They’ll never stop The Walking Dead!

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in real life you don’t think you’re in a horror movie though. why would these be red flags? i’ve never been murdered by a scandinavian cult nor have i ever heard of that happening, so it’s not like i would have any point of reference to work off of. 

And why can't Hindus recognize cows as Food Animals?

"Indie darling daughters don't go to Brown, OK? They end up at cute little pat-on-the-back factories like Vassar, then they move back in with their indie darling mothers, and they make weird puppet shows with their tampons, and they get a profile in New York magazine, and the horrible cycle continues."

I took that to be the intent, and a reflection of how we divide the animal kingdom arbitrarily into Friend Animals and Food Animals. Have you heard that Koreans eat dog? Don't those wacky Asians know that dogs are Friend Animals?

That just raises questions about where farm chicken gets his eggs—is there just an underclass of animals, being bred for generations to be completely non-functional in society, so that they can be harvested for meat?

People think that? Or "people have cognitive dissonance about where their food comes from and extend that logic to a cartoon"?

I am definitely going to rewatch this episode because people here seem to think something different and less completely dystopian is up

That's what I thought, as well. If we interpreted it right, it may be one of the darkest ideas in the whole series. Chicken-Americans are born the same but some get raised like people and others…well others are treated like we actually treat our chickens. That's some straight up dystopian shit.

Was I wrong to interpret the chicken thing as all chickens being born exactly the same with the same potential but some are chosen to be children and others to be eaten?

What kind of argument is that? We will all die eventually, as well. But I'd still prefer my life to be as pleasant as possible until that visit from the grim reaper.

Yeah, I thought the episode was commenting on factory farming, and had some pretty horrific implications under the surface. I'm surprised this review just glossed over that. The news whale musing that they are basically the monsters in a dystopian novel was a dead giveaway.

I agree that this is a story about the arbitrariness of where we direct both activism and moral indignation.

Going to that well all the time can be grating but I love me a good deflationary ending. Futurama's about all the destruction in New New York is probably the best ever.

Aaron Paul's great and the relationship between Todd and BoJack is oddly, sadly compelling.

I like that this episode finally starts to give Kelsey some shades besides "snarky director."

Another great deflationary ending.

The A-story in this episode feels to me like it's an extended riff on a segment from Food, Inc.

I took the "some chickens are friends and others are food" thing to be a clever take on how people will pamper their pets, but have no problem with other animals suffering in factory farms.