12 Small Details You Only Notice Rewatching Bojack Horseman

12. Metaphor Mountain

Starting off with a more recent one, as plenty of dedicated BoJack fans will have already rewatched the earlier series multiple times. This visual joke comes from BoJack’s time in rehab in the first part of Season Six, although it’s set up in Season Two.

The openings of Season Two and Season Six do share some similarities. Six begins with him in rehab, while Two has him listening to self help tapes after being cast in Secretariat.

The self help tapes allow him to smooth over the cracks for a while, before his mother shatters them open again. In Season Six, he initially rejects rehab and fails at all the tasks laid out for him, until he genuinely commits to self improvement.

One of these tasks is climbing a mountain, which a sign in the background informs us is called Metaphor Mountain. Quite a strange name for a mountain, and it’s one which is set up in Season Two.

The self help tapes BoJack listens to are a parody of the usual empty nonsense of self help tapes, including telling BoJack that the mountain he’s climbing is ‘a metaphor’ and that ‘everything is a metaphor’.