“ Well, that half you can keep”
Chills.
holy shit i never noticed that
I’ve known for a while about how the “I have half a mind” line foreshadows the lobotomy. But I just now realized: Joseph said “that half you can keep” in response to her saying she’d kiss him. Was Joseph doing…gross things, let’s say, after she was lobotomized?! He had no problem shaking her when he was mad…
Well she definitely didn’t keep the half that would allow her to give fully informed consent. And Joseph Sugarman was a modern American man…
I don’t think it’s really foreshadowing, they’re just setting themselves up for the joke later in the episode.
I rewatched that episode recently. It was more sexist than I remembered.
It’s just like after her surgery when she’s playing the piano horribly, and says “I’ve got half a mind…” and then that’s just it. Because, well…
It’s one of those Bojack lines that is absolutely hilarious and absolutely heart-wrenching at the same time.