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

I think I need to go see Ruby Sparks y'all, my faith in MPDGs is shaken.

Isn't the whole twist of Ruby Sparks that it disassembles the MPDG ideal?

not seeing manic pixie at all, really. not even necessarily in a "sly commentary" sort of way. this felt very true to life, not necessarily from a world of ideas where responding to other sorts of widespread tropes is an issue, or even where such tropes are known and acknowledged, really.

this felt very true to life, not necessarily from a world of ideas where responding to other sorts of widespread tropes is an issue, or even where such tropes are known and acknowledged, really.

agreed. her character felt very real.

Isn't the whole twist of Ruby Sparks that it disassembles the MPDG ideal?

Honestly I don't know! I just saw the ad and it looked like the ultimate MPDG movie, assumed it was probably straightahead stuff because it's coming out in America and someone's paying for ad time...

Chortle reporting that he just got a fourth series of 13 episodes

Renewed btw

― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Saturday, July 28, 2012 11:39 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oops

Haven't seen the new ep yet, internet's been down, so it'll be a few days. I've been loving the new season but it sort of feels like most eps have been designed (intentionally or not) in order to get maximum groupie action when he goes out on tour.

yeah he's been showing a lot of skin lately

what the hell is wrong with you people

Thank you Adam Bruneau! I love the show, but it should really have the tagline, "Aren't I coming off well, ladies?". This syncs with targeting the primo consumer demographic, eg. 18-35 yr old women

cf. my food porn comment above...

he didn't come off well in the Melissa Leo episode. you gotta give back, Louie!!

but it should really have the tagline, "Aren't I coming off well, ladies?"

^this. I couldn't have said it better myself. On the other hand, most of the irl women I've asked about this show hate him.

Personally, i don't care if it's funny or not. There are plenty of 'funny' shows that are just horribly made, have horrible characters, or simply are not funny. I pretty much wanna watch whatever Louie CK writes and shoots.

I still can't get over Vernon Chatman's involvement. I'm a huge fan of PFFR, Wonder Showzen, and especially Xavier: Renegade Angel, so his involvement as producer is intriguing. I assume he's basically there to help Louie realize his shit, and possibly coming up with little asides and bits here and there to insert. But yeah his presence doesn't seem to be felt too much atm. Maybe this is where the 'Where is the funny?' is coming from.

On the other hand, most of the irl women I've asked about this show hate him.

this is the opposite of my experience

really disappointed in louie for following that all-too-familiar arc of filing the difficult edges off your fx sitcom in a direct play for the wallets of soft-headed mindless consumer chicks who get wet for lucky peach bullshit. fuck this gay earth. hope wilfred stays pure.

WHAT

i think planks is joking.

rly cant tell anymore

lucky peach bullshit = eating charcuterie?

really disappointed in louie for following that all-too-familiar arc of filing the difficult edges off your fx sitcom in a direct play for the wallets of soft-headed mindless consumer chicks who get wet for lucky peach bullshit. fuck this gay earth. hope wilfred stays pure.

hahahahahahahaha dying over here

"get wet for lucky peach bullshit" is instant classic

ok, that made me google "lucky peach" which led me to this:

"• David Simon, creator of The Wire and Treme, remembers his father via pickles and cream"

which, i don't even know.

is there a thread I missed somewhere?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/22/lucky-peach-magazine_n_881586.html

lol @ this ep

Artie!!!

Liked this one a lot. Was this the first ep w/ no standup at all?

well... it's not grabbing me. the stakes feel crazy low and the quiddity very high. nice usage of opie and anthony though.

"I'm having my vagina removed" p lol

not sure how "quiddity" qualifies as a bad thing unless it has some connotations I'm unaware of xp

lol "the stakes are low" like there has ever been a story in this show where the stakes are even moderately high

Doug Stanhope's character threatening suicide

i suppose. "character you were never going to see again anyway heading into certain oblivion that's slightly more immediate than you would've otherwise assumed" is not terribly high stakes as suicide plotlines go, though.

lol'd pretty hard at the stripper/dj reactions

"quiddity" is a reference to the NYT thread and was a reference to the inflation of the quotidian to the meaningful which louis sometimes does great and sometimes sorta eh
like his stuff before had these oddly surreal moments thrown in that were more in passing like the homeless guy getting nabbed by the feds when he's looking at the weird apartment.
this one had the vagina removal joke pounded into the ground
and the whole "oh the strip club thinks he's a hero" joke was telegraphed a mile away
there are episodes that miss for me and i'm okay with that. the last two didn't do anything for me, even on the second viewing. it happens. i'd rather have spectacular misses than him playing it safe.

lol "the stakes are low" like there has ever been a story in this show where the stakes are even moderately high

― some random MC rappin' mcdude (some dude), Friday, August 3, 2012 9:21 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well there was the hour long one that climaxed with a bunch of people pointing guns at each other in Afghanistan

yeah that was the season finale right? definitely a strong chance that the louie character was going to get killed off and they were going to either cancel the show or focus on the rest of the cast in the next season.

next season will be called "Pamela" bunch of misery in Paris shorts

nah some dude the airport segment w/ pamela was the end of last season

i'm just saying that scene had "stakes", there was drama, things were at risk, and the comedy derived from the stakes (louie defusing the situation by chasing the duck). whether or not the audience believes in the stakes doesn't tend to matter as long as the characters in the scene do.

some dude - u prob shouldnt want something from this show that it, as a matter of design, isnt interested in giving u

i agree. that's basically what i was saying in response to forks.

this was probably the most I've ever laughed at an episode of this show

this was probably the most I've ever laughed at an episode of this show

― frogbs, Saturday, 4 August 2012 20:28 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this was excellent. i understand it not tickling everyone, but just everything about this show has delivered for me.

that's "these days" to a /morbs

I SEE YOU

wtf is MPDG?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manic_Pixie_Dream_Girl

nathan rabin sucks

nathan rabin is poisonous to discourse, noxious to read.

morbs, does louie rock you?