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Over the weekend, much of the world’s population dutifully set its clocks one hour ahead in adherence with daylight saving time, that mandatory act of “springing forward” in order to... something about farmers. Or coal. Or whatever. As a popular Last Week Tonight With John Oliver segment pointed out, most of us don’t…

Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a prompt to compare notes on your interface with pop culture, to reveal your embarrassing tastes and experiences, and to ponder how our diverse lives all led us to convene here together. Got a question you’d…

“It was just a normal Saturday, like the 51 other Saturdays that year.” So begins the 13th episode of the third season of The Adventures Of Pete And Pete, aptly titled “Saturday.” Like the other 38 half-hour episodes of Will McRobb and Chris Viscardi’s suburban fantasia, it’s a mundane setup that takes approximately…

Welcome to Random Roles, wherein we talk to actors about the characters who defined their careers. The catch: They don’t know beforehand what roles we’ll ask them to talk about.

Kim Kardashian’s single-minded, relentless quest to break the internet continued on Monday when she tweeted a nude, albeit tastefully censored, selfie to her 41.3 million followers. The photo emerged only three months after the birth of the reality star’s second child with Kanye West, though it appears to be an old…

In which The A.V. Club finds someone notable to schedule 24 Hours Of media for you to enjoy.

Earlier this fall, Nickelodeon announced plans to bring back some of its most beloved properties, a move that’s coming to fruition sometime in the semi-near future with a Craig Bartlett-penned Hey Arnold! movie. But what does that actually mean? Are we getting an updated Clarissa Explains It All starring a 40-year-old…

Viewers who want TV episodes about Christmas obviously have many, many choices. And there were enough Simpsons Halloween episodes for FXX to devote an entire marathon to them. But there are other, equally important annual occasions that have not inspired nearly as many sitcom episodes, like the end of daylight saving…

Recently, Nickelodeon announced that it was considering re-launching several of its classic shows, from Rugrats to You Can’t Do That On Television. And while that’s all well and good—modern kids deserve good TV, too—some nostalgia purists blanched, imagining horribly bastardized versions of their childhood favorites.…

Welcome to Random Roles, wherein we talk to actors about the characters who defined their careers. The catch: They don’t know beforehand what roles we’ll ask them to talk about.

I am a huge fan of old-time radio, and am hoping that the current podcast surge will help keep this now-faded genre (time of death: 1960) from disappearing completely into the past. Before TV, radio drama spotlighted the best and brightest writers and performers of the day (many movie stars did guest spots on Suspense,…

With a reissue of Music From The Adventures Of Pete And Pete on the way for Record Store Day and some upcoming tour dates, it’s a good time to be into Polaris. The Mark Mulcahy-fronted act initially garnered acclaim as the band that sang the Pete And Pete theme and provided much of the show’s background music and then…

Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a prompt to compare notes on your interface with pop culture, to reveal your embarrassing tastes and experiences, and to ponder how our diverse lives all led us to convene here together. Got a question you’d…

Polaris, the band best known for providing the soundtrack to the cult Nickelodeon classic The Adventures Of Pete And Pete, has had a nice little renaissance over the last few years. The group reunited back in 2012 for a charity concert before putting together a new music video and a national tour in 2014. Now the band…

It has been nearly 20 years since Danny Tamberelli last graced basic cable television as the younger of the two Petes on Nickelodeon’s The Adventures Of Pete & Pete. Today, along with Jeremy L. Balon and Brendan O’Rourke, the erstwhile Little Pete is one-third of a comedy troupe called ManBoobs. The trio, which formed…

About a week ago, Flavorwire published an interview with Mathew Klickstein, author of Slimed: An Oral History Of Nickelodeon’s Golden Age. The interview, conducted by A.V. Club contributor Pilot Viruet, found the ’90s nostalgia apologist likening Nickelodeon’s emphasis on diversity to blackface, attributing Clarissa…

Fans of The Adventures Of Pete And Pete surely know Polaris, the Mark Mulcahy-fronted group that belted out the show’s theme song, “Hey Sandy,” as well as a number of other featured tracks. That group’s touring this fall, and The A.V. Club has the premieres of a brand new video for a brand new track, “Green Big Happy…

Fans of the Nickelodeon show The Adventures Of Pete And Pete will surely like the new video from Nashville rockers Diarrhea Planet. Though the clip for “Platinum Girls” isn’t (weirdly enough) the first music video to reference the show, this Nylon Magazine-produced clip (directed by Blair Waters) has cred, considering…

Polaris, best known as “that band from The Adventures Of Pete And Pete,” is going on tour. The Mark Mulcahy-fronted trio has only played live once, during a charity concert in 2012, and it released just one record—the aptly titled Music From The Adventures Of Pete & Pete—back in 1999. The Waiting For October tour…