BoJack Horseman (2014)

No actual nudity, some small glimpses of painting that have naked animals on them

There are a few sex scenes in the show as a whole, they're all quite brief with little to no nudity but loud moaning and kissing is present. Nudity is only extended to male buttocks and paintings of naked animals on the wall.

The show's sexual content varies from mild to moderate to (very rarely) even severe. Episodes can range from harmless sexual jokes to full on lengthy sex scenes.

A teenage dolphin pop star named Sextina Aquafina wears many revealing outfits and sings songs with provocative lyrics.

Todd builds a robot named "Henry Fondle" which has several sex toys attached and says several sexual phrases.

Since the world of 'BoJack Horseman' consists of human beings living intermittently with anthropomorphic animals, there is a natural relationship that coexists between species. This can lead to human-animal, or different-animal intimacy. This is considered normalcy in the show, but may prove awkward to some viewers.

One of the themes of the show is that BoJack can't achieve intimacy. Sometimes he'll become very good friends with a girl and they'll go into a relationship but it ends because BoJack has an egotistical background. This is not sexual though.

There are, at times crude, verbal sexual references throughout the series, played mostly for comedy. References include human and animal genitalia. They are mainly crude jokes about size and not graphic.

In flashbacks, BoJack reminisces about his abusive relationship with his mother, who's implied to have become her character due to her past with abusive men.

There is nudity in this series, but are only usually encased in paintings in the background of various scenes, and only encompass animals. This usually ranges from semi nude imagery and genitalia obscured. One exception is a statuette outside a restaurant that serves as a set piece throughout many episodes, where a naked elephant granite statuette is.

There are no sexual scenes in this season, only references mostly played for dark humour

BoJack nearly has sex with his agent, though this never happens and is played for comedy. They start kissing but stop straight after.

BoJack is seen kissing and unknown stranger. The stranger is never shown and this is not graphic. Played for laughs.

BoJack sometimes imitates sexual movements. This is not graphic and is played for laughs.

BoJack's childhood co-star is strongly implied to have been raised to treat the world she lives in with casual indifference, and to serve her fans and the paparazzi with as much effort as possible. This is emphasized when she is shown in the modern world in a music video where she poses suggestively in revealing clothing with other women, to cater to publicity and her own relevance in the current world.

A stronger reference is when BoJack Horseman is surprised at the fact that his agent and golden retriever friend (past rival) are in a relationship. He asks them whether they have had sex, and his friend says 'Many times.'

Some sexual references. This is played for laughs and is not graphic.

In one episode, Bojack is seen nude briefly where full rear nudity is depicted but no other graphic (or full-frontal) nudity shown.

One of BoJack's friends befriends two carefree girls who are also running from the police who dress skimpily.

BoJack's agent develops an intimate relationship with a tall stranger later in this season, which is actually three children on top of one another in a trench coat. This is played as mild humor.

[Season 2]

There are some no sexual scenes in this season. Only references.

Some crude verbal sexual references. Nothing apart from that.

No acts are ever depicted or voiced, as every time they are cut off mysteriously by other characters talking if two characters start kissing.

One episode focuses on the topic of abortion and features a dolphin pop star singing a song about abortions with a music video that has lots of graphic imagery.

Beatrice is diagnosed with dementia and has a violent episode at a nursing home and gets kicked out.

Strong violence is occasionally portrayed in the show, and usually only aftermaths are depicted. However, brief bloody violence is depicted in some episodes.

In almost every episode, slapstick humor is depicted occasionally with a joke. For example, in an establishing shot, a bird decides to fly away before it is hit head-on by a plane.

At one point, BoJack gets severely under drug influence, and his hallucination causes him to hallucinate a vision of his ghost writer into a horrifying, grotesque monstrosity. He then remarks 'Oh shit, I'm still tripping.'This scene is played for humor and different title cards enforce that.

One of BoJack's friends gets sent to prison and has to join two rival gangs. He eventually tries to befriend both before they catch him and decide to curb-stomp his head. However, before they can do so, a helicopter manages to crash into the side of the building and the prisoners escape, forgetting their rivalry.

BoJack gets into a brief fight with the man he had back-stabbed back in the '90s, who now has terminal rectal cancer.

At one point, a Ryan Seacrest/Hollywood celebrity type on a talk show jokingly remarks how some lady who talked with him was kidnapped.

In the fictional country of Cordovia, war violence is depicted as a side character who talks to BoJack's ghost writer for a proposal close to the end of the season is shown in a war-torn background, with air-strikes and shootouts occurring around him as he acts indifferently. He is shown passively covering bodies and making swift impromptu surgery on war-torn survivors, also acting with indifference. However, he does pose with dramatic encounters or people with dastardly physical experiences and takes a picture with his cellphone.

BoJack's agent passively tells him that Andrew Garfield had 'broken every bone in his body' in one episode after he agrees to star in BoJack's upcoming movie, due to the failed erection of a building project by two of BoJack's friends.

[Season 2]

An episodes sub plot is about auto-erotic asphyxiation (see sex and nudity for more details).

BoJack hits a conservative deer while driving his car with his girlfriend in one episode. Injuries are seen on the deer as he limps off into the woods, and his wounds are shown closer when they find him and take him to the hospital. The wounds themselves are limited to bloodied flesh and tissue, however, the deer groans painfully when BoJack hoists him over his shoulder. In later episodes, BoJack's car is seen with the damage encapsulating the hood.

The F word and C word are never used in a sexual manner

The F-word is used once a season for dramatic effect

The F-word plays a role of making drastic scenes more so important and is never used mindlessly or for simply for filler dialogue. It used once every season, typically in very intense or emotional scenes.

At least 4 uses of "Hell" throughout the series. "Goddamn" is used many times.

There are 6 uses of "fuck" and 1 use of "cunt" throughout the entire show.

Frequent uses of mild language such as: "shit", "bitch", "ass" and "dick" in almost every episode.

Characters are shown drinking, smoking cigarettes and doing drugs. There is marijuana use and some cocaine and heroin use.

Throughout the entire 6 seasons there is drinking smoking and drug use

Frequent paraphernalia and references

In a party scene there they take a drug gush and get high and in another party people are seen drinking smoking joints and snorting cocaine (brief).

BoJack's an alcoholic

A young Bojack is forced to smoke an entire pack of cigarettes as punishment for stealing one from his mother.

A young Beatrice is forced to take "pretty pills" for weight loss.

We see bags of heroin with a characature of Bojack on them.

There are implications regarding drug use in almost every episode, where characters will passingly remark on situations/incidents or other characters in conjunction with drug use, and some episodes feature actual drug use being depicted by various characters in the series. Pills and other forms of drug paraphernalia can be seen in the background occasionally in almost every episode as well.

One of BoJack's former co-stars is (implied)severely addicted to drugs throughout the series whenever she is present.

BoJack is a welcomer to alcoholism and drinks different forms of alcohol (e.g. bourbon, whiskey, tequila, etc.) in almost every episode. He drinks from a flask frequently, at one point is shown drinking a few consecutively in a flashback. (In the series opening title, BoJack is depicted getting drunk at a party, at one point holding a glass of alcohol, then stumbling over the edge of his penthouse into his pool.)

BoJack is also a frequent cigarette smoker and is shown passively smoking a cigarette in some episodes, obviously under a nicotine addiction.

Various characters, other than BoJack, are also seen drinking alcohol and getting adversely drunk in some episodes.

[Season 1]

There are different depictions of drug use in this season, including one long, somewhat excessive portrayal of drug use and the effects of drug use covering an entire episode.

When BoJack meets his former co-star in 'Episode 3', she is implied to be under the effects of drugs constantly, and at one point, does handful of pills. BoJack then questions her whether that is the appropriate way to consume prescription drugs.

BoJack is severely intoxicated off-screen in 'Episode 6', so much that he steals the 'D' work from the 'Hollywood' sign. Only the aftermath is show, and his intoxication is only discussed.

BoJack is shown very intoxicated in a couple of episodes, with many beer cans surrounding him.

A race figure that BoJack looked up to during his childhood years is implied to have taken steroids and testosterone-enhancing drugs after he is revealed to have cheated on the racetrack.

A young boy asks BoJack's agent, disguised as a man in a trench-coat, 'Would you like a alcohol?'

[Season 2]

One of BoJack's friends, at one point, gives up on her life temporarily and sleeps at his house, to which she becomes increasingly lazy and frequently consumes beer. She eventually brings him into her psyche, and they drink a horrendous amount of beer, at one point organizing the empty beer cans into various monuments offscreen.

At one point in the same episode, while BoJack passively talks to his annoyed girlfriend, he and his friend smoke from a bong somewhat offscreen. One closeup shows his friend lighting the bong and smoking with bubbles heard.

In one episode, a disturbing flashback shows BoJack, as a kid, sneaking a cigarette packet from his mother's purse and taking one out and smoking it, to his discomfort, before his mother comes in and marks her indifference to his actions, instead showing her disappointment in his existence, and forces him to finish the cigarette. This scene is sad, disturbing and very distressing.

One of the episodes features BoJack smoking a joint in a close-up very briefly.

BoJack's golden retriever friend is shown wearing a dog cone in 'Episode 1', after he could not stop biting his stitches due to him punching a mirror in a drunken stupor. This is only discussed.

While the show's genre is comedy and has lots of comedic moments, the subject matter is often dark and depressing.

The show gets darker and sad as it goes on.

This is easily one of the most depressing cartoons of all time.

The show does have a main protagonist who is mean to some people (sometimes even his friends), and sometimes, a pessimistic perspective on life which can be upsetting for some viewers.

Not scary or traditionally intense by any means, but very emotionally intense and in many cases, depressing.

The show is free of a formulaic resolution to each episode and therefore, it will often end an episode on a dark or depressing note with little to no resolution.

In Season 1 Episode 12, we see Secretariat committing suicide by jumping off a bridge and we hear audio from a radio announcer mistaking it for a parked car and joking about it. This may be triggering or upsetting for viewers who struggle with suicidal thoughts or those who have lost a loved one to suicide.

As a teenager, BoJack's mother was body shamed to where she was forced to take weight loss pills and was not allowed to eat dessert. This may be difficult to watch for viewers who struggle with body dysmorphia or eating disorders. In the later episodes, she is shown sneaking weight loss pills into Hollyhock's food.

The entire series of BoJack Horseman is dedicated to him living a life of excess, denial, inner fear, and adverse ego in the heart of Hollywood (or Hollywoo). He is shown exploiting and sabotaging people so that they can remain important and relevant to him, and is destructive to them regardless.

Many of the episodes revolve around the satire of many elements, most notably the Hollywood celebrity scene and the various mishaps and wash-ups that rise from it. Other mature themes and elements discussed include feminism, indifference to war, popularity, paparazzi, reality-tv shows, news broadcasts, homosexuality, hipsters, self-personification, narcissism, etc; and encompass the group of people associated with it. One or more of these themes set the topic for each episode.

In various episodes, a startling revelation which shows the horrendous attitude BoJack or other characters give to show their inner selves or their character arcs is depicted at the end, leaving the viewers in a state of melancholy and temporary depression.

BoJack is shown abused by his parents (emotionally) in flashbacks throughout the series. His father, an authoritative, restrictive man and his mother, a cruel distant, and disgusting woman both shape him into what he is now. The flashback scenes may be triggering to child abuse survivors.

There is a strong existentialist and pessimistic worldview to the show, and many of the characters do morally questionable things sometimes (usually as part of a gag) with little or no consequences. The show itself is extremely down-to-earth despite its outrageous, childish premise, and many episodes seem to progress nowhere regarding character arcs. Most characters remain the same after a dramatic incident affects their lives.