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Vance Waggoner is a former big star who becomes an important figure in Season 5. His first appearance is in BoJack the Feminist.
Personality
Vance has a habit of speaking hypocritical topics particularly when he is drunk. He also shows little to no remorse for his actions or respect for anyone in his line of work nor anyone he works with.
Design
In 2012 Vance is shown as a middle-aged human man with dark brown combed-over back hair, mustache, and goatee on his chin.
He wore a white collared button-down shirt with two front pockets, light brown pants, and dark brown shoes.
In 2018 his hair, beard, and mustache have now gone grey and he has more wrinkles on his face.
He wears a teal button down shirt with two front pockets and cuffed sleeves, black jeans, dark brown loafers.
Background
History
In a flashback from 2012 Vance is shown being arrested after trying to sexually harass a female police officer. The dash-cam footage shows him saying that he "hates Jews."
He later retracts that statement in The Deep Dive, which is a talk show hosted by A Ryan Seacrest Type. Vance has a Jewish friend, Mark Feuerstein, back him up on it by quoting the Torah—also because Vance apologized, and offered Mark a role in his new movie, Koufax.
It is revealed at the premiere of Koufax that he allegedly hit a prostitute with a baseball bat.
He later defends himself on Gotcha!, the talk show hosted by Tom Jumbo-Grumbo, claiming that he was only thirty-eight years old at the time—and that he respects women.
While he is on air, with a nasty message he left for his fourteen-year-old daughter via voice mail, which clearly described that he "hates women and Swedish people."
He then gives an interview with his family, saying he's leaving fame for good. He disappears into obscurity, until years later, when Princess Carolyn reaches out to him to star in Philbert as Fritz.
He later turns down the role claiming he has found feminism and he finds Philbert degrading and sexist and the role of Fritz goes to Mr. Peanutbutter.
Vance arrested circa 2012
Season 5
Announcing he is going incognito from public life.
In BoJack the Feminist he has dinner with Princess Carolyn and tells her he's getting the lifetime achievement at the We Forgive You Awards, a Forgivie, and Princess Carolyn remarks he must have a really good publicist.
She also says once he starts in Philbert his career will be revived and offers will start rolling in.
At GirlCroosh, Stefani tells Diane Nguyen in disgust of the news of Vance Wagnor getting a Forgivie. Diane is also disgusted by this. Stefani wants Diane to go the award show, to take Vance down, and do some "Hollywoo hob-nobbing," and ask BoJack why Vance is going to star on his new show—a fact that shocks Diane.
At the Forgivies, BoJack makes a disgusted face at a cheese plate. However, this is mistaken by the paparazzi as being disgusted with Vance.
Vance is irritated by this because the whole reason was so that people could stop talking about his past. However, because of BoJack, people are bringing up his past once again.
Complaining about how BoJack's accidental reaction resurfaced his past.
BoJack then agrees to go on The Squawk, and tries to explain what happened. However, the hosts don't really let him speak, but he ends up taking a stand against Vance—due to the positive reception it gets.
This angers Princess Carolyn, but after she calls Vance, and he tells her he's not doing Philbert anymore—since he did indeed get better offers. Princess Carolyn tells BoJack they're "going to take Vance down."
Later, BoJack is on MSNBSea, attempting to take down Vance as a feminist. He learns that Vance came out as a feminist, and says he turned down BoJack's new show Philbert, because it was sexist. BoJack later talks to Diane about the scripts in Philbert, and convinces her to work on the show.
At the end of the episode, Vance's publicist Ana Spanakopita talks with Diane, saying that she was right about how Vance shouldn't be easily forgiven. She explains that he got off his new movie, after a drunken rant about the Chinese, and after plowing his car into the Egyptian Theater. She then talks about BoJack's actions.
Trivia
- His character is based on Mel Gibson, along with Alec Baldwin.
- It was revealed his publicist was Ana Spanakopita who is also the former publicist of BoJack.