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** In "The [=BoJack=] Horseman show", Todd states he loves shimmying. He later says this again when he has to leave Princess Carolyn's apartment in "After the Party."

* DyingReconcilliation: In the penultimate episode, Bojack has hit rock bottom and is attempting to drown himself in the pool of what used to be his house. As he dies, he has a fantasy in which he tries to reconcile with all the people in his life who died before he could make peace with them, like Sarah Lynn, Herb, and his mother.

** A montage in "[[Recap/BojackHorsemanS4E02TheOldSugarmanPlace The Old Sugarman Place]]" shows summer-autumn-winter passing through [[spoiler:in Harper's Landing, where [=BoJack=] stays when he leaves L.A.]] This episode, alongside "[[Recap/BojackHorsemanS4E05ThoughtsAndPrayers Thoughts And Prayers]]" and "[[Recap/BojackHorsemanS4E11TimesArrow Time's Arrow]]" show Beatrice and Butterscotch's lives from TheForties to {{the|Oughties}} late [[TheOughties oughties]], with [[spoiler:the Sugarman family's summer home time during WWII when Harper's Landing was blooming still, when her older brother died in 1944, to Beatrice's insufferable teenage years in the late 1960s where heirs and heiresses of OldMoney like Creamerman, Bloodsworth and Sugarman still held debutante parties. Butterscotch is shown to be an old-school beatnik whose political leanings soured in the 70s when rejected by the Beats and often talked about the Panama Canal and the Horn as teaching methods for little [=BoJack=].]]

* DontExplainTheJoke: [=BoJack=]'s main reason for failing as a stand-up comic in the [[TheEighties eighties]] was him always ending his jokes with "get it?" and then explaining the joke. He also has a tendency of doing this in everyday conversations. He's apparently done this since he was at least nine years old, since his fan letter to Secretariat had a whole page explaining a lame horse pun he wrote in it.

** Todd's mother, Helen, married a man that he didn't got along with. His step-father, Jorge, never understood him and wanted him to succeed in his image. Helen herself kicked Todd out of the house for being a slacker. While Todd's mom and step-father are well-meaning people, it is understandable why Todd's relationship with them was rather strained. They seem to be on better terms by the series finale.

** Todd's mother, Helen, married a man that he didn't got along with. His step-father, Jorge, never understand him and wanted him to succeed in his image. Helen herself kicked Todd out of the house for being a slacker. While Todd's mom and step-father are well-meaning people, it is understandable why Todd's relationship with them was rather strained. They seem to be on better terms by the series finale.

** Todd's mother, Helen, married a man that he didn't got along with nor did he really understand him and Helen herself kicked him out of the house for being a slacker. While Todd's mom and step-father meant well, it is understandable why Todd's relationship with them was rather strained. They seem to be on better terms by the series finale.

** Princess Carolyn's mother was an emotionally clingy alcoholic who put a lot of blame on her when she had a miscarriage. Her mother did show more love to her than [=BoJack=] and Diane's did such as when she made up a story about her costume jewlery necklace to make her feel better and let her know that she got accepted into her dream school but those things aren't exactly enough to excuse the abuse and troubling childhood she already gave her daughter.

** Diane's family are constantly mocking and berating her. She described her father as a "mean, sadoistic alcoholic who never supported anything [she] did and actively delighted in seeing [her] fail"
** Princess Carolyn's mother was an emotionally clingy alcoholic who put a lot of blame on her when she had a miscarriage. Her mother did show more love to her than BoJack and Diane's did such as when she made up a story about her costume jewlery necklace to make her feel better and let her know that she got accepted into her dream school but those things aren't exactly enough to excuse the abuse and troubling childhood she already gave her daughter.

* DysfunctionalFamily: While not much is known about Mr. Peanutbutter's life, all the other main characters come from troubling families.
** BoJack was raised by two parents who abused him and constantly reminded how much he "ruined" them.

* CatchPhrase:
** In ''Horsin' Around'', Sara Lynn had "That's too much, man!" Ethan had "Yowza, Yowza, Bo-Bowza!" which wasn't very well-liked by fans. The cast also says "Go home, Goober!" whenever they see Goober. The Horse has "I've heard of X, but ''this'' is ridiculous," which sometimes makes no sense.
** As a drug-addled adult, Sarah Lynn, the actress who played Sabrina in ''Horsin' Around'', comes up with a new one, which caught on with some of the other characters -- "suck a dick, dumb shits!"
** Todd has a tendency to say "Hooray!" a lot.
** Princess Carolyn says "Fish!" when something goes wrong.
** [=BoJack=] will usually leave a long voicemail for someone he knows, then at the very end announce who he is. "This is [=BoJack=], by the way... Horseman, obviously." Diane [[BorrowedCatchphrase borrows the catchphrase]] when she leaves a voicemail for [=BoJack=]: "This is Diane, by the way... Nguyen, obviously."