Pete Hornberger’s life has been a mess ever since Paula got pregnant right away in college, five minutes into their first date; she even experienced the anomaly of “overlapping pregnancies,” adding to their domestic chaos.
It’s mentioned Pete is in his 40s, but an exact age is never given for him. He’s old enough to have been an archer in the 1980 Olympics, as well as a guitarist in the ‘80s band Loverboy. We can assume Paula is around the same age as Pete.
Just how many Hornberger kids are there? Unknown. Five are mentioned by name throughout the course of the show - Kyle, Caleb, Robert, Evelyn, and Jack.
What do we know about them?
Curiously, NONE of them appear to be young adults in their twenties, or even teenagers, despite the Hornbergers claiming to have become parents as college students.
They have a son who struggles to aim his peepee at the potty.
A little girl for whom Liz Lemon ruins the idea of Valentine’s Day.
Toddlers who call the Hornberger vehicle “big wed cah.”
A creepy little boy who is “always rubbing himself on the carpet.”
So what’s up with this age discrepancy?
Do they have older kids who perhaps ran off, are away at college or on an oil rig, or were raised by Pete’s father the distinguished congressman? Are the young kids actually immortal demons who age slowly or have stopped growing older altogether, contributing to Pete’s declining mental health and shaky morals as the show progresses? Or is the answer, as Kenneth would so reassuringly put it, “Don’t worry about it?”
