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Cake day: October 25th, 2023

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  • they basically explained this with gina’s song and dance sequence in the fifth season, though it’s all coated in metaphor so you might not have noticed. the big line is “spun by forces you don’t understand”: bojack is in the midst of intense emotional turmoil constantly but he doesnt know why because he’s never done therapy or done anything to uncover why he behaves the way he does. when you get hurt a lot, when you’re a kid especially, your brain starts to develop behavioral defense mechanisms that are usually not helpful once you’re out of harm’s way, and if you don’t know that that’s happening it can seem like you’re just behaving erratically against your better judgement