BoJack the Feminist

💡 Did You Know?

Vance Waggoner is inspired by Mel Gibson, Alec Baldwin and Mark Wahlberg. Much of this episode's ideas and of season 5's greater theme of how much Bojack's toxicity is normalized were inspired by Raphael Bob-Waksberg finding out he shared an agency with Gibson and wrestling with the moral ramifications given Gibson's infamous past behavior. Just like Gibson, Waggoner used antisemitic language against a police officer. Waggoner's aggressive phone call with his daughter is inspired by Alec Baldwin, while Waggoner attacking someone with a bat when he was young was a reference to Mark Wahlberg, who had physically assaulted a man of Vietnamese descent in 1980s.