https://youtu.be/hAiySOONc2I?t=71

1:11 - 1:36 is the part I'm referring to - just listen to her monotonous, joyless, hateful tone, but clearly trying to grasp something greater than that. (Next part is more of a writing thing) Mandy's character in this episode is just so good. From her first interaction with Grim & Billy, where she asks something seemingly very OOC, it's so heartbreaking to see her struggle with her own identity and try to progress herself as a person.

"Birds fly, over the rainbow. Why then, oh why...can't...I?"

It's part of the song, but from her inflection, you know she's literally asking this question out to the abyss - it's not fair that she has to be this way, in other words. And she indeed does have to be that way - when she drops the negativity at the end of the episode, reality itself gets torn apart. Pretty goddamn tragic and poignant for an irreverent horror comedy, and that tragedy wouldn't be nearly as illustrated without GDL's acting.

This is tiresome