I was one of two set teachers on season two and three of The Adventures of Pete and Pete (that is to say, I taught actual school to the kids who were on set.) The show was shot on location, in the actual houses in New Jersey – often, holding school in the actual on-camera bedrooms. I was a somewhat befuddled graduate student working for an “on-set education” service, and I had a BLAST teaching the bright, motivated cast.
The set was an enormously creative place to be, the production crew was intelligent and funny, and at the end of the day catch a ride back to Manhattan in a crew car where Toby Huss (Artie) would leap out anywhere in the middle of the East Village, and people on the street would go “TOBY!!!” and swarm over to him because he was the mayor of downtown.
Petunia (Little Pete’s tattoo) was painted on by hand, and carefully retouched every day.
