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Sex & Nudity
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- No actual nudity, some small glimpses of painting that have naked animals on them
- There are a few sex scenes in the show as a whole, they're all quite brief with little to no nudity but loud moaning and kissing is present. Nudity is only extended to male buttocks and paintings of naked animals on the wall.
- The show's sexual content varies from mild to moderate to (very rarely) even severe. Episodes can range from harmless sexual jokes to full on lengthy sex scenes.
- A teenage dolphin pop star named Sextina Aquafina wears many revealing outfits and sings songs with provocative lyrics.
- Todd builds a robot named "Henry Fondle" which has several sex toys attached and says several sexual phrases.
- A young Beatrice is catcalled by a cockatoo.
- A clip from one of Sarah Lynn's music videos shows her nude with her breasts and genitals obscured by planets and she is naked swinging on a replica of Saturn (parodying the video for Wrecking Ball by Miley Cyrus)
- Since the world of 'BoJack Horseman' consists of human beings living intermittently with anthropomorphic animals, there is a natural relationship that coexists between species. This can lead to human-animal, or different-animal intimacy. This is considered normalcy in the show, but may prove awkward to some viewers.
- One of the themes of the show is that BoJack can't achieve intimacy. Sometimes he'll become very good friends with a girl and they'll go into a relationship but it ends because BoJack has an egotistical background. This is not sexual though.
- There are, at times crude, verbal sexual references throughout the series, played mostly for comedy. References include human and animal genitalia. They are mainly crude jokes about size and not graphic.
- In flashbacks, BoJack reminisces about his abusive relationship with his mother, who's implied to have become her character due to her past with abusive men.
- There is nudity in this series, but are only usually encased in paintings in the background of various scenes, and only encompass animals. This usually ranges from semi nude imagery and genitalia obscured. One exception is a statuette outside a restaurant that serves as a set piece throughout many episodes, where a naked elephant granite statuette is.
- There are no sexual scenes in this season, only references mostly played for dark humour
- BoJack nearly has sex with his agent, though this never happens and is played for comedy. They start kissing but stop straight after.
- BoJack is seen kissing and unknown stranger. The stranger is never shown and this is not graphic. Played for laughs.
- BoJack sometimes imitates sexual movements. This is not graphic and is played for laughs.
- BoJack's childhood co-star is strongly implied to have been raised to treat the world she lives in with casual indifference, and to serve her fans and the paparazzi with as much effort as possible. This is emphasized when she is shown in the modern world in a music video where she poses suggestively in revealing clothing with other women, to cater to publicity and her own relevance in the current world.
- A stronger reference is when BoJack Horseman is surprised at the fact that his agent and golden retriever friend (past rival) are in a relationship. He asks them whether they have had sex, and his friend says 'Many times.'
- In one episode, Bojack is seen nude briefly where full rear nudity is depicted but no other graphic (or full-frontal) nudity shown.
- One of BoJack's friends befriends two carefree girls who are also running from the police who dress skimpily.
- BoJack's agent develops an intimate relationship with a tall stranger later in this season, which is actually three children on top of one another in a trench coat. This is played as mild humor.
- There are some no sexual scenes in this season. Only references.
- Some crude verbal sexual references. Nothing apart from that.
- No acts are ever depicted or voiced, as every time they are cut off mysteriously by other characters talking if two characters start kissing.
Violence & Gore
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- One episode focuses on the topic of abortion and features a dolphin pop star singing a song about abortions with a music video that has lots of graphic imagery.
- Beatrice is diagnosed with dementia and has a violent episode at a nursing home and gets kicked out.
- Rarely any violence if there is it's usually mild. But there's only a few episodes with severe violence and it's usually for a few scenes.
- Strong violence is occasionally portrayed in the show, and usually only aftermaths are depicted. However, brief bloody violence is depicted in some episodes.
- In almost every episode, slapstick humor is depicted occasionally with a joke. For example, in an establishing shot, a bird decides to fly away before it is hit head-on by a plane.
- At one point, BoJack gets severely under drug influence, and his hallucination causes him to hallucinate a vision of his ghost writer into a horrifying, grotesque monstrosity. He then remarks 'Oh shit, I'm still tripping.'This scene is played for humor and different title cards enforce that.
- One of BoJack's friends gets sent to prison and has to join two rival gangs. He eventually tries to befriend both before they catch him and decide to curb-stomp his head. However, before they can do so, a helicopter manages to crash into the side of the building and the prisoners escape, forgetting their rivalry.
- BoJack gets into a brief fight with the man he had back-stabbed back in the '90s, who now has terminal rectal cancer.
- At one point, a Ryan Seacrest/Hollywood celebrity type on a talk show jokingly remarks how some lady who talked with him was kidnapped.
- In the fictional country of Cordovia, war violence is depicted as a side character who talks to BoJack's ghost writer for a proposal close to the end of the season is shown in a war-torn background, with air-strikes and shootouts occurring around him as he acts indifferently. He is shown passively covering bodies and making swift impromptu surgery on war-torn survivors, also acting with indifference. However, he does pose with dramatic encounters or people with dastardly physical experiences and takes a picture with his cellphone.
- BoJack's agent passively tells him that Andrew Garfield had 'broken every bone in his body' in one episode after he agrees to star in BoJack's upcoming movie, due to the failed erection of a building project by two of BoJack's friends.
- [Season 2]
- An episodes sub plot is about auto-erotic asphyxiation (see sex and nudity for more details).
- BoJack hits a conservative deer while driving his car with his girlfriend in one episode. Injuries are seen on the deer as he limps off into the woods, and his wounds are shown closer when they find him and take him to the hospital. The wounds themselves are limited to bloodied flesh and tissue, however, the deer groans painfully when BoJack hoists him over his shoulder. In later episodes, BoJack's car is seen with the damage encapsulating the hood.
Profanity
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- The F word and C word are never used in a sexual manner
- The F-word is used once a season for dramatic effect
- The F-word plays a role of making drastic scenes more so important and is never used mindlessly or for simply for filler dialogue. It used once every season, typically in very intense or emotional scenes.
- Around 460 uses of 'shit' in the entire show.
- There are 6 uses of "fuck" and 1 use of "cunt" throughout the entire show.
- Frequent uses of mild language such as: "shit", "bitch", "ass" and "dick" in almost every episode.
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
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- Cocaine, heroin, marijuana, DMX, horse tranquillisers, xanax and all sorts of pills are consumed throughout the show, some usage shown graphically, some times just implied.
- Frequent paraphernalia.
- In the episode 'Love and/or Marriage' (S3 EP5) several people are seen taking this drug called 'gush', a sort of acidic opiate pill, the consequent hallucinations are seen.
- BoJack is a severe alcoholic, and is shown drinking constantly throughout the six seasons of the show.
- In season three, it is discovered that the name 'BoJack' is also a popular heroin brand. BoJack is also shown snorting heroin of that patent in one of season three's final episodes.
- One of the season two's final episodes shows a teenage girl getting progressively drunk and eventually succumbing to alcohol poisoning.
- In the second episode of season three, two characters start drinking to write a script for a new TV show, eventually they get drunk and start writing nonsense.
- Frequent and graphic drinking. Cigarette smoking throughout. Occasional marijuana smoking. Occasional cocaine use. Prescription opiates are used. There is also heroin use, and a scene where a woman takes a fictional drug ("Gush") that is described as being similar to LSD and MDMA. There are also many scenes of characters taking and snorting pills
- There are implications regarding drug use in almost every episode, where characters will passingly remark on situations/incidents or other characters in conjunction with drug use, and some episodes feature actual drug use being depicted by various characters in the series. Pills and other forms of drug paraphernalia can be seen in the background occasionally in almost every episode as well.
- One of BoJack's former co-stars is a serious addict and throughout the show she is seen consuming countless amounts of drugs and alcohol.
- BoJack is a welcomer to alcoholism and drinks different forms of alcohol (e.g. bourbon, whiskey, tequila, etc.) in almost every episode. He drinks from a flask frequently, at one point is shown drinking a few consecutively in a flashback. (In the series opening title, BoJack is depicted getting drunk at a party, at one point holding a glass of alcohol, then stumbling over the edge of his penthouse into his pool.)
- BoJack is also a frequent cigarette smoker and is shown passively smoking a cigarette in several episodes, obviously under a nicotine addiction.
- Various characters, other than BoJack, are also seen drinking alcohol and getting adversely drunk in some episodes.
- [Season 1]
- There are different depictions of drug use in this season, including one long, somewhat excessive portrayal of drug use and the effects of drug use covering an entire episode.
- When BoJack meets his former co-star in 'Episode 3', she is implied to be under the effects of drugs constantly, and at one point, does handful of pills. BoJack then questions her whether that is the appropriate way to consume prescription drugs.
- BoJack is severely intoxicated off-screen in 'Episode 6', so much that he steals the 'D' work from the 'Hollywood' sign. Only the aftermath is show, and his intoxication is only discussed.
- BoJack is shown very intoxicated in a couple of episodes, with many beer cans surrounding him.
- A race figure that BoJack looked up to during his childhood years is implied to have taken steroids and testosterone-enhancing drugs after he is revealed to have cheated on the racetrack.
- A young boy asks BoJack's agent, disguised as a man in a trench-coat, 'Would you like a alcohol?'
- [Season 2]
- One of BoJack's friends, at one point, gives up on her life temporarily and sleeps at his house, to which she becomes increasingly lazy and frequently consumes beer. She eventually brings him into her psyche, and they drink a horrendous amount of beer, at one point organizing the empty beer cans into various monuments offscreen. They also smoke marijuana together.
- At one point in the same episode, while BoJack passively talks to his annoyed girlfriend, he and his friend smoke from a bong somewhat offscreen. One closeup shows his friend lighting the bong and smoking with bubbles heard.
- In one episode, a disturbing flashback shows BoJack, as a kid, sneaking a cigarette packet from his mother's purse and taking one out and smoking it, to his discomfort, before his mother comes in and marks her indifference to his actions, instead showing her disappointment in his existence, and forces him to finish the cigarette. This scene is sad, disturbing and very distressing.
- One of the episodes features BoJack smoking a joint in a close-up very briefly.
- BoJack's golden retriever friend is shown wearing a dog cone in 'Episode 1', after he could not stop biting his stitches due to him punching a mirror in a drunken stupor. This is only discussed.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
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- While the show's genre is comedy and has lots of comedic moments, the subject matter is often dark and depressing.
- The show gets progressively darker and bleaker each season, it may in fact be the most depressing cartoon of all time.
- When she was younger, BoJack's mother, Beatrice, was forced to take weight-loss-supplements since her family was against the idea of women gaining any weight. In fact, Beatrice was also deprived of any sort of dessert as a child, and had to drink lemon water if she wanted a snack.
- The show's titular character is certainly not a good person, often hurting people (including his friends) and having a generally pessimistic view on life.
- Not scary or traditionally suspenseful by any means, but very emotionally intense and in many cases, depressing.
- The show is free of a formulaic resolution to each episode and therefore, it will often end an episode on a dark or depressing note with little to no resolution, meaning that after a shocking event occurs, things don't magically resolve by the end of the 25 minutes, actions have long-term consequences in the show.
- As a teenager, BoJack's mother was body shamed to where she was forced to take weight loss pills and was not allowed to eat dessert. This may be difficult to watch for viewers who struggle with body dysmorphia or eating disorders.
- Diane is racially profiled by American tourists while on vacation in Vietnam.
- The entire series of BoJack Horseman is dedicated to him living a life of excess, denial, inner fear, and adverse ego in the heart of Hollywood (or Hollywoo). He is shown exploiting and sabotaging people so that they can remain important and relevant to him, and is destructive to them regardless.
- Many of the episodes revolve around the satire of many elements, most notably the Hollywood celebrity scene and the various mishaps and wash-ups that rise from it. Other mature themes and elements discussed include feminism, indifference to war, popularity, paparazzi, reality-tv shows, news broadcasts, homosexuality, hipsters, self-personification, narcissism, etc; and encompass the group of people associated with it. One or more of these themes set the topic for each episode.
- In various episodes, a startling revelation which shows the horrendous attitude BoJack or other characters give to show their inner selves or their character arcs is depicted at the end, leaving the viewers in a state of melancholy and temporary depression.
- BoJack is shown abused by his parents (emotionally) in flashbacks throughout the series. His father, an authoritative, restrictive man and his mother, a cruel distant, and disgusting woman both shape him into what he is now. The flashback scenes may be triggering to child abuse survivors.
Spoilers
Sex & Nudity
- BoJack starts a relationship with a female friend who was a co-star a long time ago. It is implied that they have sex though this is never shown or heard. Sometimes BoJack starts kissing her but it cuts away.
- BoJack makes out with Naomi Watts in one scene. This is not graphic at all and played for laughs.
- One of BoJack's long-time friends, who he had back-stabbed and left cold for 16 years, is depicted with his career ruined after he is exposed as a homosexual. Earlier in the season, as a flashback, he kisses BoJack as a sign of his hope for future success but both then uncomfortably remark that it wasn't intimate. A protester shouts at one point on a news screen regarding Hollywood execs (specifically BoJack's friend) lead 'flamboyant lifestyles'.
- BoJack Horseman ends his relationship with his agent after a dinner showing his uncaring and insecurity disappoints her, and that he under-performs when being intimate with her. BoJack tries, at one point, to get back with her later in the season with new enthusiasm, but then comes to the realization that he was just personifying himself, and leaves her abruptly, with both being unhappy. It is referenced that they have had an on-and-off relationship before the start of the series.
- BoJack temporarily falls in love with his ghost writer, who was engaged to his golden retriever friend at the time. They kiss intimately briefly at one point, but they do not bring it up until Season 2 where BoJack and his friend conflict on a talk show.
- BoJack's (Will Arnett) golden retriever friend remarks at one point that he has divorced twice, and BoJack's ghost writer becomes his third wife later in the season.
- The most disturbing scene of intimacy in this season is when BoJack drives to New Mexico to visit a long-lost friend who played stage comedy with him, who has now raised a family. BoJack develops a strong relationship with the family for two months, before he opts, at one point, to drive her daughter to her first prom. When they leave early, her daughter develops a strong intimate reaction to BoJack as they bond together. When they arrive home, she tells him verbally that she is ready to have sex with him, though this isn't graphic. He then tells her she does not know what she is doing and rejects her, she cries and then leaves.
- One episode particularly deals with BoJack after breaking up with his girlfriend. Characters are seen comforting him while at a bar. He tries to kiss a female friend who's being nice to him though she says no and leaves.
- A notable scene involves BoJack becoming intimate with an owl executive who had woken up from a coma of 30 years. He instantly falls in love with her as he is also mentally trapped in his 30 year-old self and they talk to each other the entire night. They are seen lying in bed next to each other, though they are only sleeping, not being intimate. People may find this scene weird.
- Some characters implied they were abused. Physically and mentally and some point in their life. One character says it was sexual though this is never seen or heard. It's also not talked about ever again after this.
- BoJack's agent develops a romantic interest with another agent situated one floor below her and they are shown kissing passionately briefly in an elevator before the doors close. This is not graphic and cuts away before anything happens.
- BoJack's golden retriever friend is revealed to have an abusive marriage with one of his wives, shown indirectly in a flashback.
- BoJack's agent leaves her romantic interest, after she realises he is a father. This is not sexual.
Violence & Gore
- In Season 5 while filming the show Philbert, Bojack strangles his co-star Gina. Bruises are clearly visible on her neck and the scene is quite long due to the fact that after the director yells cut, Bojack continues to strangle Gina resulting in the show's staff having to intervene. This is one of the most intense scenes throughout the series.
- In a flash back episode Bojack's grandmother develops ptsd after loosing her son in a war and forces a child Beatrice to drive a car and ends up being lobotomised ( which was common during the 1940s) she is shown with a large scar on her forehead.
- In one episode, when BoJack and two of his friends are brainstorming to write his memoir in time for a deadline, they take an absurd amount of drugs, and one of them suggests strongly that were BoJack be killed by his childhood co-star, it would attract a tremendous amount of publicity. They are then shown rushing to murder BoJack with sharp, bladed weapons, before it is revealed to be a hallucination. They then indirectly, under the effects of multiple drugs, resolve hoe to 'solve the gun crisis in America' by giving everyone a gun. Both BoJack and his friend then hallucinate that they are carrying guns, but question whether it is actually brooms, and make a dramatic stand-off. Afterwards, blood is seen on smeared on the walls of BoJack's house when he explains to them to calm down.This scene is played for exaggerated humor, but disturbing when viewers imagine what they might have done to achieve so much blood loss.
- One episode deals with a genetically modified fast-food chain that has chicken as its staple course. One of BoJack's friends befriends a retarded chicken that, on the way of being transported to a mass slaughterhouse, escapes. He eventually rounds up some of BoJack's other friends to sneak into a farm where chickens raise mentally retarded chickens, but 'organically'. At one point, they have to hide in a small barn to escape from the chickens who own the farm, but then discover that they very violently slaughter the chickens raised there as well. This is seen as multiple bladed contraptions are hung on the walls and nailed to the floor, with blood around the bladed areas.
- In one scene a minor former co-star of BoJack, who he has come to befriend, is released from jail and decides to accompany him on a heist. When she creates a distraction for him, she surprisingly pulls out a handgun in front of police officers and later they engage in a shootout. She briefly nails a police officer onscreen, who is seen to be gasping on the floor with a bullet wound. She eventually takes a Kalashnikov and fires blindly, briefly hitting another police officer with blood spurting as he falls out of shot, before they surround her and it cuts.
- When BoJack's post-ghost writer arrives in war-torn Cordovia to write about her associate, a billionaire bachelor, so she can feel like she made a difference, she is shocked at his indifference towards the conflict. She later befriends a boy refugee briefly, and learns that he is killed after an air raid destroys their base.
- One of BoJack's friends is kidnapped and impersonated by a representative of the fictional country Cordovia in one episode, which is in the midst of conflict, and runs around the remainder of the episode pretending to be BoJack's friend. He escapes later and tries to tell of the incident but does not manage to do so successfully.
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
- In the third season, BoJack takes a 9-month-sober Sarah Lynn on a bender. Together they take different narcotics and drink copious amounts of alcohol. Unfortunately, after snorting heroin, the frighteningly young Sarah Lynn dies of an overdose.
- In season five, BoJack injures his back badly and gets prescribed painkillers. He gradually starts getting more and more addicted to them, so much so as to fully loose consciousness, and even purposely getting into a car crash so that he can get them prescribed again.
- A young Bojack is forced to smoke an entire pack of cigarettes as punishment for stealing one from his mother.
- It is heavily implied that BoJack's mother (Beatrice) was forced to take weight-loss supplements as a child, and in a shocking twist it is discovered that she would drug Hollyhock's coffee with them, so that she would loose weight.
- BoJack, at one point, drives to New Mexico and decides to live with his long-lost friend and her family. When he brings her daughter and her friends to prom in her car, he sees one of them drinking from a flask, and when he confiscates it and tastes it, he remarks that 'whiskey and Red Bull' have high sugar content, and proposes that he get them bourbon and mix it with water instead. He then states that if they wish to drink, they should do so 'responsibly.' One of the friends eventually becomes more sluggish in her state of intoxication and passes out in a desert, needing to be taken to the hospital.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
- Season 4 features two episodes that focus on the past of BoJack's mother. It is revealed that she used to have a brother who died during WWII and that her mother developed severe depression and PTSD because of that, which lead to her getting lobotomised (which was a common practice of the time).
- Occasionally, scenes get dark. Scenes like this become very disturbing and include horrific images such as screaming, melting faces, people dying, glitching and all around nightmare fuel. One particularly dark dementia episode starts off odd with faceless people and ends with fire, death, and flickering images of disturbing moments in life. This is also the last time we see the mother character before her death.
- In season 6, "The View From Halfway Down" vividly portrays Bojack's state of mind in a particularly morbid situation. The episode tackles the themes of death and regret in a frighteningly distressing manner.
- At the end of Season 3, a main character dies due to a drug overdose. This is probably the most depressing ending to any episode of the entire series.
- The ending scene with Diane and BoJack is very sad and depressing.
- At the end of season 5, in one of the darkest and most intense twists and climaxes in the show, Bojack starts strangling Gina (his co-star) on set while filming. At first it seems like a part of the act, but it quickly becomes clear that that is not the case. Bojack's mind was altered by his addiction to painkillers so he wasn't fully aware of what was happening, but that still doesn't excuse his actions. This is one of the most horrific scenes in the entire show.
- Towards the end of season 4, the episode "Ruthie" is highly emotional. We see Princess Carolyn at her lowest and it is very depressing to witness.
- BoJack's character arc is very depressing. He continuously does terrible things resulting in the ruin (and even the death in one case) of the other presences in his life. However, he does better himself towards the end of the show, but his past actions come biting him back, and just as he's beginning to improve himself as a person, he gets dragged back down by his past.
- In Season 1 Episode 12, we see Secretariat committing suicide by jumping off a bridge and we hear audio from a radio announcer mistaking it for a parked car and joking about it. This may be triggering or upsetting for viewers who struggle with suicidal thoughts or those who have lost a loved one to suicide.
- BoJack's mother develops dementia in her later years and eventually succumbs to it. One episode focuses on BoJack giving a eulogy at her funeral. Her deteriorating state may be difficult to watch for those who have cared for someone with dementia or alzheimers.
- One character goes on about auto erotic asphyxiation, and later, the character is found hanged and dead. A very brief moment but it can be upsetting to people who are triggered by suicide.
- Todd explodes at BoJack after BoJack slept with his love interest. This is very upsetting given how positive of a character Todd usually is.
- In a very disturbing flashback, a young Bojack slips a cigarette out of his mom's purse and starts smoking it, she then walks in on him and except for lecturing him on why he shouldn't smoke, she forces him to finish the cigarette. Young Bojack starts crying, very traumatic and distressing.
- Towards the end of Season 2, BoJack attempts to have sex with a 17 year old girl. They do not have sex, but the consequences follow him throughout the series.
