All language subtitles for BoJack.Horseman.S05E06.WEB.x264-STRiFE

Yes, yes, I see you. Get in. Get in.

Your mother's having another one
of her episodes.

Last night, she went to see A Doll's House

with a couple girlfriends,
and now she has ideas.

I emerged from my sanctum, this afternoon,

to discover that not only had she
not made me lunch,

which is a meal I need in order to live,

but she'd furthermore, locked herself
in the bedroom to weep... loudly.

Now, it's one thing for a woman to weep,

but when they do it at such a volume
you can hear it through the door,

then you know they're doing it
just for the attention.

Anyway, I was able to cobble together
a sandwich for myself,

so, I'm the real hero of the story.

It was a couple hours later

when I realized I was on a good run
with my novel.

I had this really interesting sentence
that kept going for pages and pages,

and I thought about how rare it is
to really get in the groove like that.

How, most days, I can't concentrate

because my idiot child
is blasting the television,

and it suddenly dawned on me;
hot cock on a rock,

she never even picked up
the little noise and snot factory!

So, here I am, being your mother,

which I know is giving you all sorts
of mixed-up ideas about gender,

while your brain
is still loose and stupid.

Just remember,

if you become a queer later in life,
this isn't my fault!

Don't you sing no songs in your nightclub
act called, "My Daddy was My Mommy,"

while gazing longingly
at a tangled string of pearls.

Pearls are for ladies, BoJack.

Pearls are for ladies.

You know Sunday is my writing day.

Sundays are the one day
that are just for me and my craft,

and still, you and the black hole
that birthed you

conspire to ruin it for me.

What am I supposed to do now?
Just go back to writing?

I'm out of the zone now,
the whole day's shot!

All because of you
and that brittle wisp of a woman

you made the mistake
of making your mother.

No. It's not her fault.

She's doing the best she can, after all.

It's just that...
you can't depend on women.

You can't depend on anyone.

Sooner or later, you need to learn

that no one else
is gonna take care of you.

That's what I learned
when I had to make my own sandwich.

You can't rely on other people, BoJack.

It's good for you to know that.

And she's a good mother
for teaching you that.

You've got a head start on most kids.

You're actually very lucky.

Thaaaaank youuuuu?

So, I stopped at a Jack in the Box,
on the way here,

and the girl behind the counter said,
"Hiya! Are you having an awesome day?"

Not, "How are you doing today?"
No. "Are you having an awesome day?"

Which is pretty shitty because it puts
the onus on me to disagree with her,

like if I'm not having an "awesome day,"
suddenly I'm the negative one.

Usually, when people ask how I'm doing,
the real answer is I'm doing shitty,

but I can't say I'm doing shitty

because I don't have a good reason
to be doing shitty.

So if I say, "I'm doing shitty,"
then they say, "Why? What's wrong?"

And I have to be like,
"I don't know, all of it?"

So instead, when people ask how I'm doing,
I usually say, "I am doing so great."

But when this girl at the Jack in the Box
asked me if I was having an awesome day,

I thought, well, today
I'm actually allowed to feel shitty,

today I have a good reason,
so I said to her, "Well, my mom died."

And she immediately burst into tears.

So, now I have to comfort her,
which is annoying,

and meanwhile, there's a line
of people forming behind me,

who are all giving me
these real judgy looks

because I made
the Jack in the Box girl cry.

And she's bawling, and she's saying,
"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry,"

and I'm like, "It's fine. It's fine.

I mean, it's not fine,
but, you know, it's... fine.

And I would like to order
a Double Jack Meal,

and I've kinda got somewhere to be,

so maybe less with the crying
and more with the frying, huh?"

And the girl apologizes, again,

and she offers me a free churro
with my meal.

And as I'm leaving,
I think, "I just got a free churro

because my mom died."

No one ever tells you when your mom dies,
you get a free churro.

Anyway, I'm sorry,

that's not part of the...
All right.

Okay, here we go. Let's do this.

Here I am, BoJack Horseman,
doing a eulogy, let's go.

Hey, piano man,
can I get like a, like an organ flourish?

Nicely done.
You know, I was a little worried

I wouldn't have the right
accompaniment today.

I guess it's a good thing my mom
was an organ donor!

What happened to the organ?

Why don't you leave
the comedy to the professionals?

Okay? This is a funeral, sir,
for my mother.

Can you show a little respect?

I'll take it.

Beatrice Horseman, who was she?
What was her deal?

Well, she was a horse.

Uh, she was born in 1938.
She died in 2018.

One time, she went to a parade,

and one time, she smoked
an entire cigarette in one long inhale.

I watched her do it.

Truly a remarkable woman.

Lived a full life, that lady.

Just, all the way to the end,
which is, uh, now, I guess.

Really makes you think, though, huh?

Life, right? Goes by, stuff happens.
Then you die.

Well, that's my time,
you've been great! Tip your waitress!

No, I'm just kidding around,
there's no waitress.

That's all I have to say about my mother.

No point beating a dead horse, right?

So... Now what?
I don't know, Mom, you got any ideas?

Anything?

Mom?

No?

Nothing to contribute?
Knock once if you're proud of me.

Can I just say how amazing it is
to be in a room with my mother,

and I can just talk without her telling me
to shut up and make her a drink?

Hey, Mom. Knock once
if you think I should shut up.

No? You sure?

I mean, I don't want to embarrass you,
by making this eulogy into a me-logy,

so, seriously,
if you wanted me to sit down

and let someone else talk, just knock.
I will not be offended.

No? Your funeral.

Sorry about the closed casket, by the way.

She wanted an open casket,

but, you know, she's dead now,
so who cares what she wanted?

No, that sounds bad. I'm sorry.

I think that if she could've seen
what she looked like dead,

she'd agree it's better this way.
She looked like this.

Kinda like a pissed-off toy dinosaur.
The coroner couldn't get her eyes closed.

So, now her face is forever frozen

in a mask of tremendous horror
and anguish.

Or as my mom called it, Tuesday!

Tuesday! My mom called it Tuesday.

Hey, Mom, what did you think of that joke?
You like that?

You never did care for my comedy.

Here's a story.

When I was a teenager,

I performed a comedy routine
for my high school talent show.

There was this cool jacket
that I wanted to wear

because it would make me
look like Albert Brooks.

For months, I saved up for this jacket,

but when I finally had enough,
I went to the store and it was gone.

They had just sold it to someone else.
So, I went home and I told my mother.

She said, "Let that be a lesson.

That's the good
that comes from wanting things."

She was really good
at dispensing life lessons,

that always seemed to circle back
to everything being my fault.

But then, on the day of the talent show,
my mother had a surprise for me.

She had bought me the jacket.

Even though she didn't know how to say it,
I knew this meant that she loved me.

Now, that's a good story about my mother.

It's not true,
but it's a good story, right?

I stole it from an episode of Maude I saw
when i was a kid,

where she talks about her father.

I remember when I saw it,
thinking that's the kind of story

I want to tell
about my parents when they die.

But I don't have any stories like that.

All I know about being good
I learned from TV.

And in TV, flawed characters
are constantly showing people they care

with these surprising grand gestures.

And I think that part of me
still believes that's what love is.

But in real life,
the big gesture isn't enough.

You need to be consistent,
you need to be dependably good.

You can't just screw everything up,
and then take a boat out into the ocean

to save your best friend,
or solve a mystery, and fly to Kansas.

You need to do it every day,
which is so... hard.

When you're a kid, you convince yourself

that maybe the grand gesture
could be enough.

That even though your parents
aren't what you need them to be,

over and over and over again,

at any moment they might surprise you,
with something... wonderful.

I kept waiting for that, the proof,

that even though my mother
was a hard woman,

deep down, she loved me
and cared about me

and wanted me to know

that I made her life
a little bit brighter.

Even now, I find myself waiting.

Hey, Mom, knock once if you love me
and care about me,

and want me to know I made your life
a little bit brighter.

My mother did not go gentle
into that good night.

She went clawing and fighting
and thrashing, hence the face.

If you'd seen her,

I swear to God the only thing
you'd be thinking about right now

is that I am nailing this impression.

I was in the hospital with her
those last moments,

and they were truly horrifying,
full of nonsensical screams and cries,

but there was this moment,
this one instant of strange calm,

where she looked in my direction
and said, "I see you."

That's the last thing she said to me.
"I see you."

Not a statement of judgment
or disappointment, just acceptance

and the simple recognition
of another person in a room.

"Hello, there. You are a person.
And I see you."

Let me tell you,

it's a weird thing to feel
at 54 years old,

that for the first time in your life
your mother sees you.

It's an odd realization that it's
the thing you've been missing,

the only thing you wanted all along,
to be seen.

And it doesn't feel like a relief,
to finally be seen.

It feels mean, like,

"Oh, it turns out that you knew
what I wanted,

and you waited until the very last moment
to give it to me."

I was prepared for more cruelty.

I was sure that she would get
in one final zinger,

about how I let her down,
and about how I was fat and stupid,

and too tall to be
an effective Lindy-hopper.

How I was needy and a burden
and an embarrassment.

All that I was ready for.
I was not ready for "I see you."

Only my mother would be lousy enough
to swipe me

with a moment of connection
on her way out.

But maybe I'm giving her too much credit.
Maybe it wasn't about connection.

Maybe it was a... Maybe it was
an "I see you," like, "I see you."

Like, "You might have the rest
of the world fooled,

but I know exactly who you are."

That's more my mom's speed.

Or maybe she just literally meant
"I see you.

You are an object
that has entered my field of vision."

She was out of it at the end,
so maybe it's dumb

to try to attribute it to anything.

Back in the 90s,

I was in a very famous TV Show
called Horsin' Around.

Please hold your applause.

And I remember one time, a fan asked me,

"Hey, um, you know that episode

where the horse has to give Ethan
a pep talk,

after Ethan finds out his crush
only asked him to the dance

because her friends were having
a dorkiest date contest?

In all the shots of the horse,

you can see a paper coffee cup
on the kitchen counter,

but in the shots of Ethan,
the coffee cup's missing.

Was that because the show
was making a statement,

about the fluctuant subjectivity of memory

and how even two people
can experience the same moment

in entirely different ways?

And I didn't have the heart to be, like,

"No, man, some crew guy
just left their coffee cup in the shot."

So instead, I was, like... "Yeah."

And maybe this is like that coffee cup.

Maybe, we're dumb to try to pin
significance onto every little thing.

Maybe, when someone says,
"I see you," it just means, "I see you."

Then again, it's possible
she wasn't even talking to me.

Because, if I'm being honest,
she wasn't really looking at me,

she was looking past me.
There was nobody else in the room.

I think she was talking to me,
but, honestly,

she was so far gone at that point,
who knows what she was seeing.

Who were you talking to, Mom?

Not saying, huh? Staying mum?

No rimshot there?

God, whatever I'm paying you,
it's too much.

Maybe, she saw my dad.

My dad died about ten years ago
of injuries he sustained during a duel.

When your father dies,
you ask yourself a lot of questions.

Questions like,
"Wait, did you say he died in a duel?"

and "Who dies in a duel?"

The whole thing was so stupid.

Dad spent his entire life
writing this book,

but he couldn't get any stores
to carry it,

or any newspapers to review it.

Finally, I guess this one newspaper
thought he was pretty hilarious,

because they ran a review
and tore him to shreds.

So, my father, ever the Proud Mary,

decided he would not stand
for this besmirchment of his honor.

He claimed the critic didn't understand
what it meant to be a man,

so he demanded satisfaction
in the form of pistols at dawn.

He wrote the paper, this letter,
saying anyone who didn't like his book,

he would challenge to a duel,
anyone in the world.

He'd even pay for airfare
to San Francisco and a night in a hotel.

Well, eventually this found its way
to some kook in Montana,

who was as batshit as he was
and took him up on the offer.

Ten paces, then shoot.

But in the middle of the ten paces,

Dad turned to ask the guy if he'd actually
read the book and what he thought,

but, not looking where he was going,

tripped over an exposed root
and bashed his head on a rock.

I wish I'd known to go
to Jack in the Box then.

I could have gotten a free churro.
It would've been nice

to have something to show for being
the son of Butterscotch Horseman.

My darling mother gave the eulogy.

My entire life I never heard her say
a kind word to or about my father,

but at his funeral she said,

"My husband is dead,
and everything is worse now."

"My husband is dead,
and everything is worse now."

I don't know why she said that.
Maybe she felt that's the kind of thing

you're supposed to say at a funeral.

Maybe she hoped one day
someone would say that about her.

"My mother is dead,
and everything is worse now."

Or maybe she knew
that he had frittered away

all her inheritance,
and replaced it with crippling debt,

which is a pretty shitty thing
to leave your widow with.

"Bad news, you lost a husband,
but don't worry, you also lost the house!"

Maybe Mom knew she'd have to sell
all her fancy jewelry

and move into a home.

Maybe that's what she meant by
"everything is worse."

Is that what you meant, Mom?

I gotta say,
I'm really carrying this double act.

At least with Penn and Teller,
the quiet one does card tricks.

Hey, piano man,
when I say something funny to my mom,

how about you give me a rimshot?

Yeah, but not now.

When I say something funny. Like, okay.

What's the difference between my mother
and a disruptive expulsion of germs?

One's a coughin' fit
and the other fits a coffin!

That's an example of a funny thing.

Thank you. Let's try again.

Hey, Mom. What's the difference between
my mother and a bunch of Easter eggs?

One gets carried in a basket,
the other gets buried in a casket!

Ready for one more? Last one.

What's the difference
between a first-year lit major

and my mother, Beatrice Horseman?

One is decently read,
and the other's a huge bitch!

Might have gone a little too far
with that one.

That one might have been a little too
"my mom's a huge bitch" for the room.

I'm sorry, Mother.
You're not a huge bitch.

You were a huge bitch...
and now you're dead.

You know, the first time I ever performed
in front of an audience,

it actually was, uh, with my mom.

She used to put on these shows,
with her supper club in the living room,

and she used to make...

She used to make me sing
"The Lollipop Song."

Those parties, they were really something.

There were skits and magic acts,

and ethnically insensitive
vaudeville routines,

and the big finale
was always a dance my mother did.

She had this beautiful dress that she only
brought out for these parties,

and she did this incredible number.

It was so beautiful and sad.

Dad hated the parties.
He'd lock himself in the study,

and bang on the walls
for us to keep it down,

but he always came out to see Mom dance.

He'd linger in the doorway,
scotch in hand,

and watch in awe, as this cynical,

despicable woman he married...
took flight.

And as a child who was completely
terrified of both my parents,

I was always aware
that this moment of grace,

it meant something.

We understood each other, in a way.

Me and my mom and my dad,
as screwed up as we all were,

we did understand each other.

My mother, she knew
what it's like to feel your entire life

like you're drowning
with the exception of these moments,

these very rare, brief instances,

in which you suddenly remember...
you can swim.

But, then again, mostly not.
Mostly you're drowning.

She understood that too.

And she recognized that I understood it.
And Dad.

All three of us were drowning,
and we didn't know how to save each other,

but there was an understanding
that we were all drowning together.

I would like to think
that's what she meant

when we were in the hospital
and she said, "I see you."

The weird thing
about both your parents being dead

is it means that you're next.

I mean, you know, obviously it's not
like there's a wait list for dying.

Any one of us could get run over
by a Snapchatting teen at any moment.

And you would think that knowing that
would make us more adventurous,

and kind, and forgiving.

But it makes us small,
and stupid, and petty.

I actually had a near-death experience,
recently.

A stunt went bad
and I fell off a building.

I'm an actor. I do my own stunts.

I'm on this new show Philbert.
I'm Philbert. Star of the show.

It hasn't come out yet,
but it's already getting Emmy buzz.

Oh, speaking of buzz...

I've to take
two of these every morning,

but my days are so screwed up
'cause of the shooting schedule,

I don't even know
what morning means anymore.

There's a joke in there somewhere,

about a guy
who's been to so many funerals,

he doesn't even know
what mourning means anymore.

Let you guys figure that one out
for yourselves.

Anyway, you know what I thought...

when I was falling off the building
and I went into panic mode?

The last thing that my stupid brain
could come up with before I died?

"Won't they be sorry."

Cool thought, brain.

No, that wasn't...

Would you just... Dial it back, all right?

I don't even know what "they"
I wanted to be sorry.

My mom, even before she died,
could barely remember who I was.

And of course, my dad's dead.

The last conversation I ever had with him
was about his novel.

He was so certain
this book was his legacy.

Maybe he thought it would vindicate him

for all the shitty things he ever did
in his stupid worthless life.

Maybe it did. I don't know.
I never read it.

Because why would I give him that?

I used to be on this TV show
called Horsin' Around.

Seriously, hold your applause.

Well held.

It was written by my friend Herb Kazzaz,
who's also dead now,

and it starred this little girl
named Sarah Lynn.

And it was about these orphans.
And early on, the network had a note,

"Maybe don't mention
they're orphans,

because audiences tend
to find orphans sad and not relatable."

I never thought the orphans were sad.

I always thought they were lucky

because they could imagine their parents
to be anything they wanted.

They had something to long for.

Anyway, we did this one season finale,
where Olivia's birth mother comes to town.

And she was a junkie,
but she's gotten herself cleaned up,

and she wants to be
in Olivia's life again.

And of course, she's like a perfect
grown-up version of Olivia,

and they go to the mall together

and get her ears pierced,
like she's always wanted and...

Sorry, spoiler alert for the season six
finale of Horsin' Around,

if you're still working
your way through it.

Anyway, the horse tries
to warn her, "Be careful,

moms have a way of letting you down."

But Olivia just thinks
the horse is jealous,

and when the mom says
she's moving to California,

Olivia decides to go with her.

And the network really juiced
the cliffhanger:

"Is Olivia gone for good?"

But of course, because it's a TV show,
she was not gone for good.

Of course, because it's a TV show,

Olivia's mother had a relapse
and had to go back to rehab,

so Olivia had to hitchhike
all the way home,

getting rides from Mr. T,
Alf, and the cast of Stomp.

Of course that's what happened.

Because, what are you gonna do,
just not have Olivia on the show?

You can't have happy endings in sitcoms,
not really,

because, if everyone's happy,
the show would be over,

and above all else,
the show... has to keep going.

There's always more show.

And you can call Horsin' Around dumb,
or bad, or unrealistic,

but there is nothing more realistic
than that.

You never get a happy ending,
'cause there's always more show.

I guess until there isn't.

My mom would hate it if she knew
that I spent so much time at her funeral

talking about my old TV show.

Or maybe she'd think it was funny
that her idiot son

couldn't even do this right. Who knows?

She left no instructions
for what she wanted me to say.

All I know is she wanted an open casket,

and her idiot son
couldn't even do that right.

I'll stand up here and pretend

I understood
how to please that woman,

even though so much of my life has been
wasted in vain attempts to figure it out.

But I keep going back to that moment
in the ICU when she looked at me, and...

"I-C-U."

"I... see... you."

Jesus Christ,
we were in the intensive care unit.

She was just reading a sign.

My mom died and all I got
was this free churro.

You know the shittiest thing
about all of this?

Is when that stranger behind the counter
gave me that free churro,

that small act of kindness
showed more compassion

than my mother gave me
her entire goddamn life.

Like, how hard is it to do something nice
for a person?

This woman at the Jack in the Box
didn't even know me.

I'm your son.

All I had was you!

I have this friend.

And right around when I first met her,

her dad died, and I actually went with her
to the funeral.

And months later, she told me
that she didn't understand

why she was still upset,
because she never even liked her father.

It made sense to me, because I went
through the same thing when my dad died.

And I'm going through the same thing now.
You know what it's like?

It's like that show Becker,
you know, with Ted Danson?

I watched the entire run of it,

hoping that it would get better,
and it never did.

It had all the right pieces, but it just...
It couldn't put them together.

And when it got canceled,

I was really bummed out,
not because I liked the show,

but because I knew it could be
so much better,

and now it never would be.
And that's what losing a parent is like.

It's like Becker.

Suddenly, you realize you'll never have
the good relationship you wanted,

and as long as they were alive,
even though you'd never admit it,

part of you,
the stupidest goddamn part of you,

was still holding on to that chance.

And you didn't even realize it
until that chance went away.

"My mother is dead,
and everything is worse now."

Because now I know
I will never have a mother

who looks at me from across a room
and says,

"BoJack Horseman, I see you."

But I guess it's good to know.

It's good to know
that there is nobody looking out for me,

that there never was,
and there never will be.

No, it's good to know that I am
the only one that I can depend on.

And I know that now and it's good.
It's good that I know that.

So... it's good my mother is dead.

Well. No point beating a dead horse.

Beatrice Horseman was born in 1938,

and she died in 2018,
and I have no idea... what she wanted.

Unless she just wanted what we all want...

to be seen.

Is this Funeral Parlor B?