#bjmoodboards

[fontainesdc]

character moodboards: todd chavez // bojack horseman, created by raphael bob-waksberg (2014 - 2020)

Let me tell you something: I was at the office the other day, doing the Hokey-Pokey with some work associates, and I realized everyone misunderstands that song. [The Hokey-Pokey?] Yeah! There's way too much emphasis on the "Hokey-Pokey" part. [That is what it's all about.] No. That's exactly what I mean. That's not what the song is saying! And I was thinking about my mom, you know, my relationship with my mom. It's weird, you know, awkward. I feel like she doesn't really get me, but, you know, she's trying. And a couple years ago, I never thought I would have any kind of relationship with her like I was sure of it. [What changed?] I don't know, I did, or she—did? or um—we are? So that's what I'm talking about, its like the song says: "You do the hokey-pokey and you turn yourself around." You turn yourself around. That's what it's all about.

[princesscvrolyn]

character moodboards: mr. penautbutter  // bojack horseman, created by raphael bob-waksberg (2014 - 2020)

Well, I don’t know what to say because I’m an old dog and I’m not gonna change. Do you know what I do while you’re at work all day? I mostly just sit right there. Sometimes I pretend to dig a little hole and then I take a nap. And when I hear your car in the driveway, it is the best part of my day. I mean, I go insane.

[fontainesdc]

character moodboards: diane nguyen // bojack horseman, created by raphael bob-waksberg (2014 - 2020)

I wish I could just go home right now and crawl into bed and not have to talk about anything or explain anything. He would just say: “how was your day?” and then he would say: “hey, did you know the monorail was invented by George Monorail?” and I would say: “I don’t think that’s true.” and he would say: “well, if he didn’t invent it, he certainly perfected it.” And I wouldn’t have to say: “I’m sorry I left. I’m sorry I made things so difficult. I’m sorry I’m not the person I thought I was.” I would just say: “my day was good.” And he would say: “I love you.”

[fontainesdc]

character moodboards: hollyhock manheim-mannheim-guerrero-robinson-zilberschlag-hsung-fonzerelli-mcquack // bojack horseman, created by raphael bob-waksberg (2014 - 2020)

Sometimes I have this tiny voice in the back of my head that goes like: "hey, everyone hates you, and they're not wrong to feel that way." That voice, the one that tells you you're worthless and stupid and ugly,it goes away, right? It's just like, a dumb teenage girl thing, but then it goes away?

[princesscvrolyn]

character moodboards: bojack horseman // bojack horseman, created by raphael bob-waksberg (2014 - 2020)

All I know about being good, I learned from TV. And in TV, flawed characters are constantly showing people they care with these surprising grand gestures. And I think that part of me still believes that’s what love is. But in real life, the big gesture isn’t enough: you need to be consistent, you need to be dependably good, you can’t just screw everything up and then take a boat out into the ocean to save your best friend, or solve a mystery, and fly to Kansas. You need to do it every day, which is so… hard.When you’re a kid, you convince yourself that maybe the grand gesture could be enough, that even though your parents aren’t what you need them to be over and over and over again, at any moment, they might surprise you with something… wonderful. I kept waiting for that.

[princesscvrolyn]

character moodboards: princess carolyn // bojack horseman, created by raphael bob-waksberg (2014 - 2020)

I got into this business because i love stories. They comfort us, they inspire us, they create a context for how we experience the world. But also, you have to be careful, because if you spend a lot of time with stories, you start to believe that life is just stories, and it's not. Life is life, and that's so sad, because there's so little time and... what are we doing with it?