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The plot doesn't move forward in this ep, but thematically it's an (admittedly kind of easy/simple) big thematic foreshadowing of him going on a reverse adventure with a surrogate child he kills instead of saving.

The interview about the design also mentions that some of these people even have swimming pools in their 'yards'. That's how much they only care about appearances and have forgotten the joys of being sea creatures.

It's so frustrating that what i didn't like about this was so indescribable. I like old Charlie Chaplin things and experimental animation and stuff, and this was still one of the most dead spots for me. The genre this episode is operating in and what it's making homages to are obvious throughout, but i went from "this…

I also like that when he tries to hitchike, from his perspective the driver is the idiot and has mistaken the hitchiking thumb for a thumbs up and returned it like "yeah, things are fine!" and driven off.

I get how depressed he is, but for me how needy he is makes him really hard to relate to.

I went in blind and kind of just got a sense of "well everyone will like this way more than me or hate it way more than me because it's unique. Oh well, might as well enjoy it for what it is"

This was one of the subset i rewatched in time with these things, but it was very tempting to just skip the whole seahorse interlude. The show does Lost in Translation like gangbusters, but at no point during his more cartoonish adventure did i feel any of the sense of wonder i get from better-animated* cartoons doing…

The sardines that keep packing themselves in everywhere felt inspired by tokyo businessmen in addition to being an obvious pun.

I never liked alcohol much, but whenever i'm in some self-destructive hole, i'm less in denial about the consequences of it and more in denial about the existence of any alternative.

Unless the internet is who Nic Cage owed all that money to, i'm pretty sure they're not responsible for his transformation.

He only plays the latter co-op.

So as long as the cast collectively have another million or so personal acquaintances, they might have a hit on their hands!

It's the sort of environment that made someone go "Maybe we could revive match game for some reason??"

I know we bring this up for basically every netflix show, but it doesn't seem to have really been settled: what do the readers think is the ideal speed for these reviews?

I think what makes it impossible to get right is that we went from assuming everyone should just celebrate Christmas together to acknowledging not everyone celebrates Christmas, but we should all still celebrate not-Christmas together. Nobody actually celebrates "generic winter holiday" but it's what you can get…

Really, things set up now will pay off later is a spoiler now? That's where we're at?

Anybody named Corey is a pretty good fit too.

For me it's either this one or stop the presses. I liked the restaurant one a lot for its incredibly succinct and absurd description of what Bojack wants from women, which he doesn't think is too much to ask for.

I wonder what the genesis of the tragedy of Greg Kinglear was. If it was mostly just trying to imagine the worst possible one-person show, or if they started with the idea that the spider worked a marionette, or if it was based more directly on one or more specific, real, terrible plays they were dragged to.

Yeah this was probably my least favorite. I just didn't think the strip club/sea world fundamentally worked. Comparing those two things seemed sort of clever, but there was no in-universe sense to be made of people taking their children to it. Not even a shallow or hypocritical one. I do appreciate the ep more now…