Community (TV Series)
The Psychology of Letting Go (2010)
Donald Glover: Troy Barnes
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Quotes
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Jeff Winger : Guys, guys, guys. Did we learn nothing from last Christmas? I don't see much difference between Pierce's religion and anybody else's.
Annie Edison : Well, then you're not listening, because his has lasers!
Jeff Winger : Look, you guys make fun of me for not caring about religion. But at least I'm dedicated enough to not caring to let you have your own beliefs. Can't Pierce have his? Can't you be cool like me?
[picks up his phone]
Jeff Winger : Hello?
Troy Barnes : He ends so many of his speeches that way.
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Jeff Winger : You guys make fun of me for not caring about religion. But at least I'm dedicated enough to not caring to let you have your own beliefs. Can't Pierce have his? Can't you be cool like me?
[He leaves the room, talking on his cell phone]
Troy Barnes : He ends so many of his speeches that way.
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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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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.