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LOUIE: "PAMELA PART 1" REVIEW
LOUIE: "PAMELA PART 1" REVIEW
Well, now that Louie was solidly down in the dumps, he figured it'd be cool if he took Pamela up on her offer. Unfortunately for him, and due to what only seemed to be her bruised ego, Pamela claimed that it was a one-time offer.
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I remember visiting this website once...
It was called Louie: "Pamela Part 1" Review - IGN
Here's some stuff I remembered seeing:
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Louie decided to awkwardly do something about his perceived "lack of manhood" in "Pamela Part 1" - a much more traditional Louie-style outing. Though one that still remained very much connected to the long Amia arc from the previous six episodes. As you recall, Pamela returned the States to surprise Louie and pitch the idea of the two of them becoming a casual item while he was in the midst of tragically courting Amia. Well, now that Louie was solidly down in the dumps, he figured it\'d be cool if he took Pamela up on her offer.
Unfortunately for him, and due to what only seemed to be her bruised ego, Pamela claimed that it was a one-time offer and rebuffed his delayed acceptance. Probably knowing full well that
was she his second choice, but that he was also in a weird, needy place that wouldn\'t make for the best overall situation. And because of her ball-busting style of communication, Louie got it into his head that he somehow need to take charge of the situation.
Which then led to a very funny, cringe-worthy moment involving Louie dragging Pamela all over his apartment while she tried, in earnest, to get away. A way less-romantic version of the way Louie and Amia hooked up a few episodes ago - when Amia first refused and then finally gave into the moment. "You can\'t even rape well," came Pamela\'s response. Which was both a joke and, well, not. Because it did get weird there for a second. And the fact that Louie took the tense, closed-mouth kiss he had with her by the doorway as a sign of victory was hilariously perverse.
Aside from the Pamela/Louie moments (which also featured them overhearing what seemed to be the planning of a mob hit in the diner booth next to theirs), we got a moment with Dr. Bigelow, a lengthy stand-up routine, a bus altercation, and a subway skit featuring The Wire\'s Michael Kostroff as a man who Louie didn\'t realize was
having a conversation with the woman sitting to his left.
Dr. Bigelow once again showed up to be the voice of somewhat-obvious reason. Letting Louie know that all pain due to heartache was a good pain. And well worth the journey. In fact, he likened the pain itself to "real love" as opposed to all the happy moments which people prefer to remember. And, of course, it wouldn\'t be Dr. Bigelow if he didn\'t somehow take Louie down a few notches for even asking such self-contained questions. "You may be the most single boring person I have ever met," was how he chose to leave things.
The final moment of the episode, which featured Louie on the bus with his girls, was probably my favorite. Because why did Louie suddenly stop arguing when the spitter told the bus driver
That\'s amazing. For some reason - possibly because it was so preposterous - it just shut Louie up. It was like some sort of funny Jedi Mind Trick revisionist history was going on wherein, at the end, Louie was somehow the guy who\'d spit. And the forcefulness of the spitter himself probably also somehow convinced everyone else on the bus that Louie was the original perpetrator too.
The stand-up routine in the middle of this installment, featuring riffs on God, God\'s ex-wife, and wife-beater shirts, came directly from Louie\'s new line of stand-up. In fact, he just did these bits during his SNL monologue last March. Funny to hear again, sure, but nothing new.
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"Pamela Part 1" was the first episode in a while to give us a strong sampling of different Louie vignettes. All of which worked well on different levels. It\'s always fun to listen to Bigelow call Louie a "classic idiot" even though he himself would never admit to knowing all of life\'s answers. It\'s as if he\'s become a sage by default because Louie is so clueless.
And Louie\'s prickly relationship with Pamela always gives us good material. And you do wonder, as stubborn as she is, if that horrible peck that Louie planted on her was
of saying "okay, I\'ll date you." Because when we saw Louie with his girls at the end, they were asking if she was his new squeeze. And he avoided answering the question as if she was his actual girlfriend. Though he could just be delusional about the whole thing.
Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN. Follow him on Twitter at @TheMattFowler and Facebook at Facebook.com/Showrenity.
A freshly heartbroken Louie tried to make sparks fly between him and Pamela. RT
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