History Recap / BojackHorsemanS5E04BojackTheFeminist

* TheBusCameBack: Ana Spanikopita comes back after being absent since the third season.

* ChekhovsGun: The recording of Bojack admitting he nearly slept with Penny finally comes back into play [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS3E01StartSpreadingTheNews two seasons later]].
* ContinuityNod: Ana Spanikopita - Bojack's publicist from Season 3 - reappears, as does the recording of his confession about Penny that she confiscated from a Manatee Fair journalist in "Start Spreading The News".

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Pays off in this episode. Back in "The Dog Days Are Over", Diane claims to know everything about Bojack. He refutes this and starts to tell the story about what happened with Penny before Diane drifts off. In this episode, Diane finally learns the truth.

* InternalReveal: Diane finally learns what happened between Bojack and Penny two years prior.

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: When defending "Philbert", Bojack says that you're not supposed to idolize the protagonist because the show isn't meant to glamorize people who do the things he does but is instead a {{Deconstruction}} of them.

* AccidentalHero: Mr. Peanutbutter's attempts to be tough backfire in this sense. When he attempts to knock a cigarette out of a biker's mouth, the man picks him up and hugs him; he says that he had promised his daughter to quit smoking after he had lost his father to lung cancer but couldn't break the addiction. The two bird paparazzi find their medical problems cursed by Mr. Peanutbutter growling at them, and thank him for his help.

* AccidentalHero: Mr. Peanutbutter's attempts to be tough backfire in this sense. When he attempts to knock a cigarette out of a biker's mouth, the man picks him up and hugs him; he says that he had promised his dying father to quit smoking but couldn't break the addiction. The two bird paparazzi find their medical problems cursed by Mr. Peanutbutter growling at them, and thank him for his help.

* DangerTakesABackseat: Ana Spanakopita breaks into Diane's car and waits for her in the back, to the latter's shock.

* SuicidalLemmings: Princess Carolyn remarks to Vance Waggoner that producers blindly follow each other like lemmings. [[WorldOfFunnyAnimals A nearby lemming family gets offended]], and remarks that [[IResembleThatRemark they're going to go find the nearest cliff]]..

* ChekhovsGun: The recording of Bojack admitting he nearly slept with Penny finally comes back into play [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS3E01StartSpreadingTheNews two seasons later]].

* DidNotThinkThisThrough: After a string of revelations live on the air, Vance finally questions why he voluntarily appeared on a show called ''Gotcha''.

* SuicidalLemmings: In "[=BoJack=] the Feminist," Princess Carolyn remarks to Vance Waggoner that producers blindly follow each other like lemmings. [[WorldOfFunnyAnimals A nearby lemming family gets offended]], and remarks that [[IResembleThatRemark they're going to go find the nearest cliff]]..

* ChekovsGun: The recording of Bojack admitting he nearly slept with Penny finally comes back into play [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS3E01StartSpreadingTheNews two seasons later]].

* HumiliationConga: While Vance [[AssholeVictim more or less deserved it]] had to deal with several scandals in under a year.

** A much darker example: Bojack's comment on The Squawk that we "shouldn't choke women" is played for laughs due to what a pathetically low bar it is to set for decent behaviour. A bar that Bojack himself will fail to clear in just seven episodes' time.

** A much darker example: Bojack's comment on The Squawk that [[spoiler: we "shouldn't choke women"]] is played for laughs due to what a pathetically low bar it is to set for decent behaviour. [[spoiler: A bar that Bojack himself will fail to clear in just seven episodes' time.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Back in "The Dog Days Are Over", Diane mentions to know everything about Bojack, and he says she doesn't start telling the story about what happened to Penny before Diane drifts off. In this episode, Diane finally learns this was true.

* ContinuityNod: Ana recorded Bojack's confession about Penny during "Escape From L.A." to the manatee reporter, and plays it for Diane.

* ChekovsGun: The recording of Bojack admitting he nearly slept with Penny finally comes back into play [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS3E01StartSpreadingTheNews two seasons later]].

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Vance Waggoner is a thinly veiled parody of Creator/MelGibson.

* ContinnuityNod: Ana recorded Bojack's confession about Penny during "Escape From L.A." to the manatee reporter, and plays it for Diane.
* {{Deconstruction}}: Discussed. Diane mentions that the show "Philbert" tries to play itself off as a deconstruction of toxic masculinity, but it comes off as a sort of ShallowParody that actually uses this idea to fill the whole show with content of the type, which includes gratuitous sexual violence.

* CallBack: Ana recorded Bojack's confession about Penny during "Escape From L.A." to the manatee reporter, and plays it for Diane.

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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Vance Waggoner is a thinly veiled parody of Creator/MelGibson.

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