History Recap / BojackHorsemanS3E11ThatsTooMuchMan

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** The car Sarah Lynn and [=BoJack=] use on their road trip bender is shown to get more and more damaged the further into the bender they go. Both [=BoJack=] and Sarah Lynn have been shown to be ''terrible'' drivers, Sarah Lynn even painted her nails while driving when she was ''sober'', let alone on enough drugs to give [=BoJack=] black outs! It’s a miracle none of those accidents wound up being fatal.
** [=BoJack=] believes he mentally scarred Penny after what happened in ''Escape From LA'' and decides to visit Penny at her college, so he can apologize to her. As soon as she sees him, the same man she almost made a huge mistake with just showing up at her college, she is in shock, reliving her trauma, and demands he leave before he can even say anything. Sarah Lynn '''brutally''' lays out the implications in the next scene, emphasizing that [=BoJack's=] visit very likely ruined whatever hard work Penny did putting ''Escape From LA'' behind her.
--> '''Sarah Lynn''': In a way... it's like you destroyed her life ''twice''.
** After two seasons of her junkie lifestyle being treated as a joke, Sarah Lynn's body finally gives out from years of drug abuse, especially after making progress on becoming sober.

** After two seasons of her junkie lifestyle being treated as a joke, Sarah Lynn's body finally gives out from years of drug abuse, especially after making progress from becoming sober.

* ArtImitatesArt: Sarah Lynn has a parody of Sir John Everett Millais' painting, ''Art/{{Ophelia|Millais}}'' hanging over her bed with herself in place of Ophelia.

* CrossingTheBurntBridge: This is what [=BoJack=] and Sarah-Lynn do while on their drunken bender. To say that they did not mend any fences would be an understatement.

** Sarah-Lynn refers to Diane as "[[{{Expy}} like]] an Asian WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}."

Reeling from the discovery that he didn't get an Oscar nomination and left truly alone, Bojack calls his former costar/squeeze/friend Sarah Lynn as they go on an alcohol and drug-filled bender around the USA with a surprising ending.

* CrossingTheBurntBridge: This is what [=BoJack=] and Sarah-Lynn do while on their drunken bender. Too say that they did not mend any fences would be an understatement.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Not only was Sarah Lynn shocked to find out what Bojack had done in New Mexico, she even tries (and fails) to dissuade Bojack from finding Penny Carson in Ohio to apologize to her, a surprise act that ends up with Penny further traumatized.

** "That's Too Much, Man!" is practically a SpoilerTitle given what viewers have seen over 3 seasons. The show is cynical and ironic, about depressed people going downhill, and this is the season finale. The title is the catchphrase of the one character as messed up as Bojack, so it will feature her heavily and dramatically. And the catchphrase itself refers to events being emotionally "too much", suggesting a traumatic event such as death, as well as referencing Sarah Lynn's mental health problems and drug addiction becoming "too much" for her.

** As Bojack's heroin trip begins, he recalls a conversation he had about how bad meta humor is, and how poorly the drug trip episode of ''The [=BoJack=] Horseman Show'' went.

* MoodWhiplash: When going to pee, [=BoJack=] knocks over a few choir boys, whom all let out their noises of surprise in a choir fashion. This humorous moment is made short when this causes Penny to notice [=BoJack=], setting up a tense moment.
* NotQuiteTheRightThing: Bojack decides to pay Penny Carson a surprise visit in Ohio, to apologize to her over their incident back in New Mexico. The surprise visit ends up with Penny terrified of Bojack's presence, and being forced to relive the trauma she had developed from said incident.

* RealAwardFictionalCharacter: Sarah-Lynn ends up winning the Oscar for Best Original Song.

* ShoutOut: The last scene has [=BoJack=] and Sarah-Lynn in the planetarium's theaters, with their [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 black silhouettes appearing against the screen]].
* StepfordSmiler: In a flashback to 2007, Sarah-Lynn tells Bojack quite directly that she may look happy, but "the light inside is dying," and that showbusiness is slowly sapping her happiness away. Then, just before dying, she reveals that, like Bojack, her entire adult life has been her pretending to be happy in the hopes that someone would love her.
* TakeThat: Sara Lynn's bear stepfather, who is implied to have molested her as a child, is modeled after photographer and alleged rapist Terry Richardson.

* TraumaButton: Penny is absolutely shocked to see Bojack again after almost having sex. To be fair, however, she never expected him to turn up at her campus.

--> '''[=BoJack=]''': Right, Sarah-Lynn?\\

'''[=BoJack=]''': Sarah-Lynn?\\

'''[=BoJack=]''': ''[Worried]'' [[PleaseWakeUp Sarah-Lynn??]]

* AdultFear:
** How do you think Charlotte is going to react when she finds out from Penny that the man three times her age who [[AmbiguousSituation may or may not have tried to have his way with her]] knows where her college is?
** Your surrogate daughter dies in your arms.

* HopeSpot: When he goes to Oberlin to apologize to Penny, [=BoJack=] is spying on her and sees that she's apparently fine and no longer traumatized, so he decides to head back home. But when he goes to pee, he bumps into Penny herself, which inflicts emotional damage on her.

* ArtImitatesArt: Sarah Lynn has a parody of Sir John Everett Millais' painting, ''Ophelia'' hanging over her bed with herself in place of Ophelia.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[FamousLastWords "I wanna be an architect."]]]]

* FamousLastWords: "I wanna be an architect."

* RealityEnsues:

** [=BoJack=] believes he scarred Penny after what happened in ''Escape From LA'' and decides to visit Penny at her college, so he can apologize to her. As soon as she sees him, the same man she almost made a huge mistake with just showing up at her college, she is in shock, reliving her trauma, and demands he leave before he can even say it. Sarah Lynn '''brutally''' lays out the implications in the next scene, emphasizing that [=BoJack's=] visit very likely ruined whatever hard work Penny did putting ''Escape From LA'' behind her.

** After two seasons of her junkie lifestyle being treated as a joke, Sarah Lynn's body finally gives out from years of drug abuse.

* TraumaButton: Penny is absolutely shocked to see Bojack again and thinks that Bojack might want to still sleep with her.

** After two seasons of her junkie lifestyle being treated as a joke, Sara Lynn's body finally gives out from years of drug abuse.