After feeling uncomfortable with returning to his old home in Hollywoo, BoJack visits his friends and coworkers to make amends.
Tropes:
- Brick Joke: In college, Diane regularly watched Dawson's Creek and wrote rants about it on Livejournal and the main reason she refused to take her antidepressants at the time was that they made her "calm and boring" and she suddenly didn't care about the show sucking (and they made her retain water). At the end of the episode, when she finally starts taking them again, she greets Guy at the airport, looking much chubbier and with a huge smile on her face while holding a sign that says "Dawsons Creek was always bad."
- Covering Up Your Gray: This episode reveals that BoJack had been dyeing his hair for the entirety of the series, and had already started going grey twenty years ago. As part of his Character Development, he finally decides to keep his hair grey in an Important Haircut.
- The Glomp: When BoJack exits up at the airport in Connecticut, Hollyhock happily greets him with a tackle hug.
- He's Back!: Judah is once again working at Vim - but as an executive instead of an assistant - once Princess Carolyn decided to take BoJack's advice to heart.
- Hope Spot: Being the penultimate episode of Season 6, Part 1, it ends on a fairly high note;
- BoJack has successfully managed to make amends with his actual close circle of friends and seemingly start on the path of learning to forgive himself. Of course, this being the show it is, the following one is where everything starts to unravel.
- Important Haircut: After making peace with Sharona, his former Horsin' Around hairdresser, whom he'd mistreated in the past, she gives BoJack one last haircut for old time's sake. In doing so, it's revealed that he'd been dyeing his hair the entire show and it'd begun greying years ago (alcoholism and depression can speed up visible aging, and he is in his mid fifties) and the end result is something more age-appropriate.
- Loss of Identity: Under all the lame excuses Diane gives for not taking antidepressants, it quickly becomes clear that what she really fears is losing herself. She's invested so much of her identity in being a curmudgeonly crusader (whether complaining about Dawsons Creek episodes on Livejournal, or being a Soapbox Sadie) that she's afraid that if the antidepressants take away her depression then she'll be "nothing" underneath.
- Reformed, but Not Tamed: One of the reasons Diane gives for not taking antidepressants was that in college she no longer cared that Dawson's Creek episodes were bad, implying that she feared a Loss of Identity (since she invested a lot of her sense of self into curmudgeonly complaining). When Guy returns from his trip to find Diane visibly happier on her antidepressant medication, she holds up a sign that says "Dawson's Creek was always bad," implying that she's relieved that she can still gain some perverse pleasure in nit-picking things that annoy her.
- Seasonal Rot: Discussed in-universe. Diane claims that she knew her antidepressants were having a significant effect on her in college when she stopped going on Livejournal to complain about the newest episodes of Dawson's Creek. Guy disagrees that it was ever good enough to say it got bad.
- Significant Wardrobe Shift: BoJack and Diane both go through these by the end of the episode, representing them moving on from their respective pasts and hang ups, and trying to better themselves.
- After his series long outfit is ruined on the plane to Connecticut, BoJack gets a whole new outfit, with his red sneakers being the only thing left. Right before this he also had his hair cut into a shorter grey style
- Also, after Diane starts taking anti-depressants, gone is her signature green and orange jacket, and replaced by a red and blue one (which are actually complimentary colors to green and orange respectively), and she has gained some significant weight, as it is a common side effect. Her post-divorce haircut has grown out, and her new jacket is also more suitable for the colder climate, whereas when she first arrived to Chicago she was always cold with her original outfit.
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome:
- When she starts her medication, Diane gains a considerable amount of weight, which is a common side-effect of antidepressants. She knew about this ahead of time, as it was one of the side effects she dealt with when she briefly went on Prozac in college, and it was one of the reasons she didn't want to go on them.
- BoJack has been an out-of-shape alcoholic and drug abuser in his fifties for the entirety of the show. So it's realistic that he's been dyeing his hair.
- Skewed Priorities: If Diane had taken her antidepressants in college like she was told to, who else would have gone on Livejournal and said that Dawson's Creek wasn't good any more? Downplayed as it quickly becomes apparent that that was just the surface excuse she gave: the real reason she didn't take it was she feared a Loss of Identity. (Since she invested so much of her identity into being a grump that she feared that losing this meant there is "nothing" underneath.)
- Take That!: When she welcomes Guy home at the airport, Diane is holding a sign that reads "Dawson's Creek was always bad".
- Weight Woe: Zig-zagged. One of the reasons Diane stopped taking her antidepressants is because they made her gain weight, albeit the biggest reason she didn’t want to go on them was her fearing she would lose herself and become "nothing". Later, when she meets Guy at the airport, she's significantly chubbier but has a huge smile on her face, implying that she started taking them again and can live with the change in appearance if it means it helps her depression. She, nor anyone else, never even negatively mentions her weight at all in the remainder of the series.
