“I know I just met you, but if you do have any of the old Horseman gunk bouncing around in that brain of yours, I gotta tell you right now you should give up on looking for ‘enough’ because it will never be enough.”
"And so the dance of life continues. I’m Harvey Fierstein, bidding you a sexy evening."
— Harvey Fierstein iOvulate
BoJack agrees to help Hollyhock find her mother, which proves to be difficult considering how much he got around in the '90s. Princess Carolyn and Ralph try to conceive. Mr. Peanutbutter's stance on fracking drives a wedge between him and Diane.
Tropes:
- Book Ends: Mr. Peanutbutter and Diane's storyline begins with them trying to get it on, but it doesn't happen. At the end, they have passionate angry sex.
- Call-Back: PC and Ralph are clients of the albino gyno rhino wine-addict that she went on a date with in Season 3.
- Cool People Rebel Against Authority: Diane seems hesitant about writing a blog concerning fracking, since Mr. Peanutbutter is running for governor. Her boss, Stefani, advises her to go through with it because their intimacy is on hold.Stefani: I always say, "you gotta do you". And if he's doing him, then who's doing you? Because right now, it seems like no one's doing you.
- Haughty "Hmph": After having a spat with BoJack, Hollyhock leaves on her own to find all the women BoJack slept with in The '90s to see if any of them is her mother. When BJ still manages to find her, Holly just "hmphs" in frustration and tries to leave, only to give in later.
- Like Parent, Like Child: Subverted, as BoJack initially follows in his mother and grandfather's footsteps of being disgusted when your child is crying, but then he tries to comfort her, if poorly. It makes her feel better.
- Making Love in All the Wrong Places: Princess Carolyn and Ralph are arrested by Officer Fuzzyface for speeding while they are trying to rush home and conceive their child. With time almost up, they decide to have sex in the back of Fuzzyface's cruiser. Ralph informs PC that his criminal lawyer is the best, which gets them out of the obvious hot water they'd be in.
- Parental Sexuality Squick: Poor Hollyhock is first witness to her supposed father's method of distraction for former lovers, especially a Loony Fan; some rough loving that apparently has lasted more than 5 minutes (new record!). This is mitigated by the fact they're doing it behind a couch but that's little comfort for the poor girl now.
- Plot Parallel: All three storylines concern the sex lives of the characters.
- Rage Breaking Point: After spending the season trying her best to pretend to be supportive of Mr. Peanutbutter under the grounds that she doesn't believe he'd actually become governor, the fracking issue causes her to call him out and write an article explicitly attacking him.Diane: This is not about us. I don't want you to be governor because you would be bad at it because you don't stand for anything.
- Shout-Out: BoJack tries to make a joke about Josh Radnor, who starred in How I Met Your Mother. Fittingly, this is an episode about trying to find Hollyhock's mother.
- Right Through the Wall: Diane and Mr. Peanutbutter have audible sex so loud that it bothers a nearby coworker.
- Rules of the Road: Meow Meow Fuzzy Face pulls over Ralph for going 36 in a 35 zone.
- Running Gagged: When Hollyhock mentions 1999 to BoJack, we get start segueing into what appears to be the start of yet another extended flashback sequence complete with "1999" song only for Hollyhock to abruptly put a stop to it by saying "Actually I don't need a whole long story, just get to the point".
- Spotting the Thread: While visiting Marcy, Hollyhock notices that she's slim in a picture from August 2000, a month before Hollyhock was born, so she's likely not her mother...except Hollyhock then gets distracted by wondering why she was wearing a summer dress to the premiere of a movie called "Autumn in New York". Once equally distracted BoJack asks her why would anyone release a movie called "Autumn in New York" in summer, Hollyhock starts giving a long irrelevant explanation about it.
- Slap-Slap-Kiss: Seems like all this fighting and bickering between Mr. Peanutbutter and Diane helped to bring the fire back to their sex life...
- Stylistic Suck: The 1999 flashback does not have the same attention to background jokes as the others did. It has more generic ones such as the number "1999" everywhere, a billboard just saying "Relevant Billboard", a building called "Flashback Joke!", and another billboard advertising a show called It's Another Flashback.
- Unusual Euphemism: "Frack me, Mr. Peanutbutter! Frack me!"
- What the Hell, Hero?: Hollyhock calls out BoJack on his flippant attitude towards his past hookups, pointing out that any of these women could potentially be her mother.
- Would Hit a Girl: Subverted. When Mr. Peanutbutter and Diane were about to beat up each other, they end up having angry sex.
