Louie (Louis C.K.'s show on FX)

Seconded.

the who are louie's grand funk railroad.

The wild, shirtless lyrics of Pete Townshend! The bone-rattling bass of John Entwistle! The competent drumwork of Keith Moon!

hahaha

wouldve preferred a 30 min interview w/ the aunt actress like over the credits tbh

the kid who plays louie's younger daughter is so bored.

A girlfriend of mine once told me that her ex used that term for Brazil nuts. He was otherwise v. liberal but for some reason it never occurred to him that the term he learned from his family had racist implications; IIRC he wasn't even aware that there was another word for them.

but louie isn't so much a comedy as it is an experiment and i really fucking savor each episode.

p much. I can't recall any other show where I've tuned in to just ~see what happens~. not plot-wise (there isn't one), but just, like, in general.

I guess maybe stuff like wonder showzen or tim&eric but I've seen maybe two episodes of each, and neither is as rewarding as Louie

for some reason it never occurred to him that the term he learned from his family had racist implications; IIRC he wasn't even aware that there was another word for them.

o_O

Yeah, it boggles the mind. Maybe she misrepresented it to me?

am i the only american on the thread who had never heard that term before? i'm not saying that to brag about coming from an un-racist family (which isn't entirely true; my grandma would say well-meaning but clueless things like "the maid is a black lady, but she's very nice"), i'm just amazed that america is so vast that some of us have these shared experiences re cultural history and some don't.

which is to say, there is no *one* american history

this episode of Louis was the very first time I had heard of it

i've never heard it and also not a stranger to family members saying awkward racially insensitive things. might be a regional thing.

i've never heard it but I'm not white and my family isn't American so maybe that explains it...

fwiw I'm in texas but not a part of it that one would consider 'the south'

I've definitely heard it, though not from my own family.

The experience I shared is the only time I'd heard it.

i'm bible belt southern and had never heard that before

have lived all over the midwest and the first time I heard the term was in California

have only ever heard it ref'd as a dated term

same here, it was someone explaining that one of their parents said it

Grew up in Santa Cruz, so of course I've never ever heard that. Love the monologue about "If they brush their fucking teeth, and put on their goddamn pajamas, we get to read a book."

I heard it from my mom years ago when we were talking about the fact that what I believe are now called Licorice Bears (jelly black licorice candies) were called n babies when she was growing up. NB at 72 she's on "older" mom for someone my age but obv I was till shocked and it sparked a discussion about racist terms that were nbd when she was growing up during which she told me about the brazeil nuts thing.

err Brazil

brazil nuts sold by ron popeil

there's a slap chop joke in there somewhere but i'm gonna abstain

recent reddit thread:

http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/ixbfg/til_that_brazil_nuts_were_also_called_nigger_toes/

looks like most of the people who use the n-toes phrase are 70+ years old.

Just to be clear - my mom doesn't actually use either that or the other thing for licorice bears I mentioned. She was just telling me about how when she was growing up those were "acceptable" terms.

my grandmother used n-toes without irony.

but then her racial politics made johnny rebel look like nelson mandella.

i need to ask my mom (in her mid 60s) if she ever heard it. she grew up in brooklyn and queens.

I was going to say maybe it was also partly a regional thing. Mine grew up in Pittsburgh.

also n-babies but they were for black jellybeans.

it's becoming evident that this is something that white alterna-types really love talking about

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSLlZh9yelk

what better way to pay tribute to your dead grandma

stuff white people like: calling other white people out on what they "love talking about"

no one is calling anybody out, but ok

This is a critically acclaimed television show that is also very good, so it is not surprising that people (white or otherwise) talk about it.

i meant the n-toes thing

i dont really "like" talking about this but i do find it interesting that people around my age are probably among the last who will have been hearing this stuff as if it was no big deal while growing up, at least on a wide scale.

and it totally ties into an episode of a tv show about the disconnect between generations irt racialized slang

i almost forgot about those two sikh kids dressed in suits at the gas station. might be my favourite part.

he's doing stand up on i think leno tonight, as well as the ep, btw

Just checked, and he's not on Leno tonight. It would be weird if he was, since he was just on in June.

i'm boawed. I'M boawed. i'm BOAWED. I'M BOOOOAAAAWED. etc

he's on letterman i think

Yes! He is! Woo-hoo!

kick a jesus in the face

that love confession scene was brutalllllllll

this fuckin show