BoJack makes a point of taking Todd along for the ride. One thing I've noticed so far this season is that BoJack has been a far better friend to Todd, which has made their reconciliation at the end of Season Two feel all the more sincere. I like the direction they've taken there. Most "standard" TV shows would have had the two make up only to resume business as usual in the next episode, but Bojack Horseman seems committed to building their friendship.
At a bar, Todd encounters his old love interest from high school, Emily. Her best friend is one of the two women getting married and the entire wedding is thrilled that BoJack Horseman, movie star has shown up. The father of the bride even asks BoJack to take over his speech and he gives a brief but genuinely touching speech about knowing how your spouse is your missing puzzle piece.
Unfortunately, the speech backfires and one of the brides, Taneisha, calls off the wedding. She says she doesn't really "know" about her fiancee and thanks BoJack for helping her see the light. For the first time in the episode, shit hits the fan for BoJack and he's faced with a room full of people that suddenly despise him. He takes it upon himself to do the right thing and talk to Taneisha and the words he gives her are both what she needs to hear and (in true BoJack fashion) unfathomably sad at the same time:
"Taneisha, nobody completes anybody. That's not a real thing. If you're lucky enough to find someone you can halfway tolerate, sink your nails in and don't let go, no matter what....because otherwise you're going to get older, harder, and more alone. And you're gonna do everything you can to fill that hole, with friends, and your career, and meaningless sex, but the hole doesn't get filled. One day, you're gonna look around and you're going to realize that everybody loves you, but nobody likes you. And that is the loneliest feeling in the world."Wow.
OK. The wedding's back on now.
Meanwhile, Todd tells Emily about his idea for a ride-share app with women-only drivers. Emily is enthusiastic about the idea and wants to see the project through and begins hitting on Todd in the process. Todd seems uncomfortable with the idea of being intimate with Emily and starts drinking a lot, followed by telling her that he feels sick and wants to go to bed when she tries to take him back to his room. It all seems like a nervous defense mechanism, and we see Todd later just laying on the bed by himself, all melancholy. This is as excited about a Todd storyline as I've been throughout the series' run, and it will be interesting to watch both his app idea (if they pursue this) as well as his difficulty connecting with Emily unfold (though Emily's brief bar encounter with BoJack before the episode ends is REALLY unsettling).
This week's episode also pushes forward the Mr. Peanutbutter-Diane dynamic. The former is hogging all the speaking time at their marriage counselor session, but that's just as much because Diane doesn't have a clue how to express the way she feels. When talking about her inability to communicate with Mr. Peanutbutter, she attributes the issue to her upbringing which rings pretty true. We know Diane's family treats her like garbage (remember the awful 'Criane' video?) and it makes perfect sense that she'd have trouble expressing herself when the people she should be closest with just dump on her all the time.
Diane randomly gets a text invite to hang out with movie star Alexi Brosefino and she's apprehensive about how she'll act around "cool kids". She gets peer pressured into taking drugs, and shortly after it's revealed that Alexi sent the text to the wrong Diane. Diane gets embarrassed and after an authentically kind talk from Alexi, realizes that she needs to go home to her husband. In her drugged-out state, she's finally able to tell Mr. Peanutbutter how much she loves him and needs him. It's a touching moment, and the first moment of this season that makes any sense out of this couple.
But then, they randomly drop a bomb at the end of the episode. Diane's pregnant. Her reaction? "MOTHER F-" (they save the "ucker" for the beginning of the next episode.)
The "C" story focuses on Princess Carolyn, who's (as usual) overworked. However, she's being helped out a great deal by her assistant Judah, who really seems to have his shit together. He asks her for an ownership stake in the company because of how far above and beyond he's gone to help out, even taking the liberty of handling both sides of the percentage negotiation and drawing up the paperwork. More importantly to the episode's plot, Judah sets up three dates for Princess Carolyn on a rare night off.
The first two dates are a dullard and a gynecologist who's snippy about Princess Carolyn conceiving children at her age. The third date is a mouse named Ralph and the two of them want to call off the date for species reasons, but he turns out to be an engaging, nice fellow and the two hit it off. She returns to her office afterwards where Judah has been diligently keeping the place running smoothly. Judah seems too good to be true. I wonder where they're going with this.
Episode Grade: B+
Bullet Points
- "Critics called it gurble glub glub blub blub."
- In the background of the bar, you can see that random awful girl that BoJack slept with in the second episode of the series
- "I didn't have Diane Peninsula. I had the Isthmus of Assholes."
- I think Todd's idea is an allusion to SafeHer or SheRides, but it comes off as a really good idea in the context of the episode.
- "Oh, drug taking. That's cool. I'm cool."
- "MR. PEEPERNUMBER!"
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