History BojackHorseman / TropesLToO

* LastMomentTogether: In the very last scene of, Diane calls out [=BoJack=] for the fact that he called her up right before his suicide attempt, saying that it was cruel to make her listen to him try to drown himself with no way of saving him because she was in a different part of the country. [=BoJack=] apologizes and tells her that she doesn't owe him anything anymore, the implication being that he understands if she just decides she never wants to talk to him or see him again.

** Season 5's arc with Philbert is an unusually serious take on this, with Philbert's antihero status being so like [=BoJack's=] that [=BoJack=] himself sometimes has trouble telling the difference ([[spoiler: especially when Diane starts writing BoJack's actual confessions into the script.]]). Diane also underscores the Netflix show's intent is not to normalize BoJack's behavior, but to push the audience to improve on themselves.

** Season 5's arc with Philbert is an unusually serious take on this, with Philbert's antihero status being so like BoJack's that BoJack himself sometimes has trouble telling the difference ([[spoiler: especially when Diane starts writing BoJack's actual confessions into the script.]]). Diane also underscores the Netflix show's intent is not to normalize BoJack's behavior, but to push the audience to improve on themselves.

** [=BoJack=] himself is only narrowly better than Mr. Peanutbutter, being prone to having sufficient money he doesn't has to work since his late 20's, he is prone to waste money without thinking of it twice. One of his most frivolous purchases is buying an entire restaurant just because, later seasons show that he has even forgot to manage said restaurant and the staff has been taking care of itself.

** The same episode features Cameron [[JustForPun Crow]]... who's actually a Raven.

** Continuing the tradition, S5E11 mirrors [=BoJack=]'s increasingly tenuous grip on reality, blurring the lines between the filming of ''Philbert'' and [=BoJack=]'s real life.

* NowWhichOneWasThatVoice: The cast is listed by name, but not associated with the character(s) they play. Some of the cast are celebrities (e.g. Will Arnett, Alison Brie, Paul F. Tompkins) with distinct enough voices.

* LongTitle: A RunningGag is characters saying long names for things with no abbreviations, such as [[spoiler:J.D. Salinger's]] new game show: ''[[spoiler: [[InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt J.D. Salinger Presents]]]]: Hollywoo Stars & Celebrities: What Do They Know? Do They Know Things? Let's Find Out!''.
-->'''[[BunnyEarsLawyer Wanda]]''': I can see it on the marquee already!\\
'''Princess Carolyn''': Boy, [[DeadpanSnarker that must be a long marquee.]]\\
'''Wanda''': It's long.
** In "After The Party", both Diane and Mr. Peanutbutter constantly give the full title to a feminist symposium they'd attended to celebrate Diane's birthday - specifically, “Women on the Wall: An Exploration of Gender in Text and Media: Barbara Kruger and Jenny Holzer in conversation with Helen Molesworth”. Also falls under ColonCancer

** [=BoJack=] has a tendency to latch on to anyone who's even remotely nice to him this way. At first it's Princess Carolyn, but after they break up it's Diane, whom he thinks he's in love with only because she's hired to listen to him talk about himself. [[spoiler: Charlotte]]'s family briefly become this to him in "Escape From [=LA=]," but after that gets RuinedForever, he realizes that Todd is very much this, seeing as he's always stuck by him in spite of how toxic he is.

** The show generally doesn't shy from harsh language, but uses a f-bomb for [[BreakingPointSwearing one particularly brutal moment]] each season.

** In "It's You", Diane challenges Bojack to name a single one of his "friends" at his Oscar nomination party.

* LongLostRelative: In the fourth season Hollyhock shows up believing Bojack is her father, and much of the season is trying to track down her biological mother, since Bojack [[ReallyGetsAround slept with A LOT of women]]. [[spoiler: As it turns out, she is actually the daughter of Bojack's father Butterscotch and the family maid Henrietta, making them half-siblings]].

* MilhollandRelationshipMoment: A mild version, Princess Carolyn had foolishly forged Bojack's signature for her first producing gig "Philbert" to get the ball rolling, even though her relationship with Bojack was strained and their schedules were really off-center at the time. Bojack had gone through his own humbling experiences at the time and when Princess Carolyn had gotten incredibly desperate and finally managed to ask him, he agreed before she could even explain what the project was, saying that she does so much for him he can do this for her.

** Continuing the tradition, S5E11 mirrors Bojack's increasingly tenuous grip on reality, blurring the lines between the filming of ''Philbert'' and Bojack's real life.

** Bojack himself is only narrowly better than Mr. Peanutbutter, being prone to having sufficient money he doesn't has to work since his late 20's, he is prone to waste money without thinking of it twice. One of his most frivolous purchases is buying an entire restaurant just because, later seasons show that he has even forgot to manage said restaurant and the staff has been taking care of itself.

* MoralityPet: Played with, in that for Bojack several characters blend the line between this and LivingEmotionalCrutch, and that ends up making him do horrible things to them in a form of self-sabotage. Hollyhock ends up being the first person he is desperate to protect in every way, and that in turn forces him to confront his bad habits.

* NeverTrustATrailer: Subverted. Promotional art for Season 5 showed Bojack being shot in the heart by a lizard lady, implying Bojack really got shot in real life and the lizard lady was going to be a major threat to the upcoming season. In fact, it was all part of his show and the lizard lady was merely a unnamed actress who only appeared for a few seconds the season premiere.

** Bojack appeared to be a empathetic, nice guy in his early days of ''Horsin Around''. The effects of his later life and the impact of HorribleHollywood mixed with his past of his AbusiveParent s, he has gotten worse with age. Even though Bojack TookALevelInJerkass he tries hard to be a good person and change for the better.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: In the most general sense Bojack and "Horsin' Around" reflect Creator/BobSaget and ''Series/FullHouse'', primarily in the dad in a sitcom trying to distance himself from the saccharine {{Typecasting}} he got, being previously known as a comedian who uses VulgarHumor. From that, Sarah Lynn is a combination of the [[Creator/MaryKateAndAshleyOlsen Olsen twins]] with the likes of Music/BritneySpears or Creator/LindsayLohan.

* NoNameGiven: Bojack's character on "Horsin' Around" is always referred to as "The Horse."

*** [[spoiler: In mid season 5, it's revealed that Bojack has been dying his hair black for years. He decides to finally embrace the ageing process and reverts to his now grey hair, making him look much more like his actual age (mid-50s)]]

** Usually the second to last episode each season is a surreal MushroomSamba, typically the result of drugs though the fourth season was [[spoiler: a look into the fractured memories of Bojack's senile mother]].
** There is a TimeSkip of varying degrees, sometimes just doing a surprise "two months later" while a fourth season episode shows what Bojack was up to for ''eight'' months.

** The show generally doesn't shy from harsh language, but uses a PrecisionFStrike for one particularly brutal moment each season.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls2016'': In "Escape from Monster Island", Buttercup and Blossom attempt to have a rap battle to decide who gets [[JustOneExtraTicket the last ticket]]:

** Taken UpToEleven in "After The Party", where both Diane and Mr. Peanutbutter constantly give the full title to a feminist symposium they'd attended to celebrate Diane's birthday - specifically, “Women on the Wall: An Exploration of Gender in Text and Media: Barbara Kruger and Jenny Holzer in conversation with Helen Molesworth”. Also falls under ColonCancer