100 Fun Facts About BoJack Horseman

In 2018, which cable channel began airing reruns of BoJack Horseman?

Comedy Central. It bought the rerun rights to the Netflix series and launched them straight after South Park's season premiere that September.

Which real actress voices a bank-robbing version of herself in BoJack Horseman?

Margo Martindale. Always announced as 'Character Actress Margo Martindale', she stages a bank robbery at BoJack's request in season one and goes to prison for it.

Which cartoonist, a longtime friend of the creator, designed the look of BoJack Horseman?

Lisa Hanawalt. She turned the job down at first, worn out by a children's book that had taken six months, and said yes only when the producers asked again half a year later.

Who voices BoJack?

Will Arnett. He was cast before the show had a buyer, voicing BoJack in the short pilot presentation used to sell it, and he also plays BoJack's father, Butterscotch.

BoJack was the star of which fictional 1990s sitcom?

Horsin' Around. Its creator, Herb Kazzaz, was fired after being outed as gay, and BoJack broke his promise to walk out in protest, which ended their friendship.

Why is Hollywood known as 'Hollywoo' in BoJack Horseman?

The D was stolen from the sign by a drunk BoJack as a romantic gesture for Diane, and Mr. Peanutbutter then took all the credit for the theft.

Princess Carolyn, BoJack's agent and on-off girlfriend, is what kind of animal?

A pink Persian cat. The writers saddle her with ever longer tongue twisters, and even named a client Courtney Portnoy just to hand Amy Sedaris more of them.

Mr. Peanutbutter, BoJack's relentlessly cheerful former sitcom rival, is what breed of dog?

Yellow Labrador Retriever. He was born on Canada's Labrador Peninsula, and when he takes Diane there in season three, his brother's jolly front gives way to news of a serious illness.

How did Todd Chavez end up living in BoJack's house?

He came to a party and never left, sleeping on the couch for five years. BoJack mocks him constantly, yet pays his way and quietly undermines his attempts to become independent.

Diane Nguyen first enters BoJack's life when she is hired to do what?

Ghostwrite BoJack's memoir. He hates her honest draft and tries to write his own, but her version, One Trick Pony, becomes a hit and wins him a Golden Globe.

Which university hires BoJack to teach acting in the final season?

Wesleyan University. He goes there to see his half-sister Hollyhock, a student, and takes an open drama post, only to be fired once his past catches up with him.

In BoJack Horseman's season three finale, Todd tells which friend 'I think I might be nothing'?

Emily. His high-school girlfriend asks whether he is gay; Todd doesn't yet know the word asexual, and only comes out, to BoJack, the following season.

The BoJack Horseman theme was composed by the drummer of which rock duo?

The Black Keys. Patrick Carney built the track just to test the gear in his new home studio, then had his uncle Ralph add saxophone; it was never written for the show.

Which band performs the closing-credits song 'Back in the 90s (BoJack's Theme)'?

Grouplove. The band sings as BoJack himself, reminding everyone that back in the 90s he was in a very famous TV show, so every episode closes on his faded glory.

Why does BoJack say almost nothing in the underwater episode 'Fish Out of Water'?

He can't work his helmet: only in the last seconds does a passer-by show him its talk button, after an episode with under three minutes of audible dialogue.

In 'Fish Out of Water', BoJack ends up helping which animal give birth?

A male seahorse. One newborn is left clinging to BoJack, who crosses the ocean city to return it and then walks away from the father's offer of money.

Who voices Todd Chavez, BoJack's couch-surfing housemate?

Aaron Paul. He joined before Netflix did and became an executive producer; the first pilot footage was then scrapped, partly because Todd had been completely redesigned.

BoJack Horseman's season five episode 'Free Churro' consists almost entirely of what?

BoJack's eulogy for his mother. He talks alone for almost the whole episode, then opens the casket and realises he has been in the wrong funeral parlour all along.

In BoJack Horseman's 'Free Churro', who gives BoJack the free churro of the title?

A Jack in the Box cashier gave it to him out of sympathy, and BoJack later rages that this stranger showed him more kindness than he ever got at home.

Which actor plays himself as BoJack's opponent on a celebrity game show in season two?

Daniel Radcliffe. The last question asks BoJack to name his opponent; stung that Radcliffe hadn't recognised him, he answers 'Elijah Wood' on purpose and the charity money is burned.

In BoJack Horseman's 'The View from Halfway Down', who hosts the dinner party of the dead?

Beatrice, BoJack's dead mother, welcomes him to a table where every guest has died and each is served a last meal tied to the way they went.

In BoJack Horseman, which character recites the poem 'The View from Halfway Down' at the talent show?

Secretariat, though he speaks with the voice of BoJack's father. The poem relives a leap from a bridge and the regret that arrives halfway down, too late to act on.

Which 1979 film did BoJack Horseman's creator call the main inspiration for 'The View from Halfway Down'?

All That Jazz. Bob Fosse's film sends its dying hero through lavish dream sequences filled with the people from his life, the blueprint for BoJack's last dinner and talent show.

Sarah Lynn, BoJack's former child co-star, suffers her fatal overdose at which Los Angeles landmark?

Griffith Observatory. She asks to see the planetarium and passes out with her head on his shoulder; the final season reveals that BoJack waited 17 minutes before calling for help.

Who voices Beatrice Horseman, BoJack's neglectful and abusive mother?

Wendie Malick. A later season traces Beatrice's cruelty to her own childhood, when her brother died in the war and her father had her grieving mother lobotomised.

Hollyhock turns out to be BoJack's half-sister, the daughter of his father Butterscotch and whom?

Henrietta, Beatrice's maid. Beatrice paid her way through nursing school on condition that she give the baby up, and Hollyhock was adopted by eight fathers.

Vincent Adultman, Princess Carolyn's boyfriend in BoJack Horseman, looks suspiciously like what?

Three children in a trench coat, or so it looks to BoJack: he alone keeps pointing it out, while everyone else treats Vincent as an ordinary businessman.

Butterscotch Horseman, BoJack's father, was a failed practitioner of what?

He was also an alcoholic and physically and verbally abusive.

What species is Guy, the man Diane marries in season six?

A bison. Guy is Diane's cameraman at Girl Croosh; she leaves Los Angeles to live with him in Chicago, and the two later move to Houston so he can stay near his teenage son.

What does Princess Carolyn name the baby porcupine she adopts in season five?

Ruthie. The baby first goes by 'Untitled Princess Carolyn Project'; the name arrives a season later, taken from the future descendant Princess Carolyn had once imagined.

How did Netflix release the sixth and final season of BoJack Horseman?

In two halves, months apart, in October 2019 and January 2020. The first half leaves BoJack sober and hopeful; the second drags his past into the open and ends with him in prison.

In BoJack Horseman's 2014 holiday special, BoJack and Todd watch a festive episode of his old sitcom with what title?

Sabrina's Christmas Wish. The orphaned Sabrina asks Santa for her parents back; by the end even BoJack, who had sneered at holiday specials, wants to watch the other eight.

In season four, Mr. Peanutbutter launches a campaign for which office?

Governor of California. Short of signatures, he challenges the sitting governor to a ski race for the job, then drops out of the contest and throws his support behind him.

Who voices Diane Nguyen in BoJack Horseman?

Alison Brie. The creator later called the show's all-white main cast its 'original sin' and said he would not cast a white actor as the Vietnamese-American Diane again.

Which animation studio produced BoJack Horseman?

ShadowMachine. The producers turned to the studio behind Robot Chicken, which pulled animators off another of its shows to get BoJack made.

Which former Disney CEO suggested BoJack should be a former racehorse?

Michael Eisner. The creator held out for a washed-up sitcom actor, but the idea came back in season two, when BoJack is cast as a champion racehorse in a biopic.

What did the creator call BoJack Horseman in his first pitch email?

BoJack the Depressed Talking Horse. The 2010 email asked an artist friend for a picture of one of her 'horse guys', and her first reaction was that it sounded a little depressing.

In season one, which of Todd's projects does BoJack secretly sabotage to keep him from moving out?

His rock opera. With success in sight, BoJack has Todd steered back to an addictive video game, and he flops at the showcase that was meant to launch him.

Diane Nguyen returns to which hometown in season one after her father dies?

Boston. Her family leaves her to pay for the funeral, then doesn't bother to turn up, having had her father's body turned into chum.

After walking out on his film in season two, BoJack turns up at Charlotte's family home in which state?

New Mexico. He stays with her family for two months, until Charlotte asks him to leave and tells him he can never escape who he is.

In BoJack Horseman, which reclusive author turns up alive after a faked death and pitches a game show?

J.D. Salinger. Princess Carolyn finds him working in a tandem bicycle shop and signs him, and he creates the celebrity quiz that Mr. Peanutbutter ends up hosting.

In BoJack Horseman, what is the asexual dating app that matches Todd with his partner called?

All About That Ace. The match is BoJack's doing: he recommends the app to a counter worker he meets at an airport, and she is soon paired with Todd.

In BoJack Horseman, Todd's partner Maude is what kind of animal?

A rabbit. Maude works the counter at an airport Cinnabunny and lives with her parents until she and Todd, equally fond of odd schemes, move in together.

BoJack Horseman's so-called 'Cosby episode' concerns allegations against which beloved TV veteran?

Hank Hippopopalous. When Diane raises his former assistants' accusations on a book tour, the backlash lands on her, and a magazine's corporate owner kills the story.

Which actress earned a Primetime Emmy nomination for voicing Sarah Lynn?

Kristen Schaal. The nomination came for the episode in which Sarah Lynn dies, a death that returns in the final season to end BoJack's career.

Which character wakes from a thirty-year coma and becomes BoJack's girlfriend in season two?

Wanda Pierce. Having slept through his entire career, the owl network executive has no idea who BoJack is, which is exactly why he starts dating her.

Which season four episode of BoJack Horseman is told through his mother's dementia-scrambled memories?

Time's Arrow. Faces blur and decades collide as she relives her youth, and at the end BoJack drops his planned goodbye to describe a happy summer day she never had.

After his divorce from Diane, Mr. Peanutbutter gets engaged to which much younger waitress?

Pickles. When he finally admits he cheated on her, the pair try to even the score, a plan that ends with her leaving on tour with pop star Joey Pogo.

Whom does Princess Carolyn marry by the end of BoJack Horseman?

Judah. Her deadpan right-hand man becomes her husband, and BoJack is let out of prison for a single day to attend the wedding celebration.

In season three, BoJack campaigns for which award for his lead role in a racehorse biopic?

An Oscar. He throws a party to celebrate his nomination, only to learn it was never real: Mr. Peanutbutter had lost the envelope holding the true list.

In BoJack Horseman, Herb Kazzaz survives cancer only to die from an allergic reaction to what?

Peanuts spilled from a truck his car struck when the brakes failed on the drive home from hospital. His cancer had gone into remission.

In BoJack Horseman, Todd and Mr. Peanutbutter open a Halloween store that trades only in which month?

January is the only month the pair's Halloween store opens, one of several doomed ventures that pair Mr. Peanutbutter's money with Todd's outlandish schemes.

Todd's season four business in BoJack Horseman combines dentistry with which kind of entertainer?

Clowns who double as dentists were Todd's idea, and the venture soon drew an investigator from the Better Business Bureau, who ended up asking him on a date.

Before BoJack Horseman, its creator pitched a family sitcom set in revolutionary France about a salesman of what?

Guillotines were a booming trade for the father in The Good Times Are Killing Me, a sitcom set during the Reign of Terror that no network picked up.

In BoJack Horseman's finale, Mr. Peanutbutter orders the wrong letter for the hillside sign, renaming the town what?

Hollywoob is the result when Mr. Peanutbutter, flush from a hit TV show, pays to complete the famous landmark and commissions the wrong letter.

Which real actress appears in BoJack Horseman as Mr. Peanutbutter's fame-obsessed second ex-wife?

Jessica Biel is ex-wife number two, written as hungry to be recognised. She later runs for office herself and loses once voters learn she hates avocados.

In BoJack Horseman's final season, ever-cheerful Mr. Peanutbutter tours America as the public face of which illness?

Depression gets the sunniest character in the cast as its spokesman, touring the country with pop star Joey Pogo to give talks about mental illness.

Todd Chavez, BoJack Horseman's couch-surfing houseguest, is almost never seen without which piece of clothing?

A beanie sits on Todd's head in nearly every scene. The pilot's Todd looked so different that the team redesigned him and restarted the first episode from scratch.

Ralph, the greeting-card boss Princess Carolyn dates in BoJack Horseman, is what kind of animal?

A mouse and heir to the Stilton hotel fortune, Ralph met Princess Carolyn on a blind date arranged without either of them knowing the other's species.

In the BoJack Horseman finale, BoJack gets temporary leave from where to attend Princess Carolyn's wedding?

Prison is where BoJack ends the series, serving 14 months for breaking into his old house. He tells Todd he is comfortable there and beating his sobriety record.

Which comedian voices Princess Carolyn in BoJack Horseman, having signed on to work with the show's lead actor?

Amy Sedaris plays the workaholic agent and also voices Sharona, the sitcom hair and make-up artist who reappears in season six to cut BoJack's hair.

Which comedian voices Mr. Peanutbutter in BoJack Horseman, a role first imagined as a deep-voiced meathead?

Paul F. Tompkins gave the part a lilting lightness instead, which the show's creator prized as a foil to BoJack's sunken growl.

Who created BoJack Horseman after living in what he called a glorified closet in a Hollywood Hills mansion?

Raphael Bob-Waksberg said the view from that deck left him feeling on top of the world and never more alone, the seed of the whole series.

In BoJack Horseman, Mr. Peanutbutter keeps shouting across parties to which never-seen acquaintance?

Erica never appears on screen, though his shouted greetings hint at her outlandish circumstances. His first wife, Katrina, is implied to have introduced them.

After quitting the Vigor agency in BoJack Horseman, Princess Carolyn ends up running which company by herself?

VIM began as a joint venture with her boyfriend and fellow agent Rutabaga Rabitowitz, until she saw he could not be trusted and took the firm on alone.

In season five of BoJack Horseman, BoJack lands the title role in which brooding detective drama?

Philbert is a send-up of male anti-hero dramas such as True Detective, and BoJack starts losing track of where its plot ends and his own life begins.

Mr. Peanutbutter ends BoJack Horseman as the star of which hugely successful TV show?

Birthday Dad makes him a bigger name than ever, and he tells BoJack he is happily single and in therapy for his addiction to relationships.

In the final season of BoJack Horseman, Todd gives which organ to his ailing mother?

A kidney goes to Todd's mother, who badly needs one. He later gets her attention again by staging a fake kidnapping, and by the finale the two have made up.

BoJack Horseman was born in which California city, where his parents' marriage quickly crumbled?

San Francisco is where his parents settled after his mother fell pregnant following a one-night stand with the gatecrasher at her debutante ball.

BoJack Horseman's mother grew up as the heiress to a family fortune built on which product?

Sugar cubes made the family rich, a sly source of wealth for a clan of horses. Her father ran the company and held backward views about women.

In season four of BoJack Horseman, BoJack hides from the public at his grandparents' old lake house in which state?

Michigan is where his mother's family spent its summers when she was a child, before her older brother was killed in the Second World War.

In BoJack Horseman, which procedure does BoJack's grandfather order for his grieving wife Honey after a car accident?

A lobotomy was her husband's answer to grief. Honey, an exceptional singer, had been unravelling since their son Crackerjack was killed in the Second World War.

In BoJack Horseman, BoJack's father Butterscotch dies after challenging a man who mocked his life's work to what?

A duel was his answer to the insult, but he tripped and hit his head on a rock when he turned around mid-contest to ask his opponent a question.

In BoJack Horseman, what does BoJack's mother secretly slip into Hollyhock's coffee, causing an overdose?

Weight-loss supplements laced with amphetamines put the teenager in hospital, after BoJack's mother had sniped at her for being overweight. BoJack then banishes his mother to a worse nursing home.

Tom Jumbo-Grumbo, the anchor who reports BoJack Horseman's scandals on MSNBSea, is what kind of animal?

A blue whale with a taste for alliteration, he keeps making jokes at the expense of his squid ex-wife and then apologising straight away.

In BoJack Horseman, BoJack and the dying Herb Kazzaz end up scuffling over which keepsake from their sitcom days?

A telescope on Herb's shelf sets off the fight, moments after Herb refuses to forgive BoJack for failing to stand by him when the network pushed him out.

Director Kelsey Jannings is fired in BoJack Horseman for filming a cut scene involving which US president?

Richard Nixon's meeting with the racehorse hero of BoJack's biopic had been dropped from the film, and producer Lenny Turteltaub sacked her for shooting it anyway.

Which actress voices Ana Spanakopita, the publicist behind BoJack Horseman's season three awards campaign?

Angela Bassett plays the image-maker, who starts a relationship with BoJack while polishing his reputation and ends it once his nomination fails to arrive.

Which actor voices Herb Kazzaz, the old comedy partner who refuses to forgive BoJack Horseman?

Stanley Tucci voices Herb, who created the sitcom that made BoJack famous and was then blackballed by the network for being gay.

After her divorce in BoJack Horseman, Diane takes an impromptu trip to which Asian capital?

Hanoi is where Diane heads in 'The Dog Days Are Over', an episode one A.V. Club critic read as the series reckoning with its choice of a white actress for a Vietnamese-American role.

In BoJack Horseman's final season, Diane leaves Los Angeles to move in with her boyfriend Guy in which city?

Chicago is where Diane starts taking antidepressants and wrestles with a collection of personal essays. The couple later follow Guy's teenage son to Houston.

In BoJack Horseman, Diane's teen novels follow Ivy Tran, a girl detective who solves cases where?

A food court is Ivy Tran's beat. Diane turns to the series after abandoning the painful personal essays she had been struggling to finish.

In BoJack Horseman, Todd swaps places with the lookalike dictator of which fictional war-torn country?

Cordovia, an eastern European state in the middle of a brutal civil war, is also where Diane travels to write about a billionaire's relief work.

In BoJack Horseman, which of Todd's home-made creations is accidentally promoted to CEO of WhatTimeIsItRightNow.com?

A sex robot named Henry Fondle rises to the top because colleagues mistake his lewd voice prompts for ordinary business talk.

In BoJack Horseman, which actress client of Princess Carolyn is always discussed in elaborate tongue-twisters?

Courtney Portnoy also enters a fake engagement with Todd to polish her image, then fires Princess Carolyn after her film Ms. Taken is shelved.

After his public disgrace in BoJack Horseman, BoJack stars in which comedy directed by Vance Waggoner?

The Horny Unicorn comes from a fellow 'cancelled' star, who becomes BoJack's AA sponsor and urges him to hold on to his anger and play to the fans he has left.

Which fittingly titled rock classic did Michelle Branch help cover for the BoJack Horseman soundtrack album?

A Horse with No Name, first a hit for the band America, sits on a soundtrack album that also carries the full-length theme and the whole score of the underwater episode.

BoJack Horseman's production designer went on to create which animated series about two bird friends?

Tuca & Bertie pairs a toucan and a song thrush voiced by Tiffany Haddish and Ali Wong. Netflix cancelled it after one season before Adult Swim picked it up.

BoJack Horseman's creator and writer Kate Purdy next made which Amazon animated drama about a woman unstuck in time?

Undone follows Alma, who finds a new relationship with time after a near-fatal car crash and uses it to dig into the truth of her father's death.

Which actor voices Flip McVicker, the insecure showrunner of BoJack Horseman's season five detective drama?

Rami Malek plays Flip as a self-declared genius without the talent to back it up, forever clashing with BoJack and the cast during filming.

Which actor voices Lenny Turteltaub, the ancient turtle film producer who keeps hiring BoJack Horseman?

J.K. Simmons voices Lenny, who dislikes BoJack but keeps casting him for the money and is old enough to have worked with Buster Keaton.

Which Broadway star voices Crackerjack, BoJack Horseman's uncle who was killed in the Second World War?

Lin-Manuel Miranda's Crackerjack returns in BoJack's near-death hallucination, playing the trumpet while his sister performs an acrobatic routine.

Which actress voices Joey Pogo, the pop star who tours with Mr. Peanutbutter in BoJack Horseman?

Hilary Swank voices Joey, who wins away Mr. Peanutbutter's fiancée after the dog himself pushed the two of them together.

Charlotte, the old flame BoJack Horseman daydreams of a quiet life with, is what kind of animal?

A deer who once dated Herb, Charlotte later runs a turquoise shop called Your Deer Friend, and she ends up ordering BoJack never to contact her family again.

Yolanda Buenaventura, the investigator who becomes Todd's girlfriend in BoJack Horseman, is which kind of amphibian?

An axolotl, Yolanda dates Todd and parts from him on good terms, with a promise to get back together if neither has found love by the age of 100.

BoJack Horseman's designer first refused the job after a draining six months spent illustrating what?

A children's book had felt endless to illustrate, so she said no. Other artists were tried, none matched her style, and she agreed when asked again six months later.

BoJack Horseman's creator cited which English poet's 'This Be The Verse' as an influence on BoJack's family?

Philip Larkin's poem was, the creator said, always in the back of his head when shaping BoJack's parents and the legacy they leave him.

In BoJack Horseman, Mr. Peanutbutter takes on Woodchuck Coodchuck-Berkowitz in what kind of televised contest?

A ski race is meant to settle matters, but Todd ends up winning it, which forces the experienced incumbent to campaign for his own job all over again.

Princess Carolyn, BoJack Horseman's agent, grew up in a town called Eden in which Southern state?

North Carolina gives her a home state that echoes her name. She left for Los Angeles after getting into UCLA, and later adopts a baby from a young woman back home.

Sextina Aquafina, the pop sensation whose social media Diane runs in BoJack Horseman, is what kind of animal?

A dolphin, Sextina is said to be based on a girl from the senior-year English class shared by the show's creator and its designer.