Saturday, November 29, 2014

Oh Louie

Louie confessed her feelings to Pamela in Episode 6, Season 2. I really liked the lines.


Louie: Pamela, I'm in love with you.

Pamela: Uh God... 

Louie: Yeah it's that bad. You are so beautiful to me... 

Pamela: Oh, oy, ew.

Louie: Shut up! Let me tell you, let me. Every time I look at your face, or even remember it, it wrecks me. And the way you are with me, and you are just fun, and, and you shit all over me, and you make fun of me, and you are real. I don't have enough time in any day to think about you enough. I feel like i am gonna live a thousand years, coz that's how long it's gonna take me to have one thought about you, which is... I am crazy about you, Pamela. I don't wanna be with anybody else. 

Pamela: Louie... 

Louie: I don't. I REALLY don't. I don't think about women any more, I think about you. I had a dream the other night, that you and I were on a train.We were on this train and you were holding my hand. That's the whole dream. You were holding my hand, and I felt you holding my hand. I woke up and I couldn't believe it wasn't real. I'm sick in love with you Pamela. It's like a condition. It's like Polio. i feel like I'm gonna die if I can't be with you. And i can't be with you, so I'm gonna die. And i don't care, coz I was brought into existence to know you, and that's enough. The idea that you would want me back, it's like greedy. [Sigh] I'm doing a bad job at this. 

Pamela: No you are not. 

Louie: I'm not? 

Pamela: No. It's a good job. It's a jewel. Good job.


Louie and Pamela are just two normal single parents. They both went through divorce and had kids to raise. What's happening between them is not about sex or possession or any cliche like that. It's really just about one man meeting another woman, who somehow tamed the the lurking monstrous solitude within him. And that's what makes the lines so touching, because it gives us a little comfort, a flash of human warmth that we are all desperate for (in my opinion).