BoJack Horseman · Characters Ranked
Best BoJack Horseman Characters, Ranked by IQ Score
Raphael Bob-Waksberg's animated comedy-drama. The characters whose specific cognitive registers built the show, ranked.
BoJack Horseman scores 169/200 (Masterclass tier, one of the highest-scoring animated series in the database) and the show's character density is the structural reason. The Netflix series' commitment to letting depression-and-addiction cognitive material operate inside its talking-horse-actor premise is the canonical 2010s adult-animation achievement.
Character pages: BoJack Horseman, Will Arnett's voice-acting work on the canonical depression-cognition character. The supporting cast (Alison Brie as Diane, Amy Sedaris as Princess Carolyn, Paul F. Tompkins as Mr. Peanutbutter, Aaron Paul as Todd) anchors what's widely cited as the most-developed adult-animated ensemble of its decade.
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Who is the best BoJack Horseman character?
By cognitive register, BoJack himself anchors the show's structural commitment to depression-and-addiction material. Diane Nguyen (Alison Brie) is the structural counterweight, the show's commitment to letting her writer-character's specific cognitive register be equally rendered is what gives the series its mature dramatic balance.
Why does BoJack Horseman score so highly?
BoJack scores 169 because its commitment to letting genuinely-depressive cognition operate inside animated-comedy premise is rare adult-animation work. The Free Churro episode, the Time's Arrow episode, the Stupid Piece of Sh*t episode are canonical adult-animation achievements that subsequent shows (Tuca and Bertie, Undone) consciously work inside.
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