The following is a list of episodes in the first season of The Adventures of Pete & Pete, listed in production order.
This is technically the show's shortest season, as eight episodes were produced for it. The five pre-series specials ("The Valentine's Day Massacre", "What We Did On Our Summer Vacation", "Space, Geeks and Johnny Unitas", "Apocalypse Pete", and "New Year's Pete"), however, were all re-aired as episodes of this season, bringing it up to 13 episodes, and are included as bonus features on the season's DVD set.
Episodes[]
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1 | "King of the Road" | November 28, 1993 |
| On a trip to the Hoover Dam, the boys' father is determined to defend his title of "King of the Road" from a challenging family, but lengthy bathroom breaks and lack of family cohesion threaten his success. | |||
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2 | "Day of the Dot" | December 5, 1993 |
| When Ellen is selected to dot the "i" in "Squid" in the regional high school marching band competition, Big Pete becomes jealous of her newfound closeness with her band partner, James Markle Jr. (nephew of their band director). Meanwhile, Little Pete tries to stop an interminable bus ride by reuniting lovelorn bus driver Stu Benedict with his ex-girlfriend, Sally Knorp. | |||
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3 | "The Nightcrawlers" | December 12, 1993 |
| Little Pete and his friends aim to overcome the reign of the "international adult conspiracy" in deciding bedtimes by staying up for 11 nights and thus breaking the world record. | |||
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4 | "Range Boy" | December 19, 1993 |
| Embarrassed to be working at his father's driving range, Big Pete hides his identity by dressing as the sort of bear that used to inhabit the area where the range is. Meanwhile, Little Pete helps Artie by perfecting his shot. | |||
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5 | "Tool and Die" | December 26, 1993 |
| Big Pete is put in shop class, much to his displeasure. His teacher, Mr. Slurm, assigns him to work on a mysterious "special project" with the bully "Endless" Mike Hellstrom. | |||
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6 | "Don't Tread on Pete" | January 2, 1994 |
| While Big Pete engages in a struggle against time to study for a test on the American Revolutionary War (with the fear that failing would cause him to wind up like the school's janitor, rumored to have failed the same test years before), Little Pete leads his gym class to try to beat his teacher's intramural dodgeball team. | |||
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7 | "When Petes Collide" | January 9, 1994 |
| Pete and Pete fight each other to be the one to whom their father passes his apparently mystically-powered bowling ball, "Rolling Thunder". | |||
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8 | "Hard Day's Pete" | January 16, 1994 |
| On his way to school, Little Pete happens upon a garage band playing his favorite song: "Summerbaby" by Polaris. When he returns later that day, all traces of the band have vanished; Pete starts his own band to try to find them—and his song. | |||