BoJack Horseman

Season 1

1. The BoJack Horseman Story, Chapter One

Washed-up horse 1990s sitcom actor BoJack Horseman seeks to write an autobiography to reignite his fame, but is too lazy to do so, so his publisher assigns him a ghostwriter, Diane Nguyen. Initially unwilling to meet with her, he invites her to a quinceañera his slacker roommate Todd Chavez throws at his house to pay off a cartel, and is surprised to find that they connect. However, he learns that she is dating his longtime rival and fellow sitcom actor, dopey Labrador retriever Mr. Peanutbutter.

2. BoJack Hates the Troops

BoJack ignites a media firestorm when he fights with a Navy SEAL over a box of muffins and calls the troops "jerks" on live TV. His Persian cat agent and ex-girlfriend Princess Carolyn plans to resolve the issue by making him go on Mr. Peanutbutter's reality TV show and apologize to the SEAL with replacement muffins, which almost goes poorly until Mr. Peanutbutter unintentionally distracts those present with his antics. BoJack finds Diane on the roof, and she asks him to start being honest about himself, which he promises to do.

3. Prickly-Muffin

In flashbacks to BoJack's old show Horsin' Around, he neglects the emotions of his young costar Sarah Lynn and instills in her the message to never stop performing. In the present day, Sarah Lynn is a floundering pop star that BoJack takes in after her boyfriend Andrew Garfield breaks up with her, and she begins to manipulate him through his guilt and desire for a family, allowing her to do whatever she wants. While living with him, she informs him that Horsin' Around creator Herb Kazzaz has terminal cancer. The two end up having sex, but BoJack ultimately realizes he is the one taking advantage of her; he tries to get her help, but she leaves before he can right his wrong. Upon Sarah Lynn's departure he rationalizes that because everyone is a product of their own environment there's no consequences for one's actions.

4. Zoës and Zeldas

In 1985, BoJack meets and befriends Herb while failing at standup. In the present, after Diane questions the origin of his relationship with Todd, BoJack decides to help Todd work on the rock opera he has always wanted to make. When Todd finds actual success and posits moving out, BoJack panics and utilizes Margo Martindale to manipulate Todd into buying an addictive video game, causing him to underperform at an investor's showcase and ruin his pitch. Diane's BuzzFeed columnist ex-boyfriend pretends to work on an article about Mr. Peanutbutter but really uses it as an excuse to try and get back together with her, warning her that she and Mr. Peanutbutter are incompatible. Guest starring: Margo Martindale as herself

5. Live Fast, Diane Nguyen

While out east to visit BoJack's publisher, Diane learns that her cruel father has died. She takes him to Boston for the funeral, only for her lazy, immature family to make her pay for it herself and then not bother to show up, having their father's body turned into chum. Diane leaves enraged, but BoJack follows and comforts her, and the two return home. BoJack calls Herb before they leave, but is forced to leave a message when Herb doesn't answer his call. Todd turns BoJack's house into a cash grab by pretending it is the home of David Boreanaz, but is quickly caught and arrested. He calls BoJack in jail, but nobody answers. Guest starring: Ira Glass as Diane's ringtone

6. Our A-Story Is a 'D' Story

BoJack develops feelings for Diane after returning from Boston, leading him to drunkenly steal the "D" from the Hollywood Sign as a grand romantic gesture. Knowing he needs to get rid of it, he enlists Mr. Peanutbutter for help, only for him to take all the credit for the theft. As BoJack leaves an honest, intimate voicemail for Diane, Mr. Peanutbutter privately proposes to her, only to make a spectacle of it when she accepts. BoJack convinces Diane to delete the voicemail without listening to it when she calls him back. Todd is courted by the Aryan Brotherhood and Latin Kings in prison, only to get them to reconcile their differences and escape when a helicopter returning the "D" crashes into the prison wall. Guest starring: Yvette Nicole Brown as Beyoncé, Chris Parnell as Aryans Gang Member, and Horatio Sanz as Latin Kings Leader.

7. Say Anything

Princess Carolyn's agency merges with her rival Vanessa Gekko's, who takes her office and client. She tries to get BoJack to do a commercial, but he is more interested in romantically pursuing her, forcing her to get Todd to do it. After Gekko one-ups her multiple times, Princess Carolyn finally succumbs to BoJack's advances and goes on a date with him, only for him to get a foreboding call back from Herb and abandon the date, hurting her. She formulates a plot to lure her former client away from Gekko's project; the plot is successful, and Gekko is fired. Princess Carolyn gives a director the idea to make a movie about the Hollywood Sign and convinces him to hire BoJack, only to get a forlorn call from BoJack as he returns from Herb's house. As Princess Carolyn looks out her office window at the city below, her phone wishes her a happy fortieth birthday.

8. The Telescope

In flashbacks to the eighties and nineties, BoJack and Herb are bartenders and aspiring comedians when Herb gets Horsin' Around greenlit by ABC. At the Griffith Observatory, Herb gives Bojack a telescope to signify their bond. As the two grow apart over the years, Herb is outed as gay and BoJack reluctantly lets the network fire him after being offered the chance to play his hero Secretariat in a biopic, which was never made. In the present, BoJack takes Diane with him to prevent him from being alone with Herb, who is passive-aggressive with BoJack despite clearly still sharing kinship with him. Before leaving, Diane encourages BoJack to talk to Herb privately; BoJack apologizes to Herb for betraying him, but Herb refuses to forgive him, on account of him waiting until Herb was on his deathbed to try to make amends. BoJack tries to take the telescope and the two fight, breaking it in the process, prompting Herb to call him cowardice who's apathetic to who Bojack has to hurt in order to get what Bojack wants. Bojack receives the call from Princess Carolyn on the way home. As Diane assures BoJack that he did the right thing by apologizing, he kisses her and she pushes him off.

9. Horse Majeure

Princess Carolyn starts dating "Vincent Adultman", a man who only BoJack recognizes as three boys in a trench coat. Wanting to disrupt the upcoming wedding between Diane and Mr. Peanutbutter, he hires Martindale to stage a bank robbery, but only ends up moving the wedding up and getting her arrested. Todd becomes Mr. Peanutbutter's driver at BoJack's urging, but turns on BoJack when he realizes he was the one who sabotaged his rock opera; he decides not to tell BoJack when Mr. Peanutbutter confesses his doubts about having a third wife. At the wedding, Diane assures BoJack that things are fine between them. BoJack confides in Vincent that he feels as though he may never have the chance to be good again.

10. One Trick Pony

Two months later, BoJack has been cast as Mr. Peanutbutter in the movie about the Hollywood Sign and strikes up a relationship with Naomi Watts, who is playing Diane. Todd gains the director's favor and begins changing the movie's script to make BoJack out to be the villain of the story, eventually taking apart the movie entirely. When BoJack confronts him, Todd reveals he had no malicious intentions, but does not forgive BoJack, and Watts explains that she only slept with him to stay in character. Diane shows BoJack her current draft of his book, which he feels makes him look bad and insults it. Angry, Diane gets her ex-boyfriend to publish a teaser from it on BuzzFeed. The teaser receives positive feedback, but BoJack fires Diane anyway for leaking the draft. Guest starring: Wallace Shawn as himself, Naomi Watts as herself

11. Downer Ending

BoJack promises his publisher to write a better book than Diane, but finds himself struggling to start. He, Todd, and Sarah Lynn take drugs together and write a gibberish book, and Todd admits he does not care about the loss of his rock opera because he did not expect anything better from BoJack. BoJack begins to have visions of Diane and Horsin' Around while trying to reach a conclusion about his self-worth, and he has a flashback to his mother Beatrice forcing on him the same advice he did Sarah Lynn. He imagines marrying Charlotte Moore, a deer who was close friends with him and Herb, and having a daughter with her, only to finally wake up from his hallucinations. He goes to Diane at a ghostwriter convention and admits her book is excellent. He begs her to tell him that he is a good person; Diane does not respond. Guest starring: Ken Jeong as Dr. Hu

12. Later

In 1973, BoJack writes into The Dick Cavett Show while Secretariat is being interviewed, asking what he does when he feels sad. Secretariat tells BoJack to always keep running forward. One month later, Secretariat commits suicide after being banned from racing due to illegally gambling on races. Three months after the release of the book, BoJack wins a Golden Globe and convinces producer Lenny Turtletaub to finally greenlight the Secretariat biopic, with a woman named Kelsey Jannings directing and Andrew Garfield playing the lead. Diane is invited by eccentric billionaire Sebastian St. Clair to document his philanthropy in impoverished countries, which would require her to leave Los Angeles, and the U.S. as a whole for three months. Todd and Mr. Peanutbutter come up with a series of outlandish business ideas, one of which hospitalizes Garfield and gets BoJack the role of Secretariat. BoJack talks to Diane on her roof for the first time since he approached her at the convention, and she reveals she has been hired to work on the biopic. They discuss the true nature of happiness before BoJack admits he just wanted Diane to like him. BoJack visits the Griffith Observatory again, where he signs an autograph for a horse fan. Guest starring: John Krasinski as Secretariat

Season 2

1. Brand New Couch

In 1973, BoJack watches Secretariat read his letter while his parents fight in another room. Beatrice Horseman reminds him that he has "ruined" her, and that he must make something of himself to atone. During the success of Horsin' Around, she comes to one of his live shows, but is unimpressed. In the present, Secretariat begins shooting. BoJack, with a new, overly positive attitude, struggles to jog up a hill outside his house and film a serious line. As he worries over being unable to perform his dream role, Beatrice calls to inform him that she read his autobiography and apologizes for birthing him "broken," causing BoJack to drop his attitude and film the line perfectly. Guest starring: George Takei as Audiobook Narrator

2. Yesterdayland

BoJack finds himself frustrated with his recent dates, all of them more interested in his fame and reputation than him, until he meets Wanda Pierce, an owl network executive who just woke up from a thirty year coma. They begin dating, but he becomes jealous of her new friend, a man who also woke up from a coma but is secretly a KGB sleeper agent. Todd builds his own version of Disneyland after winning a legal battle with Disney, but becomes frustrated when Mr. Peanutbutter tries to take over. As the amusement park catches fire because of its shoddy construction, Mr. Peanutbutter saves Todd's life and BoJack assures Wanda that she makes him want to fix his jealous and negative impulses. Wanda accepts BoJack's offer to move in with him. Guest starring: Joel McHale as Alex and Lisa Kudrow as Wanda Pierce

3. Still Broken

Herb Kazzaz dies in a car crash after his cancer goes into remission, and the executor of his will sends BoJack and his Horsin' Around co-stars on a scavenger hunt. The group use their memories of Herb to discover that he left them a manuscript, but realize it has been stolen by Herb's friend Henry Winkler. They confronts Winkler, who explains that Herb's manuscript was awful and would ruin his reputation if it was published. Princess Carolyn tries to use the wake to get new clients, but is forced to improvise a friendship with Herb when Mr. Peanutbutter asks her to tell stories about him. Todd adopts a new, confident persona when BoJack orders him to go get soda, but quickly drops it when BoJack criticizes him. In a flashback to after the first shoot of Horsin' Around, BoJack expresses his fear of the future changing his friendship with Herb, but Herb reassures him that they will be fine. Guest starring: Stanley Tucci as Herb Kazzaz and Henry Winkler as himself

4. After the Party

Mr. Peanutbutter throws Diane a lavish thirty-fifth birthday party against her wishes and the two get in a fight, ending the party early. Diane realizes Mr. Peanutbutter is trying to get her to not leave with Sebastian St. Clair, and after a long talk about his fear of being without her, he decides he is comfortable with her going. Princess Carolyn notices Vincent Adultman without his trench coat on the street, and he tries to convince her that it was actually his son. She breaks up with him, but never realizes the truth about what he really is. Todd watches as his and Princess Carolyn's phones fall in love, but his phone updates and deletes its feelings. While driving home from the party, BoJack and Wanda discuss their relationship; BoJack fears they are moving too fast. After BoJack hits a deer, he and Wanda take it to the hospital while she tells him two separate jokes about obsession that tie together in the end. Guest starring: Paul McCartney as himself

5. Chickens

Desperate to get Kelsey Jannings to like him, BoJack occupies the Secretariat crew for the day, but she is still annoyed by him. She pawns off her sardonic daughter onto Diane, who returns home to find Todd harboring a brain-damaged chicken that escaped from a fast food transport truck. They give the chicken to a farm that will treat her well before killing her for food, only for Todd and Diane to feel guilt and free all the chickens. They are caught and arrested, but BoJack uses his celebrity status to free them, further annoying Kelsey by making the situation about himself. Guest starring: Ron Funches as Gentle Chickens Farmer, Amy Schumer as Irving, Craig Kilborn as Michael Morgan

6. Higher Love

Princess Carolyn signs Mr. Peanutbutter on as a client after his agent dies of autoerotic asphyxiation. She tracks down the still alive J.D. Salinger and convinces him to pitch a celebrity quiz game show with Mr. Peanutbutter as the host. Despite her efforts, she continues to find herself unappreciated at her company. BoJack absentmindedly tells Wanda that he loves her and immediately takes it back, but is upset when she tells him she does not love him either. When BoJack's co-star Corduroy Jackson admits that he was formerly addicted to asphyxiation, BoJack gets the idea to pretend to do it himself and have Wanda save his life if she truly loves him. When BoJack accidentally does choke himself in front of Wanda, she saves him and admits she does love him. Later on the Secretariat set, BoJack finds Corduroy dead after trying to asphyxiate himself. Guest starring: Alan Arkin as J.D. Salinger The focus on auto-erotic asphyxiation, including two deaths in the episode, has meant that this is the only episode in the series to be given an 18 certificate by the British Board of Film Classification.

7. Hank After Dark

Diane and BoJack go on tour to promote his book, as production on Secretariat is temporarily halted due to Corduroy's death. During the tour, Diane brings up allegations of sexual misconduct towards beloved television icon Hank Hippopopalous, sparking immense backlash against her. She tries to get a magazine to run a story on him, but the corporation that owns the magazine relies on Hippopopalous' image and shuts the story down. With Mr. Peanutbutter upset with her for possibly jeopardizing his upcoming game show, Diane decides to join St. Clair in the country of Cordovia. The prince of Cordovia, who bears a resemblance to Todd, visits America, and the two briefly switch places. Todd sends Cordovia into chaos, while the prince finds himself disturbed by American culture. Guest starring: Scott Wolf as Scott Wolf (fox caricature), Philip Baker Hall as Hank Hippopopalous

8. Let's Find Out

BoJack goes on Salinger's game show as a favor for Wanda, where he faces off against Daniel Radcliffe and is intentionally set up to lose. Todd finds himself at odds with a production assistant who wins Salinger's pen after solving a power outage, and he tricks her into giving him the pen. Princess Carolyn informs BoJack of a way to tell when Mr. Peanutbutter is reading the correct answer, but he is asked to throw the game by Wanda. BoJack purposely ties with Radcliffe instead of winning. The show gets derailed when BoJack insults Mr. Peanutbutter, who reveals that he knows BoJack kissed Diane. Wanda orders them to make up by the end of the show, so BoJack admits he is envious of Mr. Peanutbutter's ability to be happy and they kiss on live television, as ordered by the producers. BoJack chooses to take a final question to double his winnings for charity and is asked one where Radcliffe is the answer. Angered by Radcliffe not recognizing him earlier, BoJack intentionally answers wrong out of spite and the money is burned. Guest starring: Daniel Radcliffe as himself, Alan Arkin as J.D. Salinger and Tatiana Maslany as Mia McKibbin

9. The Shot

In 1972, BoJack smokes his first cigarette after seeing Secretariat smoke one on television. Beatrice catches him and forces him to smoke the rest of it while ordering him not to cry. In the present, the Secretariat producers decide to make the film more lighthearted, which BoJack and Kelsey object to. They agree to film the last shot of the movie: Secretariat learning his brother was killed in Vietnam after sending him in his stead, and do so by breaking into the Nixon Museum while Margo Martindale and Princess Carolyn distract the police. Princess Carolyn becomes lost in a Kinkade painting but ultimately realizes that she chose her chaotic life because she loves it, choosing to start her own agency and a romantic relationship with her divorced coworker Rutabaga Rabitowitz. Diane decides to leave Cordovia after realizing St. Clair is only helping because of his narcissism rather than out of the kindness, but does not tell Mr. Peanutbutter of her return. BoJack refuses to cry on camera, but Kelsey gets the shot without him crying and claims he had the emotion he needed in him all along. BoJack weeps outside while smoking a cigarette. The next day, Kelsey is fired for their efforts and replaced by another director. BoJack returns home to find Diane, who asks to stay with him. Guest starring: John Krasinski as Secretariat.

10. Yes And

BoJack clashes with the new Secretariat director's nonchalant attitude, and a miscommunication leads to the director getting offended and prolonging the shoot schedule out of spite, forcing BoJack to miss a chance to do theatre work in New York. Depressed and angry, he stays at home and drinks with Diane, to Wanda's and Princess Carolyn's dismay. BoJack and Wanda get into an argument when BoJack insults her profession, and they break up as a result of Bojack's bitterness and relentless self-pity. Todd joins an improv comedy club and excels. He saves a spot at his show for BoJack, who does not come. BoJack and Diane discuss if finishing the proper version of Secretariat or going to New York would have made him happy. After contemplating on the last time he was truly happy, BoJack drives to New Mexico to see Charlotte Moore. Diane calls Mr. Peanutbutter when BoJack urges her to tell him the truth; she instead requests he does not call her until she "returns" from Cordovia. Guest starring: Ben Schwartz as Rutabaga Rabbitowitz, Liev Schreiber as Copernicus and Rian Johnson as Bryan

11. Escape from L.A.

BoJack discovers that Charlotte is married and has two teenage children. He lies that he is in town for a boat show, and buys a boat which he names " Escape From L.A. " to cover the lie. BoJack rejects all of his Hollywoo obligations and lives with Charlotte's family for two months as the family warms to him, particularly the daughter, Penny Carson. BoJack agrees to accompany Penny to her prom when she does not have a date. They have a fun evening with her friends until one of them passes out from alcohol poisoning; BoJack and Penny abandon her and go home, where she comes onto him. He rejects her and sits with Charlotte, where she states her belief that BoJack cannot escape who he is. They briefly kiss, but Charlotte quickly breaks it off and asks him to leave come morning time. As BoJack gets on the boat, Penny again tries to seduce him, and while he rejects her, he leaves the bedroom door open. Charlotte catches them about to have sex and harshly orders BoJack to leave immediately, demanding he never contact her or her family ever again. BoJack takes the boat with him back to California, where he finds Diane still at his house. Guest starring: Olivia Wilde as Charlotte, Ed Helms as Kyle, Adam Pally as Trip and Ilana Glazer as Penny The opening theme song is replaced by "Kyle and the Kids", a parody theme song summarizing Charlotte's living conditions.

12. Out to Sea

Princess Carolyn learns that Rabitowitz is back with his wife despite him continuing to have sex with her. She fires him from the new company and chooses to run it herself, hiring Diane as a Twitter ghostwriter. Diane is spotted by Mr. Peanutbutter while out in public, and they agree for her to come home and pretend nothing happened. Todd joins the improv club's cruise ship and discovers their leader is a fraud. BoJack finds that he was replaced entirely in Secretariat by CGI. Lenny Turtletaub introduces BoJack to Ana Spanakopita, a publicist who plans to get him an Oscar. Disillusioned by people preferring the fake BoJack to him, he takes the Escape From L.A. to rescue Todd from the ship and learns that Princess Carolyn opened an orphanage in Herb's name using his Horsin' Around residuals. BoJack makes it up the hill outside his house and collapses from exhaustion, only for an elderly Japanese macaque who has been seen jogging throughout the season to advise him that "it gets a little easier, but you gotta do it every day," which BoJack seems to accept. Guest starring: Ricky Gervais as Hedgehog at Orphanage, Sarah Koenig as Diane's Ringtone, Aisha Tyler as Sextina Aquafina, Angela Bassett as Ana Spanikopita and Rian Johnson as Bryan

Season 3

1. Start Spreading the News

BoJack, Todd, and Ana Spanakopita go on tour in New York City, where he meets playwright Jill Pill, who asks him to check on an associate of theirs named "Cuddlywhiskers". J.D. Salinger ends his game show, leaving Mr. Peanutbutter without a job, and he returns to pitching costly, nonsensical business ideas. BoJack almost has sex with a reporter against Ana's wishes and becomes uncomfortable, vaguely alluding to the incident in New Mexico and admitting his role in Secretariat is fake, which the reporter records. Ana learns of this and takes care of it, and after Secretariat screens to positive reviews, BoJack promises the audience that they are seeing the real him in the role.

2. The BoJack Horseman Show

In 2007, BoJack is dating Princess Carolyn, the secretary to his agent who later takes his job when he quits, and is refusing to take new roles, unable to move on from the success of Horsin' Around. Todd has his first kiss with his friend Emily and the two date, but he becomes uncomfortable when she posits the idea of having sex and flees her house when her dad comes home. Mr. Peanutbutter's second wife Jessica Biel leaves him, and he meets Diane while she caters an event he is speaking at. BoJack meets with Jill and Cuddlywhiskers, a hamster screenwriter, who writes a drama series that BoJack plays the lead in, but becomes nervous when the executives compare it to Horsin' Around. He and Cuddlywhiskers give it a nonsense rewrite while high, rename it The BoJack Horseman Show, and premiere it, but it is poorly received and quickly forgotten about.

3. BoJack Kills

Jill asks BoJack to retrieve a love letter from Cuddlywhiskers's house, but he and Diane find an orca stripper dead in his pool. The use of BoJack's name in her last text lead him and Diane to believe he is being framed for murder, but they learn that "BoJack" is actually the name of a brand of heroin being distributed by a former Horsin' Around actor, which the stripper overdosed on. Todd and Mr. Peanutbutter get sprayed by a skunk and end up setting fire to Mr. Peanutbutter's yard while trying to fix it. BoJack and Diane find Cuddlywhiskers in a hut up in Ojai, where he explains that he gave up his material desires after he felt nothing when he won an Oscar and dedicated himself to helping addicts. He advises them to give up everything if they want to be happy, advice which makes them both uncomfortable. Guest starring: Fred Savage as Goober

4. Fish Out of Water

BoJack attends a film festival in the Pacific Ocean, where he cannot understand the native tongue and is forced to wear a helmet that prevents him from speaking. He spots Kelsey Jannings there for her new film and writes a halfhearted apology note for getting her fired, but is swept onto a bus by a school of minnows and taken out of the city before he can deliver it. On the bus, BoJack watches a seahorse give birth and accidentally leave one of his babies behind. BoJack forms a kinship with the infant and tries to return it to its father, a series of hijinks leading them through the deep sea and a taffy factory. He eventually gets it home and turns down the father's offer of money, but is saddened when he realizes he cannot tell which of the children is the one he rescued. He returns to the city to find that Secretariat is a big success. After seeing Kelsey leaving, he writes a heartfelt note about connection and gives it to her, but is horrified to see the ink has dissolved in the water as she leaves in annoyance. A human tells BoJack to get out of the way by pressing a button on his helmet, causing BoJack to realize he could have spoken the whole time while he was underwater. Winner of "Special Distinction for a TV Series" at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival.

5. Love and/or Marriage

Secretariat premieres publicly and is met with overwhelmingly positive reviews. BoJack and Todd celebrate at a hotel, where they bump into Emily, who is there for her best friend's rehearsal dinner. Sensing Emily's attraction to Todd, BoJack sets them up with a room so they can have sex, but Todd is again uncomfortable and leaves Emily alone. BoJack accidentally causes one of the brides to have doubts about her marriage, and he reinvigorates her by talking about his own feelings on love, which depresses him and leads him to have sex with a dejected Emily. Princess Carolyn goes on three dates; she finds the first two unsatisfying, but enjoys her third one with mouse Ralph Stilton. Diane does LSD with a client when he accidentally calls her to hang out with him. Returning home while high, Diane tells Mr. Peanutbutter that she loves him despite his eccentricities, and injures her wrist when she tries to carry him. At the hospital, Diane learns that she is pregnant. Guest Starring: Dave Franco as Alexi Brosefino

6. Brrap Brrap Pew Pew

Diane and Mr. Peanutbutter agree to get an abortion, and she accidentally tweets that she is getting one from pop star Sextina Aquafina's account while talking to BoJack. Princess Carolyn and Sextina embrace it when it gains her popularity and plan to fake an abortion on live television, which Diane is disgusted with until she realizes the music is inspiring young women getting their own abortions. Sextina actually gets pregnant and plans to keep it, and Diane and Princess Carolyn start plotting about how to handle it. BoJack fires Ana when he realizes she is working with all the other actors in talks for Oscar nominations. This arouses Ana, causing her to drop all her other clients and begin a sexual relationship with him. Guest starring: Daniele Gaither as Sextina Aquafina

7. Stop the Presses

BoJack calls a newspaper that keeps delivering to his door despite trying to get it cancelled, and recounts recent events to the representative as she tries to convince him to keep his subscription. Margo Martindale is revealed to have been hiding in the Escape From L.A. and stealing food from his kitchen, and eventually takes the boat to flee from the law. Emily and Todd start a female cab service with women drivers, but BoJack and Emily are visibly uncomfortable around each other, and she eventually leaves without explaining the problem to Todd. While looking at Secretariat ads, BoJack is captivated by a reflective one that reads "YOU ARE SECRETARIAT", but Ana is unable to get the producers to approve it. Curious about her private life, BoJack follows her and finds that she is as lonely as he is, which makes him uncomfortable. The representative advises him to be direct with Ana, and he finishes the call without cancelling the newspaper. He goes to her and firmly asks for the advertisement to be run, which results in a mirror billboard being put up on a highway that only reflects the sky, thus making the ad a flop. Guest starring: Candice Bergen as The Closer

8. Old Acquaintance

Diane and Mr. Peanutbutter go to the Labrador Peninsula to be with his family for the New Year's. Diane believes Mr. Peanutbutter's older brother is expressing distaste for her abortion when he makes several morbid statements about mortality around her. He instead reveals to Mr. Peanutbutter that he actually has a twisted spleen that requires surgery to fix, which worries him. BoJack is contacted by the actor who played his son on Horsin' Around, Bradley Hitler-Smith, who wants to do a sequel series about his character. BoJack is too nervous to directly turn him down, so Ana rudely does it for him. Rutabaga Rabitowitz and Vanessa Gekko, having started their own agency together, compete with Princess Carolyn to land their horse actors in a new David Pincher movie. Princess Carolyn initially gains the upper hand through her past assistant, but they use Kelsey and the fact that Princess Carolyn held her assistant back to win the role, putting Princess Carolyn's agency in jeopardy. BoJack loses his chance to reconnect with Kelsey when Princess Carolyn tries to price him higher than Kelsey can afford. Guest starring: "Weird Al" Yankovic as Captain Peanutbutter

9. Best Thing That Ever Happened

BoJack has dinner with Princess Carolyn at the restaurant he owns, where he fires her for her inability to handle Bradley and Kelsey. The head waiter mistakes this for him being fired and gets almost the entire staff to quit, and BoJack and Princess Carolyn fight over the history of their relationship. As BoJack and the only remaining staff member try to figure out how to cook for a food critic, Princess Carolyn briefly leaves, but cannot resist coming back to save him. They order the food critic to leave when she reveals herself to be a Tumblr blogger, and BoJack admits that he loves Princess Carolyn but refuses to rehire her.

10. It's You

Mr. Peanutbutter is given the opportunity to host the Oscar nomination announcements, but loses the envelope containing the nominees after he gets distracted when he learns that his brother is recovering well from surgery. He and Todd try to come up with a new list of nominees from scratch, and while Mr. Peanutbutter picks BoJack for a Best Actor slot, Todd is reluctant. Princess Carolyn's competent assistant Judah Mannowdog suggests that she use the agency's financial struggles as an excuse to temporarily shut it down and live her life; she asks Ralph out on a second date, to which he agrees. BoJack throws a party at his house to celebrate his nomination despite Diane warning him that it will not make him happy, and he drives his new Tesla through his window and into his pool when he realizes Ana does not actually care about him beyond his Oscar campaign. Mr. Peanutbutter saves him from drowning and explains that he was not actually nominated like they had assumed. BoJack confronts Todd on not wanting him to win, admitting that he slept with Emily in the process. Enraged, Todd tells BoJack that he cannot keep blaming other things for his faults, telling him that, ultimately, "it's you."

11. That's Too Much, Man!

BoJack convinces Sarah Lynn to break her sobriety and go on a bender with him. They binge Horsin' Around and goes to one of her sobriety meetings, where he rambles about his misdeed with Penny before blacking out. Through a series of blackouts, he tries to make amends with all of the people in his life, including Ana, who tells him a story where the moral is that some people cannot be saved. He and Sarah Lynn drive to Oberlin to see if Penny Carson is alright, but his appearance only distresses her after she seemed fine prior to their visit. BoJack and Sarah Lynn snort BoJack brand heroin and watch her win an Oscar in a dingy motel room; Sarah Lynn admits that it does not make her happy and she hates her famous life. They go to the planetarium at her request, where BoJack promises her that things will be fine. She falls asleep in his arms and remains unresponsive when he tries to wake her. Guest Starring: Wiz Khalifa as himself

12. That Went Well

In 2007, BoJack approaches Sarah Lynn after a show, and she vents to him before he uncaringly asks her to guest star on The BoJack Horseman Show, visibly wounding her. In the present, Sarah Lynn dies of an overdose, leaving BoJack guilt-stricken, and he decides to do Bradley's show. Princess Carolyn decides to open the agency back up but work as a manager instead of an agent. Diane gets a job at a company run by Ralph's sister, who hires her because she is impressed by her speaking out against Hank Hippopopalous. Martindale crashes the Escape From L.A. into a boat full of spaghetti, and Mr. Peanutbutter, whose house is full of strainers from a failed business venture, utilizes Todd's cab company to save the day, giving him plentiful job opportunities. He is approached by his first wife Katrina, who wants to use his new popularity to have him run for governor. Todd dissolves the company and becomes a millionaire. He takes Emily out to lunch, accidentally tipping the waitress his new fortune in the process, and admits he may be asexual despite not knowing the term. BoJack gets on well with the cast of the new show, but panics and flees when a child actress says she wants to be like him. A teenage horse girl calls Princess Carolyn looking for BoJack, who speeds his Tesla down a desert highway and lets go of the wheel for a moment, with the intention of committing suicide. He suddenly sees a pack of wild horses jogging and watches them in awe.

Season 4

1. See Mr. Peanutbutter Run

In 1992, Mr. Peanutbutter stumbles onto the set of what will become his show and gets the lead role by accident. Three months after BoJack's disappearance, Mr. Peanutbutter does not get the signatures required to run for governor, but Diane unintentionally encourages him to challenge current governor Woodchuck Coodchuck-Berkowitz to a ski race for the position. Woodchuck easily triumphs over Mr. Peanutbutter in the race, but Todd, who was gifted a "drone throne" by Emily using her share of the cab company money, accidentally uses it to win the race. He immediately resigns, forcing Woodchuck to vacate the seat and win it back through a new election, which Mr. Peanutbutter pledges to partake in. As Diane watches the crowd rally around him, she leaves BoJack another voicemail, having done so throughout the episode, but finds that his mailbox is full. Princess Carolyn finds out she is pregnant but miscarries, and Ralph Stilton asks her to move in with him.

2. The Old Sugarman Place

In the 1940s, Beatrice Horseman's brother Crackerjack is killed in World War II, and her mother Honey has a breakdown during a celebration of the end of the war. Drunk, she has Beatrice drive them home, but she crashes the car. Her father Joseph has Honey lobotomized, and she asks Beatrice to never love anyone as much as she loved her son. In the present, BoJack almost joins the wild horses, but is distracted by a call from Diane (which he ignores) and watches as they pass by him. He drives out to Beatrice's Michigan lake house, which has become dilapidated. Grumpy and flightless dragonfly Eddie helps BoJack fix it up, but BoJack tricks him into flying when he notices how depressed Eddie is. Enraged, Eddie reveals that his wife died in a flying accident and almost drowns them both out of anger for making him fly. BoJack finally calls Diane back and their banter inspires him to have the house torn down and abandon Eddie, hurt by how he was almost responsible for their deaths.

3. Hooray! Todd Episode!

Todd barely makes it to his part as a triangle player in an orchestra, and afterwards, the members tell tales of his exploits, the oboe player wishing he would take time off from all his responsibilities. Todd accidentally registers Mr. Peanutbutter as pro- fracking against Diane's wishes, and encourages her to stay true to her honest career path when she expresses doubts about her journalism. Princess Carolyn asks him to pose as the boyfriend of actress Courtney Portnoy, and he accidentally starts his own fashion line while Courtney announces their engagement. He is approached by the teenage horse looking for BoJack, a girl named Hollyhock, who claims to be BoJack's daughter and wants to find her mother; Todd tests her DNA against BoJack's and finds that they match. After explaining to BoJack that he is Hollyhock's father, they have a conversation about Todd's value and he comes out to BoJack as asexual. He chooses to go to an asexual group meeting, something he had expressed anxiety over earlier, and does not show up for the orchestra, something the oboe player is happy to see.

4. Commence Fracking

BoJack and Hollyhock visit the president of his fan club who he had sex with, and Hollyhock takes her list of women BoJack has slept with while he has sex with the woman to distract her. As they go through the list, BoJack unintentionally insults Hollyhock while degrading himself, causing her to run off and forcing him to look through the list to find her. He lies about her mother still being out there to get her to stay, and invites her to live with him. Princess Carolyn buys a watch that informs her when she is at peak fertility, and she and Ralph are arrested while trying to speed home during one of these windows, forcing them to have sex in the back of a police car. Mr. Peanutbutter is unable to have sex with Diane because of the campaign, leaving both of them frustrated and unfocused. She writes a hit piece on him after he allows fracking in their house and sends it while they fight, prompting them to have sex.

5. Thoughts and Prayers

Courtney's new action movie is jeopardized by a series of mass shootings. Diane is initially anti-gun, but after Courtney uses her handgun to fend off a creepy guy in front of her, she quickly becomes pro-gun against Mr. Peanutbutter's wishes and popularizes the idea of women owning them, causing them to again have sex after a publicized debate. When a woman perpetrates a shooting, the California Legislature votes on banning all guns rather than helping women feel more safe. BoJack and Hollyhock visit a dementia -stricken Beatrice in her nursing home after he reveals he lied about her mother; Beatrice calls BoJack "Henrietta" and identifies old pictures of him as Crackerjack. Upset when he notices her laughing at Horsin' Around despite her previous dislike of it, BoJack decides to put on a live performance to see if she recognizes him, which only makes her react violently and get thrown out of the nursing home. She moves in with him and Hollyhock assures him that he will someday be able to tell Beatrice how much he hates her. He almost puts his hand on her back, but decides against it.

6. Stupid Piece of Sh*t

BoJack's self-loathing thoughts follow him throughout the day, represented by crudely animated sequences depicting what he is imagining. He is wounded to see Beatrice caring for a horse doll and throws it over his deck in a rage, causing her to fall into a depression. He has Mr. Peanutbutter pick up its scent and gets it back from his neighbor Felicity Huffman, on the condition that he appears on her show. Princess Carolyn and Courtney's agent, Rutabaga Rabitowitz, learn that Meryl Streep is retiring on the same day as Courtney and Todd's wedding, and so they bait Streep into taking a new role to avoid distracting Hollywoo from the wedding. Todd, worried that the wedding will conflict with his asexuality, learns that he can still experience romantic attraction but decides he is not comfortable faking a marriage. Hollyhock admits to BoJack that she has her own negative thoughts and asks if they go away; he lies to her and promises that they do.

7. Underground

The foundation of Mr. Peanutbutter's house collapses during a fundraiser, sending the house underground with only Todd and Princess Carolyn not trapped inside. Enraged that Mr. Peanutbutter continued to frack, Diane locks herself in her bedroom with BoJack, who she has not seen since he returned, and drinks excessively with him while admitting how unhappy she is. Woodchuck tunnels in to save the occupants, but they accidentally cause a rockslide that cuts off their exit and crushes his hands. When he tries to take charge, Katrina manipulates the crowd into subduing him and supporting Mr. Peanutbutter, who allows everyone to eat their rations. Jessica Biel burns Zach Braff alive and the survivors eat his flesh for sustenance, planning to kill Mr. Peanutbutter next. Diane and BoJack rupture a pipe to give everyone water, but only end up flooding the house, and are narrowly saved by a colony of ants Princess Carolyn strikes a deal with. After escaping, Todd, Princess Carolyn, BoJack, Diane and Mr. Peanutbutter decide to go eat injera.

8. The Judge

BoJack guest stars on " Felicity Huffmans' Booty Academy L.A. " to fulfill his favor, and Hollyhock immediately falls for an intern that BoJack distrusts. He tries to expose the intern's supposed scumminess by getting a contestant to sleep with him, but she goes to the wrong person and BoJack is fired from the show. The intern approaches him and promises to leave Hollyhock alone if BoJack reads a script of his, leading BoJack to realize he was right about him all along. Todd starts a new venture involving clown dentists to make children less afraid of dentists. Mr. Peanutbutter drops out of the race and puts his full support behind a hospitalized Woodchuck, so Katrina has Biel run for governor in his stead. Princess Carolyn accompanies Ralph to meet his family during an anti-cat tradition, which makes her uncomfortable. Ralph initially says nothing, but eventually tells off his family and proudly reveals that he is having a baby with her.

9. Ruthie

In the distant future, a cat named Ruthie tells her class of the worst day of her ancestor Princess Carolyn's life for a school project. Courtney fires Princess Carolyn for mishandling her action movie and the wedding, the clasp on her family heirloom necklace breaks, and she miscarries again but does not have the heart to tell Ralph. She learns that her necklace is actually cheap jewelry, and that Judah Mannowdog rejected an offer to merge with another agency on her behalf, prompting her to fire him for the clandestine rejection. She goes home to her old apartment and gets drunk with Todd and the clown dentists, and breaks up with Ralph when he finds her. She goes to her office to sleep and gets a call from BoJack, who has spent the day stuck in court searching for Hollyhock's mother. After BoJack complains about his problems, Princess Carolyn reveals that "Ruthie" is a story she tells herself whenever she feels bad.

10. Lovin' That Cali Lifestyle!!

Woodchuck nearly loses the race when his new hands are discovered to be those of a serial killer, but Diane has lunch with Biel and leaks to the public that she hates avocados, tanking her popularity and winning Woodchuck the seat of governor. Princess Carolyn is visited by screenwriter Flip McVicker who pitches a thriller series called Philbert, the name of the hypothetical son she and Ralph were going to have, and Todd uses his clown dentists to get her a meeting with Lenny Turtletaub. He requests BoJack play the lead role, and when Princess Carolyn cannot reach him, she reluctantly forges his signature on the contract. Todd is warned by axolotl Better Business Bureau employee Yolanda Buenaventura that he needs to shut down the clown dentist venture, so he releases the employees into the woods. Hollyhock overdoses on pills and her fathers warn BoJack to never talk to her again. BoJack blames himself until he realizes that Beatrice was spiking Hollyhock's coffee with weight loss pills, prompting him to move her into a poor quality nursing home. Before BoJack can leave, Beatrice suddenly says his name.

11. Time's Arrow

Beatrice re-experiences important events of her life through disoriented, dreamlike flashbacks as BoJack drives her to the nursing home. After Honey's lobotomization, Beatrice contracts scarlet fever and Joseph burns her baby horse doll to stop the spread of infection. As a young adult, he attempts to force her into a relationship for business reasons at her debutante ball, where she meets Butterscotch Horseman, a drifter and aspiring novelist that she falls for and engages in a one night stand with. She finds that the man Joseph wanted her to be with is actually kind and intelligent, but Butterscotch has already impregnated her. Fueled by the trauma of seeing her doll burned, she refuses to abort the child, has a shotgun wedding with Butterscotch, and gives birth to BoJack. After BoJack grows up and leaves the home, Butterscotch impregnates their maid Henrietta Platchkey, and Beatrice, not wanting her to go down the same path she did, pays for her tuition to nursing school but also forces her to give her horse daughter up for adoption. In the present, she recognizes BoJack but does not understand where she is, so BoJack lies to her and claims they are at the Michigan summer house and eating ice cream with him and her family, something she was never allowed to do as a child.

12. What Time Is It Right Now

Princess Carolyn gets Philbert picked up by the website WhatTimeIsItRightNow.com and gets BoJack's approval to have him star in it. Todd and Yolanda discover that the clown dentists have contracted rabies, which Todd turns into another business venture that gets cleared by Yolanda. Having developed feelings for him, she reveals she is also asexual and asks him out on a date. After buying a new house, Diane and Mr. Peanutbutter go on a road trip, where she reveals she always wanted a Beauty and the Beast inspired library. She returns home to find Mr. Peanutbutter had it built for her, but is frustrated that he took her private fantasy away from her. BoJack discovers that Hollyhock is Butterscotch and Henrietta's daughter, and he gives Henrietta's number to Hollyhock's fathers. Hollyhock calls him at the airport while she is off to meet her mother, and BoJack smiles when she asks if they can accept each other as siblings.

Season 5

1. The Light Bulb Scene

Well into the production of his new detective show and return to television, Philbert, anthropomorphic horse BoJack Horseman is having casual sex with his costar Gina Cazador and finds himself confused and aggravated by Flip McVicker, creator of Philbert. When BoJack takes offense to several scenes with unneeded sexuality, Flip writes a new scene where Philbert screws in a light bulb while naked. BoJack, not wanting to film any more nude scenes, tries to get his roommate Todd Chavez to infiltrate WhatTimeIsItRightNow.com, the website that streams Philbert, to send Flip an email prohibiting any further nude scenes; Todd obliges after his girlfriend, Yolanda Buenaventura, asks him to get a job, but he ends up becoming president of the website's ad sales and is unable to help BoJack. BoJack also admits to Princess Carolyn that he feels uncomfortable doing the show because Philbert reflects the worst parts of him, but both she and Flip promise that he and the character are separate people, so he films the scene. Mr. Peanutbutter picks his wife Diane Nguyen up from the airport, and hands over completed divorce papers.

2. The Dog Days Are Over

After Diane's therapist suggests she break her routine, she decides to go to a party at Mr. Peanutbutter's house but learns he is dating waitress Pickles Aplenty. She abruptly leaves for Hanoi, Vietnam, her family's country of origin, but finds herself out of touch with the culture. She quickly adapts to it and meets an American film crew member who does not believe she speaks English, a ruse she perpetuates until she accidentally speaks when a light falls next to her. Diane returns home to be given her signed divorce papers; she tells Mr. Peanutbutter that she is happy for him in his new relationship but breaks down crying in private.

3. Planned Obsolescence

BoJack discovers that Gina has a love for musicals and was always interested in singing, so he convinces Flip and Princess Carolyn to listen to her perform without telling her beforehand. She gives a mediocre performance and leaves embarrassed, and while she acknowledges that BoJack making her do it cleared up any ambiguity about her chances of succeeding, she asks him to not get involved in her personal life again. Mr. Peanutbutter convinces Pickles to watch the International Space Station being blown up with him despite her worries that they are moving too fast and accidentally admits that he still has feelings for Diane. Yolanda takes Todd to meet her hypersexual family, where her twin sister tries to seduce him by dressing as Yolanda, and her mother deduces that he is asexual and asks him to help her discover her own asexuality. After a mishap with a barrel of ancient lube leads to a fight, Yolanda comes out to her family as asexual and is accepted, but Todd breaks up with her after realizing she lied to her family about his credentials to make him look more impressive.

4. BoJack the Feminist

Diane is disturbed when Flip casts bigoted, misogynistic Vance Waggoner as Philbert's troubled partner. Mr. Peanutbutter is hurt that Princess Carolyn thinks he is not gritty enough for a reboot of Dog Day Afternoon, so he sets out to cause as much conflict as possible but only ends up helping everyone he meets. BoJack is hailed as a feminist icon after he expresses unrelated disgust at an award ceremony for Waggoner, which escalates when he says that choking women is wrong and becomes a sensation. Waggoner ducks any further controversy by proclaiming himself a feminist and drops out of Philbert, and Princess Carolyn brings in Mr. Peanutbutter to play his role. BoJack realizes that Philbert is perpetuating misogyny despite claiming to be a deconstruction of it and asks Diane to come on as a consultant, which she agrees to despite Flip's sexist attitude. Ana Spanakopita, Waggoner's publicist, meets with Diane to inform him that he has again been fired from his new film for bigotry but also plays for her the recording of BoJack admitting that he attempted to have sex with Penny Carson, his friend Charlotte Carson 's underage daughter, in New Mexico.

5. The Amelia Earhart Story

In 2007, Princess Carolyn, a young woman in Eden, North Carolina, falls for and is impregnated by the son of the wealthy family she cleans for. Her mother gives her her necklace and encourages her to marry into the family for the good of hers, but Princess Carolyn miscarries and instead leaves for Los Angeles to go to college. In the present, she returns to meet Sadie at a coffee shop, a teen mother set up to meet with Princess Carolyn who is looking to give her unborn child up for adoption. Through a series of phone calls, she learns that BoJack injured his back in a stunt accident on the Philbert set. After hanging out for a while, Princess Carolyn begins to alienate Sadie by snapping at people around them, despite the fact she tried to appear professional and sweet in front of her. Princess Carolyn tries her best to charm Sadie by sweet-talking her, but Sadie sees through the ruse and decides she is not a suitable candidate to adopt.

6. Free Churro

In a flashback, BoJack's father, Butterscotch Horseman, picks BoJack up from soccer practice after a depressed Beatrice Horseman, BoJack's mother, fails to get him, and Butterscotch spends the entire car ride complaining about her. In the present, Beatrice has died and BoJack speaks at her funeral, his eulogy eventually becoming about himself as he tries to deconstruct his warped views on love, the relationship between him and his parents, and his mother's last words, which he realizes were actually her reading the sign on the wall of the intensive care unit. BoJack comes to a realization that while he will never have the good relationship with Beatrice that he always wanted and that he does not understand what she wanted herself, she deserves the open casket that she requested and opens it, only to realize he was in the wrong funeral parlor the entire time.

7. INT. SUB

A married couple, Diane's therapist and a mediator for WhatTimeIsItRightNow.com, tell each other recent work stories where all the characters are changed to nonsensical versions of themselves. Diane's therapist tells her to give herself space from BoJack after she is unnerved by what she heard about him, and so BoJack tracks the therapist down and she convinces him to take her services, not specifying that he is actually agreeing to go to therapy. Diane is hurt when she finds out and stops seeing her therapist, only for BoJack to quit when he realizes that he was in therapy the whole time. Princess Carolyn requests a new office from Todd, but he is upset that she supposedly ate the last piece of string cheese in their apartment, leading to a fight that resolves when Todd finds his cheese and agrees to start paying rent. Diane confronts BoJack and becomes enraged when he says they are both equally unstable. She rewrites a scene so it reflects the circumstances of what Diane heard on the recording, something that only she and BoJack would understand.

8. Mr. Peanutbutter's Boos

The episode is told over four separate Halloween parties at BoJack's house, where at each party Mr. Peanutbutter takes a different partner. In 1993, he brings Katrina, his then-wife, who gets in a fight with him after he continually abandons her against his wishes. In 2004, he brings Jessica Biel, who fights with him after she sees BoJack dressed as a mummy, which invokes her fear of them. He takes Diane in 2009, where Diane, a big fan of BoJack, tries to talk to him just as he learns that Butterscotch died. Taking his reaction as a dismissal, she berates Mr. Peanutbutter for taking her to a party when he knows they make her uncomfortable, and he promises to never do it again. Todd, meanwhile, moves in with BoJack. In the present, Mr. Peanutbutter takes Pickles, but he upsets her when he cannot stop talking about his three ex-wives. Diane points out to Mr. Peanutbutter that his problem is his inability to mature as easily as his romantic partners often do, and she promises Pickles that she will be alright if she manages to get through the party.

9. Ancient History

Season one of Philbert wraps production, leaving Mr. Peanutbutter to ponder his next career move. Princess Carolyn is forced to meet with Ralph Stilton, her recent ex-boyfriend, when Mr. Peanutbutter pitches a show based on a copyrighted greeting card made by his company. She then learns there is a mother putting her almost born baby up for adoption. Ralph drives her to the hospital, but she is forced to tell him that she does not consider him a part of her life anymore, which inspires the mother to keep the baby. Emily, Todd's best friend from high school who he is now reconnecting with, creates a dating app for asexuals; while conversing with her, Todd notices she is distracted by her continuous stream of unfulfilling boyfriends, so he creates her a poorly designed sex robot named Henry Fondle, which she is put off by. Hollyhock, BoJack's estranged half-sister, comes to visit and disposes of BoJack's painkillers in a panic when she finds them, thinking he is attempting to drug her; this forces them to try and get more as BoJack claims he needs them, which leads to BoJack unintentionally committing to a relationship with Gina while trying to steal some from her house. BoJack and Hollyhock get caught in a sting operation during a drug buy and flee, during which Hollyhock jumps over a fence by boosting herself up on BoJack's back, making her realize he does not need his pills for pain. When she confronts him about this, an incensed BoJack tells her she can't understand the emotional pain he's been facing his whole life, and says the "one bad experience" she had with Beatrice is tame compared to what he endured. Before she departs, BoJack apologizes to Hollyhock and promises not to take painkillers unless he's injured again. After she leaves, BoJack gives into his withdrawal and impulsively drives into oncoming traffic.

10. Head in the Clouds

Two months later, BoJack has almost recovered from his broken arm, has increased his painkiller consumption, and has still not publicized his relationship with Gina. The day of the Philbert premiere, Princess Carolyn learns that Flip lifted a line in the show from a joke on a popsicle stick, and the two estranged joke writers come demanding compensation. Princess Carolyn instead fixes the relationship between the two and they sign a release form. While trying to get rid of Henry Fondle, Todd ends up taking him to work, and the robot becomes the CEO of the company by accident. At the premiere, Diane is put off by BoJack saying that the show made him feel better about the wrongs he has done and privately confronts him, getting him to admit to previously attempting to have sex with an underage Penny after a long argument. Diane leaves in disgust and accidentally untethers a giant Philbert balloon, while a shaken BoJack impulsively kisses a now successful Gina in front of a crowd. Henry Fondle orders a second season of Philbert. Mr. Peanutbutter drives Diane home, upset by Pickles not staying to watch the premiere, and Diane invites him inside after a tender conversation where she decides to quit the show.

11. The Showstopper

In the second season of Philbert, a series of strangulations start to occur. BoJack begins to hallucinate the runaway Philbert balloon and brief flashes of his everyday life being on a dark TV set, as well as a golden set of stairs leading up to a bright destination. When he receives a letter under his door that promises to expose his deeds (actually a Philbert advertisement), he begins to conflate his real life with Philbert's and investigates everyone close to him, including Diane, Princess Carolyn, and Charlotte Carson. He has a bizarre musical dream performed by Gina that questions the true motivation of his addiction to fame. Gina finds his stashes of painkillers and leaves him when he tries to take them back by force, while on the show, her character discovers Philbert is actually the one responsible for the stranglings. He starts to choke her, and BoJack does not stop when Flip ends the take, forcing Mr. Peanutbutter to pull him off as everyone watches in horror. BoJack flashes out of reality to the stairs and ascends them, finding himself in a crudely drawn empty space with the Philbert balloon floating above him.

12. The Stopped Show

Mr. Peanutbutter and Diane argue over whose fault it is that they had sex after the Philbert premiere two months prior but end up having sex again. After another argument, Diane seems to convince Mr. Peanutbutter to be honest with Pickles and rejects his offer to start another relationship, but he is unable to tell Pickles the truth and instead proposes to her. BoJack awakens unable to remember the previous night until Princess Carolyn shows him a video taken of it, having been leaked to the media. She sets up an interview with Biscuits Braxby, who softballs BoJack and Gina during their interview. Gina tells BoJack that she will not take action against him for the sake of her burgeoning career, but she never wants to interact with him again outside of their professional lives. Henry Fondle is ousted from WhatTimeIsItRightNow.com for his sexual misconduct, and Todd takes him out to a field to kill him with a taser. Philbert is cancelled as a result, giving Princess Carolyn the opening she needs to go to Eden, North Carolina just as Sadie gives birth to a female porcupine; Sadie gives it to Princess Carolyn for being the only prospective parent that was kind to her. BoJack asks Diane to write an article about all his misdeeds, but she instead takes him to a rehab clinic. He asks her why she is helping him after all he has put her through, and she tells him a story about a friend who abandoned her in high school, but who she still took care of when she went through a crisis. As BoJack walks inside, Diane waves to him before driving away.

Season 6

1. A Horse Walks into a Rehab

BoJack initially struggles with rehab, but finds the motivation to excel when he learns that Sarah Lynn once was a patient in the same clinic. He accidentally helps teenage patient Jameson sneak out to go to a party and follows her out of guilt, eventually finding her at her father's house, who she claims neglects her in favor of his new child. As BoJack helps her smash up the house, her father arrives and she tries to blame it on BoJack. Her father sees through the ruse and explains that the baby is actually Jameson's, taking them both back to rehab. BoJack catches Jameson trying to sneak a water bottle full of vodka in and takes it from her. Throughout the episode, a series of flashbacks are shown in reverse chronological order, all of them involving BoJack and alcohol, revealing that the first time he drank was as a young child following a house party thrown by his parents.

2. The New Client

Princess Carolyn's still unnamed baby cries constantly, depriving of her sleep and making her more sluggish in day-to-day life. She orders a re-edit of Mr. Peanutbutter's movie Birthday Dad when questioned on how feminist her works are, which cuts it down to forty minutes and gets the movie cancelled. Todd, watching the baby, accidentally orders a TV show under its name, which Princess Carolyn realizes is the perfect opportunity to pitch Birthday Dad as a television show. She has an earnest talk with Vanessa Gekko and confides that she is afraid she may not properly love her daughter, but Gekko assures her that she just needs to keep going regardless and that it will come naturally. Princess Carolyn finally gets the baby to sleep, and decides that she will name her "Ruthie".

3. Feel-Good Story

Diane travels the country filming journalistic videos with her bison cameraman Guy, who she begins to develop an intimate relationship with. Their boss asking them to find more "feel-good stories" in Guy's hometown of Chicago leads them to uncover a conspiracy involving massive conglomerate Whitewhale, but their company is bought out by it and the story is not enough to expose them. Diane and Guy argue when he is unable to introduce her as anything more than his coworker, and she leaves Chicago for Los Angeles after she tells him he cannot be the only good thing in her life. She returns home to find several letters from BoJack written in rehab, where he laments wasting years being depressed when he could have been happy, inspiring her to call Guy and offer to stay with him in Chicago.

4. Surprise!

Mr. Peanutbutter and Pickles Aplenty's friends set up a surprise party at their house to celebrate their upcoming marriage, only for him to reveal that he cheated on her just as they get home, forcing the guests to stay hidden. As they argue, Princess Carolyn loses Ruthie and Todd finds her, inspiring her to hire him as a nanny. Diane tells BoJack that she is moving to Chicago, and he promises that he will be fine without her when she asks. Pickles is devastated by the news, even more so when she learns that Mr. Peanutbutter cheated with Diane. Unable to decide what to do, she settles on forgiving him on the condition that she gets to sleep with someone else as comeuppance.

5. A Little Uneven, Is All

In a flashback, Sarah Lynn accidentally drinks vodka on the set of Horsin' Around, and BoJack blames hairstylist Sharona despite not knowing whose alcohol she drank. In the present, rehab therapy horse Doctor Champ proclaims BoJack ready to leave after six months, but an angry BoJack tries to stay after learning they are just clearing him out to make room for celebrity Joey Pogo. Ruthie takes up all of Todd's time, so he hires several assistants to do his jobs for him, one of which visits BoJack in rehab, where he reveals he held onto Jameson's vodka because it reminded him of the incident with Sarah Lynn. As he unintentionally inspires the assistant to start an uprising, he throws the bottle away, only for it to end up in Doctor Champ's hands and ruin his sobriety. Mr. Peanutbutter's infidelity is made public, but Princess Carolyn wins him the public's love back by pushing him in front of a car and claiming it was a suicide attempt. Diane calls Princess Carolyn and gets a deal to write her book of essays in six months, but struggles to start.

6. The Kidney Stays in the Picture

Todd's stepfather Jorge visits to inform him that his estranged mother Helen needs a kidney, but Todd has already sold his to Whitewhale. They travel to Chicago and break into the center with Diane's help, retrieving the kidney while Jorge reveals to Todd that it was Helen who kicked Todd out when he was younger, not himself. Hollywoo falls into chaos with all the assistants on strike, and Princess Carolyn and Lenny Turtletaub shut it down by promoting the leaders and destroying the union. However, Princess Carolyn remembers her life as an assistant and decides to actually make a difference, enlisting the aid of Judah Mannowdog to help the assistants. BoJack leaves rehab but finds Doctor Champ at a bar, where he points out that BoJack has no horses in his life except Hollyhock because they all remind him of his parents, and BoJack checks him into another rehab facility when he continues to drink. Doctor Champ, blaming BoJack for his loss of sobriety, bitterly warns him that he destroys anyone who cares about him and wants him to remember the damage he's caused. Bojack, now sober, accepts his past mistakes and BoJack decides to finally go home.

7. The Face of Depression

Mr. Peanutbutter goes on tour with Joey Pogo as America's "face of depression" to spread awareness. Uncomfortable in his house, BoJack flies to Chicago to thank a depressed Diane for never giving up on him, and sees that Guy's house is a mess with him gone for a job, encouraging her to follow Guy's advice and take antidepressants. He goes to Wesleyan to see Hollyhock, where he learns that a job as a drama teacher is open. Returning to Los Angeles, he asks Princess Carolyn to give him a reference for the job while encouraging her to take time off and spend it with Ruthie. Attending an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, he bumps into Sharona, who he apologizes to in earnest and is forgiven. She cuts his hair short, revealing he has been dyeing it black for some time, and he chooses to wear it in its natural gray. He learns that he got the job, informing rabbit airport Cinnabon worker Maude of Emily's dating app when he realizes she is asexual, and she matches with Todd. BoJack stops in D.C. and encounters Mr. Peanutbutter, deciding to finally give him a reenactment of a crossover episode between Horsin' Around and his show. Princess Carolyn hires Judah to be her company's COO, while Diane starts taking her medication and gains weight upon Guy's return, which he is happy about. BoJack visits an Old English horse village tourist attraction, where he attends a church service and seems to find peace in what the preacher spoke about.

8. A Quick One, While He's Away

Margo Martindale, now a devoted nun, asks if she can truly be forgiven for her sins and steals the monsignor 's car when she gets no solid answer. After being fired from Secretariat, Kelsey Jannings struggles to find work as a director but is tapped by her agent Rutabaga Rabitowitz to direct a female superhero movie. Put off by the banal, by-the-numbers pitch, she counters with her own pitch, which gets her the job. Gina Cazador, filming a new movie, panics on set when her costar puts his hand on her neck and storms out in the middle of shooting. The director of the film almost recommends Gina for the lead in Kelsey's movie, but finds her to be "difficult" and instead posits Courtney Portnoy. Reporters Maximillian Banks and pig Paige Sinclair investigate Sarah Lynn's death, realizing somebody was with her in a voicemail she left for her mother beforehand. They investigate her AA meeting place, where one member recalls BoJack telling a story about Penny Carson, leading them to drive to New Mexico. Hollyhock goes to a party in New York City, where she has an anxiety attack while watching drunk people losing control of their bodies until a partygoer notices and takes her outside for air. He tells her a story about a famous actor taking him and his friends to prom and his girlfriend getting alcohol poisoning, revealing him to be a friend of Penny's. Hollyhock asks who the actor is, but Peter seems hesitant to tell her. She asks again and the episode cuts to black before Peter can reply. Note: Aside from the title sequence, none of the main characters appear in this episode. BoJack is only indirectly mentioned by both Sarah Lynn and Peter, the partygoer.

9. Intermediate Scene Study w/ BoJack Horseman

BoJack sells his restaurant and Mr. Peanutbutter buys it. BoJack begins teaching, but finds his students to be below average and tries his best to encourage them, despite the fact that some of them start to show up to his AA meetings in character in an attempt to impress him. He attempts to get involved in Hollyhock's love of rugby, which only puts her off it. She does not show up on the night of his students' acting showcase and he confronts her, and she admits she feels uncomfortable with how he moved in without asking and tried to get involved in her interests. BoJack returns to the showcase and gets a call from Charlotte Carson just as it ends, who claims reporters are talking to Penny and demands for him to figure out what is happening, causing him to have an anxiety attack.

10. Good Damage

Diane finds herself struggling to write about her personal traumas while on antidepressants, unintentionally starting a girl detective book based on a mall worker she met. She goes off her medication in an attempt to write better, but she only has a breakdown, forcing Guy to send the detective story to Princess Carolyn so Diane does not miss her deadline. Princess Carolyn loves the book, and after a conversation with her, Diane decides she would rather continue writing it. Sinclair and Banks track down Penny and try to ask her about BoJack, but Charlotte steps in, wanting Penny to take time to think about talking to them. She calls BoJack, and Todd finds him collapsed after the call.

11. Sunk Cost and All That

Mr. Peanutbutter, Pickles, and Joey open the new restaurant and attempt to run it together, with Pickles and Joey disliking each other despite Mr. Peanutbutter attempting to get them to sleep together. They do, and discover they have feelings for each other as Pickles leaves with Joey for his upcoming tour. Sinclair and Banks ask Mr. Peanutbutter about seeing BoJack at his house during his bender with Sarah Lynn, which he confirms, as well as unintentionally revealing that he and Sarah Lynn had heroin with them. BoJack, Diane, Princess Carolyn, and Todd hole up in his office to determine what the story being run on him is, which they discover is Sarah Lynn when Sinclair calls Diane. BoJack expresses anger at being grilled after he has changed for the better, causing Todd to leave after seeing the "old Bojack" return, and while Princess Carolyn plans to help him beat the story, Diane insists he should be honest and leaves in disgust when he lies to Sinclair on the phone. He asks Princess Carolyn why she is helping him after everything, and she says it is because she has loved him longer than she has loved anyone else.

12. Xerox of a Xerox

BoJack does an interview with Biscuits Braxby about Sarah Lynn after Sinclair's story releases, and wins the public's love back as Biscuits softballs him. Confident, he agrees to do a second interview to boost the network's ratings, before which Biscuits talks to Sinclair and Doctor Champ, the latter of whom divulges BoJack's secrets out of spite. During the second interview, she reveals that BoJack waited seventeen minutes to call an ambulance after Sarah Lynn overdosed, and points out his disturbing pattern of abusing his power over young, impressionable women. Princess Carolyn chooses not to watch the interview, as does Todd, now dating Maude, who asks him to get an apartment with her. Diane meets Guy's son Sonny, who she chafes with, and watches the interview, disturbed by what she sees. While BoJack waits for the public backlash from the interview to air, he goes to a comedy club where he performed standup after Herb Kazzaz invited him to do a screen test for Horsin' Around and does a routine.

13. The Horny Unicorn

A few months after the second interview airs, BoJack is nationally hated, has been fired from Wesleyan, and Hollyhock is not returning his calls. His accountant sells his house to pay off a lawsuit, forcing him to move in with Mr. Peanutbutter, and he receives a letter from Hollyhock that he is too afraid to open. Vance Waggoner offers BoJack his support after he is forced to take a job as an extra on Birthday Dad and BoJack accepts, the two of them coming up with an anti- PC "Horny Unicorn" character for BoJack to play in a movie. Waggoner takes him to EWESC to berate his estranged daughter, where BoJack is accepted by a misogynistic fraternity that invites him to a party. BoJack decides to open Hollyhock's letter, and the unseen contents make him drop it on the ground and sit in silence in the middle of the party as someone places a drink in his hand. Todd invites Jorge and Helen to a housewarming party at his new apartment and puts together a crew of actors to make the party look populated, but Helen does not show up. After the completion of Diane's book, Sonny reads it and offers her positive notes.

14. Angela

Todd and Maude have dinner with Jorge, but Helen, wracked with guilt over kicking him out, refuses to join them. Hurt, Todd has Martindale stage a hostage situation so he gets the chance to see her again, but she ends up having an anxiety attack and they reconnect in the hospital. As Guy asks Diane to move to Houston with him, she calls Mr. Peanutbutter after learning he has written a memoir. He apologizes for the ways he was thoughtless in their marriage and affirms that he is glad they were in each other's lives, as they helped each other become who they are. Princess Carolyn gets an offer from Turtletaub to operate a new wing of his agency while she learns that Judah is playing a show with his band, which she attends but finds he did not show up. She finds him at the office doing work and he encourages her to forge her own path instead of working under Turtletaub, and confesses his love for her through a song he was supposed to play. BoJack, having ended his sobriety, gets a call from Angela Diaz, the former president of ABC and the woman who fired Herb, and he goes to her house to find that she had a Horsin' Around Blu-ray produced. She explains that she wants BoJack to authorize a re-edit of Horsin' Around in which he is not present and she reveals after he signs a contract that he could have kept Herb on the show, to his fury. He steals her car and a Blu-ray, and gets drunk as he drives to his old house. He breaks in and watches the Horsin' Around screen test while continuing to drink.

15. The View from Halfway Down

BoJack awakens in a recurring dream of his, where he goes to a dinner party at Beatrice's house and eats with other dead people, including Herb, Sarah Lynn, Crackerjack Sugarman, and Butterscotch Horseman in Secretariat's body. They discuss the best and worst parts of their life before going into a theatre, at which point BoJack claims his dream usually ends, but it continues. As the attendees all perform acts that relate to their lives before being sucked into a black doorway, Butterscotch pulls him aside for a smoke and expresses his regrets about their relationship, before revealing BoJack is, in reality, drowning in his old pool. As the rest of the attendees vanish into the doorway, black tar emerges from it and starts to chase BoJack through the house. Remembering that he called Diane before the dream started, he assumes that he cannot be dying, and so he tries to call her again. She points out that nothing that is happening is real and she never picked up the phone, and so he accepts his fate of the black tar engulfing him as he asks how her day was.

16. Nice While It Lasted

BoJack's career ended after he is found by the new owners of his old house and sentenced to fourteen months in prison for breaking and entering, where he begins staging theatrical productions with the inmates. He is allowed one day of release for Princess Carolyn and Judah's wedding, and is taken by Mr. Peanutbutter, who finally replaces the "D" on the Hollywood Sign but accidentally replaces it with a "B". He reveals to BoJack that he has been going to therapy and has broken his cycle of forcing himself into relationships. Todd takes BoJack for a walk on the beach when he gets to the wedding and tells him that he is finally forming a relationship with Helen, and that all he had to do was strive to make the change he wanted. BoJack dances with Princess Carolyn as they reminisce on what he would do if she did not want to get married, and she promises to help him find a good agent if he decides to return to the industry. He finds Diane on the roof, where she reveals he left her a drunken voicemail the night he tried to commit suicide blaming her for not picking up the phone, and that it almost ended her relationship with Guy, but she instead moved to Houston and married him. As they acknowledge that this will likely be their last conversation, BoJack tells her a story from prison which ended with him unhappy, and muses that the point of life is that it is hard and then you die. Diane counters that the point is that it is hard and then you keep living. They agree that it is a nice night and look up at the stars together.