Rewatching Bojack Horseman!

Or where I post small details or jokes that might have gone over your head and eventually overanalize the best animation out there about a horse who in the nineties was on a very famous tv show.

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oh yes i’m back

i’m planning to do two episodes each day

i doubt i’ll make it but here’s my shot

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Stupid Piece of Shit

Stupid Piece of Shit was one of the most acclaimed episodes of season 4. So many people talked about how they relate to Bojack’s head voice, and the ending dialogue with Hollyhock about how she’s got it too was a great choice. It reflects the hopelessness of growing up: will this problem that makes me miserable continue? will I have to deal with it for eternity? I like that the show focuses on a character that’s on his fifties. We often forget that life’s more existential an philosophical issues do not get magically fixed once we become old enough.

Todd’s stoyrline also takes an interesting turn when he refuses to take his fake relationship to the next level, which is always a good lesson. The most relevant part of his plot may be the dialogue with the ace group: asexuals can get married, as long as they find someone who loves and accepts them.

We learn that Princess Carolyne is pregnant, which will not be succesful as we know. Rutabaga tells her that she would make a terrible mother. I can’t remember right now if the character reappears in season 6 when Ruthie is adopted, but my bet is if he didn’t, he will do it in the final episodes.

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I found very sad and touching that PC goes as Amelia Earhart at every Halloween party

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i’m on episode 11 now and during the song that Gina sings while Bojack is tripping I noticed that Gina keeps singing don’t stop dancing and that’s the same thing that Bojack said to Sarah lynn whenever they were on horsing around

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QUACK DEMARCO

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AAAAAAAAA SEASON 5 IS HERE AAAAAAA

and another year without keeping a deadline here and missing episodes from the previous season

but AAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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Thoughts and Prayers

This is the first time we see Beatrice in the current time in season 4, and in all of the show, except for that bit in season 2 where she tells Bojack she read his book. Her cognitive functions and general state has deteriorated since then, and she started developing dementia.

Rewatching the episode, I wonder what in the image of Bojack triggered the memory of Henrietta in her. It couldn’t have been Hollyhock, since she was only a baby the last time she saw her. Or maybe she was thinking about her a lot now that she knew she was on her last days, and when she saw a familiar figure from her past she connected both dots.

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“He is now deceased”

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In season 4, one of the biggest topics was Diane and Mr. Peanutbutter’s relationship and how the work of each of them affected it. Diane works for a Buzfeed-esque company which is focused on feminism and mantains itself on the ‘liberal’ side of politics, while Mr. Peanutbutter is a candidate for governor of California who, in spite of MP’s non-existant political ideas, always ends up defending the causes that meet more with the interests of conservatives. This affects their dinamic in many ways: from their unexpected new kink of fighting in national television to Diane’s possible realisation that their relationship just wasn’t meant to be.

Watching 3x12 before having seen season 4, we don’t really know how important the scene of Diane meeting Stefani Stilton will be, specially when she questions her about what would she do if she had to write a copromising article about her husband. “If I have a problem with my husband, I’m gonna talk to him about it directly”, she says.

As a response, Stefani reformulates her question:

Okay, so what if you did that and he didn't listen, and you knew that, as much as you love him and as much as he loves you, he's never gonna get it? And meanwhile, you also knew that all your readers looked up to you and wanted to read your opinion? Would you write about it then?

I also noted the bit of “he’s never gonna get it”, and how Diane possibly rephrased it in 4x05, Thoughts and Prayers, when she writes about insecurity and the risks that women face in the streets after almost being sexually assaulted:

Let's get one thing out of the way right now. If you're a man, you're not gonna get it.

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Bringing this back now that I’m rewatching 4x05.

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The reason why will shock you.

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This is unaccurate. Chris Hemsworth (god I never had to write his last name until now, that is a difficult name) is more famous than Liam, specially now that he’s Thor. Maybe Liam’s article was less clickbait-y, mh.

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Peanutbutter keeps calling the same print shop

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this place keeps delivering

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i lowkey wanted another flashback actually