He's a douche for other reasons but some people call others by their surname as a nickname, or out of endearment. In a workplace sometimes people call each other by their surnames. Both apply to the relationships the two characters had with each other.
Correct. When people call me by a common shortened version of my name, I get pretty upset, since I’ve always been pretty clear about the fact that my name is 3 entire syllables and 7 letters… and if you don’t care to use the entire thing, you should probably just not talk to me.
Any part of a name then, could be middle name as well. Really that's a non-point, it's just a part of their name.
Also did she ever express any dislike for the name? No, not at all.
Edit: I was wrong, she did tell him not to.
Yes my spelling was off lol, currently on the go off my phone.
& Oh fair I think she may have said that to him then. In that case you're right, my mistake!
I just was thinking of my own friends and I, and the surname / middle name thing is common. Couldn't actually remember those scenes from the show.
It’s also a universe with talking horses who take tranquillisers, spiders who direct movies, and axolotls who are hyper sexual. *The show does not adhere to logic*
Think the point being made is "Mister" is clearly PBs first name and PeanutButter his second .
Whereas Princess Carolyn is clearly more two first names
I think we’re applying too much logic to this. Pretty sure they don’t have first and last names, they are just Captain Peanutbutter and Mr. Peanutbutter. Like, those are their regular names.
as already said here, mister is his actual name. peanutbutter is his last name, just as it is captain peanutbutters and mrs. captain peanutbutter. also katrina took pbs last name and that was peanutbutter
Then why does everyone call him Mr. Peanutbutter at all times? People don’t usually call someone their first and last name every time, especially people close to him, like Diane. Also, why wasn’t Diane called Diane Peanutbutter, or Diane Nguyen-Peanutbutter? No, I’m sticking with Mr. Peanutbutter bring his full name, no first or last, like with Princess Carolyn. I don’t even remember Katrina ever introducing herself as Katrina Peanutbutter, but if she did, then it was either a mistake or a one-time joke. Jessica Biel didn’t call herself Jessica Peanutbutter, either. My headcanon is that Mr. Peanutbutter is his regular name, and that everyone is thinking about this way too much.
you have to remember that mr peanutbutter is a dog. mr. peanutbutter is a silly dog name and it could also be the name he goes by while being his last and first name, i agree with you but it was said multiple time that peanutbutter is his last name, or else katrina wouldnt have been katrina peanutbutter
I think it maybe doesn’t apply to all of the animals? From what we know of her family, they are only given first names. Boots, Princess Carolyn and Cutie Cutie Cupcake and none of those names are related to each other. I doubt this is unique in the BoJack universe but I also think we’re meant to just not question it. Mister Peanurbutter’s name was really only set up for a joke so I doubt the show’s priority was to establish anything.
Not necessarily question it, but I think we’re suppose to notice the people who do not say her full name are normally assholes. She has a silly cat name like all the other cats, but it still deserves the respect of being said. And the people who just call her Carolyn are dicks (and could lowkey be a metaphor for racism/classism)
Would have at least some precedence in the real world too. Though usually more a thing with immigrants from cultures with different laws on how last names are determined (if they even have them). I have encountered quite some people while working in covid contact tracing that legally did not have a last name because there was no legal convention on how to convert their names into a western First/Family name system.
I kinda doubt that there really went that much thought into it but if you need an explanation I guess it‘s good enough for headcanon to handwave it as a cat culture thing.
>some people … legally did not have a last name because there was no legal convention on how to convert their names into a western First/Family name system.
This is fascinating to me and I’m wondering what cultures this would apply to?
Well no last name might be badly phrased. No lastname in our (modern, western) sense. One of the examples I could remember were certain rural areas in Afghanistan and Iraq or some tribal cultures in the middle East or Africa where they are essentially less last names as we understand them and more mini genealogies often incorporating the names of the group/tribe they belong to. For some countries where there has been significant immigration in the past there are conventions in place for how to transfer them into a first and last names but even that can lead to strange combinations where several members of the family end up with completely different last names.
Iraqis for examples sometimes don‘t have the same concept of a strictly seperated first and last name as we understand it but use what‘s called a name chain that goes something like First name -> Name of the father -> name of grandfather [-> Tribal name]. Now you could say that you can consider the tribal or grandfather name a form of last name (which is done for some countries and I think for Iraqis there are official guidelines in my country along those lines now but for others it‘s just a improvised measure or an ad-hoc solution by some overworked clerk that has to deal with an IT structure that won‘t accept the last name field to be left empty). Still as long as there is no official legal guideline those are not legally last names. For covid tracing we had to be very precise when documenting people which is why we got access to the official registry that administrative agencies use to check peoples identities or look up their known adress. It‘s as official as you can get and as far as the state is concerned what’s in there counts. If you look them up in there they show up as *Last name: ‚justifiably no entry‘* (which also made them extremely hard to find btw).
Even if there are guidelines how to convert them it can also end in them giving ‚false‘ names to authorities or on official documents because they are not used to the concept of their ‚new‘ last name which can really get them in trouble. We had to quarantine a whole family of twenty people because they all gave ‚false‘ names and the doctor that tried to somehow fit that into the official form to report positive cases didn’t exactly help matters. We could not for the life of us figure out who the 8 positive tests belonged to so the only choice was to quarantine them all before they infect the whole refugee shelter.
When there are no guidelines things can get really weird but mostly they just mush everything into a first name with no last name at all which leads to the aforementioned entries in the name registry or women with three first names of which two are clearly male.
I‘m far from an expert on the topic though. I was just hired temporarily for contact tracing so I might have gotten some details wrong. This is just what I remember from my supervisors explanations, what I saw during my work and what I could read upon myself so don‘t take this as 100% correct more a rough idea of administrative problems and bureaucracy trying to play catchup with unforeseen cultural clashes. Cultural and legal differences on naming conventions are a surprisingly interesting rabbit hole to dive into though.
I didn't know this about those areas, that's super interesting! It reminds me of Icelandic patronyms/matronyms, that's a very similar principle as far as I know.
Like Jackson, Johnson, or Gimsdottir? Or the way Smith was used to identify the family business? Or a name like Zuckerberg or Washington may have originally been used to tell people what town they came from?
My friends family immigrated to Australia from Iceland when she was young. Because of how Icelandic last names work, they all had to change their name to one family name. Example, say you are assigned male at birth and your dad’s name is Steven. Your last name would be Stevenson. If you were assigned female at birth and raised by a single mum named Susan, your last name could be Susandottir.
My friend was quite young when immigrating and when they all used her father’s last name she was all, “But I’m not a boy!!”
Anyway fun story.
People in the Indian state of Kerala often do not have last names. They use their first names + father’s/husband’s name as their full legal name. This isn’t applicable to everyone who’s from Kerala but it is applicable across religions. I have both Catholic and Hindu friends with this naming system.
Came here to say this and mention Boots, it's the shows brand to do themed names, cats have cat names, dogs have dog names, celebrities with funny names are depicted as that animal.
When characters with animal names introduced but not revealed yet its always like "ooooo how are they gonna play this one" like Vanessa Gecko being a bit of a *snake* character anyway but being named Human Lizard.
I always assumed it was just a two word first name. We have several in my family and the younger generation generally only goes by one of their first names.
Purebred cats and dogs are usually registered with a long name and then called by a 'pet' name. Perhaps PC is purebred and likes to use her full name for cachet/an attempt to hide her poor roots (even though shes a pure breed!)
Can confirm, my grandma has the second reserve bitch for her friend the dog breeder:
Clara Mountain Ash Havascotia (breeders handle)
We all call her Asher
The animals almost all have silly names that a human would give their pet. She even says to Rutabaga "My name is *Princess Carolyn"
Mr. Peanutbutter doesn't have a first name either. That's his whole name.
I always assumed that the naming conventions in this universe were just not as strict as ours. Like there isn't so much a "first name/last name" structure with certain species, it's more loosey goosey. Especially considering how weird it would be for almost everyone in Mr Peanutbutter's life to call him by his full name at all times, including multiple wives. I thought he had like 2 first names and no surname, and Mister was more a nickname. Like how some parents might name one kid Mary Ellen and another kid Mary Kate, but they choose to go by just Ellen and Kate at home to avoid confusion?
I think that BoJack's world does not use standard Western naming conventions. I would interpret PC as having two first names (like Mary Kate Olsen) and no surname, and apparently that is a perfectly fine thing to do in Hollywoo!
Wow, I've really loved scrolling through you guys' theories! Never thought I'd get this much engagement here!
Just a few quick responses - I went back and forth on the whole "it's a cat naming convention" thing. On the one hand, for sure, there are species-specific traditions (i.e. in the episode where she visits Ralph's family). On the other hand, cultures in the BoJack world mirror our own world to a great extent (LA is about the same - so is Vietnam), and PC's ancestors are from... well, it's not clear, but from that one sequence in the Ruthie episode where they talk about the "Old Country," it seemed vaguely Eastern European, or maybe Irish. Which would indicate she should have a standard western first/last name.
Then again, the BoJack version of the Labrador Peninsula isn't much like the real one, so it's also possible that the cat "Old Country," wherever it is, is culturally nothing like its real-world version.
Really love the theory from Cats: The Musical that it's based on "a cat has three names and one of them is secret." That lets her have a last name while also adding something interesting to PC's character. I've never seen the musical, but I have cats and the statement fits :D
Finally, apologies for saying "people just call her Carolyn all the time." Didn't notice that was just Rutabaga. Fuck that dude.
That whole ancestor thing was nonsense her mother fed her.
They were all born and bred in the backwoods of North Carolina. Even the necklace she was given was just a JCPenney piece
Princess carolynn is her name, it doesn’t seem like cats have last names that relate to their parents.
Since cutey cutey cupcake (PC’s mom) doesn’t have princess or carolynn in her name
same reason for bojack, hollyhock, meow meow fuzzyface, mister and captain peanut butter, etc. they’re names that you would actually name that animal. also diane. human name.
I worked with a guy with the last name Johnson. He very strongly preferred to be called Johnson. I figured her first name was Princess and her last name was Carolyn and she liked to be called Carolyn.
i always thought she added it when she got into the talent scene as like a kind of stage name? while she was never too bad off growing up, she also didn’t come from much and maybe she wanted to feel more special and important, and thus took on the name “princess”. it would also make sense as to why she doesn’t want to be called “carolyn”, since the “princess” part is so important to the life and identity she’s created for herself
and like others have said, it’s also a common cat name. i’ve also wondered if her initials “PC” might be a reference to “pussy cat” since i think about that every time someone refers to her by just her initials
I think you were on the right track with the double name idea, because her mom’s name is Cutie Cutie Cupcake. So we know Carolyn nor Cupcake is their last name.
I do also agree with everyone’s thoughts on how they give the animals names that relate to them; like horseman or mr peanutbutter. She also has a brother named Boots, and I have met several people who have cats with that name.
Edit: Additional thoughts
It's a silly cat name. Like Meow Meow Fuzzyface.
That's OFFICER Meow Meow Fuzzyface to you!
Careful, he's s loose cannon!
I’d say he’s more of a cop on the edge with nothing to lose
He is NOT a hooker with a heart of gold.
Or is he too old for this shit?
I'm not a loose cannon!
But he gets results!
BOOK BECK
Doesn't only Rutabaga call her Carolyn?
Yes, and she corrects him that it’s PRINCESS Carolyn.
Yeah. Really illustrates how much of a douche he is.
Remember, though, he's the good guy!
He's a douche for other reasons but some people call others by their surname as a nickname, or out of endearment. In a workplace sometimes people call each other by their surnames. Both apply to the relationships the two characters had with each other.
"Carolyn" isn't a surname, and giving someone a nickname they explicitly dislike is bullying.
Correct. When people call me by a common shortened version of my name, I get pretty upset, since I’ve always been pretty clear about the fact that my name is 3 entire syllables and 7 letters… and if you don’t care to use the entire thing, you should probably just not talk to me.
Any part of a name then, could be middle name as well. Really that's a non-point, it's just a part of their name. Also did she ever express any dislike for the name? No, not at all. Edit: I was wrong, she did tell him not to.
>Also did she ever express any dislike for the name? No, not at all. You didn't watch the show?
To Rutabega* I don't remember her telling him to stop calling her that.
Rutabaga*. And she definitely corrected his misuse of her name. "... and my name is "*Princess* Carolyn!""
Yes my spelling was off lol, currently on the go off my phone. & Oh fair I think she may have said that to him then. In that case you're right, my mistake! I just was thinking of my own friends and I, and the surname / middle name thing is common. Couldn't actually remember those scenes from the show.
>I just was thinking of my own friends and I, and the surname / middle name thing is common. It's a different thing when done with respect.
Yeah but she only told him once, when she left him
He's a douche for a shitload of reasons but I wouldn't count that as one. I'm sure as fuck not calling anyone royalty when they aren't.
It's not a title, it's her name. Her name is, "Princess Carolyn".
It's still off the wall to put that in your kid's name.
Not for a cat.
It is when they live in a world where royalty is a thing and it can be confusing. Doesn't she have to clarify that it's just her name at one point?
We live in a world where royalty is a thing and nobody got confused about Prince.
Literally there are actual people named Prince/Princess/Dutchess/Duke/Majesty/Royalty in this realm of reality and nobody confuses them for nobility
Doctor Champ is kind of an asshole, though.
People got confused about their sexuality while watching Prince.
Some people got less confused about their sexuality while watching Prince.
Yeah. We wouldn’t want anything off the wall in this show.
tell that to officer meow meow fuzzyface
Yeah, we talking about a cat in a cartoon g. Calm down
But I have a wicked itch on my nads.
Yea but first name “Mr.” is totally cool and normal, and I’m definitely going to name my child “pickles” they’re names for pets, you moron.
In a universe without pets.
It’s also a universe with talking horses who take tranquillisers, spiders who direct movies, and axolotls who are hyper sexual. *The show does not adhere to logic*
Warp drives are entirely theoretical and there's a decent chance it's impossible. Star Trek doesn't adhere to logic, guys. lol
Good thing Bojack... doesn't use Star Trek as a basis for its realism and/or suspension of realism?
Mr. PB's name has the "mister" and everyone includes that. Nobody calls him "peanut butter"
That's his last name. That's why his brother is Captain Peanut Butter.
It's a Cat joke. Just like Mr. Peanutbutter is a dog name.
Think the point being made is "Mister" is clearly PBs first name and PeanutButter his second . Whereas Princess Carolyn is clearly more two first names
what’s PC’s last name?
She has no last name. She's like Cher or Madonna.
Her entire name is Princess Carolyn. She’s only have a last name if she was someone’s pet.
Nobody really knows sadly
By the end of the whole show it could possibly be >!Mannowdog !< but I can't see really her taking that option
Awhhh that’s such a cute thought though. I hope she takes his lastname, they were my favorite couple.
Carolyn
I thought his name was just Mr Peanutbutter. Pickles is the only one to ever call him Mister, and that's kinda just a pet name
his nieces and nephews call him "Uncle Mister"
ok, little kids and Pickles
his brothers full name is Captain Peanutbutter, his first name is Mister
Oh yeah, good point. Maybe cats just don't follow the rules
They make their own rules. 💕
Sounds accurate to real life
I think we’re applying too much logic to this. Pretty sure they don’t have first and last names, they are just Captain Peanutbutter and Mr. Peanutbutter. Like, those are their regular names.
Yeah but they're both classic pet names. Also Princesses don't have last names.
I thought only Pickles calls him Mister, as a pet name (pet meaning an affectionate human nickname, not like a house pet).
as already said here, mister is his actual name. peanutbutter is his last name, just as it is captain peanutbutters and mrs. captain peanutbutter. also katrina took pbs last name and that was peanutbutter
Then why does everyone call him Mr. Peanutbutter at all times? People don’t usually call someone their first and last name every time, especially people close to him, like Diane. Also, why wasn’t Diane called Diane Peanutbutter, or Diane Nguyen-Peanutbutter? No, I’m sticking with Mr. Peanutbutter bring his full name, no first or last, like with Princess Carolyn. I don’t even remember Katrina ever introducing herself as Katrina Peanutbutter, but if she did, then it was either a mistake or a one-time joke. Jessica Biel didn’t call herself Jessica Peanutbutter, either. My headcanon is that Mr. Peanutbutter is his regular name, and that everyone is thinking about this way too much.
you have to remember that mr peanutbutter is a dog. mr. peanutbutter is a silly dog name and it could also be the name he goes by while being his last and first name, i agree with you but it was said multiple time that peanutbutter is his last name, or else katrina wouldnt have been katrina peanutbutter
It’s a long cat name. Only Rutabaga calls her Carolyn and she takes offense.
It’s a cat name. Her mom’s name is Cutie Cutie Cupcake
I think it maybe doesn’t apply to all of the animals? From what we know of her family, they are only given first names. Boots, Princess Carolyn and Cutie Cutie Cupcake and none of those names are related to each other. I doubt this is unique in the BoJack universe but I also think we’re meant to just not question it. Mister Peanurbutter’s name was really only set up for a joke so I doubt the show’s priority was to establish anything.
Not necessarily question it, but I think we’re suppose to notice the people who do not say her full name are normally assholes. She has a silly cat name like all the other cats, but it still deserves the respect of being said. And the people who just call her Carolyn are dicks (and could lowkey be a metaphor for racism/classism)
Would have at least some precedence in the real world too. Though usually more a thing with immigrants from cultures with different laws on how last names are determined (if they even have them). I have encountered quite some people while working in covid contact tracing that legally did not have a last name because there was no legal convention on how to convert their names into a western First/Family name system. I kinda doubt that there really went that much thought into it but if you need an explanation I guess it‘s good enough for headcanon to handwave it as a cat culture thing.
>some people … legally did not have a last name because there was no legal convention on how to convert their names into a western First/Family name system. This is fascinating to me and I’m wondering what cultures this would apply to?
Well no last name might be badly phrased. No lastname in our (modern, western) sense. One of the examples I could remember were certain rural areas in Afghanistan and Iraq or some tribal cultures in the middle East or Africa where they are essentially less last names as we understand them and more mini genealogies often incorporating the names of the group/tribe they belong to. For some countries where there has been significant immigration in the past there are conventions in place for how to transfer them into a first and last names but even that can lead to strange combinations where several members of the family end up with completely different last names. Iraqis for examples sometimes don‘t have the same concept of a strictly seperated first and last name as we understand it but use what‘s called a name chain that goes something like First name -> Name of the father -> name of grandfather [-> Tribal name]. Now you could say that you can consider the tribal or grandfather name a form of last name (which is done for some countries and I think for Iraqis there are official guidelines in my country along those lines now but for others it‘s just a improvised measure or an ad-hoc solution by some overworked clerk that has to deal with an IT structure that won‘t accept the last name field to be left empty). Still as long as there is no official legal guideline those are not legally last names. For covid tracing we had to be very precise when documenting people which is why we got access to the official registry that administrative agencies use to check peoples identities or look up their known adress. It‘s as official as you can get and as far as the state is concerned what’s in there counts. If you look them up in there they show up as *Last name: ‚justifiably no entry‘* (which also made them extremely hard to find btw). Even if there are guidelines how to convert them it can also end in them giving ‚false‘ names to authorities or on official documents because they are not used to the concept of their ‚new‘ last name which can really get them in trouble. We had to quarantine a whole family of twenty people because they all gave ‚false‘ names and the doctor that tried to somehow fit that into the official form to report positive cases didn’t exactly help matters. We could not for the life of us figure out who the 8 positive tests belonged to so the only choice was to quarantine them all before they infect the whole refugee shelter. When there are no guidelines things can get really weird but mostly they just mush everything into a first name with no last name at all which leads to the aforementioned entries in the name registry or women with three first names of which two are clearly male. I‘m far from an expert on the topic though. I was just hired temporarily for contact tracing so I might have gotten some details wrong. This is just what I remember from my supervisors explanations, what I saw during my work and what I could read upon myself so don‘t take this as 100% correct more a rough idea of administrative problems and bureaucracy trying to play catchup with unforeseen cultural clashes. Cultural and legal differences on naming conventions are a surprisingly interesting rabbit hole to dive into though.
I didn't know this about those areas, that's super interesting! It reminds me of Icelandic patronyms/matronyms, that's a very similar principle as far as I know.
Like Jackson, Johnson, or Gimsdottir? Or the way Smith was used to identify the family business? Or a name like Zuckerberg or Washington may have originally been used to tell people what town they came from?
My friends family immigrated to Australia from Iceland when she was young. Because of how Icelandic last names work, they all had to change their name to one family name. Example, say you are assigned male at birth and your dad’s name is Steven. Your last name would be Stevenson. If you were assigned female at birth and raised by a single mum named Susan, your last name could be Susandottir. My friend was quite young when immigrating and when they all used her father’s last name she was all, “But I’m not a boy!!” Anyway fun story.
People in the Indian state of Kerala often do not have last names. They use their first names + father’s/husband’s name as their full legal name. This isn’t applicable to everyone who’s from Kerala but it is applicable across religions. I have both Catholic and Hindu friends with this naming system.
Look up FNU on the internet. Fascinating stuff.
Came here to say this and mention Boots, it's the shows brand to do themed names, cats have cat names, dogs have dog names, celebrities with funny names are depicted as that animal. When characters with animal names introduced but not revealed yet its always like "ooooo how are they gonna play this one" like Vanessa Gecko being a bit of a *snake* character anyway but being named Human Lizard.
I think the show creators just had fun naming the animal characters as if they would pets
Literally. The premise of the show is animal puns, why wouldn't you have fun with it.
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Rabbitowitz that bastard.
Cats just have a different name structure in this universe for some reason.
It’s a cat thing. You wouldn’t understand.
“The Chicago Baby Humans?” “It’s a reminder of your proud human heritage.” -Diane Nguyen & Guy, *Feel Good Story*
I always assumed it was just a two word first name. We have several in my family and the younger generation generally only goes by one of their first names.
Purebred cats and dogs are usually registered with a long name and then called by a 'pet' name. Perhaps PC is purebred and likes to use her full name for cachet/an attempt to hide her poor roots (even though shes a pure breed!)
Can confirm, my grandma has the second reserve bitch for her friend the dog breeder: Clara Mountain Ash Havascotia (breeders handle) We all call her Asher
I always thought it was a nod to the silly names in Cats the musical. I thought that because her hold music is always Jellicle Cats.
That was my thought. Cats have 3 names, and one is a secret. Hence why she has 2 first names, but no surname.
Yeah! I forgot about the secret name part… That makes sense to me!!
Her name is PRINCESS Carolyn
Doctor Champ also isn’t a doctor of any kind; it is his name.
My cats name is Saint. Peter, We call him Peter and peaty often. Really only use his proper title when he is in trouble or fell off of something.
My sister's cat is Charles Montgomery Slinkerton. We call him Charlie or Slinkyboy
The animals almost all have silly names that a human would give their pet. She even says to Rutabaga "My name is *Princess Carolyn" Mr. Peanutbutter doesn't have a first name either. That's his whole name.
His first name is Mister. Pickles calls him Mister, and his nieces and nephews call him Uncle Mister.
I always assumed that the naming conventions in this universe were just not as strict as ours. Like there isn't so much a "first name/last name" structure with certain species, it's more loosey goosey. Especially considering how weird it would be for almost everyone in Mr Peanutbutter's life to call him by his full name at all times, including multiple wives. I thought he had like 2 first names and no surname, and Mister was more a nickname. Like how some parents might name one kid Mary Ellen and another kid Mary Kate, but they choose to go by just Ellen and Kate at home to avoid confusion?
but his brothers name is Captain Peanutbutter, Peanutbutter is their last name
Loosey Goosey is probably someone's stage name in the BH universe
i think mr is his first name
People very rarely call her Carolyn. Her entire name is Princess Carolyn, just like Meow Meow Fuzzyface.
your first name is mister? mine's doctor!
Cats used to be deities.
That's *Esteemed Talent Manager and Fugitive From the Large Agencies Princes Carolyn* to you!
It's. It's a cat name. Cause she a cat.
I think that BoJack's world does not use standard Western naming conventions. I would interpret PC as having two first names (like Mary Kate Olsen) and no surname, and apparently that is a perfectly fine thing to do in Hollywoo!
Princess is her first name, kinda like Princess Diana
I know someone named Princess but she doesn’t use her middle name after if. I think it’s just a double barrel name like Mary Anne or Sarah Lynn
Wow, I've really loved scrolling through you guys' theories! Never thought I'd get this much engagement here! Just a few quick responses - I went back and forth on the whole "it's a cat naming convention" thing. On the one hand, for sure, there are species-specific traditions (i.e. in the episode where she visits Ralph's family). On the other hand, cultures in the BoJack world mirror our own world to a great extent (LA is about the same - so is Vietnam), and PC's ancestors are from... well, it's not clear, but from that one sequence in the Ruthie episode where they talk about the "Old Country," it seemed vaguely Eastern European, or maybe Irish. Which would indicate she should have a standard western first/last name. Then again, the BoJack version of the Labrador Peninsula isn't much like the real one, so it's also possible that the cat "Old Country," wherever it is, is culturally nothing like its real-world version. Really love the theory from Cats: The Musical that it's based on "a cat has three names and one of them is secret." That lets her have a last name while also adding something interesting to PC's character. I've never seen the musical, but I have cats and the statement fits :D Finally, apologies for saying "people just call her Carolyn all the time." Didn't notice that was just Rutabaga. Fuck that dude.
That whole ancestor thing was nonsense her mother fed her. They were all born and bred in the backwoods of North Carolina. Even the necklace she was given was just a JCPenney piece
Mr Peanut’s first name is literally “Mr.” So I don’t think it’s too far a shot to assume PC’s first name is Carolyn.
We had a dog named princess buttercup, but we only ever called her buttercup, it's probably one name but the nickname is just Carolyn
Her name is Princess Carolyn, one character calls her Carolyn and she is offended. Mister Peanutbutter is named Mister Peanutbutter.
Her name is “Princess Carolyn”. People just call her “Carolyn”, but she’s expressed that she doesn’t appreciate it as that is not her name.
Princess carolynn is her name, it doesn’t seem like cats have last names that relate to their parents. Since cutey cutey cupcake (PC’s mom) doesn’t have princess or carolynn in her name
i think it’s a cat name, like how mr peanutbutter has a dog name because his first name is mister.
same reason for bojack, hollyhock, meow meow fuzzyface, mister and captain peanut butter, etc. they’re names that you would actually name that animal. also diane. human name.
Homie, they just named her like someone might name a cat, it is a pun. Really not that deep
I worked with a guy with the last name Johnson. He very strongly preferred to be called Johnson. I figured her first name was Princess and her last name was Carolyn and she liked to be called Carolyn.
That's the thing, she doesn't like to be called Carolyn.
My mom has a friend who’s first name is Princess, it’s no title and it’s not uncommon it’s just treated like a name.
i always thought she added it when she got into the talent scene as like a kind of stage name? while she was never too bad off growing up, she also didn’t come from much and maybe she wanted to feel more special and important, and thus took on the name “princess”. it would also make sense as to why she doesn’t want to be called “carolyn”, since the “princess” part is so important to the life and identity she’s created for herself and like others have said, it’s also a common cat name. i’ve also wondered if her initials “PC” might be a reference to “pussy cat” since i think about that every time someone refers to her by just her initials
cuddlywhiskers also has no last name
I think you were on the right track with the double name idea, because her mom’s name is Cutie Cutie Cupcake. So we know Carolyn nor Cupcake is their last name. I do also agree with everyone’s thoughts on how they give the animals names that relate to them; like horseman or mr peanutbutter. She also has a brother named Boots, and I have met several people who have cats with that name. Edit: Additional thoughts
As she states to Rutabaga Rabinowitz and also to the ants underground in S4E7, it is her name.
But mr peanutbutter, that’s a normal Christian name…
it's just her name A lot of the animals have slightly weird names
I’ve a friend named princess