10 Best BoJack Horseman Episodes Of All Time

BoJack became the best version of itself as soon as it realised that it wasn't necessarily a show about its title character alone. BoJack was always someone who greatly defined himself by the people who surrounded him - even if he denied it - so obviously it wouldn't have made any sense not to spend some time with them and flesh them out as real people with hopes, dreams and problems just as real as BoJack's own.

This is exemplified best in 'Ruthie', wherein Princess Carolyn's descendant, the titular Ruthie, recounts one specific day in her ancestor's life. A particularly awful day where Princess Carolyn experiences pretty much every dreadful thing that her life could have thrown at her in the space of twenty-four hours. Despite all of this, Ruthie asserts that Princess Carolyn couldn't be brought down, because she was a strong, confident, incredible woman. Damn straight, Ruthie.

The kicker in this episode, however, is the revelation that Ruthie won't ever exist - not in that form anyway. Princess Carolyn admits later in the episode that when she's having a particularly bad day she likes to imagine some distant relation bragging about what an incredible person she was and what an inspiration she was to them. And, frankly, can any of us say we don't do something similar on a bad day?

Just one of many incredibly human moments in a show with very few humans in it.