The WORST episodes of Louie (2010)

#1 - Dad

Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 8/16/2012

Louie deals with a rash.

#2 - Pilot

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 6/29/2010

In the first segment, Louie volunteers to chaperon his daughter's field trip along with her teacher, which a surly bus driver helps turn into a disaster. In the second segment, Louie goes on an awkward and unsuccessful first date.

#3 - Niece

Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 9/1/2011

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.

#4 - God

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 8/31/2010

When a nun at his Catholic school feels a young Louie and his friend aren't sufficiently penitent over Christ's suffering on the cross, a visiting doctor 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.

#5 - Elevator (5)

Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/26/2014

Louie and Amia connect.

#6 - The Road (1)

Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/21/2015

Louie goes on the road.

#7 - Bobby's House

Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/30/2015

Bobby invites Louie over.

#8 - Elevator (4)

Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/26/2014

Louie and Janet seek professional help.

#9 - Double Date / Mom

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 8/3/2010

In the first segment, Louie deals with the awkward situation created when he's propositioned by his brother to join in a three-way. In the second segment, Louie's unpleasant and stupid mother visits to report that she's now a lesbian, but is met with unloving indifference from Louie and injured resentment from Robby.

#10 - The Road (2)

Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/28/2015

Louie continues his work on the road.

#11 - Elevator (3)

Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/19/2014

Someone from Louie's past pops up again.

#12 - Untitled

Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/7/2015

Jane visits the doctor.

#13 - Moving

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/7/2011

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.

#14 - Elevator (1)

Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/12/2014

Louie helps a neighbor.

#15 - Elevator (2)

Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/19/2014

Louie takes his new friend to lunch.

#16 - Dentist / Tarese

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 8/24/2010

During a stand up routine, Louie discusses serious topics such as child abuse and abduction. In the first segment, Louie goes to a new dentist who's afraid of dentists himself and specializes in calming patients fears. Louie is anesthetized and provided with middle eastern music. While under, he dreams about speaking with Osama Bin Laden and a group of terrorists. The group discuss ethics and the 9/11 attacks. Louie then dreams that the dentist is putting a banana in his mouth. When he wakes up he finds the dentist frantically zipping his pants, implying that Louie was orally raped. While performing stand up, Louie discusses the intricacies of male sexuality. In a second segment, he attempts to court a black woman named Tarese who works at the local grocery store. After buying groceries, Louie buys the woman flowers (from the same store), checks out at her register, and then gives the flowers to her. Tarese calls the manager to complain and the manager reimburses Louie for the flowers. Louie is waiting for the woman when she gets off of work, and walks home with her. Although Tarese is openly not interested, Louie walks with her to her apartment, where he is turned down. He then meets her sister as she is leaving the apartment complex. The next scene shows the two performing coitus. In a closing stand up segment, Louie professes his love for Jewish women.

#17 - Gym

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 9/7/2010

After an exhausting morning getting his girls ready for school, Louie lets a fellow dad at his daughter's school train him at the gym, where he proves to be in worse shape than he thought.

#18 - Heckler / Cop Movie

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 7/27/2010

In the first segment, Louie deals with a heckler during his gig at the Comedy Cellar. 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.

#19 - Cop Story

Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/23/2015

Louie runs into an old acquaintance.

#20 - Pamela (1)

Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 6/2/2014

Louie on the rebound.

#21 - Dr. Ben / Nick

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/6/2010

In the first segment, Louie goes to a doctor who's an old high school friend with an odd sense of humor. In the second segment, after performing at the Comedy Cellar, he dines with a fellow comedian who harbors passionate political views.

#22 - In the Woods (1)

Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 6/9/2014

#23 - Dogpound

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 8/10/2010

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 and decides to get 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.

#24 - A La Carte

Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/16/2015

Louie hosts an open mic.

#25 - Eddie

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 8/11/2011

After a set, Louie is greeted by Eddie Mack, 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.