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= The Old Sugarman Place = "The Old Sugarman Place" is the second episode of the fourth season of American animated television series BoJack Horseman, and the 38th episode overall. It was written by Kate Purdy, and directed by Anna Walker Farrell, and was released in the United States, along with the rest of season four, via Netflix on September 8, 2017. Matthew Broderick, Jane Krakowski, Wendie Malick, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Colman Domingo provide voices in guest appearances for the episode. Patrick Carney and Michelle Branch also provide their cover for "A Horse With No Name", a song featured in the episode.

In the episode, BoJack goes off the grid and goes to his grandparents' old dilapidated home in Michigan where he tries to renovate the lake house with a dragonfly named Eddie, while also revisiting his mother Beatrice's childhood and the family's pain after their son Crackerjack dies in World War II. This is the first time Beatrice's childhood is shown, the next being Time's Arrow. The episode uses overlapping timelines, switching between the present with BoJack and the past with Beatrice, even showing the two at the same time.

Plot
Continuing from the events of That Went Well, BoJack is about to join the wild running horses but is interrupted by a call from Diane, which he ignores. At a diner, he sees Beatrice as a young child on a packet of Sugarman sugar cubes. Reminded of his family and past, BoJack goes to Harper's Landing, Michigan to his grandparents' old summer lake house, which is now dilapidated and broken after being vacant for 25 years. There, he conflicts with one of his neighbors, a dragonfly named Eddie who wishes the home would be torn down. BoJack attempts to renovate it but repeatedly fails due to his shoddy workmanship. Eddie asks to help but BoJack refuses, even tearing down the front door after Eddie fixed it.

During the episode, we see flashbacks to BoJack's mother Beatrice's childhood in the 1940s, where she visited the lake house in the summers with her parents Joseph and Honey and her older brother Crackerjack, whom Honey often plays the song "I Will Always Think of You" with. Crackerjack leaves the family to go fight in World War II, but he is killed during combat. Honey falls into a spiral of denial and depression over Crackerjack's death, having no will to do anything. At their next visit to the lake house, Joseph leaves Honey and Beatrice alone together for most of the day, being "unprepared to handle a woman's emotions".

In the present, BoJack finally agrees to let Eddie help with the house, as they renovate it over the next 8 months. They bond over the experience, becoming friends. BoJack pesters Eddie about his unwillingness to fly, due to his wife Lorraine being killed by a plane's jet engine while flying. BoJack notices that a weathervane is missing from the roof of the house, Eddie remembers that the weathervane is on top of a local barn and the two go to take it back. After the end of World War II, Honey takes Beatrice to the same barn to a party celebrating the war's end. Both Eddie and Honey sing "I Will Always Think of You", Eddie to distract the patrons and owner of the restaurant while BoJack steals the weathervane, and Honey to honor Crackerjack and their memories together.

Honey has an emotional breakdown, she drinks a whole pitcher of alcohol, kisses one of Crackerjack's friends before crying hysterically in front of everyone. She is told to leave the party, and makes Beatrice drive them home as she is intoxicated. During the drive, Honey tells Beatrice to drive faster and she crashes the car, nearly killing the two as they are both severely injured. Joseph is infuriated over Honey's behavior and actions, who tearfully admits she cannot get over Crackerjack's death and asks Joseph to "take her pain away". Joseph has Honey lobotomized, now becoming a dazed and empty shell of her former self, much to the horror of Beatrice as she cries in Honey's lap, and she makes Beatrice promise she will never be attached to anyone as much as she was to Crackerjack.

While Eddie and BoJack install the weathervane, BoJack intentionally falls off the roof of the house to get Eddie to fly. This makes Eddie relive Lorraine's death, and angrily flies BoJack and himself up to a plane, attempting a murder-suicide in the same way Lorraine died. As the plane approaches, BoJack elbows Eddie in the face as they both plunge into the lake. BoJack recues Eddie from drowning and pulls him ashore but Eddie tearfully admits he has no will to live. BoJack leaves him to lament on the shore. Back at the lake house, BoJack calls Diane after she has been trying to contact him for months. Diane asks BoJack to come home to L.A, telling a funny story about how everyone belongs in L.A. BoJack prepares to leave the next day, and hires a demolition crew to destroy the house, much to Eddie's shock. Eddie tells BoJack that they've spent the last 8 months restoring the house, but BoJack dismissively reminds Eddie that he attempted to kill him the night before, saying the 8 months were a waste of time. Eddie watches a wrecking ball slam into the house as BoJack drives back to L.A.