Are the characters in BoJack Horseman really anthropomorphic?
I just started watching BoJack Horseman(Season 1 Episode 1) and noticed when a character asked BoJack if he was drunk, he said "I weigh over 1200 pounds." He certainly doesn't look like he weighs that much.
There are several other references to his weight as well such as the restaurant scene where he eats a large amount of bread and then he tries to redirect the blame for his girlfriend leaving him by saying "You think I'm fat."
Is this hint of his weight being "1200 pounds" just a rhetorical device, or is it an indication of him actually being a regular horse? Are there other indications that characters are actually non-morphic in nature?
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You're using "anthropomorphic" with way too much precision. Bojack is an anthropomorphic character because he is a horse that behaves like a human. End of definition.
The factual accuracy of his human/horse features is a different discussion altogether. As you point out, it's not all that consistent. For a comedy cartoon, that's well within the expected range of accuracy: it serves a particular joke in a particular scene.
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It's a cartoon, so I think they're just pointing out that he's a horse. They have human like emotions and feelings, so they are anthropomorphic.
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