Bojack Horseman - The best animated show on Netflix

[Johnny Bravo]

We don't have a thread on this incredible show and I think we should. What's your favorite episode? Who is your favorite character? What did you think of season 4? Is Diane a bitch? Hollywoo stars and celebrities: what do they know? Do they know things? Let's find out!

I really love the trippy episodes and what this show does with animation. The Old Sugarman Place and Time's Arrow are both amazing emotional rides with incredibly smart and creative visuals. I also love Fish Out of Water. Even though it's not as emotional as other episodes, it's great to see a show that truly embraces animation as a medium and uses it to the fullest effect. The animation itself isn't fantastic - it's clearly done on a computer - but I think the show really takes advantage of being animated in ways that other tv shows don't to tell a story.

 

[Lackadaisy]

Season 4 was weirdly dramatic, and Diane just felt really unlikable. Also, I do not need to see her and Mr. Peanutbutter kissing and humping please

 

[escapegoat]

Brrap brrap, pew pew.

 

[RG 448]

What’re you doing here?!

 

[Johnny Bravo]

Season 4 was weirdly dramatic, and Diane just felt really unlikable. Also, I do not need to see her and Mr. Peanutbutter kissing and humping please

I wouldn't say 'weirdly' dramatic. The series has been steadily building up drama since season one.

I don't get Diane. I think she might have chronic depression or something. Maybe next season she'll start taking anti-depressants, do something to better herself.

Seeing her have sex with PB is weird, but at least it's not Brian Griffan levels of uncomfortable. At least PB has a job and can vote. At least he's a person and not a pet.

 

[Lackadaisy]

I don't get Diane. I think she might have chronic depression or something. Maybe next season she'll start taking anti-depressants, do something to better herself.

She just seems like a cunt recently.

 

[escapegoat]

Bojack was a serious dick to that bug neighbor.

 

[Johnny Bravo]

She just seems like a cunt recently.

That too, but I'm hoping her cuntiness is the result of some untreated mental illness. Either way I just want her to be better to PB. Dude built her a fucking Belle room.

Bojack was a serious dick to that bug neighbor.

I think his name was Eddie.

 

[CatParty]

aren't the only people watching this show furries?

 

[escapegoat]

For real, this may be one of my favorite shows in the world, ever. But if I get off on a tear about it, I am just going to sound like a self-impressed asshole who is over-invested in the artistic merit of cartoons.

 

[Graffiti canvas]

2/10. Not as intellectually stimulating as Rick and Morty.

 

[Pikapool]

Blow whose got blow save some for Bojack

 

[purepowerlevel]

Suck a dick, Dumb Shits, among which.

 

[Overcast]

I watched the first season. Initially, I felt the jokes were kinda hit and miss, but when the show actually started to dig a bit deeper, I'll admit, it was a little sobering.

Haven't watched past s2ep1 yet, I'll probably get around to it soon.

Also for some reason I really like Mr. Peanut Butter. If there was a dog character that perfectly encapsulated being a person with dog like traits and characteristics, it's him.

 

[Pikapool]

I watched the first season. Initially, I felt the jokes were kinda hit and miss, but when the show actually started to dig a bit deeper, I'll admit, it was a little sobering.

Haven't watched past s2ep1 yet, I'll probably get around to it soon.

Also for some reason I really like Mr. Peanut Butter. If there was a dog character that perfectly encapsulated being a person with dog like traits and characteristics, it's him.

I'm kinda with you on Mr. Peanut butter like he's not the smartest character but he at least tries and he's not like a big asshole

 

[Tragi-Chan]

I think what I love about this show is that the characters really develop. I know people are calling Diane a bitch for the way she reacts to Mr Peanutbutter at the end, but it's not like it comes out of nowhere. The character goes from being the standard sensible straight-man character to someone who, it transpires, has deep-seated issues which make her relationships with Mr Peanutbutter and BoJack make a lot of sense. In a weird way, I like that the character becomes less likeable, because it's basically saying "actually, no, there are no perfect people."

The whole thing is a deconstruction of standard character archetypes - on the face of it, the central characters are fairly standard sitcom characters, but the show looks deeper into, say, how an eternal optimist like Peanutbutter becomes that way, or the effects that wacky adventures would have on someone like Todd.

Also I like the bit where Andrew Garfield falls down a hole.

 

[Henry Bemis]

Seeing her have sex with PB is weird, but at least it's not Brian Griffan levels of uncomfortable. At least PB has a job and can vote. At least he's a person and not a pet.

It truly says something that BoJack Horseman's pseudo-bestiality is so much less distracting than Family Guy's, even when the former is much more explicit.

 

[Johnny Bravo]

It truly says something that BoJack Horseman's pseudo-bestiality is so much less distracting than Family Guy's, even when the former is much more explicit.

I think in Bojack's world it's only bestiality if you have sex with food animals.

 

[Bojack Horsekin]

About time this thread popped up. Although, if you ask me, Horsin' Around is the much better show.

Ok, autistic roleplaying aside

For real, this may be one of my favorite shows in the world, ever. But if I get off on a tear about it, I am just going to sound like a self-impressed asshole who is over-invested in the artistic merit of cartoons.

Same.

Season 4 was great. I can't say I like the animation that much, it's awfully stiff and sometimes arms move like they're being dragged around in Flash, but when it comes to stuff like the underwater episode, the little touches in Beatrice's spotty memories, it's brilliant.

All of the Beatrice stuff in season 4 was an emotional rollercoaster. "Hey it's the 40s and Mom needs to get out of her funk so I'm gonna 'fix' her by taking her to a showman doctor to lop off part of her brain!" Holy shit. I'm so impressed with how they made Beatrice a sympathetic character, after 3 seasons of her abusing her son.

Spoiler: Diane sperging

I can't say Diane's a bitch, really. She does clearly have depression, she admits herself that nothing seems to make her happy, and she struggles with it. Mr. Peanutbutter is a loving, supportive, famous husband, but he's also a shallow idiot, and that can severely try your patience when you put up with it day in and day out. Diane has a lot of important things she wants to say, and no opportunities to say them — the humanitarian she follows to Cordovia is a sham, ghostwriting tweets for celebs sucks, the feminist blog turns out to be clickbait bullshit. Her career is disappointing, her marriage is disappointing... and that Belle room was fucking unsettling. I think she made it clear to Mr. PB before that she doesn't like huge gestures, like a party he threw for her or something? It's just that neither of them are in the wrong. He did something he thought his wife would love for their new house, but she's really been struggling with all the ways life is shitting on her. And she's absolutely right: if she's tired of squinting and the magic eye isn't showing up, then this marriage isn't for her.

I relate to Diane a little too hard. Even just got out of a long-term relationship with a shallow idiot.

 

[Yeeb-Renzo]

This show is gonna be the next Rick and Morty fandom downfall, it’ll have some dumb bullshit event to make the fandom extra cancerous than it already is/will be. Like, “this show understands meh mom! You don’t understand muh de-press-shun!” Or, “I ship Bojack with his stoner roomate,” or just any show that’s super good and well made will follow up with some kind of disastrous fandom event with people bitching online about dumb shit for no reason.