just realized there's no zeke and luther reference in this video. im sorry. consider this video non-canon 😩

"If she was into Cletus as the mascot, then she don't belong to the streets, she belongs to the Sesame Street" was a line that had me howling

The musical ones always got pushed way harder (obviously because they were generally successful). This, Jump In, and Minute Men were the non-musical ones that I remember being actually pretty decent.

I literally wanted to be a mascot for my school after seeing this film. I got my school to create a mascot and so on and I was the mascot for 3 years. I danced around, played air guitar to the songs the players would come out to and helped out the music development by buying 5 doughnuts for every game and handed them out to everyone and anyone. Kids thought I was funny and wanted to steal my props I had. But I was no Hatching Pete, truly legendary.

Fun Fact: Jason Dolly has the most leading roles for any DCOM

Pete and Angela are legit one of my favorite Disney couples. I love how even though Pete got all his popularity from being the chicken, Angela noticed him way before that just for who he was. Unlike the girl he liked at the beginning of the movie.

This video better blow up. People need to remember this masterpiece of a film

Until I watched this video, all I knew of Hatching Pete was the poster. I assumed it was a movie about Mitchell Musso laying an egg that hatched into a teenager. I'm not kidding. I genuinely thought that. The sad part is that honestly that sounds like a DCOM that they would make.

Brian Stepanek is doing mad bank at Nickelodeon nowadays, I don't care for the show but it makes me happy to see the king still winning 👑

Yes I don't get why the coach was so worked up on the chicken. As a kid watching the locker room scene, even now I still ask why he didn't get fired😭

Finally someone else mentions the greatness that was Brian O Brian

Truly a underappreciated DCOM

I think the other thing that made this movie great was the chemistry especially Between all of the actors (except sonny with a chance girl lol) especially the friendship between the two leads, I think Mitchell's and Jason's acting was spot on. They bounce off each other wonderfully and pulled off that toxic sorta one-sided friendship dynamic perfectly.
They both really capture their characters perfectly and I'm proud of Mitchell in particular because it's easier to play a likable character than an accurately disrespectful character. He NAILED that "where my hug at??" starter pack personality lmfao. The writing was really good, all of the characters were fully flushed out and seemed like genuine people.

24:56 Its crazy that even his parents dont recognize him until Cleatus points it out.............

Fuck I never skipped this movie whenever it came on. Growing up bullied for being gay, shit like this movie and spiderman really helped, just the idea of being able to be someone else. So cheesy, but I look back at younger me and remember the comfort this movie brought. Now I do cosplays and it's always nice to make people smile by being someone else 🫡

I ALWAYS THOUGHT HATCHING PETE WAS SO OVERLOOKED and I don’t know why 😢

Hatching Pete , minutemen and Wendy wu

I wonder if cleetus spoke ahead of time to his dad and a teacher/coach that he could not be the rooster anymore, but picked someone who wanted to remain anonymous, it would have made him a smidge leas problematic. The mystery would still be there along with the fame getting to cleetus’s head.

i remember that commercial for it so, so vividly, they played it so much. the 'hes brash, and bold, and daring!" followed by the "you can live your whole life in a shell" bit is seared into my brain

The only issue I have with this movie was that they blew the horn after every made basket, someone on post production had to know that's not a thing in basketball right?? Great video about a truly underappreciated DCOM!

This was filmed at my high school and you could volunteer to be an extra in it and the teachers got annoyed at the kids not coming to class to film it. Lol😅