Mr. Peanutbutter

Mr. Peanutbutter, the star of Mr. Peanutbutter's House, is an adult male yellow Labrador Retriever, who is BoJack Horseman's friend and former sitcom rival. He is one of the main characters in BoJack Horseman. He dates and later marries Diane Nguyen, although the two get a divorce in Season 5.

In the same season, he plays Fritz on Philbert, and he begins dating a young female pug named Pickles Aplenty. He proposes to her in the season finale to avoid admitting he cheated on her by sleeping with Diane.

In Season 6, he plays the eponymous character Birthday Dad in the show of the same name, which is a huge success. After Pickles learns about Diane, they agree she can sleep with multiple guys until she finds the right one to cheat on him with, although this ends up with her leaving him for Joey Pogo, and they officially break up through text in Xerox of a Xerox.

## Background

Mr. Peanutbutter was born on the Labrador Peninsula in rural Canada on August 20, 1969. He attended Northwestern University.

He has one brother, Captain Peanutbutter, who is five minutes older.

Due to her old age, Mr. Peanutbutter's mother got sick with Parkinson's. His brother then informed Mr. Peanutbutter that he arranged for her to be sent to a farm in the country in order for her to run around with no internet or telephones. This is the same place his other relatives also went when they got old, including his father later on.

Obviously, his parents actually died, which Mr. Peanutbutter didn't realize until INT. SUB, which devastated him.

He first moved to Los Angeles in the late 80s or early 90s, where he ended up co-piloting the plane that brought him to California, which happened purely because he walked into a room without looking.

He was recruited onto Mr. Peanutbutter's House in 1992 with no previous acting experience, having wowed the show's director David Chase and the audience when he inadvertently barged in on the pilot's live taping. The show's working

title was "Untitled Horsin' Around Knockoff," and BoJack Horseman was resentful of the show because he rightly assumed it was a knockoff, and showed annoyance and resentment towards Mr. Peanutbutter.

## Mr. Peanutbutter

### Aliases

Fritz (character on "Philbert")Mr. Chocolate Hazelnut Spread (by Dr. Indira in "INT. SUB")Dog Dog Peanut-Man (Prince of Cordovia)Peanutbottle (BoJack)Mr. Dog-Man (Henry Winkler)Mister Mr. (Pickles Aplenty)

### Relatives

Mr. Peanutbutter Sr. (father, deceased)Unnamed Mother (deceased)Captain Peanutbutter (older brother)Nana Peanutbutter (paternal grandmother; deceased)Unnamed NephewsPickles Aplenty (ex-fiance)Diane Nguyen (Third ex-wife)Pa Nguyen (ex-father-in-law; deceased)Ma Nguyen (ex-mother-in-law)Artie Nguyen (ex-brother-in-law)Marty Nguyen (ex-brother-in-law)Tommy Nguyen (ex-brother-in-law)Gary, 'the black sheep' Nguyen (ex-adoptive brother-in-law)Jessica Biel (second ex-wife)Katrina (first ex-wife)

### Occupation

ActorEntrepreneurOwner of ElefinoHost of "Hollywoo Stars and Celebrities: What Do They Know? Do They Know Things?? Let's Find Out!" (formerly)Sales Associate at Lady FootLocker (in "Higher Love")

## Appearances

### Appears in

BoJack Horseman: The BoJack Horseman Story, Chapter One

### Debut

BoJack Horseman

However, Mr. Peanutbutter would act energetic and cheerful around BoJack, considering him a friend, which just annoys BoJack even more.

Around this time, he was married to a woman named Katrina. She started out as fun and cheerful and they were happily married. On Halloween 1993, Mr. Peanutbutter and Katrina went to BoJack's house for his Halloween party, which BoJack lies about having so he wouldn't have to go to Mr. Peanutbutter's party, but Mr. Peanutbutter ended up bringing his party to BoJack's house.

Mr. Peanutbutter would continue to do this every year—despite BoJack hating the parties, although he would always get extremely drunk by the end and would always tell the leaving guests to do it again next year. Before leaving, Katrina asked Mr. Peanutbutter to not leave her alone during the party, as she didn't know anyone there, and Mr. Peanutbutter agreed.

However, he does leave her alone multiple times to talk to and party with the other guests, with Katrina becoming more upset and angry throughout the night. Although, every time she made this clear to Mr. Peanutbutter he would either acknowledge her feelings but get distracted by an event and leave to join, or try to distract her by having her or suggesting she talk to the other attendants like BoJack.

She ends up being forced to talk politics with Ben Stein and Tim Allen for half an hour, making her even angrier and more bitter towards her situation, but it made her think more about government. When Mr. Peanutbutter is told she had to endear that for half an hour, he cheerfully says "I guess time flies when you’re having fun!," which finally makes Katrina snap and she angrily shouts "I am not having fun!" interrupting the party.

She yells at him for leaving her alone, the one thing she asked him not to do, and how he never listens. Mr. Peanutbutter assures her he'll never leave her alone again, but Katrina storms off saying she wants to be alone now and tells him to have fun with his hippie liberal friends.

She continued to be cruel and cold towards Mr. Peanutbutter for the remainder of their marriage.

Mr. Peanutbutter, with Katrina, attended the 1994 Animal Choice Awards, as he and BoJack were nominated for Male Animal In A Comedy Drama Or Variety Show, although they both lost to veteran talk show host Hank Hippopopalous, Mr. Peanutbutter's childhood idol.

Mr. Peanutbutter got to meet Hank at the after-party, excitedly tells Hank how much of a fan he is and how Hank inspired him as a kid, and he got a picture with him. Mr. Peanutbutter then excused himself as Katrina had her hand down a busboy's pants.

Mr. Peanutbutter and Katrina divorced shortly afterward, with Katrina eventually getting a high-ranking job in the California government.

Mr. Peanutbutter married actress Jessica Biel sometime before 2004.

They attended BoJack's Halloween Party in 2004, where Jessica wanted them to dress like the lead characters from the movie The Notebook, but Mr. Peanutbutter ends up dressing as an actual notebook. Before leaving, Jessica asked Mr. Peanutbutter to not let her see any mummies, as she had a traumatic past experience relating to them.

At the party, Mr. Peanutbutter learns that Jessica auditioned for a role in The Mummy with Brendan Fraser and didn't get the part.

Meanwhile, BoJack didn't have a costume so he asks Princess Carolyn for help. She takes him outside and uses the toilet paper the house had been covered with by teenagers (including a teenage Todd) to turn him into a mummy.

He approaches Jessica Biel while Mr. Peanutbutter watches in dismay, as his notebook costume was too wide to let him run through the door to protect her. He tells her to not turn around, but she ends up seeing the mummy and is horrified. Jessica yells at Mr. Peanutbutter for not keeping the mummy away, while also revealing she auditioned to play the actual mummy as she storms off.

Mr. Peanutbutter took a long list of low-level acting gigs during the mid-2000s. In 2007, he starred in an underseas commercial for Seaborn Seahorse Milk, which became popular and is still aired in the present day as seen in Fish Out Of Water and in What Time Is It Right Now, where two fish people recognize Mr. Peanutbutter for it.

The same year, Mr. Peanutbutter and Jessica divorced, as Jessica was tired of him taking job offers that were beneath him, and she started dating Justin Timberlake immediately after she broke up with him.

However, that same evening Jessica dumped him, Mr. Peanutbutter met Diane Nguyen, an aspiring writer who was a part-time caterer at the time and was catering for the event he was at, and who he met earlier at a Starbucks that Diane also worked at. The two eventually started dating, and by 2009 Diane moved in with him.

On Halloween 2009, Mr. Peanutbutter and Diane attended BoJack's Halloween party. Diane felt pressured to act like she loved parties and socializing and to live up to his "fun" ex-wives, insisting to Mr. Peanutbutter she was having fun when he asked if she was OK. When Diane asks if they can go soon, because being around so many famous people made her nervous, Mr. Peanutbutter instead insists she go talk to BoJack.

Diane ends up making a fool of herself in front of BoJack, who interrupts her and coldly tells her he's on the phone, as unbeknownst to her his mom was telling him that his father died.

An upset Diane tells Mr. Peanutbutter she made a fool of herself in front of BoJack, and questions why he made her talk to him. Diane says she's good in small groups and shouts that she hates parties, which interrupts the party.

She tells him it's too much pressure to try to be as fun as his ex-wives, and she runs out of the house.

In their car, Diane apologizes to Mr. Peanutbutter for ruining another Halloween for him. Mr. Peanutbutter says she didn't, and that he loves her and wants to know the real her. He's glad he knows she hates parties and they won't ever have that argument ever again. Diane is still upset about BoJack, but Mr. Peanutbutter assures her that he won't even remember that he met her.

## Personality

Mr. Peanutbutter's demeanor is constantly energetic, nice, cheerful, kind, and playful. In short, he is "a dog seen from the point of view of a cat person." Not only is he constantly positive, but he is also a bonehead who has difficulty understanding metaphors or puns.

This causes him to crack jokes that instead of being funny, just make people scratch their heads.

He can also be described as a "man-child," as he is BoJack's age but still acts like a twenty-something-year-old party animal.

Despite their rivalry, he cares a great deal about BoJack's opinion and admires him for his work on Horsin' Around. He is always trying to reach out to BoJack and be his friend. BoJack finds this annoying and always shoots Mr. Peanutbutter down, although that never stops Mr. Peanutbutter from trying to befriend BoJack.

A life of success, wealth, and fame meant Mr. Peanutbutter has never faced any real challenges or had to make difficult decisions, leaving him almost completely inept in the real world.

However, he is not as dumb as he might be letting on, as stupidity is part of his persona and a result of his naivety, and he can at times show hidden depth. In Let's Find Out, Mr. Peanutbutter reveals to BoJack he knows he's mean to him and doesn't like him.

He tells BoJack "all I ever wanted was to be your friend, and you treat me like a big joke."

He was also the first person to intervene when BoJack, high on opioids, started strangling Gina to death, saying sternly "Ok that’s enough!" and pulling BoJack off of her with two other crew members when everyone else either did nothing or filmed the incident.

He also dislikes change, as he didn't want Diane to go to Cordovia.

He can be very headstrong and heavily opinionated at times especially in a heated argument to the point of being borderline defensive. Despite Diane constantly voicing her dislike of them, Mr. Peanutbutter constantly tries to impress her with grand gestures because he's scared she'll get bored of him and leave like his previous wives.

There are also traces of nihilism in him, believing "the key to being happy is to just distract yourself with unimportant nonsense until you eventually die."

This may be an explanation to his impulsive behavior, along with his blissful ignorance, which he may use to avoid actually confronting his problems and handling negative situations—or changing as a person to solve them.

An example of the latter trait is in Higher Love when Mr. Peanutbutter assumes if he just walks around Los Angeles a job opportunity will just simply come to him, and cheerfully ignores the fact he and Diane may lose their house as PB Livin' went bankrupt. Diane even outright says this to him, advising him to actually go to auditions, and get a new agent.

Mr. Peanutbutter's biggest flaw seems to be that he does not listen, especially to his wives or whoever he happens to be dating at the time. He doesn't seem to take into mind their individual personalities and needs. This is showcased in Mr. Peanutbutter's Boos, where he didn't listen to Katrina when she begged him to not leave her alone at the party. Also, in After the Party and What Time Is It Right Now, where he upsets and angers Diane by doing grand gestures for her and giving her elaborate gifts which she tells him countless times throughout their relationship she doesn't like. Mr. Peanutbutter finally admits this is true and apologizes to Diane for being dismissive and not really listening to her throughout their relationship in their phone conversation in Angela.

In Mr. Peanutbutter's Boos, he thinks this is why all his relationships fail and why his exes went from fun and happy to bitter and mean—but Diane tells him it's because he dates young women, and they just grow up while he continues to act like a "man-child" who places all the responsibilities, including himself, on them, which tires them and leads them to end their relationship with him.

His high energy, unpredictability, impulsiveness, and inability to actually listen makes him rather exhausting when it comes to relationships. Diane tells him he can either date older women or grow up, both options sir which he isn't too thrilled about.

Mr. Peanutbutter shows the latter problem after he cheats on Pickles by sleeping with Diane—and he asks her to break the news to Pickles, which Diane rightfully refuses to do. Mr. Peanutbutter ends up proposing to Pickles, instead of telling her the truth, setting the cycle of all his failed marriages back in motion.

In Surprise!, after he takes advice from Diane, who was pretending to be his house’s thermostat, Mr. Peanutbutter makes more of an effort to talk less and listen more while trying to reconcile with Pickles. Whenever she said something, Mr. Peanutbutter would stop himself from verbally replying, only responding to what Pickles says by nodding his head, and replied verbally when Pickles wanted an answer from him on how to make things right.

## Appearance

Mr. Peanutbutter is a male Labrador Retriever. He is five years younger than BoJack, despite looking much younger. He has yellow fur, a brown nose, a slim and muscular build.

According to the model sheets, he is 6 ft tall.

He always wears a grey V-neck t-shirt and aviator sunglasses, usually propped on his head, with light blue pants with white lines going down the sides, orange high-top sneakers, and two wristbands, a brown one and a neon green one, on his left wrist.

In 2007, he wore a blue and red "Swan Dutch" hat, a black t-shirt with a design on the front that included a dog skull over crossbones with the words "Fetch, Sit, Stay" in it, grey-blue acid-washed jeans, olive green sneakers, and three bracelets, a pink, red, and neon green bracelet respectively, on his left wrist.

In the 90s he had a tuft of wavy hair. On Mr. Peanutbutter's House, he wore a dark blue collared button-down shirt with a 90s-esque geometric yellow, purple, and teal pattern on it, light blue jeans, brown belt, and white sneakers with Velcro straps.

## Trivia

* Mr. Peanutbutter was originally going to be BoJack's agent (rather than Princess Carolyn) with a Shaft-like personality; being cool, smooth-talking, and easygoing. A horse named Honeybucket would have filled his current role as a 90s TV actor and Diane's boyfriend.
* Mr. Peanutbutter was also originally going to be a Golden Retriever.[2]
* He drives a Maserati Quattroporte.
* His license plate is "Good Boy" (stylized as G00D B0Y).
* One quote from Season 1 suggests Mr. Peanutbutter is a nihilist,—The universe is a cruel, uncaring void. The key to being happy isn't a search for meaning; it's to just keep yourself busy with unimportant nonsense and eventually, you'll be dead.
* He also spouts more nihilistic quotes in It's You before and after his brother's surgery to remove a potentially fatal twisted spleen. After his brother's successful surgery, Mr. Peanutbutter gleefully states the whole experience taught him that "None of this matters!"
* Mr. Peanutbutter loves honeydew, while BoJack hates it.
* Out of the five main characters, he is the only one who’s parents were never seen and who's childhood/teen years via flashbacks were never shown.
* However, his parents have been mentioned and confirmed to have died years previous to the series.
* BoJack Kills reveals Mr. Peanutbutter wears red boxer-briefs with a hotdog print.
* Besides his love for tennis balls, he hates the game tennis because he gets angry at how nobody ever catches the ball.
* Like real-life dogs, he can't eat chocolate (it's poisonous to them), watch fireworks or listen to loud noises (dogs have sensitive ears). He also doesn't like baths and gets scared when there are strangers in his yard.
* Mr. Peanutbutter is Canadian-American as he was born and raised in Canada, where his brother and his family reside.
* 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.
* 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 for trying to do something nice for her and 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 if you squint hard enough, everything lines up. However, Diane says she so tired of squinting and breaks down crying, as Mr. Peanutbutter looks upset, as an implication their marriage has failed.