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* BaitAndSwitch: A particularly cruel example of this trope. [[spoiler: Near the end of their bender in [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS3E11ThatsTooMuchMan "That's Too Much, Man!"]], Sarah Lynn passes out briefly while [=BoJack=] is giving a rambling monologue about what "true love" means. When expecting an answer, Sarah Lynn is laying down perfectly still without moving. Fearful, the horse keeps calling her name until she angrily retorts ''"WHAT?"''. A few minutes later, a similar scene plays out with [=BoJack=] and Sarah Lynn in the planetarium as the latter goes to sleep again, this time next to Bojack. Once he asks her, she doesn't respond. [[PleaseWakeUp Again]]. [[DiedInYourArmsTonight Again]]. [[MadnessMantra And again]].]]
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* BaitAndSwitch: A particularly cruel example of this trope. [[spoiler: Near the end of their bender in [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS3E11ThatsTooMuchMan "That's Too Much, Man!"]], Sarah Lynn passes out briefly while [=BoJack=] is giving a rambling monologue about what "true love" means. When expecting an answer, Sarah Lynn is laying down perfectly still without moving. Fearful, the horse keeps calling her name until she angrily retorts ''"WHAT?"''. A few minutes later, a similar scene plays out with [=BoJack=] and Sarah Lynn in the planetarium as the latter goes to sleep again, this time next to Bojack.[=BoJack=]. Once he asks her, she doesn't respond. [[PleaseWakeUp Again]]. [[DiedInYourArmsTonight Again]]. [[MadnessMantra And again]].]]
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* AllLovingHero: Subtle, but it was there before she gave into her demons, especially during her brief pop career. Kind and caring deeply about the people around her, often gave in to demands of her fans for another song at concerts and was excited enough for any of her co-stars visiting to drop everything she was doing and reconnect with them. Eventually, her desire to please everyone turned her into a {{workaholic}} and her unwillingness to disappoint without ever receiving any sort of recognition for it started bleeding her spirit. And then, it only got worse.
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* BaitAndSwitch: A particularly cruel example of this trope. [[spoiler: Near the end of their bender in [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS3E11ThatsTooMuchMan "That's Too Much, Man!"]], Sarah Lynn passes out briefly while [=BoJack=] is giving a rambling monologue about what "true love" means. When expecting an answer, Sarah Lynn is laying down perfectly still without moving. Fearful, the horse keeps calling her name until she angrily retorts ''"WHAT?"''. A few minutes later, a similar scene plays out with [=BoJack=] and Sarah Lynn in the planetarium as the latter goes to sleep again, this time next to BoJack. Once he asks her, she doesn't respond. [[PleaseWakeUp Again]]. [[DiedInYourArmsTonight Again]]. [[MadnessMantra And again]].]]
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* BaitAndSwitch: A particularly cruel example of this trope. [[spoiler: Near the end of their bender in [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS3E11ThatsTooMuchMan "That's Too Much, Man!"]], Sarah Lynn passes out briefly while [=BoJack=] is giving a rambling monologue about what "true love" means. When expecting an answer, Sarah Lynn is laying down perfectly still without moving. Fearful, the horse keeps calling her name until she angrily retorts ''"WHAT?"''. A few minutes later, a similar scene plays out with [=BoJack=] and Sarah Lynn in the planetarium as the latter goes to sleep again, this time next to BoJack.Bojack. Once he asks her, she doesn't respond. [[PleaseWakeUp Again]]. [[DiedInYourArmsTonight Again]]. [[MadnessMantra And again]].]]
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* BaitAndSwitch: A particularly cruel example of this trope. [[spoiler: Near the end of their bender in [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS3E11ThatsTooMuchMan "That's Too Much, Man!"]], Sarah Lynn passes out briefly while [=BoJack=] is giving a rambling monologue about what "true love" means. When expecting an answer, Sarah Lynn is laying down perfectly still without moving. Fearful, the horse keeps calling her name until she angrily retorts ''"WHAT?"''. A few minutes later, a similar scene plays out with [=BoJack=] and Sarah Lynn in the planetarium as the latter goes to sleep again, this time next to the latter. Once he asks her, she doesn't respond. [[PleaseWakeUp Again]]. [[DiedInYourArmsTonight Again]]. [[MadnessMantra And again]].]]
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* BaitAndSwitch: A particularly cruel example of this trope. [[spoiler: Near the end of their bender in [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS3E11ThatsTooMuchMan "That's Too Much, Man!"]], Sarah Lynn passes out briefly while [=BoJack=] is giving a rambling monologue about what "true love" means. When expecting an answer, Sarah Lynn is laying down perfectly still without moving. Fearful, the horse keeps calling her name until she angrily retorts ''"WHAT?"''. A few minutes later, a similar scene plays out with [=BoJack=] and Sarah Lynn in the planetarium as the latter goes to sleep again, this time next to the latter.BoJack. Once he asks her, she doesn't respond. [[PleaseWakeUp Again]]. [[DiedInYourArmsTonight Again]]. [[MadnessMantra And again]].]]
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* WatchItStoned: {{Deconstructed|Trope}}. Initially, Sarah Lynn's drive to consume evolves out of a need to heighten her miserable existence into something more appealing. The highs she gets are deliriously positive due to the exhilaration of first users. The more she's drawn to it for escapism evolves its therapeutic use into a regular addiction and soon enough, the first times's frenzy dissolves into sickness and need for more hits.
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* WatchItStoned: {{Deconstructed|Trope}}. Initially, Sarah Lynn's drive to consume evolves out of a need to heighten her miserable existence into something more appealing. The highs she gets are deliriously positive due to the exhilaration of that comes with the first users. use. The more she's drawn to it for escapism to escape evolves its therapeutic use into a regular addiction and soon enough, the first times's frenzy dissolves into sickness and need for more hits.
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* WatchItStoned: {{Deconstructed|Trope}}. Initially, Sarah Lynn's drive to consume evolves out of a need to heighten her miserable existence into something more appealing. The highs she gets are deliriously positive due to the exhilaration of first users. The more she's drawn to it for escapism evolves its therapeutic use into a regular addiction and soon enough, the first times's frenzy dissolves into sickness and need for more hits.
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* TragicHero: Sarah started in show business as a kind, sweet little girl who enjoyed making ''JustForFun/HorsinAround'' along her other castmates. As she becomes rather cynical about the business itself and is exposed to the many vices found in the higher places, fame and desire to remain in the spotlight leads her to overwork in a single minded obsession leaving behind any hopes of something beyond the stage. Eventually, the bill comes due and her shallow life becomes apparent without any close friends or interest outside the pit: up for the job was self medicating alcohol and drugs. [[spoiler:After constant flirting and pulling and pushing, it finally does her in.]]
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* ImmuneToDrugs: {{Deconstructed|Trope}}. For an bitchy-acting princess whose movements resemble a real life rag doll, Sarah Lynn has surely got a stamina for handling large quantities of narcotics. Be it cocaine, vicodin, LSD, she's all but willing to experience. So much that like [=BoJack=], she needs to ingest large doses to get a real kick out of the stuff. The resistance her body has developed, however, comes with the turf of being a regular consumer: the more she takes, the higher the tolerance she receives...but only as long as she stays hooked. [[spoiler:Once she starts taking sobriety seriously, her resilience diminishes to the point that keeping up with [=BoJack=]'s different metabolism causes her an overdose.]]
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* ImmuneToDrugs: {{Deconstructed|Trope}}. For an bitchy-acting princess whose movements resemble a real life rag doll, Sarah Lynn [[MadeOfIron has surely got a stamina for handling large quantities of narcotics.narcotics]]. Be it cocaine, vicodin, LSD, she's all but willing to experience. So much that like [=BoJack=], she needs to ingest large doses to get a real kick out of the stuff. [[AcquiredPoisonImmunity The resistance her body has developed, however, comes with the turf of being a regular consumer: the more she takes, the higher the tolerance she receives...receives]]...but only as long as she stays hooked. [[spoiler:Once she starts taking sobriety seriously, her resilience diminishes to the point that [[CantCatchUp keeping up with [=BoJack=]'s different metabolism metabolism]] causes her an overdose.]]
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* FullNameBasis: Everyone who meets her calls her "Sarah Lynn". Not Sarah, not Lynn. HER. FULL. NAME.
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* TheLoad: She's helpful, but only to a extent. Most of the time, she's just too high to care to do anything.
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* TheLoad: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. She's helpful, but only to a extent. Most of the time, she's just too high to care to do anything.anything when people need it.
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* ImmuneToDrugs: {{Deconstructed|Trope}}. For an bitchy-acting princess whose movements resemble a real life rag doll, Sarah Lynn has surely got a stamina for handling large quantities of narcotics. Be it cocaine, vicodin, LSD, she's all but willing to experience. So much that like [=BoJack=], she needs to ingest large doses to get a real kick out of the stuff. The resistance her body has developed, however, comes with the turf of being a regular consumer: the more she takes, the higher the tolerance she receives...but only as long as she stays hooked. [[spoiler:Once she starts taking sobriety seriously, her resilience diminishes to the point that keeping up with [=BoJack=]'s different metabolism causes her an overdose.]]
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* EmptyShell: Hollowed out by the Hollywoo machine and its hollow promises, Sarah Lynn tries to drown the pain and the terrible reality with any kind of addiction, vapid desire, anything that will distract and entertain her, numbing her body more and more until her feelings are so worn out she'll barely care anymore. It worked flawlessly. [[LackOfEmpathy A little too much]].
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* BaitAndSwitch: A particularly cruel example of this trope. [[spoiler: Near the end of their bender in [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS3E11ThatsTooMuchMan "That's Too Much, Man!"]], Sarah Lynn passes out briefly while [=BoJack=] is giving a rambling monologue about what "true love" means. When expecting an answer, Sarah Lynn is laying down perfectly still without moving. Fearful, the horse keeps calling her name until she angrily retorts ''"WHAT?"''. A few minutes later, a similar scene plays out with [=BoJack=] and Sarah Lynn in the planetarium as the latter goes to sleep again, this time next to the latter. Once he asks her, she doesn't respond. [[PleaseWakeUp Again]]. [[DiedInYourArmsTonight Again]]. [[MadnessMantra And again]].]]
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* SurprisingSuddenDeath: [[spoiler: After a death fake-out earlier, there's no possibility of dying, right? '''Nope'''. Sarah Lynn feels done by and decides to sleep in her favorite place: the planetarium. [=BoJack=] makes a comment, expecting her to answer. She doesn't.]]
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* SurprisingSuddenDeath: SurprisinglySuddenDeath: [[spoiler: After a death fake-out earlier, there's no possibility of dying, right? '''Nope'''. Sarah Lynn feels done by and decides to sleep in her favorite place: the planetarium. [=BoJack=] makes a comment, expecting her to answer. She doesn't.]]
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* JustAFleshWound: When [=BoJack=] tries to recruit her in rehab for a second time in [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS1E3PricklyMuffin "Prickly Muffin"]], she tries to convince him to let her stay by showing him the marvelous uses of home tools. In other words, she fixes her stab wound with duct tape. Remember; she stabbed herself with a ''rusty bayonet''.
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* JustAFleshWound: When [=BoJack=] tries to recruit her in rehab for a second time in [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS1E3PricklyMuffin [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS1E03PricklyMuffin "Prickly Muffin"]], she tries to convince him to let her stay by showing him the marvelous uses of home tools. In other words, she fixes her stab wound with duct tape. Remember; she stabbed herself with a ''rusty bayonet''.
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* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Innocence and Hollywoo don't mix. If you're to become a child star, get braced to experience drugs, smokes and all sorts of things no child should.
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* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of children entering show business at a very vulnerable age. Innocence and Hollywoo don't mix. If you're to become a child star, get braced to experience drugs, smokes and all sorts of things no child should.
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** A more surrogate example in her relationship with [=BoJack=], who far from steering her in the right direction, only enabled her loneliness. While they were briefly able to connect with each other due to their mutual like of Creator/Disney movies and even overdosing in ice cream, [=BoJack=]'s upbringing made it all the more impossible for him to identify with a young Sarah Lynn, let alone see the writing on the wall and history repeating in her case. His egocentrism and her obvious need for affection didn't help matters.
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** A more surrogate example in her relationship with [=BoJack=], who far from steering her in the right direction, only enabled her loneliness. While they were briefly able to connect with each other due to their mutual like of Creator/Disney Creator/{{Disney}} movies and even overdosing in ice cream, [=BoJack=]'s upbringing made it all the more impossible for him to identify with a young Sarah Lynn, let alone see the writing on the wall and history repeating in her case. His egocentrism and her obvious need for affection didn't help matters.
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* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of the AddledAddict. [[FormerChildStar Sarah]] [[UsedToBeASweetKid Lynn]] is a [[DescentIntoAddiction living snorting machine]] with bodily and motor functions [[TheLoad downgraded to as basic as they get for the classic junkie]], only mixed with the glamour that comes with the celebrity status: get some fix and look good while doing it, including having a [[DrFeelGood physician to self medicate]] and unlimited access to prescription pills. She can [[CloudCuckoolander barely keep her senses together]] without dope, often [[HeyYou confusing people]], [[ForgetfulJones forgetting certain important things]], forgoing social conventions and putting herself [[SelfHarm in danger of bodily pain]] on [[DramaQueen exaggerated]] [[MinorInjuryOverreaction reactions]] [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction to]] [[AttentionWhore small]] [[PleaseDontLeaveMe things.]] Movements, reflexes, almost none left. Behavioral pattern of conduct; too similar to real life junkies: [[DropInCharacter crash in]], [[AffectionatePickpocket smooch off and get drug money]], while [[BitchInSheepsClothing playing off sympathies.]] Horrifically enough, this is capped with her own self-awareness of this, as well as [[IAmWhatIAm her quiet and sad acceptance that someday her abuse will catch up to her.]] Come Season Three - [[spoiler: she got sober for 9 months... until Bojack helped her fall off the wagon and she died of an overdose. It's heavily implied that trying to keep up with [[ImmuneToDrugs a powerhouse substance abuser like [=BoJack=]]], the low resistance from her body after months sober and the damage such abuse had done in her body [[RealityEnsues finally charged the bill]].]]
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* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Innocence and Hollywoo don't mix. If you're to become a child star, get braced to experience drugs, smokes and all sorts of things no child should.
** Of the AddledAddict. [[FormerChildStar Sarah]] [[UsedToBeASweetKid Lynn]] is a [[DescentIntoAddiction living snorting machine]] with bodily and motor functions [[TheLoad downgraded to as basic as they get for the classic junkie]], only mixed with the glamour that comes with the celebrity status: get some fix and look good while doing it, including having a [[DrFeelGood physician to self medicate]] and unlimited access to prescription pills. She can [[CloudCuckoolander barely keep her senses together]] without dope, often [[HeyYou confusing people]], [[ForgetfulJones forgetting certain important things]], forgoing social conventions and putting herself [[SelfHarm in danger of bodily pain]] on [[DramaQueen exaggerated]] [[MinorInjuryOverreaction reactions]] [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction to]] [[AttentionWhore small]] [[PleaseDontLeaveMe things.]] Movements, reflexes, almost none left. Behavioral pattern of conduct; too similar to real life junkies: [[DropInCharacter crash in]], [[AffectionatePickpocket smooch off and get drug money]], while [[BitchInSheepsClothing playing off sympathies.]] Horrifically enough, this is capped with her own self-awareness of this, as well as [[IAmWhatIAm her quiet and sad acceptance that someday her abuse will catch up to her.]] Come Season Three - [[spoiler: she got sober for 9 months... until Bojack helped her fall off the wagon and she died of an overdose. It's heavily implied that trying to keep up with [[ImmuneToDrugs a powerhouse substance abuser like [=BoJack=]]], the low resistance from her body after months sober and the damage such abuse had done in her body [[RealityEnsues finally charged the bill]].]]
** Of the AddledAddict. [[FormerChildStar Sarah]] [[UsedToBeASweetKid Lynn]] is a [[DescentIntoAddiction living snorting machine]] with bodily and motor functions [[TheLoad downgraded to as basic as they get for the classic junkie]], only mixed with the glamour that comes with the celebrity status: get some fix and look good while doing it, including having a [[DrFeelGood physician to self medicate]] and unlimited access to prescription pills. She can [[CloudCuckoolander barely keep her senses together]] without dope, often [[HeyYou confusing people]], [[ForgetfulJones forgetting certain important things]], forgoing social conventions and putting herself [[SelfHarm in danger of bodily pain]] on [[DramaQueen exaggerated]] [[MinorInjuryOverreaction reactions]] [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction to]] [[AttentionWhore small]] [[PleaseDontLeaveMe things.]] Movements, reflexes, almost none left. Behavioral pattern of conduct; too similar to real life junkies: [[DropInCharacter crash in]], [[AffectionatePickpocket smooch off and get drug money]], while [[BitchInSheepsClothing playing off sympathies.]] Horrifically enough, this is capped with her own self-awareness of this, as well as [[IAmWhatIAm her quiet and sad acceptance that someday her abuse will catch up to her.]] Come Season Three - [[spoiler: she got sober for 9 months... until Bojack helped her fall off the wagon and she died of an overdose. It's heavily implied that trying to keep up with [[ImmuneToDrugs a powerhouse substance abuser like [=BoJack=]]], the low resistance from her body after months sober and the damage such abuse had done in her body [[RealityEnsues finally charged the bill]].]]
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* {{Narcissist}}: An [[UpToEleven even bigger one]] than Bojack. ''That should sum it up''. In general. Sarah Lynn fits the criteria for an "[[http://www1.appstate.edu/~hillrw/Narcissism/stylesunprincipled.html unprincipled Narcissist]]" in that she has little to no problem [[TakingAdvantageOfGenerosity exploiting sympathy to take advantage from others]], [[PrettyFreeloaders rarely sees any problem with what she does to sustain her habits of consuming drugs]] and [[WildCard has little to no allegiances to anyone in particular]], being incapable of having a relationship that deep with a person.
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* AddledAddict: She has abused so many substances that her movements seem to have decayed. While on drugs, she barely seems to hold it together. Even without them, Sarah Lynn still can't notice what's going on around her.
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* AnythingThatMoves: Hypersexual and full of excesses, Sarah Lynn isn't above indulging in some questionable sexual activities, preferably with ''a lot'' of people involved.
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* AnythingThatMoves: Hypersexual and full of excesses, Sarah Lynn isn't above indulging in some questionable sexual activities, preferably with ''a lot'' of people involved. One of her first actions while crashing at [=BoJack=]'s ([[WildTeenParty besides throwing a party]], ''[[WildTeenParty of course!]]'') is to build a "sweet cocaine booth/sex closet".
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* BlackComedyRape: PlayedWith; the humor from the implication of her bear stepfather been too close to her comes less of the act and more of the casual tone Sarah Lynn comments about it. Any outside humor that comes out of it is more of the [[GallowsHumor "cathartic"]] type.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Regarding her [[spoiler:eventual death]] and [[spoiler:desire to be an architect]].
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* AbusiveParents: Hum, let's see: Back when taping ''JustForFun/HorsinAround'', Sarah's aspirations for something beyond stardom were ensured to be grinded to pieces and warped by her overbearing, controlling helicopter mother without the possibility of anything else besides it. Beyond the apparent, her being homeschooled made her pretty much isolated from other kids her age, leaving her with her photographer step-dad who had some rather....sick interest on her. It's implied in "Still Broken" that she was regularly abused as a child by him.
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** A more surrogate example in"Still Broken" that she was regularly abused as her relationship with [=BoJack=], who far from steering her in the right direction, only enabled her loneliness. While they were briefly able to connect with each other due to their mutual like of Creator/Disney movies and even overdosing in ice cream, [=BoJack=]'s upbringing made it all the more impossible for him to identify with a child by him.young Sarah Lynn, let alone see the writing on the wall and history repeating in her case. His egocentrism and her obvious need for affection didn't help matters.
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!This article is for the main character of ''Creator/{{Netflix}}'' 's original animated series ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman''.
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/KristenSchaal
The actress who played Sabrina, the Horse's younger human daughter on'' Horsin' Around''. After several attempts to stay famous, including a pop album and fashion line, she later becomes involved with drugs as many child actors do. While out with her boyfriend, Andrew Garfield, she and Bojack reconnect and reestablish their friendship.
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* AbusiveParents: It's implied in season 2 that she was sexually abused as a child by her step-dad.
* AddledAddict: She has abused so many substances that her movements seem to have decayed. While on drugs, she barely seems to hold it together. Even without them, Sarah Lynn still can't notice what's going on around her.
* ALessonLearnedTooWell: During a {{Flashback}} conversation in "Prickly Muffin". With the kind of upbringing and advice Bojack gave her, it's not hard to see why she turned out like that:
-->'''Bojack''': Hey, you see those people?
-->'''Sarah Lynn''': Yeah.
-->'''Bojack''': Those boobs and jerkwads are the best friends you'll ever have. Without them, you're nothing. Remember that. Your family will never understand you. Your lovers will leave you or try to change you, but your fans, be good to them and they'll be good to you. The most important thing is, you got to give the people what they want, even if it kills you, even if it empties you out until there's nothing left to empty. No matter what happens, no matter how much it hurts, you don't stop dancing, and you don't stop smiling, and you give those people what they want.
* AnythingThatMoves: Hypersexual and full of excesses, Sarah Lynn isn't above indulging in some questionable sexual activities, preferably with ''a lot'' of people involved.
* AttentionWhore: She's [[ItsAllAboutMe Bojack]] if he was TheUnfettered.
* BigSleep: [[spoiler: After all of their misadventures, Sarah Lynn just dozes off peacefully at the planetarium and never wakes up.]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Takes advantage of Bojack's attempts to reconnect with her to continue her self destructive spiral. Though she does have a FreudianExcuse in that Bojack is largely responsible for said spiral in the first place since he gave her some really terrible advice as a kid.
* CastIncest: An in-universe example. In a drunken stupor, [[spoiler: Sarah Lynn and Bojack, who played her stepfather in Horsing Around, have sex after briefly arguing.]]
* CatchPhrase: "Suck a dick, dumb shits!", later [[BorrowedCatchphrase adopted by other characters]].
** Her character's in ''Horsin' Around'' was "That's too much, man!"
* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:After going on a massive binge with Bojack, she ends up dying in a planetarium.]]
* CloudCuckoolander: She has a... [[InsistentTerminology different]] [[MetaphoricallyTrue perception]] of things when she's [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs on drugs]].
* ComicalOverreacting: To [[SkewedPriorities all the wrong things]].
* ContractualPurity: InUniverse example. The conditions established in her contract, as any child actor in family-friendly programs in TheNineties. This clause didn't help her already fragile psyche and needy personality since she never had a proper romantic relationship that wasn't announced in tabloids or public in every aspect, without any privacy allowed. Once she came of age and the show ended, she tried to shed this image of "[[{{Moe}} sweet girl]] [[Characters/HorsinAround Sabrina]]"....by going overboard with the sexuality and becoming unleashed in the world of vices she was barely able to cope with in the first place.
* CreateYourOwnVillain: Mostly Bojack's fault, but Sarah Lynn's neglect by both her mother and fellow cast and crew members are the main reason why she's the current trainwreck hedonist she's today.
* CreepyShadowedUndereyes: Of the [[ExhaustedEyebags Exhausted Eyebags]] type.
* DescentIntoAddiction: After JustForFun/HorsinAround ended, Sarah Lynn struggled to keep herself relevant through any means necessary including a fashion clothing line and a OneHitWonder career. The failure of these attempts, along with the constant pressure and disillusionment, led her to seek refuge in drugs and vices, just like many other child actors.
* DramaQueen: She frequently [[ComicalOverreacting overreacts]] to situations that affect her in the slightest.
* DropInCharacter: In her first appearance, she crashes at Bojack's house after getting dumped and taken to the hospital.
* DrugsAreBad: She's almost a walking cautionary tale.
* FamousLastWords: [[spoiler: "I want to be an architect."]]
* ForgetfulJones: Sarah Lynn forgets important things fairly often. At one point, she [[UpToEleven didn't even recognized one of her co-stars when they reunited]]!
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** When Sarah Lynn and Bojack hook up for the first time, she tells him that the only drug she needs is "horse." [[spoiler: In season three, Goober explains to Bojack that "horse" is a street name for heroin, [[HarsherInHindsight which Sarah Lynn eventually overdoses and dies from.]] [[FridgeBrilliance Specifically, a variety called Bojack]].]]
** In "Prickly Muffin", the episode where she's first introduced, the clips shown from one of her music videos take place in a planetarium, and in a flashback to her days on the ''Horsin' Around'' set she tells her mother that she wants to be an architect. In "That's Too Much, Man!", she and Bojack end their drug bender by going to a planetarium, where she says that she's always been fascinated by domed buildings [[spoiler:and her final words before she dies in Bojack's arms are that she still wants to be an architect]].
* FormerChildStar: Of the "drug-addled trainwreck" variety, capped off with a pushy StageMom and having several terrible role models (including [=BoJack=] himself).
-->'''Sarah Lynn''': Oh, you 'know what I'm going through'? Why? Because you were on some dumb kids' show a million years ago? I had [[Creator/MaryKateAndAshleyOlsen my own fashion line when I was]] ''ten''. By 20, I was packing stadiums. I get letters every day from boys telling me that I was the first girl they masturbated to. ''[[NotHyperbole Literally]]'', someone tells me that every day!
-->'''Bojack''': That is gross.
-->'''Sarah Lynn''': Oh-ho, I know!
* ForWantOfANail: Her whole feud with Joelle Clarke was kickstarted because the former was given way too much focus in the show and the latter was jealous of it. In the present, it's hard not to read both of their behaviors as two cats fighting for a toy neither want or can get anymore.
* FreudianExcuse: Most of her flashbacks include trying to be friends with Bojack or her other co-stars and always getting rejected. There's also her stepfather who took advantage of her, and her mother was a very pushy StageMom.
* FriendInTheBlackMarket: Her contact to get prescription pills is named [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Dr.]] [[NameIsTheSame Hu.]] [[spoiler: [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer No, really.]]]]
* FunctionalAddict: '''More''' so than Bojack. She takes whatever drug she can find, but she still leads a (semi) normal life, at least by Hollywoo standards.
* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler:After a series of drug-fueled misadventures, winning an Oscar and finally going to the planetarium like she wanted, she dies peacefully in Bojack's arms.]]
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: This trope just ''barely'' starts describing Sarah Lynn. Hard parties and strong alcohol is the name of her game and excess is obligatory in every one of her parties, as seen in the ones she makes at Bojack's house.
* TheHedonist: ''Heavily'' so. Sarah Lynn lives for her pleasure and her pleasure only. Doesn't mean she's completely heartless, but her impulses are much more destructive than they first appear and she is all too willing to indulge in them. In Season Three, she manages to go sober for nine months... just so her high will be intensified once she goes off the wagon.
* HiddenDepths: Expresses an interest in being an architect that she quickly dismisses as a joke, and yet demonstrates an actual appreciation and knowledge of architecture.
-->'''Sarah Lynn''': ''(Regarding a playhouse they smashed)'' You gotta use parallel joints to support that foundation, dumb-shit!
** Earlier in the same episode, she wants to go to the planetarium because of how trippy everything gets if you're there while high. Later, [[spoiler: she reveals that it's actually because she loves the amount of effort that goes into making a domed building]].
* HiddenHeartOfGold: In the season one finale montage, she visits Andrew Garfield in hospital and nuzzles his hand. A sweet, rare, not-selfish moment from her.
* HopeSpot: [[spoiler:She manages to win the Oscar for Best Song only to die not long after.]]
* HotterAndSexier: Pulled this kind of image off when she got older in a desperate attempt to shed her squeaky clean sitcom child star image.
* IAmWhatIAm: [[spoiler: Sarah Lynn is aware that her lifestyle and abuse of drugs ''will'' catch up to her at some point. And she's quite accepting of that fact.]]
* JerkassHasAPoint: Despite her flaws and being difficult to deal with, she herself is the one to point out the obvious issue of child actors.
-->'''Sarah Lynn''': You know, it's amazing that it's legal for kids to be actors. How is that not child labor? I didn't know what I was signing up for. I was three.
* ICouldaBeenAContender: {{Inverted}}, as she regrets not going to college or leaving showbiz behind to pursue her interests in [[spoiler:architecture.]]
* JustAFleshWound: She fixes her stab wound with duct tape. Remember; she stabbed herself with a ''rusty'' bayonet.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Dies of a drug overdose in "That's Too Much, Man!"]]
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Her boyfriend, Creator/AndrewGarfield, is this for her in ''[[Recap/BojackHorsemanS1E03PricklyMuffin Prickly Muffin]]''. When he breaks up with her, things get ugly fast.
* TheLoad: She's helpful, but only to a extent. Most of the time, she's just too high to care to do anything.
* MadeOfIron: For a drug addict, she has shown to be very resilient. [[spoiler:Subverted in Season 3, where she dies after going on an extended bender with Bojack.]]
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Barely bats an eye when she stabs herself. As for what happened after that, see JustAFleshWound above.
* ManChild: A female version; at 30 years old she dresses and acts like a spoiled teen.
* MythologyGag: InUniverse. Bojack's AffectionateNickname for her in Horsin' Around was "Prickly Muffin". When Sarah became a one-time pop star, one of her most successful singles was named "Prickly Muffin" complete with [[IncestSubtext suggestive lyrics]].
* {{Narcissist}}: An [[UpToEleven even bigger one]] than Bojack. ''That should sum it up''. In general. Sarah Lynn fits the criteria for an "[[http://www1.appstate.edu/~hillrw/Narcissism/stylesunprincipled.html unprincipled Narcissist]]" in that she has little to no problem [[TakingAdvantageOfGenerosity exploiting sympathy to take advantage from others]], [[PrettyFreeloaders rarely sees any problem with what she does to sustain her habits of consuming drugs]] and [[WildCard has little to no allegiances to anyone in particular]], being incapable of having a relationship that deep with a person.
* NotSoDifferent: Sara Lynn, with [=BoJack=]. Both are washed-up, self-absorbed D-list celebrities who bury their deep-seeded parental issues and resentment towards Hollywood under heaping mounds of substance abuse as a way to run from their problems. Lampshaded by Bojack:
-->'''Diane''': [Sara Lynn] is the one with substance abuse problems and daddy issues.
-->'''Bojack''': Hey, we BOTH have substance abuse problems and daddy issues!
* OedipusComplex: If the CastIncest with Bojack above and the neediness for a father figure or some form of love didn't clue you in already, it should said that [[spoiler: Sarah Lynn seemed to be uncomfortably close to her bear stepfather growing up. She can even recognize bear fur from just ''tasting'' it..]]
* PassedInTheirSleep: [[spoiler: After too much drugs and recklessness, Sarah Lynn dies sleeping at the planetarium in "That's Too Much, Man!".]]
* ParentalIncest: [[ImpliedTrope Implied]] in her third appearance.
* PleaseDontLeaveMe: In her introduction episode, Sarah Lynn's [[OnAgainOffAgainGirlfriend On-Again-Off-Again Boyfriend]], Andrew Garfield, tries to walk off on her. At first frantic, she immediately threatens to kill herself right there to stop him.
* PrettyFreeloaders: Takes advantage of Bojack's generosity at letting her stay by partying and destroying his house. When called out on it, she plays innocent and then resumes her thing.
* PsychoPartyMember: When the entire cast (minus [[AuthorExistenceFailure Herb]]) reunites, she's shown to be the most unstable of them.
* RapeAsBackstory: [[ImpliedTrope Implied]], what with her being homeschooled and [[spoiler: familiar with bear fur because of her bear stepfather.]]
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Sarah Lynn gives Bojack a pretty harsh (if not justified) one:
-->'''Sara Lynn''': You sit up here in your little house and feel sorry for yourself? Ugh, guess what, Bojay: in order to be a has-been, you actually have to have, y'know, BEEN!
* ShadowArchetype: Functions as one to Bojack and the rest of the cast of ''JustForFun/HorsinAround'', showing them that as screwed up as they are, they could have had it much worse.
* ShesAllGrownUp: She has surely [[BuxomIsBetter developed]] from being that little cute girl Sabrina from Horsing Around.
* SiblingRivalry: Even if they're not really siblings, her feud with Joelle has shades of this. See [[SpotlightStealingSquad Spotlight Stealing Squad]] below as to why it started. Years later, they haven't let go and still behave like competitive sisters.
* SpotlightStealingSquad: [[InUniverse In-universe.]] In a flashback, Joelle recalls that in the later years of Horsing Around, the show would often focus on Sarah Lynn and her [[ComingOfAgeStory coming of age experiences.]] This would ignite the [[SiblingRivalry feud]] described above.
* StartOfDarkness: Her reunion with Bojack in 2007 during which she was teetering on the edge of nihilistic self-destruction.
* TheStoner: And many other drugs too.
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: She often uses it at the end of her sentences or insults.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Compare [[{{Moe}} sweet, innocent]] [[ChildrenAreInnocent Sarah Lynn]] to [[DramaQueen adult]] [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl Sarah Lynn]].
* TwoFirstNames: ''Sarah'' and ''Lynn'', of course. Not that it's confusing for anyone, since she has carved a reputation in Hollywoo.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Now, not so much.
* TheVamp: She manipulates Bojack into forgiving every last one of her misdeeds done to his house and allowing her to continue staying. Slightly [[InvertedTrope inverted]] later on, as Bojack unconsciously starts to become the manipulative one.
* {{Yandere}}: See the threat listed on [[PleaseDontLeaveMe Please Don't Leave Me]] above? She tried to go through it. '''''With a rusty bayonet.'''''
* YouAllShareMyStory: [[spoiler: Bradley, Joelle and Sarah Lynn's memories of their last talk to him help them discover what was the thing Herb wanted them to do after his death: publish his novel.]]
* YouAreFat: Her reaction to seeing Joelle again in "Still Broken". It really says something about the relationship she has with her co-star that this is the first thing she tells her when they see each other after 17+ years.
* YouthfulFreckles: Had them since childhood.
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/KristenSchaal
The actress who played Sabrina, the Horse's younger human daughter on'' Horsin' Around''. After several attempts to stay famous, including a pop album and fashion line, she later becomes involved with drugs as many child actors do. While out with her boyfriend, Andrew Garfield, she and Bojack reconnect and reestablish their friendship.
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* AbusiveParents: It's implied in season 2 that she was sexually abused as a child by her step-dad.
* AddledAddict: She has abused so many substances that her movements seem to have decayed. While on drugs, she barely seems to hold it together. Even without them, Sarah Lynn still can't notice what's going on around her.
* ALessonLearnedTooWell: During a {{Flashback}} conversation in "Prickly Muffin". With the kind of upbringing and advice Bojack gave her, it's not hard to see why she turned out like that:
-->'''Bojack''': Hey, you see those people?
-->'''Sarah Lynn''': Yeah.
-->'''Bojack''': Those boobs and jerkwads are the best friends you'll ever have. Without them, you're nothing. Remember that. Your family will never understand you. Your lovers will leave you or try to change you, but your fans, be good to them and they'll be good to you. The most important thing is, you got to give the people what they want, even if it kills you, even if it empties you out until there's nothing left to empty. No matter what happens, no matter how much it hurts, you don't stop dancing, and you don't stop smiling, and you give those people what they want.
* AnythingThatMoves: Hypersexual and full of excesses, Sarah Lynn isn't above indulging in some questionable sexual activities, preferably with ''a lot'' of people involved.
* AttentionWhore: She's [[ItsAllAboutMe Bojack]] if he was TheUnfettered.
* BigSleep: [[spoiler: After all of their misadventures, Sarah Lynn just dozes off peacefully at the planetarium and never wakes up.]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Takes advantage of Bojack's attempts to reconnect with her to continue her self destructive spiral. Though she does have a FreudianExcuse in that Bojack is largely responsible for said spiral in the first place since he gave her some really terrible advice as a kid.
* CastIncest: An in-universe example. In a drunken stupor, [[spoiler: Sarah Lynn and Bojack, who played her stepfather in Horsing Around, have sex after briefly arguing.]]
* CatchPhrase: "Suck a dick, dumb shits!", later [[BorrowedCatchphrase adopted by other characters]].
** Her character's in ''Horsin' Around'' was "That's too much, man!"
* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:After going on a massive binge with Bojack, she ends up dying in a planetarium.]]
* CloudCuckoolander: She has a... [[InsistentTerminology different]] [[MetaphoricallyTrue perception]] of things when she's [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs on drugs]].
* ComicalOverreacting: To [[SkewedPriorities all the wrong things]].
* ContractualPurity: InUniverse example. The conditions established in her contract, as any child actor in family-friendly programs in TheNineties. This clause didn't help her already fragile psyche and needy personality since she never had a proper romantic relationship that wasn't announced in tabloids or public in every aspect, without any privacy allowed. Once she came of age and the show ended, she tried to shed this image of "[[{{Moe}} sweet girl]] [[Characters/HorsinAround Sabrina]]"....by going overboard with the sexuality and becoming unleashed in the world of vices she was barely able to cope with in the first place.
* CreateYourOwnVillain: Mostly Bojack's fault, but Sarah Lynn's neglect by both her mother and fellow cast and crew members are the main reason why she's the current trainwreck hedonist she's today.
* CreepyShadowedUndereyes: Of the [[ExhaustedEyebags Exhausted Eyebags]] type.
* DescentIntoAddiction: After JustForFun/HorsinAround ended, Sarah Lynn struggled to keep herself relevant through any means necessary including a fashion clothing line and a OneHitWonder career. The failure of these attempts, along with the constant pressure and disillusionment, led her to seek refuge in drugs and vices, just like many other child actors.
* DramaQueen: She frequently [[ComicalOverreacting overreacts]] to situations that affect her in the slightest.
* DropInCharacter: In her first appearance, she crashes at Bojack's house after getting dumped and taken to the hospital.
* DrugsAreBad: She's almost a walking cautionary tale.
* FamousLastWords: [[spoiler: "I want to be an architect."]]
* ForgetfulJones: Sarah Lynn forgets important things fairly often. At one point, she [[UpToEleven didn't even recognized one of her co-stars when they reunited]]!
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** When Sarah Lynn and Bojack hook up for the first time, she tells him that the only drug she needs is "horse." [[spoiler: In season three, Goober explains to Bojack that "horse" is a street name for heroin, [[HarsherInHindsight which Sarah Lynn eventually overdoses and dies from.]] [[FridgeBrilliance Specifically, a variety called Bojack]].]]
** In "Prickly Muffin", the episode where she's first introduced, the clips shown from one of her music videos take place in a planetarium, and in a flashback to her days on the ''Horsin' Around'' set she tells her mother that she wants to be an architect. In "That's Too Much, Man!", she and Bojack end their drug bender by going to a planetarium, where she says that she's always been fascinated by domed buildings [[spoiler:and her final words before she dies in Bojack's arms are that she still wants to be an architect]].
* FormerChildStar: Of the "drug-addled trainwreck" variety, capped off with a pushy StageMom and having several terrible role models (including [=BoJack=] himself).
-->'''Sarah Lynn''': Oh, you 'know what I'm going through'? Why? Because you were on some dumb kids' show a million years ago? I had [[Creator/MaryKateAndAshleyOlsen my own fashion line when I was]] ''ten''. By 20, I was packing stadiums. I get letters every day from boys telling me that I was the first girl they masturbated to. ''[[NotHyperbole Literally]]'', someone tells me that every day!
-->'''Bojack''': That is gross.
-->'''Sarah Lynn''': Oh-ho, I know!
* ForWantOfANail: Her whole feud with Joelle Clarke was kickstarted because the former was given way too much focus in the show and the latter was jealous of it. In the present, it's hard not to read both of their behaviors as two cats fighting for a toy neither want or can get anymore.
* FreudianExcuse: Most of her flashbacks include trying to be friends with Bojack or her other co-stars and always getting rejected. There's also her stepfather who took advantage of her, and her mother was a very pushy StageMom.
* FriendInTheBlackMarket: Her contact to get prescription pills is named [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Dr.]] [[NameIsTheSame Hu.]] [[spoiler: [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer No, really.]]]]
* FunctionalAddict: '''More''' so than Bojack. She takes whatever drug she can find, but she still leads a (semi) normal life, at least by Hollywoo standards.
* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler:After a series of drug-fueled misadventures, winning an Oscar and finally going to the planetarium like she wanted, she dies peacefully in Bojack's arms.]]
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: This trope just ''barely'' starts describing Sarah Lynn. Hard parties and strong alcohol is the name of her game and excess is obligatory in every one of her parties, as seen in the ones she makes at Bojack's house.
* TheHedonist: ''Heavily'' so. Sarah Lynn lives for her pleasure and her pleasure only. Doesn't mean she's completely heartless, but her impulses are much more destructive than they first appear and she is all too willing to indulge in them. In Season Three, she manages to go sober for nine months... just so her high will be intensified once she goes off the wagon.
* HiddenDepths: Expresses an interest in being an architect that she quickly dismisses as a joke, and yet demonstrates an actual appreciation and knowledge of architecture.
-->'''Sarah Lynn''': ''(Regarding a playhouse they smashed)'' You gotta use parallel joints to support that foundation, dumb-shit!
** Earlier in the same episode, she wants to go to the planetarium because of how trippy everything gets if you're there while high. Later, [[spoiler: she reveals that it's actually because she loves the amount of effort that goes into making a domed building]].
* HiddenHeartOfGold: In the season one finale montage, she visits Andrew Garfield in hospital and nuzzles his hand. A sweet, rare, not-selfish moment from her.
* HopeSpot: [[spoiler:She manages to win the Oscar for Best Song only to die not long after.]]
* HotterAndSexier: Pulled this kind of image off when she got older in a desperate attempt to shed her squeaky clean sitcom child star image.
* IAmWhatIAm: [[spoiler: Sarah Lynn is aware that her lifestyle and abuse of drugs ''will'' catch up to her at some point. And she's quite accepting of that fact.]]
* JerkassHasAPoint: Despite her flaws and being difficult to deal with, she herself is the one to point out the obvious issue of child actors.
-->'''Sarah Lynn''': You know, it's amazing that it's legal for kids to be actors. How is that not child labor? I didn't know what I was signing up for. I was three.
* ICouldaBeenAContender: {{Inverted}}, as she regrets not going to college or leaving showbiz behind to pursue her interests in [[spoiler:architecture.]]
* JustAFleshWound: She fixes her stab wound with duct tape. Remember; she stabbed herself with a ''rusty'' bayonet.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Dies of a drug overdose in "That's Too Much, Man!"]]
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Her boyfriend, Creator/AndrewGarfield, is this for her in ''[[Recap/BojackHorsemanS1E03PricklyMuffin Prickly Muffin]]''. When he breaks up with her, things get ugly fast.
* TheLoad: She's helpful, but only to a extent. Most of the time, she's just too high to care to do anything.
* MadeOfIron: For a drug addict, she has shown to be very resilient. [[spoiler:Subverted in Season 3, where she dies after going on an extended bender with Bojack.]]
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Barely bats an eye when she stabs herself. As for what happened after that, see JustAFleshWound above.
* ManChild: A female version; at 30 years old she dresses and acts like a spoiled teen.
* MythologyGag: InUniverse. Bojack's AffectionateNickname for her in Horsin' Around was "Prickly Muffin". When Sarah became a one-time pop star, one of her most successful singles was named "Prickly Muffin" complete with [[IncestSubtext suggestive lyrics]].
* {{Narcissist}}: An [[UpToEleven even bigger one]] than Bojack. ''That should sum it up''. In general. Sarah Lynn fits the criteria for an "[[http://www1.appstate.edu/~hillrw/Narcissism/stylesunprincipled.html unprincipled Narcissist]]" in that she has little to no problem [[TakingAdvantageOfGenerosity exploiting sympathy to take advantage from others]], [[PrettyFreeloaders rarely sees any problem with what she does to sustain her habits of consuming drugs]] and [[WildCard has little to no allegiances to anyone in particular]], being incapable of having a relationship that deep with a person.
* NotSoDifferent: Sara Lynn, with [=BoJack=]. Both are washed-up, self-absorbed D-list celebrities who bury their deep-seeded parental issues and resentment towards Hollywood under heaping mounds of substance abuse as a way to run from their problems. Lampshaded by Bojack:
-->'''Diane''': [Sara Lynn] is the one with substance abuse problems and daddy issues.
-->'''Bojack''': Hey, we BOTH have substance abuse problems and daddy issues!
* OedipusComplex: If the CastIncest with Bojack above and the neediness for a father figure or some form of love didn't clue you in already, it should said that [[spoiler: Sarah Lynn seemed to be uncomfortably close to her bear stepfather growing up. She can even recognize bear fur from just ''tasting'' it..]]
* PassedInTheirSleep: [[spoiler: After too much drugs and recklessness, Sarah Lynn dies sleeping at the planetarium in "That's Too Much, Man!".]]
* ParentalIncest: [[ImpliedTrope Implied]] in her third appearance.
* PleaseDontLeaveMe: In her introduction episode, Sarah Lynn's [[OnAgainOffAgainGirlfriend On-Again-Off-Again Boyfriend]], Andrew Garfield, tries to walk off on her. At first frantic, she immediately threatens to kill herself right there to stop him.
* PrettyFreeloaders: Takes advantage of Bojack's generosity at letting her stay by partying and destroying his house. When called out on it, she plays innocent and then resumes her thing.
* PsychoPartyMember: When the entire cast (minus [[AuthorExistenceFailure Herb]]) reunites, she's shown to be the most unstable of them.
* RapeAsBackstory: [[ImpliedTrope Implied]], what with her being homeschooled and [[spoiler: familiar with bear fur because of her bear stepfather.]]
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Sarah Lynn gives Bojack a pretty harsh (if not justified) one:
-->'''Sara Lynn''': You sit up here in your little house and feel sorry for yourself? Ugh, guess what, Bojay: in order to be a has-been, you actually have to have, y'know, BEEN!
* ShadowArchetype: Functions as one to Bojack and the rest of the cast of ''JustForFun/HorsinAround'', showing them that as screwed up as they are, they could have had it much worse.
* ShesAllGrownUp: She has surely [[BuxomIsBetter developed]] from being that little cute girl Sabrina from Horsing Around.
* SiblingRivalry: Even if they're not really siblings, her feud with Joelle has shades of this. See [[SpotlightStealingSquad Spotlight Stealing Squad]] below as to why it started. Years later, they haven't let go and still behave like competitive sisters.
* SpotlightStealingSquad: [[InUniverse In-universe.]] In a flashback, Joelle recalls that in the later years of Horsing Around, the show would often focus on Sarah Lynn and her [[ComingOfAgeStory coming of age experiences.]] This would ignite the [[SiblingRivalry feud]] described above.
* StartOfDarkness: Her reunion with Bojack in 2007 during which she was teetering on the edge of nihilistic self-destruction.
* TheStoner: And many other drugs too.
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: She often uses it at the end of her sentences or insults.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Compare [[{{Moe}} sweet, innocent]] [[ChildrenAreInnocent Sarah Lynn]] to [[DramaQueen adult]] [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl Sarah Lynn]].
* TwoFirstNames: ''Sarah'' and ''Lynn'', of course. Not that it's confusing for anyone, since she has carved a reputation in Hollywoo.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Now, not so much.
* TheVamp: She manipulates Bojack into forgiving every last one of her misdeeds done to his house and allowing her to continue staying. Slightly [[InvertedTrope inverted]] later on, as Bojack unconsciously starts to become the manipulative one.
* {{Yandere}}: See the threat listed on [[PleaseDontLeaveMe Please Don't Leave Me]] above? She tried to go through it. '''''With a rusty bayonet.'''''
* YouAllShareMyStory: [[spoiler: Bradley, Joelle and Sarah Lynn's memories of their last talk to him help them discover what was the thing Herb wanted them to do after his death: publish his novel.]]
* YouAreFat: Her reaction to seeing Joelle again in "Still Broken". It really says something about the relationship she has with her co-star that this is the first thing she tells her when they see each other after 17+ years.
* YouthfulFreckles: Had them since childhood.
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