I rewatch almost every year now. It helps me get through my winters when my mental health generally goes on the decline. It helps remind me of my patterns and what to avoid, and how to better deal with my depression.

My pattern is to watch Bojack, then Steven Universe. Both largely concerned with mental health, however one is about how the bad things you do ripple out into the world, and the other is about how the good things can do the same.

Bojack is far more real though.

Not really. Her career does alright but the trauma causes her mental health to be severly damaged, leading her to act out in ways that alienate some people she works with. It severly changes her personality for the worst. In my headcanon she gets therapy and eventually gets to a healthier place. But no. End of series, she is depicted as really not okay.

Yes, it’s established that they made the show while trying to make something similar to Horsin Around.

That’s the one. God damn, fuck that guy.

That’s true. I think they did a good job of an “asshole main character” but often in shows, that dickish person is supposed to be the one we root for because of their charisma or because they come through for the main characters or whatever. In those shows, their assholeness isn’t shown to ripple out and fuck over people, we just laugh and move on. This one shows the world reacting to someone like that in a realistic way

The frog guy who’s name I forget who is ludicrously incompetent but got the job via nepotism after being an editor on the Harvard Lampoon. God damn I hate him. I don’t mind nepotism that much when the people are competent but fuck, nepo hires that suck at their job make me so unbelievably angry.

Because he’s afraid of saying it.

The undersea one with minimal dialogue. Wouldn’t drill phrases into my head as much.

I like the reversal of the lyrics. “Life is a never-ending show” becomes “shows are a never ending life, a silhouette for after you are gone”.

Bojack is worse. Eleanor basically fought tooth and nail to be better, and she did, and also pretty much saved humanity in the process.

Why not just “Life’s a bitch and then you keep on living”? Why add the first bit?