The Worst Episodes of Life with Louie
Every episode of Life with Louie ranked from worst to best. Explore 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 by-the-book, military veteran dad. Add to that a slew of holiday family squabbles, a flood, an old Rambler and a huge goldfish, and you have the background for Life with Louie. Each episode is a portrait of humor and warmth drawn from Louie Anderson's real-life experience as a child in the Midwest.
Lowest Rated Episodes Summary
The worst episode of "Life with Louie" is "The Making of a President", rated 8/10 from 45 user votes. It was directed by Bert Ring and written by David Adam Silverman, Marcy Gray Rubin. "The Making of a President" aired on 9/13/1997 and is rated 0.2 point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "Anderson Ski Weekend".
8.0/10 45 votes#1 - The Making of a President
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/13/1997
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.
Director: Bert Ring
Writer: David Adam Silverman, Marcy Gray Rubin
- 8.2/10 53 votes
#2 - Anderson Ski Weekend
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/28/1996
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.
Director: Bert Ring
Writer: Alex Taub, Natasha Hayworth, Matthew Negrete
- 8.2/10 47 votes
#3 - Buzz Stop
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/9/1996
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.
Director: Bert Ring
Writer: Alex Taub, Bernie Ancheta
- 8.2/10 48 votes
#4 - For Pete's Sake
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/16/1996
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!
Director: Matthew O'Callaghan, Bert Ring
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/10 49 votes
#5 - The Good, the Bad, & the Glenns
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 2/1/1997
When the town loudmouth, Jen Glenn, gets a rare and acute form of laryngitis, everyone in Cedar Knoll is elated.
Director: Bert Ring
Writer: Alex Taub, Natasha Hayworth, Matthew Negrete
- 8.3/10 46 votes
#6 - How to Succeed in Washington Without Really Trying
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/19/1996
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.
Director: Bert Ring
Writer: Alex Taub, Rich Halke
- 8.3/10 47 votes
#7 - Kazoo's Coming to Dinner
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 2/8/1997
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.
Director: Matthew O'Callaghan, Bert Ring
Writer: Alex Taub
- 8.4/10 61 votes
#8 - When Cedar Knoll Freezes Over
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 2/3/1996
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.
Director: Matthew O'Callaghan
Writer: Alex Taub, Bernie Ancheta
- 8.4/10 47 votes
#9 - Mr. Anderson's Opus
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/26/1996
When a new kid comes to town, Jeannie befriends him and Louie is reduced to second fiddle.
Director: Matthew O'Callaghan, Bert Ring
Writer: Alex Taub
- 8.4/10 46 votes
#10 - The Undergraduate
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/11/1997
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.
Director: Bert Ring
Writer: Bruce Clark, Marc Peterson
- 8.5/10 52 votes
#12 - Summer of My Discontent
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/21/1996
Louie can't wait to go to summer camp, because it means escaping the humiliation that Glen Glenn dishes out during the school year.
Director: Bert Ring
Writer: Alex Taub, Greg Cope White, Sean Dwyer
- 8.5/10 48 votes
#13 - Go Packers
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 9/27/1997
Louie and his father attend a football game between the Chicago Bears and the Green Bay Packers.
Director: Matthew O'Callaghan
Writer: N/A
- 8.6/10 93 votes
#14 - A Christmas Surprise for Mrs. Stillman
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 12/24/1994
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.
Director: Matthew O'Callaghan
Writer: Matthew O'Callaghan
- 8.6/10 67 votes
#15 - Alive! Miracle in Cedar Knoll, Wisconsin
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/4/1995
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.
Director: Matthew O'Callaghan
Writer: Alex Taub
- 8.6/10 56 votes
#16 - The Fourth Thursday in November
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/18/1995
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.
Director: Matthew O'Callaghan
Writer: Alex Taub
- 8.6/10 65 votes
#17 - Tracks of My Deers
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/25/1995
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...
Director: Matthew O'Callaghan
Writer: Alex Taub
- 8.6/10 49 votes
#18 - An Anderson Dozen
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/2/1996
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.
Director: Bert Ring
Writer: David Adam Silverman, Marcy Gray Rubin
- 8.6/10 45 votes
#20 - Blinded By Love
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 2/16/1997
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.
Director: Matthew O'Callaghan
Writer: David Adam Silverman, Marcy Gray Rubin
- 8.6/10 47 votes
#21 - Project: Mother's Day
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 3/3/1998
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.
Director: Bert Ring
Writer: Shawn Ryan
- 8.7/10 76 votes
#22 - A Fish Called Pepper
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 9/23/1995
Louie gets a fish named Pepper, because his family is too poor to get a dog.
Director: Matthew O'Callaghan
Writer: Alex Taub
- 8.7/10 61 votes
#23 - Pains, Grains, and Allergy Shots
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/11/1995
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!
Director: Matthew O'Callaghan
Writer: Bernie Ancheta
- 8.7/10 48 votes
#25 - Military Reunion
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 9/20/1997
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.
Director: Matthew O'Callaghan
Writer: Robert Rabinowitz