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

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?

holy shit yes this episode hilarious. esp every scene w/ the little kid and specifically that scene that begins w/ him pushing baby stroller into street.

shouldve brought maron 2 ikea 2 redecorate that apt

I'm afraid I'm never going to be able to listen to WTF again, I'm going to picture Marc wearing those daisy duke shorts and have to turn it off.

Scene with Robin Williams in the diner was A+++... just waiting to see who's going to say the first negative thing about Barney and then it all spills out.

Maria Bamford's 30 seconds were pretty great in this one.

haha yes, "so fuck you! or...sorry?"

Loved how the pharmacy scene sets you up to think Louie's going to be humiliated about his crabs shampoo in front of the little old lady, but then it ends up being the little old lady herself who gets it.

haha
lost my shit @ louie tucking in the woman at ikea
pharmacy conversation also v good

The Maron segemnt of this was easily my least fave bit of the season. Loved the IKEA segment, rest was passable.

once the Maron part got to the punchline it was good but generally i thought it was one of the show's funniest episodes until it hit the wall of podcast meta

its ridiculous how cute Sarah Silverman was. though somehow I doubt she was around for the 80's. still that whole segment was incredible, Louie's face watching young Louie on TV was incredible and a little heartbreaking

i know she was a writer/ bit player for SNL in the early 90s; was she doing standup (that would've actually been on tv) before that?

xp uh what? that was real footage. not sure exactly when maybe early 90s i guess and im assuming compiled

yeah there was a credit for the archive footage of all three of them

yeah but the segment was called 80's standup or something, though I'm sure the Silverman segment was from like 93 or something (yeah this is really nitpicking)

also entertaining because this was my wife's first time seeing Sarah Silverman and her reaction was "wow, she's really pretty...but why does she keep doing that with her voice?"

does your wife not know many Jews

well she spent the first 24 years of her life in Mexico so, outside of my family, nope

I remember now that I actually saw louis ck doing standup in the early 90's, I kind of forgot that he used to look like that.

yeah i wonder how many members of generation podcast got their minds blown by the revelation that those comics existed before 2006