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| music = "Sea of Dreams" by [[Oberhofer]]<br/>Score by Jesse Novak |
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| guests = * [[Angela Bassett]] as [[Ana Spanikopita]] |
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"'''Fish Out of Water'''" is the fourth episode of the [[BoJack Horseman (season 3)|third season]] of the American animated television series ''[[BoJack Horseman]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2016/07/bojack-horseman-season-3-episode-4-silent-underwater-fish-out-of-water-1201709800/|title=How 'BoJack Horseman' Achieved Perfection Without a Word|last=Travers|first=Ben|date=July 27, 2016|website=IndieWire|language=en|access-date=2019-03-02}}</ref> It was written by Elijah Aron and [[Jordan Young (producer)|Jordan Young]], and directed by [[Mike Hollingsworth (animator)|Mike Hollingsworth]] |
"'''Fish Out of Water'''" is the fourth episode of the [[BoJack Horseman (season 3)|third season]] of the American animated television series ''[[BoJack Horseman]]'', and the 28th episode overall.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2016/07/bojack-horseman-season-3-episode-4-silent-underwater-fish-out-of-water-1201709800/|title=How 'BoJack Horseman' Achieved Perfection Without a Word|last=Travers|first=Ben|date=July 27, 2016|website=IndieWire|language=en|access-date=2019-03-02}}</ref> It was written by Elijah Aron and [[Jordan Young (producer)|Jordan Young]], and directed by [[Mike Hollingsworth (animator)|Mike Hollingsworth]], and was released in the United States, along with the rest of season three, via [[Netflix]] on July 22, 2016. [[Angela Bassett]] provides her voice in a guest appearance in the episode.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://lwlies.com/articles/bojack-horseman-fish-out-of-water-season-3/|title=How a near-silent underwater episode conveys the brilliance of Bojack Horseman|website=Little White Lies|access-date=2019-03-02}}</ref> |
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The episode features |
The episode features BoJack travelling to a film festival in the ocean, where he wears an oxygen-filled bubble to continue breathing. Notably, the episode features [[Part-talkie|less than three minutes of audible dialogue]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nerdist.com/article/premiere-bojack-horseman-underwater-episode-music/|title=The Music From BOJACK HORSEMAN'S Underwater Episode is Serene (Premiere)|website=Nerdist|access-date=2019-03-02}}</ref> |
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In 2017, the episode was nominated for the [[Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Animation]] at the [[Writers Guild of America Awards 2016|69th WGA Awards]]. The episode "[[Stop the Presses (BoJack Horseman)|Stop the Presses]]" from the same season won the award.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2017/film/news/wga-awards-2017-winners-list-1201992159/|title=WGA Awards: |
In 2017, the episode was nominated for the [[Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Animation]] at the [[Writers Guild of America Awards 2016|69th WGA Awards]]. The episode "[[Stop the Presses (BoJack Horseman)|Stop the Presses]]" from the same season won the award.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2017/film/news/wga-awards-2017-winners-list-1201992159/|title=WGA Awards: 'Moonlight,' 'Arrival' Win for Best Screenplay, 'Atlanta' Wins Twice|last1=McNary|first1=Dave|last2=Littleton|first2=Cynthia|date=February 20, 2017|website=Variety|language=en|access-date=2019-03-02}}</ref> The episode was also nominated for [[Annie Award for Best Animated Television Production|Best Animated Television Production]] at the [[44th Annie Awards]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://annieawards.org/nominees/|title=44th Annual Annie Awards Nominees & Winners|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170413132208/http://annieawards.org/nominees/#6|archive-date=April 13, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> |
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== Plot == |
== Plot == |
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Ana Spanakopita sends BoJack to the world's biggest underwater film festival to promote Secretariat. Unfortunately, ex-Secretariat director Kelsey Jannings is also attending. |
Ana Spanakopita sends BoJack to the world's biggest underwater film festival to promote ''Secretariat''. Unfortunately, ex-''Secretariat'' director Kelsey Jannings is also attending. Faced with the thought of seeing her, BoJack panics: not only will he have to have an awkward confrontation, he will have to do it underwater, where speaking is inhibited by his helmet. BoJack goes to the festival lobby where press events are underway. A group of fish journalists take his picture, so he poses for them—giving them the thumbs-up sign, not knowing that this gesture is offensive in Pacific Ocean City. He notices Kelsey sadly trying to drum up interest in her movie, so he tries to write her an apology note, but she disappears before he can give it to her. |
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BoJack falls asleep on the bus, where he has to help a [[Seahorse#Reproduction|male seahorse give birth]], and becomes stranded far from the city. As he starts his long walk back to the festival, he realizes that one of the baby [[seahorse]]s clung to him, so he reluctantly decides to find its dad. Following many misadventures, he reunites the baby with its father, but it turns out that it was not missed. The seahorse dad invites BoJack in for dinner and even offers him money, but BoJack declines. The dad seems to ask, "What do you want?" but BoJack does not know. He leaves, depressed and envious of the seahorse family. |
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Faced with the thought of seeing her, BoJack panics: Not only will he have to have an awkward confrontation—he'll also have to do it underwater, where speaking is inhibited by his helmet. |
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| ⚫ | BoJack catches a cab back to the hotel. En route, he writes a heartfelt apology note to Kelsey. He arrives too late to attend the premiere, so he returns to the hotel just in time for the afterparty, where he learns that ''Secretariat'' was a huge hit. As Kelsey leaves the party, BoJack runs after her cab, but by the time he reaches her window, his note has become runny and blurred. Kelsey speeds off without knowing what he wanted to say. |
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When BoJack gets to his hotel room, he realizes two things: a confrontation with Kelsey is inevitable, and he will have to make it through without the help of cigarettes or alcohol. |
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After he successfully avoids a hallway run-in, BoJack goes down to the festival lobby where press events are underway. A group of fish journalists takes his picture, so he poses for them—giving them the thumbs-up sign, not knowing that this gesture is actually offensive in Pacific Ocean City. |
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He notices Kelsey sadly trying to drum up interest in her movie, so he tries to write her an apology note, but she disappears before he can give it to her. In the background, a big BoJack-related scandal appears to be breaking due to BoJack's giving the thumbs-up to the cameras—but clueless to it all, BoJack chases after Kelsey. |
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In doing so, he falls asleep on the bus and winds up far from the city, where he has to help a male seahorse give birth. As he starts his long walk back to the festival, BoJack realizes that one of the baby seahorses clung to him, so he reluctantly decides to find its dad. |
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BoJack doesn't have any local currency on him—so he's forced to steal seahorse milk from a shark-owned convenience store. The shark goes chasing after BoJack and the baby seahorse—forcing them even further from Pacific Ocean City, the film festival, and the chance to make things right with Kelsey. They find themselves plummeting into the deep ocean, and BoJack chases the baby seahorse through a neon seascape. |
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They follow what they think is a current into an undersea factory. Luckily, it's the freshwater taffy factory where the seahorse dad works. BoJack saves the baby seahorse from being crushed into taffy, and though he raises the ire of the factory owner and guards, he's unable to reunite the baby with its father. |
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Cornered by the guards, BoJack falls out of the factory window, only to remember that he can swim underwater. With baby seahorse in tow, he goes flying toward the seahorse dad's house—where it turns out the kid wasn't necessarily missed. The seahorse dad invites BoJack in for dinner and even offers him money, but BoJack doesn't want any of it. The dad seems to ask, "What do you want?" but BoJack doesn't know, and shakes his head sadly. |
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BoJack leaves, depressed and jealous of the seahorse family. Before he does, he smiles and waves goodbye to the baby seahorse, but he doesn't notice and the audience cannot even tell him apart from his identical siblings. |
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BoJack catches a cab back to the hotel. While in the cab, he writes a new note to Kelsey—this one much more heartfelt than the previous ones. He writes "Kelsey, in this terrifying world, all we have are the connections that we make. I'm sorry I got you fired, I'm sorry I never called you after." |
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== Reception == |
== Reception == |
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"Fish Out of Water" received |
"Fish Out of Water" received critical acclaim, with many critics calling it one of the series' best episodes, and one of the best television episodes of 2016.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.avclub.com/bojack-horseman-goes-underwater-and-hits-its-high-water-1798188645|title=BoJack Horseman goes underwater and hits its high-water mark in a tour de force episode|last=Chappell|first=Les|website=TV Club|date=28 July 2016 |language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-02}}</ref> Les Chappell of ''[[The A.V. Club|AV Club]]'' described the episode as "nothing short of a masterpiece, a culmination of both ''BoJack Horseman''<nowiki/>'s unique animation style and its views on isolation and connection".<ref name=":0" /> [[Joe (website)|Joe.ie]]'s Rory Cashin called it "one of the greatest episodes of TV ever made".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.joe.ie/movies-tv/bojack-horseman-fish-out-of-water-600434|title=A look back at BoJack Horseman's 'Fish Out Of Water', one of the greatest episodes of TV ever made|website=JOE.ie|language=en|access-date=2019-03-02}}</ref> For ''[[New York (magazine)|Vulture]]'', Jesse David Fox praised the episode as "a must-watch", noting that "the best part is, you don't have to have watched a single other episode of the series to love it".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vulture.com/2016/07/bojack-horseman-fish-out-of-water-is-a-must-watch.html|title=This BoJack Horseman Episode Is a Must-Watch, Even If You've Never Seen the Show|last=Fox|first=Jesse David|date=July 22, 2016|website=Vulture|access-date=2019-03-02}}</ref> In 2024, ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' listed it as the 26th best TV episode of all time.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sepinwall |first=Alan |date=September 2, 2024 |title=The 100 Best TV Episodes of All Time |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-lists/best-tv-episodes-of-all-time-1235090945/bojack-horseman-fish-out-of-water-1235091370/ |access-date=September 5, 2024 |website=Rolling Stone |language=en-US}}</ref> |
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== References == |
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* [https://www.netflix.com/watch/80073220 "Fish Out of Water"] on [[Netflix]] |
* [https://www.netflix.com/watch/80073220 "Fish Out of Water"] on [[Netflix]] |
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Latest revision as of 23:39, 3 January 2025
| "Fish Out of Water" | |
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| BoJack Horseman episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 3 Episode 4 |
| Directed by | Mike Hollingsworth |
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| Featured music | "Sea of Dreams" by Oberhofer Score by Jesse Novak |
| Original release date | July 22, 2016 |
| Running time | 26 minutes |
| Guest appearance | |
"Fish Out of Water" is the fourth episode of the third season of the American animated television series BoJack Horseman, and the 28th episode overall.[1] It was written by Elijah Aron and Jordan Young, and directed by Mike Hollingsworth, and was released in the United States, along with the rest of season three, via Netflix on July 22, 2016. Angela Bassett provides her voice in a guest appearance in the episode.[2]
The episode features BoJack travelling to a film festival in the ocean, where he wears an oxygen-filled bubble to continue breathing. Notably, the episode features less than three minutes of audible dialogue.[3]
In 2017, the episode was nominated for the Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Animation at the 69th WGA Awards. The episode "Stop the Presses" from the same season won the award.[4] The episode was also nominated for Best Animated Television Production at the 44th Annie Awards.[5]
Plot
[edit]Ana Spanakopita sends BoJack to the world's biggest underwater film festival to promote Secretariat. Unfortunately, ex-Secretariat director Kelsey Jannings is also attending. Faced with the thought of seeing her, BoJack panics: not only will he have to have an awkward confrontation, he will have to do it underwater, where speaking is inhibited by his helmet. BoJack goes to the festival lobby where press events are underway. A group of fish journalists take his picture, so he poses for them—giving them the thumbs-up sign, not knowing that this gesture is offensive in Pacific Ocean City. He notices Kelsey sadly trying to drum up interest in her movie, so he tries to write her an apology note, but she disappears before he can give it to her.
BoJack falls asleep on the bus, where he has to help a male seahorse give birth, and becomes stranded far from the city. As he starts his long walk back to the festival, he realizes that one of the baby seahorses clung to him, so he reluctantly decides to find its dad. Following many misadventures, he reunites the baby with its father, but it turns out that it was not missed. The seahorse dad invites BoJack in for dinner and even offers him money, but BoJack declines. The dad seems to ask, "What do you want?" but BoJack does not know. He leaves, depressed and envious of the seahorse family.
BoJack catches a cab back to the hotel. En route, he writes a heartfelt apology note to Kelsey. He arrives too late to attend the premiere, so he returns to the hotel just in time for the afterparty, where he learns that Secretariat was a huge hit. As Kelsey leaves the party, BoJack runs after her cab, but by the time he reaches her window, his note has become runny and blurred. Kelsey speeds off without knowing what he wanted to say.
As BoJack stands at a crosswalk, a man with a helmet yells at him by pressing a button on the collar. Realizing that he could speak the whole time, BoJack presses the button and the episode finishes with him saying, "Oh you have got to be kidding—"
Reception
[edit]"Fish Out of Water" received critical acclaim, with many critics calling it one of the series' best episodes, and one of the best television episodes of 2016.[6] Les Chappell of AV Club described the episode as "nothing short of a masterpiece, a culmination of both BoJack Horseman's unique animation style and its views on isolation and connection".[6] Joe.ie's Rory Cashin called it "one of the greatest episodes of TV ever made".[7] For Vulture, Jesse David Fox praised the episode as "a must-watch", noting that "the best part is, you don't have to have watched a single other episode of the series to love it".[8] In 2024, Rolling Stone listed it as the 26th best TV episode of all time.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ Travers, Ben (July 27, 2016). "How 'BoJack Horseman' Achieved Perfection Without a Word". IndieWire. Retrieved March 2, 2019.
- ^ "How a near-silent underwater episode conveys the brilliance of Bojack Horseman". Little White Lies. Retrieved March 2, 2019.
- ^ "The Music From BOJACK HORSEMAN'S Underwater Episode is Serene (Premiere)". Nerdist. Retrieved March 2, 2019.
- ^ McNary, Dave; Littleton, Cynthia (February 20, 2017). "WGA Awards: 'Moonlight,' 'Arrival' Win for Best Screenplay, 'Atlanta' Wins Twice". Variety. Retrieved March 2, 2019.
- ^ "44th Annual Annie Awards Nominees & Winners". Archived from the original on April 13, 2017.
- ^ a b Chappell, Les (July 28, 2016). "BoJack Horseman goes underwater and hits its high-water mark in a tour de force episode". TV Club. Retrieved March 2, 2019.
- ^ "A look back at BoJack Horseman's 'Fish Out Of Water', one of the greatest episodes of TV ever made". JOE.ie. Retrieved March 2, 2019.
- ^ Fox, Jesse David (July 22, 2016). "This BoJack Horseman Episode Is a Must-Watch, Even If You've Never Seen the Show". Vulture. Retrieved March 2, 2019.
- ^ Sepinwall, Alan (September 2, 2024). "The 100 Best TV Episodes of All Time". Rolling Stone. Retrieved September 5, 2024.
