I think I should warn some people that this particular episode of Life With Louie is surprisingly mean-spirited. Very unusual for an otherwise light-hearted, upbeat, children's show, but this episode deals with an abusive parent and the effects of abuse on her child is very apparent. It only seems appropriate to bring such a harsh reality to life, but I don't think the makers of this program did it in a very effective way, or at least a way that's taken seriously. So anyway, as you all know, that school bully Glen Glenn is a bad seed who makes everyone's lives-especially Louie's-miserable, but did you ever wonder why he's such a little hellraiser? We saw in the ski episode that his father encourages bullying, but there's another member of the Glenn family we haven't been introduced to yet, and I think we were all better off. Glen's overzealous, outrageous and super outspoken mother. You remember the mom on Malcolm in the Middle? This is pretty much a prototype to her. Jen Glenn: the loudest, meanest woman in town. I swear, just listen to that voice! She sounds like a duck that's being strangled after smoking 40 packs a day. The town of Cedar Knoll had to suffer with this awful woman, but we the audience are lucky, because we can mute the TV. This woman is so paranoid, she listens in on party lines for any gossip about her, and while it is rude to gossip, how can you NOT talk about this woman? I'd say she belongs in a mental hospital, but not even a lobotomy could fix this. I'm serious, the town even holds meetings to try and put a noise ordinance on her voice, but she crashes that and screams about her right to free speech. Okay, Jen, you can have your First Amendment right, but how about the other residents of town exercising their Second? Well, one fateful day, a miracle occurred: Jen Glenn lost her voice. A long overdue attack of laryngitis sends her to the hospital. Ora insists they visit her because it's the right thing to do and, "wouldn't you want Jen Glenn to visit you in the hospital if you were sick?" There are NO words. The doc says Jen's got a very rare form of laryngitis that can only be cured by one doctor, and he lives in Paris.
With that nasty tyrant out of commission, Cedar Knoll became a much happier place. Yep, everyone was right neighborly with each other again. It was like paradise... for a few minutes, then everyone got bored. In fact, the town got voted one of the 8 boringest towns in the country, or rather, it was all 8. Well, as if Louie didn't have enough problems, guess who's coming to dinner? Yep, Ora invited Glen Glenn over to dine with them. At first he's his usual obnoxious self, but one mention of his mother turns him into a bawling mess. After that, he latches on to Louie and becomes his new best friend. Yeah, it's really creepy, he follows him everywhere, even to his house, and is even waiting for him in the morning. There's a difference between a BFF and a stalker. This kid has some serious problems, in fact, so does the entire town, as everyone has been a zombie since Hurricane Jen went mute. So, at the next town meeting, Ora proposes they have a block party to raise money for Jen Glenn's operation, and Louie is in favor of it? REALLY? He'd rather have a bully than a weird friend? So Ora, being the optimistic idiot that she is, began listing a bunch of B.S. reasons why Jen Glenn is the best thing to ever happen to the town. Even henpecked Andy gets in front of the crowd and rallies in support of ol' J.G. Hey, you know that 8 boring towns list Cedar Knoll topped? Well, I'll bet it would also top the list of Most Retarded Towns too. So they have their block party, yadda, yadda, yadda, a tape recording of Jen's voice makes Glen Glenn tick, blah, blah, blah, the horrid woman gets her operation, she's back screaming up a storm in no time, and ol' Louie gets his old bully back. I'll bet as he's dangling by his underwear in that tree, he's having serious regrets, all while listening to Jen scream at her son about hanging fat kids in trees. Oh, SHUT UP!! Shut up, shut up, shut up, SHUT UP!!!
Man, this was BAD. I didn't think there were any bad Life With Louie episodes, but this one is definitely worthy of that title. What kind of message were they trying to convey? That negative actions towards other people can spread like wildfire? That definitely worked, because this one made ME angry. When I was binge watching Life With Louie episodes, I initially skipped this one, it's so bad. Even as a kid when I first saw it, I didn't like it. It's so MEAN and so GRATING. That's Hamilton Camp voicing Jen Glenn, and as stated, he sounded like a duck choking to death after smoking 400 times its weight in Marlboros. The writing was stupid too. It was as if they knew what the intended ending for such a story would be: Jen recovers, decides not to yell so much and be nicer to everyone, and they live happily ever after, and decided to turn 180 degrees and give us an ending we were NOT expecting. Well, going against audience expectations doesn't always work (Last Jedi), and it didn't work here either. Was it nice seeing Louie and Glen Glenn finally getting along? Not really, I think he would've probably gone Brokeback Mountain on him eventually. So, yeah, this episode is terrible. Do yourself a favor and skip it. There are 37 much better episodes of Life With Louie to watch, not this garbage. I mean, I hate this episode. I hate it. I hated having to watch it, I hated having to listen to that horrible voice-I'd rather listen to Jar Jar Binks recite the National Anthem-I hated how stupid every, single character acted, I hated everything about this mean-spirited episode that clearly shows an abusive parent and an abusive spouse who is allowed to get away with her actions! It's horrible!
With that nasty tyrant out of commission, Cedar Knoll became a much happier place. Yep, everyone was right neighborly with each other again. It was like paradise... for a few minutes, then everyone got bored. In fact, the town got voted one of the 8 boringest towns in the country, or rather, it was all 8. Well, as if Louie didn't have enough problems, guess who's coming to dinner? Yep, Ora invited Glen Glenn over to dine with them. At first he's his usual obnoxious self, but one mention of his mother turns him into a bawling mess. After that, he latches on to Louie and becomes his new best friend. Yeah, it's really creepy, he follows him everywhere, even to his house, and is even waiting for him in the morning. There's a difference between a BFF and a stalker. This kid has some serious problems, in fact, so does the entire town, as everyone has been a zombie since Hurricane Jen went mute. So, at the next town meeting, Ora proposes they have a block party to raise money for Jen Glenn's operation, and Louie is in favor of it? REALLY? He'd rather have a bully than a weird friend? So Ora, being the optimistic idiot that she is, began listing a bunch of B.S. reasons why Jen Glenn is the best thing to ever happen to the town. Even henpecked Andy gets in front of the crowd and rallies in support of ol' J.G. Hey, you know that 8 boring towns list Cedar Knoll topped? Well, I'll bet it would also top the list of Most Retarded Towns too. So they have their block party, yadda, yadda, yadda, a tape recording of Jen's voice makes Glen Glenn tick, blah, blah, blah, the horrid woman gets her operation, she's back screaming up a storm in no time, and ol' Louie gets his old bully back. I'll bet as he's dangling by his underwear in that tree, he's having serious regrets, all while listening to Jen scream at her son about hanging fat kids in trees. Oh, SHUT UP!! Shut up, shut up, shut up, SHUT UP!!!
Man, this was BAD. I didn't think there were any bad Life With Louie episodes, but this one is definitely worthy of that title. What kind of message were they trying to convey? That negative actions towards other people can spread like wildfire? That definitely worked, because this one made ME angry. When I was binge watching Life With Louie episodes, I initially skipped this one, it's so bad. Even as a kid when I first saw it, I didn't like it. It's so MEAN and so GRATING. That's Hamilton Camp voicing Jen Glenn, and as stated, he sounded like a duck choking to death after smoking 400 times its weight in Marlboros. The writing was stupid too. It was as if they knew what the intended ending for such a story would be: Jen recovers, decides not to yell so much and be nicer to everyone, and they live happily ever after, and decided to turn 180 degrees and give us an ending we were NOT expecting. Well, going against audience expectations doesn't always work (Last Jedi), and it didn't work here either. Was it nice seeing Louie and Glen Glenn finally getting along? Not really, I think he would've probably gone Brokeback Mountain on him eventually. So, yeah, this episode is terrible. Do yourself a favor and skip it. There are 37 much better episodes of Life With Louie to watch, not this garbage. I mean, I hate this episode. I hate it. I hated having to watch it, I hated having to listen to that horrible voice-I'd rather listen to Jar Jar Binks recite the National Anthem-I hated how stupid every, single character acted, I hated everything about this mean-spirited episode that clearly shows an abusive parent and an abusive spouse who is allowed to get away with her actions! It's horrible!
