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'''Beware of rampant spoilers of season 1 and 2! While the majority of spoilers involving plot points of the current season will be hidden, this is not consistent depending on the situation, with just the presence of certain tropes being spoilers. Enter the folders at your OWN RISK.'''
!This article is for Creator/{{Netflix}}'s first original animated series ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'''s character.
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[[caption-width-right:180:''"[[CrapsackWorld The universe is a cruel, uncaring void]]. [[TheAntiNihilist The key to being happy isn't a search for meaning]]. [[SubvertedTrope It's to just keep yourself busy]] with unimportant nonsense and [[StrawNihilist eventually, you'll be dead]]."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/PaulFTompkins
->'''Debut:''' [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS1E01TheBojackHorsemanStoryChapterOne "The [=BoJack=] Horseman Story: Chapter One"]]
->''"Mr. Peanutbutter and [=BoJack=] Horseman in the same room! What is this, a crossover episode?"''
A native of the Labrador Peninsula in Canada, Mister Peanutbutter was raised in the countryside as the runt of the litter with his parents and grandma, free of the world's cold touch. Submerged in a saccharine and comfortable sugar bowl where the motto was "Nothing bad ever happens in the Labrador Peninsula", PB grew with the expectation the world was just as light. During a trip to Hollywood, he wandered off against his wife Katrina's objections and stumbled onto the set of ''Untitled Horsin' Around Ripoff''. With his charisma and natural ability, Mister gained the public's favor, taking the role from Vincent D'Onofrio. Money and second rate fame ensued with the newcomer PB helming what henceforth would be called ''JustForFun/MrPeanutbuttersHouse''.
Growing at the shade of the much more famous [[Characters/BojackHorsemanTheHorsemanHimself [=BoJack=] Horseman]], PB quickly took to being famous, even if he preferred to be a good sport about it, contrasting BJ himself whom he gradually started idolizing and view as a peer in the industry, admiring his work even if he constantly failed to get most of the scorn thrown his way by the horse.
To hear Mr. Peanutbutter himself list these tropes, see [[SelfDemonstrating/MrPeanutbutter here]].
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* AesopAmnesia: PlayedForLaughs at first, PlayedForDrama later. Mr. Peanutbutter is somewhat aware of his shortcomings as a dog (he admits he's not the one who usually gets bored in a relationship) and a husband (he tries, but can't remember to make compromises for his wives). And it's not like he can't see he's running out of time to change. But he just can't get himself to admit it, let alone act to fix it. He's way too reckless, distracted, and reliant on good vibes to begin confronting his dark side. As he is, he's always been comfortable that way and expects everyone to be, even when people get tired or frustrated with him. Better to blame it on "not being able to change" or to move on quickly to the next thing, regardless of whether that's the healthiest thing to do.
* AllLovingHero: {{Deconstructed|Trope}}. He is fun-loving, friendly and has a positive and cheerful attitude. In this case, people who interact with him on a daily basis believe him to be a moron, or just get irritated with his behavior. He's also shown to mostly be nice because he wants other people to like him, even if it causes them no end of grief or frustration. (Like his grand romantic gestures for Diane making her uncomfortable, or his run for governor of California causing a huge unnecessary mess.)
* AnimalStereotypes:
** Has a short attention span, gets excited when the doorbell's rung, and is very energetic and playful. He also ''hates'' the post office and mail carriers.
** He also fits the "big friendly dog" stereotype; he's always excited to meet new people and tries to be FunPersonified. The keyword here being "tries." Mr. Peanutbutter's problem is that he can't seem to realize how grating this attitude can get. In his mind, everyone should be like him, because that's the only way to properly live.
* TheAntiNihilist: In his own words, life is largely miserable, and the best way to deal with that is to distract yourself from it as often as you can, enjoying every moment until you die. However, it's gradually {{subverted|Trope}} the more and more the series goes on; it becomes clear that for PB, this doesn't mean "accept your mortality and insignificance, and move on with the things that really matter." Rather, it means "deny anything that's wrong and focus on the exciting parts", which is just a more hedonistic form of nihilism itself.
* AscendedFanboy: As a child, he was a big fan of Hank Hippopopalous, getting his album ''The Hank Hippopopalous Hip-Hop Hypothesis'' and taking a picture of him and [=BoJack=] with good ol' Uncle Hankie at the Emmys. In 2015, Mr. Peanutbutter becomes Hank's co-worker when ''HSAC:WDTKDTKTLFO!'' and ''I Think You Can Dance'' are put back-to-back in MBN.
* BerserkButton:
** As a dog, he hates mailmen.
** He hates watching tennis because no one catches the ball.
* BigFriendlyDog: He's the friendliest and most cheerful character of the series.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Comes off as very friendly early on. Once [=BoJack=] starts competing with him for Diane, his douchier side begins to emerge. This is hinted at in the first episode, when [=BoJack=] actually responds honestly to Mr. Peanutbutter's concerned-sounding "How are you?", cutting [=BoJack=] short with "Living the dream, huh?" and wandering off.
* BookEnds: Diane & Mr Peanutbutter's engagement[=/=]marriage begins & ends with Mr Peanutbutter making a grand romantic gesture that Diane ultimately doesn't feel comfortable accepting. Immediately after Mr Peanutbutter asks Diane to marry him with "just the two of them, no cameras" there is an immediate surprise party and a scene where Diane calls Bojack and is clearly not happy. It ends when Mr Peanutbutter recreates a childhood fantasy of Diane's without realising why it wasn't something he should have done and why Diane can't appreciate it.
* BornLucky: Mr. Peanutbutter gets everything he wants with little to no effort. He didn't even had to work his way up, he starred on a CaptainErsatz copy of ''JustForFun/HorsinAround'' (which season 4 reveals he got by just happening to wander onto the set of "Untitled Horsin' Around Knockoff" and unintentionally charming the audience) and when in need of a job, he ends up with two options, one of which he never noticed!
* {{Catchphrase}}: "What is this, a {{Crossover}} episode?"
* CharacterTics: As Princess Carolyn points out in "Let's Find Out", Mr. Peanutbutter's ears flop up when he is excited.
* ChickMagnet: He was married twice to Katrina (first) and Jessica Biel (second) before divorcing them for different reasons. Sometime after his second divorce, he began a relationship with Diane that led to marriage. And in "Higher Love", while he worked as a lady shoes salesman, ''many'' women were excited to see him. [[spoiler: His current girlfriend becomes attracted to him nearly instantly after they first meet [[CaptainOblivious while having dinner with Diane, his now ex-wife]].]]
* TheDanza: An InUniverse example; his TV character was also named Mr. Peanutbutter.
* DogStereotype: Mr. Peanutbutter is a Labrador Retriever, and is thus incredibly nice (if a bit dim and has his moments of being InnocentlyInsensitive), [[FunPersonified light hearted]] and he has a [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny very short attention span]]. He also ''hates'' {{UsefulNotes/Tennis}} because he doesn't understand why no one ''catches'' the ball.
* DogsAreDumb: He has the simple-minded, excitable personality you'd expect from a dog.
* DogsLoveFireHydrants: He's got a fire hydrant fountain in front of his home.
* DumbBlond: He's a yellow lab. And while not completely stupid, he is ''very'' naïve.
* {{Foil}}: To Bojack, since they both had a hit sitcom in the 80s, but while Bojack is bitter, antisocial, and depressed, Mr. Peanuttbutter is friendly, positive, and upbeat. However, the two are actually NotSoDifferent. See AntiNihilist and BitchInSheepsClothing above.
* FriendlyEnemy: To Bojack, though the friendly part of this trope often overpowers the enemy aspect. Hell, he actually wishes they could be friends. By season 4, they could be considered VitriolicBestBuds in-training.
* FullNameBasis: "Mister" is his first name and "Peanutbutter" is his last name. Everyone refers to him as "Mr. Peanutbutter", except for the children of his brother, who call him "Uncle Mister," and Pickles, the only character to consistently call him by his first name alone.
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* HeroicDog: He's saved Todd from a burning roller coaster, saved Bojack from drowning, saved an entire underwater city with spaghetti strainers and was one of the first people to [[spoiler:pull a painkiller high Bojack off of Gina when he strangled her.]]
* IgnoredEpiphany: In "Mr. Peanutbutter's Boos," Diane has to spell out for Mr. Peanutbutter that his marriages keep failing because he's [[ManChild mentally still]] and keeps dating women only in their twenties, who inevitably mentally outgrow him. She tells him he can start dating older women, or grow up himself. He does consider the latter, but ultimately opts to keep having frivolous fun. [[spoiler:At the end of Season 5, Mr. Peanutbutter again avoids dealing with relationship problems in a healthy and mature manner, instead cheating on Pickles with Diane and then just proposing to Pickles to gloss over their relationship flaws (like he did with Diane in Season 1), showing he's making the same mistakes that led to his three previous failed marriages.]]
* InsecureLoveInterest: For all of his happy-go-lucky, devil-may-care antics and the way he takes even the most distressing things at face value, he's revealed to be very afraid of losing Diane either by death or her leaving him.
* ItRunsInTheFamily: His brother and grandmother share his tendency of hiding their insecurities and sadness behind ever-happy facades.
* IJustWantToBeLoved: {{Deconstructed|Trope}}. Mr. Peanutbutter's goal is to simply be loved by who he is. Unfortunately, he believes everybody should accept him as he is even after seeing how BeYourself doesn't work when it screws up and messes with other people. He also has a tenuous grasp about love: namely, that it involves physical affection rather than mutual understanding.
* MailmanVsDog: Mr. Peanutbutter has a problem with chasing the mail truck with his car. In "Horse Majeure" he gets pulled over for doing this and later loses his license. Even just mentioning the post office makes him growl.
-->'''Diane:''' Were you chasing the mailman again?\\
'''Mr. Peanutbutter:''' Yes, why? Did you see him out there too!? [[UnstoppableMailman Nothing stops them! Not rain, not sleet, not dead of night, not gates!]]
* ManChild: His solution to anything depressing in his life is to seek out simple pleasures. Once when he threw a surprise birthday party for Diane, he bought or rented ''many'' expensive and unnecessary things, including a ''ball pit''. Addressed in "Mr. Peanutbutter's Boos" when Diane explains that Mr. Peanutbutter is mentally still in his 20s, so he keeps dating women who inevitably outgrow him.
* MortalityPhobia: Peanutbutter is deeply afraid of his own inevitable death, and seeks out whatever he can do in life to distract himself and (pretend to) be happy.
* NeverMyFault: A cheerful and carefree version, but still. Another wacky business venture fell apart? Who could have seen that coming! Ah well, can't argue with Lady Fate. Guess it just wasn't meant to be. Now time to wander aimlessly till the next big opportunity presents itself and throw extravagant amounts of money at it till it too fails.
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* OlderThanHeLooks: It's easy to forget that Mr. Peanutbutter is supposed to be in his 50s by now just like Bojack.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Anytime Mr. Peanutbutter drops his usual [[{{Keet}} energetic]], [[BigFriendlyDog friendly]] nature means that something incredibly serious has happened to make him more serious than usual.
* PerpetualSmiler: It's hard to see Mr. Peanutbutter with a frown on his face. This is shown to be both a [[ThePollyanna good]] and [[StepfordSmiler bad]] thing.
* PoorMansSubstitute: Part of the animosity Bojack has for him is that Mr. Peanutbutter tended to mirror Bojack's career and choice of projects, particularly how "Mr. Peanutbutter's House" was an even more vapid knockoff of "Horsin' Around."
* RunningGag: Often cuts off [=BoJack=] while greeting him at some social function to enthusiastically greet Erica, [[TheGhost who's always standing somewhere off-screen]].
-->'''Mr. Peanutbutter:''' Erica! How are you? [insert some related nicety]
* SerialSpouse: His marriage to Diane in the first season was his third marriage. His exes show up on occasion, indicating they did not end amicably. By the fifth season it is examined further, in that he had something of a ManChild personality and he tended to marry young women, he remained perpetually young and energetic while they ended up maturing and growing too old for that behavior.
* StepfordSmiler: It's heavily implied that his perpetually optimistic and cheerful attitude is merely a mask to cover up his nihilistic worries about life ultimately being cruel and meaningless.
* UndyingLoyalty: By the end of the show, [[spoiler: Peanutbutter's the only person who commits to [[HeterosexualLifePartners stick by Bojack to the very end,]] despite all he has done.]]
* UptownGuy: Mr. Peanutbutter, a rich TV star and celebrity, dates and later marries Diane, a still up-and-coming author who came from a poor family. When they first met, Mr. Peanutbutter was already a rich celebrity going to extravagant parties while Diane was working at a cafe and working as a waitress at those extravagant parties to make ends meet.
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'''Beware of rampant spoilers of season 1 and 2! While the majority of spoilers involving plot points of the current season will be hidden, this is not consistent depending on the situation, with just the presence of certain tropes being spoilers. Enter the folders at your OWN RISK.'''
!This article is for Creator/{{Netflix}}'s first original animated series ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'''s character.
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[[quoteright:180:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pb.png]]
[[caption-width-right:180:''"[[CrapsackWorld The universe is a cruel, uncaring void]]. [[TheAntiNihilist The key to being happy isn't a search for meaning]]. [[SubvertedTrope It's to just keep yourself busy]] with unimportant nonsense and [[StrawNihilist eventually, you'll be dead]]."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/PaulFTompkins
->'''Debut:''' [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS1E01TheBojackHorsemanStoryChapterOne "The [=BoJack=] Horseman Story: Chapter One"]]
->''"Mr. Peanutbutter and [=BoJack=] Horseman in the same room! What is this, a crossover episode?"''
A native of the Labrador Peninsula in Canada, Mister Peanutbutter was raised in the countryside as the runt of the litter with his parents and grandma, free of the world's cold touch. Submerged in a saccharine and comfortable sugar bowl where the motto was "Nothing bad ever happens in the Labrador Peninsula", PB grew with the expectation the world was just as light. During a trip to Hollywood, he wandered off against his wife Katrina's objections and stumbled onto the set of ''Untitled Horsin' Around Ripoff''. With his charisma and natural ability, Mister gained the public's favor, taking the role from Vincent D'Onofrio. Money and second rate fame ensued with the newcomer PB helming what henceforth would be called ''JustForFun/MrPeanutbuttersHouse''.
Growing at the shade of the much more famous [[Characters/BojackHorsemanTheHorsemanHimself [=BoJack=] Horseman]], PB quickly took to being famous, even if he preferred to be a good sport about it, contrasting BJ himself whom he gradually started idolizing and view as a peer in the industry, admiring his work even if he constantly failed to get most of the scorn thrown his way by the horse.
To hear Mr. Peanutbutter himself list these tropes, see [[SelfDemonstrating/MrPeanutbutter here]].
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* AesopAmnesia: PlayedForLaughs at first, PlayedForDrama later. Mr. Peanutbutter is somewhat aware of his shortcomings as a dog (he admits he's not the one who usually gets bored in a relationship) and a husband (he tries, but can't remember to make compromises for his wives). And it's not like he can't see he's running out of time to change. But he just can't get himself to admit it, let alone act to fix it. He's way too reckless, distracted, and reliant on good vibes to begin confronting his dark side. As he is, he's always been comfortable that way and expects everyone to be, even when people get tired or frustrated with him. Better to blame it on "not being able to change" or to move on quickly to the next thing, regardless of whether that's the healthiest thing to do.
* AllLovingHero: {{Deconstructed|Trope}}. He is fun-loving, friendly and has a positive and cheerful attitude. In this case, people who interact with him on a daily basis believe him to be a moron, or just get irritated with his behavior. He's also shown to mostly be nice because he wants other people to like him, even if it causes them no end of grief or frustration. (Like his grand romantic gestures for Diane making her uncomfortable, or his run for governor of California causing a huge unnecessary mess.)
* AnimalStereotypes:
** Has a short attention span, gets excited when the doorbell's rung, and is very energetic and playful. He also ''hates'' the post office and mail carriers.
** He also fits the "big friendly dog" stereotype; he's always excited to meet new people and tries to be FunPersonified. The keyword here being "tries." Mr. Peanutbutter's problem is that he can't seem to realize how grating this attitude can get. In his mind, everyone should be like him, because that's the only way to properly live.
* TheAntiNihilist: In his own words, life is largely miserable, and the best way to deal with that is to distract yourself from it as often as you can, enjoying every moment until you die. However, it's gradually {{subverted|Trope}} the more and more the series goes on; it becomes clear that for PB, this doesn't mean "accept your mortality and insignificance, and move on with the things that really matter." Rather, it means "deny anything that's wrong and focus on the exciting parts", which is just a more hedonistic form of nihilism itself.
* AscendedFanboy: As a child, he was a big fan of Hank Hippopopalous, getting his album ''The Hank Hippopopalous Hip-Hop Hypothesis'' and taking a picture of him and [=BoJack=] with good ol' Uncle Hankie at the Emmys. In 2015, Mr. Peanutbutter becomes Hank's co-worker when ''HSAC:WDTKDTKTLFO!'' and ''I Think You Can Dance'' are put back-to-back in MBN.
* BerserkButton:
** As a dog, he hates mailmen.
** He hates watching tennis because no one catches the ball.
* BigFriendlyDog: He's the friendliest and most cheerful character of the series.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Comes off as very friendly early on. Once [=BoJack=] starts competing with him for Diane, his douchier side begins to emerge. This is hinted at in the first episode, when [=BoJack=] actually responds honestly to Mr. Peanutbutter's concerned-sounding "How are you?", cutting [=BoJack=] short with "Living the dream, huh?" and wandering off.
* BookEnds: Diane & Mr Peanutbutter's engagement[=/=]marriage begins & ends with Mr Peanutbutter making a grand romantic gesture that Diane ultimately doesn't feel comfortable accepting. Immediately after Mr Peanutbutter asks Diane to marry him with "just the two of them, no cameras" there is an immediate surprise party and a scene where Diane calls Bojack and is clearly not happy. It ends when Mr Peanutbutter recreates a childhood fantasy of Diane's without realising why it wasn't something he should have done and why Diane can't appreciate it.
* BornLucky: Mr. Peanutbutter gets everything he wants with little to no effort. He didn't even had to work his way up, he starred on a CaptainErsatz copy of ''JustForFun/HorsinAround'' (which season 4 reveals he got by just happening to wander onto the set of "Untitled Horsin' Around Knockoff" and unintentionally charming the audience) and when in need of a job, he ends up with two options, one of which he never noticed!
* {{Catchphrase}}: "What is this, a {{Crossover}} episode?"
* CharacterTics: As Princess Carolyn points out in "Let's Find Out", Mr. Peanutbutter's ears flop up when he is excited.
* ChickMagnet: He was married twice to Katrina (first) and Jessica Biel (second) before divorcing them for different reasons. Sometime after his second divorce, he began a relationship with Diane that led to marriage. And in "Higher Love", while he worked as a lady shoes salesman, ''many'' women were excited to see him. [[spoiler: His current girlfriend becomes attracted to him nearly instantly after they first meet [[CaptainOblivious while having dinner with Diane, his now ex-wife]].]]
* TheDanza: An InUniverse example; his TV character was also named Mr. Peanutbutter.
* DogStereotype: Mr. Peanutbutter is a Labrador Retriever, and is thus incredibly nice (if a bit dim and has his moments of being InnocentlyInsensitive), [[FunPersonified light hearted]] and he has a [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny very short attention span]]. He also ''hates'' {{UsefulNotes/Tennis}} because he doesn't understand why no one ''catches'' the ball.
* DogsAreDumb: He has the simple-minded, excitable personality you'd expect from a dog.
* DogsLoveFireHydrants: He's got a fire hydrant fountain in front of his home.
* DumbBlond: He's a yellow lab. And while not completely stupid, he is ''very'' naïve.
* {{Foil}}: To Bojack, since they both had a hit sitcom in the 80s, but while Bojack is bitter, antisocial, and depressed, Mr. Peanuttbutter is friendly, positive, and upbeat. However, the two are actually NotSoDifferent. See AntiNihilist and BitchInSheepsClothing above.
* FriendlyEnemy: To Bojack, though the friendly part of this trope often overpowers the enemy aspect. Hell, he actually wishes they could be friends. By season 4, they could be considered VitriolicBestBuds in-training.
* FullNameBasis: "Mister" is his first name and "Peanutbutter" is his last name. Everyone refers to him as "Mr. Peanutbutter", except for the children of his brother, who call him "Uncle Mister," and Pickles, the only character to consistently call him by his first name alone.
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* HeroicDog: He's saved Todd from a burning roller coaster, saved Bojack from drowning, saved an entire underwater city with spaghetti strainers and was one of the first people to [[spoiler:pull a painkiller high Bojack off of Gina when he strangled her.]]
* IgnoredEpiphany: In "Mr. Peanutbutter's Boos," Diane has to spell out for Mr. Peanutbutter that his marriages keep failing because he's [[ManChild mentally still]] and keeps dating women only in their twenties, who inevitably mentally outgrow him. She tells him he can start dating older women, or grow up himself. He does consider the latter, but ultimately opts to keep having frivolous fun. [[spoiler:At the end of Season 5, Mr. Peanutbutter again avoids dealing with relationship problems in a healthy and mature manner, instead cheating on Pickles with Diane and then just proposing to Pickles to gloss over their relationship flaws (like he did with Diane in Season 1), showing he's making the same mistakes that led to his three previous failed marriages.]]
* InsecureLoveInterest: For all of his happy-go-lucky, devil-may-care antics and the way he takes even the most distressing things at face value, he's revealed to be very afraid of losing Diane either by death or her leaving him.
* ItRunsInTheFamily: His brother and grandmother share his tendency of hiding their insecurities and sadness behind ever-happy facades.
* IJustWantToBeLoved: {{Deconstructed|Trope}}. Mr. Peanutbutter's goal is to simply be loved by who he is. Unfortunately, he believes everybody should accept him as he is even after seeing how BeYourself doesn't work when it screws up and messes with other people. He also has a tenuous grasp about love: namely, that it involves physical affection rather than mutual understanding.
* MailmanVsDog: Mr. Peanutbutter has a problem with chasing the mail truck with his car. In "Horse Majeure" he gets pulled over for doing this and later loses his license. Even just mentioning the post office makes him growl.
-->'''Diane:''' Were you chasing the mailman again?\\
'''Mr. Peanutbutter:''' Yes, why? Did you see him out there too!? [[UnstoppableMailman Nothing stops them! Not rain, not sleet, not dead of night, not gates!]]
* ManChild: His solution to anything depressing in his life is to seek out simple pleasures. Once when he threw a surprise birthday party for Diane, he bought or rented ''many'' expensive and unnecessary things, including a ''ball pit''. Addressed in "Mr. Peanutbutter's Boos" when Diane explains that Mr. Peanutbutter is mentally still in his 20s, so he keeps dating women who inevitably outgrow him.
* MortalityPhobia: Peanutbutter is deeply afraid of his own inevitable death, and seeks out whatever he can do in life to distract himself and (pretend to) be happy.
* NeverMyFault: A cheerful and carefree version, but still. Another wacky business venture fell apart? Who could have seen that coming! Ah well, can't argue with Lady Fate. Guess it just wasn't meant to be. Now time to wander aimlessly till the next big opportunity presents itself and throw extravagant amounts of money at it till it too fails.
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[[folder:O-Y]]
* OlderThanHeLooks: It's easy to forget that Mr. Peanutbutter is supposed to be in his 50s by now just like Bojack.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Anytime Mr. Peanutbutter drops his usual [[{{Keet}} energetic]], [[BigFriendlyDog friendly]] nature means that something incredibly serious has happened to make him more serious than usual.
* PerpetualSmiler: It's hard to see Mr. Peanutbutter with a frown on his face. This is shown to be both a [[ThePollyanna good]] and [[StepfordSmiler bad]] thing.
* PoorMansSubstitute: Part of the animosity Bojack has for him is that Mr. Peanutbutter tended to mirror Bojack's career and choice of projects, particularly how "Mr. Peanutbutter's House" was an even more vapid knockoff of "Horsin' Around."
* RunningGag: Often cuts off [=BoJack=] while greeting him at some social function to enthusiastically greet Erica, [[TheGhost who's always standing somewhere off-screen]].
-->'''Mr. Peanutbutter:''' Erica! How are you? [insert some related nicety]
* SerialSpouse: His marriage to Diane in the first season was his third marriage. His exes show up on occasion, indicating they did not end amicably. By the fifth season it is examined further, in that he had something of a ManChild personality and he tended to marry young women, he remained perpetually young and energetic while they ended up maturing and growing too old for that behavior.
* StepfordSmiler: It's heavily implied that his perpetually optimistic and cheerful attitude is merely a mask to cover up his nihilistic worries about life ultimately being cruel and meaningless.
* UndyingLoyalty: By the end of the show, [[spoiler: Peanutbutter's the only person who commits to [[HeterosexualLifePartners stick by Bojack to the very end,]] despite all he has done.]]
* UptownGuy: Mr. Peanutbutter, a rich TV star and celebrity, dates and later marries Diane, a still up-and-coming author who came from a poor family. When they first met, Mr. Peanutbutter was already a rich celebrity going to extravagant parties while Diane was working at a cafe and working as a waitress at those extravagant parties to make ends meet.
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'''Beware of rampant spoilers of season 1 and 2! While the majority of spoilers involving plot points of the current season will be hidden, this is not consistent depending on the situation, with just the presence of certain tropes being spoilers. Enter the folders at your OWN RISK.'''
!This article is for Creator/{{Netflix}}'s first original animated series ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'''s character.
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[[quoteright:180:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pb.png]]
[[caption-width-right:180:''"[[CrapsackWorld The universe is a cruel, uncaring void]]. [[TheAntiNihilist The key to being happy isn't a search for meaning]]. [[SubvertedTrope It's to just keep yourself busy]] with unimportant nonsense and [[StrawNihilist eventually, you'll be dead]]."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/PaulFTompkins
->'''Debut:''' [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS1E01TheBojackHorsemanStoryChapterOne "The [=BoJack=] Horseman Story: Chapter One"]]
->''"Mr. Peanutbutter and [=BoJack=] Horseman in the same room! What is this, a crossover episode?"''
A native of the Labrador Peninsula in Canada, Mister Peanutbutter was raised in the countryside as the runt of the litter with his parents and grandma, free of the world's cold touch. Submerged in a saccharine and comfortable sugar bowl where the motto was "Nothing bad ever happens in the Labrador Peninsula", PB grew with the expectation the world was just as light. During a trip to Hollywood, he wandered off against his wife Katrina's objections and stumbled onto the set of ''Untitled Horsin' Around Ripoff''. With his charisma and natural ability, Mister gained the public's favor, taking the role from Vincent D'Onofrio. Money and second rate fame ensued with the newcomer PB helming what henceforth would be called ''JustForFun/MrPeanutbuttersHouse''.
Growing at the shade of the much more famous [[Characters/BojackHorsemanTheHorsemanHimself [=BoJack=] Horseman]], PB quickly took to being famous, even if he preferred to be a good sport about it, contrasting BJ himself whom he gradually started idolizing and view as a peer in the industry, admiring his work even if he constantly failed to get most of the scorn thrown his way by the horse.
To hear Mr. Peanutbutter himself list these tropes, see [[SelfDemonstrating/MrPeanutbutter here]].
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* AesopAmnesia: PlayedForLaughs at first, PlayedForDrama later. Mr. Peanutbutter is somewhat aware of his shortcomings as a dog (he admits he's not the one who usually gets bored in a relationship) and a husband (he tries, but can't remember to make compromises for his wives). And it's not like he can't see he's running out of time to change. But he just can't get himself to admit it, let alone act to fix it. He's way too reckless, distracted, and reliant on good vibes to begin confronting his dark side. As he is, he's always been comfortable that way and expects everyone to be, even when people get tired or frustrated with him. Better to blame it on "not being able to change" or to move on quickly to the next thing, regardless of whether that's the healthiest thing to do.
* AllLovingHero: {{Deconstructed|Trope}}. He is fun-loving, friendly and has a positive and cheerful attitude. In this case, people who interact with him on a daily basis believe him to be a moron, or just get irritated with his behavior. He's also shown to mostly be nice because he wants other people to like him, even if it causes them no end of grief or frustration. (Like his grand romantic gestures for Diane making her uncomfortable, or his run for governor of California causing a huge unnecessary mess.)
* AnimalStereotypes:
** Has a short attention span, gets excited when the doorbell's rung, and is very energetic and playful. He also ''hates'' the post office and mail carriers.
** He also fits the "big friendly dog" stereotype; he's always excited to meet new people and tries to be FunPersonified. The keyword here being "tries." Mr. Peanutbutter's problem is that he can't seem to realize how grating this attitude can get. In his mind, everyone should be like him, because that's the only way to properly live.
* TheAntiNihilist: In his own words, life is largely miserable, and the best way to deal with that is to distract yourself from it as often as you can, enjoying every moment until you die. However, it's gradually {{subverted|Trope}} the more and more the series goes on; it becomes clear that for PB, this doesn't mean "accept your mortality and insignificance, and move on with the things that really matter." Rather, it means "deny anything that's wrong and focus on the exciting parts", which is just a more hedonistic form of nihilism itself.
* AscendedFanboy: As a child, he was a big fan of Hank Hippopopalous, getting his album ''The Hank Hippopopalous Hip-Hop Hypothesis'' and taking a picture of him and [=BoJack=] with good ol' Uncle Hankie at the Emmys. In 2015, Mr. Peanutbutter becomes Hank's co-worker when ''HSAC:WDTKDTKTLFO!'' and ''I Think You Can Dance'' are put back-to-back in MBN.
* BerserkButton:
** As a dog, he hates mailmen.
** He hates watching tennis because no one catches the ball.
* BigFriendlyDog: He's the friendliest and most cheerful character of the series.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Comes off as very friendly early on. Once [=BoJack=] starts competing with him for Diane, his douchier side begins to emerge. This is hinted at in the first episode, when [=BoJack=] actually responds honestly to Mr. Peanutbutter's concerned-sounding "How are you?", cutting [=BoJack=] short with "Living the dream, huh?" and wandering off.
* BookEnds: Diane & Mr Peanutbutter's engagement[=/=]marriage begins & ends with Mr Peanutbutter making a grand romantic gesture that Diane ultimately doesn't feel comfortable accepting. Immediately after Mr Peanutbutter asks Diane to marry him with "just the two of them, no cameras" there is an immediate surprise party and a scene where Diane calls Bojack and is clearly not happy. It ends when Mr Peanutbutter recreates a childhood fantasy of Diane's without realising why it wasn't something he should have done and why Diane can't appreciate it.
* BornLucky: Mr. Peanutbutter gets everything he wants with little to no effort. He didn't even had to work his way up, he starred on a CaptainErsatz copy of ''JustForFun/HorsinAround'' (which season 4 reveals he got by just happening to wander onto the set of "Untitled Horsin' Around Knockoff" and unintentionally charming the audience) and when in need of a job, he ends up with two options, one of which he never noticed!
* {{Catchphrase}}: "What is this, a {{Crossover}} episode?"
* CharacterTics: As Princess Carolyn points out in "Let's Find Out", Mr. Peanutbutter's ears flop up when he is excited.
* ChickMagnet: He was married twice to Katrina (first) and Jessica Biel (second) before divorcing them for different reasons. Sometime after his second divorce, he began a relationship with Diane that led to marriage. And in "Higher Love", while he worked as a lady shoes salesman, ''many'' women were excited to see him. [[spoiler: His current girlfriend becomes attracted to him nearly instantly after they first meet [[CaptainOblivious while having dinner with Diane, his now ex-wife]].]]
* TheDanza: An InUniverse example; his TV character was also named Mr. Peanutbutter.
* DogStereotype: Mr. Peanutbutter is a Labrador Retriever, and is thus incredibly nice (if a bit dim and has his moments of being InnocentlyInsensitive), [[FunPersonified light hearted]] and he has a [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny very short attention span]]. He also ''hates'' {{UsefulNotes/Tennis}} because he doesn't understand why no one ''catches'' the ball.
* DogsAreDumb: He has the simple-minded, excitable personality you'd expect from a dog.
* DogsLoveFireHydrants: He's got a fire hydrant fountain in front of his home.
* DumbBlond: He's a yellow lab. And while not completely stupid, he is ''very'' naïve.
* {{Foil}}: To Bojack, since they both had a hit sitcom in the 80s, but while Bojack is bitter, antisocial, and depressed, Mr. Peanuttbutter is friendly, positive, and upbeat. However, the two are actually NotSoDifferent. See AntiNihilist and BitchInSheepsClothing above.
* FriendlyEnemy: To Bojack, though the friendly part of this trope often overpowers the enemy aspect. Hell, he actually wishes they could be friends. By season 4, they could be considered VitriolicBestBuds in-training.
* FullNameBasis: "Mister" is his first name and "Peanutbutter" is his last name. Everyone refers to him as "Mr. Peanutbutter", except for the children of his brother, who call him "Uncle Mister," and Pickles, the only character to consistently call him by his first name alone.
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* HeroicDog: He's saved Todd from a burning roller coaster, saved Bojack from drowning, saved an entire underwater city with spaghetti strainers and was one of the first people to [[spoiler:pull a painkiller high Bojack off of Gina when he strangled her.]]
* IgnoredEpiphany: In "Mr. Peanutbutter's Boos," Diane has to spell out for Mr. Peanutbutter that his marriages keep failing because he's [[ManChild mentally still]] and keeps dating women only in their twenties, who inevitably mentally outgrow him. She tells him he can start dating older women, or grow up himself. He does consider the latter, but ultimately opts to keep having frivolous fun. [[spoiler:At the end of Season 5, Mr. Peanutbutter again avoids dealing with relationship problems in a healthy and mature manner, instead cheating on Pickles with Diane and then just proposing to Pickles to gloss over their relationship flaws (like he did with Diane in Season 1), showing he's making the same mistakes that led to his three previous failed marriages.]]
* InsecureLoveInterest: For all of his happy-go-lucky, devil-may-care antics and the way he takes even the most distressing things at face value, he's revealed to be very afraid of losing Diane either by death or her leaving him.
* ItRunsInTheFamily: His brother and grandmother share his tendency of hiding their insecurities and sadness behind ever-happy facades.
* IJustWantToBeLoved: {{Deconstructed|Trope}}. Mr. Peanutbutter's goal is to simply be loved by who he is. Unfortunately, he believes everybody should accept him as he is even after seeing how BeYourself doesn't work when it screws up and messes with other people. He also has a tenuous grasp about love: namely, that it involves physical affection rather than mutual understanding.
* MailmanVsDog: Mr. Peanutbutter has a problem with chasing the mail truck with his car. In "Horse Majeure" he gets pulled over for doing this and later loses his license. Even just mentioning the post office makes him growl.
-->'''Diane:''' Were you chasing the mailman again?\\
'''Mr. Peanutbutter:''' Yes, why? Did you see him out there too!? [[UnstoppableMailman Nothing stops them! Not rain, not sleet, not dead of night, not gates!]]
* ManChild: His solution to anything depressing in his life is to seek out simple pleasures. Once when he threw a surprise birthday party for Diane, he bought or rented ''many'' expensive and unnecessary things, including a ''ball pit''. Addressed in "Mr. Peanutbutter's Boos" when Diane explains that Mr. Peanutbutter is mentally still in his 20s, so he keeps dating women who inevitably outgrow him.
* MortalityPhobia: Peanutbutter is deeply afraid of his own inevitable death, and seeks out whatever he can do in life to distract himself and (pretend to) be happy.
* NeverMyFault: A cheerful and carefree version, but still. Another wacky business venture fell apart? Who could have seen that coming! Ah well, can't argue with Lady Fate. Guess it just wasn't meant to be. Now time to wander aimlessly till the next big opportunity presents itself and throw extravagant amounts of money at it till it too fails.
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* OlderThanHeLooks: It's easy to forget that Mr. Peanutbutter is supposed to be in his 50s by now just like Bojack.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Anytime Mr. Peanutbutter drops his usual [[{{Keet}} energetic]], [[BigFriendlyDog friendly]] nature means that something incredibly serious has happened to make him more serious than usual.
* PerpetualSmiler: It's hard to see Mr. Peanutbutter with a frown on his face. This is shown to be both a [[ThePollyanna good]] and [[StepfordSmiler bad]] thing.
* PoorMansSubstitute: Part of the animosity Bojack has for him is that Mr. Peanutbutter tended to mirror Bojack's career and choice of projects, particularly how "Mr. Peanutbutter's House" was an even more vapid knockoff of "Horsin' Around."
* RunningGag: Often cuts off [=BoJack=] while greeting him at some social function to enthusiastically greet Erica, [[TheGhost who's always standing somewhere off-screen]].
-->'''Mr. Peanutbutter:''' Erica! How are you? [insert some related nicety]
* SerialSpouse: His marriage to Diane in the first season was his third marriage. His exes show up on occasion, indicating they did not end amicably. By the fifth season it is examined further, in that he had something of a ManChild personality and he tended to marry young women, he remained perpetually young and energetic while they ended up maturing and growing too old for that behavior.
* StepfordSmiler: It's heavily implied that his perpetually optimistic and cheerful attitude is merely a mask to cover up his nihilistic worries about life ultimately being cruel and meaningless.
* UndyingLoyalty: By the end of the show, [[spoiler: Peanutbutter's the only person who commits to [[HeterosexualLifePartners stick by Bojack to the very end,]] despite all he has done.]]
* UptownGuy: Mr. Peanutbutter, a rich TV star and celebrity, dates and later marries Diane, a still up-and-coming author who came from a poor family. When they first met, Mr. Peanutbutter was already a rich celebrity going to extravagant parties while Diane was working at a cafe and working as a waitress at those extravagant parties to make ends meet.
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