For a while I thought…okay maybe he’s meant to be symbolic of how sometimes when we date someone, we see only what we want to see. Or sometimes when you get a rebound to get over an ex, we’re so clouded by the need to prove to the ex that we’re fine and we’ve moved on that we don’t see through the “red flags”
But then I don’t know…he was a KID!!! Someone help me out, I’m high (only the normal amount😂) and rewatching for the 50 millionth time and this is stuck in my head
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I interpreted it as a joke about how the kind of man that women tend to engage in these kinds of relationships with lack sophistication and maturity to the degree that they may as well be several children stacked on top of each other in a trench coat. Vincent is an uncomplicated, blank slate who is just happy to be taken cared of and given access to adult things. PC is so used to being actively treated like shit that she misinterprets this behavior as healthy and loving. She calls Vincent a “good listener” because he literally has nothing to say, as opposed to insulting, invalidating, or criticizing her.
I think this is an exceptional way to put it. I hadn’t even give it much thought other than, though exceedingly creepy, it was hilarious and now I feel stupid.
But yeah… She entered that, ugh, “relationship” right after her relationship with Bojack ended. We know how Bojack treats women, and I find it tragic that PC stayed with Bojack as long as she did. Add in that PC is a powerful, smart, resilient woman, I can’t imagine how horrible she felt about herself having stayed in that relationship. So, it makes sense how she dives into this whole thing with Vincent-- he has nothing to bring to the table and she has to take care of him and put up with his tantrums, but since he’s a literal child and can’t bring any conversation to the table, she interprets this as him being a “good listener” who “knows how to treat a woman.”
With the way she talks about all her former boyfriends, she was used to getting treated horribly. Vincent had no redeeming qualities, and she even found herself making excuses for the way he treats her (i.e, “he’s cranky because he just got adult braces”) but can’t seem to understand that his behavior isn’t normal, because at this point she’d never been in a mutually respectful adult relationship.
It shows she was in an emotionally vulnerable state and repeated what her mom taught her: brain wash and use children to satisfy your own emotional needs.
She groomed these boys, plying them with candy and soda and bribing them with movie tickets and trips to amusement parks. She had no one and in her lowest of lows she used children to fill that void.
She is a terrible, god awful person and whether she is worse than BJ is up for debate IMO.
I just always saw Vincent as the rebound guy joke. She’s just so blind about her own damage and is so about “moving on,” winning the break up, or getting back at their ex. They just date the safest boring person.
People are way too sensitive, man… I see it as a thing from BJ’s perspective tbh, as in “are you people seriously not seeing through this? It’s ridiculous”
On her side, it’s probably about how you described, and then they used the full concept for laughs
it’s just a funney joke. i think people forget that bojack horseman is also a comedy
Yeah I wonder about this too… like should there even be a joke about PC dating Vincent if it’s not just supposed to be symbolic of something or other (ie if we just see him how BJ sees him) . Because if not it’s extremely creepy and weird. My only other answer is that there’s like a species of human in this universe that are adults but happen to look like three kids in a trench coat. This could be confirmed by Vincent’s/Kevin’s braces and freckles changing each time we see one of them in the episode where PC breaks up with him. And some people have pointed out that there are some times where you see him on the phone clearly sitting in some sort of office. But even that theory doesn’t make it that ok.
Sometimes, no matter what others say and do. You only see what you wanna see.
It’s about how sometimes you see what you want to see. Even when your partner is quite clear about how they’re a serious adult who values business, you only see the youthful, fun-loving persona you project onto them.
I interpreted it as “it’s funny that she doesn’t know it’s three kids in a trench coat.”
Not everything on Bojack has to be deep and have profound meaning.
I thought the 3 kids stacked was emblematic of PC’s indifference to Vincent. She was using Vincent to needle BoJack.
For any future comments: it’s really clear PC didn’t know Vincent was kids in a trenchcoat. I don’t think there’s a reasonable textual conclusion one can draw that pretends she knew. PC is a ton of things, but “someone who knew Vincent was children” is not among them, because in-universe, nobody knows except for Bojack. We can argue that she should know, but that would contradict the text explicitly. Best y’all get is that she is in denial because she kind of a narcissist?
not a narcissist. codependent. she enables the narcissist.
I’m not 100% sure Vincent is a child. He has a grown job as a business consultant and we actually never see him and the kid switch places. It’s so much funnier if he’s just a really awkward adult and Bojack thinks he’s a kid. We see the show through his eyes.
Princess isn’t even there when Mister hires him. Every character except Bojack treats him as an adult. Bojack is the only one saying that he’s 2 kids in a trench coat and we never even see the other kid.
Who was a kid? You mean Vincent Adultman’s son?
It’s a dumb cartoon gag that Princess Carolyn goes along with because she’s a cartoon character. Like a lot of Todd’s actions and schemes, I don’t think there’s meant to be any deeper meaning because they never discuss any repercussions of their relationship and it’s not really something that could happen in real life.
She doesn’t want to interact with Bojack, so she rebounds with the first guy she sees, who, for comedic effect, is really three kids in a trench coat. She’s oblivious to this fact because it’s supposed to be funny that Bojack is the only one who sees this. There are never any sex scenes or lines implying that they had sex both because it would be off-putting to the audience and would ruin the running gag. Notice how they never really even kiss, the only thing they ever do is say that they’re in a relationship, whereas all of her other partners except Judah it is implicitly or explicitly stated she had sex with them.
The only time any sexual attraction is even mentioned is when she asks Bojack if he can imagine Vincent in a swimsuit, which again, is meant to be her being oblivious.
She was so desperate in that moment that she couldn’t see her dates flaws.
There is no significance. Not everything in a tv show has to mean something or represent something. Sometimes a gag is just a gag.
I don’t think he was 3 kids in a trench coat. I think he looked like a normal “boring” dude in reality. Bojack is the only one who saw otherwise because he had absolutely no esteem for this “normie”.
It’s symbolic of Bojack’s perspective, not PC’s.