bojack horseman

bojack horseman

BoJack Horseman, a self-loathing, cynical, alcoholic horse currently in his 50s, whose acting career peaked when he starred in a hit '90s family sitcom called Horsin' Around. Though he started out as a bright-eyed young actor, he has since become bitter, deeply depressed, and jaded with Hollywood and who he has become after fame. BoJack has been shown to be caring and insightful, but his insecurities, loneliness, desperate need for approval, and guilt over his own actions often result in self-destructive and selfish actions that devastate those around him. His past and present relationships with his abusive alcoholic parents and his attempts to overcome their legacy are an ongoing theme of the series.

Todd Chavez (supporting character)

Todd Chavez, an unemployed, dim-witted but highly talented 24-year-old human slacker who ended up at BoJack's house for a party five years prior to the start of the series and never left. Although BoJack constantly expresses his disdain for him, his actions say otherwise and he genuinely cares for Todd, continuing to unconditionally support him financially and sabotaging his attempts at gaining independence. Todd has been shown to possess a wealth of skills including an understanding of Japanese, business savvy (allying with Mr. Peanutbutter for several business ideas), and writing and composing his own rock opera, which was ultimately sabotaged by BoJack. This and other examples of BoJack's bad behavior towards him lead to Todd breaking ties with BoJack in season 4. Todd also has an uncanny ability to get himself into absurd and extremely dangerous situations when his friends aren't around, such as getting into gunfights on several occasions, ending up in prison, and in one instance, switching places The Prince and the Pauper-style with a Cordoban dictator. He is also rarely seen without wearing his trademark yellow beanie and red hoodie. As a teenager, he was an aimless skater and the object of affection of his schoolmate Emily. He realizes in the Season 3 finale "That Went Well" that he is asexual. In Season 6, Todd enters into a relationship with a rabbit named Maude who is also asexual.

Mr. Peanutbutter (supporting character)

Mr. Peanutbutter, an energetic, optimistic, and cheerful yellow Labrador retriever who is BoJack's former sitcom rival. Mr. Peanutbutter was the star of Mr. Peanutbutter's House, which BoJack says "borrowed the premise" of Horsin' Around. Despite their rivalry, Mr. Peanutbutter cares greatly about BoJack's opinion and admires him for his work on Horsin' Around. He has an especially good relationship with Todd, and his positive attitude and financial resources combined with Todd's extravagant plans and schemes often result in the two starting questionable business ventures. Mr. Peanutbutter has been married three times (to Katrina Peanutbutter, Jessica Biel, and Diane Nguyen). In "Old Acquaintance", it is revealed that "Mr." is his real first name. He is a graduate of Northwestern University and a native of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. His character was initially created as a complement to BoJack, but later evolves into an important character.

Diane Nguyen (supporting character)

Diane Nguyen, a human ghostwriter, a misunderstood and well-educated intellectual, and a third-wave Vietnamese-American feminist from Boston. She is a thinker who wants to make the world a better place for women, and wants others to behave according to her morals, even though it often breaks them. While writing BoJack's memoir, Diane and BoJack develop a strong friendship that initially becomes awkward and strained after BoJack develops romantic feelings for her, especially since she was dating Mr. Peanutbutter at the time. She eventually marries Mr. Peanutbutter, but during and after Mr. Peanutbutter's run for Governor of California, their marriage begins to deteriorate, and they divorce at the beginning of season 5. She eventually realizes she has depression and gains weight as her mental health improves due to antidepressants; the media celebrated the series' realistic portrayal of her changing body shape as a sign of better health. [ 14 ] During the sixth season, Diane begins a relationship with a buffalo named Guy (whom she later marries) and comes to terms with her negligent upbringing. She graduated from Boston University.

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Princess Carolyn, a pink Persian cat who is BoJack's agent in the first three seasons and on-again, off-again ex-girlfriend. Originally from Eden, North Carolina, the earnest and tireless Princess Carolyn was one of the top agents at the Vigor agency thanks to her relentless pursuit of new talent and her wide network of strange personal connections. Though she struggles to find a balance between work, her troubled personal life, and caring for BoJack and his friends, she enjoys her hectic lifestyle. She left Vigor to start a new agency with her then-boyfriend and co-worker Rutabaga Rabitowitz. After recognizing its unreliability and facing her fear of being alone, she eventually decides to leave it and run the new company called VIM by herself. After several setbacks, Princess Carolyn closes VIM in Season 3, only to reopen it as a management agency. She struggles throughout the series to start a family and suffers several miscarriages. In the fifth season, after several failed attempts, she manages to adopt a baby porcupine from Sadie, a young girl from her hometown. In the series finale, she marries Judah, her faithful assistant.

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When BoJack says that this will probably be the last time they'll see each other, Herb angrily says that he won't give BoJack closure and that 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 he expected everyone except BoJack to leave him. He tells BoJack to "get the fuck out" of his house. BoJack sighs solemnly in acceptance. On his way out, BoJack picks up a telescope that Herb had given him the same day Herb told him they were going to pick up Horsin' Around. This infuriates Herb, who demands that BoJack drop the telescope, and when he refuses, the two get into a physical altercation before Diane breaks them up. Herb begins to berate BoJack again, saying that while he thinks of himself as "the good guy", he's really nothing more than a selfish coward who takes what he wants and doesn't care who he hurts. BoJack says that he doesn't know why he came here. Herb says "Yeah, you do", as his nurse helps him back to his room.

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After this, on the way home, BoJack ignores Princess Carolyn's phone call telling him that she got him a job that he spent all day on. He pulled over to the side of the road, distraught. Diane gets out and tells him that she thought it took a lot of courage to do what he did. BoJack then kisses Diane, who promptly 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 to BoJack, to indirectly prevent him from doing so. BoJack gets Todd a job as Mr. Peanutbutter's personal chauffeur, though this and other attempts to ruin the wedding fail, and the wedding ends up being postponed until later in the week.

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The wedding is then decided to be held at the restaurant that BoJack owns at BoJack's suggestion so that he will be in a better position to sabotage the wedding. Todd then learns, through a personal conversation with Mr. Peanutbutter, that he has doubts about his marriage to Diane. He comments that he sometimes feels relief when he dreams that Diane has disappeared from his life. Confused, Todd decides not to share this useful information with BoJack when he suspects that BoJack had used Margo Martindale in a similar way in Zoës and Zeldas to help Todd get back into playing video games. After being further delayed by jury duty on the day of the wedding, June 13, 2014, BoJack is unable to come up with any plan to sabotage the wedding. Goaded 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 who reminds BoJack to stop meddling in other people's lives. He attends the wedding without incident and reconciles with Diane over the awkwardness between them.

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In One Trick Pony, BoJack was cast to play Mr. Peanutbutter in Mr. Peanutbutter's Hollywoo Heist, the film based on the events of Our A-Story is a "D" Story. During filming, Todd decides to get involved in order to do something with his life since his failed rock opera pitch in Zoës and Zeldas. He begins suggesting ideas to Quentin Tarantulino, and is reciprocated due to Tarantulino's eccentricity. This causes major changes to the script and film and begins to de-emphasize BoJack's screen time and involvement.

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BoJack suspects that this is a direct result of Todd's revenge for BoJack sabotaging Todd's rock opera. The changes to the film become increasingly drastic until the film is cancelled altogether when Quentin and Todd decide that the story should be told as a "bi-monthly curated snack box". BoJack confronts Todd, accusing him of sabotaging the film to prevent BoJack from relaunching his career in a similar way to what he did to Todd. However, Todd claims that this was not the case, as he had learned to move on and had been working with Quentin seriously. In the end, he refuses to fully reconcile with a guilty BoJack.

bojack

Age 57 (from the end) Born January 2, 1964 [1] Alias Bank of Japan Horse/The Horse (Horsin' Around Character) Horsin' Around Horse (by random people on the street) Mr. Peanutbutter (By Quentin Tarantulino, character from the discarded film Mr. Peanutbutter's Hollywood Heist) BJ (by Herb Kazzaz) Secretariat (character from the film of the same name) Chadwick Boseman (misname given by Daniel Radcliffe in "Let's Find Out") BJ Novak (incorrect name given by Daniel Radcliffe in "Let's Find Out") BoJangles (misnomer for Daniel Radcliffe in "Let's Find Out") JockJam DoorSlam (misnomer for Daniel Radcliffe in "Let's Find Out") Hambone Fakenamington (by himself to Eddie in "The Old Sugarman Place") Henrietta (by Beatrice Horseman in her first attacks of dementia) John Philbert/Philbert (character from "Philbert") BoBo, the Distressed Zebra (by Dr. Indira in "INT. SUB") The Boy with the Horse (Henry Winkler) Horse riding instructor (by his students at Wesleyan University) Professor Horseman (by students and faculty at Wesleyan University) Corpse #4 (Birthday Dad role in The Horny Unicorn) Species Horse Sex Male Residence Hollywood(d) Hills Super-Max (from the end) Mr. Peanutbutter's House (The Horny Unicorn - It was good while it lasted) 1475 Luck Hoof Ave. in Los Angeles, California (formerly) 7144 Steiner St. in San Francisco, California (hometown) Occupation Professor of Theatre at Wesleyan University (formerly) Actor Owner of Elephante Restaurant (formerly) Amateur comedian (formerly) Waiter at Elefanté (formerly) Family Beatrice Horseman (dam, deceased) Butterscotch Horseman (father/father, deceased) Malva Manheim-Mannheim-Guerrero-Robinson-Zilberschlag-Hsung-F

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Physical appearance BoJack is an adult, male, thoroughbred horse, weighing over 1,200 pounds, as revealed in the pilot episode. He stands about 6'7" feet (15.2 hands at the withers, 19.75 at the ears) tall. It has brown (medium brown) fur and a black mane, with a white patch on its muzzle that starts at its upper lip and ends below its eyes, a white diamond-shaped mark on its forehead, and a pink spot on its 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 has no tail. 2000s-Present For most of the series, BoJack usually wore an unbuttoned grey sports jacket with a blue sweater underneath, cyan blue jeans, and red and white sneakers with white socks. He has bags under his eyes and a prominent belly. In The Face of Depression, in season 6, it is revealed that BoJack had been dyeing his hair for about twenty years, and Sharona cut it into a shorter, grey style. He also gets a new outfit consisting of an olive green jacket with darker green trim, a light blue button-down shirt, and grey jeans after his old everyday outfit is ruined on a plane ride. He keeps his red and white sneakers from his original outfit, and in the winter he wears a red and brown striped scarf. 1980s-1990s In his twenties and early thirties, BoJack was much thinner and had a longer, thicker mane that looked a bit like a mullet. His fur also appeared to be a lighter color, while his eyes appeared slightly larger.

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In Horsin' Around, BoJack wore an orange sweater with pink apples in the middle and a pink collar and cuffs, along with light blue jeans and red and white sneakers. In the 1980s, BoJack wore a grey collared shirt with a white plaid design with a white tie, a light blue open jacket, light blue jeans with a white belt, and red and white sneakers. In Time's Arrow, BoJack is briefly seen in 1999, at the age of thirty-five, looking almost exactly as he does in his original appearance, though he has no wrinkles and his mane is mostly thicker. It can be noted that in the ending of Horsin' Around, BoJack looks as he normally does throughout the series, so this depiction of BoJack could be a result of Beatrice's dementia, combining their past and present appearances. Older teenager In BoJack's later teenage years, as seen in Thoughts and Prayers and briefly in Time's Arrow, he has a hairstyle and appearance more similar to his young adult self, although he is shorter and scrawnier, and still has pimples. He was seen wearing a blue, white, and gold football uniform. Teenager In A Horse Walks into a Rehab, BoJack is seen as a teenager sometime around 1980, wearing a dark blue shirt with a yellow stripe and zigzag pattern, brown pants with a light blue belt, and dark yellow shoes. His hair is longer and a bit messier, starting to slightly resemble the mullet style he would have as an adult, and he had pimples.

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Preteen BoJack is seen as a pre-teen/older child at the beginning of Free Churro . He wears a green and white football uniform and appears considerably chubby. He has this appearance later in a flashback in A Horse Walks into a Rehab , though he is seen wearing a collared shirt with a deep purple and maroon striped pattern on the sleeves, a light blue sweater vest, tan pants, and dark brown shoes with white socks. Child As a child, BoJack wore a blue and white sailor suit, had small visible eyelashes, and a short mane of hair. Filbert In season five, when he is filming Philbert, BoJack is seen wearing his John Philbert costume for the show more often as the season progresses, than his usual attire. He wears a beige trench coat over a grey collared shirt, a dark grey tie, dark grey pants with a black belt with a police badge attached, and black shoes.

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You know, sometimes I think I was born with a leak and all the goodness I started out with just slowly trickled out and now it's all gone. And I'll never get it back. It's too late. Life is a series of doors closing, isn't it?

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Personality BoJack Horseman, a curmudgeon described by his ex-girlfriend as a "self-pitying masochist," is bitter, depressed, self-loathing, narcissistic, and self-destructive. BoJack is often short-tempered and irritable, with little patience for many people around him (notably Mr. Peanutbutter and Todd), who, while giving BoJack a lot of attention, are constantly insulted and belittled by BoJack's very bitter nature. Although he's annoyed by his surroundings, BoJack ironically has a nasty habit of pissing off some of his closest friends, such as Princess Carolyn. Usually, this is due to his numerous schemes to get his way, which usually end in disaster. Despite these struggles and insecurities he has, BoJack cares about others, like his friends, he can even be insightful, he doesn't really want to hurt anyone, and he has proven to be more tender than he seems. BoJack is plagued by his utter self-loathing and struggles to accept himself; this depressive side of his nature usually comes to light when he is with Diane. However, his sentimental moods have been more common recently, even with the likes of Mr. Peanutbutter, most notably in Season 2.

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past; flashbacks are regularly seen of BoJack reminiscing about his corrupt relationships, especially his mother and his former best friend. Although he may appear hostile on the outside, BoJack has a caring and brooding side, but he rarely shows this side of himself to others, partly due to his insecurities when it comes to showing any weaknesses to others. Out of fear that others will notice that he doesn't like himself, he fakes narcissistic behavior. Some examples of this are claiming to have sex while watching pictures of himself and masturbating to his own image. As a foal, he was curious and eager to gain his father's trust, making him a card that his father referred to as "shoddy craftsmanship." As a young man he was polite, cheerful, charming, but also a light horse who consciously avoided alcohol, in stark contrast to his current alcoholic self. His attitude only worsened after his fame in Horsin' Around, as it didn't actually make him any happier, and he became more cynical and depressive. On top of this, he is not very polite: on a date with Princess Carolyn in the first episode, he worries about eating nine baskets of bread, and later burps while drinking beer and watching old episodes of his show. In season 3, he burps again after raiding Diane and Mr. Peanutbutter's refrigerator. These bouts of gluttony can be seen as further failed attempts to manage his inner turmoil that result in him appearing inconsiderate and repulsive to others.

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In contrast to his apparent ineptitude when it comes to taking responsibility (in one context, for his own breakfast), BoJack has repeatedly demonstrated a masterful command of philosophy, political science, and history. Plus, judging by the way his current home is decorated, he also has good taste in horse-themed art. This is ironic, considering that one of the main commentaries of the series is that Hollywood (or Hollywoo as it is known in the show) is a "town of shallow, nihilistic people who would be completely incapable in any other industry or lifestyle." For example, in the episode, Let's Find Out, BoJack is asked the question "To what extent was feudalism a cause of the French Revolution?" Although he is distracted by Princess Carolyn from properly answering the question, what he actually wrote was quite competent. "A continent ravaged by war, coupled with the church's retreat from secular life..." BoJack is also very firm in his views; on one occasion, he sparks a media flame war to defend his criticism of the public's automatic treatment of veterans as heroic without regard for their individual characters.

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In another article, when Ana Spanakopita explains to BoJack that the French are still upset with him for what he "said about them in the press", she states that she stands by her criticism of the revered French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. Later on, she states that "his philosophical arguments helped many tyrannical regimes justify overt cruelty", a reference to Sartre's idea that "humans are condemned to be free" and his stated admiration for Stalinists and Maoists. As the series progresses, BoJack clings to people who comfort him, even remotely, and does his best to keep them close so he isn't completely alone. Ultimately, most characters avoid him or even completely cut ties with him, due to his toxic dominance. This seems to change somewhat when he meets Hollyhock, who he believes to be his biological father, and a DNA test confirms that they are related. While she gains insight into his typical behavior, BoJack grows fond of her, describing her as the only good thing in his life and attempts to be a good father figure to her, and has a panic attack when he thinks she overdosed on his pills. He then goes out of his way to find out who his biological mother is, while also discovering that his father Butterscotch is actually his father and traveling to his home state to give Henrietta's number to his parents, telling them that he doesn't care if they give him credit or tell him he's horrible, showing a less self-centered side to himself.

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BoJack also reluctantly takes in his elderly mother, Beatrice, who suffers from dementia, at Hollyhock's request after she is kicked out of her nursing home, and hopes that she will be able to remember him at some point so that he can scold her for everything she did to him. After discovering that Beatrice had been drugging Hollyhock with weight loss supplements, BoJack angrily takes her to a run-down nursing home. However, it is there that she finally recognizes him, and instead of scolding her, he lies to her that they are at his family's old lake house on a summer night listening to his brother play the piano while they eat ice cream, letting go of his resentment towards her and letting her have a happy, albeit false, memory. Later, during a phone call with Hollyhock, she tells him that while she doesn't need him as a father figure, she has never had a brother, which makes him extremely happy. However, season five shows BoJack still struggling to get over himself. He tries to drink only a small amount of alcohol a day, however, as the season progresses, his allotted amount increases to one bottle a day. He keeps in touch with Hollyhock and calls her every Sunday, although he sometimes calls her at other times, such as to tell her that he liked her Instagram photo at 3am, showing some attachment to her.

childhood

Born on January 2, 1964, BoJack F. Horseman was born and raised in San Francisco, California, and grew up in an abusive and dysfunctional family. Her mother, Beatrice Horseman, was a homemaker, former socialite, and heiress to the Sugarman Sugar Cube Company fortune, while her father, Butterscotch Horseman, was a failed novelist from a working-class family. Butterscotch, resentful of his wife's wealthy upbringing, initially worked at a fish cannery for low pay due to his resentment of the upper class until BoJack was six years old. After that, he reluctantly accepted a well-paying job at Beatrice's father's company at his wife's insistence. Butterscotch was an alcoholic and often verbally, and sometimes even physically, abusive to BoJack when he was young. He was also often seen shouting nonsensical ultra-conservative hyperbole, usually to cover up his failures and "easy ways" in the world, usually blaming it on Democrats, Jews, or Communists. He also regularly flirted with and committed adultery with several women. He usually avoided his son and wife by secluding himself in his study to drink and make progress on his dream novel, or staying late at work, where he would often have affairs, including with his secretary. His mother, Beatrice, was also an alcoholic and a chain smoker, and hated BoJack for everything he had "done" to her, including being born, and saying that she was beautiful before she got pregnant. To her, BoJack was a reminder of all her bad choices, and her own traumatic childhood did not help this fact. She and Butterscotch also constantly argued loudly in front of their son. His smoking habits, strong will, addictions, and constant fights with Butterscotch made BoJack's formative years difficult and shaped him on a personal level.

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To escape his terrible home life, young BoJack reveled in the fame of Secretary, the 1973 Triple Crown winner. BoJack grew fond of Secretary and wanted to be just like him. BoJack sent Secretary a letter, telling him how much he admired him, but also telling him that he gets sad sometimes and asking him what to do when that happens. Secretary received this letter and answered BoJack's question while on The Dick Cavett Show, telling him to keep running forward and never look back or let anyone stop him. While he was watching the interview, his parents began having a loud argument in the other room. BoJack turned up the volume and sat near the TV, and listened so intently that all he heard was Secretary's message. [2] As BoJack grew older, he turned to comedy for solace after Secretary's suicide in 1973. He also played soccer as a child, and his parents forgot to pick him up on more than one occasion, as shown in Downer Ending and Free Churro. BoJack got his start in the world of performing in front of audiences at Sunday dinners at his mother's club, 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 reprimanded him by saying, "Nobody cares what you feel! You've got an audience out there and they want to hear you sing. Now you want your mom to love you? Go out and do the only thing you're good at, which is singing the damn Lollipop Song."