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* ShownTheirWork: The facial contortions Gina makes as she's being strangled (eye twitching, one eye blinking spastically, eyeballs rolling back into the head) are all actual signs of asphyxiation.
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* ApatheticCitizens: As the production crew start to notice that Bojack is strangling Gina for real, Flip tells his cameraman to continue filming while other members take videos on their phones. Only Mr Peanutbutter, Princess Carolyn and a couple of crew members figure to step in and stop Bojack.

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* ApatheticCitizens: As the production crew start to notice that Bojack [=BoJack=] is strangling Gina for real, Flip tells his cameraman to continue filming while other members take videos on their phones. Only Mr Peanutbutter, Princess Carolyn and a couple of crew members figure to step in and stop Bojack.[=BoJack=].



** Drawn versions of [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS2E11EscapeFromLA Bojack, Penny and Charlotte on the boat]], [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS4E06StupidPieceOfShit Bojack taking his mother's doll]], [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS1E06OurAStoryIsADStory Bojack stealing the giant "D"]] and Bojack back at the Horsin' Around room.
** Bojack also notices to be in a fake version of [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS4E02TheOldSugarmanPlace his mother's summer home]], which soon goes down.
** Bojack driving through a street in a desert is reminiscent of his [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS3E12ThatWentWell suicide attempt]].

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** Drawn versions of [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS2E11EscapeFromLA Bojack, [=BoJack=], Penny and Charlotte on the boat]], [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS4E06StupidPieceOfShit Bojack [=BoJack=] taking his mother's doll]], [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS1E06OurAStoryIsADStory Bojack [=BoJack=] stealing the giant "D"]] and Bojack [=BoJack=] back at the Horsin' Around room.
** Bojack [=BoJack=] also notices to be in a fake version of [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS4E02TheOldSugarmanPlace his mother's summer home]], which soon goes down.
** Bojack [=BoJack=] driving through a street in a desert is reminiscent of his [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS3E12ThatWentWell suicide attempt]].



* EmbarrassingRescue: No one is pleased when ''Mr. Peanutbutter'' of all people has to pull Bojack off Gina and restrain him, least of all Mr. Peanutbutter himself. Gina's too busy trying to breathe to prioritize that.

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* EmbarrassingRescue: No one is pleased when ''Mr. Peanutbutter'' of all people has to pull Bojack [=BoJack=] off Gina and restrain him, least of all Mr. Peanutbutter himself. Gina's too busy trying to breathe to prioritize that.



-->'''Mr. Peanutbutter''': (worried) Bojack? Buddy? (to everyone within earshot) I think he's... really... strangling her...

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-->'''Mr. Peanutbutter''': (worried) Bojack? [=BoJack=]? Buddy? (to everyone within earshot) I think he's... really... strangling her...



* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Some lines of Gina's song can be applied to the show itself, like "why not sell your sadness as a brand" and the notion that he doesn't want things to be fine because "boring". As much as they deconstruct it, the show does kinda run on Bojack being miserable and screwing up.
** Additionally, the episode makes use of the things that are affecting Bojack's ability to keep track of reality - he's almost always wearing his ''Philbert'' costume, he's in a relationship with Gina at the same time Philbert is dating Sassy, and his house looks exactly like the set of the show - in order to make it hard for the viewer to tell the difference between ''Philbert'' and real life.
* LetsGetDangerous: Mr. Peanutbutter sheds his AttentionDeficitOohShiny nature to save Gina from an addled Bojack. And he succeeds!

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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Some lines of Gina's song can be applied to the show itself, like "why not sell your sadness as a brand" and the notion that he doesn't want things to be fine because "boring". As much as they deconstruct it, the show does kinda run on Bojack [=BoJack=] being miserable and screwing up.
** Additionally, the episode makes use of the things that are affecting Bojack's [=BoJack=]'s ability to keep track of reality - he's almost always wearing his ''Philbert'' costume, he's in a relationship with Gina at the same time Philbert is dating Sassy, and his house looks exactly like the set of the show - in order to make it hard for the viewer to tell the difference between ''Philbert'' and real life.
* LetsGetDangerous: Mr. Peanutbutter sheds his AttentionDeficitOohShiny nature to save Gina from an addled Bojack.[=BoJack=]. And he succeeds!



* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Once he sees that Bojack is actually hurting Gina, the normally air-headed Mr. Peanutbutter exclaims, without a hint of nonsense in his voice, "Okay, that's enough!" while leaping to her aid.

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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Once he sees that Bojack [=BoJack=] is actually hurting Gina, the normally air-headed Mr. Peanutbutter exclaims, without a hint of nonsense in his voice, "Okay, that's enough!" while leaping to her aid.
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-->'''Mr. Peanutbutter''': (worried) Bojack? Buddy? (to Flip) I think he's... really... strangling her...

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-->'''Mr. Peanutbutter''': (worried) Bojack? Buddy? (to Flip) everyone within earshot) I think he's... really... strangling her...

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* KickTheDog: Once it starts to dawn on everyone that [=BoJack=] is strangling Gina for real, and ''isn't stopping'', Flip's only reaction to the revelation... is to tell the cameraman to resume filming.
-->'''Mr. Peanutbutter''': (worried) Bojack? Buddy? (to Flip) I think he's... really... strangling her...
-->'''Flip''': [[DissonantSerenity What? Oh no. (quietly; to the cameraman)]] [-[[DissonantSerenity Turn the camera back on.]]-]



--> '''Gina:''' What the fuck is wrong with you?!

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--> '''Gina:''' -->'''Gina:''' What the fuck is wrong with you?!you?!
* PunchAWall: When demanding Gina to give back his bag of pills, [=BoJack=] punches his wall in a fury.
-->'''[=BoJack=]''': (on edge) Gina, I'm not kidding! The pills! (smashes his fist into the wall) ''NOW!''

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