History Recap / BojackHorsemanS5E05TheAmeliaEarhartStory

* LawOfInverseFertility: The flashback sections portray the start of Princess Carolyn's fertility problems as she gets pregnant with and miscarries her first child.

* ADayInTheLimelight: The episode mostly focuses on Princess Carolyn's upbringing in Eden, North Carolina.

* FreezeFrameBonus: At the flea market there's a quick shot of a T-shirt reading "[[TakeThatAudience Stop pausing and just watch the show]]."

* AbusiveParents: While nowhere near hateful like Bojack's parents or bullies like Diane's family, at best giving her children ToughLove, Princess Carolyn's mother still guilt trips her into living at home to take care of her and cover for her when she's too drunk to work, simply because she was the last of her siblings not to move out.

* TheAlcoholic: Princess Carolyn's mother. She did it so frequently that PC had to cover for her job several times due to be so hangover the next day.

* ChekhovsGun: The opioids that Bojack is offered to treat his back injury. He gets addicted to it for the rest of the season.

* DramaticIrony: While the father of the boy who got PC knocked up discusses her future, he emphasizes that they get their fortune from producing recording tapes for answering machines, and since people will always need answering machine tapes, her future will always be secured. Since the episode aired in 2018, the audience knows its a ForegoneConclusion that society stopped using such technology a couple decades ago, and the family became {{Impoverished Patrician}}s.

* GladYouThoughtOfIt: When Diane complains to PC that Flip disregards any suggestion she makes, PC tells her to convince Flip that it is his own idea so he would accept it. When Diane questions it, PC phrased it as if Diane had that idea, and she immediatly accepted.

* LawOfInverseFertility: The flashback sections portrays the start of Princess Carolyn's fertility problems as she gets pregnant with and miscarriages her first child.
* LibertyOverProsperity: PC had this brief dilemma as a teen. Should she give up the baby to follow her dream of moving to California (Liberty), or keep the baby and enter the Wallace family's GildedCage (Prosperity)? [[ForegoneConclusion It's rendered moot when she miscarriages anyway.]]

* TheAlcoholic: Princess Carolyn's mother.

* GladIThoughtOfIt: Given Flip's blatant disregard for anyone's ideas other than his own, Princess Carolyn tells Diane to invoke this trope. When Diane questions it, PC invokes this too.

* NeverMyFault: PC's mother claims that everyone's fate is predetermined like a game of roulette where the white ball lands on a lucky or unlucky number, and they were just born with unlucky numbers.

* DumbBlonde: Subverted. Sadie is blonde and a poorly educated, pregnant teen from a backwoods Southern town, but it turns out she's very bright and observant and is easily able to pick up on how PC regularly manipulates people.

* DumbBlonde: Subverted. Sadie is blonde and a pregnant teen from a backwoods Southern town, but it turns out she's very bright and observant and is easily able to pick up on how PC regularly manipulates people.

* TwoLinesDifferentTimes: As Princess Carolyn looks around her hometown, we see her backstory unfold, depicting her dependent relationship with her mother and how she underwent a traumatic teen pregnancy and her first miscarriage.

* TwoLinesDifferentTimes: Princess Carolyn's backstory is shown alongside the present-day story.

* DamnedByFaintPraise: PC often tries to assure Sadie she loves the town they grew up in and loves the bedazzled clothes she makes, but her compliments are weak at best. [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech Sadie notices.]]

* LawOfInverseFertility: The start of Princess Carolyn's fertility problems begins here as she gets pregnant with and miscarriages her first child.

* LawOfInverseFertility: As straight as an example you're ever going to see. Princess Carolyn can't have children as an adult but as a teenager she got pregnant after having sex one time with a friend.

* AbusiveParents: While not hateful like Bojack's parents nor bullies like Diane's family, mostly just giving her ToughLove, Princess Carolyn's mother still guilt trips her daughter into living at home to take care of her and cover for her when she's too drunk to work, simply because she was the last of her siblings not to move out.

* * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: For all of the manipulation she puts her daughter through to take responsibility for her own mistakes, not to mention her lack of empathy when PC finds herself in the awkward situation of getting pregnant out of wedlock, PC's mother still worries for her well-being when she finally decides to move to California and is sad that they won't be together any more (granted, this ''is'' a well-known tactic of {{gaslight|ing}}ers, intentional or no, so even if she meant well, Carolyn's mother clearly [[ItsAllAboutMe has her own interests in mind]]).

* AbusiveParents: While not hateful like Bojack's parents nor bullies like Diane's family, giving more ToughLove than anything else, she still guilt trips her daughter into living at home to take care of her and cover for her when she's too drunk to work, simply because she was the last of her siblings not to move out.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: For all of the manipulation she puts her daughter through to take responsibility for her own mistakes, not to mention her lack of empathy when PC finds herself in the awkward situation of getting pregnant out of wedlock, PC's mother still worries for her well-being when she finally decides to move to California and is sad that they won't be together any more.

* AbusiveParents: Downplayed with PC's mother. While not hateful like Bojack's parents nor bullies like Diane's family, giving more ToughLove than anything else, she still guilt trips her daughter into living at home to take care of her and cover for her when she's too drunk to work, simply because she was the last of her siblings not to move out.

* AbusiveParents: PC's mother is revealed to have manipulated PC into staying home when her siblings moved out and covering for her when she constantly got too drunk to work.

* NeverMyFault: PC's mother denied any responsibility for her lot, claiming everyone's fate is predetermined like a game of roulette where the white ball lands on a lucky or unlucky number, and they were just born with unlucky numbers.

* ForegoneConclusion: PC miscarried as a teen and the family her mother became an {{Impoverished Patrician}}.

** In this episode, we find see PC's mom tell her the [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS4E09Ruthie story of her necklace.]]

* ChekhovsGun: The opoids that Bojack is offered to treat his back injury. He gets addicted to it for the rest of the season.

* ForegoneConclusion: PC miscarried as a teen and the family her mother served became {{Impoverished Patrician}}s.

** Additionally, she asks Princess Carolyn why she didn't buy anything from her clothes stall but fails to mention that PC bought her a chair to sit on from a nearby stall which had a price tag in excess of $100.

--> '''Sadie:''' You think because you left [[AlcoholicParent her]], you're better than me. You think because you're all fancy show-business, you can just take whatever you want.

* FreezeFrameBonus: At the flea market there's a quick shot of a T-shirt reading "Stop pausing and just watch the show."

* UngratefulBastard: When Sadie remarks that nobody is buying anything at her stall, Princess Carolyn nets her the first sale of the day by pretending she really wants a jacket someone is trying on, making him buy it before she can, but all Sadie can do is complain about such a tactic being "manipulative".

* DumbBlonde: Averted. Sadie is blonde and a pregnant teen from a backwoods Southern town, but she's very bright and observant and is easily able to pick up on how PC regularly manipulates people.

* RuleOfInverseFertility: As straight as an example you're ever going to see. Princess Carolyn can't have children as an adult but as a teenager she got pregnant after having sex one time with a friend.