50 Fun Facts About BoJack Horseman

On which date did BoJack Horseman premiere on Netflix?

It ran six seasons and 77 episodes, ending on 31 January 2020.

Who created BoJack Horseman?

His 2010 email pitch to designer Lisa Hanawalt was for a show called 'BoJack the Depressed Talking Horse'.

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

She worked with the studio ShadowMachine to develop the visual style.

Who voices BoJack?

He also voices Butterscotch and, in the penultimate episode, a merged Butterscotch-Secretariat.

BoJack was the star of which fictional 1990s sitcom?

Herb Kazzaz created and wrote it, and was blackballed by the network for being gay.

Why is the show's version of Hollywood called 'Hollywoo'?

BoJack himself steals the letter early in season one.

Amy Sedaris voices Princess Carolyn, BoJack's agent and on-off girlfriend. What species is she?

She later founds her own company, VIM, and adopts a baby porcupine named Ruthie in season five.

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

Paul F. Tompkins voices him; he marries and later divorces Diane.

How did Todd Chavez come to be living in BoJack's house?

Aaron Paul voices Todd, who realises in the season three finale that he is asexual.

Diane Nguyen, voiced by Alison Brie, enters the story hired to do what?

She is a Vietnamese-American third-wave feminist from Boston; Brie's casting drew accusations of whitewashing.

Which racehorse did BoJack play in a season two biopic?

Eisner was CEO of the Tornante Company, which produced the series.

In the finale of which numbered season does Todd realise he is asexual?

The episode is 'That Went Well'; his arc was widely praised for its handling of asexuality.

Who composed the main title theme of BoJack Horseman?

He wrote it with his uncle Ralph Carney; Jesse Novak scored the incidental music.

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

The song sums up BoJack's whole predicament in about forty seconds.

The season 3 episode 'Fish Out of Water' is famous for containing how much audible dialogue?

BoJack is at an underwater film festival; the twist is that his helmet had a speech function all along.

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

He then reunites the baby with its father before failing to deliver a written apology to director Kelsey Jannings.

Rolling Stone ranked 'Fish Out of Water' where on its 2024 list of the best TV episodes ever?

It won a Special Distinction at the 2017 Annecy animation festival.

The season five episode 'Free Churro' consists almost entirely of what?

Will Arnett performs a 26-minute monologue as the sole voice actor; the twist is that BoJack is at the wrong funeral, addressing geckos.

Where does the free churro of the episode title come from?

The cold open shows Butterscotch driving young BoJack home from soccer practice.

A one-person episode of which Norman Lear sitcom, 'Bares Her Soul', inspired BoJack's 'Free Churro'?

Amy Winfrey directed; the episode earned an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Animated Program.

'The View from Halfway Down', the penultimate episode, is a dinner party hosted by whom?

Guests include Sarah Lynn, Herb, Corduroy Jackson-Jackson, Zach Braff and a merged Butterscotch-Secretariat.

Which character recites the poem 'The View from Halfway Down' in that episode?

BoJack realises mid-episode that he is dreaming while drowning in his own swimming pool.

Which 1979 film inspired the structure of 'The View from Halfway Down'?

Alison Tafel wrote it and Amy Winfrey directed; many critics called it the best episode of the whole series.

Sarah Lynn, BoJack's former child co-star, dies of an overdose at which Los Angeles landmark?

Kristen Schaal was Emmy-nominated for voicing her.

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

Beatrice was heiress to the Sugarman sugar-cube fortune.

Hollyhock, introduced in season four as BoJack's half-sister, is the daughter of Butterscotch and whom?

She has eight adoptive fathers.

Vincent Adultman, Princess Carolyn's boyfriend, is actually what?

Everyone but Princess Carolyn can see it.

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?

Diane and Mr. Peanutbutter had divorced at the beginning of season five.

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

It came after several failed attempts at adoption and IVF.

How was the sixth and final season of BoJack Horseman released?

It had 16 episodes; the first five seasons had 12 each.

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

In it, BoJack's youngest adopted daughter, Sabrina, learns Santa exists and wishes for her parents to be alive.

What was the Rotten Tomatoes approval rating of the show's first season, before the critical turnaround?

Seasons two and three both hit 100 percent, and the show is now routinely called one of the greatest TV series ever.

How many Critics' Choice Television Awards for Best Animated Series did BoJack Horseman win?

It also received three Annie Awards, two Writers Guild Awards and three Primetime Emmy nominations.

Which animation studio produced BoJack Horseman?

The Tornante Company was the production company behind it.

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

Bob-Waksberg pitched it to him through producer Steven A. Cohen of the Tornante Company in late 2010.

What was the working title in Bob-Waksberg's March 2010 pitch email to the show's future designer?

He asked her for a drawing of one of the 'horse-guys' she had been sketching.

What of Todd's did BoJack sabotage, one betrayal that made Todd cut ties in season four?

Todd is shown to be secretly gifted at almost everything, from composing to business ideas.

Where does Diane come from, according to her character description?

She is described as a Vietnamese-American third-wave feminist.

Which episode number, out of 77, is the penultimate 'The View from Halfway Down'?

It aired on 31 January 2020, the same day as the finale, 'Nice While It Lasted'.

Which rival 1990s sitcom, per BoJack, 'borrowed the premise' of Horsin' Around?

Its theme song made the official soundtrack alongside the Horsin' Around theme when Lakeshore Records released the album in 2017.

What is the name of the asexual dating app Todd creates in season six?

It is how he meets Maude. Scholars have cited Todd's arc as one of television's rare sustained portrayals of asexuality.

Maude, Todd's partner in the final season, is what kind of animal?

Todd spends most of the series unattached; his earlier coming-out line in the season three finale was 'I think I might be nothing.'

Season two's 'the Cosby episode' concerns allegations against which comedy legend?

Diane and BoJack face the questions on a book tour, and the specifics of the allegations are never stated on screen.

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

It was the show's only acting nomination at the Emmys; the series was twice nominated for Outstanding Animated Program but never won.

Netflix demanded a summer 2014 launch, so the 12-episode first season was made in how many weeks?

The creator wrote the first three episodes before a writers' room existed, and the team scrapped the original pilot footage after redesigning Todd.

Which producer picked up the show after a 2010 pitch of five animated projects?

Producer Steven A. Cohen asked which idea the writer cared about most, and the horse won. The treatment then went up to the company's CEO.

How many episodes were in the extended sixth and final season?

Every earlier season had twelve. Netflix gave the creator advance warning of the ending, a heads-up he had asked for years earlier.

Before the show, Bob-Waksberg and Lisa Hanawalt worked together on which web comic?

The two had been high school friends who joked about making a cartoon together. Hanawalt initially turned down the design job after a draining children's book.

Patrick Carney and Michelle Branch's cover of which America song appears on the soundtrack?

The album, released September 2017, also carries Sextina Aquafina's notorious abortion anthem and the full main title theme.