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Sometimes life's a bitch and then you keep living.
— BoJack Horseman • 2014
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Diane gives the show its answer to its own bleak refrain. The old cynical saying says life ends badly; her edit says the harder part is that it keeps going and you have to live in it. After six seasons of BoJack's self-destruction it lands as the gentlest note of hope the show allows, and fans quote it at hard moments.
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In context
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In the series finale, "Nice While It Lasted" (Season 6, episode 16, 31 January 2020), BoJack is let out of prison for a weekend to attend Princess Carolyn and Judah's wedding. He finds Diane on the roof, where she has gone out for a smoke, and the two catch up awkwardly. He tells her how his prison movie night ended up on Pieces of April every week. When he shrugs that life's a bitch and then you die, she answers with this correction, and the show ends on them looking up at the night sky in silence while "Mr. Blue" plays.
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- BoJack Horseman Wiki: Nice While It LastedPlot, TriviaReference checked
- BoJack Horseman Wiki: Diane Nguyen quotesNice While It LastedReference checked
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