10 Best BoJack Horseman Episodes Of All Time

Where do you start with an episode like 'Free Churro'?

Let's begin with the incomparable performance given by Will Arnett. Arnett's is the only voice we hear throughout the episode, from the cold open wherein a young BoJack is collected from soccer practice by his father, Butterscotch, who wastes no time diving into a grotesque, self-pitying rant, and there's more than a splash of BoJack present in that rant.

The bulk of Arnett's performance, however, is reserved for an uninterrupted sixteen minute monologue, a eulogy delivered by BoJack at his mother's funeral. The performance seems to come so naturally to Arnett that you'd be forgiven for assuming he improvised it all, simply having come to know his character so intimately over the years.

There's so much to unpack from those sixteen minutes and almost every second of it informs BoJack's character in some fashion. BoJack Horseman was always a mass of contradictions, most people are, and these contradictions are on full show during 'Free Churro'.

We see a man who genuinely seemed to despise his mother, who only showed face out of a sense of obligation. Conversely we see someone desperately trying to convince themselves that their mother secretly loved them. We also see a man devastated upon realising that his mother's final words - which he spends the whole episode trying to assign significance to - actually meant nothing.

Finally, we end this perfect episode with a perfect, pitch black joke. Because is there anything more BoJack than the oblivious titular character self-indulgently ranting for sixteen minutes at the wrong funeral?