List of Louie episodes

Louie premiered on FX on June 29, 2010.

Contents

Series overview

Season Episodes Originally aired DVD release date
Season premiere Season finale Region 1 Region 2 Region 4
1 13 June 29, 2010 (2010-06-29) September 7, 2010 (2010-09-07) June 21, 2011 (2011-06-21) N/A July 13, 2011 (2011-07-13)
2 13 June 23, 2011 (2011-06-23) September 8, 2011 (2011-09-08) N/A N/A N/A
3 13[1] N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

Episodes

Season 1 (2010)

№ # Title Directed by Written by Original air date Production
code		 U.S. Viewers
(millions)
1 1 "Pilot" Louis C.K. Louis C.K. June 29, 2010 (2010-06-29) XCK01001 1.11[2]
In the first segment, Louie volunteers to chaperone his daughter's field trip along with her teacher (Ashlie Atkinson), which a surly bus driver helps turn into a disaster. In the second segment, Louie goes on an awkward and unsuccessful first date (Chelsea Peretti). 
2 2 "Poker/Divorce" Louis C.K. Louis C.K. June 29, 2010 (2010-06-29) XCK01004 1.11[2]
In the first segment, the conversation during a poker game becomes an intense exploration of gay culture. In the second segment, after Louie's brother (Robert Kelly) depresses him about the finality of his divorce, Louie reminisces about a high school crush (played by Nicole Ehinger), subsequently looking her up on Facebook. 
3 3 "Dr. Ben/Nick" Louis C.K. Louis C.K. July 6, 2010 (2010-07-06) XCK01002 0.72[2]
In the first segment, Louie goes to a doctor (Ricky Gervais) who's an old high school friend with an odd and disturbing sense of humor. In the second segment, after performing at the Comedy Cellar, he dines with a fellow comedian who harbors passionate political views (Nick DiPaolo). 
4 4 "So Old/Playdate" Louis C.K. Louis C.K. July 13, 2010 (2010-07-13) XCK01003 0.63[2]
In the first segment, Louie hooks up with a young woman at the Comedy Cellar (Elizabeth Hower) who's attracted to older guys. In the second segment, he bonds with a woman he meets at a PTA meeting (Pamela Adlon) while their kids are on a play date. Throughout the episode, Louie has odd interactions with his therapist (David Patrick Kelly). 
5 5 "Travel Day/South" Louis C.K. Louis C.K. July 20, 2010 (2010-07-20) XCK01007
Louie endures a number of typical airline problems traveling to Birmingham for a gig. After the show, he meets an intense fan (Liz Morton) and her intimidating brother (Ben Jeffrey) at a local diner, and a sheriff (Dan Ziskie) who just wants a little appreciation. 
6 6 "Heckler/Cop Movie" Louis C.K. Louis C.K. July 27, 2010 (2010-07-27) XCK01006
In the first segment, Louie deals with a heckler during his gig at the Comedy Cellar by making rape jokes about her. In the second segment, Louie is guilted into accepting a role as a cop in a movie directed by Matthew Broderick, but finds acting difficult. 
7 7 "Double Date/Mom" Louis C.K. Louis C.K. August 3, 2010 (2010-08-03) XCK01008
In the first segment, Louie deals with the awkward situation created when he's propositioned by his brother (Robert Kelly) to join in a three-way. In the second segment, Louie's unpleasant and stupid mother (Mary Louise Wilson) visits to report that she's now a lesbian, but is met with unloving indifference from Louie and injured resentment from Robby. 
8 8 "Dogpound" Louis C.K. Louis C.K. August 10, 2010 (2010-08-10) XCK01009
After leaving his girls with their mother for a week, Louie tries to cope with their absence. He initially plans on exercising, but ends up eating ice cream and pizza for two days. Later, he's pressured into smoking pot with his obnoxious neighbor (Josh Hamilton) and decides to adopt an adult dog, which promptly dies. After Animal Control picks up the dog to dispose of it, Louie's girls return and he tells them he had a good weekend. 
9 9 "Bully" Louis C.K. Louis C.K. August 17, 2010 (2010-08-17) XCK01005
Flashbacks depict Louis learning about sex as a boy from his father and in school. On a date, he is emasculated by a high school student who threatens to beat him up. He secretly follows the bully home to Staten Island and confronts his parents. 
10 10 "Dentist/Tarese" Louis C.K. Louis C.K. August 24, 2010 (2010-08-24) XCK01010
During a stand up routine, Louie discusses topics such as child abuse and abduction. In the first segment, he visits new dentist (Stephen Root) who's afraid of dentists himself, specializes in calming patients fears and sexually assaults Louie while he is sedated. In a second segment, he attempts to court a black woman named Tarese who works at the local grocery store. 
11 11 "God" Louis C.K. Louis C.K. August 31, 2010 (2010-08-31) XCK01011
When a nun at his Catholic school feels a young Louie (Sawyer Swanson) and his friend aren't sufficiently penitent over Christ's suffering on the cross, a visiting doctor (Tom Noonan) is brought in to give a graphic, medically specific description of the event, which haunts and frightens Louie. But Louie's mother turns up in a new incarnation as a wise and loving parent who tells Louie that relying on dogma isn't the best way to be a good person. 
12 12 "Gym" Louis C.K. Louis C.K. September 7, 2010 (2010-09-07) XCK01012
After an exhausting morning getting his girls ready for school, Louie lets a fellow dad at his daughter's school (Bobby Cannavale) train him at the gym, where he proves to be in worse shape than he thought. 
13 13 "Night Out" Louis C.K. Louis C.K. September 7, 2010 (2010-09-07) XCK01013
On an aimless night out that his babysitter awkwardly talks him out of cancelling, Louie decides to break his rut by hanging out with a couple of black comics (Ardie Fuqua, Godfrey). After feeling completely out of place at a club, he ends up going to the Eastville Comedy Club to do a short set, then home to his kids for an early-morning pancake breakfast. 

Season 2 (2011)

№ # Title Directed by Written by Original air date Production
code		 U.S. Viewers
(millions)
14 1 "Pregnant" Louis C.K. Louis C.K. June 23, 2011 (2011-06-23) XCK2005 1.57[3]
Louie's pregnant sister (Rusty Schwimmer) visits, and she needs to be taken to the hospital during the night as she is in pain. Upon hearing his sister screaming, Louie's two gay neighbors arrive. After some indecision, one of them looks after the kids while Louie and the other neighbor (Yul Vazquez) bring his sister to the hospital. Though it turns out to be a false alarm, Louie finds a bond with the people who live around him. 
15 2 "Bummer/Blueberries" Louis C.K. Teleplay: Louis C.K.
Story: Louis C.K. & Pamela Adlon		 June 30, 2011 (2011-06-30) XCK2006 1.28[4]
In the first part of the episode, Louie awkwardly scores a "non-date" with a young woman (Kelly McCrann) who has no real interest in him, but a shocking and violent encounter on his way to meet her for a movie leads to a darker, more introspective Louie that appeals to her—until he tells her the specifics of that encounter. In the second part, Louie is approached by his daughter's classmate's mom (Maria Dizzia) to have an emotionless sexual encounter; he agrees to do it, and comes to regret that decision every step of the way. 
16 3 "Moving" Louis C.K. Louis C.K. July 7, 2011 (2011-07-07) XCK2001 0.95[5]
After a comment by his daughter, Louie has misgivings about continuing to stay in the apartment they lived in when he was married and begins house hunting. After seeing several disastrous apartments, he finds the ideal place. Despite his accountant's assurances and his own awareness that it is very much out of his price range, Louie remains committed to the idea of buying it. In the end, he repaints his old apartment with his daughters by his side. 
17 4 "Joan" Louis C.K. Louis C.K. July 14, 2011 (2011-07-14) XCK2002 1.18[6]
After a disappointing experience trying to do a set at a casino lounge, Louie cancels his contract and wanders the casino floor. He ends up watching a section of Joan Rivers's set in the casino's theater, and goes backstage to meet her. She invites him to hang out in her suite, where she proceeds to explain how he should be grateful for his opportunities. As a result, they have sexual intercourse and Louie goes and gets his job back. 
18 5 "Country Drive" Louis C.K. Louis C.K. July 21, 2011 (2011-07-21) XCK2007 0.87[7]
Louie and his daughters take a long drive to visit Louie's great aunt Ellen (Eunice Anderson) out in rural Pennsylvania, where Louie mostly ignores his younger daughters' complaints of boredom and has a blast rocking out to "Who Are You?". There, they find her actions and vocabulary weird, specifically her use of the word nigger, referring to Brazil nuts as niggertoes. Louie decides he wants his daughters to talk to Ellen without any censoring, but the point becomes moot when she collapses and dies in her kitchen. Louie then does a stand-up bit about Tom Sawyer being a good kid and Huckleberry Finn a bigoted little jerk. 
19 6 "Subway/Pamela" Louis C.K. Louis C.K. July 28, 2011 (2011-07-28) XCK2008 1.02[8]
Louie starts his evening with a surreal trip on the NYC subway, where he witnesses a busker playing beautiful violin music while a filthy homeless man scrubs himself down with bottled water nearby, has a black-and-white vision of himself saving the riders from a soda-soaked seat, and then heads into the opening credits. Later, he meets his friend Pamela for lunch, and he ends up passionately telling her how he feels about her. And she doesn't respond at first, leaving him to misread a later invitation of hers, and the revelation ends with Louie standing outside her building and screaming in pain and anger. 
20 7 "Oh Louie/Tickets" Louis C.K. Louis C.K. August 4, 2011 (2011-08-04) XCK2009 0.93[9]
The episode begins in a flashback with Louie filming the pilot for a sitcom. After complaining about the unrealistic dialogue and use of Bob Saget as the next door neighbor, Louie is shown arriving home to an unseen and presumably upset wife and their newborn baby Lilly. The episode then jumps to Lilly's tenth birthday. Louie sets out to obtain Lady GaGa concert tickets as a birthday present for his daughter, but doing so means he has to approach Dane Cook, a very successful comedian who is upset by accusations he has stolen material from Louie. 
21 8 "Come On, God" Louis C.K. Louis C.K. August 11, 2011 (2011-08-11) XCK2003 0.73[10]
The spokeswoman for a group called Christians Against Masturbation, Ellen Farber (Liz Holtan), and Louie have a debate about the morality of masturbation on a the FOX News program, Red Eye w/Greg Gutfeld. Louie is the only person they could find willing to openly defend masturbation. After the show Louie goes home and masturbates while imagining a woman he had just seen on the elevator (Angela Gould). Then, at Ellen's request, he attends a CAM meeting, and goes out for drinks with her after. She invites his up to her suite, but Louie is denied when he tries to go in for a kiss. Ellen gives a long passionate speech about how nice it would be to talk, date a long time before a kiss (but not "making out"), then finally getting to see her in her underwear on their wedding night. Then he goes home and tries to masturbate, but loses some ardor when he hears a radio report about genocide in Somalia. 
22 9 "Eddie" Louis C.K. Louis C.K. August 11, 2011 (2011-08-11) XCK2010 0.64[10]
After a set, Louie is greeted by Eddie Mack (Doug Stanhope), a fellow comedian who started his career the same time as Louie but has never found much success and lives in his broken-down car. He and Eddie catch up after not seeing each other for 20 years by going to the liquor store and then an open mic where Eddie does a very funny routine under the stage name "Shitty Fat Tits" before Eddie confesses his plans to end his own life, leaving Louie to ponder how (or if) to dissuade him. 
23 10 "Halloween/Ellie" Louis C.K. Louis C.K. August 18, 2011 (2011-08-18) XCK2004 0.73[11]
Louie and his daughters go trick-or-treating in New York City. As darkness falls, they are confronted by a pair of costumed punks. Louie's younger daughter Jane confronts the two men and helps scare them away. In the second part of this episode, Louie sits in on a brainstorming session for an upcoming cop movie. Louie's ideas for the script get the attention of a high-powered movie producer named Ellie (Veanne Cox). Louie is promptly invited to lunch to discuss movie ideas, but ultimately his ideas prove too dark for Hollywood. 
24 11 "Duckling*" Louis C.K. Louis C.K. August 25, 2011 (2011-08-25) XCK2012 0.81[12]

Louie unwillingly takes home Jane's class ducklings for the evening. The next morning he embarks on a 5-day USO tour in the Middle East, when unbeknownst to him, Lily had hidden one of the ducklings in his suitcase to keep him safe. Louie meets other entertainers (including country western singer Keni Thomas) as well as many various soldiers during his time overseas. The duckling ends up bringing Louie and others good luck in ridiculous and heartwarming fashion. *An hour-long episode.

This episode is dedicated to Restrepo director Tim Hetherington. It is the first hour long episode of Louie, and it was noted that the idea of this episode came from Louis C.K.'s 6-year-old daughter, Mary Louise. 
25 12 "Niece" Louis C.K. Louis C.K. September 1, 2011 (2011-09-01) XCK2011 0.98[13]
Louie waits at Grand Central Station to pick up his sister and niece for a visit. However, his sister surprises him by dumping the niece—Amy—on him and running off to catch a train to Philadelphia. Louie and Amy spend the night in New York together, visiting an indie rock club at her request, after which she asks to see Louie perform. After seeing her enamored with Godfrey's set, Louie attempts, unsuccessfully, to impress his niece by doing crowd work. After the set, Louie is surprised to see Godfrey spark up a lively conversation with the usually sullen teen. When they arrive back at the apartment, Louie receives a call from a Philadelphia hospital informing him that Amy's mother was found "acting irrationally" in a public fountain and that she is being held under observation. With Amy's father out of the picture, Louie volunteers to keep Amy until his sister is released. 
26 13 "New Jersey/Airport" Louis C.K. Louis C.K. September 8, 2011 (2011-09-08) XCK2013 0.57[14]

After a show at Caroline's, Steven Wright pressures Louie to find a female fan to go home with. He meets a woman outside who offers to "show him her pussy" and Louie gets into the car, unsure of his destination. She drives him to her home in New Jersey, where Louie discovers she is married and was hoping to "share" Louie with her husband. Louie is visibly uncomfortable and the husband, offended, throws Louie out. He calls his friend Chris Rock to pick him up, which he grudgingly does, and the two have a talk about Louie's lack of responsibility while Rock's wife ceaselessly insults Louie (off-camera).

In the second story, Louie takes Pamela to the airport. Pamela is going to Paris, where her ex-husband has been staying with her son. She reveals that she intends to stay indefinitely, and begs Louie to move on and stop holding out hope that they could be together. Louie watches her as she walks off toward her terminal. When she is about to step out of view, she turns, waves, and shouts "Wave to me!" which Louie mishears as "Wait for me." The comedian shouts back, "I will wait for you!" and exits the airport with a smile. 

Season 3

It was announced on August 6, 2011 that Louie was renewed for a third season of 13 episodes.[1]

References

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