Column 4: Considering Pete and Pete
If you happened to catch last week’s Screened Plays, you’ll know that we discussed the importance of television theme songs and, in particular, how they should be viewed in the context of the audience they reach and the generation in which they existed. Theme songs are great windows to the soul of a television audience, but the thing is that most are pretty limited by their genre. That is to say, most television theme songs say a lot about an audience’s values and tastes, or the subject of the TV show itself… and that’s it. But there are some television show theme songs that transcend their show’s scope and somehow manage to be appropriate for whatever music style is current at the time. Enter: The Adventures of Pete and Pete. Often pointed to as 90s-Nickelodeon gold (and as the reigning 90s-nostalgia magnet), The Adventures of Pete and Pete captured the[...]