One “fuck” per season. I totally missed this one even after watching this episode like three or four times. I was expecting someone to yell at Bojack like the past three seasons. And I guess “fuck” is such a common word especially as a 22 year old living in America in 2017 that it kind of went over my head. But the fact that they use fuck only once per season is something I really appreciate.
If something is used on very rare occasions, it creates an emphasis. If goody two shoes swears then you know something is up. Which by the way, I know this one girl from college who was the purest person ever, she refused to listen to hip hop music. She was also a social justice warrior type of person who often posted about political issues, but like I said, she was the purest person ever so she wasn’t in your face. Just spreading awareness and how we can help. If you talked to her in real life, she was super friendly. She survived college and was still this super pure person. Then one day, she made another social justice awareness facebook post and she said “fucking”. The sentence was “I see how fucking foolish I am”. And I kid you not my heart skipped a beat when I read that. The point is, something loses its value when its used all the time. If my friends here me say fuck they’ll just think I didn’t catch something in Pokemon Go or something.
So when Bojack Horseman uses “fuck” only once a season, it’s kind of like going like “hey! look here! this means something! this is a significant moment! analyze this!” And that I really appreciate because this scene was not some epic disastrous depressing scene that made you cry. I mean Hollyhock was shocked, but nothing really happened before or after, but they put that word in there to make a point. I’m not going to say what exactly the point is, that is open to interpretation, if you want to reblog this with your thoughts go ahead. But the producers were essentially like “Bojack seems to really hate his mom. There is more to this and you as the audience should dig more into this”.
















