Shouldn't the headline read: "Garth Brooks Avoids Disappointing 400,000 People"?

Boo! He's too old! Someone call Shia LaBeouf's agent!

Getting John Leguizamo to be in your film is actually news? Next thing you'll trumpet is that they acquired the use of cameras.

"Super Mario Bros … is a… film." - Nathan Rabin

Patrick always has, for want of a better term, a whipped look on his face. From what little we've seen of him, I'm guessing to Janet he's pliable the way Louie wasn't.

Random moment I caught on second viewing:

Pamela: Is it always like this?
Lily (from the background): Pretty much.

I like your analysis. I think the point here is that Louis (the co-writer/director) wants us to question our rooting interests in Louie. That he acted as kind of the sad-sack victim I thought was pathetic. I think it's Louis CK's and Pamela Adlon's aim to make the audience as uncomfortable as possible, taking any…

"Did you see those little white babies come out of that juicy black pussy… or were they stolen?"

It's not unusual for couples to completely avoid talking about things like that, and it seems perfectly in line with Pamela's character. It was briefly referenced by her as Louie "forcing a kiss on her," and she let's it go after that. I don't think that's avoiding the issue as much as saying that people avoid…

"I hope I don't die the same day someone more famous than me dies. That would be the worst. Well, other than the dying part." - Farrah Fawcett

"You have no reflexes, your blood tastes like root beer, and some of your bones seem to have vanished"

I hate driving on the NJ Turnpike for this very reason. It's a very busy trucking corridor (it's I-95), and those guys drive like crazy people. Someone mentioned the movie Mad Max and that's not too far off.

Context. That's how Pamela does it, clearly, and Louie knows this.

And oh yeah, something I didn't think of at the time: Louie did not seek out Pamela as a rebound girl, she texted him even after he turned her down a month previously. So despite saying her "cookie" was off the table, she was still sniffing around Louie.

I'm OK, I popped a couple Xanax. Damn, upon rereading my post I was kinda worked up. I regret nothing! Whoa… need more Xanax.

I doubt it's deliberate, but boundary issues have been a recurring theme on this show. It's even stated explicitly by Dr. Bigelow in "Elevator (Part 5)" when Louie bangs on his door for help. In that case, it's hard to disagree with Louie's choice to disturb the Doctor, but in other cases it can become questionable to…

In interviews I believe Louis was saying that with Lucky Louie the goal was to not be subversive or ironic, just play it generally straight up, and that most people were expecting a comedy show on HBO in 2006 not to be that sincere, so there was a strange sort of disconnect between the show and its audience, which is…

I agree with you that that particular essay didn't really go anywhere (although not my favorite, Seitz is usually better than that). I do generally like Sepinwall, though.

I had forgotten about that. At the time, I took it as Louie being frustrated with himself and his relationships (he had just turned down Pamela and thought Amia was turning him down) and having no outlet, so he just went to town on the piano. It could very well have a been a harbinger of Louie's more aggressive side…