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SaltLick posted:I can't quite remember but was there an episode where his doctor actually died? I liked Ricky Gervais as his doctor. No but when he said Ricky Gervais died I found it really funny.
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mcbexx posted:Holy poo poo Charles Grodin got old.  You just blew my loving mind, I had absolutely no idea that that was Charles Grodin. But he was really good as Doctor That Doesn't Give a gently caress. Anyway, this season's still looking great. The first one wasn't all that good, but the second was some of the funniest television I've ever seen. Louie can die harder (on purpose) than any comedian out there, and it's amazing every time. I had to actually look away from the screen it was so uncomfortable.
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May 7, 2014 00:41
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King Vidiot posted:
Louie has the best guest stars. David Lynch was the guest appearance to end all guest appearances, but Grodin was excellent. I had no idea that was Charles Grodin either. Looking at his IMDB page, it looks like he is making a comeback of sorts after 20 years of retirement.
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May 7, 2014 00:59
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James R posted:It sounded like she said something through laughter along the lines of 'God why am I wet'?! I know at one point she said (through laughter), "I love you so much!" But I could be wrong!
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May 7, 2014 01:27
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This is a silly thing to notice but I feel like that was the same house from Sherlock.
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May 7, 2014 02:08
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This is probably my favorite show right now, and the long hiatus seems like it really paid off. Both of those episodes were fantastic, and I can really relate to a lot of it, particularly the garbagemen bit. That just absolutely nails what it's like to live in an apartment in a city. Such a great way to start the season.
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May 7, 2014 02:29
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Dear AIDS: ... Cut it out.
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May 7, 2014 02:43
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I actually thought "Wait, that can't be Charles Grodin, can it?" I thought it was just someone who looked just like him.
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May 7, 2014 03:03
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Oh my god that punch to the face. I loving knew someone bad was going to happen and that was the best. loving Louie can't win 
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May 7, 2014 03:14
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Louie slipping on the water left behind by the astronaut's daughter absolutely slayed me. I think because Louie doesn't follow any sort of formula, when he hits you with slapstick it comes out of nowhere.
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redweird posted:Louie slipping on the water left behind by the astronaut's daughter absolutely slayed me. I think because Louie doesn't follow any sort of formula, when he hits you with slapstick it comes out of nowhere. That's what I like about his slapstick: the absurdist bent. When he was in the coffee shop talking to his friend about his kid and that one young dude texting just walked into Louie and kept on walking without looking up? Hilarious. Especially Louie's annoyed, but resigned reaction.
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May 7, 2014 03:24
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nutranurse posted:When he was in the coffee shop talking to his friend about his kid and that one young dude texting just walked into Louie and kept on walking without looking up? Hilarious. Especially Louie's annoyed, but resigned reaction. It killed me when he just sort of paused for a second, and helped push the guy along while still listening and nodding.
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May 7, 2014 03:35
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Rewatching the eps and lol, he still has the shirt he mentioned in Shameless seven years ago. Also I want that shirt. 
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May 7, 2014 07:38
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nutranurse posted:When he was in the coffee shop talking to his friend about his kid and that one young dude texting just walked into Louie and kept on walking without looking up? Hilarious. Especially Louie's annoyed, but resigned reaction. This is the kind of thing I love the most about this show. Just these little things that are slight exaggerations of real life situations. Also any time Todd Barry is on, it's the absolute best. "Your kids suck. I hate them. When I saw them, I drew little pictures of them and ripped them up in front of them." And this is just a casual conversation over coffee. Incredible.
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Cpt. Spring Types posted:Also any time Todd Barry is on, it's the absolute best. "Your kids suck. I hate them. When I saw them, I drew little pictures of them and ripped them up in front of them." And this is just a casual conversation over coffee. Incredible. God yes.
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May 7, 2014 08:21
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nutranurse posted:That's what I like about his slapstick: the absurdist bent. I didn't notice the first time watching that scene, but literally every extra in the background is silently staring down at their phone. Nobody looks up.
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nutranurse posted:That's what I like about his slapstick: the absurdist bent. Every single person in the coffee shop was on their phone and not moving or speaking in the background. it was great, reminded me of the bit where louie is hungover and goes to the coffee place and everyone's speaking nonsense e: poo poo^
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May 7, 2014 12:10
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Jerry Seinfeld was so great as a complete rear end in a top hat who somehow still came across as being justified in how fed up he was with Louie's poo poo, even though he'd set him up to fail so spectacularly. I don't care if it was deliberate or just that Jerry is so detached from the real world now that he didn't see how terrible he was being, either way just works. "So you slept with a rich girl you don't know and punched her in the face and now you want me to come down there and get my name in the middle of this story? You really see that happening, Louie?"
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May 7, 2014 12:41
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I just love how happy he was at the end... he's telling this horrible story about how he's forever in debt to these people and his life is effectively ruined, but his misfortune made the girl (who'd rejected him earlier) laugh 
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May 7, 2014 14:42
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beanieson posted:I just love how happy he was at the end... he's telling this horrible story about how he's forever in debt to these people and his life is effectively ruined, but his misfortune made the girl (who'd rejected him earlier) laugh
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May 7, 2014 14:59
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It reminded me of that one bit he did about being so broke that it just starts to become funny.
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May 7, 2014 15:09
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I've found some of the extremely overt surrealism in Louie goes a little too far - like the garbagemen in that first ep this season, his car getting crushed in the first ep of S3. The tension's taken out of the joke a little bit. The better examples were almost plausible, but extremely disorienting - like the kids with the weird hats in Road Trip and the homeless guy charging at him and getting decapitated. It's not so much "reality sucks", but "am I actually interpreting reality from a sane perspective?" Also hilarious - when the situation is overt fantasy, like the "American women are very complicated" sequence when Louie tries (and fails) to masturbate. And the one I was laughing about in the shower today for some reason - "Is that the same dog?" from the (incredible) weed sequence in S1. EDIT: Also not sure why I think the phone thing was sort of blah but the people speaking gibberish from a few seasons ago was loving funny. Maybe because for the gibberish, you ask "Is he crazy for not understanding, or are they crazy for talking that way?" And the phone thing is just sort of a dig against modern behavior. EDIT2: Maybe what I like about the show is how it deals with that constant sense of - am I doing something wrong? Always? No Wave fucked around with this message at 15:42 on May 7, 2014 |
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May 7, 2014 15:28
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The first episode was okay, although I really wish they didn't do another poker table scene and overall it seemed kinda generic. But the second episode is a classic.
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Mutation posted:The first episode was okay, although I really wish they didn't do another poker table scene and overall it seemed kinda generic. But the second episode is a classic. I liked it, but it was strange that that was the scene he chose to revisit, after he said something like this once (badly paraphrased): "One episode opens up with us playing poker, and people are going to be thinking 'so every episode opens up with him and his buddies playing poker?' but I don't want to rehash things over and over, so it never comes up again." So I enjoyed the meta-ness of the whole poker thing.
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They revisited it before in Season 3 for the father episode, but in that case it worked out great because you're thinking "Oh I guess they're going to have another neat or insightful conversation" and instead it's cut short because Louie's vomiting on everything. But in this case it's just... Another poker scene. That first episode was kinda like that a lot, sort of just rehashing old concepts: Poker scene, rear end in a top hat doctor, awkwardly asking store employees for sex things. Automata 10 Pack fucked around with this message at 19:02 on May 7, 2014 |
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May 7, 2014 18:59
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Mutation posted:They revisited it before in Season 3 for the father episode, but in that case it worked out great because you're thinking "Oh I guess they're going to have another neat or insightful conversation" and instead it's cut short because Louie's vomiting on everything. Well, in this case the poker scene was to setup the bigger joke and narrative of Louie trying to buy a vibrator for himself, then becoming ashamed when he actually tries, then he hurts his back because he's getting old, and eventually is recommended a vibrator by the doctor's secretary, but he doesn't use the vibrator to masturbate, but to massage his aching back because he's getting old. I think the poker scene was more than worth it just for that eventual punchline. It's cool to see a joke carried throughout an entire show in a subtle, but funny way.
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May 7, 2014 19:12
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nutranurse posted:...but he doesn't use the vibrator to masturbate, but to massage his aching back because he's getting old. Are you sure about that? Because at the end he's kind of sheepishly looking around his apartment, like he's making sure if he hears the kids awake or not. I think the implication is that the receptionist gave him the excuse he needed to buy a vibrator without actually buying "a vibrator". The back pain part was just incidental, and it's an added bonus that it relieves his back pain.
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King Vidiot posted:Are you sure about that? Because at the end he's kind of sheepishly looking around his apartment, like he's making sure if he hears the kids awake or not. I think the implication is that the receptionist gave him the excuse he needed to buy a vibrator without actually buying "a vibrator". The back pain part was just incidental, and it's an added bonus that it relieves his back pain.  It's left vague so we could go either way, really.Knowing louie he'd use the vibrator to massage both his dick and back.
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King Vidiot posted:Are you sure about that? Because at the end he's kind of sheepishly looking around his apartment, like he's making sure if he hears the kids awake or not. I think the implication is that the receptionist gave him the excuse he needed to buy a vibrator without actually buying "a vibrator". The back pain part was just incidental, and it's an added bonus that it relieves his back pain. The doctor's advice, in a roundabout way, was to live life to its fullest for as long as he can, and that means Louie's gonna massage his dick with a vibrator if he wants to, dammit
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May 7, 2014 19:23
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They made sure to point out that it was a Magic Wand, a very well known vibrator.
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Mutation posted:That first episode was kinda like that a lot, sort of just rehashing old concepts: Poker scene, rear end in a top hat doctor, awkwardly asking store employees for sex things. Wasn't that kind of the point, though? Every scene was a rehash of something Louie has done before, but set in a kind of heightened reality. Garbagemen don't actually crash through your windows, people don't masturbate 8 times a day in their 40s and little old ladies with walkers don't lift strange fat men off the street.
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Jerusalem posted:Jerry Seinfeld was so great as a complete rear end in a top hat who somehow still came across as being justified in how fed up he was with Louie's poo poo, even though he'd set him up to fail so spectacularly. I don't care if it was deliberate or just that Jerry is so detached from the real world now that he didn't see how terrible he was being, either way just works. It's worth noting that Dane Cook came off as less of an rear end in a top hat in his cameo than Jerry Seinfeld. 
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It felt like "hey, remember what Louie's like, guys? It's been a while since this show has been on, so here's what I typically do"... before structuring the rest of the season as very atypical Louie.
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precision posted:It's worth noting that Dane Cook came off as less of an rear end in a top hat in his cameo than Jerry Seinfeld. Jerry's kind of a huge rear end in a top hat anyway though. Have you never watched Seinfeld?
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Irish Joe posted:Wasn't that kind of the point, though? Every scene was a rehash of something Louie has done before, but set in a kind of heightened reality. Garbagemen don't actually crash through your windows, people don't masturbate 8 times a day in their 40s and little old ladies with walkers don't lift strange fat men off the street. Ubiquitous_ posted:It felt like "hey, remember what Louie's like, guys? It's been a while since this show has been on, so here's what I typically do"... before structuring the rest of the season as very atypical Louie. Automata 10 Pack fucked around with this message at 22:06 on May 7, 2014 |
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May 7, 2014 21:58
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I enjoyed Louie doing the Beatles.
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I love when Louie gets surrealistic. Everything from overt poo poo like the weird parking sign, the garbagemen, and the girl taking off in a helicopter, all the way to the really subtle ones like newsanchors having names like Fappy Howserton.
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King Vidiot posted:It reminded me of that one bit he did about being so broke that it just starts to become funny. What is this bit from?
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LividLiquid posted:I love when Louie gets surrealistic. Everything from overt poo poo like the weird parking sign, the garbagemen, and the girl taking off in a helicopter, all the way to the really subtle ones like newsanchors having names like Fappy Howserton. I love the episode where he sees the hobo get replaced by Men In Black with an identical hobo, though nothing quite compares to the screaming hobo whose head fell off while Louie was on the way to a date.
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Pamela Adlon is still getting a consulting producer credit on this. Is that just a legacy thing like EP credits can be, or does she still do occasional work for the show? I'm still a little bummed her character is gone forever.
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