Setting
Pete & Pete is set in the town of Wellsville, New York, although the state is never explicitly mentioned. An allusion to its location comes during "When Petes Collide", when the Petes' father runs four hours to the Canadian border to get rid of his bowling ball, Rolling Thunder (Wellsville, in reality, is approximately two hours from the Canadian border at Fort Erie by car). Another more explicit reference is the use of New York license plates on the cars, despite the fact that the show was filmed in New Jersey. Portions of Wellsville were fictionalized for the purposes of the show; Glurt County, mentioned in "Yellow Fever" and "The Good, the Bad and the Lucky", does not exist in real life, either in New York or any other state (Wellsville is located in Allegany County), and the fictional Wellsville High School's mascot is a squid instead of the real Wellsville Lions.
The show was filmed largely in South Orange, New Jersey with location shots done in a variety of other spots around northern New Jersey, including the Willowbrook Mall in Wayne, NJ. The exteriors of Pete & Pete's house (as seen in the credit sequence and other shots) were filmed on Woodridge Place in Leonia, New Jersey. The football field used for various episodes is that of Bayonne High School in Bayonne, New Jersey.
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