Television, the series starred Connie Ray, Olivia Burnette and William Schallert. For the second season, ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, touching, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: slice of life, women, boarder, teenager, large family, single mother, absent parent, suburbs, adolescence vs adulthood, family relations, hopes, religions or cults ...
Time: 90s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Bucket & Skinner's Epic Adventures (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Bucket and Skinner are best friends trying to navigate the minefield of high school politics, while surfing everyday and living the California dream.
Style: sitcom, not serious, humorous, realistic, feel good ...
Audience: family outing, teens
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A.N.T. Farm (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Story: A.N.T. Farm is a Disney Channel sitcom which premiered on May 6, 2011 as a special preview and continued as a regular series on June 17, 2011. The pilot episode, "transplANTed" aired after the series finale of The Suite Life on Deck. The ...
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Audience: kids, teens
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Time: 2010s, 21st century
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Clarissa Explains It All (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Clarissa Explains It All is an American teen sitcom that aired on Nickelodeon. Created by Mitchell Kriegman, it aired for five seasons for a total of 65 episodes from March 23, 1991, to December 3, 1994, and then went into reruns. In the series, ...
Style: sitcom, sweet, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: kids, teens, pre-teens
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Time: 90s
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37%
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Quints (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Jamie Grover (Kimberly J. Brown) is an only child who has always wanted out from the constant attention her parents give her. Her wish is finally granted when she finds out her mother is pregnant, but when she turns out to have quints, Jamie's ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: baby, family relations, family life, life turned upside down, child as adult, youth, parents and children, siblings relations, teenage life, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, teenager ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Kenan & Kel (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Kenan & Kel is an American teen comedy sitcom produced by Kevin Kopelow and Heath Seifert that originally aired on Nickelodeon from July 1996 to July 2000. The show starred friends and then-All That cast members Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell. ...
Style: sitcom, feel good, sweet, hood, humorous ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, pre-teens
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Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: chicago, illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Phil of the Future (2004)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Phil of the Future is an American sitcom that originally aired on Disney Channel from June 18, 2004 to August 19, 2006 for a total of two seasons. The series was created by Tim Maile and Douglas Tuber and produced by 2121 Productions, a part of ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, not serious, exciting, melancholic ...
Audience: teens, kids, pre-teens
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Time: 2000s, future, 22nd century, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Perfect Strangers (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Perfect Strangers is an American sitcom that ran for eight seasons from March 25, 1986, to August 6, 1993, on the ABC television network. Created by Dale McRaven, the series chronicles the rocky coexistence of midwestern American Larry Appleton and ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, game show, slapstick, realistic ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: friendship, odd couple, team, racist, weirdo, roommate, cousin cousin relationship, newspaper, greek, fish out of water, problem solving, partner ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: chicago, fictional island, usa, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Liv and Maddie (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: The exploits of identical twins Liv, a former television star back home in Wisconsin and in the process of adding movie star to her credits, as well as beginning to focus on her music career, and Maddie, an outstanding student and basketball ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, sentimental, not serious, feel good ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Step by Step (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Step by Step is an American television sitcom that starred Patrick Duffy and Suzanne Somers as two single parents, who spontaneously get married after meeting one another during a vacation, resulting in them becoming the heads of a large blended ...
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Audience: family outing, teens, kids, family friendly
Plot: couples, family relations, sister sister relationship, brother brother relationship, father daughter relationship, father son relationship, youth, couple relations, parents and children, family life, siblings relations, teenager ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
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How to Be Indie (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: How to Be Indie was a Canadian television show on YTV. The main character is a 13-year-old Indian Canadian teenager named Indira "Indie" Mehta. The program is a single-camera series intended for a youth audience. The series was created by ...
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, realistic ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Just Jordan (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Just Jordan is an American television sitcom that aired on Nickelodeon as a part of the network's TEENick lineup. The series debuted on January 7, 2007 and was cancelled on April 5, 2008 with 29 episodes produced.
Style: sitcom, feel good, touching, humorous, realistic ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids
Plot: family relations, best friend, teenage life, rise to the top, against the odds, love and romance, youth, black boy, interracial friendship, diner, friends, urban ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, arkansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Out There (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Out There is an Australian comedy-drama series following the trials and tribulations of an American high school boy named Reilly who moves to Australia from Connecticut as his father flees the authorities. He stays with his aunt and uncle who are ...
Style: humorous, touching, serious, realistic
Audience: teens, kids
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Time: 21st century
Place: australia
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The Suite Life on Deck (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The series follows twin brothers Zack and Cody Martin and hotel heiress London Tipton in a new setting, the SS Tipton, where they attend classes at "Seven Seas High" and meet Bailey Pickett while Mr. Moseby manages the ship. The ship ...
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Audience: kids, teens, family outing
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Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Girl Meets World (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: The adventures of relatable and adventurous Riley Matthews, the tween daughter of Cory and Topanga Matthews, and her bold best friend Maya as they traverse the twists and turns of teenage years at Manhattan's John Quincy Adams Middle School ...
Style: humorous, sitcom, realistic, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, teen drama
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Time: 2010s, 21st century
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