The Adventures of Pete & Pete - Where Is Mr. Tastee?
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- A short montage of the search for Mr. Tastee from the episode "What We Did on Our Summer Vacation". Featuring Michael Stipe (R.E.M.) as Capt. Scrummy, and the awesome instrumental version of The Gothic Archies' "Your Long White Fingers", also heard elsewhere in the series ("King of the Road", for example).
Came here because a memory of this scene awoke after watching I Saw the TV Glow
Just saw I Saw The TV Glow and this episode definitely inspired it
I dunno why, but this episode is always the one I remember the most about Pete & Pete. It was legitimately bizarre/sad/surreal/creepy.
Because it is, and especially towards the end. As I have gotten older, I guess the episode in my view was about summer coming to an end, and going back to school and regular life. As kids, we always remember summer as being the time for us to go outside, be with our friends, play, have fun and have no worries (aka school). Get into any weird adventures with friends and just enjoying life as kids. But, things get a little sad as well during summer. Because sometimes, the fun must come to an end, and kids want summer to last forever when that’s not going to happen, and we know it. That’s what this show represent it to me.
And in the same way summer is also a metaphor for the wonder of childhood. How childhood was, in it's way, a summer break from what came later for all of us. Not just the working life and responsibilities but the genuine end of the kind of wonder that only comes when you don't know much about the world beyond the end of the road you live on.
Wow..... Deep af
Best episode. One of the best episodes of any show.
So Mr. Tasty was a pedophile right?
The 90’s was a great time to be a kid, the shows, music, even food! It all had its own unique tone.
Hear, hear!
Born 82 and the eighties and early nineties ruled to be a kid and I was nine when this debuted
@@Johnlindsey289 old school Nickelodeon was the shit.
It was outside, it was real.
This is the skeleton key to I Saw the TV Glow
Skeleton key?
man this show was so magical in such a special way
This show had some really touching moments to it. You really don't see that in kid's shows much anymore. Everything has to be bright and silly the whole time.
Yeah, it did.
Heck, the season 3 episode "The Good, the Bad, and the Lucky" (Which I consider easily one of the best episodes of the series) alone had more character development in its 25 minute run time than entire seasons of some of the crappy live- action Nickelodeon shows of the 2000s and 2010s.
Oh that harmonica kicks and and my whole body starts to tingle. I have every feeling when I hear that.
The cameos made the show twice as magical
What I wouldn’t give for it to be the 1990s again.
Welcome to the Dirty 30 club...I will be 35 in less than a year. Scary as hell, but I know the feeling. It was a great time to be alive.
Truth! I'd take it all, good and bad just to have it all again
Oh come on guys... I sure my the time too... A lot of it... But it is like it is and time flies....
We had our good time back then and still time to enjoy ourselves. Don't cry about that the past is over be happy that it happened.
Same here
Would give
The music for this show is amazing.
I liked when kids shows were grunge/alternative haha
This show brings me right back to my childhood. It makes me remember all those hot summers when I was a kid. Mr tastes kind of creeped me out but this was such a great episode. The adventures of pete and pete was such a well written show
Mr. Tastee is the summer equivalent of Santa Claus.
Exactly!
A jolly, benevolent figure who loves making children happy, but who only shows up for a short period of the year, and leaves the kids wondering what he gets up to the rest of the year.
I'm 57 this was my favorite show back then,seen it a thousands of times it seems like
Yeah I'm 34 now and I was around little Pete's age when the show aired but as an adult now, this show haunts me. It's a true masterpiece without trying. I'm glad to see so many others agree.
@@awwgez It's like mash I never get tired of it.
This insane world we live in and a show like that helps me scape.
42 and one of my favorites
"Don't be sad they are gone. Be happy they were ever there"
“What are you guys so afraid of?”
Would have never realized this until now, but probably afraid of getting too involved in these kids lives, and possibly being accused of something; and both him and Mr. Tastee were trying hard to keep the boundaries solid.
Yeah, now that you mention it.
Mr. Tastee handled it well, though, being kind to the kids but at the same time gently establishing boundaries.
For some reason, that little eyebrow tic Michael Stipe does at the 1:16 mark always cracks me up. 😂
The Adventures of Pete and Pete defined my summers, growing up not far from where they filmed it, and having a few similar friends to some of the characters - nevermind watching the shows with all of them who had the same feelings about it.
Mr. Tasty was the garage band singer person. In one of the episodes, Pete looks at his gloves, and it is the same gloves as him. It then cuts back to a time when Pete remembers tasty waving at him with the same gloves.
It was heavily hinted Tasty and the Garage Band Singer were the same person.
I know this was posted a year ago but do you know what episode that was? Trying to find it.
@@HisRealChild I been watching Pete and Pete. If I find what this person describes, I'll come back here and tell you
@@bradxwx I watched the Episode Hard days Pete season 1 episode 13. The garage band man is wearing white gloves.
Mr. Tastee was played by versatile character actor Toby Huss aka Artie. The Mr.Tastee head hid his identity.
🤣🤣🤣 @PlanetExpressStaff that seriously blew my mind. I never made the connection. And in the garage band episode - the lyrics are "I was around, nobody knows nobody knows."
This is probably my favorite episode and I think most people have fond memories of this one. For a kids show this episode in particular is so well written and really explores the life of what is essentially a guy that sell ice cream.
I'm watching, saying "isn't that Michael Stipe?" and sure enough it was. Haha crazy times.
So this is what inspired I SAW THE TV GLOW.
Mr. Tastee is Artie. I really think the show intended this.
It was just the same actor...
@@_pax19_ Same actor and same character.
Remember when adults in TV shows weren't creepy predators or bullies? The Mr. Scrummy man & Mr. Tastee are genuine & just wanna feed kids iced creams on hot, summer days. He didn't even make Big Pete pay for that treat. What happened to us?
Yeah. As a kid, I thought Mr. Scrummy was evil/ cruel. As an adult, I can see that while he's a little too blunt and his wares clearly aren't the best in the world, he wasn't deliberately malicious in in his interactions with big Pete, just speaking some hard truths.
Mr. Tastee handled things well, wanting to make children happy but also knowing that the kids shouldn't get to know him too personally because there needed to be some boundaries.
Excellent writing
Yeah, this show's writers knows how to talk to children, not at us.@@Johnlindsey289
@@Johnlindsey289 Thank you very much.
The ice cream truck that comes down my block doesn't have a Blue Tornado Bar!! I bet it's good AF!!!
My favorite episode
Even as a kid when this first aired, there was something so sad about the ending and it’s always stuck with me
We miss you Mr.Tastee
I would seriously pay good $ for a Blue Tornado Bar!! Ever since this show had first aired with mentioning of this mythical bar, I have tried to see if there was even a slight chance that one could really be available, somewhere?! Even tried just searching for the moldings to make them myself. No luck..Nickelodeon should've started selling them when this was on. Kids would have bought them up!
Closest thing I have found to a Blue Tornado Bar mold... There is a page on Google for the recipe for the Tornado Bar too, though I suspect that it's the blue flavor in Bomb Pops
Sorry, I can't sympathize.
I'm a bonafide sludgecicle man.
Sludgcicles honestly look better. Blue tornado bars look like nothing but sugar water and food coloring
www.sugarednerd.com/recipes-and-how-tos/2015/9/12/recipe-mr-tastees-blue-tornado-bars
0:56 his face when he said pineapple blurt 🍍❤️
One of nick’s best 90s shows.
It holds up so well.
Michael Stipe acting Henry Rollins working for Haagen Dazs.
Someone should 3D print the wavy Blue Tornado Bar moldings to sell. I'd buy one for sure!
Loved this show!!
One of Mr. Tastee's ice cream flavors is
Lemon Licky Nubs! LOL!! 🍋🍋🍋🍧🍨
Michael Stipe (REM) was in an episode, dear god I didn't know that.
The most surreal episode of the most surreal show on Nickelodeon
I actually own those “Missing Mr. Tastey” flyers young Pete threw away at the end 👀
Who is here after watching I Saw the TV Glow?
i saw the tv glow
I wonder if we ever have a real life equivalent to Mr. Tastee? Giving us free ice cream on the hot days of summer…
This one episode of Pete and Pete had to have hit Jane Schoenbrun so deep. Their film “I Saw The TV Glow” alludes to it several times.
- There’s a glowing ice cream van and an evil ice cream man who laments that he can only exist in the summer and has nowhere to go in the winter.
- Maddy has a crush on Michael Stipe
- Both actors who played Pete and Pete have a short cameo.
Best show ever.
God I miss the 90s. Not gonna lie. Cried when artie left
Artie leaving was bittersweet, but it was explained in a REALLY effective way, showing that it was mainly for two reasons:
A) Pete had learned everything Artie had come to teach him (Courage, righteousness, assertiveness, leadership, and not really caring what society thought of him), and now he needed to be prepared to fight his own battles as he got older, and be his own person. Artie sticking around would have hindered that growth.
B) (In fact, Artie specifically says this in his own odd way while parting with Pete) There were many other children out there in the world who were feeling weak, scared, and helpless, and needed Artie to help them in the same way he had helped Pete.
Both are perfect metaphors for real life on so many levels, about things like personal growth, mentorship, and of course learning to let go.
Summer's come to an end
See Nickelodeon used to mean something back in the 90's with shows like this.
Mr Tastee will return, the kid in me is still hoping.
He's behind you!
@@simplelines3335 thats Candice
He comes to Wellsville every summer, like clockwork.
I haven't seen this show in so long, so I don't remember if they ever revealed it, but I have a theory Mr. Tastee is bus driver Stu.
Kristin Johnston I personally think Tastee and Artie were one and the same. Not just because Toby Huss played both characters, but because after Artie left the show Tastee was still mentioned from time to time, which is interesting because Artie told Pete he'd see him again: but we never do see that reunion between the two, and... Artie was the only one who saw the Tastee mobile "at the edge of the Earth"... It makes sense, too, because how did Artie afford to live? To eat? Etc unless he had a job somewhere, sometimes. Tastee was the perfect cover.
@@HomicideHenry Love this theory.
@@SANITIZEDINC
There is only one drawback to the theory proposal, and that's the episode "Lizard King" where Artie and Tastee are in the same scene--- but if you look at the body language, etc you can tell that it's not the real Tastee; after all Mr Huss played Tastee.
So maybe to make the theory work would be to suggest that Mr Tastee was really two people--- sometimes Artie was Tastee, and maybe just maybe Captain Scrummy who sold sludgesicles was Tastee too.
It makes sense, considering Scrummy knew exactly all the items on Tastee's truck and he knew about the situation of kids asking too many personal questions--- unless you want to believe all of these ice cream men were buddies outside the business (which I would think would give away Tastee's identity) or went to ice cream man conventions and swapped stories.
Jesus Christ Almighty God bless you all 😊
@@HomicideHenry 🤯
this got me soo heartbroken they found mr tastee at least hes with the kids everytime
He was a pedophile
Just now realizing this was Michael Stipe
it's coming to air tonight June 17th on splat
Came here after TV Glow
I don't get it haven't seen the movie so I don't get it. I don't care about I'm probably not going to watch it.
who else seeing they tv glow
As a kid I never picked up on all the musician and celebrity cameos. Michael Stipe, Kate Pierson, Deborah Harry, LL Cool J, Iggy Pop (who was actually a regular as Nona's dad), Adam West, Steve Buscemi, etc.
Iggy Pop, Adam West, and Steve Buscemi were more like legitimate recurring guest characters than "Cameos."
Along those lines, another celebrity guest appearance I liked was Janeane Garofalo playing a high school English teacher in "X= Why?" She made for a pretty amusing character in it and her line delivery was great.
I have a VHS tape of this I used to watch it and pretend we had cable when I was a kid now it doesn’t matter if I have cable cause cable is going out the door and I can watch this show on Dailymotion
Lead singer of R.E.M.?
neal hall I was thinking that!
Yep
How did they get Michaels Stipe on that show? He must have been a fan.
They managed to get Iggy Pop to play one of the kid's dad. They had pretty famous people on this show
Also one of the Roches--Suzzy, I think--played a meter maid. And of course you had Polaris/Miracle Legion doing the theme and a lot of other music. Not super-famous but musicians with some indie/college radio cred.
LOL, did David Lynch direct this episode? WTH
God the agony!
Mr Tastee was Creed from The Office that I tell you
But that was just ice cream
Just ice cream
Just ice cream
Cream
1:16
Including pineapple blurt ?
TAAAAAAAASTEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!
Could really go for a Pineapple Blurt right bout now
I just ate an entire pineapple in one sitting and now I feel like I may have to go have a pineapple blurt.
When gingers actually had souls
OG tv shows
whats the song before the gothic archies song at 1:05? it sounds kinda like polaris' "everywhere" but i think it's a different recording
I feel like this episode and the Artie episode was sad because it showed some of the hard times of growing up is you have to leave some kid views behide this guy was such an icon a rockstar to him but on the inside behinde the icecream head he was just as human as anyone else.
Michael Stipe 😆
What's The Frequency Kenneth?
Tasty!!!!!!😆😆😆
plot twist, Mr. Tasty was a serial killer.
Michael stipe as the ice cream man??? Haha
Do you mean Mr Softee
Looks like the lead singer of REM.
That IS the lead singer of R.E.M.
I am Mr. Tastee and you kids will never find me..
Well played Captain Lactose, well...played
Isnt that the lead singer from R.E.M.
Lol Michael Stipe
I don't know where he at he a missing maybe an serial killer or not
Did you mean popsicle
Plot twist: Mr Tasty was Artie!
Mr tastee look like an ice scream man in Minecraft kinda different person face shape half and curve face
I do love R.E.M., but... this is one bad performance. Stipe really cannot act.
I thought Stipe was not that bad.
"Sludge Cycle" Ig I didn't know what sludge was as a kid so I didn't find it funny like I do now. 🤢