Bojack’s grandfather is a misogynistic jackass and cares more about his business and image more than his own family. Therefore, I wonder why he never though of entrusting a successor to his business and legacy.
Bojack’s late uncle had died in WW2 and Joseph is obviously not gonna hand over his company to Beatrice. This leads to him having no male heir at all. The only male heir he has is Bojack so why he did not try to groom his grandson to be his successor? Or he just too egomaniacal to even think that his own grandson is not worth to be groomed because he has Butterscotch’s blood in him or simply he thinks he can entrust his legacy to his subordinate rather his own family, which means he has no intention to hand over his business to Crackerjack even if he managed to survive the war?
Also, Beatrice became pregnant with Butterscotch’s child and chose Butterscotch over expanding her father’s sugar empire through a marriage to Corbin Creamerman.
I can imagine Joseph seeing BoJack as a bastard/illegitimate child and holding a grudge over Beatrice’s choices, and choosing to stay out of their lives.
BoJack wasn’t a bastard nor illegitimate – it clearly shows his parents getting married while she was pregnant.
I think he would just hardly see Joseph, Beatrice probably didn’t want to hear from Joseph about her “not raising BoJack right”, which I mean she wasn’t but I don’t think Joseph would have been much better. All tho strict parents tend to treat their grandchildren better than their kids
No BoJack said he spent his summers at Joseph’s Michigan lake house. Butterscotch worked for Joseph. We can assume that they saw each other.
Do we know when Joseph dies? We never see him as part of Bojack’s childhood, so maybe he dies relatively young.
Alternatively, he could have disowned Beatrice after she got pregnant with Butterstotch.
They showed him in the casket during her 1999 flashback in Time’s Arrow. Beatrice in her grieving black dress and veiled hat, smoking beside the casket as he lies dead within it. “My father… a man who knew what marriage meant.” He lived to almost the turn of the millennium.
Joseph hired Crackerjack as an executive so I doubt it’s due to any animosity (he probably had some but he’s not above hiring family). The company probably just went under before Bojack came of age or Joseph died when Bojack was relatively young.
IIRC it’s mentioned that he passed the company on to Butterscotch, who drove it into the ground with poor business decisions and sold it to a Japanese conglomerate, leaving Beatrice nearly penniless, which is why she wound up briefly living with Bojack before he stuck her in the worst nursing home he could find. If she still had a lot of money of her own, presumably she would’ve been taken care of by executors of some kind rather than Bojack.