Season 1, Episode 8, BoJack Horseman: The Telescope

 

Bechdel Test: Pass or Fail?

  • Are there at least TWO women?
    • Princess Carolyn
    • Diane
    • Charlotte
    • Angela Diaz
  • Do they talk to each other?
    • Nope ):
  • Do they talk about something other than a man?
    • N/A

 

Why did it Pass/Fail? 

  • This episode fails, unfortunately. This episode primarily focuses on BoJack trying to reboot his career and right his wrongs in the past. There were a decent amount of female characters in this episode, but none of them talk to each other at all, not even for a second.

 

Other themes noticed:

  • Charlotte showed masculine traits such as assertiveness when she was talking with BoJack about their flirty past. 
  • When BoJack is in any place of power, he turns into a super bully; if the roles were swapped and BoJack was a female, I don’t know if he would have responded as violently as he did when he bossed his makeup artists around. Maybe I’m wrong, but that is just the way I viewed it when I saw the episode.
  • Is there a correlation between grudges and gender? 

 

Shared by: Will Kepes
Image Credit: https://bojackhorseman.fandom.com/wiki/The_Telescope