In 1973, BoJack watches Secretariat read his letter while his parents fight in another room. Beatrice Horseman reminds him that he has "ruined" her, and that he must make something of himself to atone. During the success of Horsin' Around, she comes to one of his live shows, but is unimpressed. In the present, Secretariat begins shooting. BoJack, with a new, overly positive attitude, struggles to jog up a hill outside his house and film a serious line. As he worries over being unable to perform
BoJack finds himself frustrated with his recent dates, all of them more interested in his fame and reputation than him, until he meets Wanda Pierce, an owl network executive who just woke up from a thirty year coma. They begin dating, but he becomes jealous of her new friend, a man who also woke up from a coma but is secretly a KGB sleeper agent. Todd builds his own version of Disneyland after winning a legal battle with Disney, but becomes frustrated when Mr. Peanutbutter tries to take over. As
Herb Kazzaz dies in a car crash after his cancer goes into remission, and the executor of his will sends BoJack and his Horsin' Around co-stars on a scavenger hunt. The group use their memories of Herb to discover that he left them a manuscript, but realize it has been stolen by Herb's friend Henry Winkler. They confronts Winkler, who explains that Herb's manuscript was awful and would ruin his reputation if it was published. Princess Carolyn tries to use the wake to get new clients, but is forc
Mr. Peanutbutter throws Diane a lavish thirty-fifth birthday party against her wishes and the two get in a fight, ending the party early. Diane realizes Mr. Peanutbutter is trying to get her to not leave with Sebastian St. Clair, and after a long talk about his fear of being without her, he decides he is comfortable with her going. Princess Carolyn notices Vincent Adultman without his trench coat on the street, and he tries to convince her that it was actually his son. She breaks up with him, bu
Desperate to get Kelsey Jannings to like him, BoJack occupies the Secretariat crew for the day, but she is still annoyed by him. She pawns off her sardonic daughter onto Diane, who returns home to find Todd harboring a brain-damaged chicken that escaped from a fast food transport truck. They give the chicken to a farm that will treat her well before killing her for food, only for Todd and Diane to feel guilt and free all the chickens. They are caught and arrested, but BoJack uses his celebrity s
Princess Carolyn signs Mr. Peanutbutter on as a client after his agent dies of autoerotic asphyxiation. She tracks down the still alive J.D. Salinger and convinces him to pitch a celebrity quiz game show with Mr. Peanutbutter as the host. Despite her efforts, she continues to find herself unappreciated at her company. BoJack absentmindedly tells Wanda that he loves her and immediately takes it back, but is upset when she tells him she does not love him either. When BoJack's co-star Corduroy Jack
Diane and BoJack go on tour to promote his book, as production on Secretariat is temporarily halted due to Corduroy's death. During the tour, Diane brings up allegations of sexual misconduct towards beloved television icon Hank Hippopopalous, sparking immense backlash against her. She tries to get a magazine to run a story on him, but the corporation that owns the magazine relies on Hippopopalous' image and shuts the story down. With Mr. Peanutbutter upset with her for possibly jeopardizing his
BoJack goes on Salinger's game show as a favor for Wanda, where he faces off against Daniel Radcliffe and is intentionally set up to lose. Todd finds himself at odds with a production assistant who wins Salinger's pen after solving a power outage, and he tricks her into giving him the pen. Princess Carolyn informs BoJack of a way to tell when Mr. Peanutbutter is reading the correct answer, but he is asked to throw the game by Wanda. BoJack purposely ties with Radcliffe instead of winning. The sh
In 1972, BoJack smokes his first cigarette after seeing Secretariat smoke one on television. Beatrice catches him and forces him to smoke the rest of it while ordering him not to cry. In the present, the Secretariat producers decide to make the film more lighthearted, which BoJack and Kelsey object to. They agree to film the last shot of the movie: Secretariat learning his brother was killed in Vietnam after sending him in his stead, and do so by breaking into the Nixon Museum while Margo Martin
BoJack clashes with the new Secretariat director's nonchalant attitude, and a miscommunication leads to the director getting offended and prolonging the shoot schedule out of spite, forcing BoJack to miss a chance to do theatre work in New York. Depressed and angry, he stays at home and drinks with Diane, to Wanda's and Princess Carolyn's dismay. BoJack and Wanda get into an argument when BoJack insults her profession, and they break up as a result of Bojack's bitterness and relentless self-pity
BoJack discovers that Charlotte is married and has two teenage children. He lies that he is in town for a boat show, and buys a boat which he names "Escape From L.A." to cover the lie. BoJack rejects all of his Hollywoo obligations and lives with Charlotte's family for two months as the family warms to him, particularly the daughter, Penny Carson. BoJack agrees to accompany Penny to her prom when she does not have a date. They have a fun evening with her friends until one of them passes out from
Princess Carolyn learns that Rabitowitz is back with his wife despite him continuing to have sex with her. She fires him from the new company and chooses to run it herself, hiring Diane as a Twitter ghostwriter. Diane is spotted by Mr. Peanutbutter while out in public, and they agree for her to come home and pretend nothing happened. Todd joins the improv club's cruise ship and discovers their leader is a fraud. BoJack finds that he was replaced entirely in Secretariat by CGI. Lenny Turtletaub i