History Recap / BojackHorsemanS5E06FreeChurro

-->'''[=BoJack=]:''' You can't have happy endings in sitcoms, not really, because if everyone's happy, the show would be over, and above all else, [[TheShowMustGoOn the show...]] has to keep going.

-->'''[=BoJack=]:''' What's the difference between my mother and a disruptive expulsion of germs? One's a coughin' fit and the other fits a coffin! (...) What's the difference between my mother and a bunch of Easter eggs? One gets carried in a basket, the other gets buried in a casket! Ready for one more? Last one. What's the difference between a first-year lit major and my mother, Beatrice Horseman? One is decently read, and the other's a huge bitch! [[note]]Expected punchline would be "recently dead." [[/note]]

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]]. Bojack spends a lot of time pondering on why his mother (and his father) behaved the way they did, and his futile attempts to try to better understand his horribly dysfunctional relationship with them.

** [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] with the actual meaning behind Beatrice's final words, "I see you." Was it her final and only act of kindness towards her estranged son by acknowledging him as a person, one last petty and mean-spirited shot at him, or just a neutral statement? At the end, Bojack concludes that she must have simply been reading the sign for the Intensive Care Unit, but even then we don't know for sure and likely never will.

* AudienceMurmurs: The audience can be heard whenever Bojack cracks an inappropriate joke.
* BaitAndSwitch: Bojack intentionally lies about a story in which his mother supposedly gave him a jacket that he really wanted for a talent show at the last minute, before admitting that he just lifted that reference from an episode of ''{{Series/Maude}}''. He says that in all his life, he wanted his horrible bitch of a mother to [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold show some true kindness to him]], but it never happened.

* ContemplateOurNavels: Bojack's eulogy is full of rambling anecdotes, but also offers some philosophical insights on his inner feelings.

* {{Crossover}}: InUniverse. Bojack mentioned that an episode of "Horsin Around" had Olivia getting rides from various celebrity cameos including Creator/MrT, Series/{{Alf}} and the cast of the off-Broadway show ''Stomp''.

* DysfunctionJunction: Bojack acknowledges that his family was this. Reminiscing about the few, lovely moments he had when both he and his father watched his mother dance, he realizes that those moments were an acknowledgment that they were all drowning together, even though none of them knew how to stop drowning or how to save each other.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Bojack brings up that Beatrice wanted an open casket but the funeral is closed casket. Meaning this isn’t her funeral.

* TheFunInFuneral: Most of the humor in this episode is very dark but it does have some wacky hijinks, like the cartoon sound effects from the organ player and TheReveal that Bojack was at the wrong funeral the whole time.

* LastDisrespects: Most of the eulogy Bojack gives is mostly insulting her and mocking her life.
* MinimalistCast: Will Arnett provides the only speaking roles in this episode, as Butterscotch and then Bojack. The only other characters seen are a nameless lizard family that says nothing.

** More humorously, it takes Bojack the ''entire'' length of the episode to realize that he's giving a eulogy at the ''[[EpicFail wrong funeral]]'', as a confused group of lizard people watched him talk about a woman they don't know about.
* ShaggyDogStory: Bojack's relationship with his parents and the effect it's had on his life, which has been part of the story since season 1, ultimately ends with them both dead and Bojack having gained no closure from it. Beatrice's final words, the significance of which Bojack spends most of the episode agonizing over, turn out to be completely meaningless, denying him even the chance of believing that his mother was capable of kindness in her final moments, no matter how late they were to him.

* SpeakIllOfTheDead: Bojack wastes no effort in explaining just how much his deceased AbusiveParents sucked, and even calls his mom a "huge bitch". Despite this, he does offer a (little) bit of sympathy for them, as well as his own guesses as to why they both turned out the way they did.

** Another example comes when Bojack makes jokes about his mom, all relying on switcheroo puns until the last one.

* DuelToTheDeath: [=BoJack=] reveals that Butterscotch died after someone challenged him to a duel of the classic TenPacesAndTurn type. However, Butterscotch didn't actually die during the duel itself, but instead by tripping over a root while taking the ten paces and hitting his head on a rock.

* AbsenteeActor: All of the characters, save Bojack himself and his father Butterscotch, meaning Creator/WillArnett is the ''only'' voice actor in this episode. There are uncredited noises and murmurs from the other funeral attendees, but they might just be stock sounds. Diane and Todd are mentioned indirectly.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Other than the flashback at the beginning of the episode, this entire episode is essentially a monologue from [=BoJack=] about his mom, dad, childhood, and himself.

* ContinuityNod[=/=]LeaningOnTheFourthWall: When [=BoJack=] says that real life is not like television, he notes that "You can't just screw everything up and then [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS2E12OutToSea take a boat out into the ocean to save your best friend]], or [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS4E12WhatTimeIsItRightNow solve a mystery, and fly to Kansas]]. You need to do it every day, which is so… hard."

* OnceForYesTwiceForNo: A RunningGag has [=BoJack=] asking his dead mother to "knock once" if she agrees with his statement.

** [=BoJack=] [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructs this trope]] in reference to "flawed TV characters", where in real life, single nice gestures from flawed people sometimes aren't enough. They need to be consistent and done every single day, no matter how difficult it is.

* {{Crossover}}: InUniverse. Bojack mentioned that an episode of "Horsin Around" had Olivia getting rides from various celebrity cameo's including Series/{{Alf}}.

** The most prominent ones are his mother's dying words, "I see you" or, as he possibly realizes, "ICU".