List of BoJack Horseman characters

BoJack Horseman is an American adult animated sitcom created by Raphael Bob-Waksberg. The series stars Will Arnett as the title character, BoJack Horseman. The supporting cast includes Amy Sedaris, Alison Brie, Paul F. Tompkins, and Aaron Paul. The series' first season premiered on August 22, 2014, on Netflix, with a Christmas special premiering on December 19. The show is designed by the cartoonist Lisa Hanawalt, who had previously worked with Bob-Waksberg on the webcomic Tip Me Over, Pour Me Out.^[1]

Main characters

BoJack Horseman

BoJack Horseman (voiced by Will Arnett) is a self-loathing 52-year-old alcoholic horse whose acting career peaked when he starred in a successful show called Horsin' Around, a 90s family sitcom. Though he began as a young bright-eyed actor, he has since grown bitter, deeply depressed, and jaded towards Hollywood and who he has become post-fame. Bojack has been shown to be caring and insightful, but his insecurities, loneliness, and desperate need for approval often result in self-destructive actions that devastate those around him.

Princess Carolyn

Princess Carolyn (voiced by Amy Sedaris) is a pink Persian cat who is BoJack's agent and former on-and-off girlfriend. Earnest and unflagging, Princess Carolyn was a top agent at Vigor agency through her dogged pursuit of new talent and large network of odd personal connections. Though she struggles to find a balance between work, her troubled personal life, and taking care of Bojack and her friends, she enjoys her fast-paced hectic lifestyle. She seceded from Vigor to start a new agency with her then-boyfriend and coworker Rutabaga Rabitowitz. After recognizing his duplicity and confronting her fear of being alone, she ultimately decides to leave him and run the new company named VIM by herself. After several setbacks, Princess Carolyn closes VIM in Season 3, only to reopen it as a management agency.

Diane Nguyen

Diane Nguyen (voiced by Alison Brie) is a human ghostwriter, misunderstood intellectual, and a Vietnamese-American third-wave feminist from Boston who lives with her rich and famous boyfriend (and later husband), former sitcom star Mr. Peanutbutter. While writing BoJack's memoir, he and Diane initially develop a strong friendship that becomes increasingly awkward and strained after BoJack develops romantic feelings for her. Diane travels to the war-torn Republic of Cordovia to make a difference, but discovers that this life is not for her. Ashamed of returning to her husband, she develops a severe bout of depression, during which she drinks heavily and sleeps disheveled on BoJack's patio furniture. She is able to reconcile her feelings with Mr. Peanutbutter and gets a job at VIM ghostwriting tweets for celebrities. She is subsequently fired from VIM, and is hired to write for a feminist blog.

Mr. Peanutbutter

Mr. Peanutbutter (voiced by Paul F. Tompkins) is an energetic and cheerful yellow Labrador Retriever who is BoJack's former sitcom rival and Diane's boyfriend (and later husband). Mr. Peanutbutter was the star of Mr. Peanutbutter's House, which, according to BoJack, "borrowed the premise" from Horsin' Around. He had a stint at filming a celebrity reality show called Peanutbutter and Jelly. Despite their rivalry, Mr. Peanutbutter cares a great deal about BoJack's opinion and admires him for his work on Horsin' Around. He has an especially good relationship with Todd, and his positive attitude and financial resources combined with Todd's outlandish schemes and plans often result in the two starting questionable business ventures, such as a Halloween store that is exclusively open in January. In the episode "Let's Find Out", Mr. Peanutbutter starts hosting his own televised game show after his film company enters bankruptcy due to his and Todd's extensive expenditures on useless products. In "Hank After Dark", it is revealed that Mr. Peanutbutter was formerly married to a woman named Katrina who was emotionally abusive. His second wife was famous actress Jessica Biel, who is portrayed as being obsessed with her celebrity status and people recognizing her. He grew up in the Labrador Peninsula, which is depicted as being populated entirely by Labrador Retrievers. "Mr." is his actual first name. He often shouts to an offscreen presence only known as "Erica".

Todd Chavez

Todd Chavez (voiced by Aaron Paul) is an unemployed but well-meaning and friendly 24-year-old human slacker who ended up at BoJack's house for a party five years before the beginning of the series and never left. Although BoJack constantly voices disdain for him, he secretly cares about Todd, continuing to financially support him and sabotage his attempts to gain independence. Todd has been shown to possess a plethora of skills including an understanding of Japanese; entrepreneurial know-how, having allied with Mr. Peanutbutter for various business ideas; and writing and composing his own rock opera- Newtopia Rising, Book I: The Search for a New Utopia. His rock opera was eventually sabotaged by BoJack, who took advantage of his former addiction to video games. Todd puts the pieces together of what BoJack did string map style and begins to question his friendship with Bojack. Todd also has an uncanny knack for getting himself in absurd and extremely dangerous situations when his friends aren't around, such as getting into gun fights on several occasions, ending up in prison, and in one case switching places Prince and the Pauper-style with a Cordovian dictator. Todd's friendship with Mr. Peanutbutter landed him various jobs creating seemingly useless products. He sees the best in BoJack, despite his multitude of problems. He's usually happy, even when being insulted by BoJack. Catch Phrases include shouting Hooray! He is also almost never seen without wearing his signature yellow beanie. It is revealed in the season 3 finale "That Went Well" that he is asexual.

Recurring characters

Pinky Penguin

Pinky Penguin (voiced by Patton Oswalt) is an Emperor penguin who works at a publishing house and depends on BoJack's book to save his job and company. In "Yesterdayland", Pinky started working at MBN. At the end of "Later", it is revealed he was able to see his kids again. After Wanda moves to Detroit, he becomes the head of MBN.

Sarah Lynn

Sarah Lynn (voiced by Kristen Schaal) is a human actress who played the Horse's precocious adoptive youngest daughter Sabrina on Horsin' Around, and who looked up to BoJack off-screen as a father figure. After the show went off the air, she became a successful pop singer in the early 2000s before drug addiction and alcoholism ended her career. Flashbacks indicate that Sarah Lynn's self-destructive behavior is in part the result of being forced into an acting career by her mother, and BoJack (whom she idolized) having neglected her as a child. Around the end of "Later", she was seen visiting Andrew Garfield (with whom she was mentioned as having an on-again, off-again relationship) at the hospital. It is heavily implied that she was sexually abused as a child by her mother's boyfriend and later stepfather. Although Bojack attempts to get her sober earlier in Season 1, he later goes on a bender with her and Todd in an attempt to rewrite his memoir after firing Diane.

In Season 3, she becomes sober, but only because she hears that taking drugs after being sober for a long time is the best experience. When BoJack hits rock bottom, he invites Sarah Lynn to go on an epic bender. Through a series of blackouts, they have a series of misadventures attempting to make amends to BoJack's ex-friends, and even stalking Penny at Oberlin College. Along the way, Sarah Lynn wins the Academy Award for Best Original Song in absentia. She then admits to Bojack that she doesn't like anything about herself and, at the Griffith Observatory planetarium, dies lying on BoJack's shoulder after a drug overdose. In "That Went Well," it is revealed that Bojack tried to get her to guest star on "The Bojack Horseman Show"

Herb Kazzaz

Herb Kazzaz (voiced by Stanley Tucci) is BoJack's human former comedy partner, who created and wrote Horsin' Around where he also provided the voice of Mr. Libertore who runs the law firm where the Horse works as an attorney. When BoJack and Herb first meet as comedians, BoJack angrily tells him to "get cancer" which is what eventually happens. The pair had a falling out at the apex of the show's success when Herb was blackballed by the network for being gay and BoJack did not stand up for Herb for fear of losing his own job. At the beginning of the series, they have not spoken for nearly 18 years. BoJack attempts to reconnect with him after learning Herb has been diagnosed with terminal rectal cancer and is being watched over by Tina. Though Herb reveals he lived a full life in spite of losing Horsin' Around, he has not forgiven BoJack for not having been a supportive friend. Despite his cancer going into remission, he instantly passes away due to an allergic reaction to the peanuts on a peanut truck in a car crash when his brakes gave out during a ride home from the hospital. It was also revealed that Herb's office was under the room where Savion Glover kept a studio. Following his death, Henry Winkler and Tina stole the manuscript of his poorly written novel to keep it from being published and tainting his legacy. In "Out to Sea", Herb's ashes are donated to the Jerb Kazzaz Memorial Orphanage (misspelled due to BoJack's email and the hedgehog owner's stubbornness to pay for its replacement).

Tina

Tina is a brown bear who is the nurse of Herb Kazzaz. In "Still Broken", Tina was in collaboration with Henry Winkler to keep Herb's terrible manuscript for a novel from being posthumously published and harming his legacy. Unlike the other anthropomorphic characters on the show, Tina only speaks in growls.

Charlotte Moore

Charlotte Moore (voiced by Olivia Wilde) is a deer who was Herb Kazzaz's old girlfriend with whom BoJack was once in love. During a drug and alcohol induced stupor in "Downer Ending", BoJack imagines an alternate life where instead of becoming a television star he moves to Maine with Charlotte. In this fantasy, the couple get married, have a daughter named Harper, and lead a quiet rustic lifestyle.

In "Still Broken", Charlotte attended Herb Kazzaz's funeral. In a discussion with BoJack, she mentioned that she visited Herb and read the part in BoJack's book on how he and Herb fought over a telescope. She tells him she only lived in Maine for a month and later moved to Tesuque, New Mexico. In "Escape from LA", BoJack drives to Charlotte's house to find she is married to Kyle and has two teenage children named Trip and Penny. She also owns a store called "Your Deer Friend". During his time in New Mexico, BoJack bonds with the 17-year-old Penny by becoming her "date" for prom. When Charlotte catches BoJack and her daughter in a compromising position in his yacht, she orders him to get off her property in half an hour before she calls the police. Furthermore, Charlotte also states to BoJack that if he contacts her or her family again, she will kill him.

Beatrice Horseman

Beatrice Horseman (voiced by Wendie Malick) is a horse who is BoJack's neglectful, verbally abusive mother. Heiress to a sugar cube company, she primarily appears in flashbacks to BoJack's childhood. In "Brand New Couch", Beatrice calls up BoJack to tell him she read the book about him and concedes that he was born "broken".

Butterscotch Horseman

Butterscotch Horseman (voiced by Will Arnett) is a horse who is BoJack's physically and verbally abusive father. He appears in flashbacks to BoJack's childhood. Butterscotch, who hailed from a working-class background, was an alcoholic failed novelist. He resented his wife's financial independence and took out his insecurities on BoJack. In flashbacks, Butterscotch is often seen yelling nonsensical conservative hyperbole such as claiming that the Panama Canal is for "Democrats". A flashback in "Brand New Couch" revealed that Butterscotch left Beatrice. It has not yet been revealed if he is still alive.

Lenny Turteltaub

Lenny Turteltaub (voiced by J.K. Simmons) is a turtle and big-shot film producer. He worked with Ed Begley, Sr., Lionel Barrymore, Buster Keaton and Edwin S. Porter during their youth, suggesting that he is extremely old (a reference to the lifespan of actual turtles).

Paparazzi Birds

The Paparazzi Birds (voiced by Adam Conover and Dave Segal) are an unnamed blue jay and American robin duo who would try to get incriminating pictures of BoJack.

Sextina Aquafina

Sextina Aquafina (voiced by Aisha Tyler in season 1-2, Daniele Gaither in season 3) is a bottlenose dolphin pop-music sensation. In "Out to Sea", Diane meets with Sextina to discuss becoming her social-media ghostwriter. In the season three episode "Brrap Brrap Pew Pew", Diane accidentally tweeted out that Sextina was having an abortion while she was being distracted, which caused a media storm. While Sextina was initially angered with the tweet and tried to fire Diane, she later embraced the image because of support from other celebrities. She later released a music video militantly supporting abortion, had her "abortion" on live TV, and soon after became pregnant. It is implied that she is sent to a farm where celebrities go to disappear.

According to creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg, she is based on a girl who was in his and Lisa Hanawalt's English class as a senior in high school.^[2]

Kelsey Jannings

Kelsey Jannings (voiced by Maria Bamford) is a human who was hired to direct the Secretariat movie. A divorced, lesbian, independent filmmaker, she sees the Secretariat project as her last chance to break into the big time and make enough money to get her daughter Irving into an Ivy League school (as opposed to Vassar). Cynical and initially dismissive of BoJack's talents, she and BoJack grow closer over the course of filming. She has a special fondness for Todd because she likes his face. She is later fired by Lenny Turteltaub in "The Shot" for filming a scene that involved Secretariat's encounter with Richard Nixon.

In season three, BoJack finds Kelsey at POFF (Pacific Ocean Film Festival) and attempts to reconcile with her through a note, but she cannot understand it because the ink starts to wash away. Later in the season, the two discuss doing a serious film together to legitimize BoJack as an actor. Unfortunately, this is part of a plan by Vanessa Gekko to sabotage Princess Carolyn. The resulting fallout seemingly ends Bojack's unique professional and artistic connection with Kelsey.

A Ryan Seacrest Type

A Ryan Seacrest Type (voiced by Adam Conover) is the name of a human character who hosts "Excess Hollywood" (later renamed "Excess Hollywoo" after BoJack steals the D in the Hollywood Sign and the D is accidentally destroyed in a helicopter crash) and interviews celebrities. He also hosts "Morning Time, Hollywoo" with a female human called Some Lady. In the third season, he is run over by BoJack driving a limo. It hasn't been confirmed if he is dead or not.

Tom Jumbo-Grumbo

Tom Jumbo-Grumbo (voiced by Keith Olbermann) is a blue whale who is a newsman and pundit on MSNBSea (a parody of MSNBC). Tom often reports on BoJack's misdeeds and other happenings in Hollywoo. Whenever something goes wrong on the air, he blames it all on an offscreen presence only known as "Randy", and makes various jokes at the expense of his equally unseen ex-wife.

Wayne

Wayne (voiced by Wyatt Cenac) is Diane's human ex-boyfriend who is a hipster and a BuzzFeed writer.

Officer Meow Meow Fuzzyface

Officer Meow Meow Fuzzyface (voiced by Cedric Yarbrough) is a cat who works as a police officer at the Los Angeles Police Department's 12th Precinct. He takes his duties very seriously, although there is intense disagreement within the police force over whether he is a "reckless renegade", a "loose cannon", or just a "cop on the edge with nothing to lose."

Charley Witherspoon

Charley Witherspoon (voiced by Raphael Bob-Waksberg) is a tree frog who is the son of Mr. Witherspoon. He works at the Vigor agency where his hand keeps sticking to things. Charley was briefly Princess Carolyn's assistant, but was later made an agent.

After his father's death, he is sworn in as the new President of Vigor.

Vincent Adultman

Vincent Adultman (voiced by Alison Brie^[3]) is Princess Carolyn's boyfriend. Everyone except BoJack appears oblivious to the fact that he appears to be three children standing atop each other underneath a trench coat. Though he speaks in a child's voice and has awkward syntax, he also occasionally exhibits strangely keen insight, prompting others to ignore BoJack's observations. In Season 2, Princess Carolyn meets Kevin, who appears to be the top child of Vincent's trio. He tells Princess Carolyn that Kevin is Vincent's son, which she believes, but leads to them breaking up.

Dr. Allen Hu

Dr. Allen Hu (voiced by Ken Jeong) is a human physician who sells drugs to Sarah Lynn. An unseen character throughout most of the first season, he is the subject of a recurring joke based on the phonetic similarity of his name to "who" with BoJack and others believing that Sarah's drug connection is a man who simply calls himself "Doctor Who" rather than an actual physician. He made his first onscreen appearance in "Downer Ending."

Sebastian St. Clair

Sebastian St. Clair (voiced by Keegan-Michael Key) - A snow leopard billionaire bachelor who wants Diane to accompany him to a third world country, Cordovia. Though Diane initially looks up to him because she wants to change the world in a positive way, she quickly becomes disillusioned when it becomes clear he is more concerned with making a legacy for himself than with actually helping people.

Jogging Baboon

The Jogging Baboon (voiced by Jason Beghe) is an unnamed white baboon that is often seen jogging by BoJack Horseman's house. In "Out to Sea", the Jogging Baboon comes across BoJack jogging. He tells BoJack that jogging may be hard at first, but it will get easier if he does it every day.

Corduroy Jackson-Jackson

Corduroy Jackson-Jackson (voiced by Brandon T. Jackson) is BoJack's human co-star in the Secretariat movie. He dies from auto-erotic asphyxiation. The movie is later dedicated in memory of him.

Wanda Pierce

Wanda Pierce (voiced by Lisa Kudrow) is an owl who is a network-television executive at MBN. She woke up from a 30-year coma that she somehow ended up in and began a relationship with BoJack. Because she had missed the last 30 years of pop culture, she is initially unfamiliar with BoJack's history and fame, and must learn what transpired in the world while she was in a coma. She and BoJack break-up in "Yes And" where she claims that she can not have a relationship with someone as bitter as BoJack. It is revealed in the season three premiere "Start Spreading the News" that Wanda moved to Detroit after receiving a position at a TV company there.

Rutabaga Rabbitowitz

Rutabaga Rabbitowitz (voiced by Ben Schwartz) is a rabbit agent at the Vigor agency who works one floor below Princess Carolyn. He later informed her of J.D. Salinger still being alive. Rutabaga cheats on his wife Katie with Princess Carolyn, claiming he plans to obtain a divorce. He later persuades Princess Carolyn to join him in founding their own agency upon seceding from Vigor. After revealing his reluctance to divorce yet wishing to continue the affair, Princess Carolyn abandons him.

He later makes his own agency with Vanessa Gekko called Gekko Rabbitowitz. Later on, Rutabaga has rekindled his marriage to Katie who gives birth to sextuplets on New Year's Eve.

Hank Hippopopalous

Hank Hippopopalous (voiced by Philip Baker Hall) - A hippopotamus who is a beloved former host of a late-night talk show called Hank After Dark. At the 1994 Animals' Choice Awards, he won the award for Male Animal in a Comedy, Drama or Variety Show, for which BoJack Horseman and Mr. Peanutbutter were also nominated and was given the award by Scott Wolf and Matthew Fox. Mr. Peanutbutter idolizes him and treasures having met him at the awards after-party. He is the host of a TV dance competition Hey, I Think You Can Dance. Hippopopalous is known in the TV industry as Uncle Hankie.

In the episode "Hank After Dark," Diane inadvertently causes a controversy by including the beloved entertainer in a mention of celebrities who have done worse things than BoJack. The controversy involved unspecified allegations made against him by all eight of his female former assistants.

Roxy

Roxy (voiced by Fielding Edlow) is Diane's old friend. She was initially introduced as her and Mr. Peanutbutter's wedding officiant in "Horse Majure". She is baffled by Diane's relationship and possible obsession with BoJack since she came to him after abandoning Cordovia, and not to her or any of her other friends.

Judah

Judah (voiced by Diedrich Bader) is a part-owner for Princess Carolyn's agency VIM. He is depicted as comically deadpan and doesn't seem to really understand humor or sarcasm. Though he remains unflinchingly loyal to Princess Carolyn even after VIM collapses.

Minor characters

• Pig Doctor (voiced by Patton Oswalt) - An unnamed pig physician.
• Waitress (voiced by Alison Brie) - An unnamed cow waitress with a bad attitude.
• Oxnard (voiced by Jake Johnson) - Mr. Peanutbutter's long-suffering meerkat accountant, he is frequently driven to madness by Mr. Peanutbutter's hairbrained business schemes.
• Laura (voiced by Rachel Bloom) – Princess Carolyn's secretary in season one. She is replaced by a male assistant named Stuart in season two, but makes a brief non-speaking cameo appearance in "Higher Love." She later returns as director David Pincher's personal assistant in season three.
• Vanessa Gekko (voiced by Kristin Chenoweth) – A human Hollywoo talent agent, and the rival of Princess Carolyn. She is a seemingly better agent than Princess Carolyn and has a husband and kids. She temporarily shares an office with Princess Carolyn when their agencies merge. Sometime between seasons 2 and 3, she and Rutabaga started their own agency Gekko-Rabbitowitz which ultimately sabotages VIM leading to the latter agency's collapse.
• Quentin Tarantulino (voiced by Kevin Bigley) – A tarantula who is a film director. He is a parody of Quentin Tarantino.
• Mr. Witherspoon (voiced by Stephen Colbert) – A bullfrog who heads the Vigor agency. He is Princess Carolyn's boss and the father of Charley Witherspoon. In "Out to Sea," it was mentioned that Mr. Witherspoon suffered a stroke. He dies sometime between "Out to Sea" and "Old Acquaintances" as a result of his medical condition.
• Angela Diaz (voiced by Anjelica Huston) – A human executive for the studio that produces Horsin' Around. She gives BoJack a speech about how the entertainment business works, persuading him to leave Herb behind to preserve BoJack's own career.
• Bradley Hitler-Smith (voiced by Adam Conover) – A human actor who played the Horse's adopted son Ethan on Horsin' Around. A running joke in Horsin' Around was that he had a catchphrase to which the studio audience responded with an awkward silence. In "Still Broken," it is revealed that Bradley is living in Olympia, Washington and that his parents divorced after BoJack had sex with Bradley's mother. In season three, Bradley comes to BoJack with a sequel series idea Ethan Around which he initially turns down though later comes back when he decides to make amends with Bradley. However, BoJack flakes again and leaves Bradley in the dust.
• Joelle Clarke (voiced by Alison Brie) – A human actress who played the Horse's eldest adopted daughter Olivia on Horsin' Around. In "Still Broken," it is revealed Joelle is living in England and developed a British accent. It is mentioned in season three that Joelle missed five episodes of Horsin' Around due to an anorexia problem (a possible reference to Growing Pains actress Tracey Gold's real-life problem whilst on that show).
• Tracy (voiced by Nicole Sullivan) – A character in Horsin' Around who works as Mr. Libertore's secretary.
• Richie Osborne (voiced by Fred Savage) – A human actor who played Goober on Horsin' Around who always shows up to the Horse's house unannounced, leading everyone to say "Go home, Goober!" BoJack mentioned that Richie once got in trouble with the law for molesting the Laker Girls. When he grows up, Richie is the owner of a strip club with killer whale dancers.
• Abe D'Catfish (voiced by Garry Marshall) – A catfish director who replaces Kelsey Jannings after Lennie Turteltaub fires her. He and BoJack have butted heads causing BoJack to sneak out of LA to briefly visit Charlotte Moore. This causes Abe and Lennie to use CGI to fill in for BoJack.
• Katrina Peanutbutter (voiced by Lake Bell) – Mr. Peanutbutter's emotionally abusive human ex-wife, she first appears in a flashback at the beginning of "Hank After Dark.' It is implied that she introduced Mr. Peanutbutter to the offscreen presence known as "Erica". At the end of season three, she contacts Mr. Peanutbutter about running for Governor of California.
• Kyle (voiced by Ed Helms) – Charlotte's human husband and the father of Trip and Penny.
• Trip (voiced by Adam Pally) - Charlotte's human son who is the younger teenage brother of Penny.
• Penny Carson (voiced by Ilana Glazer) – A deer who is Charlotte and Kyle's 17-year-old daughter, and Trip's sister. She bonds with BoJack while he stays at their home during "Escape from L.A." where he acts as her surrogate date from prom. After returning from the home, she propositions him to have sex which BoJack rejects despite her saying she is of consent age in her state. Charlotte later finds her and BoJack in a compromising position on his yacht and is sent to her room before either one can explain what happened. In season three, BoJack attempted to reconcile with Penny believing she may have been emotionally damaged because of the incident and finds her at her school Oberlin College. Penny freaked out when he suddenly appeared and ran off stating that he shouldn't be here.
• Copernicus (voiced by Liev Schreiber) – A Persian cat who founded the improv theater troupe/cult, Shenanigags (which closely resembles Scientology). He takes a liking to Todd and knows dozens of jokes related to the butt. Copernicus is thematically a parody of the founder of Scientology L. Ron Hubbard and visually a parody of Del Close.
• Ana Spanikopita (voiced by Angela Bassett) – A human Hollywoo publicist who specializes in getting celebrities Oscars, hence her title "The Oscar Whisperer". She spends much of season three trying to help BoJack's image, which leads to a relationship with him. Ana breaks up with him after he fails to get the Oscar nomination.
• Heather (voiced by Natasha Leggero) - A manatee reporter for Manatee Fair who winds up sleeping with Bojack while writing an article on him. He accidentally confesses to her that Secretariat was finished using a CGI double of him after he walked out on filming.
• Emily (voiced by Abbi Jacobson) - A human love interest of Todd whom he's known since high school.
• Cuddlywhiskers (voiced by Jeffrey Wright) - A hamster and Hollywoo producer who created The Bojack Horseman Show. He attended Harvard, where he was president of the Lampoon.
• Jill Pill (voiced by Mara Wilson) - A black widow spider playwright who was Cuddlywhiskers' assistant and former lover. Her real name is Jill Filipowitz.
• Dr. Janet (voiced by Lorraine Bracco) - A human marriage counselor providing couples therapy to Mr. Peanutbutter and Diane, as well Rutabaga and his wife Katie. Although modeled on Bracco's portrayal of Dr. Jennifer Melfi from The Sopranos, she is more sardonic and direct in her manner and uses a police siren to signal that time has run out in the therapy session.
• The Closer (voiced by Candice Bergen) - An unseen sales executive of indeterminate species who patiently counsels Bojack through his personal problems over the phone as part of an elaborate last ditch sales pitch to get him to re-subscribe to the L.A. Gazette.
• Ralph Stilton (voiced by Raul Esparza) - A mouse who is Princess Carolyn's new love interest at the end of Season 3. He and Princess Carolyn were set up on a blind date unaware of the other's species. He runs a greeting card company and is an heir to the Stilton hotel's fortune.
• Captain Peanutbutter (voiced by "Weird Al" Yankovic) - Mr. Peanutbutter's older brother who lives on the Labrador Peninsula. He makes microbrews and has a wife who runs Iditarod. During Season 3, he reveals to Mr. Peanutbutter that he has a potentially fatal twisted spleen.
• Sandro (voiced by Paul F. Tompkins) - The Italian immigrant human head chef at BoJack's restaurant Elefante. He displays several stereotypical Italian mannerisms and speaks in heavily accented malaproprisms, despite having lived in America for three decades.
• Waiter (voiced by Baron Vaughn) - An unnamed human waiter who works at BoJack's restaurant Elefante, he is forced to become head chef after Sandro abruptly quits.
• Stefani Stilton (voiced by Kimiko Glenn) - Ralph Stilton's sister who is also a mouse. She hires Diane at the end of Season 3 to write for her new feminist website "Girl Crush" (pronounced "Kroosh").

Celebrities

The following celebrities appear either as themselves or anthropomorphic animal versions of themselves:

• Charlie Rose (voiced by Patton Oswalt) - He interviews BoJack Horseman in "BoJack Horseman: The BoJack Horseman Story, Chapter One."
• Character Actress Margo Martindale (voiced by herself) – An exaggerated version of actress Margo Martindale who willingly goes along with BoJack's schemes no matter how convoluted or dangerous. BoJack and others consistently refer to her as "Character Actress Margo Martindale". She is arrested helping BoJack in one of his antics that involved a bank robbery and is incarcerated in Hollywoo Hills Super-Max Prison. In "Later," Margo was seen in the prison's cafeteria talking to her fellow inmates that resemble the characters from Orange is the New Black. In "The Shot," Margo gets involved in a shootout with the Yorba Linda police in order to distract them from BoJack's unauthorized use of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library for the Secretariat film. When the police recognize her face but do not recall her name, she begins firing on them in the name of fellow character actors like John Carroll Lynch and C.C.H. Pounder. In "The BoJack Horseman Show", it is revealed that BoJack knew Martindale as his co-star on his failed eponymous TV show. In season 3, it is revealed that she's gone into hiding on BoJack's boat while also starring in a regional production of a Tennessee Williams play and doing a character arc as Ruth Eastman on the The Good Wife. She is last seen drowning in the Pacific Ocean. It is unknown if she perished at sea or not.
• Beyoncé (voiced by Yvette Nicole Brown) – Beyoncé appears in "Our A-Story Is A 'D' Story" where she trips and falls on dollar bills that BoJack threw off a roof.
• Cameron Crowe - Depicted as a Raven, Princess Carolyn meets with him to discuss the Eva Braun movie that she wants Cate Blanchett to star in.
• Naomi Watts (voiced by herself) – An exaggerated version of the actress who plays Diane in Mr. Peanutbutter's film. While in character as Diane, she engages in a fast-paced sexual relationship with BoJack only to lose interest in him when her character is ultimately written out of the movie by Todd and replaced with a ball on a stick.
• Wallace Shawn (voiced by himself) – An exaggerated version of the actor who plays BoJack in Mr. Peanutbutter's film.
• Secretariat (voiced by John Krasinski) – A racehorse and BoJack's hero. In this show, he was banned for life from racing when there were allegations that he had been betting on his own races. After being disgraced, Secretariat committed suicide by jumping off the John F. Kennedy Memorial Bridge into the Ohio River.
• Andrew Garfield (voiced by Paul F. Tompkins) – Sarah Lynn's celebrity boyfriend with whom she has an on-again off-again relationship. He is depicted as sharing traits with the comic character Garfield, including a dislike of Mondays and a craving for lasagna.
• Henry Winkler (voiced by himself) – Best known for his guest spot on Law & Order: SVU, he gives the eulogy at Herb Kazzaz's funeral. During a discussion with Princess Carolyn, he says he knew Kazzaz when they worked for Habitat for Humanity. Henry and Herb's caretaker Tina kept Kazzaz's terrible manuscript for a novel from being posthumously published and tainting Kazzaz's legacy.
• Paul McCartney (voiced by himself) – He was to appear out of a cake Mr. Peanutbutter made for Diane's surprise party.
• Scott Wolf (voiced by himself) – Despite the last name, Scott is depicted as a red fox in this show. He is a presenter at the 1994 Animals' Choice Awards where he and Matthew Fox presented the award for Male Animal in a Comedy, Drama or Variety Show to Hank Hippopopalous.
• Matthew Fox – Despite the last name, Matthew is depicted as a gray wolf in this show. This version is depicted as being nearly feral and unable to articulate speech. Matthew is a presenter at the 1994 Animals' Choice Awards where he and Scott Wolf presented the award for Male Animal in a Comedy, Drama or Variety Show to Hank Hippopopalous.
• J.D. Salinger (voiced by Alan Arkin) – In the universe of this show, Catcher in the Rye author J.D. Salinger faked his death and opened a bicycle shop. He was a client of the late Ronnie Bonito. After learning that he is still alive, Princess Carolyn convinces him to work in television where he creates a game show that Mr. Peanutbutter hosts called Hollywoo Stars and Celebrities: What Do They Know? Do They Know Things? Let's Find Out. In "Start Spreading the News", he pulls the plug on Mr. Peanutbutter's game show feeling that his work is done on the project. In the same episode, he also leaves Princess Carolyn's new agency for Gekko-Rabbitowitz.
• Daniel Radcliffe (voiced by himself) – The surprise celebrity guest of the first episode of Mr. Peanutbutter's game show.
• Lance Bass (voiced by himself) – Depicted as a bass fish, he is a celebrity guest on Mr. Peanutbutter's game show.
• Jessica Biel (voiced by herself) – Mr. Peanutbutter's second wife in 2007, who frequently references herself in conversation and later divorces him to be with Justin Timberlake.
• Jorge Garcia (voiced by himself) - BoJack is briefly seen talking to him in 2007 about Lost.
• Leonard Maltin (voiced by himself) - Hosts the eponymous Leonard Maltin Awards.
• Greg Kinnear (voiced by himself) - Plays a marionette version of himself in Jill Pill's immersive theatre production of "The Tragedie of Greg Kinglear."
• Wiz Khalifa (voiced by himself) - Presents the Oscar for Best Song to an absent Sarah Lynn.
• Spaghetti Scientist Carla Hall (voiced by herself) - She provides a live tutorial on MSNBSea on how to save Pacific Ocean City from being smothered by twelve tons of cooked spaghetti. This leads to Mr. Peanutbutter saving Pacific Ocean City with a fleet of killer whales and several crates worth of spaghetti strainers he bought for no reason.
• Alexi Brosefino (voiced by Dave Franco). - He texts Diane about a party at his house thinking she was another woman, with the same moniker. He gives Diane "Gush," a drug that gives her an epiphany of how much she loves Mr. PeanutButter.

Also as a running gag thought the series, Diane's ringtone is voiced by several personalities from NPR:

• In season one, Diane's ringtone is voiced by Ira Glass.
• In season two, Diane's ringtone is voiced by Sarah Koenig.
• In season three, Diane's ringtone is voiced by Terry Gross.

Guest characters

• Neal McBeal (voiced by Patton Oswalt) - A Seal who is a Navy Seal and a veteran of War in Afghanistan. He gets into a public feud with Bojack over a box of muffins.
• Irving Jannings (voiced by Amy Schumer) – Kelsey's daughter.
• Amanda Hannity (voiced by Christine Baranski) – A manatee who is editor-in-chief of Manatee Fair magazine.
• Mia McKibbin (voiced by Tatiana Maslany) – A mouse who works at the game show. She is trying to earn the respect of J.D. Salinger and finds Todd extremely immature. A Stanford grad, she has a cameo in a season 3 waiting in line at Starbucks behind Mr. Peanutbutter.
• Unnamed Hedgehog (voiced by Ricky Gervais) – A Hedgehog who runs the Jerb Kazzaz Memorial Orphanage, intended as Herb Kazzaz but misspelled due to BoJack's email.
• Jurj Clooners (voiced by Jay Mohr) – A lawyer-friendly version of George Clooney. He is an actor who stars in The Nazi Who Played Yahtzee, a huge fan of pranks.

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