50 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.