>>112882078Herb didn’t actually die from cancer- he died from a peanut allergy in a freak peanut related accident on his way home from the hospital after he had been informed his cancer was in remission and he wasn’t going to die from cancer after all. So when he eats peanuts in the dream, he’s eating the poison that killed him. He’s casually munching something he couldn’t possibly eat when he was alive.
Corduroy died auto asphyxiating himself, but as part of his masturbatory experience, he would always put a lemon slice in his mouth, to clamp down on and give him an additional jolt right towards the end. He died with a lemon slice in his mouth. The lemon can be said to symbolize the method that killed him.
If you look around the table, the other characters are also eating what was probably their last meals. Sarah Lynne is eating fast food she probably picked up on her bender with BoJack, Beatrice has a metal tray in front of her with crappy nursing home food, and CrackerJack has a can of food like a soldier would eat out on the lines in wwii. BoJack is drinking chlorinated water while he drowns in a pool. Zach, who was starving when he died, doesn’t even get to sit at the table.
They’re all eating what their stomach or mouth contents would be at their time of death.
It’s all very disturbing, but Herb’s hit me the hardest, and it was even harder seeing his plate right next to Corduroy’s to really hammer in the point.
