15 Greatest BoJack Horseman Episodes Of All Time
8. Fish Out Of Water (Season 3, Episode 4)
One of the best and often most overlooked aspects of BoJack Horseman is its animation. It appears rather simple, but is also vibrant, detailed and playful. With Fish Out of Water, the underwater setting of the episode allows the animation to become more striking than ever, being at once blurry and colourful, surreal and hypnotic.
Fish Out of Water finds BoJack attending the Pacific Ocean Film Festival to promote his new movie. There, he finds himself isolated, unable to speak or understand anyone, and in possession of a lost newborn seahorse he tries to return to its father.
With its animation and the enveloping musical score, the entire episode is a piece of TV heaven. There little sound and no major characters - only BoJack, alone, isolated, quiet, literally out of his depth. It works as a symbol for his entire character, this cornered, directionless man with no idea what he's doing, and the results are as funny as they are heartbreaking. The reveal that there was a way he could talk the whole time just makes it even better.