History Recap / BojackHorsemanS3E09BestThingThatEverHappened

** Despite being genuinely thankful to her and affirming that he loves her as much as he's capable of loving anyone, the episode still ends with [=BoJack=] refusing to give Princess Carolyn her job back. Friend or no, Princess screwed up badly and lost [=BoJack=] three major acting opportunities that he'll never get back. Breaches in trust like this and the need to maintain a professional relationship is part of the reason why trying to do business with friends is generally not recommended.

* OedipusComplex: PC accuses [=BoJack=] of wanting a mother figure who will fix his mistakes, but who is also sexually available. Far from being offended, [=BoJack=] is mainly upset that the combination rarely includes professionalism: "A sex-mommy who also keeps her boundaries - is that too much to ask?".

[[Recap/BojackHorsemanS3E08OldAcquaintance Upset with Princess Carolyn for losing two movie offers, including ruining his chances of reconciling with Kelsey,]] [=BoJack=] is ready to fire her as his agent. Princess Carolyn tries to defend her case over dinner.

* InsignificantAnniversary: BoJack goes out to dinner with his agent and ex-girlfriend Princess Carolyn, intending to fire her for losing him roles. Knowing she's about to be fired, Princess Carolyn hastily gets the waiters to bring out a cake and celebrate how she and BoJack have been working together for twenty-three years. BoJack doesn't change his mind about firing her.

** Despite being genuinely thankful to her and affirming that he loves her as much as he's capable of loving anyone, the episode still ends with Bojack refusing to give Princess Carolyn her job back. Friend or no, Princess screwed up badly and lost Bojack three major acting opportunities that he'll never get back. Breaches in trust like this and the need to maintain a professional relationship is part of the reason why trying to do business with friends is generally not recommended.

* AbsenteeActor: Diane, Todd and Mr. Peanutbutter are all absent from the episode, though Paul F. Tompkins and Alison Brie still have roles as Sandro and the critic.

* PoorCommunicationKills: [=BoJack=] bluntly fires PC, but Sandro, the restaurant's head waiter who is close by, believes ''he's'' the one getting fired and makes a mess of the place protest. When [=BoJack=] actually fires him for his behavior, Sandro storms out, taking almost the entire staff with him.

* SelfDeprecation: Princess Carolyn calls out [=BoJack=] for frequently being more interested in hearing "one mean thing" over the "ten nice things" that can overpower it. In her own words, a "self-hating masochist".

-->''[=BoJack=]'': "Our relationship no longer has any professional integrity, so it's gotta end. Stand to leave. Oh, shouldn't have read that part. When you reflect on this, you'll see it's best for both of us. Exit restaurant. Goddamn it."

* ITakeOffenseToThatLast: While Princess Carolyn is trying to appeal to [=BoJack=] to rehire her, she mentions that almost everyone else she worked with begged her to drop him as a client, and lists off various things they said about him. [=BoJack=] is calm as she lists them off, until she gets to the last one, which is that one of them called him "Too portly for TV."

* RealityEnsues:
** The waiter was on fire for a considerable amount of time and he explains that he needs to be rushed to a hospital.
** The Food Critic ultimately ends up having to give the restaurant a low score due to all the chaos despite liking Princess Carolyn's dish. It doesn't matter though since she just runs a poorly designed tumblr blog with no attention.
** Despite being genuinely thankful to her and affirming that he loves her as much as he's capable of loving anyone, the episode still ends with Bojack refusing to give Princess Carolyn her job back. Friend or no, Princess screwed up badly and lost Bojack three major acting opportunities that he'll never get back. Breaches in trust like this and the need to maintain a professional relationship is part of the reason why trying to do business with friends is generally not recommended.

* StrawCritic: [=BoJack=] views all critics like this when he hears that a food critic is at his restaurant. Although the critic loves the food, she has to [[RealityEnsues give it a low rating for all the chaos that happened.]] It later turns out she runs an obscure tumblr blog with a billion star rating system, meaning her words matter squat.

* HypocriteHasAPoint: [=BoJack=] is in no position for calling out Princess Carolyn's screw-ups that cost him three TV/movie roles at once, since he had his own share of screw-ups that got him in trouble more than once. That said, none of her screw-ups from last episode were his fault.

* SelfDeprecation: Princess Carolyn calls out [=BoJack=] for being a frequently being more interested in hearing "one mean thing" over the "ten nice things" that can overpower it. In other words, a "self-hating masochist".

* MeaningfulTitle: The episode title refers to both [=BoJack=] and Princess Carolyn dropping this line whenever something bad happens, hoping to find some silver lining from it.

* ReadingTheStageDirectionsOutLoud: [=BoJack=] does this while trying to make his exit.