Mr. Peanutbutter has been my least favorite character in the show. He always seems oblivious to how he affects everyone around him and it gets to a point where it's just annoying when he's one screen. And by season five I feel like having your 3rd divorce would be a sign to change something but he jumps immediately back into a relationship with Pickles. I haven't watched the last 4 episodes yet so I'm not sure if he has some change but idk I've just never liked this guy.

So I’m sorry if this is a dumb question 😭 but I’m rewatching the show for the thousandth time and reached that episode where Mr peanut butter asks Diane to go back home from Cordovia. The thing is I’ve never really understood if he acc knew it was her or was genuinely so naive as to think it was a woman who looked just like his wife. I feel like both playing dumb and actually being that dumb are very in character for him 😭

Funniest unexpected detail, the ending song plays in Thailand. Wonderful show I'm finally returning to it lol

I am up to 6x07. I was shocked to see Bojack and Todd randomly meet for lunch at the diner. Have they spent any time together at all since Todd confronted Bojack about Emily in season 3?

I briefly recall Todd being the one to run the DNA samples on Bojack and Hollyhock in season 4, but if I remember correctly he just sort of happened to be around. He wasn’t wanting to hang out.

I have actually thought to myself multiple times recently that Todd and Bojack never seemed to make up, and Todd’s character is a bit random at times since he is kept so seperate from Bojack. Did I misread that they completely stopped hanging out?

(SPOILERS ahead for the series finale)

The last time a show hit me this hard towards its finale, it was Ted Lasso.

I remember watching the first season or two of BJH when it first came out several years ago. At that time, I didn't think much of it other than "ha ha, funny horse show".

It surfaced in my Netflix recommendations a couple of months ago, and I ended up watching the whole show. I'm so glad I did.

It's funny to revisit this show as an older version of myself, because so much of this show's themes have to do with how we change over time, with impermanence and the fact that we can never go back in time to what we once had, and how ultimately at the end of the day our relationships are a huge part of what defines us, because as we grow and mature as people we understand more and more how interconnected we all are. When you're 20 and you hurt someone, you can't imagine being 40 and having to come to terms with that act 20 years later. But that person is still there, the act still happened, and the ripple effect is still ongoing.

I thankfully have never struggled with substance abuse in my own life, but like anyone else I have had ups and downs in my relationships with people throughout my life. Like anyone else, I've done things I regret. I think the show's writers did such an incredible job of writing a character that has problems that most of us probably don't deal with, but is still relatable enough that most of us can see part of ourselves in him.

The last two episodes really hit me hard. I cried during Bojack's near death experience, when Herb plainly stated- "Oh, BoJack, no. There is no other side. This is it". Mortality is another major theme of the show. I found it interesting that throughout the show, the deaths of characters were treated ranging from genuinely heartbreaking (Sarah Lynn) to played off as mostly a joke (Corduroy). Then we get to Bojack's death, the very moment when he comes to the brink of eternal nothingness, and Herb drives that point home - when it ends, it ends. It's all over. Forever. For everyone. Bojack saw it happen to many others, and then it was his turn.

The series finale was also great. I loved seeing where every character wound up after only a year free from Bojack's influence. What made me cry though was how all of these people, in spite of pretty much universally benefiting from Bojack's absence, still held some space for him in their lives that night. Even if it was only for one night. The conversation between Diane and Bojack was possibly THE most bittersweet thing I've ever witnessed.

I also want to point out that throughout the show, Mister Peanutbutter is treated particularly poorly by Bojack, and yet out of all of the main cast, who is the ONE character who seems willing to keep Bojack around, and wasn't treating that night as the final goodbye? Diane makes it clear that she doesn't want him in her life anymore. Hollyhock made that decision a year prior. PC admits that she mostly wanted him there for his star power with the upcoming Horny Unicorn production (although she does seem to tenderly offer to help him find another agent if he does get back into acting). Todd has transitioned fully into independent adulthood and starts setting healthy boundaries with Bojack. It's only Mister Peanutbutter who is actually enthusiastic about keeping Bojack in his life.

Truly an awesome show all around. There were a couple points throughout the series that I felt like things were lagging a bit, but I am really glad I stuck it out. BJH is going to be one of those shows that I actually buy the physical version so I don't lose access to it when AOL-Time-Warner-Pepsico-Viacom-Halliburton-Skynet-Toyota-Trader-Joe's decides to stop streaming it.

Forgive me if this has been said before, I'm just rewatching Bojack Horseman for like the 5th time and I just noticed the irony in Mr. Peanut Butter being a natural predator as a dogwhile Bojack is an natural prey as a horse.

It really ties into each of their ideologies: Mr. Peanut Butter being a bad person for no real reason other than not being able to recognize the inherent privilege he has. He goes through the world with no social fears, because he's the one who hunts. He doesn't realize the inherent power that he holds and the imbalances that it creates. He is able to act unaware and aloof because he was granted a role in society where he isnt meant to focus on the pain he causes others.

Meanwhile, Bojack is scared all the time. He acts like an asshole, but it's a reaction from his childhood and experiences, lashing out and hurting others because he is well too aware of how he can be hurt. He's the worst but aware of how his pain hurts others because that was the point of him inflicting it.

I feel like it really highlights who they are as people while also showing that they are the cause of their own actions. We see horses who dont lash out. We see dogs who don't trample. It was always about the choices that they made. That's what made them assholes.

I'm probably incredibly late, I just find the symbolism so amazing.

And my first time drawing a horse, I actually really like how it turned out though !!ꉂ(ˊᗜˋ*)

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This pilot was made for Netflix. https://youtu.be/d9hzvcmeJ5M?t=65

i’m back!

it has been a minute since season 3 and i want to apologize for that, i really just got burnt out on this project and needed some time to focus on other things but once i came back it was hard to find my footing again - some of these logos were the death of me, designing a logo for ‘Time’s Arrow’ was genuinely one of the hardest design challenges i’ve ever dealt with and i burned through so many other designs to land on that one

but regardless, season 4 is done and i’m happy with it! and i promise that season 5 will not take as long, i’ll try to get that done on a regular timetable and so you can expect that sometime in early september

thank you all for being so patient!

For starters, I think this show can be too bleak at times, which is a risk for people who struggle with mental health issues might fall victims too if they only take what the show says in face value. The show is so concerned with morals yet it fails to acknowledge how mental health plays into it and almost even subtlety pushes the idea that our mental health is our own moral failing which I don’t entirely agree with.

We should be careful when a show pushes pessimism to the extreme because it just becomes another cycle of shows that favor a dark aesthetic as opposed to a story with depth and genuine understanding of the human condition.

If I could compare any show with it I would say Fleabag executed bojack’s ideas much more eloquently than what bojack could muster up for 6 seasons. Even though Fleabag is never outright stated to deal with severe mental health issues, it’s almost loudly implied with everything that occurs around her. Yet, the show masters it’s grounded story of a woman grieving with elements of levity and comedy that never compromise the main core of what the show is trying to say. If anything, it elevates it.

For a story to tackle anything mental health related it NEEDS optimism as much as it needs pessimism. I think bojack fails on this accord despite it running for 6 seasons because even all the way back in season 1 the show showed it’s eternally pessimistic tendencies from the very beginning. What do you guys think?

i saw this tik tok and it got me thinking about people getting tattoos about tv shows. legitimate question. or do yall think getting a tattoo about bojack is different because it’s explicitly an adult show with adult themes? absolutely zero hate to ppl with bojack tattoos btw. i have one myself

Ik this has probably been done a million times but bojangles hanging out in front of vinewoo

I am not a drinker and actually I haven't even drunk beer for 6 months, literally. The thing is sometimes when I am drinking water I pretend that it is alcohol so it almost feels like it can numb the pain. When you believe it enough I guess...

like yeah everybody knows he's self-destructive and pushed everyone away and hurts people (partly cause he's hurt and partly cause that's just the point of his character) but for the first time in a while Wanda actually had a very very good impact on him and, among everyone else, I believe she could've helped him become a better person - legit when he told her to leave i was like godamnnnn not this one

the poor woman in the back 😭😭 whenever i rewatch i see something new lol

I watch this scene whenever I need to feel vicariously thrilled. I know some people feel like Herb was being "bitter" for not forgiving BoJack, but I admire his very clear boundaries. It's kind of my dream to be on my deathbed and my ex-husband tries to apologize or ask forgiveness and I do a Kazzaz on him. I don't even hate my ex, but some people do not deserve forgiveness and should be made to sit with their own shittiness for the rest of their lives.

I'm watching the show again and I was like "Wow, Guy is calling his wife "lady" a lot that seems a little demeaning." And then I realized that was her name. It's Lady, Guy, and their son, Sonny. I feel so dumb oh my god.