10 Best BoJack Horseman Episodes Of All Time

What had always been pretty clear throughout the show's run was that BoJack's parents, Beatrice and Butterscotch, played a pretty big part in creating the damaged, hollow person that BoJack would inevitably become in the future. Beatrice could very much be considered the linchpin of season four in a way, and nothing sets the stage for that quite like 'The Old Sugarman Place'.

Now, while 'The Old Sugarman Place' doesn't seek to absolve Beatrice of her sins in anyway, it does put forward an interesting proposition to us: what if, to some extent, damage is hereditary? In typical BoJack fashion, we don't get a clear answer to this. The writers are more interested in posing questions and answering with a 'who knows?' Because who does?

We're first treated to a standard TV flashback of the Sugarman residence in 1944 - showing a sweet, kind, loving Beatrice as a little girl, a far cry from the one we know. Later, after the death of Crackerjack and in another beautiful bit of experimentation for the series, these scenes of the past are superimposed over the scenes of BoJack's present.

Almost at once, we see the understandable mental degradation of Honey, Beatrice's mother, and her husband Joseph's unwillingness to help. As Honey is damaged and no one comes to help, so too is Beatrice damaged with no helping hand, and so too will be BoJack.