After the Biscuits Braxby interview exposes all his misdeeds, BoJack deals with the fallout of becoming the most hated man in Hollywoo and receives help from a completely unexpected source.
Tropes:
- 555: Vance Waggoner's phone number is 555-555-8008Vance: Because sometimes life turns you upside down, and when you're upside down, my number is "boobssssss".
- As Herself: Samantha Bee, who is, naturally, a bumblebee, hosting T-Bee-S's Full Frontal with Samantha Bee.
- The Bus Came Back: Disgraced actor Vance Waggoner volunteers to be BoJack's new AA sponsor after his reputation is also thrown down the shitter and not even the people in AA want anything to do with him.
- Cat Up a Tree: In keeping with the Furry Reminder instances in this world, this trope happens in this episode, outside the building of the AA meeting. The fire department rescues a cat woman from a tree, and she apologizes and says this happens often.
- "Dear John" Letter: A non-romantic version when Hollyhock sends BoJack a letter to let him know she's severing all ties with him before she changes her phone number so he can't contact her anymore. The audience never finds out what it exactly said, but BoJack is devastated by the content.
- Death Glare: BoJack is on the receiving end of this by pretty much everybody, most notably a driving man at the beginning of the episode who gives him one hell of a scowl when he notices him.
- Double Take: A woman who's driving her car at the beginning of the episode does this when she notices she's driving by BoJack, and then gives him the middle finger. In addition, a happy baby of hers in the backseat does this trope too and cries upon seeing the "scary horse" that he has presumably seen in magazines.
- Downer Beginning: The episode begins three months after the fallout from BoJack’s horrible past misdeeds becoming public. Hollyhock is refusing to respond or return BoJack's phone calls, BoJack lost $5,000,000 in a lawsuit that Sarah Lynn's family forced him through for her death, he lost his teaching position at Wesleyan, and he's an utter pariah in Hollywoo and most likely the rest of the world. It's so bad that even the people at Alcoholics Anonymous hate him.
- Downer Ending: This episode ends with Hollyhock, BoJack's only blood family member alive, and the only loving family relationship he’s ever had, cutting BoJack out of her life, and him relapsing back into alcoholism.
- Everyone Has Standards: Alcoholics Anonymous is willing to help anyone in need of dealing with their alcohol and drug addiction that's at risk of ruining their lives. They are now aware that BoJack's addiction has ruined not only his life but the lives of his closest friends over the years, including Sarah Lynn's, and has yet to change for the better. They didn't (or can't) outright kick him out of the group, but the interview from last episode and the fact that he's more concerned about the financial consequences than his personal ones makes it very clear they want nothing more to do with him if he continues to not take his matter seriously.
- Foreshadowing: Whenever BoJack tries to call Hollyhock, it always goes to voicemail after the first ring, implying that she’s hitting the decline button whenever she sees BoJack’s number on her phone. This indicates that Hollyhock is cutting BoJack out of her life long before he actually reads the letter.
- Get Out!: Todd refuses to let BoJack into his party as he doesn't want to risk anything bad happening during it, especially because he's expecting the mother he hasn't seen in ten years to show up.
- Hated by All: Played With. While BoJack becomes the most hated person in all Hollywoo, and with good reason, there are still a few people who support him, such as Mr. Peanutbutter, Vance and an anti-feminist/incel college student. Todd clarifies that he is still willing to put up with BoJack, but can't while his formerly Missing Mom is finally coming to visit him.
- Hero with Bad Publicity: Played with, as the person in question is by no means a hero. BoJack becomes one of the most hated men in all of Hollywoo, if not the world, due to the second interview exposing all of his misdeeds, especially his Murder by Inaction of Sarah Lynn. The only people who accept him are Mr. Peanutbutter, who likes everybody, Vance Waggoner, a disgraced misogynist and bigot, and a group of incel college students.
- MacGuffin: The letter from Hollyhock to BoJack.
- Periphery Demographic: In-Universe, Sonny, Guy's older teenage son, reads the manuscript of Ivy Tran: Food Court Detective and ends up liking it. He even advises Diane on how to make the setting more authentically Chicagoan.
- Produce Pelting: A man who notices BoJack at a drive-thru throws his soda at him, which hits the windshield.
- Rewatch Bonus:
- Right before Todd enters with a herd of toddlers, Judah is seen writing the song he sings to Princess Carolyn in the next episode.
- The mother and daughter that walk away from BoJack in the diner are the same mother and baby (now a 6-7 year old girl) BoJack pushed over in the first episode.
- Riches to Rags: BoJack loses all his money and is forced to sell his mansion after paying 5 million dollars in damages to Sarah Lynn's parents over her death and paying 100 million dollars to Xerox after they sued him for giving bad publicity for the company by mentioning the word Xerox in his first interview. He ends up moving in with Mr. Peanutbutter.
- Riddle for the Ages: What did Hollyhock write to BoJack in her letter? Not even the series finale reveals it.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Hollyhock also washes her hands off of BoJack, and out of her life, and gives him a sibling equivalent of a "Dear John" Letter, just to hammer that point home.
- Shout-Out: While talking to Princess Carolyn, Mister Peanutbutter paraphrases the Pagliacci joke made famous by Watchmen's Rorschach, but with the "Sad Dog" meme replacing Pagliacci. "But doctor, I am Sad Dog!"
- Take That!: There's one to large company lawsuits, as the damage for Sarah Lynn's death costs BoJack 5 million dollars, but the Xerox company sues twenty times more simply because in BoJack's interview, he mentioned them.Gaz: When you frame it that way, it almost seems comical.
- That Came Out Wrong: Vance Waggoner stands outside his daughter's dorm room screaming about how she "cucked" him. Hopefully he's saying this without knowing what "cucked" means.
- Time Skip: This episode takes place three months after BoJack's misdeeds are exposed to the public and just after he finished up the lawsuit Sarah Lynn's family served him for her death.
- Toxic Friend Influence: Immediately after befriending BoJack, Vance guilt-trips him into embarrassing himself.
- Tsundere: Sonny is a non-romantic example towards Diane; while he denies that he likes Diane or her Ivy Tran book, it's still clear that he's warming up to both of them.
- Undying Loyalty: Mr. Peanutbutter is the only one of the main cast who is still on friendly terms with BoJack.
- The Unreveal: The audience never learns what exactly Hollyhock's letter to BoJack said. We only see BoJack's reaction to the letter's contents, and that it utterly devastates him emotionally.
- Visual Pun: A worm student gets his head stuck in a bottle while trying to drink it to the last drop, a reference to the Mezcal worm
. - Wham Line: What is the first clue that Hollyhock permanently severed ties with BoJack? When BoJack attempted to call Hollyhock's phone number one last time at the end of the episode.Automated Voice Message: The number you are trying to reach has been disconnected. Goodbye.
- Wrap It Up: The show was only renewed for an additional four episodes after Season 6, which had already been completed. This and the following 3 episodes are a truncated coda that has to narrowly focus on BoJack as the main character.
- Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: BoJack's relief at meeting a college student who doesn't see him as a monster is short-lived when he realizes the student sees him as a poster-boy for anti-feminism and inceldom.
