Will Arnett
BoJack Horseman
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- 1. The BoJack Horseman Story, Chapter One Aug 22, 2014
- To help with the memoir he hopes will put him back in the spotlight, BoJack hires a ghostwriter.
- 2. BoJack Hates the Troops Aug 22, 2014
- BoJack finds himself the subject of national media attention after he calls the troops "jerks."
- 3. Prickly-Muffin Aug 22, 2014
- BoJack reconnects with a friend from his past who moves into his house and creates pandemonium.
BoJack Horseman is an animated comedy drama that follows the life of a washed-up sitcom star and his friends in Hollywood. The show explores themes of addiction, depression, fame, and identity with humor and satire.
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- 2014-08-22
- Animation, Comedy, Drama
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BoJack Horseman is an American adult animated psychological tragicomedy-drama television series created by Raphael Bob-Waksberg. It stars the voices of Will Arnett, Amy Sedaris, Alison Brie, Paul F. Tompkins, and Aaron Paul.
- 6
- 77 (list of episodes)
- August 22, 2014 –, January 31, 2020
- Netflix
Watch the Emmy-nominated animated comedy starring Will Arnett as a washed-up sitcom horse. Follow his adventures and misadventures in Hollywood with his friends and foes.
- 6
- August 22, 2014
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- Overview
- Physical Appearance
- Personality
- Background
- Trivia
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BoJack F. Horseman is the eponymous character of BoJack Horseman. The show primarily follows BoJack and his life after his successful '90s sitcom,
BoJack is an adult, male, grade/thoroughbred cross horse weighing over 1,200 pounds as revealed in the pilot episode.
He is around 6'7" feet (15.2 hands at the withers, 19.75 at the ears) tall.
He has brown (medium bay) fur and a black mane, with a white snippet on his snout that begins at his upper lip and ends underneath his eyes, a white diamond-shaped mark on his forehead, and a pink spot on his nose.
Despite being a horse, BoJack, like other animals in the BoJack Horseman series, has a humanoid body, and is designed with human feet and hands and does he not have a tail.
A curmudgeon described by his ex-girlfriend as a "self-pitying masochist," BoJack Horseman is bitter, depressed, self-loathing, narcissistic, and self-destructive.
BoJack is often bad-tempered and irritable, with little patience for a lot of people around him (notably Mr. Peanutbutter or Todd), who although give BoJack plenty of attention, are constantly insulted and looked down upon by BoJack's very bitter nature.
Although being annoyed by his surroundings, BoJack ironically has a nasty habit of driving some of his closest friends like Princess Carolyn to distraction. Most commonly through his numerous schemes to get his own way, which usually ends up in a disaster.
Despite these struggles and insecurities that he has, BoJack does care about others, such as his friends, can even be insightful, doesn't really want to hurt anybody, and has proven to be more tender-hearted than he appears to be.
BoJack is plagued by his utter self-loathing and struggle to accept himself, this depressed side of his nature often comes out when he is with Diane. However, his sentimental moods have been more common recently, even with people like Mr. Peanutbutter, most notably in Season 2.
In addition, BoJack finds himself haunted by his past, on a regular basis, flashbacks are often seen of BoJack remembering his corrupted relationships—especially his mother and ex-best friend.
History
Born on January 2nd, 1964, BoJack F. Horseman was born and raised in San Francisco, California, and grew up in an abusive and dysfunctional family. His mother, Beatrice Horseman, was a housewife, formerly a socialite, and the heiress of the Sugarman Sugar Cube Company fortune, while his father Butterscotch Horseman was a failed novelist from a working-class background. Butterscotch, resented his wife's wealthy upbringing, and initially worked at a fish cannery for low income due to his spite for the upper class until BoJack was six. After that, he begrudgingly took a well-paying job for Beatrice's father's company at his wife's insistence. Butterscotch was an alcoholic and regularly verbally abused, and sometimes even physically abused, BoJack while he was young. He was also often seen yelling nonsensical ultra-conservative hyperbole, usually to cover up his failures, and "easy comings" in the world, typically blaming it on Democrats, Jews, or Communists. He would also regularly flirt with and commit adultery with various women. He typically avoided his son and wife by secluding himself in his study to drink and chip away at his pipe dream novel, or stay at work late, where he would commonly have affairs, including his secretary. His mother, Beatrice, was also an alcoholic and a heavy smoker, and resented and hated BoJack for everything he had "done" to her, including being born, saying that she was beautiful before she got pregnant. To her, BoJack was a reminder of all of her bad decisions, and her own traumatic childhood did not help this fact. She and Butterscotch would also constantly get into loud arguments right in front of their child. Her smoking habits, forceful will, addictions, and constant bickering with Butterscotch made BoJack's formative years difficult and eventually shaped how he turned out as a grownup. This includes BoJack’s eventual alcoholism, with him having a drink of alcohol when he was just a small child after finding his parents fast asleep from drinking at a house party, in order to be able to cuddle up to his mother and fall asleep—a rare instance where his young self would be able to show her affection. Additionally, due to him being able to swallow it with little problem, it’s hinted he had the taste of alcohol when he was even younger. To escape from his terrible home life, young BoJack reveled in the fame of Secretariat, the 1973 Triple Crown winner. BoJack grew fond of Secretariat and wanted to be just like him. BoJack sent a letter to Secretariat, telling him how much of a fan he is, but also telling him sometimes he gets sad and asking what to do when that happens. Secretariat actually received this letter and he answered BoJack's question while on The Dick Cavett Show, telling him to just keep running forward and never look back or let anyone stop him. While he was watching the interview, his parents started having a loud argument in the other room. BoJack turned up the volume and sat closure to the TV, and listened so intently all he heard was Secretariat's message. As BoJack became older he turned to comedy for solace after the 1973 suicide of Secretariat. He also played soccer as a kid, and his parents failed to remember to pick him up on more than one occasion as shown in Downer Ending and BoJack was introduced to performing in front of audiences at his mother's Sunday supper club parties, where she would force him to sing The Lollipop Song. One time BoJack hid under the kitchen table crying because he didn’t want to sing, but Beatrice berated him saying "No one gives a damn what you feel! You've got an audience out there and they want to hear you sing. Now do you want your mommy to love you? You go out there and do the only thing you’re good for which is singing the goddamn Lollipop Song". These supper clubs were the only occasion where BoJack saw his mother actually be happy, and at the end she would perform a mesmerizing dance in a beautiful dress that captivated everyone, even Butterscotch, who hated these parties and would lock himself in his study and bang on the walls and yell to quiet down, would even come out and linger in the doorway to watch her. One time, BoJack went to his dad's office when he failed to come home from dinner, and walked in on Butterscotch having an affair with his secretary. Once the two were alone, Butterscotch uncharacteristically acts nice towards his son and makes him drink a rum and coke for their first drink together as father and son. BoJack passes out after drinking it, and when he comes to in his dad’s car while feeling sick, Butterscotch informs him he "went a little wild" and made a mess on the carpet. He says his mother would be disappointed in him, so it’s best if he doesn’t bring up anything that happened, successfully manipulating BoJack, even saying "Okay, buddy?" with a smile to further manipulate his son into trusting him. He was in choir in the eighth grade, where after a shaky solo his mother pretended not to know him, and he had to get a ride home from the pianist who "liked to tickle more than just the ivories." When BoJack made it home unscathed Beatrice snarked "Huh. I guess nobody wants you." BoJack appeared to be unpopular and quite timid in his school years, as evident by his behavior at a high school party, with a jock calling him a nerd. BoJack ended up getting drunk after being offered a beer, which leads him to entertain everyone by making jokes about some of their classmates. However, he ends up upsetting a girl named Katie, who was shown to have a mutual interest in BoJack in an earlier interaction. In the mid-80s, BoJack left home and headed to Los Angeles and started working on his career as a comedian. In 1985, while trying hole-in-the-wall comedy clubs, BoJack met Herb Kazzaz, and later Charlotte Moore, Herb's girlfriend at the time. The three became good friends while BoJack and Herb tried to become big stars, with Herb mentoring BoJack on how to better his comedy routines. The two of them also worked as bartenders at Elefanté. Herb finally landed a show called Horsin' Around, which centered around a young bachelor horse raising three orphans, and convinces the executives to cast BoJack as the star of the show. Right before this, Charlotte tells BoJack she’s moving to Maine, and that she doesn’t think she’s the person Herb is looking for. She tells BoJack "L.A. is a pretty town on top of a tar pit, and by the time you realize you’re sinking it’s too late." Charlotte also asks him if he would have made a move on her if Herb wasn't around, and she answers this question by saying she thinks he wouldn't have, because she thinks he's a coward. premiered in 1987, and also starred Joelle Clarke as Olivia, Bradley Hitler-Smith as Ethan, and Sarah Lynn as Sabrina. BoJack on Despite negative reviews from critics, Horsin' Around is a huge hit, and BoJack quickly rises to fame. However, during the show, BoJack slowly becomes more and more depressed, bitter, and cynical. He also lets fame go to his head. He turns to smoking and alcohol, the latter of which he used to reject, just like his parents, in order to deal with the pressure and loneliness of becoming famous in Hollywoo. Another incident that leads to BoJack's alcoholism was during a shooting early into the show's run, on July 12, 1989, where Sharona, the hairdresser and makeup artist, gives BoJack orange juice mixed with alcohol to help steady his nerves for a kissing scene with Cindy Crawfish. It does wind up making him feel more confident on set and he calls out off-screen to Sharona for more orange juice. His relationship with Herb also became strained, getting into arguments with him about the script fueled by his own ego. His relationship with his parents didn’t improve either, as Beatrice come to a taping of an episode in 1988, and was not impressed, saying it "wasn’t Ibsen," calling him a clown, and saying she hopes he dies before she does so he’ll never have to know what it’s like to lose a mother. Around the same time, Mr. Peanutbutter's House, starring Mr. Peanutbutter, premiered, which BoJack rightfully assumed was a Horsin' Around knockoff. Due to this, BoJack considers Mr. Peanutbutter a rival whereas the latter is constantly energetic and cheerful around BoJack, considering him a friend, which just annoys BoJack even more. Sarah Lynn viewed BoJack as a father figure, as her mother was a controlling stage parent who forced her into the industry at age three and shot down her dreams of being an architect, and her mom's boyfriend, later stepfather, was implied to be a child molester - she noted he was a photographer and she once showed she knew what bear fur tasted like. However, BoJack acted rather apathetic towards her. One day, in between takes, BoJack tells Sarah Lynn she is nothing without her fans, and if she is good to them they’ll be good to her. He also tells her no one else will ever understand her or love her as much as them. She has to give the people what they want, even if it kills her. While this quote may have been BoJack describing his own worldview, it seems to have affected Sarah Lynn and how she acted later in life. At one point, BoJack sleeps with Bradley’s mom, which led to his parents getting divorced, but in the present-day BoJack does not remember. On Halloween 1993, Mr. Peanutbutter and his wife Katrina went to BoJack's house for his Halloween party. BoJack had lied about having his own Halloween party, so he wouldn't have to go to Mr. Peanutbutter's party. Mr. Peanutbutter then ended up bringing his party to BoJack's house. Mr. Peanutbutter would continue to do this every year, despite BoJack hating the parties. BoJack would always get extremely drunk by the end and would always tell the leaving guests to do it again next year. In 1994, BoJack's agent Marv told him that a Secretariat movie is in the works, and he might have the lead role if he can avoid scandals. However, around the same time, Herb was caught doing lewd acts in public with another man, which garnered a large negative media reception due to homophobia at the time. Herb talks to BoJack about how the executives are gunning for him and asks BoJack to back him up and threaten to quit. BoJack, at first hesitant due to what Marv told him, agreed, as he owed all his success to Herb. Later, Angela Diaz, an ABC network executive talks BoJack into letting Herb go, under the false pretense that his career would be affected as well. Although against it at first, BoJack ends up betraying Herb. He agrees to stay when Angela tells him in "Hollywood you don’t get to be successful or achieve your dreams, especially the Secretariat movie, by being a good friend." Herb is fired, and BoJack doesn't talk to Herb until 2014 when Herb is on his deathbed from rectal cancer. BoJack continues the show, which is taken over by Danny Bananas, and the Secretariat movie ended up going into "development hell." The show apparently went downhill during this time, getting worse reviews than before. One day, Sarah Lynn had Sharona cut her hair in BoJack’s dressing room, to his annoyance, because her stepdad was "being weird." He takes out his frustrations over the Herb situation on her, and Sharona calls him out in it as the two leave the dressing room, leaving a teary-eyed Sarah Lynn alone. BoJack left an unmarked water bottle filled with alcohol (which he got from Sharona) on the vanity, and Sarah Lynn ends up drinking it and getting sick. Danny tells BoJack when she isn’t on set, and that someone has to be held accountable as her mother might sue. BoJack lets Sharona take the blame and she gets fired. ends in 1996, the finale features the death of BoJack's character, The Horse, and the doctor telling his adopted orphans that he died of a "broken heart" because they didn't love him enough, and they are sent back to social services. BoJack didn't get many roles for the next twenty years, mostly due to the fact he had no urge to work again, turning down any offers Marv got for him, and his reputation of being difficult to work with. The minor exception was The BoJack Horseman Show in 2007, which was critically panned and canceled after one season. It was created by Cuddlywhiskers and was originally titled "Mitch's Life" and was well received by network execs. However, BoJack convinced Cuddlywhiskers to have the two of them rewrite it, as BoJack was scared the show wouldn’t help him break away from his reputation of being "the Horse from Horsin' Around." The end result was a disaster, and BoJack refuses to talk about it in public to this day. Around the same time, he began an on-again, off-again relationship with his agent, Princess Carolyn, who he had known since 1993 as Marv's secretary (originally intern, she was given his position when he quit), in an effort for both of them to not be alone. Later that year, BoJack tried to get Sarah Lynn, who had become a world-famous pop star, to be on his show in an attempt to boost ratings. He visited her backstage, where she was initially excited to see him again. She tells him how hard being famous is, reveals everyone who comes to her only wants something out of her, and says she's “this close to falling off the deep end." BoJack still ends up revealing that he only came to visit her to ask her to be on his show. Sarah Lynn is saddened by this and tells BoJack to leave it next to a large pile of other scripts she was given. She then sadly asks him to leave. On Halloween, 2009, during BoJack's annual Halloween party, he gets a call from his mother, who tells him that his father, Butterscotch, died from injuries he sustained in a duel. During this phone call, Mr. Peanutbutter's new girlfriend, Diane Nguyen, awkwardly introduced herself to BoJack, but he rudely shooed her off. Mr. Peanutbutter later assured Diane BoJack would probably not remember her. That same night, a young slacker named Todd Chavez went to his party. After the party ended, BoJack laments to Todd, the only guest who stayed, that he thought he would feel something when this (one of his parents dying) happened, but he doesn’t. Todd offers to stick around for a bit, and BoJack agrees and tells him to stick around as long as he wants.
Season 1
In 2014, BoJack is still trapped in a cynical, depressed life and spends his days on the couch drinking heavily and binge eating. He also watches reruns of his has-been show in an attempt to live in his past. Todd is still living with him. BoJack actually cares for Todd, despite constantly belittling him. He doesn’t want Todd to leave him, for fear of loneliness. BoJack is dumped by Princess Carolyn in the first episode, telling him that, besides a lot of other reasons, he’s afraid of commitment and he hates himself too much to let other people love him. However, they still sleep together later in the episode and in Zoës and Zeldas. He also must still deal with Mr. Peanutbutter and their one-sided rivalry, with Mr. Peanutbutter innocently interrupting the date where Princess Carolyn dumped BoJack. Reaching utter despair, BoJack is approached by Pinky Penguin of Penguin Publishing to write his biography, as the company is in dire straights. Believing to be up to the task, BoJack promised to write the book himself. Unable to make any progress on the book after several months, Pinky forced him to hire a ghostwriter, Diane Nguyen, the writer of his hero Secretariat's biography. Already hating her for her supposedly "unpronounceable last name," he doesn't meet her until late into a party hosted by Todd. Attracted to and hitting it off with her immediately, he is disappointed when she reveals that she is dating Mr. Peanutbutter. In BoJack Hates the Troops, BoJack denies a seal man a box of muffins he had "dibs" on at the grocery store, taking the muffins just to spite him. The seal turned out to be Neal McBeal, a Navy Seal, to the news network MSNBSea to tell about BoJack's behavior. BoJack compounds the problem by calling into the news network to argue with Neal live. He eventually enters a video interview from home to continue arguing with Neal live on the news station, and is misconstrued when he suggests not all of America's troops are heroes, and that some of them might be jerks. The following media frenzy starts to affect BoJack, who wants everything to end. Mr. Peanutbutter then suggests BoJack apologize to Neal on his reality TV show, and sets the two to meet in his house. BoJack does well at first but starts to get heated when he points out the nation's hypocritical treatment of politics and the military. He is cut off by Mr. Peanutbutter's antics before he can finish his rant. Afterward, he agrees to tell Diane the whole truth about himself, warts and all, and for the first time starts to come clean about his abusive upbringing and past shitty behaviors. BoJack reunited with Sarah Lynn, who played Sabrina, the Horse’s youngest daughter, on Horsin’ Around, in Prickly-Muffin. A few years after the show ended she became a successful pop singer, but her later album tanked. Sarah Lynn showed erotic behavior, turning to drugs and alcohol. After turning thirty her fans lost interest in her for younger pop singers such as Sextina Aquafina. After meeting Sarah Lynn and attempting to check her into rehab due to a public meltdown due when her boyfriend, Andrew Garfield dumps her, he lets her stay with him for a while. She stays until everyone tires of her throwing chaotic parties. Later, she reveals to him that Herb Kazzaz, his former best friend has “ass cancer." He works with Todd to help better the latter's rock opera in Zoës and Zeldas, which gets the attention of famous rock opera producer, Virgil Van Cleef. However, not wanting Todd to leave, as he couldn’t handle being alone, BoJack used Character Actress Margo Martindale in a scheme to sabotage Todd's rock opera. He does this by placing a Decapithon video game Todd was once addicted to next to a cash register at a convenience store. As a result, it led to him staying up all night playing it and neglecting in finishing his rock opera. In Live Fast, Diane Nguyen, BoJack goes to Boston with Diane to attend her father's funeral, who, along with the rest of her family, was "a mean sadistic asshole." BoJack later consoles her by telling her the ways he appreciates her. He reassures her that she does not need to find closure or appreciation from her family since they are horrible to her and that she should concentrate on moving forward and focusing her life on where she's living and simply don't go back to her family. After returning to L.A., BoJack attempted to reconnect with Herb, who had been diagnosed with terminal rectal cancer, leaving him a voice mail at the end of the episode. Jealous of Diane's relationship with Mr. Peanutbutter, BoJack stole the "D" from the Hollywood sign in a drunken stupor and finds it on his deck the next day. Mr. Peanutbutter arrives to confirm his suspicions of BoJack having feelings for Diane by stealing the D, but offers to help BoJack return the D secretly under the condition BoJack stops pursuing Diane romantically. BoJack agrees. The two come up with a plan involving BoJack distracting the people and the media while Mr. Peanutbutter uses his helicopter to take the "D" back. However, BoJack is double-crossed when Mr. Peanutbutter has the "D" delivered to his house instead as a romantic gesture for Diane. Angered, BoJack calls Princess Carolyn to complain that Mr. Peanutbutter is ripping him off again, much like their rival sitcoms in the past. Princess Carolyn rebuffs, saying while BoJack may start ideas, Mr. Peanutbutter actually carries them out and expresses them clearly. BoJack realizes he has never told Diane about his feelings for her and sets up a memoir interview in order to do so. While he is able to tell her that she should be with someone who understands her better, he stops short when he is reminded he is being recorded for writing purposes. When Diane returns home to Mr. Peanutbutter, BoJack calls to once again express his feelings, but his call is ignored when Mr. Peanutbutter asks Diane to talk intimately. Mr. Peanutbutter apologizes for his grand gestures and explains how much he loves her despite having different personalities. Simultaneously, BoJack leaves a heartfelt voicemail about how good she makes him feel. As his voicemail message ends, Mr. Peanutbutter proposes to Diane, and she accepts. Diane then calls BoJack back, telling him the news about her engagement and asking what his voicemail was about. BoJack tells her to delete it, saying it was another drunken message. He goes on a week-long bender, which Princess Carolyn ends by giving him a pep talk, as well as a commercial shoot opportunity, to snap him out of it. However, to the frustration of Princess Carolyn, who had to deal with her rival Vanessa Gekko as their agencies merged—BoJack abandons his commercial shoot and coming to fawn after her, to which Princess Carolyn points out he does so every time something bad happens to him. However, she finally relents to a date with BoJack after much pestering, to pursue happiness by going on a date with him. The two enjoy their date but simultaneously get a phone call. Princess Carolyn is called by Vanessa Gekko, telling her that Cate Blanchett, who was previously Princess Carolyn's client, has switched to become Vanessa's client. Dismayed, Princess Carolyn decides to commit to pursuing happiness with BoJack to take her mind off of her career. BoJack, meanwhile, is called by Herb Kazzaz, who is responding to BoJack's voicemail from the episode Live Fast, Diane Nguyen. Herb scathingly tells BoJack to visit him at his home in Malibu if BoJack has anything to say to him. The call sobers up BoJack, and he admits to Princess Carolyn that she was right earlier when she said they don't love each other and that they're just lonely and trying to hate themselves less. Princess Carolyn gathers herself after that evening, swearing to become a "heartless, hard career gal." She is called on the way to work by BoJack, who tells her he is on his way to visit Herb and wishes to get work when he returns. BoJack travels to Malibu to see Herb, with Diane and Todd in tow. Herb, who now appears very sickly, welcomes BoJack and Diane in but throws barbed jokes at BoJack. Diane eases the tension by getting the two to joke about common topics. Herb also reveals he actually had a good life after getting fired, he started a charity and even met the president. He also kept in touch with Charlotte. Herb ends up admitting it was actually nice to see BoJack again. As BoJack and Diane are about to leave, BoJack complains about the visit not feeling right. Seeking closure, BoJack returns to Herb's bedroom to apologize for the past. Herb accepts but does not forgive BoJack. When BoJack says this will probably be the last time they’ll see each other, Herb angrily says he’s not giving BoJack closure, and he has to live with the "shitty thing [he] did to him for the rest of his life." He recounts how he felt after his career fell apart, and expected everyone except BoJack to abandon him. He tells BoJack to “get the fuck” out of his house. BoJack solemnly sighs with acceptance. On his way out, BoJack picks up a telescope on his way out that Herb had given him on the exact day Herb told him Horsin' Around was being picked up. This sets off Herb, demanding BoJack leave the telescope, and when he refuses, the two get into a physical altercation before Diane separates them. Herb then begins to tell BoJack off again, saying while he thinks of himself as "the good guy," he’s actually nothing but a selfish coward who takes what he wants and doesn’t give a shit about who he hurts. BoJack says he doesn’t know why he came here. Herb says “Yes, you do," as his nurse helps him back to his room. After this, on the way home, BoJack brushes off Princess Carolyn's phone call telling him she got him a gig she spent all day achieving. He pulled over to the side of the road, distraught. Diane gets out and tells him she thought it took a lot of courage to do what he did. BoJack then kisses Diane, who quickly pushes him away. Things became awkward for BoJack and Diane after this incident, with BoJack plotting to sabotage Diane and Mr. Peanutbutter's wedding, and Diane telling him that she has enough information to write the BoJack, in order to indirectly avoid him. BoJack has Todd get a job as Mr. Peanutbutter’s personal driver, although this and his other attempts to ruin the wedding fail, and the wedding ends up getting pushed to later in the week. The wedding is then decided to be held at the restaurant BoJack owns on BoJack's suggestion so he has a better vantage to sabotage the wedding. Todd then learns from a personal conversation with Mr. Peanutbutter that he has doubts about his marriage to Diane. He remarks he sometimes feels relief when he dreams that Diane disappeared from his life. Conflicted, Todd decides not to share this useful information with BoJack when he suspects that BoJack had used Margo Martindale similarly in Zoës and Zeldas to help Todd relapse back into playing video games. Having been further held up by jury duty on the day of the wedding, June 13, 2014, BoJack is unable to come up with any plans to sabotage the wedding. Spurred on by Margo Martindale at the courthouse to tell Diane his feelings for her, BoJack rushes to the wedding, only to be stopped by an angry Todd reminding BoJack to stop intruding in other people's lives. He attends the wedding without incident and reconciles with Diane about the awkwardness between them In One Trick Pony, BoJack was cast to play Mr. Peanutbutter in Mr. Peanutbutter's Hollywoo Heist, the movie based on the events of Our A-Story is a "D" Story. During filming, Todd decides to get involved to do something with his life since his failed rock opera launch in Zoës and Zeldas. He begins to suggest ideas to Quentin Tarantulino, and is reciprocated due to Tarantulino's eccentricity. This causes major changes to the script and film and begins to downplay BoJack's screen time and involvement. BoJack suspects this is the direct result of Todd enacting revenge for BoJack's sabotage of Todd's rock opera. The changes to the film become increasingly drastic until the film is canceled altogether when Quentin and Todd decide the story should be told as a "bi-monthly curated box of snacks." BoJack confronts Todd, accusing him of sabotaging the film to prevent BoJack from relaunching his career similarly to what he did to Todd. Todd, however, claims it wasn't the case, as he had learned to move on and had been working with Quentin in earnest. He refuses to fully reconcile with a guilty BoJack in the end. In the meanwhile, Diane had finally completed the first draft of BoJack's memoir One Trick Pony. However, BoJack discovered that Diane honestly portrayed him as a person that was flawed, yet relatable. He angrily demands Diane that she rewrite the book, and she in return goes behind his back and leaks early chapters of the book on Buzzfeed, which led to BoJack firing her. BoJack tried to write the book himself with the help of doing drugs with Todd and Sarah Lynn. This leads to BoJack having a long drug bender where he realizes how psychologically messed up he is and it could be too late for him to change that. He has a dream where he went with Charlotte to Maine, had a daughter named Harper with her, and lived a long happy life together. When he wakes up Princess Carolyn calls him to tell him all he wrote was random stuff and gibberish. At a small convention for ghostwriters, Diane sits at a panel to take questions from a sparse showing. BoJack shows up eventually and apologizes to Diane, saying she knows what she was doing. He goes on to say he doesn't mind her version being published since he doesn't care what people think of him anymore. However, in coming to terms with his faults and failures, BoJack asks Diane to tell him that he is still a good person inside and pleads with her to give him that sense of security. His question catches her off guard and the two stare at each other in silence, giving no answer. The book won a Golden Globe, for Best Comedy And/Or Musical despite not being either, not even being a film. He decided to do more with his career, and he got the life long dream part of Secretariat, his childhood hero, with Kelsey Jannings directing, Lenny Turteltaub producing, and Diane getting a job as a character consultant. When he tells Diane this news on the rooftop of Mr. Peanutbutter's house during a party, Diane provides an answer to BoJack's question about if she thinks he's still a good person deep down; that she doesn't believe in a "deep down" and that "people are made up of the things they do." She goes on to tell him that she chose to be a character consultant for the Secretariat movie, which would make them coworkers once shooting begins. The episode ends with BoJack returning to the Griffith Park Observatory, where his success with Horsin' Around began. He signs an autograph for a young horse who says BoJack is his hero. Surprised at the remark, BoJack continues to stare out at the city.
Season 2
In Season 2, BoJack attempts to better himself, adapting a "brand new attitude," although this is hampered on his first day on set when he can’t deliver the line "What are you doing here?" correctly. An accident on set puts filming on hold for two days, and when he asks Diane for advice she asks him what he did when he acted on Horsin' Around. BoJack remembered a conversation with Herb he had after he invited his mother to a taping, only for her to continue to criticize and put him down. Herb told him he was good at hitting his mark, and for now, since it was a sitcom he didn’t have to worry at the moment about being a "real actor." In the present, BoJack came to the conclusion that he wasn’t a real actor, and continues to stress over the fact the movie may be his last shot at happiness. As BoJack sits in his trailer before shooting, he gets a call from a now elderly Beatrice who tells him she read his book, including all the parts about her and how she treated him. She apologizes by telling him that he was "born broken," and nothing he does will ever fill the void. BoJack is then finally able to deliver the line. After having trouble dating women due to his fame and all his dates bringing up details from his book, BoJack meets Wanda Pierce, an owl woman and MSNBSea network executive who had just woken up from a thirty-year coma, and therefore had no idea who he was. BoJack is immediately attracted to her because of this, but to his surprise he also actually cares about her and wants to spend time with her, sober, rather than just have sex. They begin dating, although one of their dates they meet Alex, a man who has also woken up from a thirty-year coma. Wanda and Alex connect because they don’t understand the last thirty years' worth of references. BoJack is jealous, so he spies on Alex and tricks Princess Carolyn to come along, though she leaves, not wanting to participate. Alex makes a call on a radio trying to contact the KGB and BoJack discovers he’s a communist spy. He tries to expose Alex at a party, but when Alex does admit it he also gains sympathy from everyone when he says he’s made friends and he doesn’t know if he’ll ever be able to get home to Russia. Wanda is upset BoJack spied on Alex and she leaves with him. After some motivation from Princess Carolyn who tells him he always sabotages every good thing that happens to him, he goes to Disneyland and apologizes to Wanda, saying that he wants to be better and she makes him better. When she is unsure if she wants to be with him when he’s still trying to get his shit together, he asks her to move in with him, and she agrees. Herb dies shortly before Still Broken. His cancer had actually gone into remission, but he crashed into a truck full of peanuts, which he was deathly allergic to. BoJack reconnected with Horsin' Around crew during Herb's funeral, including Sarah Lynn, Joelle Clarke, and Bradley Hitler-Smith. He also reunited with Charlotte, who revealed that she only lived in Maine for a month in the 80s and that she currently lived in Tesuque, New Mexico. She gives BoJack her business card and tells him he can visit her if he's ever in New Mexico. The Horsin' Around gang ends up going on a treasure hunt after finding clues that lead them to Herb's storage locker. Inside the locker, they find a briefcase with a letter from Herb's friend, Henry Winkler, talking about a novel Herb wrote. They piece together that Henry murdered Herb for his book. They return to the funeral and confront Henry Winkler. He confesses he did steal it, but only because the book was terrible. BoJack continued to try and make himself a better person and continued his relationship with Wanda, and showed his care for her, even saying "I Love You" to her however the idea of being actually in love scares him and he almost detracts this statement as soon as he says it. He was also motivated by Kelsey Jannings, the director of Secretariat. He convinced her to go out and shoot the Richard Nixon scene of the film that was cut, for being too dark and gritty, they both didn't like the direction the film was heading in and shot the scene behind the producer, Lenny Turteltaub's back. Kelsey got fired for this and was replaced with another director, Abe D'Catfish. BoJack was upset and overstressed with this, and the director was upset that BoJack had insulted the film, thus he continued to pack BoJack with repeated re-shoots of the same scenes. He was so stressed, he got into a fight with Wanda, and they broke up, with Wanda saying she couldn't be with someone as negative as him. He left California, and traveled to New Mexico, to see Charlotte. He finds out that Charlotte is married to a man named Kyle and has two children with him: a seventeen-year-old deer girl named Penny and a thirteen-year-old human boy named Trip. The business went crazy without him, and Princess Carolyn kept giving excuses to cover him up. He lied to Charlotte, and her family, telling them he was there for a boat show. He really went to see Charlotte. He got along great with her family, especially her daughter Penny. He made himself at home and even took Penny and her friends to prom when her crush failed to ask her out. He encouraged them to drink. However, when one of her friends, Maddy, passed out, Penny and BoJack took off and returned home. They left Maddy with Penny's other close friend Pete Repeat in the Emergency Room. Penny wanted to have sex with BoJack, to which he initially refused. He talked with Charlotte, reminiscing about the fun times they had in the 80s with Herb—BoJack confesses he cannot run away from his problems, and especially himself. It's a tender moment that causes BoJack to kiss Charlotte and asks her to run away with him, confessing he loved her all this time. He expresses a desire for wanting Charlotte to leave her husband and life for him. Charlotte refuses and gets angry, saying she has worked hard for this life for her and her family, and BoJack depresses her. She claims he disrupted her life stating, "[BoJack] came in like a hurricane, all because [they] knew each other for a short time thirty years ago." Charlotte then says he doesn't really know her, telling him he can stay for one more night but must leave the next morning. BoJack returned to his boat that he purchased to keep the lie going, He found Penny there, still wanting sex, he tells her to go to bed. He goes inside the cabin but leaves the door open. Charlotte, seeing a balloon with a glow stick, that leads to the boat, ends up seeing BoJack and Penny allegedly about to have sex. She then orders Penny angrily to go to her room, and then tells BoJack that if she ever tried to contact her or her family again, she would "fucking kill him," which is the second relationship BoJack has permanently destroyed, the first being with Herb Kazzaz. He took the boat back to Hollywoo with him. He found the film has been finished without him, as he was replaced with a computer-generated version of himself. His performance and the film are widely praised and he is offered for more and more roles. He hires a new publicist, Ana Spanakopita, who promises him success with winning an Oscar, as that is what she is well-known for—her nickname being "The Oscar Whisperer." He jogs once again up a hill for exercise, and the Jogging Baboon told him it gets easier, but he needs to follow a routine of doing it every single day which is the difficult part.
•As of the setting of the series, BoJack weighs some 1,200 lbs (544 kg), and is 6'6 •Despite being 1200 pounds, other characters do not have much trouble dragging BoJack or lifting him up•One time, at a Christmas party, BoJack sneezed on Marisa Tomei. Embarrassed, he jumped off the balcony and ended up in a full-body cast.
•The picture of him sneezing is used whenever he is talked about on the news or other related presentations as a running gag in the series.
•Netflix also has this image of BoJack for their BoJack Horseman account icons.
•According to the BoJack Horseman art blog on Tumblr (BojartHorseblog), BoJack is 15.2 hands at the withers and is close to 19.75 hands tall if he is being measured to the top of his ears, which BoJack prefers
•BoJack hates honeydew, and once a season he, or sometimes another character, will be seen mentioning it, showing disgust for it, or ranting about it.
•In the Season 1 episode One Trick Pony, he complains how on set there is too much honeydew in the fruit bowl.
1.BoJack's LA Gazette profile in "Stop the Presses". His birth year was first revealed in "One Trick Pony", which takes place in 2014, when he mentioned he’s 50.
2.Raphael Bob-Waksburg on the commentary track for Brand New Couch on the Season 2 Blu-Ray
BoJack Horseman is a humanoid horse who was a star of a '90s sitcom and now tries to regain his dignity in Hollywood. The series, rated TV-MA, features voice actors like Will Arnett, Amy Sedaris and Aaron Paul.
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Sep 29, 2023 · A list of the most memorable and impactful episodes of the Netflix animated series BoJack Horseman, which explores the life and struggles of a former sitcom star. From his relationship with Diane to his mother's past, these episodes showcase the show's humor, drama, and commentary on modern Hollywood.
