History Headscratchers / BojackHorseman

** IRRC, the test never said what their relation was, only that they had one. Bojack just (understandably) assumed that meant she was his daughter.

Why was Penny's encounter with BoJack so physiologically damaging? She came on to him while totally sober, he rejected her politely and gracefully, yet seasons later she's got PTSD from the encounter?

* "Time's Arrow" shows that Beatrice Sugarman had her debutante ball in the early 1960s. If she was a child in the 1940s, she would have been at least in her mid-20s by then. [[ChristmasCake Wouldn't that be considered too old?]]
** She went to college and got a bachelors degree (so she has to be at least older than 22 at this point), so I think that’s why it was delayed, because Joseph [[MRSDegree sent her to Barnard to find a husband]]. She would have been around 18 when she left, so he figured she’d have a husband by the time she graduated, but of course that didn’t work out. I think the latest you can have a debutante is 25, which would probably be considered [[ChristmasCake too old]], so that’s probably why Joseph was so anxious to marry her off.
** "Free Churro" revealed Beatrice was born in 1938, so by the time of her debutante ball she was 25 or 24, so time was running out for her (in society’s eyes), so that’s why Joseph was anxious to marry her off.

* Is it really possible for a half brother and sister to be read as a father and daughter in a DNA test?

* How does Bojack's swimming pool work? It's on a reinforced patio overlooking a cliff face. It looks like just a blue plane on a flat patio. Where does the pool's depth come from? Logically, the pool should be barely ankle deep.

*** To be fair, Champ's reasons for why he fell off are probably more personal than "your ex-costar dying after a booze and drug bender" and, whatever it was, he probably wasn't ready to talk about it yet, so he resorted to [[https://bit.ly/3woIAlF projection]].I mean, they're both self-aware self-destructive/destructive people with deep-seated issues that they don't really want to face, much less have to, though [=BoJack=] seems to more apt to help ''other people'' w/ their problems vs facing his own.

* How could Dr. Champ be so cruel and inaccurate about the reasons he fell of the wagon in Season 6? He knew that BoJack's whole reasons for being in there was self-inflicted hurt of other people.

** Yes Sarah Lynn wanted to go on the bender but BoJack took advantage of the fact she had no self control, keep in mind weeks earlier he begged her to stay sober, and there is no excuse for him waiting seventeen minutes, he said himself that phone call was to cover his tracks. Even if he wasn’t aware of how much time passed he still should have called 911 right away. I’ve seen people with medical knowledge say there was a very good chance she could have survived. Also that line about dying tragically young was probably played for laughs, Sarah Lynn confessed right before she died she essentially regretted her whole life I doubt she actually was ok with dying young.

** Because he's a frustrated alchoholic looking for someone else to blame. Bojack realizes this and recognizes how similar he's been, which is why he reacts the way he does.