What I love about the portrayal of their relationship is that they love each other and they like each other, but they fundamentally can't *understand* each other. And, in the end, love isn't enough.

"Do you know how much it costs to buy 500 fake books?" Wow, so even if she had liked it at first, that would have killed it

When she says "I'm so tierd of squinting" while crying you can really feel how much pain her chararter feels. Diane's voice actress is very talented. The voice acting in this show is overall amazing

Someone worked real hard on Disneying up that globe.

I didn't really register this until somebody pointed it out to me… but he bought fake books. The whole *point* of the library scene in Beauty and the Beast is that she loved reading and never had enough books, and he *knew* that, and so he gave her all the books she could want. And Diane is a writer- she likes books! I'm not saying that she wouldn't have reacted badly if he'd done it with real books as well, but the fact that he didn't even realise why she wanted it… I'm not saying I hate PB, but I can't blame Diane here.

The worst thing about this, for me, is that Mr PB probably thought that this was nothing like the previous gestures he'd done, because it was something that was important to Diane, something she'd held close to her for years. In a way, he probably thought it would make up for all of the over the top surprises he'd put together for her

When she says “I’m so tired of squinting!” I fucking almost broke down. That was so emotional to us all.

The smiley sofa need to be blessed.

I think this Bojack quote from season five sums up what Mr. Peanutbutter did wrong in this relationship, particularly season four: “And in TV, flawed characters are constantly showing people they care with these surprising grand gestures. And I think that part of me still believes that's what love is. But in real life, the big gesture isn't enough. You need to be consistent, you need to be dependably good.” Mr. Peanutbutter can get Diane all of the fancy belle rooms in the world, but he consistently ignored her when he ran for governor just because he wanted more people to like him. The grand gesture isn’t an instant fix, especially when your wife hates grand gestures.

It was bound to happen but it still broke my heart. :(

Right everyone is going to criticise Diane for how she reacted here but I don't think either one of them is at fault and I'm going to explain why. Mr Peanutbutter and Diane have been married for a few years now, and we've seen it has not gone well. However, EVERY time Mr. Peanutbutter makes a big gesture like this, she reacts badly and tells him she doesn't like big gestures. She has told him over and over again that she doesn't like it yet he still does it. It also overlaps with the idea of Diane's entire mentality that she explained all the way back in season 1 and 2 - she says if you spend the whole time chasing something, then you get it, then you feel nothing. She didn't want the library because it was just that, something she could dream about, something that filled her day with hope and helped her through her struggle. Yet here we are, her dream is real, it's not her's anymore, it's happened and now she's filled with emptiness. Mr. Peanutbutter should have known but didn't think about it, because that's who he is. He believes in big gestures of love and appreciation. Mr. Peanutbutter and Diane are two good people who love each other but are fundamentally incompatible. And that's why it's so tragic.

The thing PB said about his ex wives really hits me because it made his character make a lot more sense. I always thought that PB was the problem in those two marriages, because he fell in love too fast with anyone and they left him because they couldn't take everything he does the way Diane did. But it seems that his first wife was an obsessive and manipulative person, and the second was kinda abusive and didn’t care that much about what PB wanted (at least that's what i get from that flashback episode where we see a little of that marriage). But aparently they eventually got bored of him and left, and he's afraid the same will happen with Diane so he does everything he can to treat her as well as possible so she doesn't get tired and find someone else, which isn't the best in contrast to Diane's problem with big gestures. I never thought Mr. Peanutbutter of all the characters of the show would have confidence issues. I always assumed his last two marriages didn't affect him but they did

I'm impressed at just how real these caracter's personalities were built, to the point were it is really interesting to see the amount of people that have similar views to PB and just can't see from Diane's perspective. It just proves that Bojack is all about human nature.

Diane is just tired of rationalizing the good and bad in their relationship. She stays with him because he's a nice person and that's all. MPB is a nice, positive, generous, energetic, and caring person. However, his extreme tendency to do irrational things, only listening to half of what Diane says or just not listening at all (which is worse than refusing to listen my personal opinion), constantly ignoring seriously bad things instead of dealing with it, and constantly smothering her with gifts makes the good parts almost nothing. Diane just can't overlook MPB's massive flaws and only focus on his good qualities anymore. In real life, it can get tiring.

I hate to be THAT person but I'm honestly kind of relieved that Diane's finally putting her foot down. From the moment she sad "yes" to his proposal it was obvious getting married was a terrible idea. Then we had to sit through four seasons of their personalities clashing and this season Mr Peanutbutter's antics were especially irritating. They're both great as individuals but together they really are like "peanut butter and carrots".

Exactly how it feels to have a long term relationship end. The break up is never certain, and you always are afraid that if you end it, that perfect thing you see when you squint will never be. But it’s tiring and draining and you can’t seem to understand each other fundamentally. Neither of you are happy, but you’re afraid to let go of that perfect possibility. It’s heartbreaking.

I think if Mr.PB had done something more simple like given diane an empty room and bought some bookshelves and said the room is where she can build her dream library it would've made her happy because now she can start to build the bell room from scratch and she can make it her own and fulfill her dream slowly overtime with her own hard work and all he had to do was give her something simple yet more meaningful but he always has to do grand gestures instead of smaller more meaningful ones and thats the tragedy here

PB saying "do you know how much it costs to get 500 fake books" is SO telling

The one line that shows, to me, that Mr. PB really does not understand Diane in general, and this dream of hers in particular is this one: "Do you know how much it costs to get 5000 _fake_ books?" Fake books. Not real books. Not a real escape-from-reality comfort corner, not a real space of your own, but an imitation thereof, filled with imitation books. The superficially equivalent stuff, lacking any depth. Diane is an incredibly sheltered, private, walled-in person, who needs to retreat into her own corner, and Mr. PB is all action and chipper and noise. While I sympathise with Diane a lot more here, she is obviously also at fault, but these two people just fundamentally can't understand each other (or at least, PB can't understand Diane) . For God's sakes, people, he put in fake books. It's all a fucking superficial facade, because the distracting noise is all Mr. PB can conceptualise. He isnt wrong to do that, and people who are that type of nihilist are usually happier, but he and Diane are just not talking the same language.

This smells like DIVORCE

Surprise, surprise. I think we all banked on this happening since season 1. They tried to make it work. Really. They tried.

This scene is one of those “They had us in the first half not gonna lie” moments I genuinely thought when Diane was comparing their marriage to a magic eye poster that it was going to be so cute and like “omg they’re gonna make up.” Then that bomb gets dropped, that she’s so tired of squinting. That hurt my soul man.

Squinting takes effort, and effort is exhausting.

It kinda breaks my heart that he did this so she'd feel more at home with him and was kind of a reflection on his abandonment issues and it's the exact thing that pushes her to leave

I was watching "Bojack Horseman" passionately throughout my relationship, and we ended up getting married while the show was still going. When Diane and Mr. Peanutbutter had this big fight, I was watching at a time when my own marriage was already on the rocks less than a year into it (long story, not telling it here). When Diane seemed to reach out to Mr. Peanutbutter, I couldn't help but connect it to my own situation, and it felt nice that they could still bounce back from such a harsh argument. But then when she started to cry and say she was giving up, I reacted almost the same way as Mr. Peanutbutter did. For the record, I ended up getting separated, and our divorce was finalized last year. I don't regret walking away from a relationship that wasn't working out, but I'll never forget that moment, watching this scene, getting this awful feeling that I was looking at my own inevitable future in a way.

Diane "squints" their marriage because she was trying to make the best out of the worst situations, and got tired of doing so. They're not compatible, they don't take time to understand one another and a few times their beliefs clashed with each other to a point of disaster (such as the flacking incident). If they had communicated to each other and be more understanding to each other's feelings and desires while setting up boundaries, there would've been more foundation to their relationship.

He's a manchild and she's an adult. He's fun in small doses but she has to live with him and try to have a normal life with him and, when she gets fed up with his insensitive obliviousness, she looks like the bad guy.

"I'm so tired of squinting" followed by MPB's sigh of complete understanding... Gaaaah my heart...

Mr. Peanutbutter just does what he can to make people happy. So much so, he doesn't even think of the possibility that it could have the opposite effect. He believes what he wants is what others must want too. Much like a cute dog hoping to be pet constantly but is found bothersome instead. That doesn't always mean the dog owner (Diane) is in fault tho. He/ she shouldn't have to put up with it all the time if they choose not to (no matter how cute the dog is).

I don't think either of them are at fault for the relationship not working. They are both good people, they're just not meant for each other. PB can't figure out how to make Diane happy and Diane can't figure out how to appreciate PB. I think that roles will switch next season for Bojack and Diane, instead if Bojack dragging her down in desperation and making her sadder, it will be the opposite.

This season was very interesting for Diane and Princess, as in it is the complete opposite of what is expected. Instead of Princess saving BoJack's ass he saved hers. Diane spent the first few episodes trying to call BoJack for help or assurance and ends the season heavily damaging her marriage(seemingly to the point of divorce.) Lastly BoJack overall has put in more effort to change himself for the better than these two this season. In short, they turned into BoJack.

My sister had a short term thing to Mr. Peanutbutter-like man child. It started out all fun and spontaneous romantic gestures, but that got old really fast when the bills came due. And unlike PB and Diane, this guy did not have the luxury of an unlimited bank account to insulate my sister from the consequences. They broke up within a year. I dont blame Diane. Keeping up with guys like this is exhausting.

Why does it seem like Bojack is becoming happier but everyone else isn't lol

Everyone in the comments is talking about who they side with and why and all I can focus on is the amazing voice acting in this scene. Especially when Diane says "I'm so tired of squinting".

How do you even answer such a statement? I think this phrase is one of the most devastating in the series, along with Todd's speech.

This season's drama exceeded the comedy, which was great.

Diane is addicted to her own misery due to shattered self-esteem from a troubled childhood. Mr. Peanut Butter was raised in a perfect town and then literally stumbled onto every good thing that's ever happened to him, in terms of career and success. There's just NO way these two people (Diane and MRPB) were going to work.

This scene is so especially tragic because they both genuinely want to help and please each other and want to be happy themselves. They're trying so hard (especially Diane) and the more they try the more it falls apart. They just want to love each other and are frustrated that they don't work as a couple despite everything they've done. Not only that, but they had a lot riding on the marriage as a way to fix the mistakes of their past and it blew up in both their faces. It became a way to prove something to themselves and each other and instead it just feels like failure at every level.

Not to mention that the writer's give the viewer's more insight this season to Diane's character. She was happy being at the motel with Mr.Penutbutter perfectly content with the fact they where spending there short vacation there instead of Hawaii. In the episode where she was interviewing PB's ex wife at the nice restaurant she ordered a grilled cheese and while it was shown for humor, to me it showed how Diane loves the little things in life and it really shows the juxtaposition between her and Mr.Peanutbutter. Because as we've seen in former seasons where she tried to help in third world countries and write about important topics all while living a... I don't want to say humble but average lifestyle she miminilistic. All awhile Mr.Peanutbutter is doing spontaneous and outrageous things with Todd like starting a business and running for governor. They are both fundamentally different. And while in some ways they're opposite personalitys helped them complete each other and make them compatible. After being married for this long it's definitely taken a strain.

That's why I've thought they shouldn't be together since season one.

It can't lead any where but divorce, the marriage is 'broken' in a way that can't be fixed by love. It reminds me alot of my own divorce which is why this was the hardest scene for me this season. Sometimes love is just not enough to make a marriage work, it's sad, horrible and against the romantic ideals of true love, but unfortantely the way it is.

People are bagging on Diane but like, I don't really know if I can blame her. Mr. Peanutbutter has done this type of thing time and time again (throwing her a surprise party) and it always ended up badly. It's sweet what he was getting at but they both weren't ready for marriage. Things just fall apart sometimes, and its no one's fault. That was their fate.

this is the hardest conversation what one couple can have. If you can relate you can feel why this scene is so hard hitting .

I'm not sure this is a popular opinion, but I think Diane can't handle a family like life because it never worked for her, she had terrible parents and brothers and couldn't wait to go away. I think she is afraid of commitment and because she can't give the same affection her husband gives to her.

Bojack's explanation really connects with me. It's like I'm waiting to become a different person to reconnect with people, but I'm stuck being me.

I smell a story arc for Mr. Peanutbutter in season 5. Cause we still don't know much about his origin or why he acts so positive. I really hope they do because he is my second favorite character in this show.

THAT THUMBNAIL LOL

Bojack writers were so good at the emotional punch. You thought she was going somewhere nice with her magic eye analogue and then it smashes you in the feels.

The sad moment when you realize the first scene of season 5 is gonna be them finalizing the divorce. However, it will be ingesting to see where it takes each character

Mr. Peanutbutter is a dog. Dogs are happy, simple, straightforward creatures as long as you give them a good upbringing. There can be a lot of misery and injustice in the world, but Mr. Peanutbutter will be happy because he enjoys life’s little pleasures and is happy with material goods and simple relationships, but that can make him unable to understand the insecurities and unhappiness other people go through.

People hate on Diane a lot for this scene, but she's stated numerous times that she doesn't like grand gestures.

Remember what Wayne said, “you’re trying to be a Zelda, when your so obviously a Zoey.”

In my opinion, Diane in this point doesn't allow herself to be happy, just like Bojack. Both of them come from a broken family and this clearly affected their relationships. That's why, in the episode where the house falls down, they two were together the whole time and she said "you really undestand me". Her circumstances and everyday struggles. That's why she keeps calling him during that year he went missing. She really loves Mr Peanutbutter, but she can't fully support him. I cried with her, because I believe she really feels guilty for not accepting Mr PeanutButter's gesture. They love each other, but it won't work. And it's so sad

The complexity and realism to each one of the characters in Bojack Horseman is a masterclass in story telling. It's a shame there are so many people who find the show too depressing or dark to follow. It is indeed very dark, and very deep emotionally. But compared to most of the contrived schlock they put on network TV and the BS "reality" TV, this show was one for the ages.

Diane was in the right. At first I didn't understand but looking back on everything I understand were she was coming from now. To those who still don't get it I suggest you look up "Nice Guy Syndrome" and maybe even listen to some lectures by Dr. Robert Glover. Mr. Peanutbutter is a nice guy, but he dosen't understand that a nice guy isn't the same as a good man. In fact a nice guy can be a very punchable villain once you spotted him. Don't get, me wrong, I'm not saying PB is pure evil. I think there is some good in him, but he's not healthy to be with either. He really is just as selfish and manipulative as Bojack. Listen carefully to what he is saying in this clip. He isn't doing these grand gestures because it makes his wife happy. He's doing this because he's afraid she's going to leave him so he wants to "manipulate" her into doing what he wants. These gestures are designed to give the appearance to other peoeple that he's treating her well, but they really serve as a way to guilt Diane and persure her into doing what he wants. Grand Gestures stop being romantic if you're not listening to your wife, only doing it hoping to get a specific responses from people or just doing it only to fill your own ego. That behavior in real life gets overbearing, can creep out the woman your with and is a narcissistic form of control. Its actually similar to Bojack gaslighting Todd to try to stop him from moving out in season 1. Like Bojack, PB is trying to plant the idea of "staying" in his targets head because he has insecurities and dose it in a way that he can look like a good guy who cares for person he's manipulating. This isn't even anything new with his character either. Go back to season 1. He stoled the credit for stealing the D for Diane, made a big public event out of it, almost made a movie about how much he loves Diane......All to pressure Diane into marrying him. So he lied to her, invited a mob of people to cheer on his grand gestures to put public per pressure on her, and started to make a movie celebrating "himself", all to pervent Diane from acting on cold feet. She was clearly a little hesitant at times but now the world was watching them. If she had backed out then everyone would be angery with "her" instead of PB who put their relationship on display in attempt to block her from walking away. Then she tells him the gestures don't make her comfortable, but he ingores this. Proving these gestures aren't about her but about "him". He also was fine with Hank Hippopopalous being the Bill Cosby of Hollywoo and guilt triped Diane into "not" fighting for his victims because he was afraid it would hurt his show that didn't even last long. So PB cares more about his Image then abuse in Hollywoo. In someways Bojack is a more respectable character because he's at least selfaware of his problems and wants to do better. Bojack also grows as a character and makes the effort to change. PB still feels like the same character he started off as by the shows end. After years of dealing with this kind of behavior the frustration is going to build up in someone. Which leads to the most infuriating thing about the nice guy of all. When you finally snap with him people who don't understand all this get angery with "you" for getting angery with the Nice Guy.

"I am tired of squinting" sums up my past relationship. We loved each other but never understood each other the way we wanted. It just sucked because she is the best person I have ever met in my life.

Wow just wow the voice actress for Diane is amazing her cries sound real I think they are real cries outstanding performance

Fake books is a crime

Dude...if you had just given her an empty room and said "Its all yours. Do whatever you want with it" that would have gone over much better.

This scene hits really hard cause me and my boyfriend broke up last week and this I feel somewhat out how things were for us. We loved each other, we tried for months to make it work when we kept fighting constantly, but when it came down to it we were just to different to make it work and neither one of us was happy. I remember saying to him a month before we broke up “I love you, I know you love me, but when does it hit that point where loving each other isn’t enough, like are we there, are we close?” This scene sums that up so well, two people that love each other but it’s just not enough...

Speaking from experience, I actually find this kind of bittersweet. On the one hand, their marriage fell apart despite their best efforts, but it would have been more tragic for Diane to just keep putting on a face and acting like she was happy with her marriage. I'm honestly happy that they're not milking this drama any more and I can't wait to see where it'll go. Five bucks says she ends up with Bojack in the next season.

The delivery of the last line my god that hit so hard

I'm so tired of squinting

the person i side with in this scene changes literally every single time i watch it

This line is probably one of my favorite game changers in this show.

This is still one of the most real and raw scenes of the entire show.

i dated someone like mr peanutbutter for two years, i can understand how diane feels. it's a tricky situation when they just want to give you the whole world, but you can't accept it because maybe you don't feel worthy, maybe you don't feel like you can ever give them the same back. it's exhausting sometimes, as much as i love these two together overall. i can just picture myself in this exact situation with the same emotions as diane and i feel for her

and thus the big Diane-hate rage began!

I know it's tacky to do this to fictional characters but this scene really makes me wonder. Does Diane have some kind of disorder? Look at it, she hate's grand gestures, she doesn't like surprises, she doesn't like parties, she finds it hard to express the same affection given to her, she doesn't open up until it's too late, she's very fixed in her ways and she _does not want a relationship like this._ It seems clear to me at this point. Bojack is the only one seemingly willing to listen to her woes and that's why she seems much calmer and less uptight around him (in later seasons that is) but she is so strained around Mr. PB. Don't get me wrong, I love Mr. PB but looking at these comments, I don't think Diane's POV is being fully understood. I guess I feel this way because I feel I have a lot in common with Diane and, to be honest I would feel the same way if my husband did not listen to me and kept making the same mistakes.

Top notch thumbnail choice. When I originally saw this scene I couldn't stop staring at the couch

Weird that Diane stuck with PB after he destroyed their house and almost killed Diane, himself, and a bunch of others (via the fracking stunt), but the fact that he built her a dedicated library is too much, man

When two people love each other, care about each other...but don't understand each other...you end up here. It's not anyone's fault, but it sucks all the same.

"Do you know how much it cost me to get 5,000 fake books?" is the line that really nails the problem. Diane would never want fake books for show. He didn't understand her on a basic level.

Exactly how my relationship ended. This is so painfull to watch.

Honestly this completely took me by surprise. I knew their marriage wasn't smooth but I was always hoping that they would sort it out together in the end. I'm happy with where they are now though.

He butchered the idea but this was one scene where I actually felt pretty bad for Mr. PB. Generally, he's terrible at listening but in previous episodes he had tried to include Diane in the reconstruction of his house and she was not really involved and just deferred to whatever he wanted. This was his hail Mary attempt to bring her in to the process and of course he did it wrong but you can't blame the effort as he had to be aware that his marriage was slipping away yet again.

something about peanutbutters sigh of realisation at the end is so genuine. i just dont know how to explain it.

Our relationship 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 u squint at it just right everything lines up and it's the most perfect beautiful amazing thing! But.. I'm so tired of squinting..

"... But I'm tired of squinting." They tried. They tried their very best to make it work. They loved each other, and on some level still do. But they have fundamentally different goals and outlooks. There's no way the relationship wouldn't be strained even at the best of times.

This scene hits the hardest for me out of the entire show both when it premiered and now on my second watch

The problem is that Diane and Mr. Peanut Butter do not have the ability to be able to tell each other how they really feel. They communicate on different levels but cannot be able to communicate with each other. They avoid. Diane could not lean on Mr. Peanut butter when she went across the world and realized she could not do it. Mr. Peanut butter did not tell Diane he was actually bothered by the abortion. He said he wanted to keep it but then said nothing else and like every other situation where things get rough he deflects. He does not confront problems out of fear. Fear makes him do grand gestures and deflect. Rather then confront the issue with two failed marriages and tells Diane he is scared of another failure, he tries to make these over the top grand gestures to prove he is a good husband cause his first two wives were very shitty to him. So that fear makes him think HE was the problem the whole time rather then confront the fact he had two wives who were horrible to him. His grand gestures make Diane feel invisible cause they come off as very self centered and that makes her feel bad that she cant ' measure up.' She feels put on the spot and feels she cant tell him this cause then she looks like the bad guy when he is trying to do something ' nice.' But that gesture is more for his benefit then hers cause he is scared and his reaction to things is to deflect. So in time Diane probably felt that she could not lean on him cause he will make it about him, cause every time there is a problem he gets freaked out and does over the top things. Which makes Diane frustrated cause she does not feel like she can actually TALK to him. So that is pent up frustration cause she knows that she cant talk to him properly. That is why every time he does something nice she gets frustrated cause she knows that his grand gestures are another example of him deflecting and a reminder that she really cannot talk to him about serious stuff. So she avoids it too with drinking, lying about being in a wore torn country and hiding in bojacks house, drugs, and angry sex. They do love each other but the fact that they cant be each others rocks is what led them to her saying she is ' tired of squinting.' If they were able to actually TALK to each other and Mr. Peanutbutter not doing things that are motivated out of fear then they would have had a pretty good marriage. Cause you can tell they DO love each other.

Ever notice that Diane's story arc is similar to Butterscotch's? Both come from poor households in the Eastern USA. Both dream of changing the world by moving to California and becoming a great writer, and end up struggling with crappy jobs, and not breaking through in their chosen fields. They both get better, but unsatisfying jobs (Butterscotch an office drone, Diane a clickbait writer) through their connections. They alienate the people around them through their uncompromising political views. Both of them end up in shallow marriages (though Mr PB is a lot better than Beatrice). Season 5 will probably see a lot more of Butterscotch's backstory. Did he have any siblings? Did any of his novels sell at all?

That smiley sofa has seen some shit

Just lived something similar to this, this hurt my soul

Never understood how someone like Diane, being as smart and dismissive as she is, would agree to marry someone like Mr. PB having never been there for her on an emotional level; with this as proof of just how clueless he is about her inner world.

im on diane's side for once, she clearly doesnt care about suprises and material goods and has consistently shown this to PB, but he never fucking learns and always just throws money and decadent shit at their relationship to try to make it better

honestly I think we all knew from season 1 they weren’t gonna work, but after watching all the fun and cute moments between them and then reaching to this point, damn it hit hard

Maybe Diane would be happier if she were alone...

This is one of the best scenes in the whole show.

We gonna talk about those prints on the couch, or no?

1:31 to 2:05 Oof, this is LITERALLY how I feel right now. I'm so tired of squinting...

I can't help but feel Diane is addicted to miserable. Like when she said "getting married is the happiest day of your life... but what about the day after." She have a lot to be happy about. Now did Mr. PB over did it? Yes he did, but he does it because I think he's scared that if he doesn't do things like that Diane will leave him like his first two wives. She didn't have to over react like that. I wonder though, what if he had a room built in for her (like a man cave) and let her fill it in with things she want.

i like how you can pretty much sympathize with both characters here, no one's truly the bad guy in this situation. MPB does all these extravagant things for diane because he's afraid he might lose her (like what happened with his exes). he tries to make her happy, but he likes to think big and do big things, were as diane likes to think simple and do small things. what they really need is to find that middle ground.

I’m not really a Bojack Horseman fan like at all, but something that strikes out at me is how Mr. Peanuttbutter literally had faces drawn on the furniture and it wasn’t even good furniture just showing how he probably expected to her have fun with whatever he could provide like a little kid having fun with a second-hand toy or used playhouse when that’s just it, she’s not kid. She’s an adult. An adult who moved on with her life. So there’d just be no point in trying to indulge in that fantasy in anymore.

Yano i love ppl like you who put spoilers in the title and put the thumbnail in the background so that there are definetly noooo spoilers 🖐😁🖐

From the very first episode I always thought they were so incompatible and couldn’t believe that actually got married. I mean they’re nothing alike in any way shape or form Mr. peanut butter is this spontaneous happy go lucky overenthusiastic dog who loves making a big spectacle out of things and Diane is very low key and chill who doesn’t always wanna be in the spotlight and would rather have a romantic gesture be something small yet meaningful. I remember in the episode where Bojack had sabotaged Todd’s rock opera Diane had said to Wayne “mr peanut butter is nice to me” I remembered thinking is that the ONLY reason you’re with him???. I mean, of course it’s important to be with someone that’s good to you, but that shouldn’t be the only reason why you’re with them, there should be some things like common interests or similar personality traits that makes you simpatico with your partner, them being a nice person isn’t enough to be in a relationship especially a marriage. I mean he’s done these great big grand romantic gestures for her especially when he proposed but this finally reached the breaking point for her because she’s told him over and over again she doesn’t want a big show of a gesture he’s all into, and yet he continues to do them as if he had no clue she wasn’t into them proving he never really listens to her and her needs. It is a sad moment for her to acknowledge out loud that no matter how hard she’s tries to continue “squinting” and how much she loves and cares for him they’re never gonna be able to get past the problems they continue to have time after time and therefore their marriage will never work. But in the grand scheme of things their divorce was definitely what was best for both of them cuz they’re jus not right for each other. I’m glad they both ended up with happy ending separately and had the chance to express to each other that despite everything they’re grateful for the time they had together.

Yeah, sadly this will be healthy for them. They tried so hard to make it work but from the start it felt weird.

Fuck... when I started watching the show I could not expect this portrayal of social interaction with all its complexity but also those brief moments that everything comes to a sense. You briefly stand out and above as if you are not part of this entanglement. Then you have to dive in. Again.

Are people really so dense that they can't see Diane's point of view? Mr. Peanutbutter is legit acting controlling and manipulating. Rather than allowing Diane to piece together a library (if she ever wanted to), he went ahead and did it for her (and shoddily too), and then tried to present it as a reason to keep her with him. Peanutbutter is really messed-up: selfish, self-absorbed, lacking any sense of self-awareness. Diane honestly made the right decision, but it baffles me that people can just dismiss her and call her a "bitch". It might not have been an abusive relationship between them, but it was certainly an incompatible one that was highly toxic at times.

I just want to say that I very much like the person that uploaded this and had the kindness to put a thumbnail and a title that avoided spoilers.