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Network: FXEpisodes: 61 (half-hour)Seasons: FiveTV show dates: June 29, 2010 -- May 28, 2015Series status: CancelledPerformers include: Louis C.K., Hadley Delany, Todd Barry, Nick Dipaolo, Ashley Gerasimovich, Robert Kelly, David Patrick Kelly, and Jay Russell.TV show description:      This comedy series is created, directed, and written by Louis C.K., a standup comedian who previously starred in a more traditional sitcom on HBO, Lucky Louie. Loosely based on his real life, this series focuses on his life offstage as a recently divorced father of two girls. Each episode of the series focuses on two stories, which may or may not connect. They also include standup comedy bits and/or discussions between Louie and a therapist. Louie's character of a comedian/divorced father of two is the only character to appear in every show.

Welcome to today's edition of Nerd Alert, where we have all the off-beat, nerdy news for you in one convenient spot. What do we have in store for you on this marvelous Monday? Jurassic World star Chris Pratt takes his raptor-training skills to a children's hospital, a parkour star honors his late son with an amazing Spider-Man fan film and celebrities offer their best Arnold Schwarzenegger impersonations. We also have the evolution of Iron Man armor. So, sit back, relax, and check out all that today's Nerd Alert has to offer.

Spider-Man Fan Film Honors Parkour Athlete's Late Son

Parkour athlete Mike Wilson wanted to give his ailing son a special gift, by making a Spider-Man fan film entitled The Amazing SpiderDad. Unfortunately, his son Jayden lost his battle with a Grade 4 brain stem tumor known as Glyoblastoma Multi-Forme at Christmas. Mike Wilson finished this amazing five-minute film in dedication to his son,...

Anyone who watches Louie can tell you that one of Louis C.K.'s primary jobs on the show is taking care of his kids — or, as his TV daughter Hadley Delany (Lilly, the elder) puts it: "We're the perfect excuse for you to never have to do anything." She stars in this sweet little video to her cool, lazy Dad, who taught her everything she knows: from how smartphones are ruining the world to the fact that she should never get fat. Happy Father's Day!

Louie, Season 5, Episode 2: “A La Carte”

Written by Louis C.K. (story by Pamela Adlon and Louis C.K.)

Directed by Louis C.K.

Airs Thursdays at 10:30pm Et on FX

The whole point of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl archetype is that she can’t exist without a vapid man to mythologize her first; she can’t be pictured in an empty room. She materializes, either as a concept or a flesh-and-blood person, when the man in question requires definition, meaning, purpose, to fill the void of his otherwise meaningless existence. Her quirkiness and idiosyncrasies make her a “challenge” to be conquered; his successful pursuit of the Mpdg acts as an imagined trial-by-fire, with him as the admirably wounded victor. Like most archetypal stories, the Mpdg quest/relationship reveals a lot about some elements of straight male society. The need to gamify and narrativize the act of falling in love,...

Four episodes of the fifth season of “Louie” were provided for review purposes prior to broadcast.

The fourth season of Louie, which aired last spring, should have been a shoo-in for the top Emmy; however, it may have been a more appropriate winner for drama series than comedy. That collection of 14 episodes was wildly different from anything creator Louis C.K. had ever attempted on his FX sitcom, which was already wildly different from any other scripted comedy on television. With episodes making brutally honest observations about teenage drug use, sexual assault and plus-sized people, Louie experimented with subject matter and style each week. It was both the most indulgent and most intelligent that the show had ever been, with several benchmarks of unflinching, bruised humor (such as “In the Woods,” his 70-minute opus) that C.K. may never touch again.

Where season four was audacious, season five – returning for a shorter,...

Louie, Season 4, Episodes 1 and 2, “Back” and “Model”

Written and Directed by Louis C.K.

Louie is utterly unique to the television landscape. There are very, very few shows of which this can be said. It’s part standup, part experimental film, part character study, part whatever else Louis C.K. wants it to be, and in its first three seasons, the series that started out well grew increasingly confident, playing with form and stretching C.K. as a filmmaker and storyteller. After C.K. decided to take 2013 off, some viewers may have been concerned he wouldn’t be able to recapture the magic of the first three seasons. Fortunately, with “Back” and “Model”, C.K. picks up right where he left off, as sure and relaxed as ever.

The first episode of the season, “Back”, follows the model of the first season, with a series of vignettes loosely following Louie (Louis C.K.) through his day.

After the giddily happy-sad ending of the ambitious "Late Night" arc that took up the previous three episodes of "Louie," it was inevitable that last night's actual season finale, "New Year's Eve," felt a little anticlimactic. It even started at what for so many has to be the year's most deflating moment -- Christmas after the presents are opened. Louis (Louis C.K.) watches his daughters tear into their gifts as he hunches wearily over his coffee, flashing back as he does to all the trouble and work he put into getting and wrapping them, including a hilarious sequence in which he tries to fix the fallen-out eyes of the porcelain doll he bought for Lilly (Hadley Delany) by sawing open the head and later fixing the paint with melted crayons. Despite Christmas lacking the magic for grown-up Louie that it has for his little girls, it's still a holiday he...

Louie, Season 3, Episode 2: “Telling Jokes / Set Up”

Written by Louis Ck

Directed by Louis Ck

Airs Thursdays at 10:30pm Et on FX

Louie is one of the only shows running right now that allows for easy access for newcomers. For the most part, it eschews serialization, toys with tone and format on an almost weekly basis, and generally revolves more around one-off ideas than gradually built thematic throughlines. With that said, “Telling Jokes / Set Up” does feature some neat continuations, payoffs and easter eggs for longtime viewers, or even anyone who happened to tune in last week. For starters, he’s still got the motorcycle, which is a bit of a surprise considering how “Something’s Gone Wrong” ended that particular adventure. More significantly, this week marks the return of Louie’s two daughters, who are once again played by Season 2′s (wonderful) Hadley Delany and Ursula Parker.

Any chance you recall Louis C.K.'s Parenting Hall of Fame–worthy bit from 2007's Shameless about one of his daughters regaling his then-wife with the story of a dog-sighting? "I'm telling mama, not you." (C.K.'s brutal, amazing follow-up: "What, you think I actually give a shit about the dog you saw? Like that was gonna be an awesome story, that you saw a fuckin' dog?") That's where we resume season three's showcase of Louie's fatherhood, only with his younger daughter Jane (Ursula Parker) attempting to elicit enthusiasm from her sister Lilly (Hadley Delany), then burning her dad when he tries to jump in. C.K. displays two of his persistent tropes through his fictionalized daughters here: Jane tells a joke hinging on a bodily function (mermaids dwelling in pee rather than water), while Lily follows up a pair of absurdist knock-knock jokes with what could often...

We chatted with funny man and one-man production team (he writes, directs, produces and most recently gave up the job of editing the series) Louis C.K., where he talked about a few of his extremely entertaining guest-stars this season including Melissa Leo (The Fighter, Treme, Homicide: Life on the Street), fellow comedian Jerry Seinfeld and how this season drifts further away from his real life, and veers deeper into the world of fiction.

First up, let’s preview tonight’s episode 302, “Telling Jokes/Set up” another in what will become a prominent theme in this third season, Louie building up his sea legs for the always tumultuous world of dating. Even when he’s not necessarily pursuing anything, some things just fall into his lap. I won’t ruin tonight’s episode of Louie on FX, but I will say that it’s one of the funniest and raunchiest episodes to date.