History Headscratchers / BojackHorseman

* In [=BoJack=]'s DyingDream we learn a lot of things about [=CrackerJack=], including the exact circumstances of how he died, and that he volunteered for the army, and had a miserably bad track record as a soldier, his only confirmed kills being from a friendly fire accident. But the fact it happens in [=BoJack=]'s mind raises a lot of interesting questions about how close to reality these facts actually are. Is it just [=BoJack=]'s own imagination and self-loathing filling in some blanks to make [=CrackerJack=] look like a failure like the rest of his family? Or did [=BoJack=] at some point decide to do some research into the mysterious uncle he never met, yet managed to cast such a huge shadow over the lives of his mother and himself, only to end up being less than impressed with what he found out?

** This seems to be one of the only times the show has had anything resembling a throwaway gag.s Not only does the bird never come back in the series, [=BoJack=] is genuinely empathetic, something he's not known for.

* How does Bojack still have a drivers license in season 6? He's been unquestionably at fault in several accidents, most due to blatant drunk driving. The usual "he gets away with it because he's rich and famous" explanation doesn't work hhere, since Mr. Peanutbutter lost his for much lesser violations.

** Ultimately there is zero canonical evidence pointing to Sarah Lynn being physically abused, even though she is exploited & damaged in many different ways during her life. The show had more than enough time to have wanted to go in that direction but they didn't and instead have at the very most, only implied it very gently. The writers most likely didn't want to overtly get into one of the few traumas/abuse they hadn't covered, because child sexual abuse is an exceptionally dark topic. Even for a show like this.

* I'm confused at to what the show's trying to say about Sarah Lynn possibly having been molested by her stepfather. Watching Season 6, I believed the show was trying to retcon what it had previously implied by showing her mother loved her at least enough to threaten to sue when she learned Sarah got drunk on set, and having Sarah Lynn not be allowed in her dressing room because her stepfather is "being weird." But then I read the updated Fridge page, and it uses the "being weird" bit as further evidence of the crime. What is her stepfather "being weird" in her dressing room supposed to imply? Wouldn't a molester want their victim to stay with them in a private place?

** 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.

** Because he's a frustrated alchoholic.

* 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.

* Philbert waxes? It took me a long time to figure out the problem with this, but then it suddenly hit me. Philbert is a horse. Horses are supposed to be covered in fur. This plot point makes no sense and Bojack seems to be the only one that notices.

* The existence of domesticated species in this universe. We know for sure that there are different breeds of domestic dogs and cats, and there is also livestock, like cows and chickens. Did these animals somewhat evolve out of their wild ancestors by themselves or were they domesticated like in our world? We know for sure that wolves exist, so they aren't just considered "ancestors", like we would look at cavemen for example. Are wolves looked down on because they're not as "civilised" as dogs? I know the simplest explanation is "artistic choice", but the implications of this universe are killing me.

* ''That's Too Much Man!'' -- Bojack spends a lot of time driving [[DrivesLikeCrazy extremely recklessly]] around LA, causing a lot of property damage and near-accidents (at point he actually ''hits'' a skateboarder who goes up and over his bonnet). Where the hell were the cops (or Fuzzyface at least) while this was happening, and why didn't this make the news (two celebrities on a drug-fuelled bender terrorising LA in an increasingly banged-up car would be a pretty big story in real life)? For a show which is about exploring the [[RealityEnsues realistic consequences]] of behaving like a jackass, it seems like a big goof. Also, how is Bojack ''not'' in jail in the next episode? Like I mentioned, he caused a lot of damage and injured (killed?) that skateboarder, and there would've been plenty of eyewitnesses (like the meerkat accountant and his son - he crashed through their playhouse and came within inches of killing them), plus he would've had to have dealt with the cops/paramedics if he reported [[spoiler:Sarah Lynn's death]]... [[FridgeHorror unless]] he panicked and fled the scene when he realised [[spoiler:she was dead]]...
** According to the second episode of season 4, [=BoJack=] [[spoiler: took her to the hospital, holding her hand.]]

* If Bojack's fanclub president is telling the truth, then [[spoiler:Bojack really did have an illegitimate child given up for adoption, even if it wasn't Hollyhock!]] Are we ever going to learn more about this in the future?

* So Wonder Woman is Wonder Worm in this universe? What does her long-time arch-enemy, Cheetah, look like? And is Kirk Langstrom just a normal bat who went crazy?

** Thoroughly ruining the guy's life after lulling him into abandoning everything to come to L.A. would be among the darkest things BoJack has ever done, I'm not sure the show wants to revisit it, and would rather just write it off as something that might or might not have worked out ok for Ethan. Fortunately, the turtle character realized the error of Ethan's ways and had an insurance rider put on BoJack for his next project because he's a flight risk.

*** Maybe the bears (besides the stepdad) are speaking but they're speaking their version of a foreign language, so, to the viewers, it comes out like growls. However, we haven't seen too many bears besides the ones in Beatrice's flashbacks and the stepdad, so we don't really know for sure.

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** It's important to note that the series has made a habit of letting Bojack, among others, get away with quite a lot out of his status as a celebrity.

* So Wonder Woman is Wonder Worm in this universe? What does her long-time arch-enemy, Cheetah, look like? And is Kirk Langstrom just a normal bat who went crazy?
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*** I've more or less figured that non-sapient animals also exist, we just don't see them, kind of like in ''Webcomic/DanAndMabsFurryAdventures'', where Lorenda (a cow) eats a hamburger from a non-sentient (or magical) cow and we haven't seen the latter type of cow.

*** Or, rather, they don't exist in the way that the minotaur might and probably exist in more "of a one or the other" or a GenderEqualsBreedThing.

*** I've more or less figured that non-sapient animals also exist, we just don't see them, kind of like in ''Webcomic/DanAndMabsFurryAdventures'', where Lorenda (a cow) eats a hamburger from a non-sentient (or magical) cow and we haven't seen the latter type of cow.

* In "Downer Ending", [=BoJack=] recalls his disastrous final meeting with Herb during his drug-induced freak out. However, in the hallucination, Herb is chewing out the 1980s [=BoJack=] and not the present one. Can this be interpretated that [=BoJack=], even at some of the more happier moments of his life, still suffered from extremely low self-esteem and self-worth?

* If I'm not mistaken, the portly bald guy who'd been silently hanging around Todd's WTiIN office is the same guy who offers job to Henry Fondle in the end. So he's super rich and clearly doesn't work for site. Then what the hell was he doing there?

*** I thought that Diane might've mentioned something about [=BoJack=]'s father wasting a lot of it, probably near the beginning of their marriage. It's also possible that [=BoJack=]'s mother was disowned for marrying someone of lower class, which seems to be a common trope in media concerning rich heiresses.
*** ^Apparently this was Word of God that Butterscotch squandered a lot of her inheritance.
*** Season 4 confirms the company is still around, so even if Butterscotch squandered it Bojack will probably get something out of it some day. Since his Horsin' Around dividends are more than enough to support his lifestyle, and he hates his family, it probably just never comes up in conversation.
*** A FreezeFrameBonus shows the company was sold to a Japanese conglomerate, so Bojack probably will never inherit any of it.
*** Piggybacking on the above, in season 4, episode 1 the sugar packet that inspires Bojack to go to the cabin shows it is already purchased by the Japanese conglomerate. Beatrice is still alive at this point, so the purchase money went to her, given her senility any money remaining is held in trust by someone who is definitely not Bojack.
*** I think Beatrice gave herself that title because of her narcissism and displeasure of living in middle class. The company was sold to Japanese conglomerates. What I think is that Joseph wouldn’t have let a woman run his company (I doubt he fully disowned Beatrice for getting pregnant by Butterscotch since Joseph gave him a well paying job at his company) and he had planned to marry Beatrice off to Corbin Creamerman so that he could partner with Corbin’s father’s creamery, and so Corbin could inherit the whole thing one day. Plus a decade before Joseph died [=BoJack=] became famous and rich, and it was sort of implied Sugarman’s Sugar was loosing profits by the time of Beatruce’s debutante.

* What became of ''Ethan Around''? We never hear about it once Bojack gets back to L.A., at which point it's been a year since he ran out on the taping for the first episode. Did they just outright cancel it when they coudn't get a hold of him?

** 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 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.

** Bojack's fan club president is demonstrably insane. There is no reason to believe she's telling the truth.