History NightmareFuel / BojackHorseman

** In a moment of BlackComedy, Zach Braff is pushed and roller blades slowly backwards into the void, spouting tongue twisters all the while.

** [=BoJack=] starts to panic and tries to leave, but he can't. Beatrice and Crackerjack are up next, and the two perform a duet of Beatrice twirling a ribbon and Crackerjack playing the trumpet for her. He then wraps himself up with the ribbon and jumps into the void, while Beatrice covers herself with the ribbon, all while a [[BuffySpeak black liquid slime substance]] envelops and her as she disappears.

** The dark substance then swallows up Herb, [[ItMakesSenseinContext and the red bird that flew in to the house]], and it begins to chase [=BoJack=] throughout the house as he realizes that whatever this is, is death, and that it's coming for him. He realizes that he's drowning in his swimming pool, as he sees a silhouette of himself floating inside said pool. It catches up to him, it starts to envelop him too, and the episode ends on [[HellIsThatNoise the sound of a]] ''flatline''.

** In the same scene, Diane describes her having gone into a spiral after hearing [=BoJack=]'s last voicemail and thinking that he had died.

* [=BoJack=] explaining to young Sarah Lynn about the scary truths of show business comes across as very sinister. Especially when you realize that it's this that led to Sarah eventually becoming the train-wreck that she is as an adult. The fact that she looks absolutely terrified when [=BoJack=] finishes telling her all this really hammers it in:

'''[=BoJack=]:''' Well, 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, you be good to them and they'll be good to you. The most important thing is, you gotta 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!'''''

** Secretariat recites a poem about what it was like ''jumping off a bridge'', talking about [[TitleDrop the view from halfway down]] during the fall, and all the while, the spotlight keeps shining on the door as it inches closer to Secretariat, almost as if it's beckoning him. Worse still is that as Secretariat continues reading, he starts to sound more panicked and scared, then eventually falls backwards into it, and it's just very hard to watch.

** Shortly before his performance his Beatrice, Crackerjack is briefly shown ''with a bleeding hole in his head''.

*** The whole scene really hammers in just how frightened Bojack is about confronting his mortality. This bit of dialogue he has just before it's ''his turn'' to enter that [[NothingIsScarier pitch black door to nowhere]] doesn't ease his intense feeling of dread.

* While it isn't the kind of extreme, short term trauma of other events of the series, Bojack getting out of prison for a day and ending the night with Diane, someone who was his best friend and closest confidant for the better part of a decade, telling him they'll never talk to each other again.

* While it might not reach the level of trauma of other events of the series, Bojack getting out of prison for a day and ending the night with Diane, someone who was his best friend and closest confidant for the better part of a decade, telling him they'll never talk to each other again.

* The [[WhamEpisode shocking revelation]] that Sarah Lynn was [[NotQuiteDead only barely still alive in the planetarium]], right when [=BoJack=] had thought she died in his arms after [[PleaseWakeUp calling out to her several times]]. That's not the terrifying part. The actual terrifying part is what happened next: ''[[EtTuBrute [=BoJack=] abandoned Sarah Lynn]]''. He failed to call for help until seventeen minutes had passed, and by then it was already too late for her. [=BoJack=] saw Sarah Lynn as a surrogate daughter, and he confessed in the interview that he had also loved her, and yet in the end [[ItsAllAboutMe he cared more about covering his tracks that night than doing everything he can to get help right away]].

'''Herb:''' ''(with sadness in his voice, as the blackness creeps out the door and slowly consumes him)'' Oh, [=BoJack=], no... [[CessationOfExistence there is no other side]]. This is it. ''(is eaten entirely by the blackless)''

* Several people with claustrophobia have called this episode one of the most nightmarish things they've ever sat through, with a whole half hour of Bojack stuck underwater with only a small glass bubble to keep him from drowning, and unable to communicate at all.

* The opening goes through a massive overhaul, with one very subtle bit of horror; the moment where Bojack tips over his balcony and lands in a swimming pool is altered so he's now at the observatory. When he falls over the balcony, there's no swimming pool, just darkness.

** How stressed is she? She ''nearly microvawes her daughter''!

--> '''[=BoJack=]:''' Hey, you see those people?
--> '''Sarah Lynn:''' Yeah.
--> '''[=BoJack=]:''' Well, 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, you be good to them and they'll be good to you. The most important thing is, you gotta 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!'''''

-->'''Diane''': "I ATE TOO MANY PANCAKES!!!"
-->'''[=BoJack=]''': "Oh shit, I'm still tripping."

* This entire episode is about Bojack trying to reconnect with his family and loved ones ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg as well as]] Zach Braff and Corduroy Jackson Jackson), even though they're all dead. He's aware that it's all a dream that he thinks he can wake up from, but they all decide to put on a show, and Bojack has no choice but to watch.

** Bojack starts to panic and tries to leave, but he can't. Beatrice and Crackerjack are up next, and the two perform a duet of Beatrice twirling a ribbon and Crackerjack playing the trumpet for her. He then wraps himself up with the ribbon and jumps into the void, while Beatrice covers herself with the ribbon, all while a [[BuffySpeak black liquid slime substance]] envelops and her as she disappears.
** The dark substance then swallows up Herb, [[ItMakesSenseinContext and the red bird that flew in to the house]], and it begins to chase Bojack throughout the house as he realizes that whatever this is, is death, and that it's coming for him. He realizes that he's drowning in his swimming pool, as he sees a silhouette of himself floating inside said pool. It catches up to him, it starts to envelop him too, and the episode ends on [[HellIsThatNoise the sound of a]] ''flatline''.

---> '''Bojack''': Is it terrifying?
---> '''Herb''': No, I don't think so. It's just the way it is, you know? Everything has to end. The drip finally stops.
---> '''Bojack''': See you on the other side.
---> '''Herb''': Oh Bojack, [[CessationOfExistence there is no other side]]. [[TheNothingAfterDeath This is it]].

---> '''Herb''': Oh Bojack, [[CessationOfExistence there is no other side]]. [[TheNothingAfterDeath This is it.]]

---> '''Herb''': Oh Bojack, [[CessationOfExistence there is no other side]]. This is it.

--> '''Bojack''': Is it terrifying?
--> '''Herb''': No, I don't think so. It's just the way it is, you know? Everything has to end. The drip finally stops.
--> '''Bojack''': See you on the other side.
--> '''Herb''': Oh Bojack, [[CessationOfExistence there is no other side]]. This is it.

** The dark substance then swallows up Herb, [[ItMakesSenseinContext and the red bird that flew in to the house]], and it begins to chase Bojack throughout the house as he realizes that whatever this is, is death, and that it's coming for him. He realizes that he's drowning in his swimming pool, as he sees a silhouette of himself floating inside said pool. It catches up to him, it starts to envelop him too, and the episode ends on the sound of a ''flatline''.

** The dark substance then swallows up Herb, [[ItMakesSenseinContext and the red bird that flew in to the house]], and it begins to chase Bojack throughout the house as he realizes that whatever this is, is death, and that it's coming for him. He realizes that he's drowning in his swimming pool, as he sees a silhouette of himself floating inside said pool. It catches up to him, it starts to envelop him too, and the episode ends on a ''flatline''.

* When Joseph not so subtly threatens to have Beatrice lobotomised like her mother, the background is nothing but fire, essentially being Hell. Joseph turns his body slightly so that it faces the audience and his ears actually resemble ''horns.'' This may not even have been intentional on the animators part, but it certainly makes Joseph look that much more evil.

[[caption-width-right:350:"[[DissonantSerenity I promise]], one day, [[BlatantLies this will all be a pleasant memory]]."]]

->''There is no shame in dying for nothing. That's why most people die.''
->--'''Creator/HenryWinkler''' about Herb's death, "Still Broken". Pretty good summation of the show's PrimalFear.

* Diane and Guy investigate an apparent workplace accident at a Whitewhale factory with the plot to make an exposé video about it. [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Jeremiah Whitewhale]] finds out and, rather than put a stop to it, smugly informs her that such a video won't harm his company, and the lack of moral restriction actually ''[[MisaimedFandom increases the company's value]].'' He then nonchalantly admits that the employee didn't die of an accident, but was ''murdered'' for "taking too many bathroom breaks." He then reveals that Congress passed a bill where murder is legal for the rich.

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[[caption-width-right:340: Just one question: ''[[NightmareRetardant where did you]] [[ComicallyMissingThePoint get the syrup bottle?]]'']]

** Pictured at the top-right corner is a vision of Diane randomly [[TransformationHorror mutating into a hideous abomination]].

* As with ''The Old Sugarman Place'', this is an episode that makes terrifyingly effective use of sound, particularly towards the end. As Beatrice's memory of her doll being burned gets entangled with [=BoJack=]'s birth and Hollyhock's birth, the music moves from bittersweet but triumphant, to a moment of calm...only to slide into a discordant and eerie noise as a young Beatrice frantically begs the servants not to burn her belongings, cut with Hollyhock's separation from her mother. There's a ScareChord when Henrietta screams as her baby is taken from her, followed quickly by the echoing and ethereal scream as Honey's lobotomized silhouette appears in the flames behind Beatrice's father and his horrifying DissonantSerenity. The effect is downright chilling.

* Diane and Guy investigate an apparent workplace accident at a Whitewhale factory with the plot to make an exposé video about it. [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Jeremiah Whitewhale]] finds out and, rather than put a stop to it, smugly informs her that such a video won't harm his company, and the lack of moral restriction actually ''increases the company's value.'' He then nonchalantly admits that the employee didn't die of an accident, but was ''murdered'' for "taking too many bathroom breaks." He then reveals that Congress passed a bill where murder is legal for the rich.