GENIUS
I am so in love with Lucky Louie right now. I just watched the pilot on Tivo. The first scene is the father, Louie, eating cereal with his four-year-old daughter, Lucy. I actually took the time to transcribe this dialogue AND record it directly from the TV because since Jack took Jackson camping for the night I suddenly have enormous amounts of time to waste in an extravagant manner such as this.
Lucy: Papa, can we play outside?
Louie: No.
Lucy: Why?
Louie: Because it's five o'clock in the morning, it's too early.
Lucy: Why?
Louie: The sun hasn't come up yet.
Lucy: Why?
Louie: Because the sun comes up later.
Lucy: Why?
Louie: Well, the earth goes around and when it turns a certain amount the sun shows on the horizon.
Lucy: Why?
Louie: I don't know.
Lucy: Why? Why don't you know, Papa?
Louie: Because I didn't pay attention in school, okay? I didn't listen in class.
Lucy: Why?
Louie: Because I was high all the time. I smoked too much pot.
Lucy: Why?
Louie: I didn't think it would matter.
Lucy: Why?
Louie: I just figured my life would come together on its own. And then I met your mom, and then you came along, so now I work at the muffler shop.
Lucy: Why?
Louie: Well, it's too late for me to pursue a career now, and since your mom has a job with benefits I stay home and take care of you because what I make is pretty much just a joke.
Lucy: Why?
Louie: Well, the service economy replaced manufacturing, there's no real jobs in America anymore.
Lucy: Why?
Louie: We had good jobs for awhile because we were lucky, and now we're unlucky.
Lucy: Why?
Louie: It's just the way it goes.
Lucy: Why?
Louie: Because God is dead and we're alone.
Lucy: Okay.
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Lucy: Papa, can we play outside?
Louie: No.
Lucy: Why?
Louie: Because it's five o'clock in the morning, it's too early.
Lucy: Why?
Louie: The sun hasn't come up yet.
Lucy: Why?
Louie: Because the sun comes up later.
Lucy: Why?
Louie: Well, the earth goes around and when it turns a certain amount the sun shows on the horizon.
Lucy: Why?
Louie: I don't know.
Lucy: Why? Why don't you know, Papa?
Louie: Because I didn't pay attention in school, okay? I didn't listen in class.
Lucy: Why?
Louie: Because I was high all the time. I smoked too much pot.
Lucy: Why?
Louie: I didn't think it would matter.
Lucy: Why?
Louie: I just figured my life would come together on its own. And then I met your mom, and then you came along, so now I work at the muffler shop.
Lucy: Why?
Louie: Well, it's too late for me to pursue a career now, and since your mom has a job with benefits I stay home and take care of you because what I make is pretty much just a joke.
Lucy: Why?
Louie: Well, the service economy replaced manufacturing, there's no real jobs in America anymore.
Lucy: Why?
Louie: We had good jobs for awhile because we were lucky, and now we're unlucky.
Lucy: Why?
Louie: It's just the way it goes.
Lucy: Why?
Louie: Because God is dead and we're alone.
Lucy: Okay.
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26 Comments:
I have been addicted to this show since it came out. My husband, as much as he loves the show, can't get over the fact that every time they do they nudity warning before the episode stars, it preludes man parts.
I actually hated that scene. :) Louie's responses were gold, but I wanted to strangle Lucy after the third "why?" /sigh/ Any wonder I sometimes doubt whether it was a good idea for me to become a parent?
Was the hide and seek scene in that episode? It is funny to see a kid role thats so annoying for once.
Oh, how can you get a kid to act? It's impossible, what I liked here was the idea of a kid saying why why why and being kind of an honest smartass in response.
Children shouldn't be given speaking roles until they're twenty-two. (I'm looking at you, Keira Knightly.)
THANK YOU! I just laughed out loud and scared our dog who was sleeping soundly on the back of the couch and is now barking in the living room and the barking is echoing off the laminate floors which is raising the roof off the house, and I hear a bear groaning in the bedroom... but man, it was worth it!
It was funnier reading the transcript than listening to it. Why?
Lucky Louie BRINGS IT each and every week, I feel. Brings it increasingly! My mouth falls open many times an episode. Lucky Louie is money.
The chick who plays Louie's wife is sexy as hell on the show. Wife and I love it. The sex scenes are fucking hilarious.
Also, she does the voice for Bobby on King of the Hill. She rocks!
Thanks a bunch, now i'll need to spend even more of my not-so-precious time watching a TV show.
Thanks for taking the time to transcribe, that was the best.
Crap. I need to order HBO.
I finally watched it for the first time last night when Louie brought his wife red roses after she clearly stated the last time that she hated red roses and not to get them. It was that whole, "Well, you still should have thanked me THEN said not to get me those" vs. "Why should I thank you for something I've asked you not to get me?" It made me uncomfortable in its real-ness but damn, if I could change the channel.
i don't have HBO but NOW i want to have HBO because this reminds me that i do not have HBO and shouldn't everyone have HBO? shouldn't they?
Wait'll you see the latest episodes. Comic genius.
My fingers are crossed that this is on HBO On Demand cause the summer programming is totally bringing me down.
I've never seen the show, but I've had that conversation approximately 1000 times over the last eight years. The beginning and middle are always different, but the last two lines are always the same.
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Heh. That's awesome. I have been extremely tempted many times to end a "why" session with something similar.
Oh my god, I need cable. All we are watching this summer is fuzzy Big Brother All Stars. Which we would watch even if we had cable.
Whenever a little kids asks me "why?" I just turn the tables and say "well, why not?" even if it doesn't make sense. Usually it confuses them into at least momentary silence.
God, that laugh track's annoying-- I thought HBO didn't do that sort of thing? Cute scene though.
That is one the most AWESOME pieces of dialogue I've EVER seen!!! I think I'll be checking out this show -- thanks for the heads up!
It's allegedly taped before a live audience.
I have never heard of Luckie Louie. I need to get out more.
That is priceless dialogue. I will start watching it, and will pray that is doesn't get cancelled like "Son's and Daughters" did. I am still too bitter for words about THAT one.
Geez...just when I finally start to make some headway with watching all HBO's old must-see shows on DVD, they come up with something else that everyone but me watches.
I'm thinking maybe it's time to spring for that extra $10 and get the damned HBO.
They should give you a commission :)
Yeah, when I first saw previews I was like, laugh track, uh oh...but yep, it's taped before a live audience. I saw an interview with Louie C.K. wherein he talked about how the acting part of the show wouldn't freak him out if he could be in front of an audience like he is with his stand-up.
It's so shockingly good. And it feels new, somehow.
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