Community (TV Series)
The Psychology of Letting Go (2010)
Chevy Chase: Pierce Hawthorne
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Quotes
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Pierce's Mom : [on CD] Pierce, you've found the CD, which means I'm dead.
Pierce Hawthorne : Vaporized.
Pierce's Mom : [on CD] I'm not vaporized. I'm gone, Pierce. Gone forever and that's how I like it. Life is only worth a damn because it's short. It's designed to be consumed, used, spent, lived, felt. We're supposed to fill it with every mistake and miracle we can manage. And then we're supposed to let go. I can't force you to do that for yourself, Pierce. But you can't force me to stay. And if you unscrew the top of that stupid thing, you'll see it was made in China. I love you, son. Goodbye. I'll play myself out.
[Hip Hop music blaring on stereo]
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Troy Barnes : I just saw a dead body.
Shirley Bennett : Told you not to use the east stairwell. My pastor said it's meth season.
Troy Barnes : You know I'm living with Pierce now, so this morning I went to do laundry in the garage and I found his mom, dead.
Shirley Bennett , Britta Perry : Oh.
Annie Edison : Troy, that's terrible.
Troy Barnes : Well, she had been in bad shape for a while, so I guess she crawled out there to die like a cat. I've never been close to a dead body.
Annie Edison , Britta Perry : Oh.
Shirley Bennett : Oh, pumpkin.
[Annie, Britta and Shirley console Troy]
Troy Barnes : She was so cold and grey. I saw her underwear.
Pierce Hawthorne : [enters room whistling] Jeez, who died?
Britta Perry : Pierce, we're so sorry to hear about your mom.
Pierce Hawthorne : Why?
Annie Edison : Losing a loved one is always difficult.
Pierce Hawthorne : What? My mom isn't dead.
Shirley Bennett : But when Troy found her, he said...
Pierce Hawthorne : Well her heart, lungs, kidneys and brain have stopped working.
Jeff Winger : And another way of saying that would be?
Pierce Hawthorne : She used up her organic body.
Britta Perry : By... dying in it.
Pierce Hawthorne : Wrong. She's alive. Mom was a part of my Buddhist church. She's a Level Five Laser Lotus, same as me. When a Level Five's body stops functioning, it's vaporized in the Temple of Renewal and stored in an energon pod. In a few years, when our technology advances, they'll extract her body vapors, re-condense it to a solid. Before you know it, Mom will be back in the kitchen making Troy and me sandwiches.
[pats Troy on the shoulder]
Pierce Hawthorne : Heh.
[Troy starts sobbing]
Shirley Bennett , Annie Edison , Britta Perry : Oh!
Shirley Bennett : Pumpkin. It's okay. Oh, sweetie.
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Pierce Hawthorne : If you're curious, come to my church's Open Hive tomorrow. You know, wine, beer and free credit checks.
Professor Ian Duncan : How much wine and beer per person?
Jeff Winger : Oh, come on.
Professor Ian Duncan : We're having a con... What?
Hot Girl : Excuse me, is this Anesthesiology?
Professor Ian Duncan : Yes. Yes, it is.
[turns his head and speaks under his breath]
Professor Ian Duncan : Just go with this.
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Troy Barnes : What's with the lava lamp?
Pierce Hawthorne : It's not a lava lamp. It's my mom.
Troy Barnes : Oh ho ho! Snap! Wait, what?
Pierce Hawthorne : The temple finished vaporizing her. This is Mom's energon pod. That's her vapor in those little bubbles.
Jeff Winger : I'm sure that thing was free, right?
Pierce Hawthorne : Energon doesn't grow on trees, Jeff. It's harvested by super bees in a Buddhist meteor crater.
Jeff Winger : Which is at the foot of Mount Sky Mall in The Sharper Image Valley?
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Pierce Hawthorne : Morning, guys.
Shirley Bennett : Morning, Pierce. How's Mom?
Pierce Hawthorne : Terrific. Her body is being vaporized as we speak.
Troy Barnes : What does that feel like?
Pierce Hawthorne : Pierce: It's the greatest feeling ever. Like the second when the fudge on your sundae is still hot, or when you're the first one to break in a new boob job. You're free from the burden of your earthly body.
Troy Barnes : It is a burden.