Do y’all really need this one explained? Well, good on you – maybe it means you had a neurosis-free upbringing. The laugh track (and boo track) is in Louis’s head. He’s got that narcissistic, adolescent thing where you imagine a camera follows and admires your every move. The only problem is his raging self-doubt breaks in to destroy the fantasy, so that the cheers become catcalls. But even this doubt is narcissistic, because it still assumes that anybody would care one way or another about his little failures. “What happened? In front of who?”
Do y’all really need this one explained? Well, good on you – maybe it means you had a neurosis-free upbringing. The laugh track (and boo track) is in Louis’s head. He’s got that narcissistic, adolescent thing where you imagine a camera follows and admires your every move. The only problem is his raging self-doubt breaks in to destroy the fantasy, so that the cheers become catcalls. But even this doubt is narcissistic, because it still assumes that anybody would care one way or another about his little failures. “What happened? In front of who?”