Sex!

Violence!

I bet that got your attention! And lucky for us those were the two topics of the terrific Louie episode, “Bully.”

Usually on Louie, the stand-up portion of the show sort of sets up the short film that follows it. In “Bully” however, we have C.K. on stage talking about how when he was a kid he asked his father about sex because he “had boners all the time”. To demonstrate how awkward the situation was, instead of staying on stage at the Comedy Cellar, we actually get a flashback to his dad actually telling the seven-year-old explaining in graphic detail how to make love. Back on stage, C.K. talks about how overly clinical school was when teaching the reproductive system, which is also accompanied by a funny flashback, just to show us how confused young Louie was about fallopian tubes. Whatever those are.

And now for the violence! In the middle of a promising date with a woman, a cackle of obnoxious 18-year-old boys stroll into the shitty donut place. Because they’re loud and drown out most of the things C.K. and the woman are saying, Louie tells them to keep it down. One of the kids, Shawn, approaches Louie and asks him when the last time he had his ass kicked. C.K. eventually is forced to politely ask the punk to not kick his ass. “That was painful to watch.” Louie’s date admits that while she is cognizant that what he did was right, she instinctually perceives him to be a loser.

Louie: “That’s why there are wars and stuff. Women like you who choose stupid strong people over the weak and the gentle.”

Woman: “Listen, I’m a grown woman. And my mind is telling me you are a great guy. But my chemistry is telling me you’re a loser.”

After trying to avoid getting beaten up, that was one punch to the gut.

C.K., probably justifiably angry at hearing the truth, puts her in a cab home, never to be seen again. So what does Louie do? He follows the punk down the subway, shadows him on the train, and even gets on the Staten Island Ferry with him. Is Louie really a ‘great guy”? Or is he going to waste an entire evening following a teenager to beat him up? Thankfully, when C.K. gets to Shawn’s house, he knocks on the door calmly. Louie basically tattle tails on Shawn to his parents about how he threatened him. When Shawn is yelled at to come downstairs he gets a lovely smack in the face from his father. C.K. then lectures, a bit too didactically, this stranger that his son turned out the way he turned out because he learned the ways of the world through a violent father. Not liking being told how to raise children, Shawn’s mother smacks Louie in the face and forces him out of the house. Shawn’s father apologetically follows Louie outside and offers to smoke a cigarette with him and talk things out. Shawn Sr. explains that his father hit him and it’s the only way of parenting he’s ever known. Ah, but how did Shawn’s dad’s dad teach sex?

During the closing credits, Louie visits his seven-year-old self. “What happened to you? You’re fat, you’re ugly.” “And you’re going to be bald too!” The seven-year-old says that that sucks. Louie looks at him, then directly at the camera, as if to ask us what could he possibly say to his younger self if given the opportunity? No matter what you are taught, there will always be underlying primal instincts that will dictate how you and your loved ones react. Seven-year-old Louie wouldn’t understand that if he was simply told such a thing – he’ll have to be alive for awhile to find that out for himself.

Things To Say While Withholding Pleasure So She Demands It And Eventually Explodes

“Shall I get the door for you madam because I am a man and you are a woman and not strong?”
“Show the class the penis!”
“Come on. Watch me eat a donut.”

When left to one’s own devices, a person can really let themselves go. Where they go can be a very dark, confusing, surrealistic, rabbit-costumed place.

After dropping off his kids with their mother for an entire week, Louie gets a call from Pamela, Ser’s mother. Pamela extracts the information from Louie that he goes off on bad binges and is despondent when he isn’t with his children for such a long period of time. Pamela tells him to simply not do that this time, and Louie at first takes her advice and joyfully goes to the bodega for a simple bottle of water. Oh but then he looks down and sees the ice cream. “No I shouldn’t because…” It’s too late, he buys the ice cream. And a pizza and other unhealthy junk food.

Sitting there, fat and depressed after a two day eating binge, Louie gets a phone call from his unloved by his mother Ronnie telling him to just exercise for once. After one failed attempt at jumping rope, Louie smells pot smoke and tells his neighbor to knock it off because he doesn’t want the smell in his house. The neighbor is the most dryly sarcastic character on television in a long time and manages to convince Louie to smoke some of the pot and to drink some vodka to make it even worse. The imagery of Louie high is perfectly wacky but not in an over the top fashion.

The next morning C.K. goes to the dreaded “indie coffee shop” that he has mentioned in both of his stand-up specials. All of the young people throughout the scene talk in nonsensical language, which is either to do with the fact that they’re young to Louie or that he’s super hungover, or most likely both. C.K. throws three 20’s on the counter for one cup of coffee and walks outside to pet a dog tied to a leash. He decides he needs a dog and heads to the dog pound, where a cute saleswoman (I guess she’s a saleswoman) convinces him to get an old dog named Bear. Bear drops dead a minute after entering Louie’s apartment. As soon as Animal Control drives off with the dog’s corpse (sad) a cab pulls up containing Louie’s children. The self-destructive week is over!

Things To Say While Smashing A Car

“And I’m shitting in hitler’s mouth…”
“What’s her name?” “Piss Shit Fart. Her parents were hippies.”
“I wish there was a way to cover your vagina.”
“He loves this.”
“I want to shit in my own mouth!”

P.S.

Louie has some nice shades.

My uncle’s dog is named Bear. It’s still alive.

The final two episodes of the fourth series of The IT Crowd were funny. Haha and such. All apologies for the long delay.

In “Bad Boys”, Roy bets Jen 100 pounds (about $150 American supposedly) that he can’t go the whole day without saying his catch phrase, “Did you try turning it off and then on again?” Not feeling appreciated in the office and feeling in a rut, Roy convinces Moss to play hooky from work for the afternoon. While they’re away Douglas throws a party for an employee who was there for only a week, only to reveal that the party is actually for the underappreciated IT group, only to reveal that the party is ACTUALLY for the aforementioned employee who is actually an efficiency expert. The expert can tell Jen knows absolutely nothing about computers and insists she take an exam at the end of the day. Before this can occur a suspicious package arrives in front of the office. Roy and Moss, who seemed lost and despondent and in Moss’ case ridiculously insane without the structure work gives them, happen to walk by right when the police bomb-testing robot thing is trying to open the package. The robot won’t work, so Roy is forced to tell the cop if he tried to turn it off and turn it back on again. Moss, who earlier had stolen video games and is still on his illegal rush, punches the guy who was an asshole to him in the opening moments of the show and kisses the woman who has the hots for him before getting arrested. Roy ends up next to the robot all the way up until at least that very evening, because he is paralyzed by fear. The lesson as always: stay in school. And by school I mean work. And I guess by in I meant at.

“Reynholm vs. Reynholm” was an episode that showed the limitless potential of a Douglas Reynholm spin-off show. Douglas, after marrying his second wife, finds himself wondering where she went after she disappeared while washing the car. When Victoria returns Douglas doesn’t want to be married anymore, even though she is as insane as he is. Victoria threatens to take enough money in the divorce to run Reynholm Industries out of business. Since Roy and Moss are no help on the witness stand because they are Roy and Moss, Doug’s only hope comes from a now well-groomed and blonde Richmond, who claims Victoria is a part of his new business, Goth2Boss. But she isn’t. Well it was nice seeing you anyway Richmond you mighty boosher you. Jen pleads with the judge that Reynholm Industries needs to stay afloat because clearly all of the nutty people paraded in the courtroom would be unemployed and unable to fend for themselves in the real world. Victoria agrees to not completely bankrupt Douglas and all is well. In the final scene of the season, Roy, Moss, Jen and Douglas have the milk-looking champagne at the weird restaurant, and seem happy. Shananana.

Things To Say To Get Out Of Jury Duty

“I don’t expect to be put on a pedal stool.”
“What operating system are you using?” “Vista.” “We’re going to die!”

P.S.

Moss thought about kissing Roy again, since it worked last time when they were trying to avoid the cops.

George Lucas looked so disappointed!

I can’t decide if I want to see more of Douglas’ Star Trek sex tape or if I want to unremember watching a part of it in the first place.

Family – amirite? Or am I right? The thing is I know I’m right – in these contemporary times (the future!) the much more normal family is the dysfunctional family. Usually television will make a mother or father super kooky in a broad fashion, but Louis C.K. knows that. So instead, he kept it real and wrote an episode in which his mother was subtle and oblivious to how inconsiderate, self-centered, and tactless she can be to her children. THEN came a crazy over-the-top twist to make it very funny.

Before the opening credits we see Louie back with his seemingly stupid psychiatrist. When told by his patient that when he looks at his daughter he sees his mother, the psychiatrist takes this literally and becomes confused.

After the Reggie Watts opener, Louie and his brother Robbie are at the gym. Hmm. Okay. Robbie gets into graphic detail about his hot n’ sweaty nights with an attractive young lady he’s currently seeing. The only problem is that this certain female can only get wet with two dudes. The not-famous C.K. asks his bro to be the second dude, not to be physically in a threesome but to hang out for a little while and then make up some excuse at the last second to leave. Louie tells him that he loves him, which is why he will only not talk to him for three weeks as a result of this conversation.

But that isn’t the most uncomfortableness our antihero gets from his family tonight: his mother shows up out of nowhere. She is a low-key but completely selfish old woman who we later find out ruined Christmas. In a very funny twist, Mrs. C.K. reveals that her unexpected visit is to tell her son that she’s a lesbian. She should have known this because she only had sex with her husband twice in her life (Robbie and Louie) and hated it. The twist gets even better* when we see at a family dinner that Louie’s mom’s wife is a scorching hot woman in her late twenties. Robbie, who loves mom, tries to get the old lady to admit that she loves him, but she refuses and walks away. Robbie still has never heard his mother tell him that she loves him. Louis couldn’t care less about that – he goes back to staring at his mother’s wife.

* C.K. is basically the M. Night Shyamalan of comedy. Only talented.

Things To Say While Getting A Menu With Bigger Print

“I’m gonna go home now and not talk to you for about three weeks, okay?”
“If you murder somebody and never get caught, it’s fine. You never did anything wrong.”
“Oh that’s right, I came to tell you I’m a lesbian.”
“My body is a woman. WO-MAN. Woman!”
“You’ve gotten fatter.”
“It’s not wrong morally, just geometrically.”
“So you’re gonna get screened for gay genes?”
“Who doesn’t love their mother?” *Louie raises his hand*

P.S.

Louie got renewed for a second season! YAY!

I was talking to a fellow Futurama fan a few weeks ago about how we were a little disappointed with the episodes so far in this new season. I told her we should give them some more time – they’re shaking off the writing cobwebs, some of the writing staff must be different, etc. A little later I became the complainer and wished out loud that Futurama embraced their comic book roots and take advantage of how flexible their plots could be.

And then “The Late Phillip J. Fry” aired. And now I realize more than ever that complaining leads to getting what you want.

The ballad of Fry and Leela had been mostly muted for the first batch of the new season, so it wasn’t overbearing to have their romance take center stage in this episode. What also helped was that for once Leela wasn’t the one not allowing the two of them to get together with her stubbornness, but rather Fry being stuck in the future. Just Fry’s luck – right before he would leave to go meet Leela for a fancy dinner of two in honor of her birthday, Professor Farnsworth unveils his latest invention: a time traveling machine, and insists Fry and Bender accompany him to test it out. Really Farnsworth? A time machine? How original. Sarcasm. Anyway, instead of just going one minute into the future as intended, Farnsworth sends the kid and the robot to the year 10,000. Bit off there. And since the machine can only go forwards in time, (so this way you don’t do anything disgusting like sleep with your own grandmother, Fry) the three of them have to keep traveling further and further into the future until they find someone that invented a time machine that goes to the past. Along the way they run into a universe dominated by robots. Bender wants to stay, but Fry and Farnsworth understandably travel further along in time. The very next stop is a universe full of beautiful women who have the knowledge of backwards time travel. Bender, angry at what had just transpired, cock blocks the dudes and sends them even further along. The three argue until they get to the end of time.

With Fry, Bender and Farnsworth gone and presumed dead in the year 3030, Planet Express ends up being a hugely successful business. Leela misses Fry and projects that love onto Farnsworth’s child now adult clone Cubert. They get married but it predictably doesn’t work out. An old Leela discovers the video card Fry was recording to Leela when the time machine began to send him off into oblivion. She engraves a message that Fry later is able to read at their intended meeting place for dinner. She presumably died in peace.

The end? You’d think so. In a cute bonding moment, Fry, Bender and Professor Farnsworth enjoy some alcohol while watching the end of the universe. They then witness a second big bang and the world starting all a new. They travel back to the year 3010 A.D., but not before Farnsworth kills Adolf Hitler. Way to go Professor! Although doesn’t that cause a disruption…eh fuck it. But then they overshoot their landing again and have to travel to the end of another loop of the universe. They go through the beginning of time again, with Farnsworth this time missing Hitler and accidentally killing Eleanor Roosevelt. Same diff. Fry immediately jumps off the machine at 3010 A.D. and makes it right on time for dinner with Leela.

Best road trip ever? Best road trip ever.

Things To Say After Witnessing Your First Big Bang

“Hamboneeeeeeeee hamboneeeeeeee…”
“Time? I can’t go back there!”
“Everyone we ever knew? Eh I never liked those guys.”
“Has anyone seen Fry’s ass? It’s late for a date with my boot.”
“Everywhere I looked there were piles of bodies, and then the explosion struck.”
“We can settle down on that mountain of skulls.”
“Did you even SEE that mountain of skulls?”
“Let’s say the three of us grab a six pack and watch the universe end.”

P.S.

Leela’s birthday is December 3rd. Good to know I guess.
The only coworkers Zoidberg likes are Fry, Bender and Farnsworth. Every episode this season we seem to learn something new about the crab.
What will this “Eleanor Roosevelt died from a stray laser shot” alternate universe be like?
Did Fry ever consider stopping in the year 2000? Why didn’t they just stop with the sexy smart ladies again? Why didn’t Farnsworth wait for a supernova and put something in the microwave like Fry did in “Roswell That Ends Well”? Why don’t I just give up and enjoy myself?
One more question: how would it make you feel if you found out the universe repeats itself every million years?

Is acting difficult? Some comedians say it’s very easy and practically mock the profession on stage. Other comedians say they can’t possibly do it and mock the profession on stage. C.K. is a part of the latter group.

Louie gets interrupted in his stand-up bit about his brain talking to his asshole by a woman in the audience. She keeps talking and C.K. calls her a cunt, among other things for interrupting. Outside the Comedy Cellar she confronts C.K. in front of his comedian buddies and swears that she’s a good person that didn’t deserve the tongue lashing that she received. Louie explains she ruined his loser comedians’ lives tonight. Stand-up is all they have and she ruined it by not shutting the hell up during their sets. In reality, both parties had a point. After she leaves Todd Barry gets right down to what matters: Louie could have had sex with her but he went too far.

The next short film has C.K. pontificating about acting. C.K. says to his agent’s receptionist he just isn’t good at acting. He then explains it’s stupid to want to be an actor. Of course the receptionist is training to be one. His agent Simon browbeats Louie into taking a part in a remake of The Godfather, this time with Jews. Simon gets so aggravated he has a heart attack and dies, forcing Louie to take the role. Matthew Broderick and Louie run through a scene over and over again because C.K. can never quite hit the gravitas when informing Broderick that his father is dead. It’s very very funny. The funniest scene on television in months. Broderick tells C.K. to go take a walk to clear his head. Since Louie is still in his cop uniform we have an idea as to what’s about to happen. After meowing, blowing raspberries and making several other animal noises to a cat, two men try to rob the bodega. Louie, after licking off donut residue on his fingers draws his gun! Unfortunately for him it’s half of a gun. One of the criminals tells the other with the gun to shoot him. The criminal admits his gun isn’t real either. The two run off. Pussies.

Things To Say While Not Listening To The Comedian

“You don’t like rape?”
“Letting you live was medical malpractice.”
“That’s really ‘neg’.”
“Oh, your father’s dead.”
“Try to get yourself to give a shit. Comedian.”
“They don’t give you real guns?”
“Am I one of the Jews?”

P.S.

Something I didn’t notice until the second time that was great: the epic music used for the movie scene was the same music used for the stand-off in the bodega.

We don’t hate Hermes but we never really give him too much thought either. We know he for whatever reason absolutely loves accounting. We know he has a wife who always seems to be on the verge of leaving him for superficial and monetary reasons and a boring son. And that’s about it. By the conclusion of “Lethal Inspection” however, we love him.

During a Sith War reenactment (“What the hoth?”) Bender wonders out loud how humans can live with the prospect of one day dying. He continues bragging of being an immortal robot until he leaves an oil stool sample on Farnsworth’s “chair with wheels.” It turns out Inspector No.5 – the one in charge of making sure all of Bender’s nuts and bolts were in the right places when he was assembled – wasn’t too good at his job: Farnsworth discovers that Bender doesn’t have a backup system in his body that would ensure immortality. This causes Bender to become hellbent on finding this shitty Inspector and perform a murder-suicide. Heavy!

In order to find him or her Bender recruits resident pencil pusher bureaucrat Hermes. The unlucky partners in crime enter Central Bureaucracy headquarters to find out Inspector No.5’s identity. After not finding much of anything Bender calls the all powerful Mom to rat himself out as a defective robot. His reward for such honesty is a group of mercenary robots out to kill him. Bender and Hermes run away to Tijuana, Bender’s birthplace, where they find Inspector No.5’s house. They find it deserted. Before Bender can off himself the pesky robots with guns appear outside and attempt to murder Bender again. Hermes hacks into the abandoned inspector’s computer to hack in and list Bender Bending Rodriguez as deceased, ending the rain of bullets and saving his and Mr. Rodriguez’s lives.

Once the group leave the conference room to go celebrate life with some sweet sweet liquor we find Hermes in front of a roaring fire. He throws mysterious Inspector No.5’s file from his jacket pocket into the flame. To the score of “Fly Through My Window” we see that Hermes was Inspector No.5 all along. Hermes, working for Mom, was about to throw away a defective baby Bender when he was overtaken by emotion. He decided to let Bender continue living and immediately resigned from his job. On three: awwwwwwwwww!

Not as powerful of an ending as the terrific and heartbreaking “Jurassic Bark” episode, and it breaks continuity, but damn. You’re a good man Hermes Conrad.

Things To Say When You Walk Away From A Cool Explosion Without Looking Back

“Good war…good war…”
“Suicide is not necessarily the answer!”
“Anything less than immortality is a complete waste of time.”
“This is every bit as fun as the real Civil War!”
“That’s a calculator. I ate it for it’s power.”
“Addition never solved anything.”
“That’s what you get for calling tech support.”
“I also would have accepted a bribe.”
“Someone said howlitzer!”

P.S.

We knew Hermes also liked the occasional ganja and the limbo dancing, but those are broad Jamaican stereotypes aren’t they?

My favorite was Darth Urderer.

The “middle square” sounding like Paul Lynde was a nice touch, a touch that 75 percent of Futurama’s audience can’t feel.

Here’s the pretty song. I actually never heard of “Fly Through My Window” before. What does that say about my childhood?

No follow-up story on Douglas’ new robot hand. Very disappointing.

Roy gets a beautiful new girlfriend named Julia who unfortunately carries the baggage of being an orphan. Julia reveals that her parents died in a tragic sea park fire. A sea park fire? She refuses to bring the story up ever again (“I said I don’t want to talk about it”) causing Roy to go crazy and obsess over how such a thing is possible. At one point he even pretends he was on a laptop for masturbating instead of revealing to Julia he was looking at sea park seating charts. In another scene Roy plays with his mash(ed potatoes) to figure out the logistics. In the end he recreates a fire in a miniature sea park and figures out how such a thing can happen. In the process however he burns his hands. At the hospital Julia asks Roy what happened to his hands. Roy, not wanting to admit his obsession, tells her he doesn’t want to talk about it. Bazinga.

Jen isn’t a fan of Linda, a coworker who outshines her in every aspect during business meanings. To make herself become “the best woman” in the office in Douglas’ eyes she lies about knowing fluent Italian. This predictably leads to confusion between the Italian businessman, Jen and everyone in the office at their important international meeting. Jen tries to fake it, causing the Italian, Bernatelli, to assume he is being mocked and to storm out of the meeting loudly proclaiming in his native tongue that Reynhold Industries has made a big enemy. Unpredictably Douglas blames Linda for inviting Bernatelli in the first place. Jen gets away with it.

Moss…well Moss ended up stuck in an arcade crane machine. After dropping his cell phone in the toilet he had discovered an iPhone in the crane machine and just had to have it. As the credits roll we see that he is still inside the machine. It would be kind of funny if the last two episodes of the series had Moss back at his IT job but still inside the machine.

Things To Say While Waiting On Line for The Free Willy Reimagaining

“Sorry did that sound like words?”

“But she’s still an orphan right?” “Yes, her parents have yet to come back to life.”

“What are you doing on the computer?” “Masturbating.”

“I may be able to get an iPhone without giving any money to Apple. I’ll be living the dream!”

“These toys may smell as wee come the morn.”

For the third week in a row Futurama makes fun of a pop culture phenomenon that took place during their long hiatus. While this process seems transparent at this point, “The Duh-Vinci Code” at least shed some light and advanced the story on the dynamic between Phillip J. Fry and his very very old and cranky great-great nephew Professor Farnsworth, who whether he realizes it or cares to admit or not is his father figure.

Fry loses on the very first question of Who Dares To Be A Millionaire?! Professor Farnsworth doesn’t hide his disgust with the lack of intelligence his great-great uncle possesses. The Proffesor shows a distraught Fry a personal museum of his intellectual heroes, singling out Leonardo Da Vinci as the biggest smartie pants kahuna. Farnsy explicitly states that Da Vinci’s beard is his most prized possession which leads to Fry sneezing into it, scattering ridiculously old hairs everywhere. Fortunately the beard contained blueprints for Da Vinci’s great lost invention. Boy that was lucky! A few leaps of faith designed to lampoon the leaps of faith in The Da Vinci Code later, we discover that Da Vinci built a robotic St. James to help him with his painting of The Last Supper and to protect the “big secret.” This robot isn’t very good at his job, because less than two minutes later Fry and the Professor are catapulted in Da Vinci’s secret spaceship to the planet Vinci.

It turns out that Dan Brown forgot to mention that Leonardo Da Vinci was an alien that traveled to Earth because he was tired of being ridiculed as being an idiot on Vinci. It turns out Leo is the Fry of his world. Unlike Fry and a lot like Marty McFly, he is ridiculed by a man named Biff (any villain can and should be named Biff. It’s kind of perfect.) Leo is overjoyed when Fry and the Professor hand him the blueprints to his final invention. While Farnsworth sits in on some classes in the super intelligent planet’s university Fry and Leonardo get to work on the invention. At a presentation in which Fry’s armpit orchestra was the opening act (what was his cut you think?), Da Vinci reveals the invention is a gigantic killing machine, designed to murder everybody on Vinci for making fun of his stupidity. Farnsworth is more than happy about this because he was ridiculed for he had just recently been outed as the dumbest person in the class he audited. Fry pleads for the two of them to stop and to just accept their intellectual fates. Fry destroys the machine. Leonardo wasn’t moved by Fry’s words and attempts to get the machine started again and kills himself in the process.

On the spaceship ride home to Earth the Professor apologizes to Fry for saying the things he did.

P.S.

Dr. Zoidberg’s doctorate is in Art History. That explains a lot.

Did Da Vinci commit suicide? Or am I reading too much into it and he was just dumb when he pulled the lever? Probably the latter.

Things To Say To Hermes And His Not Big-Boned Body

“Chit-chat achieved!”
“I may not have brain smarts, but at least I have street smarts.” Fry then gets hit by a car.
“Didn’t we used to be a delivery company?”
“Leela, wanna join the mile-deep club?” Leela said yes by the way.
“There can be no question!”
“Note how the perspective lines draw the eyes right to his dong.”
“Bye, Animatronio!”
“How’s your football team?” “Learned.”
“The ice cream is only a byproduct of the machine.”

I’m not “old” and I don’t have children, so this show and particularly this episode shouldn’t really “speak to me.” However, the outwardly misanthropic, always uncomfortable male with a heart of gold always will. This is already a favorite show. Gold stars for everyone!

Louie is approached by a 26-year-old woman who has a fetish for “old” men. She pontificates on how he has the smell of death on him and how he doesn’t have the annoying energy of younger men. Louie and the young lady have sex. To get her excited Louie gives her examples of how old he really is: he remembers smoking on airplanes! Jamie Moyer is the only baseball player that’s older than him! He’s seen movies for $3. That one shocked me actually. After the nasty there is no pillow talk: the young lady in no uncertain terms says not to call. As she leaves C.K. and I both wonder to ourselves what her father must be like.

In the second short Louie goes to his first PTA meeting. Most of the parents are assholes to the teacher and are in general overprotective. One had the nerve to name her child Never. C.K. sets up a play-date with Pamela Adlon, a producer on the show and the woman who played Louie’s wife in Lucky Louie. Adlon is a natural foil to C.K. in her caustic but well-meaning manner. While her kid Serge (I thought it was Sir) played with Louie’s daughters she talks to Louie about her deepest darkest secret: she imagines hitting Serge when she’s bored. Louie responds by admitting he thinks about killing himself when his youngest daughter turns eighteen because he wont be a father anymore. Dude seriously? Adlon has too much of the wine she insisted on and falls asleep. It’s exhausting being a parent. I don’t even have kids but I get tired just watching people portray parents on television, so I believe it.

Interspersed randomly at three points during the episode were scenes involving Louie and a really awful therapist. The awful therapist at first slightly exaggerated for comedic effect what I suspect all psychiatrists do: bringing up shit and insisisting that you were subconsciously worried about it the entire time. In this case the shrink asked Louie if he was bothered about his weight before Louie brought it up. The post-credits portion went over-the-top; the shrink this time asked if C.K. ever heard about someone dying and then getting an erection. He admits to asking because he had. Yikes.

P.S.

SUIO Exclusive: A friend was shocked to see that the 26-year-old senior citizen lover was played by a high school classmate.  Apparently the actress wrote pretentious poetry and liked horses.

Seriously, how awful is C.K.’s insurance plan where he has Gervais as a doctor and this dude as his shrink?

The muzak that plays over the final psychiatrist scene was a nice touch.

I’m a fan of his stand-up specials but so far I’m a bit underwhelmed by the stand-up bits on this show. Admittedly he’s set a high standard for himself.

I decided to just write Louie instead of switching back and forth between Louie and Louis. Did you notice?