YMMV / Bojack Horseman S 3 E 06 Brrap Brrap Pew Pew

• Anvilicious: The episode sides only with Pro-choice as the correct choice, while pro-life is treated as being ignorant and sexist.
• Aluminum Christmas Trees: The third bow-tie-wearing panelist talks about how, if a pregnancy is genuinely unwanted, the body will end it naturally. This is a reference to the 2012 election season in the US in which abortion became a focal point after Todd Akin, the Republican candidate for one of Missouri's Senate seats, claimed that "If it’s a legitimate [forcible] rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down."
• Alternative Character Interpretation: Those who are not pro-choice will see Diane as Unintentionally Unsympathetic for aborting her pregnancy, especially since she had good conditions to raise one with her husband. As a result, many see her choice as self-centered due to wanting to avoid responsibility and making her not so different from Bojack who tries to runaway from his actions and how it could hurt others.
• Broken Base: The depiction of a topic as sensitive as abortion is obviously going to bring up some discourse, though, in this case, it was more about how it didn't even give the pro-life argument a chance: for the pro-choice side, many believe this was a nuanced and deep look at the abortion debate which raised important questions about women's rights over their own bodies. For the pro-life side, many people believe it was very one-sided with a lot of ugly caricatures of their movement, and strawmanned many of their usual talking points. Then there's a third party of very pro-choice people who like it specifically because it isn't subtle in the slightest about saying that pro-choice is good and pro-life is bad.
• Crosses the Line Twice: The titular rap song by Aquafina is this in spades. In-Universe, it helps young women actually getting abortions take it with a little levity.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Princess Caroline's frustration with Diane's decision (even though she ultimately respects it) is a lot more sobering after season 4's "Ruthie," when we learn that she's incapable of carrying a baby to term and has had multiple miscarriages, making her feel inferior to her inversely fertile mother. To her, Diane getting pregnant by accident and not wanting the resulting baby isn't just ungrateful, it's unfair!
• Informed Wrongness: Even though Diane was treated as being self-righteous for trying to rat out the false abortion campaign by Aquafina (and then later stopped when she listened to a young woman be inspired by Aquafina's song), she is still justified in being against Aquafina lying to the world about something she isn't going through and piggy backing on a sensitive topic. Not to mention the fallout of her campaign bites her in the butt when she actually gets pregnant and keeps the baby, which means she has to cover up the situation with even more lies.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
  • It was established in Season One that Diane comes from a large family of stereotypical dumb, rude urban rednecks who would likely hold pro-life sentiments. While Diane cut off all ties with her family and has never been shown to hold the same beliefs or interests as them, it would have been interesting for her to mention her upbringing at some point in the episode. It also could have added some more depth to the discussion if Diane's Vietnamese, middle-class mother was revealed to hold the same beliefs as the old white men on MSNBSea.
  • The fact that Diane and Mr.Peanutbutter agreed not to have any children was never brought up before or mentioned again, especially since both have a history of actually getting along with children, and the latter is considered has a Friend to All Children image. It would have been interesting if her above-mentioned bad relationship with her family is what drove her not to want children since she could have feared she could become like her parents. While Mr. Peanubutter's reasoning doesn't seem to have any obvious reason, one could say he could have agreed to make his wife happy. It could have been an interesting plot idea about how couples who choose not to have children in contrast with those who want children like Princess Caroline.
  • Whenever Bojack gets a woman pregnant, his immediate response is to give her money for an abortion and cut off all contact with her. It could have added more gray nuances to the episode which generalized the pro-life as inherently misogynistic, when men like Bojack could just as well use abortion to their own sexist advantages. The issue is not focused on until briefly in early season 4 and is forgotten after that, while not really dwelling on this sleazy behavior.

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