Line #6 Recap/BojackHorsemanS5E10HeadInTheClouds


1	At the "Philbert" premiere party, Princess Carolyn deftly negotiates a deal, Gina steps into the limelight, and Diane confronts [=BoJack=].
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3	!!Tropes:
4	* ArmorPiercingQuestion: When Diane calls out [=BoJack=] on his ItsAllAboutMe attitude towards his awful actions:
5	--> '''Diane:''' So ''you're'' the victim here?\
6	'''Bojack:''' Yeah, and I know that's not the woke, progressive, intersectionally appropriate thing to say, but I would say, yeah! I'm the one who has suffered the most because of the actions of [=BoJack=] Horseman.\
7	'''Diane:''' ''You've'' suffered?\
8	'''[=BoJack=]:''' Yeah, I have!\
9	'''Diane:''' The most?\
10	'''[=BoJack=]:''' The most!\
11	'''Diane:''' Really? More than, say, ''Sarah Lynn''?\
12	''([=BoJack=] flinches hard)''
13	* TheBigDamnKiss: Played with; [=BoJack=] comes to kiss Gina at the premiere, and it is played as such by the visuals -- they kiss in front of a crowd and a large fountain as fireworks go off behind them. However, it's clear that [=BoJack=] is spiraling from Diane's rejection and argument with him.
14	* BookEnds: [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS5E04BojackTheFeminist Bojack conviced Diane to join Philbert by telling her she helped him change for the better]], and this episode Diane quits the show after Bojack tells her he hasn't changed at all and is okay with that.
15	* BorrowedCatchphrase: Diane borrows the catchphrase of Mr. Peanutbutter's ''Philbert'' character.
16	--> '''Diane:''' Barf me a river.
17	* BothSidesHaveAPoint: [=BoJack=] and Diane have their disagreements about who has suffered the "most" because of [=BoJack=]'s actions largely because they have two different understandings of what "most" means.
18	** To [=BoJack=], he's suffered the most ''consistently.'' While most of the people he's hurt or traumatized, some more than others, were able to move on with their lives and not let what [=BoJack=] did to them dictate all of their decisions from that point on, [=BoJack=] is forced to live with the shame of what he's done every day of his life, and it's something he had to do entirely on his own because there's no good reason for anyone to ''be'' sympathetic to him when all of his internal struggling is his own fault. Even if help was available for him, he wouldn't begin to know how to accept it.
19	** To Diane, [=BoJack=] hasn't suffered the most because he hasn't suffered the ''worst''. Feeling sorry for yourself is [[FirstWorldProblems far from the worst someone can go through]] and, unlike Penny, Sarah Lynn or Herb, he wasn't almost a statutory rape victim, he's still alive and his best friend wasn't indirectly responsible for getting him blacklisted, respectively.
20	* TheBusCameBack: Esteemed Character Actress Margo Martindale is revealed to have survived [[Recap/BojackHorsemanS3E12ThatWentWell her collision with the pasta cargo ship]], washing up somewhere near a convent of nuns, but has been unable to communicate with them. The first words any of them hear her say are "[[MadnessMantra BoJack]]", due to the sudden appearance of the ''Philbert'' balloon.
21	* CallBack:
22	** Diane finally confronts [=BoJack=] about what happened in New Mexico.
23	** When trying to justify what happened in "Escape From L.A.", [=BoJack=] points out that Penny was 17 at the time (the legal age of consent in New Mexico) and sober enough to consent, the same excuses that Penny used in trying to get him to have sex with her by reassuring him it would be legal. Like Charlotte, Diane doesn't accept this as an excuse for [=BoJack=] to have had sex with someone young enough to be his daughter, even if it only nearly happened.
24	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: [=BoJack=] and Diane have a huge, nasty fight that ends with both of them seeking romantic/sexual comfort with someone else immediately afterwards, as if needing a rebound after the wedge they just drove between themselves.
25	* DownerEnding: After her feud with [=BoJack=], Diane finally washes her hands off him, not wanting to see him again and quits Philbert as a result.
26	* FunnyBackgroundEvent: At one point the synchronized swimmers from the first episode of ''Philbert'' can be seen in the background having drinks, and their drinking is perfectly synchronized.
27	* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Diane expresses some concern that the title character of ''Philbert'' won't be read as a flawed, interesting but ultimately morally objectionable character, rather he'll become a role model for toxic people to excuse their own morally objectionable behavior. This is a concern the creators of ''Bojack'' have expressed about the title character of their own show.
28	* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Discussed by Diane to [=BoJack=], who throughout the series has used her friendship to validate himself and his horrible actions rather than go through the grueling work of bettering himself. She argues he can't keep doing terrible things and then rationalize that Diane is his friend, so he must be a good person, so he shouldn't feel bad or seek help for his terrible behavior.
29	* MoralityPet: Discussed, defied, and deconstructed by Diane to [=BoJack=]. Throughout the series (and especially this season), [=BoJack=] often commented how he feels like a better person around Diane, and she's changed him for the better. During the ''Philbert'' screening, Diane calls him out on how he continues to fall off the wagon (like abuse prescription opioids) and do horrible things that ruin other people's lives (like trying to sleep with Penny, and causing Sarah Lynn's untimely death) whenever Diane is not there to act as his conscience.
30	* OnceMoreWithClarity: After three seasons of ambiguity, we find out that Penny was the one to make the first move when she was with [=BoJack=] in his boat in New Mexico.
31	* PoliticalOvercorrectness: {{Discussed\|Trope}}. Part of [=BoJack=]'s frustration about Diane and others not thinking that he's the biggest victim of his own shortcomings is because a wealthy, cisgender, heterosexual man like him is considered too privileged to possibly be a victim ''of anything''. This is contrasted with a blatantly sexist line in ''Philbert'' getting cut because the executives at the website thought it would be insensitive to people that don't know what time is it.
32	* TakeOurWordForIt: Everyone comments on how good the first episode of ''Philbert'' is, but the audience never gets to see more than a few seconds of it.
33	* ThatCameOutWrong: When [=BoJack=] attempts to explain what [nearly] happened between him and Penny, he says that "nothing happened yet". Unfortunately, Diane catches the "yet" part. [=BoJack=] tries to do a VerbalBackspace to clarify this, but she was already walking out.
34	* VerbalBackspace: When [=BoJack=] is explaining what happened in New Mexico:
35	--> '''Bojack:''' ...So then she came onto my boat. Charlotte, I mean, and she walked in, and I was with her daughter. But again, nothing had happened yet.\
36	'''Diane:''' ''"Yet"?!''\
37	'''Bojack:''' Nothing happened.
38	** Happens again when Bojack tries to dismiss their entire shouting match as the two of them "just saying things".
39	* WeUsedToBeFriends: By the time this episode ends, [=BoJack=] and Diane's friendship is tarnished.
40	* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Diane calls [=BoJack=] out on this, by reminding him of how he continues to do horrible things when people aren't around to reign him in (like when he tried to sleep with Penny until Charlotte walked in, or got Sarah Lynn hooked back on hard drugs). She spells out for him how if he wants to get better he has to do it of his own volition, not just when Diane or Charlotte or anyone else is around to witness.
41	* WriterOnBoard: Diane saying that the title character of ''Philbert'' shouldn't be a role model for people like himself is more or less the writers telling the audience point-blank how not to interpret [=BoJack=] himself.
42	* WrongNameOutburst: During the introduction to ''Philbert'', [=BoJack=] accidentally calls Flip "Herb".
43	* YouDidntAsk: When Diane asks [=BoJack=] why he didn't tell her about the incident of him in New Mexico, he replies that he never asked. She retorts by saying that she's asking him ''now'', and demands that he tell her.

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