12 Worst Things That Ever Happened To BoJack Horseman
9. Charlotte Was Happily Married
There is a long list of regrets and ‘what ifs’ in BoJack Horseman’s life, going all the way back to his childhood. One of the biggest however, came in the form of Charlotte, someone who he could have seen himself living a happy life with.
When he got incredibly high with Todd and Sarah-Lynn trying to write a better book than ‘One Trick Pony’, he imagined what his life would be like. He would be sat in a swing chair with Charlotte in Maine, and playing in the lake with his daughter, Harper. He would have been happy if he had chosen this life.
After Herb’s funeral, Charlotte told him to come visit when he was next in New Mexico, and in the wake of Secretariat falling apart, and his break up with Wanda, he escaped from LA with nothing but Charlotte on his mind. With her, outside of the tar pit that was LA, he could have been happy. When he got there however, he found that she was married with two kids.
She had her own happy family, and BoJack missed his opportunity. This sent him spiralling somewhat, and when his advanced were rebuked by Charlotte, he almost slept with her daughter, Penny. This was one of the worst decisions he ever made.