Reggie? Rickie? Ritchie has one messed up business. The cops definitely need to shut him down.
Throughout the episode, I thought the mystery was going to be something profound, or there would be a big revelation, but it turns out it was a huge waste of time. Well, almost.
Mr Peanutbutter and Diane's relationship is on thin ice. Princess Carolyn has to try to keep Mr Peanutbutter from tearing his house apart, and Diane is trying to keep in contact with Mr Peanubutter, making sure he knows she's safe. But it's then when they find Cuddlywhiskers. He talked about his time as a filmmaker and the moment he won an Oscar.
Up until this point, BoJack has been juggling solving this mystery with Diane and attending all his meet and greets to help him win an Oscar. Along the journey, Diane's been getting calls from Mr Peanutbutter and keeps refusing them. But when they find Cuddlywhisker's home, Diane finally picks up, and Mr Peanutbutter is furious.
"I'm glad you're safe, but I was worried about you."
"You have to call me. It doesn't matter what's happening. It doesn't matter if it's the middle of the night. You can't keep doing this to me."
- Mr Peanutbutter
Cuddlywhiskers then finally arrives and sits down to drink tea and talk with BoJack and Diane. He talks about how he found no happiness in winning an Oscar yet felt even more miserable. Diane tells Cuddlywhiskers that "Everyone was worried" about him, how he "can't just disappear" and how he "really hurt a lot of people."
"Sometimes you need to take responsibility for your own happiness."
"It takes a long time to realise how truly miserable you are, and even longer to see it doesn't have to be that way. Only after you give up everything can you begin to find a way to be happy."
- Cuddlywhiskers
Cuddlywhiskers' words resonate with BoJack and Diane. For BoJack, because he's trying to win an Oscar and has been told it'll be "the happiest moment in his life." And for Diane, she's started to think about her own happiness and how she's been leaving Mr Peanutbutter disconnected from her life.
IT'S REFRESHING.
TECHNICAL SCORE: 7.5/10
ENJOYMENT SCORE: 8/10
Again, very weak episode. The murder mystery part didn't work. And nothing else interesting happened.
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParent2016-08-29T01:51:04Z
6.8/10. A bit of a fall off after the quality of the first two episodes. I generally like the Bojack/Dianne pairing, but sending them on a murder mystery didn't pay as many comedic dividends as we might have hoped. There is something amusing about the absurdity of a Sea World/strip club combo run by BoJack's old castmate, but neither the mystery itself nor the comedy that came from it were enough to really sustain the momentum of the two of them finding out who killed a killer whale.
On top of that, the story of Princess Carolyn playing fixer to Todd and Mr. Peanutbutter after the two of them get sprayed by a skunk felt really undercooked. There were some amusing bits here and there (mostly Mr. PB's inability to avoid shaking himself dry -- I do enjoy when the animals act like animals), but it was a fairly underdeveloped B-story.
There's two things that keep this episode from not sinking lower in my estimation. The first is the development of Dianne, where she and Mr. PB are trying to make it work, but are clearly straining after she came back from overseas without saying anything, and she's clearly happy to have an excuse not to be home. At the same time, her admitting that she was avoiding BoJack because they're too similar and they bring out the worst in each other is an interesting thread. The other thing is when they finally find Curly Whiskers and he espouses a philosophy of taking responsibility for one's own happiness that (not very subtly) is shown to have made an impression on Dianne in her situation.
Overall, there's some nice character work here and there, but it's more of a gag-fest/caper episode, and neither the humor nor the narrative excitement really lands.