Fuck is a profanity, which is mostly used as an interjection to express anger, although it has a number of other meanings, such as a derogatory term for sexual intercourse, an insult to call a person, or, when put in the form of a gerund, an intensifier, mainly used negatively but it can also be used positively, albeit rather unprofessionally.
Instances[]
Season 1[]
- In The Telescope, Herb Kazzaz blames BoJack for being a horrible friend and abandoning him when he needed him most after the final days of Horsin' Around. He ends his speech with "Now, get the fuck out of my house."
Season 2[]
- In Escape from L.A., Charlotte threatened BoJack to stay away from her daughter and threatened him "If you ever try to contact me, or my family again, I will fucking kill you."
Season 3[]
- In It's You, Todd gets fed up with BoJack's constant selfish behavior and tells him that he needs to stop blaming his wrongdoings on alcohol, drugs, his childhood, and career and to start looking at his own actions and realizing the consequences of those actions. He capped off his speech with "Fuck, man. What else is there to say?"
Season 4[]
- In Thoughts and Prayers, it was BoJack himself who said to Hollyhock that when he got his mom to start remembering who he was, he was going to ensure that the first thing he says to her upon recognition is "Fuck you, mom!"
Season 5[]
- In The Showstopper, after BoJack strangled Gina in a drug-induced rage, she says to him, "What the fuck is wrong with you?"
Season 6[]
- In A Quick One, While He's Away, Gina's unnamed co-star says "What the fuck is wrong with you?" after she falls in an unplanned dance routine, which scares Gina, as it reminded her of how she was strangled by BoJack in the previous season's episode and said that exact same quote to him. This is the one main instance in the show's history where the word is not used in the context of BoJack breaking ties with another character.
Subversions[]
Live Fast, Diane Nguyen[]
- When being told that he's a Vietnamese immigrant, Artie denies this and claims that he and his family are as American as "Pho," with "Pho" being a Vietnamese soup.
Love And/Or Marriage[]
- Diane begins to shout "Motherfucker!" but gets cut off by the end of the episode.
Brrap Brrap Pew Pew[]
- Diane finished her expletive from the previous episode, saying "-ucker!" However, she never said the full word, meaning the writers technically followed their "only once per season" rule.
Commence Fracking[]
- While Diane and Mr. Peanutbutter have sex, they use the word "Frack" in the place of "Fuck."
Time's Arrow[]
- BoJack leaves his mother in a low quality retirement home and the latter starts to regain her sense of where she is. As BoJack stated previously, when given the opportunity, he'd say "Fuck you, mom!" so that she would be able to hear it. However, instead of seizing this opportunity, he instead hesitated and lied to her, that she was back at her lake house, eating ice cream and listening to her brother play the piano.
A Horse Walks into a Rehab[]
- Jameson H., when referring to her ex-boyfriend Dathan calls him a, "Buck Foy," a play on the phrase "Fuck Boy."
As Used by Characters[]
Directly[]
- Herb Kazzaz (Towards BoJack)
- Charlotte Carson (Towards BoJack)
- Todd Chavez (Towards BoJack)
- BoJack Horseman (Hypothetically towards his mother)
- Gina Cazador (Towards BoJack)
- Gina's Co-star (Towards Gina)
Indirectly[]
Trivia[]
- Most uses of this word have been directed toward BoJack (The Telescope, Escape from L.A., It's You, and The Showstopper).
- In That Went Well, Sandro said "Vaffanculo," which means "Fuck you" in Italian.
- The writers had made it a rule that the word "Fuck" can be used only once per season and only when a relationship with BoJack is permanently damaged. This rule, however, has been broken as many times as it has been followed:
- Although Todd said the word to BoJack in It's You and subsequently moved out of his house, the two eventually reconciled and, by the series finale, were on mostly good terms.
- In Thoughts and Prayers, BoJack says it hypothetically to his mother, in the presence of Hollyhock.
- In A Quick One, While He's Away, an unnamed co-star of Gina's said this to her, when BoJack was absent.
- The rule is followed in The Telescope, Escape from L.A. and The Showstopper, as BoJack's relationships with, respectively, Herb Kazzaz, Charlotte Carson, and Gina Cazador never reconciled.
- Some viewers believe that Hollyhock may have possibly wrote "Fuck" in her letter to BoJack (the contents of which are never shown or read aloud), given that this word is never spoken in the second half of Season 6, and that Hollyhock is never seen or heard from after BoJack discovers she cut ties with him.
- Princess Carolyn uses the catchphrase, "Oh, fish!" which is an obvious stand-in for this word.