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The Worst Episodes of Life with Louie

The 8-year-old Louie is doing his best to grow up and cope with a large family, a doting mother, a pesky little brother, and a...

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  1. Background image for The Making of a President
    8.0/10(49 votes)

    #1 - The Making of a President

    S3:E2

    Louie suggests Grunewald run for class President, even though he has lost a record 5 times. Grunewald convinces a reluctant Louie to be his campaign manager.

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  2. Background image for Anderson Ski Weekend
    8.2/10(56 votes)

    #2 - Anderson Ski Weekend

    S2:E3

    Earl Grunewald is promoted to be a main worker of the tractor factory. While the Grunewald family goes for a ski trip, Louie pretends to be a ski master, so the Anderson family also joins.

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  3. Background image for Buzz Stop
    8.2/10(50 votes)

    #3 - Buzz Stop

    S2:E8

    For his vacation science homework, Louie has to give a detailed report on honey bees. He ends up enlisting the help of his father on this project, but Andy ends up taking over the care and observation of the bees and develops a special kinship with the bees. Louie tries to figure out how he is going to give a presentation on the bees when he can't get anywhere near them with his father in the picture.

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  4. Background image for How to Succeed in Washington Without Really Trying
    8.3/10(50 votes)

    #4 - How to Succeed in Washington Without Really Trying

    S2:E5

    Louie's class must give a speech and if someone wins, the class will go to Washington. Louie buys a speech from Glen Glenn and he wins. Andy accompanies the trip because he was in a war with the president. After Andy tells Louie he must always tell the truth, Louie tells the truth about the speech.

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    Director:Bert Ring
  5. Background image for For Pete's Sake
    8.3/10(51 votes)

    #5 - For Pete's Sake

    S2:E9

    Little Louie's never met a job he didn't like, but he does (eventually) get his household tasks done. Yet, he may have taken on a task that's more than he can handle when he tries to help down-and-out friend of the family get back on his feet. It's a single act of kindness - but it's doubled his chores!

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  6. Background image for The Good, the Bad, & the Glenns
    8.3/10(52 votes)

    #6 - The Good, the Bad, & the Glenns

    S2:E11

    When the town loudmouth, Jen Glenn, gets a rare and acute form of laryngitis, everyone in Cedar Knoll is elated.

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  8. Background image for When Cedar Knoll Freezes Over
    8.4/10(65 votes)

    #7 - When Cedar Knoll Freezes Over

    S1:E11

    The winter carnival begins in Cedar Knoll and The Anderson family loses every competition they enter. Meanwhile, Louie develops a crush on Jeannie's sister and tries to learn how to skate to get close to her.

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  9. Background image for Summer of My Discontent
    8.4/10(55 votes)

    #8 - Summer of My Discontent

    S2:E2

    Louie can't wait to go to summer camp, because it means escaping the humiliation that Glen Glenn dishes out during the school year.

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  10. Background image for Mr. Anderson's Opus
    8.4/10(51 votes)

    #9 - Mr. Anderson's Opus

    S2:E6

    When a new kid comes to town, Jeannie befriends him and Louie is reduced to second fiddle.

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  11. Background image for Kazoo's Coming to Dinner
    8.4/10(50 votes)

    #10 - Kazoo's Coming to Dinner

    S2:E12

    Louie meets famous comedian Kazoo.Kazoo came to town,to see his mother Ora.He wants Louie to come and watch his show with his mother.Well,Louie wants it,but his mother doesn't.After the show,Louie decides to become a comedian.So,he asks Kazoo to help him.Louie is very good,and he is even going to stand and laugh people on audition.But,when he finds out,that being comedain has some thing to do with insulting people.

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  12. Background image for The Undergraduate
    8.5/10(49 votes)

    #11 - The Undergraduate

    S3:E5

    Louie's teacher is sick,so new teacher arrives,Mrs.Robertson.She is very pretty and every boy falls in love with her.To get her for himself,Louie starts to read books like Romeo and Juliet.Now he knows everything about that and Mrs.Robertson starts to like him very much.But when Andy finds about that,he goes to the principal to tell her she must fire the new teacher.But he actually finds out that she also knows much about wars.So,he helps her.and she is now hired at the Military Academy.

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  13. Background image for Louie's Harrowing Halloween
    8.5/10(51 votes)

    #12 - Louie's Harrowing Halloween

    S3:E6

    While shopping, Louie ends up stealing candy, so he tries to get rid of it during Halloween.

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    Director:Bert Ring
    Writer:Alex Taub
  14. Background image for A Christmas Surprise for Mrs. Stillman
    8.6/10(101 votes)

    #13 - A Christmas Surprise for Mrs. Stillman

    S1:E1

    Louie's dad gets fired so the entire family tries to think of ways to save money until he can get back on his feet. Meanwhile, summer vacation has started and Louie is looking forward to three months of swimming and freedom...until his Dad, starved for things to keep himself busy, decides that Louie is going to help him do every fix-it job around the house.

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  15. Background image for Alive! Miracle in Cedar Knoll, Wisconsin
    8.6/10(71 votes)

    #14 - Alive! Miracle in Cedar Knoll, Wisconsin

    S1:E7

    When Ora and Andy leave to go and visit Ora's sick mother, Louie and Tommy are left home alone to fend for themselves during a blizzard.

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  16. Background image for An Anderson Dozen
    8.6/10(53 votes)

    #15 - An Anderson Dozen

    S2:E7

    When Mom thinks she's pregnant, Louie becomes concerned that he'll be thrown out of the nest to make room for the new baby.

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    8.6/10(51 votes)

    #16 - Go Packers

    S3:E4

    Louie and his father attend a football game between the Chicago Bears and the Green Bay Packers.

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  18. Background image for Blinded By Love
    8.6/10(49 votes)

    #17 - Blinded By Love

    S3:E11

    Louie wants to have a dog much to Andy's chagrin. Louie takes a dog that has been trained to be a guide for the blind.

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  19. Background image for Project: Mother's Day
    8.6/10(50 votes)

    #18 - Project: Mother's Day

    S3:E13

    Ora gets very sick and no one can help her around the house because she always does the most hard jobs at home.So,Louie must help her around the house.But if he does that,he will have no time to get a present for his mother because it's Mother's day.

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    Director:Bert Ring
    Writer:Shawn Ryan
  20. Background image for A Fish Called Pepper
    8.7/10(81 votes)

    #19 - A Fish Called Pepper

    S1:E5

    Louie gets a fish named Pepper, because his family is too poor to get a dog.

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  21. Background image for Pains, Grains, and Allergy Shots
    8.7/10(65 votes)

    #20 - Pains, Grains, and Allergy Shots

    S1:E8

    When Louie's head swells up to gigantic red proportions, he knows there is something wrong, but does not want to face the awful possibility that he has allergies and must, therefore, get an allergy shot!

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  22. Background image for The Fourth Thursday in November
    8.7/10(60 votes)

    #21 - The Fourth Thursday in November

    S1:E9

    Louie, upset with being cast as the Turkey every year, single-handedly ruins the annual Cedar Knolls Elementary Thanksgiving Pageant. The principal decides that as punishment Louie needs to give a presentation on the meaning of Thanksgiving the Monday after the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Louie tries to figure out the meaning of the holiday while his house is flooded with guests for Thanksgiving dinner, each of whom have their own unique interpretation of the holiday.

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  23. Background image for Tracks of My Deers
    8.7/10(68 votes)

    #22 - Tracks of My Deers

    S1:E10

    Louie is going to woods with father and his friends to catch deers.But one deer follows Louie and Louie makes a new friend,deer.When they go home late at night,deer follows them.Next day,they find out that deer is in their house.It is hrad for Andy,but he decides to keep deer.But,after deer finds out that he can't sleep anywhere he goes away...

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  24. Background image for Caddy on a Hot Tin Roof
    8.7/10(60 votes)

    #23 - Caddy on a Hot Tin Roof

    S2:E1

    Louie gets a summer job as a caddy to earn some extra cash and becomes the good luck charm and personal servant to Jojo Stomopolous, the resident Pinenut Country Club snob.

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    Director:Bert Ring
    Writer:Alex Taub
  25. Background image for Louie's Gate
    8.7/10(54 votes)

    #24 - Louie's Gate

    S3:E1

    A new movie theater opens and Louie goes all the time, so Andy and Aura become worried. They decide to give him a movie camera, and he decides to shoot a movie.

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    Director:Bert Ring
    Writer:Alex Taub
  26. Background image for Military Reunion
    8.7/10(52 votes)

    #25 - Military Reunion

    S3:E3

    It's Military Reunion,and teacher of history wants from kids to write their report about thair parents when they were in war.Louie is so happy,beacuse dad will be so proud of him when he tells him all the story about the war.When he tells him,Louie writes a lot of notebooks about Andy in war.When he reads it at school,everybody is impressed,but Melvin proves that's impossible.So,Louie actually finds out that that story isn't correct.For the finale,Military Reunion is opened,but the fire starts to burn on the ship,and Andy saves the ship.Other military men recognize him and Louie finds out the real story about his father.

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Worst Episodes Summary

"The Making of a President" is the worst rated episode of "Life with Louie". It scored 8/10 based on 49 votes. Directed by Bert Ring and written by David Adam Silverman, Marcy Gray Rubin, it aired on 9/13/1997. This episode scored 0.2 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Anderson Ski Weekend".