SEASON 1 – HBO
Theme music composed by Mark Rivers
- 001. Pilot – 6/11/206
- Louie (Louis C.K.) makes very little money working in a muffler shop, and his wife Kim (Pamela Adlon) is the major breadwinner, working as a nurse. They have a four-year old daughter named Lucy (Kelly Gould) who has just had a birthday, during which she got two Barbie dolls, one white and one black. Kim throws them both away, which offends their black neighbors Walter (Jerry Minor) and Ellen (Kim Hawthorne). Louis tries to make it right by inviting them for dinner, but he forgets about it and they show up and see the remnants of a finished dinner on the table. Louis admits that he just wants to be friends with them so Lucy will know about black people, and Water agrees to be friendly for her sake. Louie is also caught masturbating in the closet, and Kim agrees to have sex with him every day for a week. Walter’s friends Mike (Michael G. Hagerty) and Rich (Jim Norton) convince him that Kim only wants to have another baby – which turns out to be true. Her efforts to seduce him go in vain, as Louie thinks they are too broke to have another child. In the end, Louie decides that he won’t let bill collectors determine the course of his life, so he agrees to try for the baby. Laura Kightlinger plays Tina, Mike’s wife and also Kim’s friend. Rick Shapiro plays Jerry. 1/9/14
- 002. Kim’s O – 6/18/2006
- Louie and Kim hear orgasmic moaning coming out of Walter and Ellen’s apartment all week long, but when he asks Walter how he is doing it, Walter says that he has been out of town. Walter confronts Kim and it turns out that she has been using a vibrator. Meanwhile, Louie is determined to give Kim a similar orgasm, and amazingly he succeeds – but when she insists on him doing it again, he can’t re-create his performance. Consequently, she won’t let him finish. Louie realizes that he was able to please Kim when he felt aggressive toward her, and she in turn could climax when she pretends that Louie doesn’t exist. In the end, Kim realizes she hasn’t gotten pregnant, and tells Louie to stop worrying about making her climax. 1/9/14
- 003. A Mugging Story – 6/25/2006
- Kim is mugged and manages to get Jason (Brandon Smith) the thief’s wallet before he gets away with her purse that contains some makeup and $3. She calls him and talks to his grandmother (Lyne Odums), and she invites them over to get her purse back. She then realizes that Jason still has her keys and threatens to come to her house for revenge. Kim wants to stay and guard the apartment, which now has no front door thanks to a botched attempt to switch the lock, but Louie insists that he’ll stay. His friends Mike, Rich, and Walter all join him but leave once Louie farts and Walter sprays the pepper spray. Louie falls asleep and while he is out, the kids graffiti Louie and the apartment. Louie gives Kim a lesson on letting things go when her life is on the line. 1/21/14
- 004. Long Weekend – 7/2/2006
- Kim is upset that she and Louie can’t host their traditional Fourth of July party because they have no money. They’re debit card payment won’t go through at the grocery store and Louie claims it’s because he has paid the rent. In actuality he spent $300 on a Frankenstein doll on the internet. He is about to come clean with Kim, when Walter offers to loan him $200 for the party, which he accepts and then claims he earned cutting grass. Kim then finds out he hasn’t paid the rent and that Walter loaned him the money. After a litany of cussing, she forgives him and says that she understands how sometimes you need a special thing to get you through life. Their friends end up bringing food over to their house so they can host the party after all. 1/21/14
- 005. Control – 7/9/2006
- Mike has a mild heart attack while he and Louie are roughhousing. This causes Kim to panic about Louie’s eating habits and put him on a strict diet, along with a workout regimen in the park with Jerry. When Louie finds out that Tina hasn’t changed Mike’s diet at all, he rebels and loads up at the bakery. Kim catches him eating a cake in the bathroom and agrees that he can eat whatever he wants as long as he does it in front of her. Louie brings home a bagful of McDonald’s food and scarfs it down, causing Kim to have a panic attack and wind up in the hospital. Louie pledges to try to eat better and not let Kim know about the junk that he eats. Mike is wheeled by their room fully conscious, presumably with another mild heart attack. 2/17/14
- 006. Flowers for Kim – 7/16/2006
- With Lucy spending the weekend with a friend, Louie is excited to have a free weekend to spend with Kim and have uninterrupted sex. He brings Kim red roses, but she is very unenthusiastic and reminds him that she once told him that she hates red roses and asked that he never buy them for her again. Distraught at her reaction, he provokes a fight and ends up calling her a ‘cunt.’ She gives him the silent treatment for virtually the entire weekend, with most of his friends – except for Rich – taking Kim’s side. Just before Lucy comes home, Kim talks to him and accepts his apology and lets him into the bedroom, assuming he will do a striptease to one of Lucy’s dirty rap songs. Meanwhile, Kim’s brother Rick doesn’t know what to do with himself while visiting with Kim and Louie is off-limits for the weekend. 2/17/14
- 007. Discipline – 7/23/2006
- Lucy’s behavior is out of control, talking back to both parents and even insulting Rich. Mike tells Louie that hitting her is the answer, Walter uses the ‘time-out’ philosophy, and Kim just wants to be nicer to Lucy and bakes her a special cake – which Lucy refers to as ‘poop.’ Louie decides to put Lucy in time-out in the closet and asks Kim to leave while he disciplines her. She ends up not wanting to come out of the closet and then locks Louie out of the apartment. Louie and Lucy reconcile, and Louie tells Kim he’s had a real breakthrough, just before Lucy dumps her meatloaf onto the floor. Rich comes over to tell Lucy that she has hurt his feelings, and she apologizes to him, much to the dismay of Louie and Kim. Blesst Bowden plays Walter and Ellen’s daughter Lisa. 4/7/14
- 008. Get Out – 7/30/2006
- Tina’s rebellious teenage daughter Shannon (Emma Stone) moves out of their house and in with her older boyfriend Carl (Robert Eaton). Kim is worried, but Tina and Mike both know she’ll be back. Sure enough, Carl kicks her out and she shows up at Louie and Kim’s house. Kim tries to show her compassion and give her a place to stay, but she ends up hitting on Louie and then having friends over when she is supposed to be babysitting Lucy. Kim drags her back home to her parents and attempts to give her a warning about how her life was nearly ruined by hooking up with older men who just dragged her down. Kim reflects how good of a guy Louie is and does him a favor by putting on her high school bowler hat before having sex with him. Robert Brewer is the clerk. Dave Allen is Professor Bill. 4/9/14
- 009. Drinking – 8/6/2006
- Louie makes a bad decision and goes to a tailgate party and women’s basketball game with Mike and Rich, leaving Kim home to deal with a sick Lucy. Driving home, he and Mike get arrested for drunk driving while attempting to swap seats in the car. Kim refuses to bail him out, and Louie is forced to pay a $1000 fine and attend an A.A. meeting. While at the meeting Louie realizes that he is merely a non-alcoholic asshole, since his bad decisions are made when he is sober. Louie pleads with Kim to make his decision for him, but she insists that he make his own grown-up decision. Jim Turner plays Jeff, the leader of the A.A. group. 7/10/14
- 010. Confession – 8/13/2006
- While babysitting Lucy, Louie passes her off to Ellen who takes her to church. Although initially frightened of Jesus, Lucy insists that her parents take her back on Sunday. Louie and Kim don’t want to be there and count on Lucy becoming bored. Louie slips out to eat a snack and winds up in a confessional. He lets loose with his confessions and then feels great when he is absolved by the priest. He returns to confess that he felt like punching Kim in the face when she criticizes his crunchy pancakes. He keeps going back to complain about Kim, but she catches him and crashes his confession. The priest (Wayne Wilderson) advises them to go home and ‘confess’ to each other…which naturally leads to hard feelings, then peace with one another. 7/10/14
- 011. Louie Quits – 8/20/2006
- Kim asks Tina to get Mike to give Louie a raise at the muffler shop, which he does, but Louie is disturbed that he didn’t get the raise because he deserved it. Furthermore, Louie finds out that he initially got the job because Kim asked Tina to get it for him as well. Louie gets upset and quits. Kim tries to be understanding and encourages Louie to follow his dream of being a pilot. Rich helps him study, but the two end up just getting stoned. Louie realizes that his aptitude lies more with mufflers, so he takes a job at Muffler City as an assistant manager. He despises that too, so he decides to go back to Mike…asking Kim to ask Tina to get his job back. Jerry also decides on making life changes and gets hired for a job. Rich says that he is marrying his mom’s friend so that he can get the Medicaid to visit the dentist. 9/4/2014
- 012. Kim Moves Out – 8/27/2006
- Kim begins raging at Louie for every little thing he does, which Louie can’t understand. Attempts to correct the things that she hates about him do not work and she realizes that she simply hates everything about him. They decide to separate for the weekend, so Kim stays in Jerry’s apartment while Jerry moves in with Louis. The problem is they realize they are enjoying it too much. When they meet to talk about it, Louie says that sometimes he hates Kim too, and they both realize that they’ve always hated each other. But the figure that if they can survive the non-stop hate, their marriage will endure. Meanwhile Walter and Ellen squabble over whether Walter is permitted to do his Bill Cosby impersonation. 9/4/14
- 013. Clown Time Is Over – UNAIRED 2006
- When a clown fails to show up at Lucy’s birthday party, Kim forces Louie to assume the part, which he does wearing a mop on his head and balloons and a pizza box taped on his chest. The kids like him and he becomes known as “Mr. Pizza Box Man.” This leads to a further job at another kid’s party where he earns $100 that he can put toward Lucy’s ballet classes. It also leads to extra favors from Kim in the bedroom. Louie continues the job until he ends up at a teen youth center and gets humiliated by the kids. He winds up in a fight with two strangers on the street who laugh at him. Meanwhile, Kim is told by Ellen that the mothers in the ballet class don’t appreciate her foul mouth. She tries to act more refined at the kids’ first dance recital, but when neither Lucy nor Lisa do anything more in the dance than imitate rocks, both mothers demand their money back. Kim has to resort to her foul mouth again, and she and Ellen get in a fist fight with the teacher Mimi (Susan Priver). Kim and Louie both show at home with fight injuries…but Kim has retrieved the money. 10/5/14
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