Graduates from Greendale and dies shortly afterwardsFictional Characters Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community.Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Much of this is directed at Pierce's father was a wealthy moist towelette tycoon, which resulted in him being given leisurely lifestyle. After being reinstated at school, Pierce fights for sole ownership rights over the Sandwich shop business venture he started with Shirley. Pierce shows up later in the study room wearing an Urbana Champaign t-shirt and announces he has become a gay rights advocate. After a passionate speech, Jeff convinces Pierce to drop his case. In his younger years he lived it up, marrying seven times and accumulating over thirty step-children. Pierce himself believed his role in the group was to be the person willing to say or do what the others won't. After bragging about his musical abilities, Annie hired him to write Greendale's new school song. Pierce passed away not long after he and the study group officially graduated from school. If I let being bad at something stop me, I wouldn't be here. Pierce was also fairly gullible; this was evidenced in his participation with a religious movement known as "Reformed Neo Buddhism" that his friends and mother warned him was just a cult. The Hawthorne Wipes board of directors remove Pierce as C.E.O. Both a racist and a homophobe, Cornelius wears a toupee made carved from ivory in order to avoid hair coming from "orientals." They are then contacted by a man named Mr.Stone who is carrying out Pierce's will. In an attempt to cure his malaise, he started several hobbies including traveling the world, becoming a Toastmaster, performing magic, and playing the piano. Jeff changes his mind and instead accepts a teaching position at school as a Law professor while the rest of the study group re-enrolls. Eventually he and Shirley reached an understanding after they helped Jeff and Britta deal with some obnoxious teenagers. He attends a reading of his father's will and learns that his father's personal assistant Gilbert Lawson is his half brother. The group held a vote over whether or not to invite him back to the group next year which he accidentally walked in on. His life of luxury insulated him and made it hard for him to understand typical social norms. During a wake held in the cafeteria he helps to incite a riot which gets him and the study group kicked out of Greendale. Pierce started the new year with Troy as his roommate. Pierce claims to be a world traveler, a toastmaster, magician, keyboardist and self-styled hypnotherapist, and considers himself a "quality-of-life person". This included fellow study group member Shirley Bennet's sandwich shop in which he became a co-owner.