HOW did you not understand what happened are you kidding me dude?

I think about this episode almost daily, it’s beautiful and hits hard. Been waiting for this episode to drop for so long

You....didnt get the Andrew GARFIELD joke about LASAGNA. Garfield the cat. likes lasagna. thats his whole thing

The voice actor for misshapen head guy who wanted to eradicate Puerto Ricans is of Puerto Rican ancestry. And the voice actor of Glep when he's speaking English and saying Christianity is right, is Jewish.

I think when Charlie said "No-one's ever done anything crazy on sleeping pills" it's a dramatic irony reference to Roseanne, basically setting up the next scene. And for the record, Shrimp has a Yorkshire accent (north east side of England)

The poem goes through third person, second person and first person. The poem is literally a countdown of 3-2-1. The door to the abyss also chases him, getting closer and closer much like the water approaching him as fell. We watch as Sarah Lynn grows up throughout the episode, much like how Bojack knew her for her entire life. Her and Bojack walk to the house right when the episode begins, like how he literally brought her to the afterlife. Each character is eating something that somewhat relates to their death. Herb with the peanuts that he was allergic to, Crackerjack a can of rations he would eat in war for example. Lastly, when Bojack tell Sara Lynn he won't make it to the show, saying he'll wake up, it's a call back when Bojack tells Dr Champ about a dinner he dreams of about the people who are gone (I can't remember which episode..)

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I really like how everyone's method of going through the door reflected their actual deaths. Sarah Lynn was never happy with life, she died on a reckless bender that she knew was dangerous. So she turned away from the door and fell backward, taking an action she knew would get her there without facing it directly. Corduroy Jackson Jackson flew through the door in an uncontrolled swing of the aerialist ropes, just like his real death was an accident. Zach Braff was murdered in the fictional reality of the show, so he passed through because BoJack pushed him. Neither were his choice. Secretariat had the door inevitably drawing closer, just like the water after he jumped. He was calm at first, but eventually went struggling and unwilling. Crackerjack saluted and gave a military phrase before passing through the door. He was a soldier, his death was his duty. But he was tied to Beatrice. His death had a huge impact on the ones he left behind. Beatrice didn't go through the door, the tar came out of the door and consumed her. She had dementia, everything that made "Beatrice" was gone before her body died. Herb was similar, with the tar coming out and eating away at his body like the cancer did. But he remained lucid to the end, as the cancer didn't have an effect on his mind.

Man, the tears always start flowing when BoJack asks if he can just stay on the line with Diane. When I was feeling suicidal, facing down death like BoJack is here, that's all I wanted. Just someone to be with me.

Greatest episode of television

This episode is so tough. I think what's saddest is that it's all happening in Bojack's head - did Crackerjack really not accomplish anything by enlisting? We don't know, but that's how Bojack feels. Did his dad really care? Like you said - it's in Bojack's head, so we don't know. Same with Herb's "there is no other side", it really illustrates Bojack's worldview and how terrified he is of death.

Man... Never seen this episode get so disrespected before. The constant tryhard gremlin voice. All the forced fake laughs and barely paying attention, especially during the powerful poem. Notice how every other reaction to this episode has everyone in the comments sharing their experiences with the reactor and having a genuine discussion about this wonderful work of art. But here in this comments section, it's just everyone blurting shallow trivia about the episode everyone and their mother already knows. This reactor has the personality of a chair or a supermodel. Nobody wants to engage with him in the comments lol.

"I wish i could have known about the view from halfway down" having been suicidal, this quote hit so hard with the context being of him jumping off as his death.. This episode was such a masterpiece, full of references and easter egg too that its hard to remember all like for example i know that the bird means something but i cant remember haha. But man, having Sarah-Lyn grow up during the episode (probably the person he knew for the biggest of their life, like % wise lets say) and Herb being from when they were still struggling but still best buds, his mom in her prime and also probably at the point of her life she had the biggest influence on him because he ended up trying not to care what she tought and just accepted that he hated her. Also the fact that everyone was eating their last meals before they died at the dinner is so nice The dream was not necessarily just bender related i think too, he spoke with dr Champ how he kept dreaming he has dinner with the ones in his life deceased, but like he said waking up before the show. The show itself is amazing, Sarah-Lyn’s number having a soft and a deranged part wich represents her so well, Zach just slowly rolling to his death and instead of doing anything to stop it he just keeps lamenting, and Beatrice dancing with CrackerJack playing their song (Bojack said too at her funeral, the only time he saw his mom live or seem a little happy was when she danced at her party nights 🥺). The whole discussion with Secretaria/his dad is so weird too cause its definitely his brain telling him what he wants to hear or is it the fact that hes an adult now so can judge character better and there are memories we havent seen so was he really just playing up being the tough bad guy? Very hard to say honestly but them being mixed up is definitely because as a child Bojack idolized him so hard he probably wished he was his dad. And lastly, the whole black goop can be explain i think by the fact that Bojack is atheist so he doesnt believe in an after life and him being a nihilist it just goes with the idea that everything is just black without sound or feeling forever, absolutely nothing. Man i was so invested in the video (ive been waiting for it too haha) next week is gonna be a hard goodbye but still, theres more shows to come 🙃. By the way dont worry i was just jawdropped on first watch so the fact you still talked is amazing already lol. And lastly, after all of my fourth watch and having seen some reactions to it, youre the first person to make me realize that Bojack chair was in fact a coffin 😂 never saw it lol. Keep it up man, great video as always 😁

Ho boy!!! The View From Halfway Down. I know you probably recorded this about a month or so back but you're finally here on YT. I am excited to see how it hit you because I remember how this episode SHATTERED me. I remember binging these episodes and having to take like a full 2-3 hour break to finish it out after watching this one. It is BRUTAL but I hope you enjoyed

This and churro are so good and dark

OH MY FREAKING GOSH HE GOT TI THIS EPISODE!!

This episode is just an absolute masterpiece, best in the series and it had a lot of competition for that spot. The one thing I don't 100% understand is the symbolism of the bird. But the scenes with Secretariat are so tragic. The poem is haunting and believe it or not, created for the show. It took me a while to accept it wasn't some preexisting famous poem. And the title, "View from Halfway Down" contrasts to the claim he made during "Best part, worst part" that "You shoulda seen the view from up there" when he claims the best part was throwing himself off the bridge because he was able to go out on his own terms. I think this says a lot about the mindset of suicidal people because they do say that there is a calm that precedes an attempt because the person can relax having decided that whatever is bothering them will cease soon. Secretariat was in a blissful euphoric high thinking he was going to escape all his problems by ending his life. Cus if you think about it, his comment makes no sense other than to be the opposite of his emotions while describing the view from halfway down. He was on a major bridge in California. Thousands of people drive, bike, or walk across there every day. It's not some rare hard to get view, it is a sight millions of people have seen. But he was seeing it differently because it wasn't just the view, but his mental state when he worked himself up mentally to jump.

I only just now realised that Herb was eating peanuts... How did I not see that before?

This whole journey of the show, I feel is worth this one episode. My the most favorite of them all.

13:50 This really is the brilliance of Gravity Falls' writing: it takes very common tropes ("clone of the main character tries to replace him") and develops them in unexpected ways. Episode 3 was kind of like that: I remember calling *immediately* that the Wax statues were the murderers, but the whole investigation was so funny and engrossing that I actually forgot about the statues all the way until they were in the parlor. Such amazing writing.

its still an absolute shock to me that this lost the emmy to rick and morty’s the vat of acid episode like dont get me wrong its a good episode but like, cmon the view from halfway down is one of the best in all of television

Hey Ever, btw the black stuff in this episode is supposed to be Tar. In reference to the two conversations he had with Charolette, where she later revises that “you’re the Tar pit”.

One more to go. 😢

Haha funny horse show

Netflix cut off the flatline to beep at the end.

In his therapy in rehab Bojack mentioned that he has had this dream many times

As the beginning of season 1, Bojack was afraid he was always just gonna be "the horse from Horsing Around" At the end of this episode he's not even that.

The callback to season 1 episode 3 😢 Bojacks speach to Sarah Lynn under the table on the Horsin' Around set... She sings her version of "Don't stop dancing" and one of the last lyrics is... "A song you taught me when I was small" 😢😢😢

The Netflix auto-skip really did a number on this episode, so many people got the wrong ideas because they never saw the most important part of the ending.

Anybody else notice how Sarah Lynn was the first party to “be done”? I say that, cuz if we recall one of her quotes from S1E3, she said, “I'm at a place right now where I never need to grow as a person or rise to an occasion because I can constantly just surround myself with sycophants and enablers until I die tragically young.” And while that quote is foreshadowing on its own to how Bojack treated her in S3E11, I’d like to highlight her very next quote that followed, There was the second part too, “Yeah…it’s pretty much too late for me…” as if to say she was *done*, even back then. Resigned to it as well 🥺

The episode worth every praise

Little thing to point out here: Bojack realizes that he was dying 17 minutes into the episode. 17 minutes. The same time he waited to call somebody to get Sarah Lynn.

I’m gonna miss this series when it ends

No spoilers, but Netflix is a real troll for cutting to the next episode right there in the credits

There's so much to unpack here, Johnny 2 Cellos' "Confronting Mortality | "The View from Halfway Down" Explained" video is a great watch to see everything we mightve missed on this episode

Not so fun fact: People who die from heroin overdoses are killed from it stopping your breath.. Sarah Lynn holds her breath before falling into the abyss

Remember that just a few episodes ago Todd was slipping on expensive lube

if you notice, they all were eating their last meals in the dinner table, bj was eating pills, sarah lynn was eating mcdonalds, jacksonjackson was eating a lemon, the mom was eating the goop youd be served in a nursing home, and the army guy was eating an MRE

1:26 this is the closest Gravity Falls x Owl House crossover we ever got (This is to say, Mable & Eda’s voice actresses having a convo together)

I keep the secretariat poem in the back of my head anytime I’m feeling low cause damn it gives a bit of perspective

This series is soo damn good. Sad it only lasted 6 seasons..

Fun Fact: this was the last episode nominated for an Emmy and it lost to Rick and Morty's The Vat of Acid Episode which made it so Bojack Horseman never won a singular Emmy.

You were saying "He probably drowns in the pool" the Whole Time but there's something about seeing it at 12:38 the shock on your face is as real as when we saw it when it first came out the moment of this is. it that he's Actually Dying this time and there's nothing he can do about it

When he’s panicking You notice how herb is much more consoling and caring than his own mother is.

Ever, in season 1: "Funny horse show." Ever, in season 6: "Existential crisis horse show."

Genuinely one of the greatest episodes of television ever

The "Oil" is actually Tar, a callback to Charlotte saying "Hollywood is on top of a tar pit" and then "You are actually the tar pit" in ep 11 of season 2

Spoilers for the last episode It's kinda disappointing that Netflix skipped the outro, since it would have made it clearer that BoJack survived, since it goes from a flatline to a *beep*.

Even though this episode was very hard to watch, it was incredibly well done. There was so much symbolism and there were so many little easter eggs, it's definitely worth a rewatch if you can stomach it. In particular, pay close attention to the meals that everyone is having before the show. Glad you didn't push yourself to watch another episode right now though, don't force it🙂see you next time

Tough episode to watch. But briliant.