Written by: Mehar Sethi.
Directed by: Amy Winfrey.
Flashback to the first shooting of the Horsin' Around pilot, with everyone really excited to know exactly how everything is going. The whole cast is introduced: Joelle (Olivia), Bradley (Ethan), Sarah Lynn (Sabrina) and of course, BOJACK HORSEMAN! (The Horse). Backstage, Herb talks with the cast over how good the show went, including the laughs the jokes "gag me with a spoon" and "Get a Room!" got. Joelle asks if this means they can do more tapings. Herb assures her this might be the case if ratings don't drop below "dismal 15 million per week" and in a brief moment of clarity, he tells them that should they make it big, they have to take care of each other.
- Herb: No matter what, we're going to stick together.
Tropes present in "Still Broken"
- Actor Allusion: When the guests talk of Henry Winkler, they of course, reference his most famous role... Edward Crandall from the Law & Order: SVU episode he appeared in back in 2002.
- All for Nothing: The gang finds a novel by Herb yet to be published. BoJack wants to publish it, but Henry Winkler wants to destroy it because it's so terrible. Wanting to preserve Herb's legacy rather than risk tarnishing it, he respects Henry's wish. Unfortunately, that means BoJack true goal of setting things right with his late friend will never be completed.
- Apocalyptic Log: Herb's final tweets are read at the funeral. Tweeting while driving led directly to his death.
- Bus Crash: It was revealed that Herb survived his cancer, only to crash into a truck driving while tweeting about his survival. He actually survives, but dies after being buried in peanuts which the truck was carrying, which he was allergic to.
- But for Me, It Was Tuesday: BoJack broke up Bradley's family by sleeping with his mom. BoJack doesn't remember the incident at all, and spends the whole episode trying to figure out who she was.
- Country Matters: Joelle has thoroughly assimilated into British culture in the decades since the show ended and forgot how serious a swear the word is in American English. Or so she claims when called on it.
- A Death in the Limelight: For Herb Kazzaz.
- Early-Bird Cameo: Adult Goober is at the funeral a full season before being introduced.
- Everyone Has Standards: Foul-mouthed BoJack calls Joelle out on her use of the Country Matters towards Sarah Lynn, when Sarah Lynn teased Joelle over her weight.
- Hope Spot: An off-screen one. Herb's cancer went into remission and he was declared cancer-free... and then he died in a car crash going home from the hospital.
- Hurricane of Puns: The bad review of Horsin' Around that Herb cuts and puts into his "(S)Crap Book" is full of horse puns. Also doubles as Hypocritical Humor, since the last line of the review is a complaint about the show being saturated with... horse puns.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Sarah Lynn flatly tells BoJack that there is no point in going on an adventure to preserve Herb's legacy because he's not around anymore to acknowledge it, and there's no way of knowing if a dead person is watching them in the afterlife. Plus, Herb never forgave BoJack before he died.
- Magic Feather: In the secondary plot Todd stumbles upon an abandoned machine from Steve Urkel's lab, mistakes a janitor for an Almighty Janitor and uses the prop to become a cool, confident person... and it works, until the end of the episode, at least.
- Not The Illness That Killed Them: Herb doesn't die from his cancer. Instead, his cancer was in remission and he died when his car crashed into a peanut truck and he had a deadly allergic reaction. And just for irony's sake, his car crashed because he was tweeting how he was going "to live forever".
- Shout-Out:
- As stated above, in the B-plot Todd finds among other junk the machine that Urkel from Family Matters used to turn himself into the suave, badass Stefan Urquelle, and actually manages to become a cooler version of himself for a while.
- Among the discarded props there's also an animatronic of the Baby from Dinosaurs.
- Stylistic Suck: Henry Winkler planned on destroying Herb's manuscript because it was terrible. BoJack reads a bit of it aloud and... yeah, Henry ain't wrong.BoJack: "The carpenter's boy was a hungry boy. Hungry for crumpets, but also hungry... for life." He literally wrote out "Dot dot dot".
- We All Die Someday: Henry Winkler's view after being accused of murder, only to point out that he was just trying to hide the script after Herb's tragic death.Winkler: There's no shame in dying for nothing. That's why most people die.
