Mr. Peanutbutter: Everyone's going to be there. I could go tae university. The series finale was always going to be a tough tightrope for BoJack Horseman to walk. Leaving Hollywoo: Essays After BoJack Horseman, How do you not be sad?: Sadness and Communication in BoJack Horseman, Good Boy Gone Bad: The Rot in Mr. Peanutbutters House, The Traumic: On BoJack Horsemans Good Damage, Now this is television! Diane: There's no such thing as "bad guys" or "good guys." Good Damage is the tenth episode of Season 6 of the Netflix original series BoJack Horseman, and the 70th episode overall. Hello ,Mr serious face. And I knew it wasnt working so then I thought he needs to associate these thought with pain. BoJack:That is neither funny, nor a story, nor a reason for you to drop by. Was I selfish for believing you? It read: "Finished Bojack. But the characters dont know that, and theres something profoundly sad to the tone of the scene, even as they veer between deep statements about their lives and sillier topics, like BoJacks story of how he swapped the Pieces of April DVD in for The Family Stone on prison movie night. Except thats not what happens. A few seconds later, BoJack looks down, then turns his head to her and lingers on her face. Diane: /No, I need to tell you: Thank you. "Wouldn't it be funny if this . BoJack:I know what you're thinking but he's, Diane:You don't need to explain yourself to me, BoJack:I know you think I'm some kind of sell-out, Diane:[defensively]Don't tell me what I. Subreddit for the Netflix animated series, BoJack Horseman, starring BoJack Horseman as BoJack Horseman. You told me you were sober. Its telling that BoJacks fantasy doesnt end with him sweeping her away a la Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate; it ends with him convincing her to marry Judah after all, proving to her and to himself that he had grown mature enough to let her go. Bojack Horseman is a surreal comedy about a washed up horse-man actor. CHARLIE ROSE: Maybe you should move the car. No shite either. I can recommend someone, she offers, making it clear that she wont be taking care of BoJack anymore. Yet the way that most of the real worlds MeToo villains have avoided long-term consequences wound up dovetailing nicely with a show about a horse/man who had so often skated away because of his fundamental charm and penchant for striking the right apologetic note when needed. Just before the credits roll in BoJack Horseman 's final episode, the camera tilts leaving BoJack and Diane visible from only the mid-chest up. Diane, Todd and Princess Carolyn in BoJack Horseman's final season Courtesy of Netflix BoJack is, among other things, first-time TV creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg 's experiment in subverting. So we have this movie night at the prison, right? Bojack Horseman is a surreal comedy about a washed up horse-man actor. Coming off The View from Halfway Down and the way it explicitly made BoJacks death look inescapable it would be easy to assume we were headed for a celebration of life, as BoJacks surviving friends come together for a bittersweet goodbye to a very complicated horse. With this too facile conclusion set aside, though, what we are left with is altogether more fitting. Then I got back on a bus and I went to Victoria and I got another bus. Where would it sleep? Just a few episodes ago, Princess Carolyn described BoJack as the love of her life. For feeling good. Privacy Policy. Is this a continuation of the previous episode's Bardo? 3. So folk would know what he was like. He was at me for fucking hours. This rooftop scene marks a significant moment in BoJack's existential bildungsroman where Diane serves as his value barometer. Its tiny mouth opened and closed and its black eyes exploded. BoJack:Well, what are you gonna do? But after an entire series worth of personal and professional toxicity, the conversation does end with Princess Carolyn drawing a gentle but firm line when BoJack mentions that hell need new representation when he gets out of prison. BoJack:To be with your boyfriend at the time? Diane: Sure. Diane:I wish I could have been the person you thought I was. I guess this is it. WGA & AMPTP could not reach an agreement Monday night. As BoJack attempts to stave off the inevitable perhaps for the last time he manages to once more invoke what binds them just as it seems to be slipping away. DIANE spins around in her chair. Next is Todd, who asks BoJack to join him on the beach for the post-wedding fireworks. In telling a not-so-funny story, he and Diane recover, fleetingly, the same easy rapport that bonded them together in the first place. Seriously, though, please don't tellVH1that. Youve got that look. All the yoga n that. Teresa O'Rourke completed her PhD at Loughborough University, United Kingdom. Hollyhock Manheim-Mannheim-Guerrero-Robinson-Zilberschlag-Hsung-Fonzerelli-McQuack, Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. In the amazing penultimate episode of BoJack, The View From Halfway Down, it seems like part of the opening credits comes true. Im furious. The tragic parts of BoJack are its best parts, but the show is historically special because of how comfortably they co-exist with the more ridiculous parts. I need you to be here and talk to me. For BoJack, there's only one route out. They actually got married weeks earlier, and this big flashy event is just a savvy way to get a bunch of Hollywoob A-listers into the same room. Eh how much did you say Id get for this? He had loads. diane and bojack last conversation script. Bojack: What am I, a philistine? The chickens came home to roost, but maybe only for a little while. In Chicago, Diane and Guy are watching a Chicago Baby Humans game. Mr. Peanutbutter:Get this, I am starring in a pilot presentation for a celebrity reality show. To be pedantic about it, this really is the final BoJack/Diane conversation, because the show is ending, and no more will be written or performed. What he was really like. If we weren't already paying attention to Diane's expressive fidgeting then here it is unavoidable. My mother is afraid of birds. Diane: I feel like this doesnt end well. I liked the way it wrapped itself round my fingers like an electric shoelace. Designed and Developed by, , , 2 , () , , , , , , , . You see, Ive taught myself how to be not angry. Keep up with all the drama of your favorite shows! He admitted Thinking Out Loud was actually inspired by Van Morrison, not Marvin Gaye. All rights reserved. Im so angry sometimes my eyes and my ears start to hiss and I have to stand up and walk across the room and put my hands to my head and say Im So Angry Im So So Angry just to do something because otherwise I think Ill let blood out somewhere on someone and perhaps myself. But it was It marked the culmination of the on-screen relationship that had served as a proxy for navigating our own, and thus a disconcerting sense that the closure of their story perhaps reflected and effected an ending of sorts for us, too. Thats how I wanted to say. But when you think about Todd as the goofball slacker crashing on BoJacks couch at the beginning of the series, its striking how far he has come: Creating a job for himself at VIM, moving in with a serious girlfriend, mending fences with his mom. No one gave him shit for it. Im angry all the time. Yeah. took ages to die. The series had long been a parody of male antihero drama clichs, while also walking an emotional tightrope that allowed it to be a serious exploration of the same issues, so there was no shortage of bad behavior to inspire comeuppance. I was gutted when I heard. road. I get the worlds most cheerful medieval re-enactors. What would it Our readings of BoJack Horseman take up Mark Fisher's proposition that what continuously haunts us in the 21st century "is not so much the past as all the lost futures that the twentieth century taught us to anticipate. (In the case of the latter, Mr. Peanutbutter tries to replace the D and get people to stop calling the place Hollywoo, but thanks to a mix-up ends up with a giant B instead. The lurid opening credit sequence of BoJack Horseman follows the animated title character (Will Arnett) a washed-up Nineties sitcom star in thrall to addiction, depression, and his own toxic personality as he floats through his own life, oblivious to the needs and wants of the people who care about him. It is very delicious thank you and then we should hold them close and never let them go until they know how loved they are. Bojack: Yeah, well, what are you gonna do? ", D: "BoJack, I can't wait for you to be better. Looking jaunty. I put a bit of butter Rather than straining towards an abstract sense of inherent "goodness" (as in Season 1, and reiterated here in BoJack's desire to be "better" and thus "ready" to reconnect), Diane's acknowledgment that he's the only thing that makes sense to her and that she needs him precisely because he's the biggest asshole she knows allows him to conceive his worth as continuously constructed within their relationship. . that I would spin out, start questioning everything, blow everything up. Believing its too late to do anything to save himself, BoJack imagines one last conversation with Diane, and rather than the shows earworm of a closing theme, the end credits are accompanied by the sound of an EKG monitor flatlining. All Right Reserved. Give me ten seconds, Diane. Bye, Max. The Mr. Peanutbutter stuff is just your usual Mr. Peanutbutter wackiness. All references in this section refer to a text exchange on 10, Originally pitched at the specter of communism, it is easy to overlook how hauntology in Fisher's. Todd, being either dumb or brilliant, on the real meaning of The Hokey Pokey: You turn yourself around. Nothing, like death, would also be too easy for BoJack and Diane. BoJack's admission, coupled with his flicker of a smile that closes the scene, reveals how their dynamic has evolved. Its tragic. The actual structure of the episode sees Princess Carolyn pulling some strings to get BoJack out of prison on a weekend pass so he can attend her wedding to Judah. So I lit a match and I held it to his hand while he was looking at the faces. BoJack:So your boyfriend at the time, he's not your boyfriend anymore? If we weren't already paying attention to Diane's expressive fidgeting then here it is unavoidable. Said it gave us something in common. only thing I cant get out my mind is a baby fox that didnt do nothing but run out into the And never ever again what we have done what we did and always hold them close as close can be and always close and always loved and always , I need you to talk to me. And she has learned what he needs to hear. BoJack: What is this show? Diane confesses: I was terrified, coming back here for the wedding . Writing together, we reminisced over how, in the past, BoJack and Diane regularly played out a shared feeling, dramatizing it in such a way as to render what holds us together sensible. I mean, Ive been wi older men before but he was different. Look in my sent messages. The people who made BoJack Horseman obviously put a lot of inspiration, artistry, and intelligence into this great, great show. See, I was right sly, sleekit. Bojack: I know. Bojack: Hey, wouldnt it be funny if this night was the last time we ever talked to each other? I dont think we should destroy anything ever. Though the disaster prompts others to pursue libidinal desires, regret they aren't more famous, or agree to burn fellow partygoers alive, Diane and BoJack reveal a depth to their friendship. All rights reserved. Even bad things. cant stop seeing the image in my mind. It has been three days and eleven hours now, which seems a bit relaxed even for someone as simple as him. And I woke up one morning. BoJack fails to conquer his demons the narcissism as much as the substance abuse and is destroyed by them, right? The no-longer boyfriend is now husband. So begins BoJack and Diane's final conversation in Season 1. It's the party of the year. And he was squirming and crying and I was crying too, of course. You might think that I would be angry but Im not. RELATED: Bojack Horseman: 10 Real-Life Issues The Show Deals With And How It Addresses Them I dropped the snake As Catherine Feeny's "Mr. Blue" cuts across the silence, a swell of lost and, maybe, still possible futures haunt the small abyss of night sky separating their shoulders. I was scared but I still But only for a moment. What good being angry at you has ever done for me? These books give us a record of our times via the moments best comic minds. BoJack:No, aboutI don't know II wanted to talk to you, I miss talking to you. No. Its the best and worst thing about people., And from Diane: Lifes a bitch and then you die. Sometimes. Dressed as Karl Lagerfelds beloved cat, Choupette. But it bounded across the pavement like Bambi and ran into the Diane: You know sometimes I feel like our marriage is like a magic eye poster. Theres a sense that thanks in part to her marriage to Guy and new life in Houston it really will be the last time these two speak. They jeopardize their friendship and highlight the troubled horse's incapability of keeping his professional and personal lives separate. The power has shifted and BoJack knows it. He is a reminder of the life she left behind and the people she left in it. Id tae learn most of it myself cause with them it was always, right, we need tae move on now but I never wanted tae. Diane:[Angrily]Oh yeah, with Vance Waggoner, right? There's a pretty clear subtext running beneath. I'm totally asking for a friend: If you were struggling with mental illness like say anxiety or depression, and you weren't in a romantic relationship, how would you learn to trust your happiness? Im very angry. So I think it was okay, really. Theyve stopped talking (Mr. But, I made you promise that. I need you in my life. Its part of the reason BoJack dying at the end of the series was such a common fan theory: If he couldnt really be forgiven, let alone redeemed, where else could his story possibly go? Post45 is a collective of scholars working on American literature and culture since 1945. It was just normal. Death would be too easy suicide merely another deus ex machina the show dangles in front of us but swiftly takes away. Judah was always so buttoned-up that its easy to see how he would have fallen in love with Princess Carolyn without giving her a single hint. Youll have went, wont you? Wouldve been nice to see him again but I think he was dead busy. As such, we find in BoJack Horseman the capacity to capture and retain the ambiguities and ambivalences that permeate adult social life. But youre not here anymore.. I could never keep it. Turn on the rain! BoJack Horseman and J. D. Salinger, Good, Likeable People Who Love Each Other, Major Falls and Minor Lifts: The Character System of BoJack Horseman, Correspondence between the authors. Diane: Sometimes. But beneath the friendship, the specter of romance remains. Least I know where I am an how tae get out. She replies, "Well, that's the problem with life, right? Diane? BoJack says half-seriously. It felt warm and soft. Also, please don't put in my book that I use horse tranquilizers, ha-ha. I went to a pet shop and bought this tiny green snake instead. It also has incredibly cool intro music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQvIR1oL1vE. Im not afraid of anything. Use section headers above different song parts like [Verse], [Chorus], etc. Diane and Bojack's rooftop conversation is, in many ways, the perfect ending to the show. I saved my pocket money for three weeks. This guy's being a total fascist. That last conversation is remarkable. And it's going to be okay. Diane:I think there are people that help you become the person you end up being, and you can be grateful for them, even if they were never meant to be in your life forever. So I had to get rid BoJack still positions Diane as an arbiter of his value. Bojack: No. Only Diane's tone and facial expression betray a subtext: is it weird that I, having just got married, chose a career move that necessitates that we spend much of our time together? It The whole thing is ridiculous, of course. Linus walked around with a blanket. We tried to make it work, long distance. So Big Andys getting really upset, and his guys are all riled, and then I go, Fellas, fellas, fellas! BoJack: I haven't talked to Diane since, uh.What about you? pat brown delphi lost keys; george fant noah fant related; mary sue death youjo senki; BoJack:Fine, you want me to dance? It is the 76th episode overall. But it wasnt like when we did it. BoJack initially assumes that Diane and Guy broke up, but then she reveals Guy's actually her husband now. BoJack:That does sound like me. And all we can do is try to do less bad stuff and more good stuff, but you're never going to be good because you're not bad. Still, the last few episodes hit all the right, bittersweet notes, and make the entire journey feel richer for how smartly the show chose its ultimate destination. She briefly glances at BoJack from the corner of her eye. But for much of the home stretch, the series miraculous balance of comedy and drama felt tilted heavily towards the latter. And when we drove past again on the way back Even going past the whitewashing aspect of her castingsomething BoJack. And then he started getting upset and not looking at the faces. User account menu. We thus read BoJack Horseman as a series that conspicuously resists stereotypical, heteronormative trajectories for its characters while allowing these potentialities to linger at its peripheries. One by one, the party guests go through a mysterious, stage-left doorway(*), and BoJack realizes that he really is drowning in his swimming pool after his latest bender, and that the one call he made before getting in the water was to best friend Diane (Alison Brie), whom he was too drunk and too self-involved to remember lives in Chicago. Then I think you fell asleep on the keyboard because it just says the letter "b" twenty-seven times. But after a couple of wacky fake-outs, the truth is finally revealed: BoJack is alive. Reporters Paige and Max pay Penny a visit. All right, ladies and gentlemen, we have a real treat for you next. Am I busted?" I went to Crystal Palace first. Brilliant. Underlined. This email will be used to sign into all New York sites. She briefly glances at BoJack from the corner of her eye. I think we should hold bad things close and never let them go until they realise how loved they are and stop being bad. Also, I'm drunk. Doug Stark and Teresa O'Rourke. Im furious at us. Because I'm Mr. Peanutbutter. Sometimes lifes a bitch and then you keep living.. [Referring to her happiness with Guy] Diane says "I didn't, I trust him [Guy]". Diane asks her about the film she was filming in Vietnam and how it ends. Those birthdays aren't going to dad themselves! Yet the episode's closing moments reveal that this is a purely imagined future created by Princess Carolyn to buoy her against her melancholic present. Three little orphans One, two, three Without a home Or a family tree, Until this horse said "Live with me" And now we've got A new family We were lost And now we're found And we're Horsin' around [neighs], [cell phone vibrates] [upbeat tune plays]. He said it was to do wi his job but I wasnae really listening. And he was good, you know. Greg. And a kiss. Probably. These are the final appearances of BoJack Horseman and Diane Nguyen and is also the final scene of the BoJack Horseman series.]. Everyone elses parents lie and cheat and have inner turmoil and chuck teapots at each other. For not worrying. Theyd never give you a chance to learn what you really wanted tae. It's only when BoJack leaves Princess Carolyn's wedding party to find Diane out on the roof that we realize the opening shot of this final episode was a call-back to the future; time is, as ever, out of joint The pair sit poised at the end of the show's world. Round here. That was another thing. No. And For real this time. Combined with the show's impending end, a close call with death and BoJack's newfound maturity, we wonder if, with the stars aligned, their persistent connection might spell a return to their status as love interests. Honestly. A book, an ill-advised kiss, and a thwarted wedding sabotage later, we find them hanging out on the roof at the periphery of the party once again.7 BoJack reveals that he has been cast in Secretariat "everything [he] ever wanted" off the back of their successful ghost-writing collaboration on BoJack's memoir. BoJack:Here to help me with some business needs.