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

just rewatched the first episode of the season; confirmed my sense that the first three were by far the best

yes you... THE GORILLA

i mean wow, the melissa leo bit

the woman at the car place who yells at louie two eps ago (dad ep) is maria thayer (from eagleheart!)

love the way louie says 'you fucking boston ignoramus'

yeah the Thayer cameo was so weird. You can barely even see her!

caught myself in the security monitor at a cvs and was reminded of how otm that scene was where they're watching the footage of louie tripping over the box at the electronics store. "that's not me!"

hell yes. when we are all in vr matrix world looking at ourselves in the 3rd person it's going to change EVERYTHING

don't ppl own mirrors anymore?

Security cameras are designed to make you look fat

okay, Parker Posey is cute and all, but no way is she "about 32"

yah i double took on that too

It's a hard 32.

I took that as a joke. Like he has no idea and in a way idealized her.

^

holy crap that was good. the monologue by the cbs president about louie's future was maybe the best thing the show has ever done.

Yeah, that was great.

Garry Marshall?!

I have no idea where any of this is going.

i get way too much into this show, when he said "Letterman is retiring" I audiablly gasped

huh this ep was the first of 3 parts & pt 2 doesnt air til 9/13

this was some of what the show does best and worse: amazing payoff but so much weird aimless filler for a twenty minute program.

I don't know about filler, but an episode of Louie seems so much shorter than say, an episode of Two and a Half Men, which is a good indicator of its quality. I think the aimless stuff is pretty important!

i stan for this show as much as anything but the whole waking up in the hotel room sequence was tons of wind up for no reason.
This season is less exciting for me though the highs are ridiculously high

Garry Marshall monologue may have been the finest moment in this series holy shit

hotel wake-up was worth it for "not even enough time to jerk off"

also guessing that it's not airing next week because they're taking a week off for Labor Day? idk

i assume the hotel scene was what forks was referring to, but the phone bit was funny, plus I thought it kind of showed how out of the blue the whole thing was

This episode was almost nothing. More commercials than ever before. The thinnest of plots, and we don't even get to see the Leno performance that gets him the interview. I feel cheated...however...the waking up scene was good (shit on a dick, don't even have time to jerk off) and Doug the agent is always fun to watch and seems to have been air-lifted in from a Wes Anderson movie.

Doug is funny but it's weird that they just re-use a 30 Rock joke

maybe they both just had an itchy asshole

louis has said that it's a play on his actual twenty something agent

nah it's different than the Simon joke on 30 Rock. Simon is an incompetent, childish, clownish adult; Doug is a 58-year-old Jewish man being played by a teenager (?).

for non t0rr3nterz, TRT without commercials was 19 minutes.

also yeah love this ep

The Leno bit surely is a reference to his appearance on conan where he did the bit abouth the airplane that went viral and catapulted him into the stratosphere.

this episode was perfect

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r1CZTLk-Gk

man i'm still catching up on older episodes but when F. Murray Abraham first called him i was like "wait, Louie is friends with Bain?"

ha

theres something in louie's personality that is really annoying to me. i like him generally, but theres this thing he does where he acts kind of mildly pathetic on purpose in response to an action by another. it gets on my nerves and is hard to explain. if we were friends i'd probably yell at him a lot

its similar to the thing people do on ilx where they say "b-b-b-b-but"

that would just get u a scene in an episode

xp

I wonder if Garry Marshall playing the same CBS president he played on Murphy Brown.

saw louis on the street a few days ago, really wanted to say hi but he had a "i'm not up for talking" face on
the next day, went out to meet with a friend at a falafel joint and when i went downstairs to the bathroom realized i was in the comedy cellar where every episode starts and much of the show was filmed
so i used the same toilet as louis
soon he'll know we're meant to be together. it's getting closer now.

this was some of what the show does best and worse: amazing payoff but so much weird aimless filler for a twenty minute program.

― This cad needs a cordial introduction to Eugene of Oxbow. (forksclovetofu), Friday, August 31, 2012 4:14 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i stan for this show as much as anything but the whole waking up in the hotel room sequence was tons of wind up for no reason.
This season is less exciting for me though the highs are ridiculously high

― This cad needs a cordial introduction to Eugene of Oxbow. (forksclovetofu), Friday, August 31, 2012 4:32 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i know we keep doing this, & i know this leaves me open to allegations of treating this show like it has so transcended the form to the point at which it would be crude to critically assess it, BUT i just really don't think that 'this scene works, or didn't, or added something, or didn't' is a totally valid way of judging this show. i mean sometimes it is. if he shoots to make something funny & it doesn't come off, or if it dips into cliche, then that's okay. but watching it is way more like watching a film. there are parts of films that are not my favourite part, & that aren't necessarily of narrative importance, they're not delivering anything concrete, but they're part of the film. louie in the hotel room was one, i think; it's ambience (was also real funny, cf shit on a dick) & character (i mean yeah yeah we've already grasped that louie is a slouch but it's a demonstration of his inability & unsuitability just prior to seeing the network president bear over him proffering responsibility and power). i know i am going too far, here, but it just feels like it's using the wrong metric to analyse something so freeform in terms of hitting or missing, or in terms of failing to deliver a certain value, ie funny or narrative or w/e.

also the stand up in this was great. the murder-suicide amazon review. bummed there's a break before the next.

I have a hard time assessing this one on its own w/out knowing where this is all going, but man, Garry Marshall was so great in that last scene.

it kept making me think of ben gazzara, this is maybe bc i don't know marshall tho

also the stand up in this was great. the murder-suicide amazon review.

^^^ totally

Garry Marshall was so great in that last scene I didn't even realize it was him.

the Gazzara comparison is funny if you compare filmographies, but still pretty otm