BoJack delivers a lengthy, cynical eulogy for his mother, beginning with a story about a mundane interaction at a Jack in the Box. He explores the social obligation to be 'awesome' and the strange grief of receiving a free churro for his loss.
BOJACK: 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 even 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
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