This might seem a little obvious but it just occurred to me the other day. Bojack is a horse, horses used to be animals that were used all the time. But as time went on people used them less and less with the rise of automobiles. Eventually horses fell out of popular use. I could see this maybe being an analogy for Bojack, his rise to fame and then his fall into insignificance. What do you guys think, was it intentional?
Not intentionally. I think they just had a cool idea with some puns and jokes in their head and went with it.
Obviously being a horse in a human world was certainly an important part of the character later on in development. pretty much every other time we see other horses, it’s a significant issue for BJ, but I think they could’ve don’t the same with a dog or leopard or a zebra. I think the show runners just had some horse puns