Diane Nguyen

Diane Nguyen, also known as Diana, Blarn, Deedee, Cryanne, Asian Daria, Diabolical Thin Mint, Glasses and Princess Diane, is one of the main characters from the BoJack Horseman series.
== Charactah Account ==
Diane is a human ghostwriter, a nice, well-reasoned, misunderstood intellectual, and a Vietnamese-American third-wave feminist from Boston who used to live with her rich and famous ex-boyfriend (and later ex-husband), former sitcom star Mr. Peanutbutter.
Diane is a nice, intelligent, nerdy third-wave feminist woman who is shy at social gatherings but ironically bold and upstanding when she sees it's necessary.
Diane is considerably compassionate and empathetic, especially towards friends of hers such as Todd and BoJack, even when dragged into BoJack's shenanigans (demonstrated especially in Season 1). However, she occasionally struggles to balance this empathy with her tendency to believe that her way of doing things is the only correct way. An example shown is when she keeps the content of BoJack's autobiography One Trick Pony a secret, believing that the opinionated way in which she writes the book was the best way to do so. She finally admits it wasn't and apologizes when BoJack eventually confronts her.
== Appearance ==
=== Cartoons ===
* BoJack Horseman
* BoJack Horseman Season 2
* BoJack Horseman Season 3
* BoJack Horseman Season 4
* BoJack Horseman Season 5
* BoJack Horseman Season 6
== Trivia ==
* Diane was first created as a network/development executive who wanted to help BoJack with his comeback.
* Her last name Nguyen is the most common Vietnamese family name and most characters in the show comically mispronounce it:
** The reason for the name being unpronounceable is due to the various regions of Vietnam having a lot of different accents. So ironically, despite being the most common name in Vietnam, it has no uniform pronunciation.
** Common ways to pronounce it are: Wyen, Newen, Ngyen, Nuyen.
* Diane is the only main character other than BoJack Horseman to have two episodes centered around her in one single season:
** It was Season 6, and the episodes are Feel-Good Story and Good Damage respectively
* Her voice actress Alison Brie, also voices Vincent Adultman, Kevin, Joelle Clarke, and Cammie.
* Her phone number is 310-555-5443, and her email is nguyenisthelonliestnumber@aol.com.
** In A Horse Walks into a Rehab, BoJack mentions her phone number having sixes and several more fours in it, although it still ends in a three, meaning her number may have changed, especially since after their divorce she isn’t on Mr. Peanutbutter's cell phone plan anymore.
* Even though she's a ghostwriter, her name is on the books she wrote, specifically Secretariat: a Life. It’s possible BoJack's book was the first one she ghostwrites for, or she has previously ghostwritten books that were just never mentioned.
** In the case of BoJack's book, series creator Raphael Bob-Wakesberg explained her name was on the book because Diane felt a third-person perspective was more intriguing and realistic, as she could make observations BoJack would never make about himself, and while Pinky agreed it wasn’t what they were expecting he also agrees its a lot better.
* Its mentioned in Live Fast, Diane Nguyen, which takes place in 2014, that she is thirty-four, and she turned thirty-five in the Season 2 episode After the Party, which took place in early 2015, setting her year of birth in 1980.
** BoJack would confirm on his Twitter that she was born on March 19, 1980.
* She published Secretariat: a Life, which is a novel about Secretariat.
** She also served as a consultative writer for the film but was asked to do menial tasks such as making sure nobody tripped over the cables.
* Diane is one of the few characters to say "fuck." However Diane is cut off by the end credits, but the following episode does immediately picks up at the final second it left off at, and thus, actually saying it out loud.
** In the show "fuck" is only used whenever a relationship is ruined (In BoJack-related Story Arcs), the time it is not uttered in this manner, is by Diane Nguyen, who is cut off by the credits scene.
** Other characters who have said "fuck" are: Herb, Charlotte, Todd, BoJack, Gina, and Gina's Co-star.
* In BoJack Kills, Mr. Peanutbutter says he and Diane “are like five big fights away from a divorce." The two do indeed have five arguments up until What Time Is It Right Now.
** In Old Acquaintance, Mr. Peanutbutter gets angry at Diane when she insists he talks to Captain Peanutbutter, due to him acting weird, questioning if she thinks she knows his brother better than him and just because she has a bad family doesn't mean everyone else does.
** In Commence Fracking, Mr. Peanutbutter confronts Diane due to the latter publishing Girl Croosh articles against Mr. Peanutbutter being pro-fracking for his governor campaign, as Diane is anti-fracking.
*** Diane says she won't publish it if he drops out of the race, and when he refuses, saying publishing the article will embarrass them and she always has to air her “dirty laundry” when someone disagrees with her. she states she doesn't want Mr. Peanutbutter to be governor because she thinks he would be bad at it.
**** She then publishes her article, which leads to the two throwing and breaking their computers and coffee mugs, and Mr. Peanutbutter pins Diane to the wall as the two struggle against one another. The two then engage in passionate “angry sex.”
** In Thoughts and Prayers, the two argue on MSNBSea about gun control, and in the next scene, they can be heard having “angry sex” again behind a closed door.
** In Underground, Diane gets angry at Mr. Peanutbutter due to his fracking causing their home to collapse into a sinkhole. She also admits to BoJack that for a while, she hoped she was, like her brother, adopted too.
** Finally, in What Time Is It Right Now, Diane gets upset when Mr. Peanutbutter builds her Belle-Room, a giant room filled with books like the library the Beast gave Belle in Beauty and the Beast that's she dreamed of having as a little girl, claiming that it was her own fantasy and she hates big gestures as also seen in After the Party.
*** Mr. Peanutbutter in return gets angry because he had been trying to do something nice for her. He claims he does big gestures because he's scared she'll get bored of him and leave like his previous wives, Katrina and Jessica. After they calm down, Diane says she thinks their marriage is like a magic eye poster, as at first glance, it's messy and doesn't make sense, but everything lines up if you squint hard enough. However, Diane says she is so tired of squinting and breaks down crying as Mr. Peanutbutter looks on, upset—analyzing the breakdown of their marriage.
* The jacket she wears for the second half of Season 6 is red and blue, both of which are complementary colors to green and orange, which were the colors of her original jacket.
* Like BoJack, she smokes cigarettes.
** By the series finale, she is apparently attempting to quit.
* She tells BoJack in Live Fast, Diane Nguyen that as a kid she would wish she could wake up as Chelsea Clinton, but with her own hair, because she has great hair, which BoJack agrees with.
* In BoJack's letter from "Leo" in Live Fast, Diane Nguyen it is revealed:
** She brings her own bags to the grocery store.
** She chews gum on airplanes so her ears won’t pop.
** She's always organized to go places.
* She never completely unpacked her boxes after moving into her post-divorce apartment as evidenced in both The Dog Days Are Over and Good Damage.
* She drives a Prius, as they’re better for the environment.
* Her dad once made her lose a game of Boggle to her brothers so they wouldn’t have to lose to a girl as revealed in Good Damage.
* Lisa Hanawalt thinks of Diane as the "least fashion savvy" of the main characters and would be the type of person to wear the same dress to multiple events.
** Despite this, Diane has never actually been seen wearing the same dress twice, and actually has worn a variety of outfits for special occasions/events.
* In The New Client, it's revealed that her parents didn’t name her until she was four-years-old, and it’s implied she was named after the Cheers character of the same name in The Shot.
** Cheers also features a faded star who falls for an intellectual type. Raphael Bob-Wakesburg claims this is a coincidence, and her brothers were almost named after Cheers characters but they decided against it.
* BoJack and Diane are the only main characters to have design changes within the series.
** In Diane's case, she has had two—she cuts her hair into a short bob style with an undercut shortly before The Light Bulb Scene, which along with other events were showcased in The Dog Days Are Over, and in The Face of Depression where her hair grows out a bit, she gains weight from her antidepressants and gets a new outfit.
* While Alison Brie has received acclaim for voicing Diane, she and series creator Raphael Bob-Waksburg have also received some criticism for it, due to Brie herself being white and voicing a Vietnamese American character. Wakeburg has addressed the criticism a few times in the past particularly in a June 2020 Twitter thread. He admitted that it’s wasn’t great on his part to cast a white actress for Diane, along with not hiring any Vietnamese writers (apart from VyVy Nguyen only for "The Dog Days Are Over") or properly conveying Diane as a Vietnamese American woman, as he claims he tried to not have Diane defined by her race, but went too far in the other direction, where he implied Diane's race didn’t define her at all, when it does for everyone
** In June 2020, in response to other white voice actors stepping away from voicing poc roles, such as Kristen Bell (Molly Tillerman in Central Park), Jenny Slate (Missy Foreman-Greenwald in Big Mouth), and Mike OHenry (Cleveland Brown in Family Guy), Brie herself expressed regret on her Instagram for voicing Diane instead of a Vietnamese actress - “In hindsight, I wish that I didn't voice the character of Diane Nguyen. I now understand that people of color, should always voice people of color. We missed a great opportunity to represent the Vietnamese-American community accurately and respectfully, and for that I am truly sorry. I applaud all those who stepped away from their voiceover roles in recent days. I have learned a lot from them."
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Diane Nguyen at BoJack Horseman Wiki
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