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Character Analysis

Scott Adsit

Pete Hornberger

Played by Scott Adsit

172 jokes across 61 episodes of 30 Rock

WAR

90.1

Total Jokes

172

Avg Craft

7.2

Avg Impact

7

Comedy Style

Character Comedy

Pete delivers 172 scored jokes across 61 episodes of 30 Rock, averaging 7.2 on craft and 7.0 on impact for a career WAR of 90.1. Their comedy leans toward character comedy. The highest-scoring line is below.

Funniest Pete Lines

All Jokes — 172 total

S1E01

Pete:Apparently, you can't say he's got a vagina

7.27.0
S1E01

Jack · Pete:It's not illegal to fall asleep on your neighbor's roof. / Nor should it be.

7.97.7
S1E01

Pete:'This is not a dream.'

7.36.7
S1E01

Pete:Don't buy all the hot dogs, okay?

8.07.8
S1E02

Tracy · Pete:You smoke weed, right, Pete? Uh... No. Yeah, me neither. Me and you, Pete. Me and you.

7.36.7
S1E03

Pete:Oh, my God, my wedding ring. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. My wife's gonna kill me!

5.76.5
S1E04

Liz · Pete:Which one of your kids is it that you're afraid of? Kyle. Kyle. So strong.

7.98.0
S1E04

Pete:You're inappropriate, you jerk, with your big stupid face!

6.56.7
S1E04

Pete:Look at me. Look how bald I am. Look at my life. Please, just give me this one thing.

7.57.7
S1E05

Pete:Oh...no.

6.35.5
S1E05

Liz · Pete:To get out of coming to work. Oh, so first you thought he was illiterate, and now you think he's lazy? Jeez, you are racist.

7.67.5
S1E05

Pete · Liz:Does she know we went off the air two minutes ago? No, she does not. Smart move.

7.47.3
S1E07

Pete · Jenna:No, that's not true. What about that movie you did last summer? "The Rural Juror"? Yeah, The Rur-- That one.

8.28.5
S1E07

Pete:I will tell him that you are in a feature film called The Rrr Jrr.

7.77.8
S1E07

Frank · Pete:What the hell's her movie called? I don't know. She's been talking about it for a year. I can't ask her now.

7.67.8
S1E07

Liz · Pete:I know you're wearing that as a joke, but it makes you look younger, and more confident, and I think you should consider it.

7.06.5
S1E07

Pete:Hey, Jack Attack. Sorry, I should have kept that one in the old brain box.

7.16.7
S1E10

Pete:Pete successfully says 'The Rural Juror' clearly

6.76.3
S1E10

Pete · Liz:The Rural Juror. The Rrr-- Rural. The Ruh-- Rural. Eh.

6.97.3
S1E10

Pete:I can barely keep a lid on the feud going on between Kenneth and Dougie from props.

7.77.2
S1E12

Pete:[High-pitched voice] Elmo wants you to aim your pee-pee at the potty. No, not at Mommy. At the potty.

7.07.2
S1E12

Pete:Did Mommy have some wine before she called Elmo?

7.57.5
S1E12

Tracy · Pete:Be a Samson! You're a better man than this. But she's so smooth.

6.15.5
S1E12

Pete:My wife is not a Delilah, Tracy.

5.95.5
S1E12

Pete:She's so smooth.

6.05.7
S1E13

Pete:Role-play, baby! Give it to me, baby!

7.27.3
S1E18

Liz · Pete:Church on a Tuesday? But he seemed so normal.

6.55.8
S1E18

Liz · Pete:You saw me leave the apartment this morning. / I saw you put it on and I thought it looked nice.

7.16.7
S1E18

Liz · Pete:How long are you staying with me? / Indefinitely.

6.46.3
S1E18

Pete:Love is like an onion, and you peel away layer after stinky layer until you're just... weeping over the sink.

7.16.8
S2E01

Pete:Yowza!! Oh! hey Mrs Michelin, I love your ty

6.46.2
S2E04

Pete:What, are you kidding me? This is a billion dollar company! Demerits?

6.86.5
S2E05

Pete · Liz:Hey, Liz. We're out of string cheese, so I think I'm gonna take off.

7.37.0
S2E05

Pete:So much hair.

7.17.0
S2E05

Pete:We did it on your kitchen table. I shouldn't have told you that.

6.97.0
S2E06

Pete:No, we're cool. Uh, I renounce Raheem. Raheem's a bad guy. USA number one!

7.06.7
S2E11

Liz · Pete:That's pretty grim,pete.

6.05.5
S2E11

Pete:I'm stuck!

4.85.2
S2E11

Pete:My shirt is caught on what feels like a very sharp... mechanism. Ooh,maybe if I can get the shirt off.

6.16.2
S2E13

Pete:I know.

7.27.0
S2E14

Liz · Pete:Oh, God. Marcus Schenkenberg was there. Who?

6.25.3
S2E14

Pete · Liz:You were using your treadmill? Yes, and, yes, Pete, I use it every day.

6.66.0
S2E14

Pete · Liz:JetFun. Is that the one with the footbaths? Oh, no, that's AirBike. They also have in-flight pornos and NBC news. JetFun's the one that hands out fresh popcorn.

6.76.8
S2E14

Liz · Pete:For once, I am not gonna be Jan Brady. I'm gonna be Marcia, damn it. Oh, my nose! My bad!

8.38.5
S2E15

Pete:Peanut farmer.

7.77.5
S3E01

Pete:Can I hide this box of penis pasta in your dressing room?

6.86.7
S3E01

Pete:Actually, I lived with Liz while I was separated from my wife. In a platonic way. But I haven't lived there for a couple months now because I've been at an anger management treatment center 'cause I shot one of my co-workers with an arrow.

8.18.0
S3E01

Tracy · Pete:Petey Pete! For letting us use the sound booth Please accept this chinchilla coat. Wow. You're gonna get so much nice-nice in that you're gonna have to grow an another ding...

7.06.5
S3E01

Pete:What? You mean the nursery! We gotta get this stuff back to the rental place by 5:00.

7.57.3
S3E04

Pete:Terrorist attacks, cloverfieldmonsters. I can't do it,because my head is too big for the helmet.

6.56.0
S3E04

Jack · Pete:Doesn't that responsibility come with a $4,000 signing bonus? Uh... Yes?

6.96.5
S3E16

Jack · Pete:You think or you know? Hang on. I'm going into a tunnel.

7.06.2
S3E16

Pete:As a child, I dreamed of being a Congressman like my father. Now, I do this. One D.U.I. in high school.

7.67.0
S3E17

Pete · Liz · Various:All right, what about straws? We spend $1,200 a year on straws. / Okay, fine. No straws. / Oh, no, we need straws. / Oh, god! That's its bathroom!

7.37.2
S3E18

Pete:I don't feel anything.

7.26.8
S3E19

Pete · Jenna:She kills her father hoping that the guy will come to that funeral, too. / That's correct... oh, boy.

7.47.5
S3E20

Pete:Why? The gibbon is on time, he knows his blocking, And he doesn't try to bite the dancers!

7.87.7
S3E22

Pete:It's a working farm and I'm the only one whose hands are big enough to guide the bull during mating.

7.47.0
S4E01

Pete:Today's my birthday

7.27.2
S4E01

Pete:Yes, she will give it back to you when he goes home and gets it from her wife.

6.96.3
S4E01

Pete:That's the one where Tracy tore up that picture of the Pope. In his defense, it was Pope Innocent the Fourth. Because he increased taxation in the Papal States.

8.38.3
S4E02

Pete:wow, that sounds exactly like the philosophy that almost destroyed the u.s. auto industry.

7.77.8
S4E04

Pete:At your age, it's probably the last time you'll ever make a man happy

7.67.7
S4E04

Pete:Like a neighborhood dad garage band

7.06.5
S4E04

Pete:floodgate wheels are horizontal!

6.96.5
S4E04

Pete:Like a neighborhood dad garage band

7.26.8
S4E04

Pete:no, not since i was a child

6.96.5
S4E04

Pete:the australian jackie mason Was chemically castrated by his government

7.37.3
S4E04

Pete:was describing your sandwich necessary To our understanding of what happened?

7.06.3
S4E05

Pete:That's why when someone comes to me with something i don't want to deal with, i say,'oh, no, my kid's sick,' and take off. You have any kids? No.

7.57.3
S4E05

Pete:no, my kid is sick.

7.67.7
S4E05

Pete:Oh, my kid got hit by a car!

7.67.7
S4E05

Pete:That's what danny was saying. We have to be cool to everybody. Because the future is like a japanese game show you have no idea what's going on.

7.77.8
S4E07

Liz · Pete:What? No, go away. This is my fantasy, Pete!

7.87.5
S4E07

Pete:I knew it. You're blonde in your fantasies. It looks terrible.

7.06.7
S4E08

Pete:She doesn't give the money because she knows that the card says, 'From the cast and writers of TGS', and she'll get credit for it anyway.

6.76.3
S4E08

Pete:I should make up new cards that say, 'Happy holidays from everyone except Jenna.' But that would require me to have some remaining life force, Danny.

7.57.0
S4E08

Pete:So I'm gonna go have a drink alone at the Oyster Bar.

7.26.8
S4E11

Pete:He was pretty bad. Nutmeg. Rodeo, rodeo, rodeo.

7.26.8
S4E11

Pete:I can rent a convertible, You can complain about the heat with elderly people.

7.46.7
S4E11

Pete:Cross promotional, Deal mechanics, Revenue streams, Jargon, Synergy.

8.17.8
S4E11

Pete:But I... I bought a parrot shirt.

7.06.5
S4E11

Pete:Also, there is no Spectravision or Internet in the hotel, So plan ahead, gentlemen, porn-wise.

7.16.8
S4E12

Pete:While you were talking, I put a thumbtack in my neck. Makes me feel something.

7.87.8
S4E12

Pete:I've been biting my nails. Oh. I feel alive!

7.78.0
S4E16

Pete:Well, Danny's interview with the New York Times comes out today, so 'ivatrennapra.'

6.87.0
S4E17

Pete:You were only hired by the second city because they needed someone who could remember to feed the theater cat!

7.57.3
S4E17

Pete:You attended the university of Maryland on a partial competitive jazz dance scholarship.

7.37.3
S4E19

Pete:Are you soaking your tampo in vodka again?

6.96.3
S4E19

Liz · Pete:Pete, that was, like, two years ago. It just won't heal.

7.27.0
S4E19

Pete:But you can call me dallas. [Pete introducing himself]

7.16.5
S4E19

Pete:They couldn't find cowboy hats big enough For my kid's head, So they're just wearing turbans.

7.47.2
S4E19

Liz · Pete:badger. It's another badger. The third badger has taken the bait. Why is everyone code named badger?

7.57.3
S5E01

Pete:We're already printing all of our internal memos on the back of my kids' art

7.27.0
S5E01

Pete:And this morning, I made love to my wife. And she was still asleep, so I didn't have to be gentle

6.76.7
S5E01

Pete:Are you sure? Think about it again.

6.86.8
S5E01

Liz · Pete:That's one of the most upsetting things I have ever imagined. Are you sure? Think about it again

7.06.5
S5E01

Liz · Pete:There's one too many producers, Pete. Okay, I get it. But please... I have five kids... That I don't want to be at home with

7.37.0
S5E04

Pete:I lookout for her, we're friends with benefits.

6.66.8
S5E04

Pete:They're rich and they have attention deficit disorder.

6.87.2
S5E04

Pete:The capital one venture card is amazing. They give double miles every day for every purchase!

6.97.3
S5E08

Pete:Oh, okay, look. What happened was Suzanne from ad sales got pushed into me in the elevator. I didn't try to touch her. And the sort of 'unh' sound I made was about something else.

6.86.7
S5E08

Pete:You know, whenever I tell my wife a work story, she pointed this out the other day... I always... always smile a little when I'm talking about you.

7.07.0
S5E08

Pete:♪ Rollin' with my homie, me and Jackie d. ♪ ♪ Bitches get ready for a sex party ♪

6.87.3
S5E08

Pete:She had overlapping pregnancies five months apart.

7.87.8
S5E08

Jack · Pete:Oh, god, she means the pizza. No, she's unhinging her jaw!

7.67.8
S5E11

Pete:And we have to schedule our rehearsals around the bat mitzvahs Jack has booked in the studio.

7.77.0
S5E11

Pete:They shut down your secret bathroom to save on cleaning costs.

7.36.8
S5E11

Pete:After her hysterectomy, she was in a coma briefly.

8.07.5
S5E11

Pete:our children are basically snot silos with BB guns

8.28.0
S5E11

Pete:I agreed to go to a furniture store instead of watching football one time, and I haven't seen a game since.

7.37.3
S5E11

Pete:Then you got to hit 'em where it hurts. Find their weakness, and viciously exploit it. That's what marriage is.

8.07.8
S5E15

Pete · Frank:♪ Everybody's workin' for the weekend ♪ What? Yep. I was in Loverboy.

7.77.5
S5E15

Pete:I had to choose between staying in the band or taking that college scholarship to study TV budgeting.

7.86.8
S5E15

Pete · Frank:♪ Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, unh, unh, unh. ♪

6.25.5
S5E17

Pete:Ham.

7.57.8
S5E19

Pete · Writers:All right, well, we're all having fun, and it's important that we all be able to laugh together. We're not laughing with you, we're laughing at you, you bald bitch!

6.76.7
S5E19

Pete:Yes, Reggie, I am bald. I lost my hair at a very early age when I hit that gypsy's kid with my car, but I am still your boss...

7.77.8
S5E19

Pete:Okay, we'll have a contest of strength to decide who gets to pick lunch.

6.76.3
S5E19

Pete:Help, Paula, here comes the big girl! She's got a clarinet!

7.26.8
S5E19

Pete · Frank:Takeout from Hooters! What? That makes no sense! We'll know they touched it!

6.45.8
S5E19

Pete:I just have to work around a PTA meeting at 5:00 that I can't miss 'cause this week I'm snack dad.

7.36.7
S5E19

Pete:Yeah I am. Last night I had sex with Paula, and neither of us was wearing a Walkman.

7.77.5
S5E19

Pete:Well, of course he can, Mr. Big Shot Pet Photographer! I hope you get sleep at night.

7.26.5
S5E19

Pete · Writers:Ha! I beat you! We're getting lunch from IKEA! IKEA! IKEA! IKEA!

6.36.0
S5E20

Pete:More like 100 little strokes.

7.77.3
S5E20

Pete:She threw a birthday party for her TV.

7.97.8
S5E21

Pete:More like 100 little strokes

7.77.3
S5E21

Pete:She threw a birthday party for her TV

7.16.8
S6E02

Pete:And now, I am headed home for a 'nooner,' which is what I call having pancakes for lunch.

7.56.8
S6E02

Liz · Pete:Is that when you cry on the floor in your office? Nope, I do that when I see myself in the mirror on my birthday.

7.77.2
S6E02

Pete:Crisis mode is when I down a couple of sleeping pills with scotch, pass out in my secret napping place, and hope I dream about that latina security guard.

7.77.8
S6E02

Pete · Liz:Crisis mode is when I down a couple of sleeping pills with scotch, pass out in my secret napping place, and hope I dream about that latina security guard. The one you always kiss on the mouth. That's normal in Guatemala.

7.47.0
S6E02

Liz · Pete:The one you always kiss on the mouth. That's normal in Guatemala.

7.06.5
S6E03

Pete:Kelsey Grammer! Kelsey Grammer did this to me.

7.57.3
S6E06

Pete:Actually, Paula didn't want to do anything for Valentine's, so she's just going out to dinner with her tennis instructor, mark.

7.27.3
S6E08

Pete:I can't order you a car unless it's after 9:00, or you have a note from your killer.

7.67.5
S6E08

Jenna · Pete:discuss whether the chair would be better... Over by the window where there's more light?

7.87.7
S6E08

Pete:That's just couple stuff.

6.76.5
S6E09

Pete:I can't believe the woman who watches all six pawn shop reality shows has never seen the movie, Leap Dave Williams.

6.86.0
S6E10

Pete:Someone with a key to my office, a janitor or a security guard or some black... Hearted individual, probably white

7.57.2
S6E10

Pete:Look, all I wanted to do was hang with my friends, rock some jams, and tell the story about my cousin seeing Phil Donahue. I mean me! I-I'm the one who saw him.

7.46.8
S6E10

Pete:I mean me! I-I'm the one who saw him.

7.67.3
S6E10

Pete:And Phil Donahue's walking past cinnabon and he's making eye contact with me

7.77.7
S6E13

Pete:There was a mine collapse in china. Turns out, to keep labor costs down, All the miners there are babies. They pay 'em in yogurt.

7.88.3
S6E13

Pete:adult dogs can't fit in the baby mines, So they're lowering down puppies to bring in supplies.

7.37.8
S6E15

Pete:But I just bought a Letterman jacket with 'the German' embroidered on it. It's not refundable if you personalize it!

7.87.3
S6E16

Pete:Those look like hands to me.

6.76.0
S6E16

Pete:The last time I tried to put myself out there, the girl turned out to be a cop.

7.16.7
S6E16

Pete:What? Like Frasier? But that's fun...

6.86.2
S6E16

Pete:My father was a congressman. I was valedictorian at St. Andrew's, an olympic archer, fourth guitarist in Loverboy... As a teenager.

7.97.5
S6E16

Pete:Including the one that looked like a terrified Asian man?

6.86.3
S6E16

Pete:Actually she took me that first night.

7.57.2
S6E16

Pete:I'm submitting to its strength. It's the Alpha.

7.57.3
S6E16

Pete:I was mugged by what I'm pretty sure was two five-year-olds in a trench coat.

8.38.5
S6E16

Pete:Do you know what it's like to try to have sex wearing a child's little orphan Annie wig?

8.18.0
S6E16

Pete:Do you know what it's like to try to have sex wearing a child's little orphan Annie wig?

7.67.3
S6E16

Pete:In five years, I'll probably be dead and no one will even notice, and yes, this is my second attempt to writing my self evaluation.

7.37.0
S7E02

Pete:'Cause you called me 'Mr. Clean's Gay Uncle' in front of my children.

7.47.3
S7E02

Pete:It's $90, Jenna.

7.47.8
S7E05

Pete:The first African-American president ever to be up for re-election. Whoo! Historical!

6.15.7
S7E05

Pete:That was a really good 'American Pie', Pete. You knew all the words. And then you put it on again. And everyone leaves because no one can top it.

7.37.0
S7E05

Pete:Remember that time you got a haircut, and I was the first person to say, 'Someone got a haircut'? You owe me!

6.66.5
S7E05

Pete:A Facebook that wasn't crawling with old bald guys!

6.56.3
S7E05

Pete:I was gonna drive a sports car and say cool stuff like, 'Wiki-what?'!

7.67.8
S7E06

Pete:Who are we to stay what anything is?

6.86.2
S7E11

Pete:a German guy who wants to eat somebody. And even Gunter's having doubts.

7.87.8
S7E12

Pete:"I mean, who's Pete? I have amnesia! I... Damn it! I practiced this!"

7.47.0
S7E13

Pete:The same company that suggested we get flush buddies to save water.

7.67.5
S7E13

Pete:This is Dan silversmith with Carolina mutual. I can't talk right now. I'm with a customer.

7.77.2
S7E13

Pete:I can't talk right now. I'm with a customer.

7.98.0
S7E13

Pete:I sure hope so, tray. I sure hope so.

7.57.3