Peter and Hollyhock in A Quick One, While He's Away
Peter Pocket, is a minor character in BoJack Horseman. He first appears in Season 2, in Escape from L.A. He returns in Season 6, in A Quick One, While He's Away. Peter is better known by his nickname Pete Repeat in Season 2, and he is also a friend of Penny Carson and the boyfriend of Maddy Ginsberg.
Physical Appearance
Peter is an African-American human man.
In A Quick One, While He's Away, in Season 6 as an adult, Peter's hair is now cut in a shaved afro and he has now grown a beard.
He wears a red, white, and purple shirt, navy jacket with fur lining at the collar, blue jeans, and shoes.
During Escape from L.A., in Season 2 as a teenager, his hair was much shorter.
Pete was seen in a black prom tuxedo, white button-down dress shirt, teal button-down vest, black dress pants, black dress shoes, and a teal flower corsage pin on his tuxedo lapel.
For his yearbook photo, he wore a white button-down dress shirt.
Personality
During the time period of Escape from L.A., Pete appeared to be a nice, friendly teenage boy. He claimed he liked to repeat everything, hence his nickname.
In A Quick One, While He's Away, he helps Hollyhock cope with her anxiety at a party through grounding techniques his therapist taught him.
As an adult, he has also dropped the high-school nickname, going by Peter.
Background
Season 2
Pete is a friend of Penny Carson's and Maddy Ginsberg's prom date.
He says he got the nickname "Pete Repeat" because he always says things twice, although in actuality he rarely does this.
Maddy is taken to the hospital, after Pete expresses his concern, that she might have alcohol poisoning.
BoJack convinces Pete, to lie about where Maddy got the alcohol from, and say he doesn't know. Pete reluctantly goes along with this, saying he will claim not to know where Maddy got the alcohol from.
Season 6
In A Quick One, While He's Away, reporters Paige Sinclair and Maximillian Banks from Hollywoo Reporter are investigating the circumstances behind Sarah Lynn's death, due to her mother, Carol Himmelfarb-Richardson repeatedly calling the publication to get information about the details surrounding her daughter's death.
They interview people coming out from an AA meeting and comprise a list of celebrities who attended the meetings.
Finally, a bird man confesses he had seen Sarah Lynn about a month before she died, and it was clear she was using. They ask the man if Sarah Lynn said something. He tells them she didn't but her friend did. They then press the man on who her friend was. He says he can't remember. He then tells them the man told him a story about when he went to New Mexico. He said the story was about a girl and a mother, that the narrator of the story had sex with either the girl or the mother.
The bird man tells the reporters he remembers the name of the girl from the story, Penny Carson, and the man telling the story was weirdly proud of it. The man tells the reporters the narrator of the story told the people at the AA meeting they could look her up and that Penny Carson was her real name, and he was confused as to why the person telling the story wanted them to look her up.
This leads the reporters to travel to New Mexico to investigate further.
Hollyhock meets Peter Pocket at a party when she has an anxiety attack and he uses grounding techniques to help her calm down. They decide to head outside for fresh air.
Peter and Hollyhock sit on the fire escape. Hollyhock takes a sip of her beer but coughs it out. Peter tells her it's supposed to taste better over time. He then tells her he didn't actually drink all throughout college, because of some things that happened in high school. He then starts telling her the story of a girl in his town. He hesitates, saying it's a long story. Hollyhock insists she wants to hear it.
Peter starts narrating the story of a girl who had a man living in her house. Hollyhock asks if the girl had more than one dad and Peter explains there was just one dad and then this other guy. Hollyhock comments that's weird. Peter explains the girl was best friends with his girlfriend Maddy and that they all went to prom together him, his girlfriend, the other girl, and the guy living with her. Hollyhock expresses disbelief that the man went to prom with them. Peter then tells her the man bought them bourbon and practically forced them to drink it. He then tells Hollyhock his girlfriend got alcohol poisoning and he just ditched them at the ER.
Hollyhock asks if Peter's girlfriend was OK. He tells her it was scary at the moment it was happening and his girlfriend had her stomach pumped and she survived. Peter also tells her himself, Penny, and Maddy are all fine now. Peter then says it wasn't anyone else's fault, just some bad guy's fault. Hollyhock agrees with this. Peter then tells her the craziest part of all, the guy is famous and he's actually a movie star.
Hollyhock questions who the guy was and Peter hesitates to tell her. Peter opens his mouth to respond, but the episode cuts him off before he speaks.
Relationships
- Maddy Ginsberg (girlfriend)
Tesuque High School Yearbook
Trivia
- He is voted "best nickname" in Penny's yearbook.
- It seems he has dropped this nickname after high school, as he introduces himself as Peter to Hollyhock, in A Quick One, While He's Away.
- It is also shown in the yearbook his birth name is Peter Pocket
- In A Quick One, While He's Away, it is revealed by Peter after the events of Escape from L.A. Maddy did survive after having alcohol poisoning but need to have her stomach pumped