For BoJack Horseman, It Matters If A Cartoon Dog Is A Man Or A Woman

“The thinking comes from a place that the cleanest version of a joke has as few pieces as possible,” Bob-Waksberg writes in his Tumblr post. “For the dog joke, you have the thing where the tongue slobbers all over the businessperson, but if you also have a thing where both of them ladies, then that’s an additional thing and it muddies up the joke. The audience will think, ‘Why are those characters female? Is that part of the joke?’ The underlying assumption there is that the default mode for any character is male, so to make the characters female is an additional detail on top of that. Read More & Listen to the Story…