Pierce Hawthorne was born in Denver, Colorado, to parents William and Doreen Winger.
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Pierce Hawthorne's father divorced his mother when he was very young and later had another child named Willy Jr.
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Pierce Hawthorne tells her that he had to change schools, as well as his hair, his clothes, even his personality because of the incident.
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Pierce Hawthorne comes to an uneasy understanding with both Britta and Annie.
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Also, in one of the timelines of "Remedial Chaos Theory", Pierce Hawthorne brings up the subject of Jeff's father, which Jeff immediately evades.
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Pierce Hawthorne still possesses all of the get-well cards he received from his classmates in a box under his bed because "it proves that someone, at some point, cared about me".
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Pierce Hawthorne is approached by Alan, who convinces him to sue Greendale.
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Pierce Hawthorne becomes a law teacher at the school and forms the Save Greendale Committee.
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Pierce Hawthorne has trouble getting used to being a teacher at the school and struggles with a drinking problem.
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Pierce Hawthorne was conceived in Riverside, Colorado, to George and Deb Perry.
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Pierce Hawthorne is prone to be vain and hypocritical in her actions.
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Pierce Hawthorne experienced an unexplained trauma in her childhood during a birthday party involving a man in a dinosaur costume.
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Pierce Hawthorne decided to drop out of high school because she thought it would impress Radiohead.
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Pierce Hawthorne became friends with others and created a small group of "anarchist, billboard vandals".
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Pierce Hawthorne is not always adept with everyday female bonding, which creates a bit of distance between her and the other women in the group, though they generally bond.
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Pierce Hawthorne eventually sleeps with Jeff during a prolonged paintball match.
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Pierce Hawthorne is proud to be an African American woman but appreciates not being defined by those characteristics.
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Pierce Hawthorne is very friendly to everyone but sometimes has problems minding her own business or keeping secrets, and she gossips compulsively.
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Pierce Hawthorne then set out to earn an Associate's Degree in Business to start her own company.
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Pierce Hawthorne relates to the other members as people she simply likes being friends with and vice versa.
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Pierce Hawthorne eventually becomes the personal chef of a suicidal former detective attempting to solve the mystery behind his wife's death and his paralysis.
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Pierce Hawthorne was an acquaintance of Troy Barnes, a popular athlete, and harbored a crush on him.
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Pierce Hawthorne is, for example, the only student of Greendale to have ever made use of the extra credit program that the college offers by hosting a Dia de los Muertos party.
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Pierce Hawthorne takes audio notes of every class and transcribes them, prompting Pierce to exclaim and misuse the term "spoiler alert".
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Pierce Hawthorne is very intensely focused on grades, school activities, and group cohesion.
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Pierce Hawthorne takes the cohesion of the study group more seriously than the other members and, in trying to get the group to retake Spanish 102 together, gets Senor Chang fired for his fake degree in "English as a Second Language".
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Pierce Hawthorne becomes the leader of the Save Greendale Committee.
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Pierce Hawthorne later made a name for himself as the varsity quarterback of his high school football team and was prom king.
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Pierce Hawthorne is afraid of tarantulas, rats, centipedes, lakes and automatic toilets.
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Pierce Hawthorne now plays quarterback for the nonathletic Greendale Human Beings, saying he would rather play football for fun.
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Pierce Hawthorne had the chance to do so but failed and called it his biggest regret; he wants Troy to do it, and Troy accepts.
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Pierce Hawthorne's father founded Hawthorne Wipes, the award-winning moist towelette company.
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Pierce Hawthorne enrolled in Greendale in 1999, looking for friendship and popularity, but is held back by his clumsiness and lack of tolerance.
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Pierce Hawthorne's religion plays an important role when his mother dies in the season 2 episode "The Psychology of Letting Go" and Pierce believes his "Buddhist" teachings that she will be reborn, carrying a canister of what he thinks is his mother's soul around.
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Pierce Hawthorne has been married seven times and has 32 "ex-stepchildren" he tries to be close with, though most of them either avoid him or take advantage of him for his wealth.
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Pierce Hawthorne is the author of Greendale's unusual school song and was a member of Vaughn's band for a brief time.
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In season 2, Pierce Hawthorne becomes more agitated at the study group for leaving him out of their activities.
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Pierce Hawthorne temporarily joins an elderly group of students who act like teenagers called the Hipsters to feel accepted.
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Pierce Hawthorne begins to play the role of the study group's villain, but both trends seem to subside when he comes to terms with the group after overdosing on his painkillers.
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Pierce Hawthorne tells the group that he assumes all of his relationships will end, so he continually tests and provokes people and why all seven marriages failed.
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Pierce Hawthorne had never kept a group of friends at Greendale for longer than a semester.
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Pierce Hawthorne later appears in a cameo during the season 5 premiere, "Repilot", as a pre-recorded holographic projection in a courtyard at Greendale.
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Pierce Hawthorne can be quite theatrical at times, and has a huge ego.
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Pierce Hawthorne starts hunting for clues to solve a "case" after meeting a distressed student and later burns down a school section while doing so.
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Pierce Hawthorne is on terrible terms with Professor Duncan, who potentially foreshadows Chang's lack of teaching qualifications when in "Advanced Criminal Law", he notes Chang demands to be called "Senor" because he is not a real professor.
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Pierce Hawthorne's brother is Rabbi Chang, who criticizes Senor Chang's confusing title and behavior.
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Pierce Hawthorne enjoys jetting around on a scooter, plays the keytar as an instrument, and has a history of having his clothes stolen from the local YMCA.
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Pierce Hawthorne's self-proclaimed nickname is "El Tigre Chino", and he owns a black jacket which has on the back that moniker and the image of a tiger.
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Pierce Hawthorne eventually joins the study group in the episode "Asian Population Studies" after being voted in over Rich.
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Pierce Hawthorne proves his worth in the next episode helping Annie and the group save their drug awareness play from Pierce's antics.
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Pierce Hawthorne is not good at his job, and the school cannot afford more human resources.
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Pierce Hawthorne then calls Dean Stephen Spreck, Dean of City College, that he is out of the plan to destroy Greendale.
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Pierce Hawthorne wants his school to be more like a "real" university, and is often asking favors of the students.
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Pierce Hawthorne has taken a habit of dressing in an elaborate costume, often when visiting the study-group.
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Pierce Hawthorne provides free therapy to several students, including Britta and, at one point, hopes to write about Abed's issues for a book deal.
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Pierce Hawthorne has a rivalry with Senor Chang and willingly mocks Chang over being fired and subsequently becoming a Greendale student.
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Pierce Hawthorne never knew the identity of his father and later admitted his mother worked as a prostitute in a pub in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire.
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Pierce Hawthorne is absent again in season 6, though in the premiere episode "Ladders", Abed is seen wiping the nameplate on his door.
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Pierce Hawthorne serves as a mentor to Jeff, helping him to make the transition from student to teacher.
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Pierce Hawthorne has a strained relationship with his son Hank, resulting in his being excluded from his grandson Sebastian's life.
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Pierce Hawthorne has a better relationship with his other son, Furio, who is gay, and spends Christmas and Thanksgiving with his sister, Rachel.
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Pierce Hawthorne developed a virtual reality company and lives in a recreational vehicle.
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Pierce Hawthorne decides to enroll at Greendale to reinvent his life in "Lawnmower Maintenance and Postnatal Care", joining the "Save Greendale Committee" shortly after.
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Pierce Hawthorne is hired as head of Greendale's IT Department in "Queer Studies and Advanced Waxing".
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Pierce Hawthorne is a fan of the 1990s alternative rock band Natalie is Freezing, and briefly dated the lead singer Julie.
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Pierce Hawthorne had a strict policy against dating students, but became romantically involved with Jeff, after he begged her to sleep with him during a Halloween party.
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Pierce Hawthorne gets involved in a conspiracy intrigue with Jeff, Annie, and Dean Pelton, when he mysteriously poses as Jeff's fake Conspiracy Theories night school class teacher, "Professor Professorson" in the episode "Conspiracy Theories and Interior Design".
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Pierce Hawthorne later teaches Troy and Britta in an elective acting class and directs Troy in an all-black cast stage production of Fiddler on the Roof, entitled, "Fiddla Please".
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Pierce Hawthorne just came off of a twenty-year prison sentence in which he completed his PhD and is baffled by some of how the world has since changed.
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Pierce Hawthorne has a hard-line policy against accepting bribes, but only Jeff and Pierce know of this.
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Pierce Hawthorne plays a very prominent role in "Intro to Knots" when he is tied up by Chang and the study group at a party at Jeff's apartment for supposedly giving them a failing grade on a group assignment.
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Pierce Hawthorne takes several classes with the main characters, including Spanish and Boating.
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Pierce Hawthorne is a music lover, and in particular likes the band Styx.
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Pierce Hawthorne worked in the school cafeteria until the events of "Contemporary American Poultry", when the group causes him to be fired for siphoning off chicken fingers—the most edible foodstuff served by the cafeteria—for his friends.
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Pierce Hawthorne begins wearing the aforementioned top hat at the beginning of the second season to draw attention away from them.
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Pierce Hawthorne is assumed dead when a meth lab that he has been operating out of from his car's trunk explodes in the episode "Basic Lupine Urology".
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Pierce Hawthorne ends up being accused of being the Greendale Ass-Crack Bandit, only for Jeff to find out this was a ruse by the Dean to deflect attention, in exchange for the Dean hiding Star-Burns' meth charges and allowing him to remain in the stables.
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Pierce Hawthorne briefly appears in the season six episode "Intro to Recycled Cinema" as an extra in Abed's sci-fi film, Raiders of the Galaxy.
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Pierce Hawthorne leads a rowdy, disobedient band of elderly Greendale students called the "Hipsters", with whom Pierce temporarily hangs out in "Messianic Myths and Ancient Peoples".
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Pierce Hawthorne was the cause of the bond between Jeff and Shirley in the first season due to his small nipples, which Shirley finds hilarious.
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Pierce Hawthorne spends time with the study group again in "Epidemiology", when he attempts to treat the infected students while dressed as a banana and causes Jeff to admit his hatred for him openly.
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Pierce Hawthorne was first introduced in the episode "Asian Population Studies".
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Pierce Hawthorne appears in "Basic Lupine Urology", in which he is accused of destroying the study group's biology project.
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Pierce Hawthorne makes another appearance when she is Abed's girlfriend in "VCR Maintenance and Educational Publishing".
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Pierce Hawthorne has appeared several times since, often in a cranky mood when the study group asks him to find or fix things in the school.
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Pierce Hawthorne kills Vice Dean Laybourne, briefly becoming the new Vice Dean before being exposed by Troy, who is revealed as the "truest repairman".
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Pierce Hawthorne becomes her boyfriend again after learning of her pregnancy; he remains loyal to her even after discovering that Chang could be the father.
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Pierce Hawthorne appears again in "Repilot" when he tries to convince Jeff to help him launch a major lawsuit against Greendale.
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Pierce Hawthorne initially appeared as a member of campus security before inexplicably becoming a police officer.
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Pierce Hawthorne seems to be friends with Professor Sean Garrity, referring to him by his given name.
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Pierce Hawthorne appears in "The Science of Illusion" to investigate a body Britta drops out of the biology labs; in "Conspiracy Theories and Interior Design", he teaches Jeff and Annie the dangers of fake gun shootouts.
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Pierce Hawthorne appears briefly during a montage at the end of season three, apparently forming another plot.
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Pierce Hawthorne is a cybernetically enhanced police officer, reminiscent of RoboCop.
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Pierce Hawthorne first appears piloting Pierce's drone and urging him to ignore the dosage recommendations on his medication.
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Pierce Hawthorne often gives Pierce bad advice, influencing him into a painkiller addiction and overdose in "Early 21st Century Romanticism".
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