"Nobody talks that way about my lucky underpants!"

as Nona F. Mecklenberg

Airdate: 1994-1996
Also Starring: Michael C. Maronna, Danny Tamberelli, Iggy Pop.

Nona F Mecklenberg is Little Pete's neighbour and best friend. The F stands for Francis but she'll get it legally changed to either Frame or Forklift. She only moved to Wellsville at the beginning of the second series and at first she hated it there. She was so homesick that she covered her new house with pictures of her old one. Even her dog, Nimbus hated Wellsville and in protest, he wouldn't pee. However things turned out for the best in the end, Nona even decided to take the pictures of her old house down from her new one and Nimbus overcame his problem with devastating effects.

In the past Nona has helped Pete with many adventures. She helped him with his great escape when he was grounded for life. When Pete's tunnel digging antics ruined the lawn again, she spray painted it green to keep Dad off his trail and she also inspired his final push for freedom with her moving Lady Liberty speech. On other occasions she has helped him travel back in time, find the lucky penny, promote his gut fludge at the school dance, pull "the fakerooni of the century", beat Papercut...

Nona has many unique traits. She always wears a plaster cast on her arm, not because she's broken it or anything, but because she likes the itchy feeling it gives her and because it feels soooo good when she gets round to scratching it. Another one is that her speech patterns can cloud men's minds and her taste buds are like a flavour computer. She has a lucky hat, lucky underpants, a lucky candy necklace and her burps taste like hotdogs. Her dad bears an uncanny resemblance to Iggy Pop and his pastimes include embarrassing Nona and giving Artie a hard time. Nona also excels at dancing which is shown by her majestic hyperactivity in Dance Fever.

Nona didn't appear in any episodes before the second series and missed out on quite a number in the third series so she could film "Harriet the Spy" for Nickelodeon. She was promoted to main character fame in the third series where she took over the character Artie's spot and even got her very own title picture.

Episodes

Season Two:
2x01 Grounded for Life
2x03 The Call
2x04 The Big Quiet
2x05 Time Tunnel
2x06 Inspector 34
2x07 Halloweenie
2x10 Farewell, My Little Viking: Part 1
2x11 Farewell, My Little Viking: Part 2

Season Three:
3x01 35 Hours
3x03 The Good, the Bad and the Lucky
3x04 Splashdown!
3x05 Dance Fever
3x06 Crisis in the Love Zone
3x07 The Last Laugh

Images

Screencaps

Videos

3x01 - 35 Hours
3x06 - Crisis in the Love Zone
 

Quotable: Nona

"My name's Nona F Mecklenberg. F's for Francis. I'm gonna legally change it, to either, to either Frame or Forklift."
"What are you, some kind of serial killer?"
"Make mine medium rare with grilled onions."
"After we do it and we're famous, would you rather have your face on a post-it stamp or on a license plate."
"It takes more than some hot asphalt to stop us."
"He was chasing this ball, I yelled for him to stop but Gary was too excited, he never saw the car."
"Let's get started people, we're burning daylight."
"Apollo and Athena. They were brother and sister. Only, Athena didn’t have a mother, so she just sprang out of her father’s head, ready to fight. I saw the picture."
"Thanks Mr. Kretchmar, you're so much nicer than the Dad who used to live here."
"Holy Moly, not bad for a buck."
"Howdy partner I'm Nona F Mecklenberg, the F stands for Freerange."
"I'd rather be deep fried in armpit sweat."
"Do burps taste like hotdogs?"
"Nobody talks that way about my lucky underpants!"
"A twist and a tuck, means good, good luck."
"Kiss me carrot head."
"But you're Pitstain... Sergeant Stink."
"My tastebuds are like a flavour computer."
"Bingo, it's Krebstar atomic hotsauce."
"Nona F Mecklenberg reporting for duty."
"Let's hook up this sucker."
"Maybe you can stop me, Buttlinger, and maybe you can stop him. but there's one kid you can't stop."
"Gross, I think I'm gonna ralph!"