History TearJerker / BoJackHorseman

* We see Sarah Lynn's StartOfDarkness. She was filming a ''Horsin Around'' scene where Bojack praised her, and asked the audience to cheer her. Then he whispered AntiAdvice that no one would ever love her, not even family or lovers, but she should do everything for her fans even if it kills her. Sarah Lynn retains her OhCrap face as the cameras start rolling again for take two. No, the bell tolling after does not help. The worst part is Bojack was ''right''; Carol Himmerlfarb and her husband don't love Sarah Lynn, using her as a paycheck or a warm body in the latter's case. Andrew Garfield breaks up with her for the crime of turning thirty, and says insensitively that he thought she wouldn't make a scene in public. As Sarah Lynn puts it, with her voice breaking, he thought she ''wouldn't'' make a scene? Herb ws the only positive influence in Sarah Lynn's life, but he wasn't enough.

* [=BoJack=] has been trying to turn over a new leaf the whole episode, listening to positive thinking tapes, refurnishing his house, and doing his level best to be upbeat and happy, while fighting off anxiety. While filming ''Secretariat,'' he has been having difficulty with his delivery on a line that is supposed to be sad and understated, as he keeps [[LargeHam hamming it up]] in the style of his ''Horsin' Around'' character. At the end of the episode, after all the heartbreak he's gone through, he nails the line. It's painfully obvious he's tapping into his own depression to do so.

** [=BoJack=] has been trying to turn over a new leaf the whole episode, listening to positive thinking tapes, refurnishing his house, and doing his level best to be upbeat and happy, while fighting off anxiety. While filming ''Secretariat,'' he has been having difficulty with his delivery on a line that is supposed to be sad and understated, as he keeps [[LargeHam hamming it up]] in the style of his ''Horsin' Around'' character. At the end of the episode, after all the heartbreak he's gone through, he nails the line. It's painfully obvious he's tapping into his own depression to do so.

** Early in the days of ''Horsin' Around,'' [=BoJack=] gets nervous doing a kiss scene, until his hairstylist Sharona offers him some spiked orange juice, which helps him get through the scene.

* The fact that even after everything Joseph [[AbusiveParents did to Beatrice]], she actually ''defended'' some of his actions, even calling him "a man who knew what marriage meant" and attending his funeral. In short, Joseph died peacefully, without receiving [[KarmaHoudini any sort of punishment]] for his [[HeManWomanHater less]]-[[ControlFreak than]]-[[TheSociopath savory]] actions.

** The fact that [=BoJack=] admits that he deserves the KangarooCourt trial he received, with a jury made up of former enemies, as well as a sentence of 18 months in a maximum security prison. He says prison helps him stay sober, and gives him a routine as well as a purpose. Heck, when Princess Carolyn pulls strings to let him attend her wedding, he considers going back to prison because it's safe and familiar, and he won't have to face his past.

*** And prior to this and in a ''very'' subtle moment, when Todd and sarah Lynn are making different versions of [=BoJack=]'s memoir, Todd puts in that he (Todd) is [=BoJack's=] best friend. [=BoJack=]'s reply? To change "best friend" to "pretty good friend". And Todd is shocked by this hurtful statement.

* Hollyhock and Beatrice have an understated moment while they're alone in the nursing home. People have been telling Hollyhock since she was a baby that she looks like [=BoJack=]. While it's not stated outright, Beatrice is either also thinking of [=BoJack=], or, [[YourCheatingHeart given Hollyhock's lineage]], she's thinking about Butterscotch.

** As a child, he catches his father [[YourCheatingHeart having sex with a secretary]], so Butterscotch gives [=BoJack=] a Jack and Coke. The young horse ends up passed out and asleep, Butterscotch driving him home, telling him his mother would be disappointed in him and insisting [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain they don't tell her about anything that happened tonight.]]

* We never hear anything about Hollyhock's whereabouts, confirming that she's truly gone from [=BoJack=]'s life once and for all. Keep in mind, she's the only member he had left, and one of the only people he truly cared for. So when she leaves [=BoJack=], he lost not only a family member, but also a part of himself.

--->"Hollyhock doesn't appear again in [=BoJack=] Horseman, and while she's presumably still attending the University, we don't know if things will ever be resolved between her and [=BoJack=]. We can perhaps assume, then, that her letter was saying as much; drawing a line under their relationship, explaining what she knew of his actions, and that she no longer wanted to be a part of his life."

** While it's never outright stated, it's heavily implied this is the last time that Diane and [=BoJack=] see each other, moving on with their own lives. At least for [=BoJack=], however, he's able to have one thing that sets it apart from other people that he lost; closure, accepting Diane's decision. He and Diane speak with one another for the last time, and then just stare at the sky together. A bittersweet end of such a heavy series.

* Bojack came so, SO close to actually looking sympathetic despite his involvement in Sarah Lynn's death, but his AttentionWhore personality and desperate need for validation once again ruin things for him when he agrees to a second interview, not knowing that one of the reporters had talked to the interviewer just before, and gotten her in contact with Doctor Champ, who gave away all of Bojack's dirty secrets as petty revenge, leading to his entire history with not only Sarah Lynn, but also Penny, Sharona, Gina, and pretty much every single woman he hurt in the entire series being exposed. He ends up being portrayed as a predatory monster and his life falls apart completely.

* '''[=BoJack=] loses Hollyhock.''' This is the episode where he finally reads her letter, and while the audience never gets to see what's in it, he's utterly floored and devastated by its contents; you can even see him losing his breath because of it. What's worse, is after he confessed it was just nice to hear her voice on an answering machine, she even wound up disconnecting her phone so he couldn't contact her in any way.

* Diane and Mr. Peanutbutter. After taking a random vacation before settling into their new house, Diane finds that PB has built her a "Belle Room" based on her childhood fantasy of having a library [[Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast just like Beast gifted Belle in the movie]]. Diane, however, is '''furious'''. On top of hating grand gestures (remember the D incident from season 1? Or the huge, multi-themed, surprise party for her 35th Birthday?) she feels betrayed because as long as it remained a fantasy, [[HappyPlace it remained hers and hers alone]]. This drags out the issues at the core of their relationship -- Diane's independence chafing against PB's all-in devotion. It comes down to the fact that regardless of everything they've been through together, the many sweet moments they share, and how much they may genuinely love each other, their relationship is never, ever going to work. Diane puts it the most succinctly.

[[caption-width-right:350:''"You were born broken, that's your birthright.[...] You're [=BoJack=] Horseman. There's no cure for that."'']]

''[=BoJack Horseman=]'' has been praised for breaking the mold of [[AllAdultAnimationIsSouthPark animated comedies for adults]]... by breaking all of our hearts. Whether it be through exploring the nihilistic toxic tar-pit that is Hollywoo, or the nearly identical eponymous horse, there's no shortage of moments that'll (figuratively) rip your heart out. Needless to say, there is a reason it inspired the term "sadcom."

* Gina is still clearly traumatized from being choked out by [=BoJack=] last season, having a small FreakOut when her costar dips her while filming a dance scene due to his hand being on her neck. What's worse is, due to her keeping the incident under wraps, her director discourages Kelsey from hiring her for the superhero movie because Gina is "[[ThePrimaDonna difficult]]".

** In addition, [[TheReveal everybody (including the audience) learns one detail about Sarah Lynn's death]] that he'd never before made clear: ''[[MoralEventHorizon she wasn't dead yet, and he waited]] '''[[MoralEventHorizon seventeen minutes]]''' to call for help because he was too concerned with making a good alibi.]]'' It's said that if he'd called the paramedics earlier, they could have saved her. Even after a night where he admitted to truly loving Sarah Lynn, he threw away the chance to save her life so he could cover his ass.

** In addition, [[TheReveal everybody (including the audience) learns one detail about Sarah Lynn's death]] that he'd never before made clear: ''[[MoralEventHorizon she wasn't dead yet, and he waited '''seventeen minutes''' to call for help because he was too concerned with making a good alibi.]]'' It's said that if he'd called the paramedics earlier, they could have saved her. Even after a night where he admitted to truly loving Sarah Lynn, he threw away the chance to save her life so he could cover his ass.

** In addition, [[TheReveal everybody (including the audience) learns one detail about Sarah Lynn's death]] that he'd never before made clear: ''[[MoralEventHorizon she wasn't dead yet, and he waited seventeen minutes to call for help because he was too concerned with making a good alibi.]]'' It's said that if he'd called the paramedics earlier, they could have saved her. Even after a night where he admitted to truly loving Sarah Lynn, he threw away the chance to save her life so he could cover his ass.

** In addition, everybody (including the audience) learns one detail about Sarah Lynn's death that he'd never before made clear: ''[[MoralEventHorizon she wasn't dead yet, and he waited seventeen minutes to call for help because he was too concerned with making a good alibi.]]'' It's said that if he'd called the paramedics earlier, they could have saved her. Even after a night where he admitted to truly loving Sarah Lynn, he threw away the chance to save her life so he could cover his ass.

* When Todd throws a housewarming party for the apartment that he and Maude moved into, Bojack hears about it and he attempts to show up. Todd quickly refuses to let BoJack into the party because he doesn't want to risk anything bad happening, especially because he's expecting his mother to show up and hasn't talked to her in ten years.

** It's also upsetting from Hollyhock's perspective. She's gone through hell and back in her fairly short time with [=BoJack=], putting up with his [[InnocentlyInsensitive instinctive rudeness]] and clingy behavior, as well as the incident with his mom and breaking the law to get him drugs. Then she finds out he may have done creepy things with girls ''her own age,'' as well as leaving somebody to die from an overdose and abandoned a teen who got alcohol poisoning because of him ([[FridgeHorror likely triggering news for her, considering her own overdose in his house]]), as well and ''countless other things'' he's done to women he has power over. This caused the realization that, as much as she cares about him, she barely even knows him at all and can't risk him getting her into further trouble.

* [=BoJack=] combines Secretariat and Butterscotch in his mind, and the result is an odd combination: while he's physically presented as Secretariat, the voice is Butterscotch, and the character is able to switch between the both of them as far as thoughts and failed dreams. As a result of Secretariat's amiability, Butterscotch is able to communicate to his son, for the first and final time, that he truly loved him, ''and'' Beatrice, but ultimately knows that [[HateSink who he was as a person]] meant that he would never be able to credibly claim so, and it would have been pointless to attempt it. Whether you interpret it as Butterscotch posthumously reaching out to his son, or an excuse of [=BoJack=]'s admittedly confused desire to be connected to the parents he was terrified of, they're both tragic.

** Beatrice and [=CrackerJack=]'s duet, with Beatrice performing a DarkReprise of the song her mother and brother used to play, as [=CrackerJack=] performs an interpretive ribbon dance showing him literally dragging her into the door with him.

* What really sets it off though is the ending. Rutabaga brought up earlier that they (him and Gekko) are the good guys. At first, the viewer assumes [[BlackAndGreyMorality they are the bad guys and BoJack and his team are the good guys]], but once you analyze the episode it's clear that [[GreyAndGrayMorality BoJack and his team are the bad guys in this]]. Gekko and Rutabaga get the film, the latter's marriage is repaired and he makes it in time to see his children being born and everything ends happily. Then there's [=BoJack=] where he cowers out again and can't even tell his own friend he doesn't want to do the show, he still doesn't have the balls to tell Todd he slept with his old girlfriend, Princess sabotaged her old assistants promotion for her own selfish needs and is the reason why [=BoJack=]'s other movie deal was snatched away. It's sort of sad to think the lead characters we root for kind of caused their own disasters.

* The episode opens a few months after the previous one, showing that things went downhill ''fast'' after the second interview, to the point that Bojack is now an utter pariah in Hollywoo, and probably the rest of the world as well. It's so bad that even the people at his ''AA meeting'' want nothing to do with him, despite the entire point of the group is to be a place without judgment. The only persons who are still willing to talk to him on friendly terms are Mr Peanutbutter, Vance Waggoner and his bunch of douchey fratboys, which doesn't help at all, since Waggoner hasn't changed one bit and drags Bojack along for his horrible behavior. Bojack also lost his house and most of his money in the lawsuits Sarah Lynn’s parents and the Xerox Corporation put him through.

** It's also upsetting from Hollyhock's perspective. She's gone through hell and back in her fairly short time with [=BoJack=], putting up with his [[InnocentlyInsensitive instinctive rudeness]] and clingy behavior, as well as the incident with his mom and breaking the law to get him drugs. Then she finds out he may have done creepy things with girls ''her own age,'' as well as leaving somebody to die from an overdose ([[FridgeHorror likely triggering news for her, considering her own overdose in his house]],) and ''countless other things'' he's done to women he has power over, and the realization that, as much as she cares about him, she barely knows him and can't risk him getting her into further trouble.

* After losing almost everything else in his life, Bojack is finally forced to give up ''Horsin Around'' too, as the show is [[OvershadowedByControversy completely tainted by his actions]], and the network wants to recut it and re-release it as 8-minute episodes centered only on the other characters so they can still profit off it, but can't without Bojack agreeing to be bought off for good. Desperate for money, and wanting some lasting legacy for Sarah Lynn, Bojack agrees. %%InUniverse

-->'''Diane:''' The real reason you go to Vietnam is because you accidentally see your soon-to-be-ex-husband kiss someone else. At first you think, "Oh, it's a fling. Whatever, they're drunk, it's a party." But he puts his hand on the small of her back exactly the way he used to do to you. It means, "I've got you," and when he did it to you, it made you feel safe. And you realize he will never do that to you again. And it breaks your heart, again, after your heart was so broken you thought it could never get any more broken. You thought it was safe, but it still, somehow, finds a new way to break. Because, even though you're the one who asked for this, [[NowWhat now that you've got it, you are completely adrift]], with no compass, or map, or sense of where to go, or what to do. So you go to Vietnam. You think you might find community. A connection to something bigger, but, you don't. In fact, you feel even more alone than you were before you left. But, you survive. You learn you can survive being alone.

* The episode opens a few months after the previous one, showing that things went downhill ''fast'' after the second interview, to the point that Bojack is now an utter pariah in Hollywoo, and probably the rest of the world as well. It's so bad that even the people at his ''AA meeting'' want nothing to do with him, despite the entire point of the group is to be a place without judgment. The only persons who are still willing to talk to him on friendly terms are Mr Peanutbutter, Vance Waggoner and his bunch of douchey fratboys, which doesn't help at all, since Waggoner hasn't changed one bit and drags Bojack along for his horrible behavior.
* '''[=BoJack=] loses Hollyhock.''' This is the episode where he finally reads her letter, and while we never get to see what's in it, he's utterly floored and devastated by its contents; you can even see him losing his breath because of it. What's worse, is after he confessed it was just nice to hear her voice on an answering machine, she even wound up disconnecting her phone so he couldn't contact her in any way.

* After losing almost everything else in his life, Bojack is finally forced to give up ''Horsin Around'' too, as the show is completely tainted by his actions, and the network wants to recut it and re-release it as 8-minute episodes centered only on the other characters, but can't without Bojack agreeing to be bought off for good. Desperate for money, and wanting some lasting legacy for Sarah Lynn, Bojack agrees.