Since the season 5 premiere, I’ve seen a lot of people making anti-Mr. Peanutbutter or posts criticizing him and in my opinion, a lot of them are missing the point.

Mr. Peanutbutter is being seen as an asshole, misogynist, horrible boyfriend, but what justifies this? People point to the episode Mr. Peanutbutter’s Boos. Sure, he brought all of his wives/girlfriends to Bojack’s party and they gradually start to enjoy it less, but in all cases, he brings them under the assumption that they want to be there because that is what they tell him. Yes, his attention span is short and he leaves them alone at the party, but does that automatically make him a bad boyfriend? In 5 seasons of knowing him, he never intentionally hurt or disrespected Diane. Like Diane says, he loved her unconditionally for 10 years. He was a good husband. Another thing to remember is that he is never the one to end the relationship it is always his partner at the time. Listen to Diane, guys. When she calls him out, she’s not saying that he’s a piece of shit because he dates younger girls, she’s saying he doesn’t mature at the same rate his wives do and eventually they outgrow him. It’s not a critique on his wives or on him being misogynistic, it’s entirely about him fundamentally being himself and that no matter how much you loved a person you can still outgrow them.

As for cheating on Pickles and then lying to her about it, yeah that was a horrible, disgusting thing to do, but I don’t agree with people lumping him in with Bojack in the bad deeds done bag. He is immature, he needs to grow up, he needs to fess up and face real consequences for what he did, but he is still a good guy who is genuinely kind to everyone and that’s why he is still seen in universe as such.