While driving away from Tilda's set, BoJack tries to apologize, but Hollyhock refuses it. Princess Carolyn, in return, tells her it was an honor to work with her. She didn't, Bojack did. Diane later meets with Stefani. Back in New York, despite not getting anything, Diane is still determined to bring Hank down. Marcy invites them inside. Stefani encourages her to speak up against Mr.Peanutbutter's pro-fracking campaign, but Diane doesn't want to go against her husband. Diane sternly tells BoJack, "You say you want to get better and you dont know how. Mr. Peanutbutter challenges Woodchuck to a ski-race, where the winner will be named governor. It's another in the long line of actions that he himself declares "unforgivable," and yet the season's final moments hint that if the show returns for Season 6, audiences will once again be asked to stick around and see if, maybe this time, BoJack Horseman will actually get better. Diane sits in the airport as she waits to leave for Cordovia. Alexi says those labels don't exist in the real world, this isn't high school anymore, and they're just adults hanging out. BoJack helps her move into her apartment, and after voicing his disdain for her crappy apartment he tells her if she ever wants to crash at his place she can. As BoJack drives to New Mexico to see Charlotte, Diane calls Mr. Peanutbutter and tells him that she can't talk on the phone anymore, because it's just too hard for her but that she still loves him. BoJack confesses his involvement with Sarah Lynn's death, devastating his friends. In The Shot, Diane is seen in war-torn Cordovia with Sebastian St. Clair, writing about him and interacting with the refugees, including a little boy named Kinko, despite Sebastian warning her not to get attached to any of them. This makes her incapable of recognizing her own flaws or attempting to improve on them on the one hand and leads her to resent herself for her discontent nature on the other. BoJack tries to cheer her up and says they can promote feminism and destroy the patriarchy if they take down Vance. Her dad once made her lose a game of Boggle to her brothers so they wouldnt have to lose to a girl as revealed in. In Hooray! Diane fills this role nicely, but since she's antagonistic in this way I think it rubs some people the wrong way. This was one of those deep moments when BoJack lets other people know his inner feelings. BoJack says he just wanted to talk to her. He then shows her the boxes of hate mail and death threats she's been receiving, and the thought of someone wanting to hurt his wife upsets him. As they leave Manatee Fair, BoJack tells Diane to give it a rest because she's lost. spouts sexist and anti-Semitic language at a police officer, leaves his daughter a threatening voicemail, a months-long bender that ends in her death. Katrina tells Mr. Peanutbutter the agenda for his campaign the next day before she leaves. He rebuts, explaining how he doesn't know how to do it and talks about how he feels like trash. At the Q-and-A, the audience keeps egging Diane on her comments on Hank, with one woman saying if he was a bad person they wouldn't let him be on TV. Dr. Indira tells Diane to tell BoJack that she needs some space. Later that day BoJack finds Hollyhock and tells her what he did. BoJack breaks the tension and suggests getting Ethiopian food, which leads to a conversation about how the Ethiopian restaurant has good bread. However, Paige unexpectedly calls BoJack, saying they are running a story about Sarah Lynn and his relationship with her next Thursday, and BoJack denies everything she asks him. It Goes Away, Right? She wears thin, square glasses, and has light skin and midnight blue hair According to the model sheets, she is 5 1/2 feet tall when barefoot and stands at about 5'3-5'4 when wearing boots. She can become petty and spiteful when pushed beyond her limit. She assures Guy she doesnt want to watch BoJacks interview with Biscuits Braxby since it was only meant to act as damage control and paint him as a victim, and she doesnt want to spend any more of her time worrying about him, although she does watch his second interview with Braxby, which seems to leave her with a feeling of confliction. She asks Sebastian if Kino is OK, but Sebastian says he's most certainly dead, to Diane's shock, although Sebastian coldly says he warned her not to make friends. Diane and BoJack first meet in Season 1 after she is hired to ghostwrite his memoir, One Trick Pony. As BoJack has to go around town to rub elbows with people who are Oscar voters, Ana demands that Diane go with him while also keeping up with her tweeting for celebrities. BoJack tells her to delete it, saying it was another drunken message. In Seasons 1-Season 5, Diane's hair was long with some of it worn parted over her shoulders. She retreats to BoJack's house while having difficulties with her marriage to Mr. Peanutbutter instead of staying and resolving the issues. Diane consults in her therapist, Dr. Indira, about the BoJack tape Ana gave her with BoJack confessing that he almost did something to a girl, which Diane says that must mean she was young. BoJack and Hollyhock arrive at Marcy's apartment building. In Live Fast, Diane Nguyen, it was revealed that Diane had a tough childhood, with her parents and four brothers tormenting and belittling her and acting rude and crass, and would go on to openly resent her for leaving home to make something of herself and accuse her of thinking shes better than them because of it. He tells the group that he has decided to dedicate his life to helping others and reveals that his "system" was actually a method of helping drug addicts. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. At nighttime, Mr. Peanutbutter goes into his office where Diane is typing on her laptop. 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 showa fact that shocks Diane. She tells him to have a seat, and BoJack ends up spending the next forty-five minutes talking to her. Voiced by Deadpan, Witty, Irreverent Age Diane visits BoJack to make sure he's okay knowing how he's still an "empty husk," but BoJack responds to her care by questioning why she doesn't think he can be happy insulting her, saying things such as "you used to be cool and care about shit," you think you're better than everyone," and saying Im not like you I dont fetishize my own sadness.". Diane asks Todd how to make her articles liked. I Dont Want To Live. After hearing Princess Carolyn's ovulation watch talk, and thinking they were hiding someone in their car, Princess Carolyn angrily demands he just write them a ticketso that she can go home and "mount" her boyfriend. Meanwhile, the party guests have turned against Mr. Peanutbutter, and his ex-wife Jessica Biel sets Zach Braff on fire and claims fire is their god. Diane is surprised by this and talks to Flip after the screening. She pulls out a tape recorder and tells Diane to listen, it's the recording of BoJack telling Heather, the Manatee Fair writer, about what he almost did to Penny in New Mexico from Start Spreading The News. Diane states that all his former assistants made the same accusations against him, while BoJack tries to change the subject to him as he knows this could get controversial, and that said accusations are just a Google search away. He Takes His Friends For Granted She starts to rant on how she felt bad for BoJack when Sarah Lynn died, but at the same time wondered about his involvement in it. BoJack has an agent named Princess Carolyn (Amy Sedaris), a pink tabby cat with a careerist streak, and a slacker house guest named Todd (Aaron Paul), who started sleeping on BoJack's couch. seal team fanfiction sonny and davis. When Vance goes on stage to accept his award, BoJack sniffs the cheese and makes a disgusted face. She is seen as a teenager again in a flashback in The Dog Days Are Over. He introduces her to the Snatch BatchCarlos, David, and "Shitshow," although they claim only the news calls them "The Snatch Batch," despite they actually do sleep with a lot of women. Now this may just be me trying to create unnecessary drama, for BoJack has changed for the better this season. Princess Carolyn and Ralph are at the gynecologist, waiting for test results. She storms off to their room, where BoJack is hoarded up with all the alcohol. Near the end of the series, BoJack, Diane, and Princess Carolyn huddle in BoJack's office in the wings of the Wesleyan theater. It seems as if she and Mr. Peanutbutter are about to reconcile and continue with their engagement, until Mr. Peanutbutter regales he cheated on her with Diane twice, which makes Pickles freak out again, screaming loud enough to break glass around them, including the window, and she runs outside crying. Amanda asks about Hank's current assistant. She also tells BoJack that she doesn't regret marrying Mr. Peanutbutter, because there are people in your life who make you who you are even if they're not in your life forever. After the mystery is solved, Diane and BoJack are still curious about the role Cuddlywhiskers played in the fiasco, and elect to figure out where he is, to which BoJack inadvertently reveals that he's in Ojai, California. She struggles to get past his actions in New Mexico, and is further disappointed when she learns about his involvement in Sarah Lynn's death. She has gained a lot of weight but has a huge smile on her face as she holds up a sign reading "DAWSON'S CREEK WAS ALWAYS BAD," which reveals she started taking antidepressants. When Andrew Garfield breaks up with her, Sarah Lynn moves in with BoJack. Dr. Indira then tries to get BoJack to talk about his mom to get to the bottom of how he can get help, but BoJack freaks out and says she's helped him and doesn't need her anymore. His mother tells him that she read his book and all the things he said about her. Princess Carolyn consoles her saying Ivy Tan could do that to, and she likes the idea of her own daughter growing up with books like that, convincing Diane to write Ivy Tran. As for Bojack, Diane is literally the opposite of what he wanted/needed. Bojack does bear some guilt for Sarah Lynn's death, because again, all he had to do to potentially save her life was not say . Who the hell are you?". Next Diane asks if the content on GirlCroosh should be more forgiving, but Stefani blows off the idea. In a season four episode, BoJack meets an older fly named Ed who refuses to fly. BoJack tries to defend himself and says he was drunk and under enormous pressure. The campaign takes a toll on Diane's love life. Calling Diane a big-shot for getting upset at their low expectations, BoJack then tactlessly "defends" Diane by bluntly describing her career and living situation, saying she is not a big-shot, instead unintentionally painting her as a "freeloader" in her family's eyes. They had the intent to throw his remains in the face of their rival baseball team's star, Derek Jeter. BoJack has proved throughout the series that, although he is capable of trying to be a better person, he is generally a toxic influence on the people around him. He also gleefully reveals that he murdered Matt Minnowman for taking too many bathroom breaks and encouraging other employees to do so, and he doesnt care if that story gets out either Congress just passed a law that legalized murder for billionaires. She tells Diane she was right about Vance, as he created another controversy, so she dropped him. Diane angrily rebuts that they are not the same. This is a quote that BoJack says to Hollyhock, and it's one of many quotes from the show that makes the viewer feel both seen and profoundly sad. Princess Carolyn tells Todd she'll get BoJack a specialist to drug him up so he feels ok to shoot later in the week. Diane attends BoJack's end of the year showcase for his acting class at Wesleyan, where she tries to talk to Princess Carolyn but she tells her to not be rude to the performers. After they stop arguing, Diane says, as a metaphor, their marriage is like a magic eye poster, which Mr Peanutbutter says he loves, because it's messy, and at first glance, it doesn't seem to make any sense, and it's hard to figure out but sometimes, if you squint at it just right, everything lines up, and it's the most perfect, beautiful, amazing thing.". When BoJack goes to talk Diane later on set, Diane tells him that her therapist doesn't want her to talk to him. BoJack is on MSNBSea when he learns that Vance came out as a feminist, and says he left BoJack's new show Philbert, because it was sexist. BoJack encourages the worst parts of Diane. Later that night, Diane arrives home. He asks how her day was, and she says it was good, as the black tar engulfs him. Bojack needs some one who can call him out on his shit while still believing in him. Diane's clearly struggles in trying to decide whether attempting to help BoJack get better absolves her of her involvement in his actions or further implicates her, and so does the show. After a series of failed attempts, he is advised by character actress Margo Martindale to confess his feelings to Diane. The characters found closure in the series finale, with several fan-favorites gaining love and friendship and some drifting apart from each other for good. The coffee table is cracked in half and "repaired" with duct tape. Diane reassured him that everyone belongs in Los Angeles, it has no barriers for entry. Hollyhock begins to feel guilty overcoming all this way just to find a mom, while she did great with eight dads and for wanting a mom in the first place that means her dads weren't good enough for herbut they were. An early episode of BoJack Horseman Season 5 introduces Vance Waggoner, voiced by Bobby Cannavale, who is a Frankenstein monster of cruel men, someone who spouts sexist and anti-Semitic language at a police officer, violently assaults a woman, and leaves his daughter a threatening voicemail. Diane is not happy to hear from him because of this. This makes it to the news, and Diane receives backlash for trying to attack a "national treasure.". Netflix's BoJack Horseman, a brightly colored cartoon about a literal horse-man, manages to humanize addiction while satirizing treatment-industry tropes that pervade the genre. She wants everyone to be as good as they can possibly be but struggles to acknowledge that it cannot happen immediately, her impatience for their improvement brought on by the stress caused by her anxiety. However, her brothers make her plan the funeral, and BoJack ends up bonding with themas he always wanted brothers. Diane says that it's fine and that she'll take the twenty. She explains that the world is already very unforgiving and standardized, and it's best to forgive each other. She's sad because she thinks things will go back to normal the next daythey'll fight because she's mean, and she doesn't know why she is. He agrees, but he goes back to Dr. Indira and tells her they can see each other behind Diane's back. Princess Carolyn says they can spin it, which Diane strongly disagrees with. They are able to get a lead and several employee interviews, who reveal Matt was trying to expose the poor working conditions, and they even left his body outside as a warning. That night after leaving the restaurant, the two are confronted by a mugger, but Courtney pulls out a revolver to drive him away. Diane admits she thinks she depressed. He confesses to her that everyone on set thinks he's a genius but he has no idea what he's doing. Diane driving into the sunset at the end of Season 5. More emotional BoJack Horseman quotes arrived when BoJack tries to stop Diane's wedding in the Season 1 episode, "Horse Majeure." BoJack spends the whole episode trying to sabotage Diane and Mr. Peanutbutter's wedding because he is in love with Diane. Mr. Peanutbutter says he wants every day to be a happy one because they don't have many days left. She tells BoJack they have to get the scrapbook, as it has every woman BoJack slept with, and that will help them find her mom. He leaves them briefly, joining his students' party in the theater to announce their end-of-year superlatives. BoJack praises her work on the show and claims that she did a great job on writing for the show. Wakeburg has addressed the criticism a few times in the past particularly. The former Horsin' Around actress and pop star dies of a heroin overdose in Season 3's "That's Too Much, Man!" With all the controversy, the movie is canceled. BoJack, having realized during filming that Diane knows something about his feud with Penny, looks at Diane with guilt as she glares at him. During Season 4, when BoJack thought Hollyhock was his daughter, BoJack was still struggling with alcoholism. The fuel behind the ongoing narrative of BoJack Horseman has been the belief held by other characters, that despite BoJack's many misgivings, that he can somehow be better. She first met Mr. Peanutbutter in 2007 at the Starbucks she worked at, and after his wife, Jessica Biel dumped him at an event Diane was catering at. Later that night, Diane is trying to write in the living room but she cant concentrate. In the Season 3 episode, "It's You," Todd finally snaps when he learns that BoJack had sex with Emily, and calls out BoJack on all the other things he's done. As they do, they shove into Diane and break her wrist again. Ed helps BoJack fix his house and eventually, he explains to BoJack what happened when his wife died. Everyone listens to him, but BoJack is still offended no one wants to talk about it-indicating he is in denial about his grief. Diane and Mr. Peanutbutter's divorce is finalized. He is not sure if it's the right thing for them, because it'll distract him from his and Todd's clown dentist business. Diane is hesitant, but Guy encourages her to go along with it. BoJack is on Deep Dive with A Ryan Seacrest Type. When Diane shows concern for this, Sextina ignores her and says it's show business. He manages to get to the phone as black tar, representing death, chases, and surrounds him. Later on, however, Woodchuck reveals that he has gotten new hands, and his new "Hands Up For Woodchuck" campaign raises his ratings higher than Jessica's. Is BoJack a tragic hero whose actions should be forgiven because he's "working through something"? Diane also provides an answer, to BoJack's question about if she thinks he's still a good person deep down; that she doesn't believe in a "deep down" and that people are made up of the things they do. They'd then be even and could move onto greener pastures and get married . Diane shouts, "I regret everything!" He finds that Hollyhock has set the microwave on fire from trying to make him a Pop-Tart for breakfast, to thank him for letting her stay there. In Diane's case, she has had twoshe cuts her hair into a short bob style with an undercut shortly before, While Alison Brie has received acclaim for voicing Diane, she and series creator Raphael Bob-Waksburg have also received some criticism for it, due to Brie herself being white and voicing a Vietnamese American character. This angers both Princess Carolyn and Sextina, who wants to fire Diane, but when Diane is about to release a statement explaining everything, she discovers that Sextina is getting lots of support and publicity for her public announcement. Diane gets out of the car to console BoJack. Diane admits she felt like her life was like a puzzle with pieces that dont fit, and for a while, it felt it felt natural and was jarring when it didnt feel that way anymore, but she gradually began to trust it. BoJack, who spends a year and a half at his grandparents' old summer home in Harper's Landing, Michigan, breaks down and calls Diane in The Old Sugarman Place, apologizing for everything. BoJack is able to convince her that she was right to leave her family and she should stop trying to get them to change. He makes his way into the world of BoJack, and eventually ends up in the crosshairs of Diane. He tells her that he keeps trying to change but he can't because he's poison, he has nothing to show for the life that he's lived and nobody is better off having known him. BoJack tells her that he'd love to wallow with her but he has to go to work. Diane angrily tells Tom he's a journalist and won't tell his audience the truth. In Live Fast, Diane Nguyen, Diane's father dies. Diane is sitting in a meeting at Girl Croosh, where one of her coworkers is pitching an article about having a healthy sex life. When she worked at Starbucks, she wore a blue and white baseball tee under a Starbucks apron with orange arrows pointing to her abdomen, light blue jeans, and a name tag that said "Blarn.". Diane starts going to the mall to work to help her concentrate better, although one day she ends up going on a tangent about a teenage girl mall detective named Ivy Traninspired by Diane overhearing a clothing store sales associate with the same name tell her friend about solving a stolen wallet case in the mall. She admits that their caring nature is idiotic and stubborn, but she still expresses it multiple times. Directed by On the message she left, she reveals her name is Nicole and says she really needs to talk to someone. Mr. Peanutbutter assures her she isn't. Diane tells BoJack in the car, while he drives to his old friend Cuddlywhiskers's house to retrieve something for Jill Pill, as she hasn't heard from him in years, that they bring out the worst in each other, and they should only keep things professional. Her hair was straight and went a little past her shoulders, she had thicker eyebrows, thick black glasses with square frames, and pimples. In After the Party, Diane celebrates her thirty-fifth birthday. I'm Hank Hippopopalous. Mr. Peanutbutter assures her he knows his brother. Diane tries to convince him to come home, but BoJack says he doesn't belong anywhere. However, at an award show after-party, BoJack annoying her with asking her what's bothering her leads her to shout at him that she's getting an abortiononly for her to also accidentally tweet out "Im getting an abortion" for Sextina Aquafina. Back at the North Hollywood Condos, Hollyhock tells Marcy about how after watching Freaky Friday with her friends at a sleepover as a kid, she wished she had a mom to switch bodies with. Diane questions Princess Carolyn about her decision to hire Vance and what kind of message that sends. During this, a movie based on the events of Our A-Story is a "D" Story, Mr. Peanutbutter's Hollywoo Heist is being filmed at Mr. Peanutbutter's house, with BoJack playing Mr. Peanutbutter and Naomi Watts playing Diane although the movie eventually gets canceled. This is a new series that brings levity to very adult-oriented situations in a way that is both disturbing and depressing, but at the same time, smart and extremely well-written. Diane then jokingly says, "I must have one of those faces.". That's your birthright." They meet her on the set of her show, and she reveals BoJack did get her pregnant, but she got an abortion. Diane asks if he believes that Hank is innocent, to which BoJack denies. Diane says that he doesn't have to be better and that he's the only thing that makes sense to her as she cuddles up next to him. His presence in the show serves as a stand-in for the many men who were accused of predatory and abusive behavior towards women in the rise of the #MeToo movement. When they get to the apartment, Diane asks for Mr. Peanutbutter to come inside with her. He forgives her however because "making food is impossible." In the saccharine sitcom world, settling down as a professor would be . In The Stopped Show, Mr. Peanutbutter comes over and tries to convince Diane to tell Pickles about their affair. At the end of Season 2, she is hired to be a celebrity Tweet ghostwriter for Princess Carolyn's agency, VIM, and she holds this job until the agency closes in the Season 3 episode It's You. Marcy explains she tried to call BoJack, but the number he gave her was for a sandwich shop in Temecula. It's a very emotional and sad moment as viewers realize just how terrible Diane feels on the inside, and how she blames herself for her problems. Todd suggests writing them full of gossip, to which Diane tries to look at the internet. Everyone in the audience does this and is shocked. After Diane reveals that the DNA was a match, to Hollyhock's shock, she realizes she does not wish to be a gossip reporter. My Whole Life. Just then, the "Gush" starts to kick in, and she starts to leave. Sebastian says he's here to help the people, she's here to help them by helping him write a book about how great he is, so people will donate to his organization. However, the two end up getting involved and trying to solve a mystery involving an orca stripper dying from heroin named "BoJack." BoJack and Diane argue at the premiere of Philbert in Season 5. Diane shows up at Alexi's house, although he seems confused about her appearance. Hank replies "Sweetheart, everyone knows who I am. and the credits cut to black, viewers felt the gut-punching realization that Sarah Lynn was dead. This gives Diane a sense of realization, and she gets called in for her abortion. In Season 3, BoJack Horseman takes a sober former costar on a months-long bender that ends in her death, but not before tracking down and trying to reconnect with that underage girl. BoJack finds Diane at the city dump. She never completely unpacked her boxes after moving into her. It's hard to explain to people who aren't depressed how painful and isolating it can be as a mental illness. Seasons 1-4 This only serves to make her more miserable, since she tends to direct her overly-critical nature towards her relationships (mainly her relationship with Mr. Peanutbutter), focusing on the negative, difficult aspects of them to the point where she sometimes breaks down. This statement holds especially true for BoJack, whose life has been anything but easy. In Start Spreading The News, Diane gets involved in a conference call with Mr. Peanutbutter and BoJack and Ana, the latter two of whom are in New York. Diane explains, "I hated her, and I will never forgive her, but she needed me and she was my best friend and I loved her." Later in the day, an excited BoJack gets Pinky to email him the book, One Trick Pony, but he turns on Diane after finishing. Consider Breaking Bad, Rick and Morty, The Sopranos, House of Cards, Ozark, Ray Donovan, Deadwood, Boardwalk Empire and BoJack Horseman. Since BoJack seems short on new characters to interact with the more logical approach for storytelling would be to wrap up the series with the remaining characters. BoJack says he's always on her side and tells her she won't win this, and questions if she's on his side. Diane counters this, by saying the stories they are covering are really making a difference. Before she leaves in Surprise!, she goes to Pastiches to tell BoJack shes leaving, but the front desk groundhog tells her he went out while being supervisedwhich she later discovers is Mr. Peanutbutter and Pickles surprise wedding, put together by Todd. Diane finds this humorous, saying he made his bed on that one. BoJack breathes in deeply and begins to walk to the rehab center. However, Diane says Dr. Indira is her therapist, and one of the few things she has for herself, so she asks BoJack to not see her. He then tells her he isn't scared of her, in fact, he's doing this as a favor to her, because he's not a bad guy and in twenty-four hours the media will move on to some other big story, and he'll continue his shows that employee lots of people. As they argue, BoJack takes some cheese from a cheese plate. However, the huge amount of traffic starts tension between them, but they collect themselves and decide to pull over and stay at the hotel. Meanwhile, Mr. Peanutbutter ends up being cast as Fritz. Blarn (while working at Starbucks)Deedee (family nickname)Cryanne (nickname given by her brothers)Asian Daria (Sarah Lynn)Diabolical Thin Mint (Mr. Peanutbutter)Glasses (Sextina Aquafina)Princess Diana/Diana Princess of Wales (Dr. Indira In "INT. And once again, Gigi Hadid and Leonardo DiCaprio did little to squash dating rumours, as they were spotted attending the same after party at Zero Bond following Monday night's Met Gala in New York . In the Season 6 episode The Face of Depression, Diane begins taking antidepressants, which after a two month period she is shown to have gained a significant amount of weight. It's definitely a gut punch. Diane sternly gives BoJack two options: either he goes back and tries to solve his problems his own way, or see what rehab offers. Diane is a Vietnamese-American woman. Guy ends up sending Princess Carolyn the Ivy Tran pages, which she thinks is a better concept than Diane's memoir. He says she's just going to get older and lonelier, and she's going to try to fill that void with friends, a career, or meaningless hookups.