History Recap / BojackHorsemanS3E04FishOutOfWater

* TheReveal: At the very end, [=BoJack=] realizes his underwater helmet is equipped with a speaker designed to let him communicate underwater.

* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Had Bojack figured out how his helmet functioned, he might have had less trouble communicating with Kelsey.

* ClamshellCurrency: At some point, BoJack tries shopping at an underwater convenience store that refuses to take his paper money and only accepts shells.

* ShoutOut: [=BoJack=] getting PersonaNonGrata from France for praising Sartre's philosophy is a reference to what happened to Creator/LarsVonTrier after he made his infamous "I'm a Nazi" comment at a press screening for ''Film/{{Melancholia}}'' at the Cannes Film Festival.

* BittersweetEnding: Bojack gets the baby seahorse back to his father and humbly turns down any compensation he's offered, and despite not showing up to the festival screening, ''Secretariat'' is a hit, but he fails to reconcile with Kelsey when the ink on the letter he shows her smudges beyond legibility. And he finds out how to speak with his air helmet ''immediately'' after!

* BittersweetEnding: Bojack gets the baby seahorse back to his father and humbly turns down any compensation he's offered, and despite not showing up to the festival screening, ''Secretariat'' is a hit, but he fails to reconcile with Kelsey when the ink on the letter he shows her smudges beyong legibility. And he finds out how to speak with his air helmet ''immediately'' after!

* BizzaroEpisode

* BittersweetEnding: Bojack gets the baby seahorse back to his father and humbly turns down any compensation he's offered, and despite not showing up to the festival screening, ''Secretariat'' is a hit, but he fails to reconcile with Kelsey when the ink on the letter he shows her smudges beyong legibility. [[spoiler: And he finds out how to speak with his air helmet ''immediately'' after!]]

* WaterIsAir: Zig-Zagged ''mercilessly'', mostly for the sake of jokes. Land-dwellers need special helmets to breathe in the underwater city. However, we see walruses and other such sea animals that actually ''need'' air doing totally fine without them. In the spirit of this trope, citizens walk and drive along the sea floor instead of swimming or floating (they also walk normally without any extra effort), yet, Bojack realizes soon enough that [[spoiler:he actually ''can'' swim, something he takes advantage of to escape safely through a window several stories above the floor. Made even more hilarious by the fact that his pursuers, ''actual fish'', make no effort to swim after him, instead standing there shaking their fists]]. Printed media and pens seem to be a thing down there as well, but [[spoiler:the ''moment'' Bojack tries to communicate with Kelsey through a heartfelt, hand-written letter, the ink ''[[RealityEnsues washes away]]'']]. This trope seems to be averted and played straight as the story demands, ''and it's perfect''.

* BittersweetEnding: Bojack gets the baby seahorse back to his father and humbly turns down any compensation he's offered, and despite not showing up to the festival screening, ''Secretariat'' is a hit, but he fails to reconcile with Kelsey when the ink on the letter he shows her smudges beyong legibility. [[spoiler: And he finds out how to speak with his air helmet ''immediately'' after!'']]

* DownerEnding: [=BoJack=] tries to reconnect with Kelsey, which he does by writing a letter, but when he finally gets his chance to deliver it to her, the ink has smudged and she leaves confused.

* FishOutOfWater: ''And how'', not just in the sense that this episode literally focuses on a horse underwater. There are several details meant to evoke the feeling of suddenly finding yourself in an unfamiliar country. Bojack is trying to find his way in a place where he ''doesn't understand the language'' (granted, when written, it seems to be pretty much the same as English with a few letters switched out, but spoken it's incomprehensible, but maybe that's because they're [[RealityEnsues speaking underwater]]), they have their own currency that BoJack isn't carrying, and a simple thumbs up seems to be their equivalent of flipping the bird, much to BoJack's confusion. Also, they drive on the side opposite to the standard in the U.S., much like in Japan or the U.K. All of this makes the underwater city feel way more real, being portrayed as ''actually foreign''.

* FishOutOfWater

* WaterIsAir: Zig-Zagged ''mercilessly'', mostly for the sake of jokes. Land-dwellers need special helmets to breathe in the underwater city. However, we see walruses and other such sea animals that actually ''need'' air doing totally fine without them. In the spirit of this trope, citizens walk and drive along the sea floor instead of swimming or floating (they also walk normally without any extra effort), yet, Bojack realizes soon enough that [spoiler:he actually ''can'' swim, something he takes advantage of to escape safely through a window several stories above the floor. Made even more hilarious by the fact that his pursuers, ''actual fish'', make no effort to swim after him, instead standing there shaking their fists]. Printed media and pens seem to be a thing down there as well, but [spoiler:the ''moment'' Bojack tries to communicate with Kelsey through a heartfelt, hand-written letter, the ink ''[[RealityEnsues washes away]]'']. This trope seems to be averted and played straight as the story demands, ''and it's perfect''.

* ActorExistenceLimbo: The underwater setting and lack of dialogue of the episode allowed for the brief return of Abe, despite the death of his voice actor Creator/GarryMarshall.

* WeirdCurrency: The underwater dwellers use multicolored shells as currency. Bojack is rebuffed when he tries to pay for seahorse milk with greenbacks.

* WeirdCurrency: The underwater dwellers use multicolored shells as currency.

* TheReveal: At the very end [=BoJack=] realizes his underwater helmet is equipped with a speaker designed to let him communicate underwater.

* NoDialogueEpisode: There is no dialogue underwater, as sound seemingly doesn't travel as well.