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Louie

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Louie	label	Louie
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Louie	comment	Louie is a semi-autobiographic comedy-drama show written, directed, created, edited and produced by Louis C.K. that aired on FX for five seasons from 2010 to 2015. It's the type of show that begs the question of when a show stops being a sitcom, and starts being a series of unconnected absurdist short films centered around one character, running on a Curb Your Enthusiasm-reminiscent format of being set to a mostly dry soundtrack (or none at all), not using a Laugh Track, and deriving most of its humor from excruciatingly awkward or painful situations.The show stars C.K. as a fictionalized version of himself named Louie, and typically follows him performing stand-up (similarly to Seinfeld), but also focuses on his life as a newly divorced father raising two daughters in New York City. Some of the material is either somewhat surreal or similar to his YouTube material, but the show gives the overall impression of being fairly true to life.For the first three seasons, there weren't really any season arcs beyond the occasional link or two, with exceptions including the trilogy of "Late Show" episodes, and the show's occasional delves into more serious topics (ex: the episode "God") based on significant experiences in C.K.'s life that made him who he is. The fourth season, however, was much more dramatic and featured increased continuity and three multi-episode storylines, including the six-part "Elevator" arc. C.K. mentioned that the show's fifth season would return to having more humorous episodes.Following the third season, the show went on an extended hiatus so C.K. could recharge his creative batteries, finally returning for its fourth season in May 2014. He then announced that he would take another long hiatus between season 5 and a planned season 6 to co-produce a series for FX called Better Things starring his friend (and Louie co-star) actress Pamela Aldon.Amid this hiatus, FX ended their business partnership with C.K.'s production company, Pig Newton, in November 2017 following his admission that a series of sexual misconduct allegations made towards him were true, ceasing production on Louie.
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Louie / int_135c6de7	comment	Cannot Tell a Joke: One of Louie's neighbors messes up the punchline of the "Lie to me, Pinocchio" joke and then refuses to believe Louie when he explains how the joke actually goes.
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Louie / int_1434e55c	type	Amazingly Embarrassing Parents
Louie / int_1434e55c	comment	Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Hoo boy, Louie's mom....
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Louie / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Louie / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: Darker compared to Louis C.K.'s previous show, Lucky Louie, which was more or less purely comedic. Edgier not so much, given that unlike Lucky Louie, there is no frontal nudity and "fuck" is bleeped out in all but one instance.
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Louie / int_1779f10e	type	"Well Done, Son" Guy
Louie / int_1779f10e	comment	"Well Done, Son" Guy: Louie's brother Robbie loves their mother very much and just wants to hear her say that she loves him. Not only does she not say it, she storms out of the restaurant very visibly offended.
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Louie / int_1b6f11d2	type	The Cutie
Louie / int_1b6f11d2	comment	The Cutie: Ellen Farber.
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Louie / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
Louie / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: Louie's a pretty meek person most of the time, but when he believes his daughters are in danger he manages to grow a spine and steps up to protect them.
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Louie / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Louie / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Nearly every single character but Louie (and occasionally even him) is an unrepentant asshole and Louie never, ever, ever catches a break.
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Louie / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
Louie / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: One of the main sources of humour. One episode even has Louie's sister, who previously miscarried her baby (and was so devastated her marriage fell apart) suffering severe abdominal pains in the night, and is rushed to hospital screaming about how she thinks her baby is dying; upon reaching the hospital and following the episode aesop, however, it turns out her pain was just wind pains from a huge fart. In universe, one episode has Louie pitching a movie. His idea is an entire movie of Humiliation Conga and Despair Event Horizon. The producer ditches him during a lunch date as soon as possible.
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Louie / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
Louie / int_24321e44	comment	Only Sane Man: He seems to be far less messed up than most of the characters he encounters.
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Louie / int_270ed8b8	type	Candlelit Bath
Louie / int_270ed8b8	comment	Candlelit Bath: Pamela shares one with Louie in the season 4 finale.
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Louie / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
Louie / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: The show has often been described as basically being Seinfeld IF IT WAS ACTUALLY ABOUT NOTHING! Or Seinfeld if FX picked it up instead of NBC and it was a dramedy instead of a sitcom.
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Louie / int_2a973d16	type	Women Prefer Strong Men
Louie / int_2a973d16	comment	Women Prefer Strong Men: In the episode "Bully," Louie is on a date with another middle-aged woman. It goes well until a teenager whom Louie asked to quiet down comes over and threatens to beat Louie up. Louie backs down and his date explains in brutally honest fashion that while she understands intellectually that Louie made the sensible, adult choice, at some gut level for her he's simply not a sexual or romantic prospect anymore because he wasn't "strong." They exchange awkward, mutually unhappy goodbyes, with both of them acknowledging that this is a screwed up situation, and the date ends. Another episode has Louie attempt to woo a black woman. As he questions her over and over again as to why she wont give him a chance, he eventually happens on the reason: she's used to big, strong, athletic black guys, and Louie is pasty, pudgy, and white—practically gay in comparison, to paraphrase.
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Louie / int_2cbbeaf5	type	Going Cosmic
Louie / int_2cbbeaf5	comment	Going Cosmic: Episode 11 of the first season. Apart from two short segments of Louis' stand up, the entire episode is a very personal story of Louis' early experiences with religion.
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Louie / int_2cc5703c	type	Potty Emergency
Louie / int_2cc5703c	comment	Potty Emergency: Louie has one in the extended cold open of "A La Carte." He doesn't make it.
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Louie / int_2de495bb	type	Missing Child
Louie / int_2de495bb	comment	Missing Child: "Elevator (Part 1)" touches on the very real fear of being separated from one's child for a lengthy period of time in a public setting. Louie is with his kids in a subway car when Jane, believing herself to still be in a dream, decides to walk away from Louie and Lilly as the doors are closing. Frantic, Louie yells for someone to stop the train while Jane assuredly yells at him that she will stay exactly in place until Louie comes to find her. From there, we follow Louie and Lilly as they're forced to ride the train to the next stop, get onto a different train to take them back to Jane, and sprint from the subway station to Jane's location across the street. Meanwhile, at one point, Jane is approached by a man, and the audience isn't sure if he'll take her away from her spot or not. When Louie finally reaches Jane, it offers a moment of relief and sadness, as Louie proceeds to yell at and shake Jane, admonishing her for acting so irresponsibly (leading her to cry). The action is rough to watch, but completely understandable for any parent scared to death of a similar situation happening to them and their kids.
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Louie / int_2f996c5c	type	Dumbass DJ
Louie / int_2f996c5c	comment	Dumbass DJ: Louie is forced by his agent to call in to a show with them to promote a performance in Kansas City. Their spiel includes several nonsense words, which Louie understands clearly.
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Louie / int_312b02ac	type	Lipstick Lesbian
Louie / int_312b02ac	comment	Lipstick Lesbian: Louie's mother's wife, Jasmine.
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Louie / int_31aba995	type	Self-Abuse
Louie / int_31aba995	comment	Self-Abuse: Louie appears in a news show to argue with Christians Against Masturbation leader Ellen Farber, who thinks that masturbation is a sin in the eyes of God.
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Louie / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Louie / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Louie's youngest daughter expresses her greater love for her mother, while he's in the middle of brushing her teeth. This is when Louie previously expressed the idea of suicide when his daughters grow too old to need him. This happens to Louie in general.
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Louie / int_35ebc748	type	Rules of the Road
Louie / int_35ebc748	comment	Rules of the Road: In "A La Carte," Louie has a Potty Emergency and at one point he runs past a public notice that says "No Dumping"
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Louie / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Louie / int_40cc0c7e	comment	On the other hand, after his date is spoiled, Louie decides to follow the bully back to his home in Staten Island, to personally approach the parents of his date-ruiner. Things don't go well, but do end on a bittersweet note, with Louie bonding with the bully's father.
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Louie / int_4192763e	type	Malaproper
Louie / int_4192763e	comment	Malaproper: Robbie consistently says "lesbonian".
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Louie / int_43a46119	type	Surrounded by Idiots
Louie / int_43a46119	comment	Surrounded by Idiots: Louie learns this in the very first episode. He's chaperoning a school field trip to the Bronx Botanical Gardens and has to deal with a bus driver who knows neither how to get there nor which roads are bus-legal and a teacher who apparently thinks it's wise to have a classful of children walk on foot to a subway station in Harlem.
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Louie / int_453871ec	type	What Could Have Been
Louie / int_453871ec	comment	What Could Have Been: In-Universe example: Once Louie's divorce from his wife is finalized, he looks up an old high school crush. After they sit down for coffee and talk for a bit, she comes right out and says that he's been playing coulda-been. They do end up having sex, however.
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Louie / int_46290b93	type	Manic Pixie Dream Girl
Louie / int_46290b93	comment	Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Liz is a deconstruction of this trope. Beautiful and lively, she brings Louie to a variety of quirky spots in the city, pushing him out of his comfort zone along the way. Through the episode we begin to see through the cracks of Liz's facade, like when she gets denied a drink at her favorite bar (indicating she might be an alcoholic) and has a distraught expression on her face when looking out on the city. Louie is dragged around by another woman who seems to be a deconstruction of the trope in Looking For Liz. She tries to be quirky and exciting and adventurously passionate in love and life, but is just awkward and scary, and gross, with her wacky schemes falling on her face.
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Louie / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Louie / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey/Chew Toy: Louie.
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Louie / int_4c851777	type	Black Comedy Rape
Louie / int_4c851777	comment	Black Comedy Rape: While at a dentist's appointment, Louie find himself under the influence of some laughing gas. He has hallucination of being fed a banana by the dentist. As he comes out of his hallucination, the audience can see the dentist zipping his pants back up....
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Louie / int_4e4f42be	type	Love Confession
Louie / int_4e4f42be	comment	Love Confession: Louie to Pamela in "Pamela".
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Louie / int_4ef0ebb0	type	Three Shorts
Louie / int_4ef0ebb0	comment	Three Shorts: There might be some continuity between the three shorts, but they're always named as separate vignettes in the episode's closing credits.
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Louie / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Louie / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: Compared to the later seasons, the first season was a bit more surreal, with the pilot episode ending with his date escaping from him via helicopter.
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Louie / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Louie / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: A young bully named Sean threatens to put Louie in the hospital. Why? Because Louie asked him (and his friends) to be quiet while he was out on a date. On the other hand, after his date is spoiled, Louie decides to follow the bully back to his home in Staten Island, to personally approach the parents of his date-ruiner. Things don't go well, but do end on a bittersweet note, with Louie bonding with the bully's father.
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Louie / int_5addd374	type	Your Makeup Is Running
Louie / int_5addd374	comment	Your Makeup Is Running: In season 5's "Bobby's House," Pamela gives Louie a makeover and they do a little reverse-gender roleplay, and after making love this trope happens when she breaks up with him.
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Louie / int_5bdffefe	type	Jitter Cam
Louie / int_5bdffefe	comment	Jitter Cam: Used on occasion.
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Louie / int_5beef860	type	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
Louie / int_5beef860	comment	Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Louie has a strong phobia of seeing the dentist.
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Louie / int_5cdb777e	type	You Look Familiar
Louie / int_5cdb777e	comment	You Look Familiar: Occasionally. William Stephenson appears as both a bus driver in the pilot and as himself in "Oh Louie/Tickets". Amy Landecker appears as Louie's date in "Bully" and as a young Louie's mother in "God". F. Murray Abraham plays a swinger in "New Jersey" and Louie's uncle Excelsior in "Dad". And then in "In the Woods Part 2," which includes extended flashbacks to Louie's childhood, he plays Louie's dad! Josh Hamilton appeared as the marijuana-smoking neighbor from season 1's "Dogpound" and as his therapist in the flashback episode "In The Woods" after Louie's need for weed and his dealings with a dealer turn things upside-down.
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Louie / int_618dc1ea	type	Parent with New Paramour
Louie / int_618dc1ea	comment	Parent with New Paramour: Louie's mother shows up out of the blue midway through the first season with a new sexuality and a new wife to match.
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Louie / int_61a12ee2	type	Eccentric Mentor
Louie / int_61a12ee2	comment	Eccentric Mentor: Jack Dall, Louie's coach when he's auditioning for David Letterman's spot on The Late Show. Though when you're played by David Lynch, eccentricity is inevitable.
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Louie / int_6238a13a	type	Marijuana Is LSD
Louie / int_6238a13a	comment	Marijuana Is LSD: Probably done for comedic effect, but the pot that Louie smokes with his neighbor in season one apparently can make a dog appear to change breed and replace his neighbor's face with freaky animal masks. To be fair, Louie's neighbor was getting him REALLY high, and was messing with him throughout the whole sequence.
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Louie / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
Louie / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: "Come On, God" and "Duckling" both featured Louie hitting on (and getting rejected by) "good Christian girls". Maybe he's just attracted to women who would never sleep with him. Also he tends to fantasize about and lust after mostly blondes (Pamela being the major exception). Jim Jarmusch's Stranger Than Paradise is one of Louis' favorite movies, and the "Elevator" episodes is a Whole-Plot Reference to them.
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Louie / int_6c87dbef	type	Masturbation Means Sexual Frustration
Louie / int_6c87dbef	comment	Masturbation Means Sexual Frustration: "Here's the thing: I'm 42, I'm really good at masturbating." Masturbation and a bit of premarital sex is basically the whole premise of "Come On, God".◊
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Louie / int_6eb04f1	type	"Everybody Laughs" Ending
Louie / int_6eb04f1	comment	"Everybody Laughs" Ending: Happens in "Poker". After gay comedian Rick Crom explained the serious implications of freely using the word "faggot" for comedic purposes, the room goes silent...until Nick breaks the tension by trash talking Rick using the very slur. The laughing doesn't feel contrived here or the rest of the sketch, because the viewers are, more than likely laughing along with the comedians.
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Louie / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Louie / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Louie's decision to buy a motorcycle and the resulting accident is treated in this manner by everyone in the third season premiere.
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Louie / int_733e007a	type	Unwitting Pawn
Louie / int_733e007a	comment	Unwitting Pawn: Louie, when he gets contracted to replace David Letterman. The whole thing was a scheme by the president of CBS to get Letterman's price for staying on the show down from 60 to 40 million dollars, and Louie never had a chance of getting the job to begin with. Louie does get some consolation in that he performs so well in his audition that Letterman swears to never have him on the show, apparently for fear of being upstaged.
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Louie / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
Louie / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: Pam moves to France at the end of season two. The Bus Came Back: Pam is back as of Season 4.
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Louie / int_76c42cce	type	Pronouncing My Name for You
Louie / int_76c42cce	comment	Pronouncing My Name for You: Played for Laughs in the Late Night arc. Louie is waiting to see Jack Dall.
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Louie / int_771f6307	type	Brother–Sister Incest
Louie / int_771f6307	comment	Brother-Brother Incest: Louie's brother Robbie tries to rope him into a threeway with a girl he's been seeing (she claims that a single guy won't get her horny).
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Louie / int_7815ba15	type	N-Word Privileges
Louie / int_7815ba15	comment	N-Word Privileges: Acceptable usage of "faggot" is discussed in "Poker" at the beginning of season one's second episode.
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Louie / int_786bf97f	type	Real Life Writes the Plot
Louie / int_786bf97f	comment	Real Life Writes the Plot It's very possible that the episode where he tries to play a cop for an all-Jewish remake of The Godfather is a reference to his role in Parks and Recreation. Certain moments on the show feel all too specific and detailed to be that made up, the shining example of this being 'God'. "Poker" fits this description as well. Louis C.K. admitted that the skit was inspired by a discussion he had with gay comedian Rick Crom. invoked
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Louie / int_796bffea	type	Mistaken for Racist
Louie / int_796bffea	comment	Mistaken for Racist: Louie sees an art exhibit with a button labeled "PUSH" and even though Pamela warns him not to obey the sign, he does. It causes the exhibit plays a loud recording of someone loudly shouting the N-Word, which makes people in the exhibition stare at him as Louie tries to explain it wasn't him.
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Louie / int_7a82c3d2	type	All Love Is Unrequited
Louie / int_7a82c3d2	comment	All Love Is Unrequited: Louie and Pam, who even turns him down when he vents how much he loves Pam. Even taken to the extreme in the Season 2 finale when she leaves with Serge and tells him they can't be together, only for Louie to later mishear her shouting "Wave to me!" as "Wait for me!" as she heads into the airport.
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Louie / int_7af99ca7	type	AThreesomeIsManly
Louie / int_7af99ca7	comment	A Threesome is Manly: Robbie doesn't seem to mind the idea of a two-man three-way. He doesn't even seem to mind the idea of his own brother being the second man.
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Louie / int_7b8b3def	type	Celebrity Paradox
Louie / int_7b8b3def	comment	Celebrity Paradox: For the most part, almost every recognizable comedian showing up on the show is playing as themselves... and then we have Amy Poehler playing as Louie's sister Debbie. Stand-up comic Robert Kelly plays Louie's brother, Robbie. Also David Lynch as Jack Dall.
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Louie / int_7cd98af5	type	Potty Failure
Louie / int_7cd98af5	comment	Potty Failure: The result of Louie's aforementioned Potty Emergency. Nebar has diarrhea in Louie's bath tub when he stays over for a day.
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Louie / int_7ef728b1	type	Tsundere
Louie / int_7ef728b1	comment	Tsundere: Pamela could qualify as this. She's abrasive, cynical, and jerky towards Louie. But she does care about him and enjoys having him as a friend, though Louie would like to be something more. Too bad he blows it...initially.
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Louie / int_7f533ea0	type	I Didn't Mean to Turn You On
Louie / int_7f533ea0	comment	I Didn't Mean to Turn You On: Ellen from "Come On, God", despite completely meaning to stay celibate until marriage, invites Louie to drinks and then to her apartment, where she changes into a silk robe.
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Louie / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Louie / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Louie's list of things it would be weird to start doing after age 40 include getting into fights, sucking other guys' dicks, and skiing.
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Louie / int_80d55f20	type	Cuteness Proximity
Louie / int_80d55f20	comment	Cuteness Proximity: Louie's duckling is cute enough to defuse a possible shootout between Afghani militia and US soldiers.
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Louie / int_820ac3c5	type	Dysfunction Junction
Louie / int_820ac3c5	comment	Dysfunction Junction: Maybe the children aren't disturbingly neurotic.
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Louie / int_890d4ef2	type	Humiliation Conga
Louie / int_890d4ef2	comment	In universe, one episode has Louie pitching a movie. His idea is an entire movie of Humiliation Conga and Despair Event Horizon. The producer ditches him during a lunch date as soon as possible.
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Louie / int_89897126	type	New Year Has Come
Louie / int_89897126	comment	New Year Has Come: "New Year's Eve"
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Louie / int_8acf3a97	type	Spreading Disaster Map Graphic
Louie / int_8acf3a97	comment	Spreading Disaster Map Graphic: Played for Laughs in "The Elevator" arc with the meteorological maps of the devastation that Hurricane Jasmine Forsythe will bring to New York.
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Louie / int_8ae7eb89	type	Real Song Theme Tune
Louie / int_8ae7eb89	comment	Real Song Theme Tune "Brother Louie" by Stories.
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Louie / int_926425c8	type	Religious Stereotype
Louie / int_926425c8	comment	Religious Stereotype: Subverted. Several Christian characters have appeared on the show that didn't see eye-to-eye with Louie (at all), but were shown to otherwise be decent, friendly people.
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Louie / int_927b2f11	type	The Bus Came Back
Louie / int_927b2f11	comment	The Bus Came Back: Pam is back as of Season 4.
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Louie / int_96fbeaf	type	There Are No Therapists
Louie / int_96fbeaf	comment	There Are No Therapists: Louie has one, sure, but he seems to be impressively useless.
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Louie / int_97994086	type	Language of Love
Louie / int_97994086	comment	Language of Love: In season 4, Louie dates a Hungarian woman who only speaks a few words in English.
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Louie / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
Louie / int_9ae85487	comment	Dr. Jerk: Dr. Ben, who insults Louie for being out of shape and having "the worst penis ever." He's the second biggest jerk in the series, after the first version of Louie's mother. The incredibly sardonic doctor from the third season premiere: Dr. Bigelow in the fourth season, who loudly continues to eat once Louie comes into his office, and then ultimately doesn't help him, telling him to "come see me when you have something fun, like a blood disease." Throughout the season, he gives condescending monologues whenever Louie comes to him for advice.
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Louie / int_9d589fc3	type	Tension-Cutting Laughter
Louie / int_9d589fc3	comment	Tension-Cutting Laughter: In a standoff between Afghani militia and US soldiers, all it took was Louie tripping all over himself to make everyone laugh and defuse the situation entirely.
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Louie / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
Louie / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: For the most part, every episode from the first three seasons can stand on its own, but in "Blueberries", Louie has a rather disturbing sexual encounter with the mother of one of his daughters' classmates (to clarify, she asks him to spank her and breaks down hysterically on the bed). In "Duckling", Louie glimpses her coming out of the class as he's picking up his daughter and she gives him a dirty look. In "Ikea/Piano Lesson", she asks him to come to therapy with her to talk about the incident. In "Pregnant," the first episode of season 2, Louie's neighbors offer to watch his kids while he tends to an emergency with his sister. Midway through season 3, in "Lilly Changes," Louie has the idea to leave his younger daughter with the same neighbors so he can search for his missing older daughter, only to find that they're in the middle of a serious argument and can't help him right then.
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Louie / int_9f88a80a	type	NightmareDreams
Louie / int_9f88a80a	comment	Nightmare Dreams: Louie has a terrible nightmare after the incident described in Scare 'Em Straight.
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Louie / int_a188ac4b	type	Overly Long Gag
Louie / int_a188ac4b	comment	Overly-Long Gag: Louie rocking out to the entirety of The Who's "Who Are You?" in "Country Road".
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Louie / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Louie / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: This show is quite possibly the king of this trope, but dear God, "New Year's Eve" (the Season 3 finale) takes the cake. Louie, depressed at being alone on Christmas Eve in the aftermath of his failure to get the Late Show gig, earns a slight amount of elation when he spots Liz, his love interest from earlier in the season. They recognize each other on the bus and begin to hug, when - SECONDS LATER - blood starts pouring out of her nose. The scene cuts to the hospital, where we see doctors working on her. Liz realizes how serious things are and can only leave Louie with a somewhat confused "Goodbye?" before she faints... and dies. What... the... Hell. And to add to that, immediately after she dies Louie walks out of the hospital room to people counting down to and celebrating the New Year.
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Louie / int_a5e0c01	type	As Himself
Louie / int_a5e0c01	comment	As Himself: Most of the comedians who apppear on the show, including Louie himself, Jerry Seinfeld, Sarah Silverman, and Dane Cook.
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Louie / int_a7382a73	type	Imagine Spot
Louie / int_a7382a73	comment	Imagine Spot: "Come On, God" demonstrates that Louie has really lame masturbation fantasies.
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Louie / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
Louie / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony: The second season finale. Pamela leaves for Paris and makes it extremely clear that Louie shouldn't keep pining for her. Then after she crosses the turnstile, she yells halfway across the airport at Louie to "wave at me!" only for him to mishear it as "wait for me!". Louie goes home in high spirits.
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Louie / int_ac9cac61	type	Scare 'Em Straight
Louie / int_ac9cac61	comment	Scare 'Em Straight: Back in Louie's Catholic school days, when someone laughs during a lecture on the crucifixion, the nun calls in a doctor to provide a painstaking description of injuries involved in the scourging and crucifixion. Louie continues to have nightmares about it into adulthood.
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Louie / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Louie / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Louie himself, though he's often too socially awkward to really make it work. Jack Dall combines this with Cloud Cuckoolander.
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Louie / int_b03634f8	type	Right Through His Pants
Louie / int_b03634f8	comment	Right Through His Pants: Louie always wears a shirt during sex. In a stand-up routine in season 2, episode 2 he claims that it's for the woman's benefit.
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Louie / int_b23a7eee	type	Celebrity Casualty
Louie / int_b23a7eee	comment	Celebrity Casualty: In the episode "Elevator Part 4" a news report appears about Hurricane Jasmine Forsythe, which destroyed Florida, causing the death of LeBron James (and 12 million other people).
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Louie / int_b4f5a440	type	WidgetSeries
Louie / int_b4f5a440	comment	Widget Series: It's definitely a W(H)AT, but in a more casual way than outwardly crazy.
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Louie / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Louie / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: "Oh Louie/Tickets" does this with sitcoms and every cliche that goes with it.
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Louie / int_b5b4f78e	type	The Tag
Louie / int_b5b4f78e	comment	The Tag: Might be Hilarious Outtakes, another standup segment, or a short scene tying up loose ends.
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Louie / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
Louie / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: One of Louie's dates reveals that she already has a kid, something she assumes will scare off Louie. When he says that he's cool with it and he has two daughters himself, the woman says that she "can't take this all right now." What.
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Louie / int_b9c3de84	type	Bumbling Dad
Louie / int_b9c3de84	comment	Bumbling Dad: Louie loves his daughters, and claims to be good at dealing with them, but his interactions with them can evoke this trope from time to time.
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Louie / int_b9d334b2	type	Aerith and Bob
Louie / int_b9d334b2	comment	Aerith and Bob: There is a student in one of Louie's girls' class named Never. Louie's uncle Excelsior, played by F. Murray Abraham.
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Louie / int_ba3454a7	type	Future Me Scares Me
Louie / int_ba3454a7	comment	Future Me Scares Me: The subject of a tag. Present Louie appears to child Louie and shows him that he'll grow up to be fat and ugly ("you're gonna be bald, too"), but when child Louie asks what the hell happened, present Louie simply says, "I dunno, man. You'll see."
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Louie / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
Louie / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: From the season 5 premiere, "Pot Luck," Marina, who hosted the titular potluck, is much more concerned about her surrogate child having a natural birth and is totally unconcerned about the wellbeing of the surrogate mother. After the surrogate's water breaks, Marina is furious with Louie... because her child was born in a different hospital and it may have been covered in Louie's jizz.
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Louie / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Louie / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: Vanessa's monologue in "So Did the Fat Lady" contains the only uncensored use of "fuck" in the show so far, oddly enough.
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Louie / int_bd0d6395	type	No Social Skills
Louie / int_bd0d6395	comment	No Social Skills: Louie is a pretty awkward guy. His difficulty connecting with other people is the main point of "Niece".
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Louie / int_bd8aa92a	type	Negative Continuity
Louie / int_bd8aa92a	comment	Negative Continuity: Continuity in characterization, et cetera is of little concern to Louis C.K., and he's explicitly stated that if he gets bored of some element of the show, he'll change it without any kind of announcement. In the episode "Mom", Louie's mother is a callous, self-centered, and unloving black hole of a person. In "God" she's kind and reasonable. "In the Woods" portrays her as someone who wants to communicate with her son more often, but eventually lashes out when he becomes silent and distant for apparently several months. Episode 12 of the first season, Louie's brother asks him when was the last time he exercised, and Louie responds never. Five episodes earlier, Louie and his brother are shown exercising together at the gym. Louie goes from having a brother in season 1 to having two sisters in season 2 and back to having a brother in season 4. An interview would imply that they don't exist side-by-side and that it was a retcon.invoked
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Louie / int_c06ec675	type	Gang of Bullies
Louie / int_c06ec675	comment	Gang of Bullies: Sean and his friends could qualify as this.
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Louie / int_c289826f	type	Double Standard Rape: Female on Male
Louie / int_c289826f	comment	Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: In the episode "Telling Jokes/Set Up", Louie goes out with a woman named Laurie. After Laurie gives him oral in his car, she expects him to return the favor, but Louie refuses. Laurie eventually smashes his head against the window and threatens to break his fingers. Louie relents, and in the end, they decide to go out again.
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Louie / int_c5ef2d50	type	Cringe Comedy
Louie / int_c5ef2d50	comment	Cringe Comedy: The first three seasons rely extensively on this. The fifth season, which C.K. says will retain the comedy of seasons 1-3, almost certainly will too.
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Louie / int_cc4b45f6	type	Word of God
Louie / int_cc4b45f6	comment	"Poker" fits this description as well. Louis C.K. admitted that the skit was inspired by a discussion he had with gay comedian Rick Crom. invoked
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Louie / int_cdd835ce	type	Dude, Not Funny!
Louie / int_cdd835ce	comment	Dude, Not Funny!: In-universe. Louie is interviewed by a couple of obnoxious Kansas City radio DJ's. Louie tolerates their antics and tries to get into the spirit by making fun of Kansas City. They respond with shocked silence before dropping his call.
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Louie / int_cfdb9e17	type	Cerebus Syndrome
Louie / int_cfdb9e17	comment	Cerebus Syndrome: The show was initially a comedy with drama sprinkled throughout, but the fourth season became significantly more serious, save for Louie's stand-up routines. Word of God is that the fifth season will be a return to form.
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Louie / int_d7fc9fd0	type	Vitriolic Best Buds
Louie / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Vitriolic Best Buds: Louie and Nick DiPaolo (their characters, at least). Louis and Dr. Ben might qualify, as Louis never seems to get particularly upset at the doc, but will call him an ass. There are also cases, as which Louie's friendship with Pamela and Eddie, where there's a lot of bile directed at Louie, and he barely reprises because he values their friendship (and he probably finds it funny).
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Louie / int_d85c505	type	Racist Grandma
Louie / int_d85c505	comment	Racist Great-Great-Aunt: Louie's great-aunt Ellen. It's initially implied to be a simple case of Have a Gay Old Time (she calls Brazil nuts "nigger toes"), but when she hears that Louie and his daughters live in New York...
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Louie / int_da46a2c0	type	Hollywood Atheist
Louie / int_da46a2c0	comment	Hollywood Atheist: Surprisingly averted with (the second version of) Louie's mother, who, despite not having any strong belief in God or Jesus, seems to find it unfair to totally deprive Louie of religion just because she's not a believer and stresses that treating everyone kindly is good enough.
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Louie / int_dbb414ed	type	Hand Wave
Louie / int_dbb414ed	comment	Louie's ex-wife initially appears only once as a white-skinned pair of hands in S02E07 "Oh, Louie." Come Season 3, she is humorously played by black actress Susan Kelechi Watson with zero explanation or handwaving as to how a mixed race couple has completely white children. In the season 4 finale, Pamela asks Louie how his black ex-wife can be the mother of his "almost translucent white girls." Louie provides no answer.
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Louie / int_df9eda66	type	Write Who You Know
Louie / int_df9eda66	comment	Write Who You Know: Louie regularly bases his in-show stand-up material on some incident that occurs in the episode. invoked
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Louie / int_e062bcc4	type	Sink or Swim Mentor
Louie / int_e062bcc4	comment	Sink or Swim Mentor: Jack Dall, in a Jerk with a Heart of Gold sort of way.
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Louie / int_e2a41c3b	type	Literal-Minded
Louie / int_e2a41c3b	comment	Literal-Minded: When Louie tells his therapist that sometimes he sees his mother when he looks at his daughter, the therapist keeps asking in confusion as to whether she's in the house.
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Louie / int_e303d198	type	Whole-Plot Reference
Louie / int_e303d198	comment	Whole-Plot Reference: The "Elevator" Arc in season four is a parallel to one of C.K's favorite movies, Jim Jarmusch's Stranger Than Paradise complete with sharing an actress in Eszter Balint.
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Louie / int_e52a0409	type	Calling the Old Man Out
Louie / int_e52a0409	comment	Calling the Old Bag Out: Louie's mom comes out as a lesbian. Louie is more concerned with his mom's really cruel neglectful behavior in the past, all of which she handwaves. Finally, he lets her have it with both barrels. His dad gets one in a flashback to when Louie was thirteen. With Louie getting into drugs and becoming increasingly distant, his mother calls in his absent father, to help straighten him out. His father forcefully announces that everything is going to change and he's going to treat his parents with respect. Louie tells him in no uncertain terms to shut the hell up and get the fuck out because he's a useless loser who was never around and doesn't get to pretend to be a dad now. Louie's dad does as he's told.
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Louie / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Louie / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: ...pretty much everybody, but (the first version of) Louie's mother is a standout. She's impossible to please and doesn't care about a single person in any capacity but herself. Hell, she invited Louie and his daughters to her house for Christmas once and stood them up to go to Phoenix! It takes a real piece of work for someone telling his own mother that he doesn't love her and to get out of his life forever in public after she comes out as a lesbian to him to not come across as a Kick the Dog moment.
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Louie / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
Louie / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Averted. The name Ellen (and variations such as Ellie) show up frequently as the names of various unrelated female characters.
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Louie / int_eeb86ce6	type	Good Samaritan
Louie / int_eeb86ce6	comment	Good Samaritan: "Brother, do not let your sister die from pain or lose her baby because you are awkward with strangers."
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Louie / int_fb3576b2	type	The Dog Bites Back
Louie / int_fb3576b2	comment	The Dog Bites Back: Depending on whether or not he can, Louie will attempt to get back at the people who've wronged him. It can be petty at times.
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Louie / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
Louie / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: Christians Against Masturbation leader Ellen Farber, when Louie rants at her about how she doesn't have the right to tell him that masturbation is wrong:
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Louie / int_fc151e9d	type	Department of Redundancy Department
Louie / int_fc151e9d	comment	Department of Redundancy Department: From a news segment in season 4:
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Louie / int_fd4f8299	type	Well-Intentioned Extremist
Louie / int_fd4f8299	comment	Well-Intentioned Extremist: Osama is shown to think he is one during Louie's laughing gas hallucination in episode 10. Louie calls it bullshit.
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Louie / int_fd5f23a7	type	Skyward Scream
Louie / int_fd5f23a7	comment	Skyward Scream: Louie when he realizes that he just passed up a chance for sex with Pamela.
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