Line #46 Recap/BojackHorsemanS2E11EscapeFromLA


1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/escapefromla.png]]
2	[[caption-width-right:350:"''You make me too sad.''"]]
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4	[=BoJack=] has shown up in New Mexico hoping to start a relationship with Charlotte, only to find out she already has a family of her own.
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6	!!Tropes:
7	* AllLoveIsUnrequited:
8	** Played with. Charlotte does still have feelings for [=BoJack=], but she is not willing to give up her life and happiness to run off with him.
9	** Applies to Penny, as she seems to develop feelings for [=BoJack=] over time, leading to him becoming her surrogate prom date.
10	* AmbiguousSituation: Downplayed. The audience sees [=BoJack=] turn Penny away, but she lingers on the deck of the "Escape from L.A." A short time later, Charlotte (with the audience following) approaches the boat, hears voices, and when she investigates, she sees Penny undressing [=BoJack=]. Who came onto whom? And does it matter, considering [=BoJack=], who should know better, is sober enough to resist?
11	* ChangeTheUncomfortableSubject: When [=BoJack=] is first at the Moore family table having conversation, Penny points out how her brother Trip is having a RagingStiffie, much to everyone's disgust. After a bit of banter, Kyle decides to just abruptly ask [=BoJack=] what he's doing in Tesuque.
12	-->'''Penny:''' Okay, so we're just gonna change the subject now and pretend like Trip isn't being a huge perv right now?
13	-->'''Charlotte:''' [[BluntYes Yeah, Penny. That's the plan]].
14	-->'''Trip:''' Talking about it makes it worse. I think it likes attention.
15	* ComfortingComforter: When outside after the dance, Penny is seen wearing the overcoat that [=BoJack=] had on as part of his prom outfit, implying that he gave it to her. Makes sense, considering it's nighttime in the desert and she's wearing a strapless dress.
16	* DefensiveWhat: When a disgusted Penny tells everyone at the table that Trip has a boner, he replies with, "What? I can't help it!"
17	* DirtyCoward: Because of [=BoJack=], Maddie gets alcohol poisoning by drinking too much liquor, so he has to take her to the hospital. However, [=BoJack=] does not want to be caught giving alcohol to teenagers and almost killing one of them because of it, so he decides to ditch the scene. After convincing Pete, to lie about where Maddie got the alcohol from, he quickly gets back in the car and asks Penny to drive back to the house, leaving Maddie and Pete alone at the emergency room.
18	* DoorSlamOfRage: After Charlotte threatens [=BoJack=], she shows how furious she is by slamming the door of the boat cabin in anger behind her, causing [=BoJack=] to flinch.
19	* DownerEnding: [=BoJack=] tried to sleep with Penny, costing him his friendship with Charlotte in the process.
20	* EveryoneHasStandards: Zigzagged. [=BoJack=] was able to shoot down Penny's advances to him, no matter how much she tried to justify her legality. It didn't seem to last after Charlotte rejected ''his'' advances to her.
21	* FloorfillingSongAndDance: [=BoJack=] tries and fails to instigate one of these by having the DJ play "[[DanceSensation Do the BoJack]]".
22	* FreakOut: The normally down-to-earth Charlotte justifiably ''flips'' when she sees her old friend in bed with her daughter. She kicks him out and threatens to kill him.
23	* FunnyBackgroundEvent: [=BoJack=] is at the dinner table and about to take a bite out of a fry. But upon hearing about Trip getting a boner, he suddenly looks grossed out and tosses the fry away.
24	** Also, while Princess Caroline is talking to [=BoJack=] about great news while surrounded by cartons of milk she's putting in her coffee, the barista behind her is marking off the "milk" part of the restaurant board menu and looking annoyed at her.
25	* GetOut: Charlotte tells [=BoJack=] to leave the next day after he tried to get her to run away with him. She then orders him to leave in thirty minutes or she’ll call the cops after finding him in bed with Penny.
26	* GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger: When she tells [=BoJack=] what she'll do if he ever comes back near her family, she points as a way to emphasize how much she means it.
27	* GoToYourRoom: A darker example than the rest. Charlotte yells at Penny to get to her room not because she misbehaved, but because she's just caught her daughter and [=BoJack=] in some rather intimate circumstances and wants her in a safe place before letting [=BoJack=] have it.
28	* HopeSpot: [=BoJack=] at first actually does a mature thing when Penny starts hitting on him: he turns her down. The horse explains to Penny that he's too old for her and that she's still a kid, even if she believes that she's mature enough. Just as the audience takes a sigh of relief, Charlotte turns down ''his'' constant requests to elope with him. A few hours later, Charlotte hears strange sounds from the boat and climbs up. She sees Penny about to undress [=BoJack=], confirming that [=BoJack=] succumbed to temptation.
29	* IllKillYou: Charlotte threatens to kill [=BoJack=] if he ever comes near the Carsons again.
30	* IntergenerationalFriendship: [=BoJack=] and Penny become friends, and he even goes to prom with her and her friends, Maddy and Pete. This is then horribly [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] over the course of the evening. [=BoJack=] buys the teenagers alcohol [[note]] The drinking age in New Mexico is 21[[/note]], and doesn't monitor their drinking, leading to Maddy getting alcohol poisoning. [=BoJack=] drives them to the ER, but then leaves Pete to deal with the situation and orders him not to mention [=BoJack=]'s name.
31	* IronicEcho: Penny tells [=BoJack=] how her crush Diego does an exchange with her that involves them both saying "hey" to each other which leads into a brief conversation. But when he rejects her and [=BoJack=] instead takes her, he speculates how he can approach her at prom saying "hey", with her saying it back to him.
32	-->'''Penny:''' Oh, that is ''so'' cold.
33	-->'''[[LockedOutOfTheLoop Charlotte]]:''' Wait, how is that cold?
34	* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: Trip has an erection at the dinner table, and Charlotte asks him what could possibly be arousing him, as he's sitting with his parents, his big sister, and an old man. An offended [=BoJack=] asks her if she's referring to him as the "old man."
35	* ItsAllAboutMe: [=BoJack=]'s at-first sweet IntergenerationalFriendship with Penny's buddies turns into this. [=BoJack=] thrives on their admiration of him and his urbane coolness. He buys them alcohol (his idea), then, when one of them gets alcohol poisoning, [=BoJack=] avoids all responsibility while abandoning Pete and Maddy at the ER.
36	* JailbaitTaboo: PlayedWith. Penny is 17, which is above the age of consent in New Mexico, where she lives. However, added moral ambiguity comes from her being decades younger than [=BoJack=] and the daughter of one of his (now former) friends, giving them almost an uncle-niece vibe for a while.
37	* KickTheDog: [=BoJack=] when he tries to convince Charlotte to run off with him, and then tries to sleep with Penny after she tells him twice she wants to do it with him, and when the two are caught by Charlotte she forbids him from ever coming in contact with her family again; Charlotte has to witness her daughter almost sleep with a DirtyOldMan because she refused his advances.
38	* MamaBear: If you want to be on Charlotte's good side, don't be an OldFlame hitting on her seventeen-year-old daughter. Her rage cows them both, though Penny from what we hear isn't punished because Charlotte rightly suspected that she wasn't thinking things through and [=BoJack=] was the more responsible party.
39	* MathematiciansAnswer: When they get back to her house, Penny asks [=BoJack=] if they did the right thing by leaving Maddie and Pete at the hospital alone. [=BoJack=] replies that sometimes, when you're an adult, the right thing isn't always the best thing.
40	* MoodDissonance: The episode starts off with a fun, 80's style sitcom style opening with a montage of happy family pictures, right after the cold open reveals that [=BoJack=]'s TheOneThatGotAway, the one that he drove from LA to New Mexico to see, is now happily married with two kids.
41	** Some of the lyrics: "They're the perfect family," "He loves his wife and there's nothing you can do," "Nothing's gonna be alright, be alright, oh no."
42	** Also a fine example of LyricalDissonance.
43	* ParentsWalkInAtTheWorstTime: PlayedForDrama. Charlotte ends up walking into an (apparent) intimate moment between [=BoJack=] and her daughter Penny aboard the boat, especially when it was a moment after she rejected him. This betrayal by one of her old friends causes her to lose it.
44	* PrecisionFStrike: Charlotte delivers the season's requisite single f-bomb when she tells [=BoJack=] that she will "fucking kill [him]" if he ever tries to come in contact with her or her family ever again.
45	* RejectedApology: After Penny is sent to her room, [=BoJack=] immediately tried to apologize to Charlotte, yet Charlotte quickly cuts him off as he barely says "sorry", and she tells him not to even DARE finish the sentence.
46	* RewatchBonus: After [=BoJack=] rejects Penny's approach and tells her to go to bed, he retires to his cabin... and leaves the door open.
47	** Also, when he tells her to go to bed, he doesn't specify whose bed.
48	* ScareChord: There is a long and ominous buildup with Charlotte approaching the boat, as she (and us) assume the worst. Thankfully, it doesn't go that far between [=BoJack=] and Penny, and she puts a stop to it before things get worse.
49	* ShoutOut: In one exterior shot of the house, [[WesternAnimation/RoadRunner a jogging roadrunner gets followed by an also jogging coyote.]]
50	* SpecialEditionTitle: An 80's sitcom style opening for "Kyle and the Kids".
51	* SquaringTheLoveTriangle: [=BoJack=] gets dangerously close to doing it with his old flame Charlotte's daughter Penny, leading to Charlotte -- who had previously been understanding about [=BoJack=]'s struggles -- wanting him out of their life.
52	* SubvertedSitcom: This episode starts like a sitcom, even [[SpecialEditionTitle swapping out the normal tune for a cheery sitcom opening]], because [=BoJack=] is living his idealized life with Charlotte and her family. It starts with a usual sitcom plot: Charlotte's daughter, Penny, tries to find a date for the prom and [=BoJack=] agrees to help her. But the episode later reverts to the show's more somber tone: [=BoJack=] influences some minors to drink and ends up taking one of them to a hospital when she gets sick. This culminates with [=BoJack=] nearly sleeping with Penny and Charlotte walking in on them just as they’re about to. As a result, Charlotte kicks [=BoJack=] off her property and their friendship is utterly broken beyond repair.
53	* ThisIsUnforgivable: [=BoJack=] tries to sleep with Penny, and Charlotte ends up giving him a scathing speech about how she'll kill him if he comes near her family again.
54	* TitleDrop: "Escape From L.A." is what [=BoJack=] ends up naming his boat.
55	* TitleOnlyOpening: This is the only episode of the series so far where the intro is not shown. Although, the episode uses an expy of its own usual intro near the end.
56	* UnequalPairing: [=BoJack's=] mentor-ish relationship with Penny and the extreme age difference (she's "barely legal" locally but "jail-bait" by California standards) makes even [=BoJack=] find the idea creepy, although he almost relents anyway.
57	* YouMakeMeSick: After [=BoJack=] pushes too much in the subject of running away, Charlotte breaks it off with these final nails in the coffin:
58	-->''I don't care where you go, [=BoJack=], but I can't have you around here. You make me too sad.''

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