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--> [='''BoJack:'''=] You know, I learned something today. Sometimes when you think something isn't about you, you find a way to save the day and in the end realize that it was, all along, about you.

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--> [='''BoJack:'''=] '''[=BoJack:=]''' You know, I learned something today. Sometimes when you think something isn't about you, you find a way to save the day and in the end realize that it was, all along, about you.
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--> [='''BoJack:'''=] You know, I learned something today. Sometimes when you think something isn't about you, you find a way to save the day and in the end realize that it was, all along, about you.
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* CareerNotTaken: The wife of the Gentle Farms farmer is deeply traumatized in her job, which entails drugging and killing other chickens for food. She confesses that her actual dream job is programming video games that help children learn math.
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* ALighterShadeOfGrey: The chicken family who runs Gentle Farms may be trigger-happy, dysfunctional and only see the non-sapient chickens as property to be butchered and sold, but their business is legal and they do legitimately treat their chickens more humanely than Chicken 4 Dayz does. The fact that they make a living on slaughtering their own kind says more about the BlueAndOrangeMorality of the world they live in that it does as people.

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* ALighterShadeOfGrey: The chicken family who runs Gentle Farms may be trigger-happy, dysfunctional and only see the non-sapient chickens as property to be butchered and sold, but their business is legal and they do legitimately treat their chickens more humanely than Chicken 4 Dayz does. The fact that they make a living on slaughtering their own kind says more about the BlueAndOrangeMorality of the world they live in that it does of them as people.
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* FurryReminder: Bojack is at one point seen being groomed with an actual horse brush. He also mentions that he once got spooked by a bag in the wind.

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* FurryReminder: Bojack [=BoJack=] is at one point seen being groomed with an actual horse brush. He also mentions that he once got spooked by a bag in the wind.
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* ShoutOut: Officer Meow Meow Fuzzyface's demand for "a hard-target search of every gas station, backyard, outhouse, [and] pool house" is a reference to an almost identical line from The Fugitive.

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* ShoutOut: Officer Meow Meow Fuzzyface's demand for "a hard-target search of every gas station, backyard, outhouse, [and] pool house" is a reference to an almost identical line from The Fugitive.''Film/TheFugitive''.
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* ShoutOut: Officer Meow Meow Fuzzyface's demand for "a hard-target search of every gas station, backyard, outhouse, [and] pool house" is a reference to an almost identical line from The Fugitive.

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* BittersweetEnding: The gang successfully saves Becca but fail to address the moral issues of meat production, leaving billions of other chickens on the chopping block.



* DownerEnding: The gang successfully saves Becca but fail to address the moral issues of meat production, leaving billions of other chickens on the chopping block.

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* DownerEnding: CompetingProductPotshot: The gang successfully saves Becca but fail to address ColdOpen shows two commercials for chicken restaurants. One is a cheap fast food place called Chicken-4-Dayz, a parody of Kentucky Fried Chicken. The other, Gentle Farms, begins its own commercial by calling out how Chicken-4-Dayz keeps chickens in tiny cages and pumps them full of hormones. Since the moral issues of meat production, leaving billions of other Gentle Farms farmer is a chicken himself, he promises they give the chickens on ''his'' farm a more fulfilling life. As the chopping block.episode continues, however, it becomes clear that the treatment of meat in the show's universe is inhumane in any case, since the CarnivoreConfusion is resolved by breeding and genetically modifying sentient animals to become meat instead.
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* AdultFear: Kelsey's worries that she will not only lose custody of her daughter if Secretariat fails but she will also be unable to pay for her daughter's education. And that's to say nothing of the fact that Irving spent the day running around with a dangerous animal.
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* DownerEnding: The gang successfully saves Becca but fail to address the moral issues of meat production, leaving billion of other chickens on the chopping block.
* FauxAffablyEvil: The chicken family that run Gentle Farms act kind and caring toward the chickens on their farm when they're really trigger happy and view their chickens as property.

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* DownerEnding: The gang successfully saves Becca but fail to address the moral issues of meat production, leaving billion billions of other chickens on the chopping block.
* FauxAffablyEvil: The chicken family that run Gentle Farms act kind and caring toward the chickens on their farm when they're really trigger happy sadistic and view their chickens as property.



** When asked about the morality of chicken, the Chicken 4 Days spokesman remarks that if the FDA approves it then it must be okay.

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** When asked about the morality of chicken, the Chicken 4 Days spokesman remarks that if the FDA approves it it, then it must be okay.
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* HypocriticalHumor: The farmer from Gentle Farms criticizes how Chicken 4 Dayz pumps their chickens full of hormones, only to mention not long after that he "lovingly injects" his own chickens with "natural, delicious hormones".
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* ALighterShadeOfGrey: The chicken family who runs Gentle Farms may be trigger-happy, dysfunctional and only see the non-sapient chickens as property to be butchered and sold, but they do legitimately treat their chickens more humanely than Chicken 4 Dayz does. The fact that they make a living on slaughtering their own kind says more about the BlueAndOrangeMorality of the world they live in that it does as people.

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* ALighterShadeOfGrey: The chicken family who runs Gentle Farms may be trigger-happy, dysfunctional and only see the non-sapient chickens as property to be butchered and sold, but their business is legal and they do legitimately treat their chickens more humanely than Chicken 4 Dayz does. The fact that they make a living on slaughtering their own kind says more about the BlueAndOrangeMorality of the world they live in that it does as people.
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* FurryReminder: Bojack is at one point seen being groomed with an actual horse brush. He also mentions that he once got spooked by a bag in the wind.
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* ALighterShadeOfBlack: The chicken family who runs Gentle Farms may be trigger-happy, dysfunctional and only see the non-sapient chickens as property to be butchered and sold, but they do legitimately treat their chickens more humanely than Chicken 4 Dayz does.

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* ALighterShadeOfBlack: ALighterShadeOfGrey: The chicken family who runs Gentle Farms may be trigger-happy, dysfunctional and only see the non-sapient chickens as property to be butchered and sold, but they do legitimately treat their chickens more humanely than Chicken 4 Dayz does.does. The fact that they make a living on slaughtering their own kind says more about the BlueAndOrangeMorality of the world they live in that it does as people.
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* ALighterShadeOfBlack: The chicken family who runs Gentle Farms may be trigger-happy, dysfunctional and only see the non-sapient chickens as property to be butchered and sold, but they do legitimately treat their chickens more humanely than Chicken 4 Dayz does.
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* AscendedFridgeHorror: This episode actually addresses the issue of where meat comes from in a world where humans and anthropomorphic animals coexist. Certain species of animals are set aside to be bred as unintelligent livestock, and everyone accepts this as normal.
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* WeakWilled: Irving mocks Diane as this, as both she and Todd are able to easily sway her opinion on how to deal with Becca.

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* WeakWilled: Irving mocks Diane as this, as both she and Todd are able to easily sway her opinion on how to deal with Becca.Becca.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: The chickens who run Gentle Farms don't view the non-sapient chickens as being on the same level as them, referring to them as "animals". Todd is the only person who views Becca as a person worth saving, despite everyone else simply seeing her as a mindless food source who can't even speak English.
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* CarnivoreConfusion: How meat works in this world is finally explained. A large number farm animals, such as chickens, are set aside to be born and bred as livestock. Despite looking like the other anthropomorphic animals that inhabit the world, they have intelligence of regular animals and are treated as nothing but a food source by the rest of the population.

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* CarnivoreConfusion: How meat works in this world is finally explained. A large number of farm animals, such as chickens, are set aside to be born and bred as livestock. Despite looking like the other anthropomorphic animals that inhabit the world, they have intelligence of regular animals and are treated as nothing but a food source by the rest of the population.
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Those chickens aren't anthropomorphic, unlike the chickens who run Gentle Farms.


* BlueAndOrangeMorality: No one see anything morally wrong with eating the anthropomorphic chickens since they've been genetically modified to behave like animals.

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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: No one see anything morally wrong with eating the anthropomorphic non-sapient chickens since they've been genetically modified to behave like animals.
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* NoSocialSkills: The episode's B-plot highlights [=BoJack=]'s lack of ability to have conversations not involving him or [[SomebodyDoesntLoveRaymond comprehending how some people may not like him]].
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BoJack Horseman really wants his director, Kelsey, to like him. Todd, Diane and Kelsey's daughter help a chicken who's on the run from the police.

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BoJack [=BoJack=] Horseman really wants his director, Kelsey, to like him. Todd, Diane and Kelsey's daughter help a chicken who's on the run from the police.



* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Bojack gets Diane, Todd and Irving off the hook for stealing Becca simply because he is a celebrity. He also manages to get Becca adopted by Drew Barrymore.

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* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Bojack [=BoJack=] gets Diane, Todd and Irving off the hook for stealing Becca simply because he is a celebrity. He also manages to get Becca adopted by Drew Barrymore.
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BoJack Horseman really wants his director, Kelsey, to like him. Todd, Diane and Kelsey's daughter help a chicken who's on the run from the police.

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* AdultFear: Kelsey's worries that she will not only lose custody of her daughter if Secretariat fails but she will also be unable to pay for her daughter's education. And that's to say nothing of the fact that Irving spent the day running around with a dangerous animal.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: No one see anything morally wrong with eating the anthropomorphic chickens since they've been genetically modified to behave like animals.
* BoomerangBigot: The owner of Gentle Farms, who uses the fact that he and his family are chickens to advertise that they know how to better take care of chickens than their competitors even though he views the chickens under his care as his property to be killed and sold.
* CarnivoreConfusion: How meat works in this world is finally explained. A large number farm animals, such as chickens, are set aside to be born and bred as livestock. Despite looking like the other anthropomorphic animals that inhabit the world, they have intelligence of regular animals and are treated as nothing but a food source by the rest of the population.
* DownerEnding: The gang successfully saves Becca but fail to address the moral issues of meat production, leaving billion of other chickens on the chopping block.
* FauxAffablyEvil: The chicken family that run Gentle Farms act kind and caring toward the chickens on their farm when they're really trigger happy and view their chickens as property.
* ItCanThink: Becca manages to say Todd's name as he rescues her from Gentle Farms.
* PleaseDontLeaveMe: The wife of the owner of Gentle Farms tries to get Todd, Diane and Irving to take her with them when they rescue Becca, explaining that she hates living on the farm and wants to leave and make video games. However, they choose to leave without her.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Bojack gets Diane, Todd and Irving off the hook for stealing Becca simply because he is a celebrity. He also manages to get Becca adopted by Drew Barrymore.
* TakeThat:
** Against free range farms who advertise themselves as being more "caring" for their animals than big companies when they ultimately see their livestock as nothing but property to be slaughtered and sold as food.
** When asked about the morality of chicken, the Chicken 4 Days spokesman remarks that if the FDA approves it then it must be okay.
* WeakWilled: Irving mocks Diane as this, as both she and Todd are able to easily sway her opinion on how to deal with Becca.

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