That lady at the start of the episode was just arrogant as hell

> To me anyway, my guess was that Louie was A.) Either actually interested in the pots, or B) Just wanted to interact with a young girl.

I'd agree with that, and I think that could be established as reality for the purposed of
this show, since if it was a successful show and the writer knew what they were doing,
presumably so, then to add that element it would have to be done explicitly, and Louie
was not following the girl around, or leering at her, or asking her frivolous questions.

Was there room for Louie to flirt or even score ... who knows, stranger things have happened
to me, but the the purposes of a episode to discuss things concrete facts should be preferred.

So, I am sure like any heterosexual man anywhere (wish I did not have to qualify that since it
takes a long time to type and carry along, but) Louie notices an attractive younger woman.
Does that mean to say that some people can say he was on the scale to harassing her?

He also seemed to be genuinely interested in pots, and having been to Sur La Tabla the
other day, you need help to make a decision about cookery, no question about it.









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Yeah almost all technology was built on past technology. The past has just as much claim to it as they do. And this is coming from a young gun like me.

Also there's nothing wrong, disrespectful or lowly about what shes actually doing for a living but when she talks about how her generation is making the world great and she tries to group herself into it, I have to roll my eyes. You're just marking up products sweetheart. You're not helping anyone else besides yourself. Great you just got good contacts and connections in China that can make/get the merchandise cheap, good for you. I fail to see why I should be impressed by that.

Arrogant, and incredibly presumptuous, this line that he just wanted a young Asian woman to stroke his ego. Where the hell does she get off? There is really nothing to warrant such presumption.

Stating the obvious: why should she care if he's a serious cook or not? It seems to me he wanted those pots more or less as objets d'art (this was before he tried to get her attention, so I don't think it's possibility B), and that would also be fine. For all she knows, he could be an artist who wants to incorporate those pots as part of a project.

And unbelievable that she would mark him as representative of his generation who screwed up the world. The entire exchange is completely incoherent.

Yes, she was very arrogant.

Louie always likes to exaggerate in his show and many of the characters are annoying.
People whom in real life would deserve to be humiliated.

That girl only owns a store with cooking equipment. It's not like she's inventing something new or curing cancer.

She didn't look 25 ..she ain't that hot!
Was a ridiculous conversation written by Louie. He obviously has issues with his age. Acts like he's 60+. Perhaps he should hit the gym and stop eating pizza & fried chicken!

Watch it again and think of it as instead of her Actually saying those things, it's actually Louie's internal monologue saying those things/attributing it to her. Brings a little different view into his mind.

Note: not saying you're wrong, or that what I stated was the way it was meant, but I just like viewing the episodes from different angles.

To Love and win is the best thing. To Love and lose, the next best.

You do realize the actors don't write their own dialogue, right?

I found this to be a very interesting and unusual scene but also completely improbable and unrealistic.

Ok, so he's checking out expensive copper pots which are apparently chef grade. She intuitively sees that he is not by any means a chef so there's a possibility he is just using this as a way to flirt with her. Not so far fetched. If she WERE an employee of the store her indignant attitude and failure to close an easy sale on an expensive item would have easily gotten her fired. Since she was the owner she of course felt entitled to say it like it is. She didn't necessarily NEED the money or to close this particular sale and perhaps felt she'd rather let this sale go than allow this guy she spotted to be a phony flirt with her as a way of getting him to buy something.

The speech she gave him was over the top and mean, but not without a lot of truth in it too. First off he probably WAS looking to flirt with her. Not to say this is so tragic. There's a reason why stores employ young attractive sales people. But she felt this was beneath her so she wasn't going to do it. She simply did not care if he bought or not and dared tell him this. I don't buy that any clerk or especially any owner of any business would be so cold and rude to a customer no matter WHAT their reasons were for browsing the merchandise. It makes no sense. You're in a business to make money and not decide who is worthy of your time and attention. What she said however about customers always being right; i gotta say that's probably the worst cliche phrase ever invented basically to torture anyone unfortunate enough to work in the business of servicing customers. What this does is essentially give people lisence to act in any way they want, often times the rudest way possible. They can do or say anything and because "they are always right" and can and will cite this antiquated cliche you are at their mercy. I agree with her completely that often times the customer is dead wrong. They are rude, disrespectful and downright offensive and to that end they don't deserve to be always right and treated as such. I don't believe Louis was wrong. But I don't believe he was right either. He admitted to her that he did only want to flirt with her and he sanctimoniously lectured HER about all the money he would have spent if only she'd paid more attention to him. He's just embarrassed that she spotted this and called him out on it.

As for him feeling threatened by the new generation; I feel that is a crappy cliche to assume that ONLY young people know what's going on and older people are jealous because they are being phased out and see those who will be replacing them. Agree with another poster that it is a blatant disrespect and lousy attitude for a younger person to be so callously dismissive to an older person as if they have nothing to gain or learn from them.