History Recap / BojackHorsemanS1E03PricklyMuffin

FormerChildStar Sarah Lynn, who once played Sabrina on Bojack's sitcom ''Horsin' Around'', has just turned 30. When she happens to encounter Bojack at a furniture store, she quickly reveals just how messed-up her life has become. Her boyfriend, Andrew Garfield, breaks up with her, and in response she downs a bunch of pills, stabs herself in the stomach, and takes a dump on a couch.

With nowhere else to turn, Sarah Lynn drops by Bojack's place and asks if she can chill there for a little bit. Bojack, thinking that it'll be a great way to recapture the glory of his ''Horsin' Around'' days, lets her stay. She repays the favour by doing lots of drugs, holding wild house parties, and destroying the furniture and many of Bojack's belongings.

Diane and Todd try to convince Bojack that Sarah Lynn is nothing but trouble, but Bojack doesn't want to ruin the fantasy of acting as her father figure again. He's also dealing with his weird sexual attraction to her, which turns out to be mutual once they sleep together, further compelling him to keep her there.

* AllAccordingToPlan: Princess Carolyn tries to poach Sarah Lynn as a client by acting as a spoiled Man Child, dressing accordingly, attending Sarah Lynn's parties in Bojack's house and interacting with her to subtly push her into thinking they both think alike and should work as a team. When Sarah Lynn chooses Princess Carolyn's rival, Vanessa Gecko, instead, the former seems to be broken by that revelation and the wasted effort until Sarah Lynn leaves, at which point she changes stories and instead talks to Laura about "everything going according to plan" and to set a meeting with Andrew Garfield, Sarah Lynn's ex-boyfriend and the true target. Whether she's being honest or just decided to wing it is open to interpretation.

* BlackComedyRape: Not "rape" per se, but Todd is clearly not happy to be dragged into Bojack and Sarah Lynn's love-making.

* CastIncest: In-universe--Bojack and Sarah Lynn, who played a father and his adopted daughter on ''JustForFun/HorsinAround'', end up sleeping together.

* SexInASharedRoom: Bojack and Sarah Lynn have sex in front of Todd. Todd somehow gets his arm stuck and gets unwillingly pulled into the coupling.

** This is the first instant that it's revealed she wanted to be an architect via flashback. She reinforces this a few times during "That's Too Much, Man!" [[spoiler: and her final words are "I wanna be an architect."]]
** Her quote about [[spoiler: surrounding her with sycophants and enablers until she dies tragically young is PlayedForLaughs, but is HarsherInHindsight when she dies via overdose in "That's Too Much, Man!"]]

** Her quote about [[spoiler: surrounding her with sycophants and enablers until she dies tragically young is PlayedForLaughs, but is HarsherInHindsight when she dies via overdoes in "That's Too Much, Man!"]]

* BloodyHilarious: Sarah Lynn does it when she finds out her boyfriend Andrew Garfield is leaving her. What does she do? Stab herself with some rusty bayonets in order to draw attention from the public to their breakup, precisely what Andrew wanted to avoid.
** HighPressureBlood

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When [=BoJack=] asks Diana what she thinks about Sarah Lynn, she doesn't pick up that he's referring to her living with him and instead offers an in-depth analysis on her thoughts of Sarah Lynn as a person and her career. To her credit, it's quite insightful and does the opposite of paint Sarah Lynn in the Puppet of the Industry light (directly saying that she feels a lot of people dismiss her as that). Still... not the point.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Sarah Lynn's "Prickly Muffin" music video is shot almost entirely at a planetarium. Sarah Lynn would reveal the Planetarium to be her favorite place in "That's Too Much Man".

* UnusualEuphemism: "Prickly Muffin" obviously refers to one's vagina.

* TheStoner: Sarah Lynn.

* CastIncest: In-universe--Bojack and Sarah Lynn, who played foster dad and daughter on ''Horsin' Around'', end up sleeping together.

Diane and Todd try to convince Bojack that Sarah Lynn is nothing but trouble, but Bojack doesn't want to ruin the fantasy of acting as her father figure again. He's also dealing with his weird sexual attraction to her, which turns out to be mutual once they sleep together.

Diane and Todd try to convince Bojack that Sarah Lynn is nothing but trouble, but Bojack doesn't want to ruin the fantasy of acting as her father figure again.

Diane and Todd try to convince Bojack that Sarah Lynn is nothing but trouble, but Bojack doesn't want to ruin the somewhat Freudian fantasy of being her father figure and making up for the way he neglected her on ''Horsin' Around''.

Diane and Todd try to convince Bojack that Sarah Lynn is nothing but trouble, but Bojack doesn't want to ruin the convenient fantasy of

With nowhere else to turn, Sarah Lynn drops by Bojack's place and asks if she can chill there for a little bit. Bojack, thinking that it'll be a great way to recapture the glory of his ''Horsin' Around'' days, lets her stay. She repays the favour by holding wild house parties, destroying the furniture and many of Bojack's belongings.

Bojack still doesn't want to let her go. He makes a couple of half-hearted attempts to confront her, but she just continues to manipulate him.

With nowhere else to turn, Sarah Lynn drops by Bojack's place and asks if she can chill there for a little bit. Bojack, thinking that it'll be a great way to recapture the glory of his ''Horsin' Around'' days, lets her stay. She repays the favour by holding wild house parties, destroying the furniture and many of Bojack's belongings, and revealing to Bojack at the worst possible moment that ''Horsin' Around'''s showrunner, Herb Kazzaz, has cancer.

Bojack still doesn't want to let her go.

With nowhere else to turn, Sarah Lynn drops by Bojack's place and asks if she can chill there for a little bit. Bojack, thinking that it'll be a great way to recapture the glory of his ''Horsin' Around'' days, lets her stay. She repays the favour by holding wild house parties, destroying the furniture,