History Recap / BojackHorsemanS2E09TheShot

* HeistEpisode: [=BoJack=] recruits his friends to break into the Nixon Library in order to use their replica of the Oval Office to film a scene for ''Secretariat'' that the producer had cut. The episode uses many of the tropes from caper movies, including recruiting an ex-con, planning the caper, and the typical chaotic escape, but SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome occurs at the end when they present the completed scene to the producer and he angrily fires the director for going behind his back, replacing her with someone more pliable.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Kelsey and [=BoJack=] go behind Lenny's back to get a shot they feel is important to the movie, but that he has vetoed the inclusion. Lenny isn't impressed; the shot doesn't get included and Kelsey gets fired for her insubordination.

* BastardAngst: the night watcher at the Richard Nixon library is the illegitimate son of this president — or at least he claims to be so — and he badly lives the fact to have never encountered his father in person.

* DoingItForTheArt: The episode is a [[DeconstructedTrope deconstruction]] of this ideal: [=BoJack=] and Kelsey both feel that the movie needs this shot and film it guerrilla-style behind Lenny's back. The two of them are proud, but in the end, Lenny doesn't care and [[ExecutiveMeddling fires Kelsey for insubordination alone]].

A scene for the Secretariat movie is up on the cutting floor, but [=BoJack=] is convinced it is crucial to the overall story of Secreteriat, so he and Kelsey plan to shoot it themselves.

* AbusiveParent: Bojack's mother. See the video above this page.

* HeistEpisode: Bojack recruits his friends to break into the Nixon Library in order to use their replica of the Oval Office to film a scene for ''Secretariat'' that the producer had cut. The episode uses many of the tropes from caper movies, including recruiting an ex-con, planning the caper, and the typical chaotic escape, but SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome occurs at the end when they present the completed scene to the producer and he angrily fires the director for going behind his back, replacing her with someone more pliable.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Basically, Sebastian's only motivation to help the civilians caught in the war in Cordovia is to be recognized for it, and to put his name on reconstructed infrastructures. He goes to commission a sculpture of him rebuilding a library — which he renamed after him — and a painting of him posing for the sculpture. He is even midly upset to see Diane actually helping an orphan, instead of writing about him helping the refugees.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Yes, Sebastian is terribly cold and inhumane when he flat out anounces to Diane that the orphan she bound with was just killed in the bombing, just after ordering her to help him. However, he is right when he says that sadness won't resurrect the dead, meanwhile there are still living victims who immediately need. And also, he wasn't totally wrong when he remarked to Diane than bonding with someone you recently met in a war zone could end poorly.

* RedShirt: Parodied and subverted. Andy the TV repairman panda is forced to participate in Bojack and friends' heist, and there's a ton of hints that he'll get killed: he's a random extra who wears a red shirt as an uniform, he has a pregnant wife and is a member of an endangered species in the real world. Plus everyone tells him his life is going to be sacrificed for the plan to work. But when he gets shot, not only his PocketProtector smartphone saves him from the bullet, the phone still works and he gets a call from his wife telling him the baby was born safely, and he escapes the museum with no additional hassles.

* ItsAllAboutMe: Basically, Sebastian's only motivation to help the civilians caught in the war in Cordovia is to be recognized for it, and to put his name on reconstructed infrastructures. He goes to commission a sculpture of him rebuilding a library — which he renamed after him — and a painting of him posing for the sculpture.

* {{Meido}} : Veronika Gekko in Princess Carolyn's non-sexual fantasy, as a way to feel superior to her.

* FreezeFrameBonus: The parole paperwork for [[InsistentTerminology Character Actress Margo Martindale]] reveals that she bit an inmate's finger off, [[BrickJoke exactly as she promised in her last appearance]]. This is phrased ("only bit one inmate's finger off") to match the way dialogue portrays her as a "model prisoner."

* HeistEpisode: Bojack recruits his friends to break into the Nixon Library in order to use their replica of the Oval Office to film a scene for ''Secretariat'' that the producer had cut. The episode uses many of the tropes from caper movies, including recruiting an ex-con, planning the caper, and the typical chaotic escape, but RealityEnsues at the end when they present the completed scene to the producer and he angrily fires the director for going behind his back, replacing her with someone more pliable.

* RealityEnsues: Kelsey and [=Bojack=] go behind Lenny's back to get a shot they feel is important to the movie, but that he has vetoed the inclusion. Lenny isn't amused: The shot doesn't get included and Kelsey gets fired for her insubordination.

-->'''Kelsey''': You've just been told your brother is dead and that it's your fault. But this moment is bigger than that, this is the moment that Secretariat stops running. ''Because this is the moment you realize something inside is is broken, and it can never be fixed.'' ''(Beat)'' We got it.\\

* StandardSnippet: At the beginning of Princess Carolyn's fantasy, the first few notes of Music/ModestMussorgsky's ''Pictures at an Exhibition'' can faintly be heard.

* FreezeFrameBonus: The parole paperwork for [[InsistentTerminology Character Actress Margot Martindale]] reveals that she bit an inmate's finger off, [[BrickJoke exactly as she promised in her last appearance]]. This is phrased ("only bit one inmate's finger off") to match the way dialogue portrays her as a "model prisoner."

* RealityEnsues: Kelsey and [=Bojack=] go behind Lenny's back to get a shot they feel is important to the movie, but that he has vetoed the inclusion. Lenny isn't amused: The shot doesn't get included and Ashley gets fired for her insubordination.

* MenDontCry: [=BoJack=] is unable to cry for the camera because his mother raised him to never cry in front of others. He does, however, begin crying once he's in private.

'''Kelsey''': You didn't have to.