05x09 - Love Stories

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05x09 - Love Stories

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Don't you get it, Hannah? I am not a person who yells, okay?

I am not a person who freaks out. I'm a chill f*cking person, and you made me go f*cking insane.

I'm really sorry.

You're f*ckin' sorry?

I've never acted like this before in a relationship, all right? Not once.

I'm a good f*ckin' boyfriend.

And you, you just sh*t all over that.

You sh*t all over it, and you somehow make me the f*ckin' bad guy?

Fran, stop, okay?

You're a d*ck. A secret d*ck, to be sure, but you are a d*ck.

You're very judgmental. You're very moralistic.

You definitely would've sent witches to trial in "The Crucible."

And that might work for some, like, administrative assistant that you meet in a sports bar, but it doesn't work for me.

Our relationship didn't work out. It sucks.

At this point, it really doesn't matter who the assh*le was or who the assh*le wasn't, so why can't you just take your stuff and go?

You wouldn't know real love if it bit your f*ckin' tit off.

I'm sure you're right.

You said to me, point-blank, that you had never been in a healthy relationship before.

So how would you even know if this was healthy?

I wouldn't know.

Maybe, for all you know, you just said good-bye to the best thing that ever happened to you.

Probably, I did.

You're gonna regret this so f*ckin' hard.

Fran, I don't know why you can't just give this up.

You don't even like me.

It does not matter if I don't like you, okay?

I love you.

I would be happy to pay for an Uber to transport you and your things back to your home.

(moaning softly)

(gasps)

(jackhammer rattling)

(distant men shouting)


Oh, f*ck.

(car horn honking)

So, what, you had a sex dream about Ray?

You've had actual sex with Ray, which is way worse.

And I've had sex dreams about everybody I've known, including you.

You r*ped me.

No, it wasn't a sex dream, it wasn't a love dream.

We weren't even having sex in it. I mean, I still came, but it was from something else.

Ugh! Oh, Marnie, I don't want to hear about this. And you can't come.

I was brushing his hair.

Well, that's a fool's errand if I ever heard one.

He had this long, gorgeous hair.

It was like Khaleesi from "Game of Thrones" except it was raven black, and I was just brushing it slowly and tenderly and I was getting him ready for school.

So, he was, like, your daughter?

Yeah, in a sense.

God, I just can't get it out of my mind.

It's like the best thing that's happened to me in months.

That's the most depressing thing I've heard in my entire life.

And you know what? I wish it was real.

What is wrong with me?

Well, your sandals, for starters.

(singing along) ♪ Ain't no love ♪
♪ And it's sure 'nuff a pity ♪
♪ Ain't no love ♪
♪ 'Cause you ain't around... ♪


Shosh?

Ray.

Shosh, is that really you?

Oh, my God. Oh, Shosh.

Hey.

Mm, Shosh, look at you.

I can't believe it's you.

You're a full-grown woman now.

(laughs)

Are you guys closed?

No, but I'm about to shut it down for the day.

I've got a community board meeting in a little while and then there's a Dennis Kucinich live webstream I want to hop onto.

What the f*ck happened in here?

Yeah, that. Across the street over there.

We've been outpaced, outshined, outmaneuvered, out everything by those Neo-hippie gender-neutral monsters.

It's very bleak, Shosh. It's very bleak.

Hermie says that if business doesn't pick up in here, he's gonna turn this place into a billiards store.

Not bar, store.

Okay, you have to fight this, Ray.

You have to have a wartime attitude.

Maybe ask for some help, something I know you're f*cking terrible at, but ask for it anyways.

Who's gonna help me, Shosh? Who? My last remaining employee's Elijah.

Hermie's consuming heroic amounts of painkillers.

My coffee truck is a complete bust for reasons I can't even get into, although they involve Hannah trying to suckle the head of my penis at 50 miles an hour.

Okay, I'm gonna help you.

Seriously, what do you think I was doing in Japan?

I mean, other than learning origami and eating candy that tastes like other candy. I do marketing, Ray.

It is my area of expertise. I went to mother effing college for it, so, you know, at least let me have a cr*ck at that.

We do make a pretty good team.

The best.

Wait, Hannah?

Y-yeah.

Don't tell me.

(music playing over speakers)

Can I help you with anything?

(sighs) I don't f*ckin' know.

Um, I guess I'm looking for items that say...

"I really am the one for you, despite your misgivings about monogamy and your penthouse full of whores."

(laughs)

I've been in a very open relationship...

(whispering) with a very well-known television personality.

Okay.

And, ah, I am really hoping to... close it.

Say no more. Mm-hmm.

Ah.

This is really speaking to me for that.

Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah. (chuckles)

Mm-hmm.

All right. Why aren't you working in a more high-end retail establishment?

Now, why aren't you shopping in one?

Ooh, (chuckles) touché.

(laughs)

Uh...

D'Emilia.

D'Emilia. Hmm.

(giggles)

Well, let's "Pretty Woman" this sh*t, D'Emilia.

You got it.

(clicks tongue)

(Principal Toby) Wow, good thing school's not in session or... or (chuckles) that outfit would definitely not fly.

Oh, you know, I'm kinda trying to spend less time in places where my outfit doesn't fly.

You know, my proverbial outfit.

Um, I'm not sure I follow.

Principal Toby, this has been a really, really amazing opportunity for me.

You've taken a lot of chances on me, and I'm sure you've taken a lot of flak, which is why I'm gonna seem like a real wench when I say that I don't think I'll be coming back next year.

Oh, gosh, I... why?

Did you get... did you get another job?

Is it those bastards from Fort Greene Montessori?

No, what it is is that I've been trying to stay more open to signals from the universe, and I don't know if I can be open to those signals if I'm tuned in to another song.

This job being the song.

Okay, Hannah. I wish you all the best.

I really do. You know, you've been so, um... eye-opening to me.

Really?

Oh, yeah.

I mean, with all your setbacks and your issues, you... you live your life with such a... joie de vivre.

You're right, I do. I do have a lot of joie de vivre.

You do. You really do, and it's unusual to see that in a teacher.

I mean, it's unusual to see it in anybody.

I really hope you find what you're looking for.

Thank you, Principal Toby.

And for the record, I think you're a lot funkier than people give you credit for.

And, by the way, I'm really sorry I showed you my p*ssy.

I was in a bad relationship and I was blasting a lot of energy in the wrong direction.

Forget about it. Water under the bridge.

Thank you, sir.

(sighs)

Hannah!

(rings bell) Hannah. Hannah Horvath.

Tally, hey.

Oh, my God. (chuckles)

This is so crazy.

I was literally just thinking about you.

Um, why?

I am writing a novel about the tyranny of political correctness at Oberlin, so of course I'm including the sophomore year incident where you called our R.A. a Jewish h*tler and then heil'd him.

Yeah, well, you know, that's sort of my story to tell.

You do remember it, yeah. How are you?

Um, I'm okay. I, ah, it's a work in progress, as it is for everybody, I would say.

Oh.

People big and small.

Mm-hmm, I do know that, girl.

I just got back from a writing retreat at MacDowell, so you're, like, the sixth person I've seen since I left my cabin.

So, I'm just like, I feel so crazy!

Like, I just want to, like, m*rder someone in the face!

Where are you headed? Do you want to hang out?

Um, I'm not really headed anywhere in particular at the moment.

Okay.

Well, that's perfect 'cause I'm literally free until 3:00 AM.

And I guess I'm free till I have to go home to Michigan for Thanksgiving.

So, let's do it.

Let's catch up.

Yeah.

Okay.

Whoa, this is crazy.

You look exactly the same.

Thanks, your bike looks really expensive.

Yeah.

Well, thank you for agreeing to meet like this.

It's very big of you, especially considering Tandace.

Thank you for saying that.

That means a lot to me, praise coming from you.

Okay, don't go overboard. I just think that if we're going to keep the ball rolling post-"Grey's"...

Mm-hmm. we have to put the past behind us.

I agree.

This is a big moment for both of us.

I know.

I just need you to please promise me that the not-talking-to-me bullshit is over.

Okay, well, it's tricky, Marn when the No. aggression train is headed straight towards me...

We're collaborators. It's childish.

Okay. I understand we're collaborating so don't I doesn't make any sense. judge the way that my process works.

Baby.

Well, I'm not...

Oh, hi.

Hi. It's time to go.

Okay, my e ku'u.

Um, actually, there's a couple more b*llet points we're supposed to go over. Yeah.

Des, you said eight minutes.

Any more than that will be...

Re-immersion, right.

We're done talking.

Yes.

I got you that tea.

Oh, thank you.

How does that make you feel?

You know, grateful and excited.

Thirsty.

Okay, Marn, I will, ah, catch you at rehearsal.

I got you the hemp...

I love that stuff.

Hey, what are you drinking?

(conversation continues indistinctly)

(sighs)

(Desi laughs)

...gonna move here, and then just cut it...

(Woman) You're gonna cross out the...

Yeah, exactly.

Hi.

Elijah, hey. What a surprise.

Uh, can I talk to you for a... about something?

Well, if it's about the troop situation in Kandahar, then Alexia's already b*at you to the punch.

(both laugh)

Why don't you wait in the wings, we'll get a drink afterwards. Alexia, can you show him where to stand?

Sure.

Um, no, actually, I... can we talk now?

Get that in the teleprompter?

Yes.

All right, is this another one of your states of the union?

No, it's not.

I'm not happy with the way we left things.

I was angry and I felt like you were... embarrassed, even though that's not an emotion you claim to be able to feel.

Well, I'm gonna be embarrassed if I miss this broadcast.

What is it?

Dill, I know you would never admit this to yourself, but don't you want to be with somebody who sees you for you?

Beyond all of this?

Elijah.

I'm the only person who's gonna be honest with you about your bad jokes and the fact that, no, you don't look better with a shaved head.

And i-if you say your private life is private and then you go and see Cher in Las Vegas, that's not the same thing as coming out of the closet.

But all those guys you have around, all those... f*cking guys you just have, they're only gonna tell you what you want to hear and they're gonna cater to you because of your fame and the stuff that you have.

I don't want your stuff. (chuckles)

You're gonna end up with nothing.

And you deserve everything.

Dill, don't you want to be with someone who sees you for you?

Don't you want a... a boyfriend someone?

Who's honest?

Wow. (sighs)

(Elijah chuckles)

Hold on, hold on.

I...

You're not wrong.

I've wanted something serious for a while and... and... maybe this is the time. (laughs)

Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

That's not what I mean.

I'm looking for someone special.

A special someone.

For me.

And I'm not that someone.

What can I say, Elijah? Love is so mysterious.

What does he look like? No, I'm...

Elijah, please.

I'm just curious. I'm really curious. What does this person even look like?

I don't know, someone closer to my own age...

Well... tall...

Tall? We're like the same height. How much... how much taller could a person be?

Someone less aimless.

Thank you.

I feel so supported.

God, you've opened up my mind... and my heart.

I'll think of you every time I go to Brooklyn.
(chatter)

(laughing, chattering)

Can I help you?

Oh, yeah, hey.

I'm, ah, writing a poem... out of found words, so I'm, just, like, looking for some words, man.

That's cool. Do you mind if we give you a few words?

Yeah, for sure... tot... there are like... there are no rules.

There are rules.

"Greenery."

Great.

(Barista) "Silenced."

Beautiful.

"Champion."

"Ally."

"Tunic."

Loving them.

"Cat."

I don't know if I'm gonna b*at that. That's really powerful.

Yeah, I haven't really, like, perfected the rhyme scheme yet, so these are actually perfect.

Thank you.

Um...

mahalo.

I dated this guy on and off for a while. Like, two years. I mean, it was... it was pretty serious, I guess.

Mm-hmm.

Um, but, ah, we broke up because I went to the Iowa Writers' Workshop, which also didn't work out...

Yeah, of course.

I mean, did you not just feel so oppressed while you were there?

Or was it that, like, annoying emphasis on traditional fiction that just kind of, like...

I just didn't want to write.

Yeah, welcome to the club.

No, I mean, like, I don't write anymore.

I don't even write to-do lists. I just don't do it.

Really? Just, like, total identity switcheroo.

I think that's very brave. I think that's very beautiful and brave.

You know, then I got back and he was dating this girl... woman, Mimi-Rose.

Howard?

You know her?

Mm-hmm.

She is such garbage, and if she fucks with me at one more TEDxWomen's event, I'm going to k*ll her and then I will rejoice.

Her f*cking lectures, she's just like, "Hi, I've got a lot to say about the feminist approach to f*cking being a bitch."

Oh, oh, for sure. She is like a pure white blinding evil.

And then I dated this teacher who was, like, you know, fine, but he was a square.

I'm not, obviously, a square.

Mm-mm.

Plus, I was just using him to try to get over Adam, who's probably the only person I've ever loved, so there's that.

So, why not just go after that?

Oh, I can't.

I couldn't even if I wanted to.

You remember Jessa, right?

Of course. She tried to cook meth in South Hall and then all the HazMat people came and we were all so excited.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. In fairness to her, she was cooking the meth to sell.

What she was smoking was cr*ck.

Well, that's good.

But anyway, he's with her now.

Really?

And is that normal for you? I mean, aren't you guys, like, best friends?

Thought so.

Oh, f*ck.

That's so intense. I'm so sorry.

(sighs)

Yeah, I mean from what I remember, she has really amazing hair.

She has amazing hair, she's an amazing person.

Mm-hm.

She's just not a person I can have in my life right now.

And the worst part is, like, I miss them both, you know?

Like, I love them both so much, I don't know who to warn about the other one.

And I could do what my instinct is, which is run around and destroy things and scream and try to throw myself in front of a van to make a point, but... end of the day, that would just be me fulfilling all of their expectations of me, and I would love to surprise someone sometime.

Ooh, no. Oh, lady, no.

This is so sad.

No, no, no, no, no, no.

No. Oh, God.

That hurt me to hear that.

Mm-mm.

Mm-mm.

Poor girl.

I could've eaten seven more hot dogs. I was just being calm.

Ugh, I feel like seven hot dogs right now.

Plus, I just can't eat a lot when someone else is eating a minimal amount.

I feel like we should've both just gone for it.

Did you just see this assh*le not lock his bike?

No.

Well, I did, and I hate it when people are like, "Oh, it was a sign."

But I think this is a sign.

I'm not gonna steal a bike, Tally.

That's what I'm saying.

If you know what I'm saying, then you know you should do it.

Hop a leg over, get your vag*na on that seat, and ride into the future.

You know what? Yes.

People steal things all the time without consequences.

It's my time.

That's right.

It's my time.

Inspired by me.

I've never felt more alive!

I have a new bike!

Hey, that's my bike!

That's my bike!

(Tally) Ah! Go, go!

Come back here!

Keep riding!

♪ My thumb goes up, a car goes by ♪
♪ It's nearly 1:00 AM and here am I ♪
♪ Hitching a ride... ♪


Uh-oh.

♪ Hitching a ride... ♪

Hi.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

♪ Gotta get me home ♪
♪ By the morning light ♪


♪ I got no fare to ride a plane... ♪

I wish I wasn't too scared to look at the view. It's so nice!

Just feel it in your heart.

I can't even believe how fast I'm going!

Don't look back, but I look exactly like a poodle with her head sticking out the window.

Whoo!

Be careful. There's a bump.

♪ Hitching a ride... ♪

Eeeh.

Aw.

This is me.

Okay, bye.

Well, we should smoke a Fatty J, right?

Yeah.

You're fun.

(both laugh)

Okay, that place is about to turn into a Manson Family situation any day now.

I am deeply uncomfortable with what I have seen.

New York is dead.

The city's no place for people like us anymore.

Okay, Hermie, I know it feels that way, but, no.

Those hipsters are a very specific subculture, a vocal minority, if you will, like the Westboro Baptist Church.

But they may all be related for all we know.

This is what I propose.

Ray's as a destination for the anti-hipster.

You're talking about rebranding?

Oh, a heavy rebranding.

Like when Kentucky Fried Chicken just became KFC so people would forget that they were, you know, eating Kentucky food?

Gentlemen, it is high time we start selling coffee to people with jobs.

(coughing)

Yeah.

Good, beautiful. Good job.

(music playing on radio)

(coughing)

Good. Good girl. Good girl.

I've been so f*cking jealous of you.

What?

You're... are you kidding?

You're like the bar against which I've measured everything, you know?

It's like, we graduated from college four years ago, and so I calculate, "Oh, it's been four years.

Tally's published two books of essays and a novel."

And I did a book of poetry as well.

And you did a book of poetry as well.

Yeah.

And what have I done?

You know? What have I done with my life besides get not one but two strains of HPV and gain and lose a total of 33 pounds?

Oh, man.

That's so... crazy to be jealous of me.

Oh, my God. Cut the sh*t, seriously.

Fair enough.

Yeah.

Yeah, I guess everyone is jealous of me.

Ugh.

Do you know I Google myself every day?

(laughs) It's so gross, but I do, and I just wanna see if, like, Gawker or whoever they are has written some snarky thing about how much of a hack I am or if even there's just, like, a pretty picture of me in the "Financial Times" roundup of books of the year. (sniffles)

I need to see how other people see me because... it's the only way that I can see myself.

I wake up every morning and I think, "Well, okay, what would Tally Schifrin do?

Tally Schifrin is not even me now.

She's just, like, this thing that I've created.

She's a monster that I've made and I have to feed, and she feeds on praise and controversy.

And it's exhausting and boring at once.

And...

I'm too smart to be exhausted and bored.

And now I have a book of essays due, and not to be, like, boo-hoo about it, but it's like what the f*ck am I gonna write an essay on?

All I do is Google myself and smoke weed and, um, masturbate with an electric toothbrush.

You could afford a vibrator.

I know. I really don't want one and that makes me feel mentally ill.

(sniffles)

Today's, like, the most fun I've had in... (exhales) like 17 months.

I just thought you woke up in the morning in, like, a ray of sunshine and, like, birds dressed you (scoffs) and you just, like, came in your pants from all the accolades, and then people handed you awards on your way to, like, a fancy dinner.

Yeah. (chuckles and sniffles) Yeah.

Uh, I guess that's how you're supposed to feel, like, by my calculations, but... (sniffles)

(sniffles)

Look at you.

You've had all these, like, boyfriends and jobs and moments.

And you've lived all this truth.

It didn't feel like very much while it was happening.

But it is much.

And you have so much to say.

And look at your little freckles.

Look at your little freckles all over your little face. (chuckling)

And you have little tiny teeth. They're so... little side teeth.

These teeth?

Mm-hmm.

I don't even know if they're real.

I love them.

Oh, thank you.

Yeah, I love them so much.

It's so nice.

Should we have sex?

Should we?

Like, probably not. No!

No. Okay.

♪ Let's go ♪ - ♪ Feelin' myself ♪
♪ I'm feelin' myself ♪
♪ I'm feelin' my, feelin' myself ♪
♪ I'm feelin' myself, I'm feelin' my, feelin' my ♪
♪ Feelin' myself, I'm feelin' myself ♪
♪ I'm feelin' my, feelin' myself ♪
♪ I'm feelin' myself, I'm feelin' my, feelin' my ♪
♪ Feelin' myself, I'm feelin' myself ♪
♪ I'm feelin' my, feelin' myself ♪
♪ I'm feelin' myself, I'm feelin' my ♪
♪ Changed the game with that digital drop ♪
♪ Know where you was when that digital popped ♪
♪ I stop the world ♪
♪ Male or female, it make no difference ♪
♪ I stop the world, the world stop. ♪

(music playing on radio)

(knock on door)

(knocks)


Hey.

Hi.

You're, uh, at my door.

Yep.

Yep, this is where I am.

Cool.

I am having a very strong feeling about you, and it's been making me really uncomfortable.

Okay.

I am supposed to be alone right now. You know, I'm spending time with myself.

Okay.

I'm not supposed to be doing this, but, um...

I want to brush your hair.

Come again?

I had a love dream about you.

What the f*ck is a love dream?

I love you.

It can't be you.

It just... it can't. It can't be you.

I think it might be me, Marn.

Yeah.

I really do.

Yeah.

I just think the next person I sleep with, like, I want his ex-wife to be Spanish.

f*ck, Willem Dafoe is your answer.

Oh, my God. I would seriously...

Hi.

Hello.

Hey.

Yeah.

(laughing) I'm sorry. Oh, my God.

I'm so sorry. (laughing)

(both laughing)

What?

No, no, no.

I don't know. I don't know.

Oh. Please.

(both laughing)

I'm in shock.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

(laughing continues)

♪ I've tried to express it ♪
♪ But I think it's all a bore ♪
♪ It's at the heart of me ♪
♪ A very part of me ♪
♪ Speak slowly, I can't hear you ♪
♪ My mind keeps spinning closer and closer ♪
♪ To the rain on the roof and the rain in my head ♪
♪ And the things that you said ♪


♪ It's nowhere in here and it's everywhere else that I don't wanna be ♪
♪ But I'm stuck here getting misty over you ♪
♪ I'm alone on a bicycle for two ♪

( music continues )

♪ Speak slowly, I can't hear you ♪
♪ My mind keeps spinning closer and closer ♪
♪ To the rain on the roof and the rain in my head ♪
♪ And the things that you said ♪
♪ Keep on sinking further ahead ♪
♪ And it just gets so foggy ♪
♪ It's nowhere in here and it's everywhere else that I don't wanna be ♪
♪ But I'm stuck here getting misty over you ♪
♪ I'm alone on a bicycle for two. ♪
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