@article{intel:/content/journals/10.1386/qsmpc_00067_1, author = "Girard, Danielle", title = "Asexual disruptions in Netflix’s BoJack Horseman", journal= "Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture", year = "2022", volume = "7", number = "Rethinking Marginality in New Queer Television", pages = "41-54", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1386/qsmpc_00067_1", url = "https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/qsmpc_00067_1", publisher = "Intellect", issn = "2055-5709", type = "Journal Article", keywords = "animation", keywords = "attraction", keywords = "romance", keywords = "social bonds", keywords = "Todd Chavez", keywords = "compulsory sexuality", keywords = "television", keywords = "hyperbolic eroticism", abstract = "This article uses the character Todd Chavez (voiced by Aaron Paul) from the adult animation BoJack Horseman (2014–20, Netflix) as a launch point for exploring on-screen queerness that exists outside of the confines of compulsory (hetero)sexuality. Sex and sexuality, I argue, provide a limiting framework for the expression of queerness. Using key episodes such as ‘Hooray, Todd Episode!’ (2017), ‘Planned Obsolescence’ (2018) and ‘Ancient History’ (2018) I argue that the use of hyperbolic eroticism in BoJack works to frame Todd’s asexuality as distinctly queer. Through the mobilization of asexuality as a theoretical advancement for queer studies, this article considers how non-sexual identity formations work to destabilize and queer the institutions of the relationship and attraction. It is, I argue, reductive and limiting to view queerness exclusively through the lens of sex and sexuality.", }