The person that cut the brake line to Herb's car, causing his death, is Angela Diaz, the network exec that had him fired in the first place.
The Hank harassing his assistants storyline will come back in Season 3
Hank tries harassing Carolyn and when nobody (except Diane) believes her, she ends up forming an unlikely alliance with Vanessa Gecko, who was also harassed by Hank.- And it will lead to an Hard Truth Aesop of "Nobody will want to listen to you kvetch about real problems unless you're famous or connected with someone who is."
- Jossed for Season 3; Hank never even gets mentioned. It's still a possibility for later seasons.
- Jossed for later seasons as well, even though the themes of his episode are even more prominent from Season 5 onwards.
- Jossed for Season 3; Hank never even gets mentioned. It's still a possibility for later seasons.
BoJack's other TV show was a massive critical and commercial flop
- It was a show so bad that BoJack never talks about it, something along the lines of The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer.
- Confirmed!
Charlie Witherspoon will become the new head of Vigor
His dad will have either died from his stroke or won't be in any shape to run Vigor. Given the enormously misplaced confidence he has in Charlie, so it'd be only natural for him to name or have named Charlie the head of the agency.Charlie would be less competent at his new job than ever and run Vigor into the ground, which would be a boon to Princess Carolyn and her new agency.
- Partially confirmed. Charlie does run Vigor into the ground, but it doesn't actually help Princess Carolyn any.
Charlotte's daughter Penny will run away to L.A. to be with BoJack to get back at her mother
After the ending of "Escape From L.A.", where Charlotte tells BoJack she never wants to see him again, one can imagine that Penny is once again upset at being treated like a kid, so Charlotte will try and control her more, leading to Penny rebelling by running away. Forcing Charlotte to rely on BoJack to keep Penny out of trouble until she arrives.- If they do try that, it'd probably be a lot more cynical and depressing than that, given how screwed up their dynamic went even before Charlotte caught them, regardless if BoJack was really about to sleep with her or not. Charlotte will go full Mama Bear and say Penny go anywhere else while she comes from her, or even preemptively call the police on BoJack.
- By all accounts, season 3 looks like it will be mostly set in New York, where BoJack will perform in Jill Pill's play. There could be an episode where Penny shows up at his house in LA, unaware that he's gone.
- Jossed. Penny's in college in Ohio and has really bad memories of that particular moment.
The show is set in the same universe as Cats Don't Dance.
BoJack was not trying to have sex with Penny.
Though he did say "go to bed" and leave the door to his bedroom open, we do not see him really try anything with Penny when Charlotte catches them. For all we know, she could have misunderstood and tried to force herself onto him.- Or, more sympathetically, was just talking to him. He's seen partially undressed, but for all we know, he could have just been taking off parts of the heavy suit to get comfortable. And even if she wasn't forcing herself on him, she was probably still egging him on.
- There are a few other clues hinting at the exact nature of the situation. Charlotte (and, by extension, the audience) doesn't know something's going on in BoJack's boat until she hears a crash and Penny whispering "Shhhhh, quiet, quiet, quiet!" When she opens the door on them, there's a fallen-down lamp by the door. It's possible Penny followed BoJack in, knocked over the lamp when she shut the door and shushed him when he turned around to tell her to get out. Also, Penny's knee-jerk reaction is "We didn't do anything!" which is a typical response a child or teen might give if they get caught doing something bad before actually going through with it. BoJack, meanwhile looks completely unenthused, slumped on the bed, arms at his sides and eyes shut, when Penny appears to be undressing him, which could mean that he was resisting her (or, more sadly, he figured "Why bother? Shitty things are just going to happen no matter how hard I try"). When he starts to say "I'm so sorry-" before Charlotte cuts him off, he could have been saying "I'm sorry you say what you thought you saw." As for the open door, it's possible he was just too tired to close it at the moment, or even his way of saying "Whatever happens happens," but it's clear Penny had much more of hand in the situation.
- Already Jossed. Word of God says that he did intend to sleep with her, but only because he still has the mental age of a teenager.
- ...and then complicated even more when BoJack tells the Manatee Fare journalist that he was on the fence about it: he wanted to, but knew he shouldn't. By all accounts, he didn't actually do anything, but he did have conflicting opinions about it. However, he tells the people at Sarah Lynn's 12 step group that he did plan on doing it, but he was also completely strung out on illicit substances, so it's hard to say if this was him being an attention whore by exaggerating or no longer having a filter due to intoxication. When Penny sees him, she says she "didn't know what she was doing" when it happened, which could either mean that she was too naïve to turn down his advances or was too young to know any better than to come on to an older man.
- Already Jossed. Word of God says that he did intend to sleep with her, but only because he still has the mental age of a teenager.
- Bottom line: we're probably never going to get a straight answer.
Maddie died from alcohol poisoning.
Her offscreen death would have great impact on the characters in Season 3.- I will be shocked if this doesn't come back into play somehow - NOTHING in this show goes to waste. I foresee BoJack getting his life into some semblance of order, and then WHAM, turns out Pete Repeat couldn't keep his mouth shut. BoJack will be charged with the death of a minor, and Penny will testify against him at Charlotte's behest.
- It never gets addressed in Season 3.
- It is jossed in Season 6. She just had her stomach pumped but ended up okay. Though the story does complicate things for BoJack when certain people learn about it...
When Season 3 airs, there will be an extra "I" in the header of the "Episodes" tab on the show's Netflix page.
When Season 2 was released, the "D" was missing as a reference to BoJack stealing the "D" from the Hollywood sign. Adding an extra "I" in "Episodes" would reference Walt Disney trademarking "Diisneyland" and the "Squiirt" machine from Season 2.- Sadly jossed.
In Season 3, Princess Carolyn and/or her new agency will be haunted by Herb Kazzaz
Since her assistant broke the urn containing his ashes, his ghost will be set free and haunt Princess Carolyn, and only she can see and hear him.- Jossed.
Horsin' Around will be brought back by the in-universe equivalent of netflix.
And there will be plenty of Biting-the-Hand Humor.- Somewhat confirmed. A story-line in Season 3 revolves around Bradley creating a Horsin' Around spinoff where his character, Ethan adopts three orphan horses. While there's no mention of it airing on a streaming service like Netflix, it's definitely a shout out to Netflix's Fuller House spinoff.
- For the other half of the theory, the end of Season 4 brings us a streaming service in "what-time-is-it-right-now.com" which will air Bojack's new show Philbert, though it seems to be more of a jab at websites starting streaming services trying to cash in on Netflix's popularity.
The series ends with BoJack drowning in his pool.
In the opening credits we see Diane and Mr. Peanutbutter looking into BoJack's pool, and they seem horrified. That's how it all ends. This would also mirror BoJack's projected ending for his book in "Downer Ending" where he lets himself sink into the water and drown at an old age.- Additionally, it could be a suicide, since we don't see him struggle at all when he falls in.
- So far, this did not happen. However, Season 3 has a reference to the intro when BoJack drives his Tesla into the pool. At this stage, it could either be a Callback or Foreshadowing
- There's a lot of potential foreshadowing for this:
- The pool painting in BoJack's home office (into which BoJack himself was even projected as the underwater figure in his drug-induced hallucinations).
- The recurring imagery of the tar pits in season 1 (into which BoJack sinks in the aforementioned hallucinatory sequence as well).
- His hero Secretariat's suicide by drowning, after a similarly tragic life trajectory.
- Confirmed, though he doesn't die. He gets strung out on alcohol and drugs and goes swimming, only to end up face-down in his pool, but he does manage to come back from the brink of death.
Beatrice will die in Season 3.
When we see her in Season 2, she's old and sickly and appears to be living in some kind of nursing home.- And it will have a profound effect on BoJack: he'll either be relieved that she's finally out of his life for good or he'll regret never earning her love.
- Presumably Jossed. She doesn't even show up in flashbacks this season, although it's possible she died offscreen.
- Almost definitely jossed; she's in the trailer for Season 4, so she must still be alive for however much longer.
- Her death finally happens in Season 5.
BoJack genuinely liked school and strove to academically succeed
In the series, we can see BoJack is far more intelligent than he lets on, considering episodes such as "BoJack Hates the Troops", "Hank After Dark" and "Let's Find Out" when he gives out well informed and welcomed insight on controversial topics and ancient history.In "Downer Ending", BoJack's very upset at the prospect of performing for his mother's bookclub friends and is essentially pushed into it by her. It seems like his whole profession of acting (and later misery) might have been all his mother's prodding (possibly as she wanted to be a star rather than "just" an heiress in a terrible marriage).
BoJack's refuge from the day to day misery of his life could've been in school where he'd get the positive adult enforcement he craved. It might have been where he could've went into a different direction in life if studied as hard as it looks like he did.
- Child!BoJack does write in his letter to Secretariat that he likes to go to school. While it could just be him proving himself to be a good boy, it does give this theory more credibility. However, this might just apply to his childhood, since he has a brief flashback in "Downer Ending" of being ostracized as a teenager at school.
BoJack will be the one to drop the Precision F-Strike in Season 3
Season 2 sets up that the word "fuck" or it's derivatives is used exactly once per season for when it's magnitude is necessary, in both cases when BoJack does something to permanently ruin a friendship. While he's always deserved it, he's still someone trying really hard to understand basic companionship, and is frustrated when someone says they know him when they really don't, so it's possible he'll get so upset with his failure to connect that he'll have no choice but to use the word to signify just how upset he is.- Or, in a subversion, he'll deliver a Cluster F-Bomb to the friend he's mad at in a fit of blind rage, only for the friend to respond with an extremely articulate Precision F-Strike a'la Planes, Trains and Automobiles.
- It's Todd who does the deed.
- BoJack finally drops it in Season 4.
There'll be a flashback to the ending of "Escape From L.A." in season 3
BoJack will flash back to when it happened and we'll find out whether or not he was really going to sleep with Penny.- There's no flashback, but we do learn what his intentions were: he was going to sleep with her.
BoJack will do Jill Pill's play and be great at it, but...
He'll either get fired or choke on opening night.- Jossed.
More positively, doing Jill Pill's play will help BoJack face other fears
Live performance is all about getting things right in one go, and after some stage fright, BoJack's self confidence will get a huge boost, convincing him to face greater fears of his head-on. Before inevitably screwing it all up, of course.- Jossed, he never does the play.
BoJack will misinterpret the advice he was given at the end of season 2
The other jogger tells BoJack "It gets easier, but you've gotta go it every day," referring to jogging, but of course meaning self-improvement in general. But because he's only interested in quick solutions, BoJack will treat whatever good habits he'll develop like an aphrodisiac, and if he goes one day without jogging/rehearsing/acting/doing anything to keep his mind occupied, it'll drive him nuts and he'll implode yet again.- Jossed. In fact, it never comes up.
Jill Pill
Will turn out to be a pill bug.- Jossed. She's a spider.
Bradley Hitler-Smith is related to Adolf Hitler
In this universe, Adolf's siblings didn't die young, grew up, and started their own families; keeping the Hitler name alive. Bradley's mother is a great-niece to Adolf and kept her name when she married Bradley's father. Sarah Lynn is really Mabel Pines
Her summer spent in Gravity Falls has left her traumatized and emotionally scarred, turning to drugs, alcohol and out of control lashing out against the world to forget the horrors of Bill Cypher. Maddy survives prom night, but her parents will come after BoJack after learning he gave her the alcohol.
- Her surviving prom night is confirmed but we never see her parents.
Diane's mother will die due to her brothers' stupidity.
Yet they'll blame her and begin to harass her in Hollywoo. Then they figure out about the people harassing Diane due to the trouble with Hank and, in a major Kickthe Dog moment, will give compromising and embarrassing information on Diane to her harassers and the hate spewing misogynist sites like Tit Puncher. This will be the last straw before someone on Diane's side does something...drastic. The entire show is a metaphor for depression.
One of the major themes of the show is how problems never simply "go away". The series, thus far, has been a single continuing narrative. None of the episodes just "wrap up", meaning tensions from previous episodes are still lingering with each successive one, much like how people with clinical depression are incapable of shaking off negative feelings even if they have every reason not to feel that way. This comes up in "Let's Find Out", when BoJack tells Mr. Peanutbutter that, in spite of having everything he could ever hope for, he can't find it in him to be genuinely happy, which is an exact symptom of depression. One episode will have Mr. Peanutbutter's parents, and...
...they'll be the nicest, most caring and supportive people in the world, in stark contrast to Diane and BoJack's emotionally abusive families, which would explain his dependence on positive thinking and might even piss Diane and BoJack off because of how non-empathetic it's made him.- Zig-zagged. We don't meet his parents, but Diane mentions that he grew up in "a loving family," and he seems to be very close with his brother.
Every episode of Season 3 will show the events of the show affecting BoJack's performance in Jill Pill's play
- Jossed, he never took the role.
Princess Carolyn will be the next person to disown BoJack
So far, we've seen two of BoJack's friends from his Horsin' Around days, Herb and Charlotte, wash their hands of him when he does something unforgivable, meaning Princess Carolyn is his only acquaintance from that era he has left, as he knew her when she was an intern for his previous agent. If she disowns him with the series' tradition of a tongue-lashing ending with a Precision F-Strike in season 3, it'll mean that that era of his life will finally be completely over.- It doesn't happen in season 3, but the possibility's still out there.
- It would appear that BoJack wants nothing to do with her any more after he fires her, so her disowning him would be pointless.
- Jossed, as they work together on one more project and manage to stay friends as much as they can. In fact, near the end of the series, when everybody else is abandoning BoJack, she's still so attached to him that he has to tell her it's okay to let him go.
The season 3 episode, "A Safe Space," will be about...
...BoJack completely cutting off everybody he knows in LA to completely focus on a new life in New York, at the risk of any bad vibes from his life in California ruining it.- Jossed in every way. No episode by that name appears in the season, and BoJack only visits New York briefly in the first episode while promoting the Secretariat movie.
Wanda will be in season 3
She and BoJack will either try to get back together or they'll be Just Friends.- Jossed, the first episode establishes that she's been headhunted by another company and has moved to Detroit.
The entire show is a Stealth Pun
It's about "why the horse has a long face." Will Arnett's ex wife Amy Poehler will guest star in one episode
Just for a little extra-uncomfortable Reality Subtext.- Jossed.
Todd and Mr. Peanutbutter are entrepreneurial geniuses.
While their businesses all fail, it's due to their inability to see anything through, continually becoming distracted and abandoning one half-started business for another. The actual ideas, however, seem very popular. People keep entering the "Halloween in January" store, seeming to have been longing for such a thing (and then they fall into the pit). Mr. Witherspoon said that a bagel-catching device would be a very useful thing to have, without even being aware of Todd and Mr. Peanutbutters' prototype. And Todd's Disneyland side project seemed to be bustling until it burned to the ground. The only one who derides their ideas is BoJack, who clearly is just too intelligent to appreciate their lowest-common-denominator appeal. Piggybacking off of an above WMG, Beatrice will die and BoJack will inherit the Sugarman Sugarcube empire.
Because... Rule of Cool?- She dies in Season 5, but as stated elsewhere, the Sugarman Sugarcube company belongs to a Japanese conglomerate as seen in a Freeze-Frame Bonus in "The Old Sugarman Place".
The World Trade Center still stands in the BoJack Horseman universe.
When Wanda suggested that they get David Copperfield to make it disappear, she was told that he wasn't as big a draw as he used to be. The fact that this was the first problem that came to mind suggests that there's still a WTC. Yes, it's established that 9/11 did happen, but maybe the Twin Towers survived or were rebuilt.- Perhaps that was just a joke, that they were more concerned about Copperfield's irrelevance than what happened to the World Trade Center. It's also worth noting that as of today in real life, the WTC has been rebuilt (albeit as a single skyscraper instead of the former twin towers).
