15 Amazing Guest Appearances On Bojack Horseman

8. John Leguizamo & Eva Longoria - Yolanda's Parents

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Meeting your partner’s parents for the first time is always a nervous occasion, even if you stride in with absolute confidence.

But in Todd Chavez and Yolanda Buenaventura’s case, being asexual and pretending to be sexually active to convenience two extremely sexual people is a whole different level of challenging.

With a mother as a former adult film star and a father as an erotic novel writer, Yolanda’s personal pressure to live up to her parents' sexual expectations creates lubricated capers throughout the night.

What makes Eva Longoria and John Leguizamo superb in this episode is they both play to the strengths of their character and parrot it to their voicework.

Eva plays into her sultry side as she tries to seduce Todd, while John finds something in playing a humble vaudevillian offering his daughter a family "heir-lube" to spend a night a passion with her boyfriend.

Todd-centric storylines have always been the craziest and most elaborately absurd, and it’s fortunate the show’s writers found two actors who would not only emote for the occasion, but embrace such a ridiculous concept.

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