Louie: Elevator: Part 6

June 2, 2014 8:04 PM - Season 4, Episode 9

As a stand-up comic and single father living and working in New York, Louie is used to managing his everyday existence, but he is in for a surprising change when Mother Nature suddenly takes control of the humorist's life.
posted by ob1quixote (12 comments total)

The nebbish lock and load montage was hilarious, but the ending, y'all. I was wiping away tears and laughing at the same time.
posted by ob1quixote at 8:22 PM on June 2, 2014 [1 favorite]

I am increasingly convinced (by my spouse) that some portion of this season is going to be explicitly revealed as Louie's (or possibly Jane's) dream.
posted by Etrigan at 6:43 AM on June 3, 2014

I love that the massively absurd newscast sprinkled throughout is just about the only thing keeping the Elevator cycle from falling over into pure melodrama.
posted by Sys Rq at 8:09 AM on June 3, 2014 [3 favorites]

"Everyone in this area is now dead. Everyone in this area will be dead in a few hours."
posted by Etrigan at 8:14 AM on June 3, 2014 [1 favorite]

"Daddy! I thought we're gonna die but we didn't."

And I loved the waiter at the end. The poor guy.
posted by bigendian at 8:33 AM on June 3, 2014 [1 favorite]

I am increasingly convinced (by my spouse) that some portion of this season is going to be explicitly revealed as Louie's (or possibly Jane's) dream.

I'd guess it's more likely that all the over-the-top newscaster stuff was really about lampshading the we-have-to-establish-a-hurricane-coming-and-here's-how-we're-going-to-do-it for this episode's storm climax. A lot of it did sound like what a child might glean from half-listening to the news, but there's just too much in all of these episodes that simply couldn't be imagined by the children.
posted by nobody at 1:25 PM on June 3, 2014

The rescue scene was great.

Louie has a history of ridiculous newscasters.

AV Club pointed out that our buddy Ramon and his family in Miami is now dead. :(

"I wouldn't trade it... Except for a situation where I could understand you and we could live in the same place..." Aww.
posted by bleep at 5:13 PM on June 3, 2014

I am increasingly convinced (by my spouse) that some portion of this season is going to be explicitly revealed as Louie's (or possibly Jane's) dream.
He explicitly told us it's not a dream.
posted by bleep at 5:14 PM on June 3, 2014

In text or in the real world?

I mean, he's definitely gone magical-realist on us before, but this is a whole new level of commitment and sustain.
posted by Etrigan at 5:33 PM on June 3, 2014

When he shook Jane's shoulders a few episodes ago and was like "This isn't a dream! This is real life! People get hurt!" I have dreams where I declare I'm not dreaming, so you know, it could mean anything bit it did seem pretty clear. It seemed like it was a callback/closure to the garbage man scene and the dreamy/nightmarish feel to everything that happened since then.
posted by bleep at 5:49 PM on June 3, 2014

Slate video with all of Amia's lines translated.

Mostly predictable, but "I'm not even Catholic!" is pretty hilarious.
posted by naoko at 7:38 AM on June 5, 2014

Louie & Amia are great but the true measure of greatness in misunderstood cross-language romance will always be Jeff Murdoch & Shadayim in The Girl with Two Breasts.
posted by scalefree at 9:54 PM on June 6, 2014