The Loud House Nickelodeon
Previously on "The Loud House" : Lincoln fights for older people and wins , what? You can read about episode 2 Here.
Quick explainer as to why I'm not doing episode 3a: Well, if you were following along with my season 1 posts ,I did the same here as well. Where I started writing about this show, out of order. I used a randomzier site to pick episodes for me. Now, that I am doing them in order, there will be some pairs that are split. The good thing is there are two lone pairs than can be paired together so, they won't lone anymore!
If you want to read about episode 3a "Baby Steps" you can read that here it's paired with Episode 7a. Click Here if you want that post. I'll point to episode 5a' when I get to 5b.
Episode 3b : Brawl in the Family
The episode starts with Lincoln whistling and going to the kitchen but Luna is standing there ,in the way. Luna says the kitchen is off limits because Lori is in there "cooling off" because of a fight. (Not sure why she couldn't cool off somewhere else, or she's mad at Leni not Lincoln , so let him in?) Lisa offers him the idea of eating food from the couch. (what?) After taking a bite from "couch beagle" he gets sick and wants to go to the bathroom, but Lana is standing there in the way. (why, are people in the way today, move!) She says that Leni is cooling off in there. ( The Louds have one bathroom so, maybe she should cool off somewhere else?, like her room or outside, take a walk, something else?) Next Lincoln wants to watch a monster truck rally (it's Sunday Sunday Sunday?) but apparently can't watch TV because the Leni and Lori's fight. (What?) So, what is this fight about? So Lori got a dress and Leni has the same dress. (almost as if clothes are mass produced) This fight about them having the same dress. (why?)
Lincoln decides to say "hey let's them figure it out". ( That was good Nickelodeon game show) The other sisters say but out and leave things alone. To be fair, yes, that's not bad idea. On the other hand, the fight really shouldn't be disrupting everyone's life because that doesn't make sense. Lincoln's characterization has been so far, someone who takes charge and wants to get things done so, that he does here. He goes to Lori and Leni to stop the fight, and doesn't listen to them calling him name to which we'll find out that they already resolved their fight.
Unintentionally, by saying things he shouldn't have repeated, he causes a new fight. The other sisters are mad at him for causing another fight. (Again they are way to invested into this fight) What happens next is more comical than anything else. The sisters decide the best way to work this fight out is to go way beyond over the top in managing it. Logically, it's stupid. I mean, they'd rather disrupt whole lives really to contain two sisters fighting, like why? There's 13 people in this house that's absolute madness. For some reason, they have to disrupt Lincoln's living. This whole fight is being treated as if it's two countries and trying contain a fight, but they also disrupt a neutral country in the process.
It's also funny because Lori and Leni are being kept apart as if to make sure they don't even know the other exists. Again, this is most ridiculous way of taking of a fight ever. It would be probably better if Lori and Leni just yelled it out and got it all out than whatever this is. Hey look it's the parents, maybe they'll be of use. (Right?) No, because they are doing two dinners so, that Lori and Leni dine separately. (The parents aiding this madness and are of no use here) So, yeah this is episode is funny, it feels different to even the last episode in the series before this one. Anyway, we are only half way through.
There are points where this episode's plots could be resolved, like the parents could say hey dumb kids stop being dumb. (not like that but yeah like that) They've decided to go along with the madness because something. The sisters take Lincoln's sheets and blanket because they don't have other sheets and blankets? (In a house with 13 people, you'd probably have Extra sheets and blankets, but alright then) You'd think this episode is setting Lincoln up to just snap. Cut. Lincoln is the only character in this episode not accept the rules of this episode, he's trying to play in the normal rules of logic and everyone else has formed their own logic. He's the straight man to the absurdity around him or he's the absurdity and they're being logical and our brains melted. (owww)
Why did they use the sheets? To divide the room where Leni and Lori sleep. Lincoln does snap, and tears down that wall! Luan says this has to run it's course, wait there, they aren't letting it run it's course, in away all this ducking and accommodation is prolonging the fight. That's if we use logic. Lincoln decides to make it where Luan and Luna switch with Lori and Leni to have them the other rooms. Episode resolved fight over. No, These past two paragraphs are about 1 minute of episode, it's not over yet. Luna warns that Lincoln is playing with fire. Now, if she know that this could be bad idea, then why didn't she do anything change it, like not sleep in the room with Lori, and sleep on the couch or something.
Since Luan and Luna were split with Lori and Leni, this happens. The next morning, Luna and Luan start arguing over who is right in the Lori and Leni fight. This has become World War I. Where Allies join countries' sides. Now the remaining sisters continue their whatever this is, and Lincoln loses access to his room because we have 4 more minutes. The parents are back in the episode and decided to take the baby and lock themselves in their room. (totally useless) Now, the twins start fighting. Now, they've been shown to fight before, so never mind, this episode is playing by its own rules, let's proceed.
Lynn and Lucy start to argue next which is funny because if they weren't doing all this madness, they wouldn't have gotten stressed to start fighting because Lynn wanted to take a break. Since Lisa can't fight with her roommate, she and Lana get into over the this chart Lisa was using to do threat levels like this was national security. Then in boils over into fight cloud. Lincoln calls our hero, Clyde, so he can get the heck out of there.
Lincoln comes back home the next day, and apparently everything is all fixed and normal. He wonders how everything is fixed. (Well you see you Lincoln, this is an eleven minute episode and we have about a minute left so, it was time) They say it's because Lincoln left they were able to fix everything. He ends up starting another fight and nothing of value was lost.
I said this earlier this episode sets up Lincoln as the logical person to what otherwise, is madness. It's kind of like the was playing with it's slight formula, that Lincoln is "The man with the plan" and this show is about an eleven-year-old middle child trying to figure out life with 10 sisters. (This is before they changed the show, I'm not getting into that now) Yet, nope he can't this episode because they aren't working with logic. They'd rather spend their time trying to block two people from fighting then, you know leaving them alone and letting them solve it. Lincoln tries to fix it but, he makes it worse by saying something stupid but, he was only trying to use what he thought would work and forces worked against it.
This show does try to have morals per episode, but I can't really place one on this episode. Unless, they are using a mind trick to make us see how silly everything was, and make us critically think on what should have happened. I'd be amazed if that was the plan. I've seen this episode (I've seen every episode at least once) before and am do see how they really kept it mostly unpredictable.
Here's the hard thing, if you really are attached to the characters seeing them act like this kind of sours things, bur that's maybe this episode is shock. We've had a bunch episodes before this, if this was a season 1 , episode 3b, it would maybe be seen as early installment trying to find their feet episode. Since it's season 2 episode 3b, it's kind of whoa to the system. It gave me a lot to analyze.
My verdict on this episode is weird. I found it weird, I laughed it a few times because I'm surprised at how it escalates. I'm not sure who's reading this, fully. Like if you already have an opinion on this episode, I'm not here to change your mind. If you just want to see my thoughts or are peaked interest into the show , that's a different story.
I think it does a good job at keeping it's own logic and not breaking from it, it easily could have. It's tightly written where it hits marks. It tired something different and didn't get gold, but I can't say it was nothing of tact to it. Is it a mean episode? I don't think so, hold on I don't think the sisters wished any will on Lincoln they were working on their own logic and trying to do what they felt was best to figure out the situation, and Lincoln was trying to figure out what was best for the situation. The episode doesn't say the sisters were right or that Lincoln was right, it leaves it to the fact that in some cases nobody is right or wrong. Was the reason for the fight stupid? Yeah, but alot of fights are stupid and a lot fights have no reason to happen. (Heck, that's what Twitter runs on )
Many times fights don't work with logic that we perceive. Nobody knows the true answer of how to fix it, sometimes people try to help and it gets worse. It happens, it's annoying but it happens. The sisters were doing what they thought was best for the eldest two, Lincoln thought he was doing the best for them as well, in away this episode shows that they do care about each other, it's not going all hugs and sappy but it does that.
Luna and Luan taking sides shows they care enough to defend a sister in the fight. Lynn and Lucy got stressed tensions were high and snapped. It's a harsh episode, but it's really a mean episode. This is my opinion, like anything I'm doing, I try to have some objectivity, but things do have a subjective thing. It's not a masterpiece of television, and it's not the worst episode of "The Loud House" I still give that to "The Green House" . I'm giving this episode a 6/10.
More after the Jump.
I've already written about episode 5a, "Making the Grade" along with episode 18a Change of Heart so, here'e episode 5b.
Episode 5b : Vanstastic Voyage
So this episode also loses some logic because yes. The other thing about this episode is that status quo wins completely.
The Loud family has this really old van, (they only have one car, apparently too). The van has been shown before to be kind of in a state of failings. This episode, starts with the family pushing the van and kids wondering why they don't get a new car. Rita, the mother, says she would love to , but the father, older Lynn, has an attachment to his car. (Hmm family safe reason, ah yes) His father and grand father owned the thing.
There idea is convince the father to get a new van, SUBLIMINALLY. We get to see their creative ways to mind psych him. So, he gets a new family van. Breaking News: Train goes off the rails!
Oh no, Apparently, new car smell makes you an idiot. Lynn Sr. decides that a van that is supposed to have passengers shouldn't have passengers because reasons. He named the van Veronica because I'm sure he's gotten confused by the fumes. Lori asks if she can use the van (I'm not using that name) but he says no, he even says his wife couldn't drive it. If this was a different show, she would have either killed him or divorced then killed him.( Or killed him with the van to be creative) Yeah really, man says his wife can't drive the van. (She also could have kicked him out of the house and made him sleep in the van)
Anyway, Lori and Leni use a car for a test drive to get around since, Lori can't use the van. Meanwhile, Lynn Sr. got his van a vest. Yes, the man is disturbing me how obsessed he is becoming with the van. (Someone else needs to write this blog post, I'm out) He goes to other men who are creepy about their vans. Like there's a man who won't let his family in his van either. I( want this town's divorce rate to go up)
The kids decide to convince Dad, SUBLIMINALLY, to get the old van back. They could have also, convinced him let them in the new van. (Or stormed the van!) Again, Rita is being too kind in this episode. The Lori and Leni parts make me laugh as they continue this fake test drive. Rita goes to work with a hunky man (their words) apparently Lynn Sr. doesn't care because he's in love with a van. (If this was a different show...)
Their plan to SUBLIMINALLY get the old van back doesn't work and he hears them talking about their plans. They tell him that he has gone mean and weird (yes) He takes it badly and leaves to complain to his van friends. ( Kind of makes you want to hope his family are changing the locks to the house as he speaks) There's a man with an older van and driving his family and seems all happy. Kind of wish they had him in a new van to make a point. This makes the strange men trade in their new vans because they are idiots. They could have just let their families into the new van. Lynn Sr. decides to come home and tells him they are going to get the old van back. He does let them into teh new van so they could have kept that but, this episode killed any sense of logic 3 minutes and 24 seconds in.
They find out the old van was sold for scrap, they could have just kept the new van , but this episode lost it's sanity at 3 minutes and 24 seconds in. Lori and Leni's sub plot was fun though. They start calling for the van like it can hear them because this episode lost any sanity at 3 minutes and 24 seconds in. They stop the van from getting crunched and back to status quo.
That's the episode. No, No. No. No. Like, I said, it lost any sanity it had at 3 minutes and 24 seconds in and it never recovered. The only saving grace was the part where Lori and Leni fake test drive a car, I'd rather that was the whole episode because the other part was awful. I'm going to compare it to "Out on Limo" a little, but there Lincoln is just an 11-year-old boy caught up in the fun of a limo and got a little over his head here, the father (the first episode where he gets a focus) seems to have went weird with a van. It made me want him to suffer, with Rita throwing him out the house and taking all the money. I don't think that should be a reaction to an episode. I don't know why they took it so easily.
This is where I'd say this episode is like 1/10, but Leni and Lori's part are a slight saving grace, he does figure out that he was acting like an idiot on his own and asks for forgiveness. Yeah it shows a moral of family and togetherness ,and the old van they felt was like a member of the family. It's alright in that respect (there's an episode of Big City Greens that does this better). There's things someone might like from this episode, but it wasn't my taste. I give it 4.5/10. (Also take some of the things I said above as a little tongue in cheek, for effect)
Tune in next time, when we test drive a car all day and get lost in Topeka.
Previously on "The Loud House" : Lincoln fights for older people and wins , what? You can read about episode 2 Here.
Quick explainer as to why I'm not doing episode 3a: Well, if you were following along with my season 1 posts ,I did the same here as well. Where I started writing about this show, out of order. I used a randomzier site to pick episodes for me. Now, that I am doing them in order, there will be some pairs that are split. The good thing is there are two lone pairs than can be paired together so, they won't lone anymore!
If you want to read about episode 3a "Baby Steps" you can read that here it's paired with Episode 7a. Click Here if you want that post. I'll point to episode 5a' when I get to 5b.
Episode 3b : Brawl in the Family
The episode starts with Lincoln whistling and going to the kitchen but Luna is standing there ,in the way. Luna says the kitchen is off limits because Lori is in there "cooling off" because of a fight. (Not sure why she couldn't cool off somewhere else, or she's mad at Leni not Lincoln , so let him in?) Lisa offers him the idea of eating food from the couch. (what?) After taking a bite from "couch beagle" he gets sick and wants to go to the bathroom, but Lana is standing there in the way. (why, are people in the way today, move!) She says that Leni is cooling off in there. ( The Louds have one bathroom so, maybe she should cool off somewhere else?, like her room or outside, take a walk, something else?) Next Lincoln wants to watch a monster truck rally (it's Sunday Sunday Sunday?) but apparently can't watch TV because the Leni and Lori's fight. (What?) So, what is this fight about? So Lori got a dress and Leni has the same dress. (almost as if clothes are mass produced) This fight about them having the same dress. (why?)
Lincoln decides to say "hey let's them figure it out". ( That was good Nickelodeon game show) The other sisters say but out and leave things alone. To be fair, yes, that's not bad idea. On the other hand, the fight really shouldn't be disrupting everyone's life because that doesn't make sense. Lincoln's characterization has been so far, someone who takes charge and wants to get things done so, that he does here. He goes to Lori and Leni to stop the fight, and doesn't listen to them calling him name to which we'll find out that they already resolved their fight.
Unintentionally, by saying things he shouldn't have repeated, he causes a new fight. The other sisters are mad at him for causing another fight. (Again they are way to invested into this fight) What happens next is more comical than anything else. The sisters decide the best way to work this fight out is to go way beyond over the top in managing it. Logically, it's stupid. I mean, they'd rather disrupt whole lives really to contain two sisters fighting, like why? There's 13 people in this house that's absolute madness. For some reason, they have to disrupt Lincoln's living. This whole fight is being treated as if it's two countries and trying contain a fight, but they also disrupt a neutral country in the process.
It's also funny because Lori and Leni are being kept apart as if to make sure they don't even know the other exists. Again, this is most ridiculous way of taking of a fight ever. It would be probably better if Lori and Leni just yelled it out and got it all out than whatever this is. Hey look it's the parents, maybe they'll be of use. (Right?) No, because they are doing two dinners so, that Lori and Leni dine separately. (The parents aiding this madness and are of no use here) So, yeah this is episode is funny, it feels different to even the last episode in the series before this one. Anyway, we are only half way through.
There are points where this episode's plots could be resolved, like the parents could say hey dumb kids stop being dumb. (not like that but yeah like that) They've decided to go along with the madness because something. The sisters take Lincoln's sheets and blanket because they don't have other sheets and blankets? (In a house with 13 people, you'd probably have Extra sheets and blankets, but alright then) You'd think this episode is setting Lincoln up to just snap. Cut. Lincoln is the only character in this episode not accept the rules of this episode, he's trying to play in the normal rules of logic and everyone else has formed their own logic. He's the straight man to the absurdity around him or he's the absurdity and they're being logical and our brains melted. (owww)
Why did they use the sheets? To divide the room where Leni and Lori sleep. Lincoln does snap, and tears down that wall! Luan says this has to run it's course, wait there, they aren't letting it run it's course, in away all this ducking and accommodation is prolonging the fight. That's if we use logic. Lincoln decides to make it where Luan and Luna switch with Lori and Leni to have them the other rooms. Episode resolved fight over. No, These past two paragraphs are about 1 minute of episode, it's not over yet. Luna warns that Lincoln is playing with fire. Now, if she know that this could be bad idea, then why didn't she do anything change it, like not sleep in the room with Lori, and sleep on the couch or something.
Since Luan and Luna were split with Lori and Leni, this happens. The next morning, Luna and Luan start arguing over who is right in the Lori and Leni fight. This has become World War I. Where Allies join countries' sides. Now the remaining sisters continue their whatever this is, and Lincoln loses access to his room because we have 4 more minutes. The parents are back in the episode and decided to take the baby and lock themselves in their room. (totally useless) Now, the twins start fighting. Now, they've been shown to fight before, so never mind, this episode is playing by its own rules, let's proceed.
Lynn and Lucy start to argue next which is funny because if they weren't doing all this madness, they wouldn't have gotten stressed to start fighting because Lynn wanted to take a break. Since Lisa can't fight with her roommate, she and Lana get into over the this chart Lisa was using to do threat levels like this was national security. Then in boils over into fight cloud. Lincoln calls our hero, Clyde, so he can get the heck out of there.
Lincoln comes back home the next day, and apparently everything is all fixed and normal. He wonders how everything is fixed. (Well you see you Lincoln, this is an eleven minute episode and we have about a minute left so, it was time) They say it's because Lincoln left they were able to fix everything. He ends up starting another fight and nothing of value was lost.
I said this earlier this episode sets up Lincoln as the logical person to what otherwise, is madness. It's kind of like the was playing with it's slight formula, that Lincoln is "The man with the plan" and this show is about an eleven-year-old middle child trying to figure out life with 10 sisters. (This is before they changed the show, I'm not getting into that now) Yet, nope he can't this episode because they aren't working with logic. They'd rather spend their time trying to block two people from fighting then, you know leaving them alone and letting them solve it. Lincoln tries to fix it but, he makes it worse by saying something stupid but, he was only trying to use what he thought would work and forces worked against it.
This show does try to have morals per episode, but I can't really place one on this episode. Unless, they are using a mind trick to make us see how silly everything was, and make us critically think on what should have happened. I'd be amazed if that was the plan. I've seen this episode (I've seen every episode at least once) before and am do see how they really kept it mostly unpredictable.
Here's the hard thing, if you really are attached to the characters seeing them act like this kind of sours things, bur that's maybe this episode is shock. We've had a bunch episodes before this, if this was a season 1 , episode 3b, it would maybe be seen as early installment trying to find their feet episode. Since it's season 2 episode 3b, it's kind of whoa to the system. It gave me a lot to analyze.
My verdict on this episode is weird. I found it weird, I laughed it a few times because I'm surprised at how it escalates. I'm not sure who's reading this, fully. Like if you already have an opinion on this episode, I'm not here to change your mind. If you just want to see my thoughts or are peaked interest into the show , that's a different story.
I think it does a good job at keeping it's own logic and not breaking from it, it easily could have. It's tightly written where it hits marks. It tired something different and didn't get gold, but I can't say it was nothing of tact to it. Is it a mean episode? I don't think so, hold on I don't think the sisters wished any will on Lincoln they were working on their own logic and trying to do what they felt was best to figure out the situation, and Lincoln was trying to figure out what was best for the situation. The episode doesn't say the sisters were right or that Lincoln was right, it leaves it to the fact that in some cases nobody is right or wrong. Was the reason for the fight stupid? Yeah, but alot of fights are stupid and a lot fights have no reason to happen. (Heck, that's what Twitter runs on )
Many times fights don't work with logic that we perceive. Nobody knows the true answer of how to fix it, sometimes people try to help and it gets worse. It happens, it's annoying but it happens. The sisters were doing what they thought was best for the eldest two, Lincoln thought he was doing the best for them as well, in away this episode shows that they do care about each other, it's not going all hugs and sappy but it does that.
Luna and Luan taking sides shows they care enough to defend a sister in the fight. Lynn and Lucy got stressed tensions were high and snapped. It's a harsh episode, but it's really a mean episode. This is my opinion, like anything I'm doing, I try to have some objectivity, but things do have a subjective thing. It's not a masterpiece of television, and it's not the worst episode of "The Loud House" I still give that to "The Green House" . I'm giving this episode a 6/10.
More after the Jump.
I've already written about episode 5a, "Making the Grade" along with episode 18a Change of Heart so, here'e episode 5b.
Episode 5b : Vanstastic Voyage
So this episode also loses some logic because yes. The other thing about this episode is that status quo wins completely.
The Loud family has this really old van, (they only have one car, apparently too). The van has been shown before to be kind of in a state of failings. This episode, starts with the family pushing the van and kids wondering why they don't get a new car. Rita, the mother, says she would love to , but the father, older Lynn, has an attachment to his car. (Hmm family safe reason, ah yes) His father and grand father owned the thing.
There idea is convince the father to get a new van, SUBLIMINALLY. We get to see their creative ways to mind psych him. So, he gets a new family van. Breaking News: Train goes off the rails!
Oh no, Apparently, new car smell makes you an idiot. Lynn Sr. decides that a van that is supposed to have passengers shouldn't have passengers because reasons. He named the van Veronica because I'm sure he's gotten confused by the fumes. Lori asks if she can use the van (I'm not using that name) but he says no, he even says his wife couldn't drive it. If this was a different show, she would have either killed him or divorced then killed him.( Or killed him with the van to be creative) Yeah really, man says his wife can't drive the van. (She also could have kicked him out of the house and made him sleep in the van)
Anyway, Lori and Leni use a car for a test drive to get around since, Lori can't use the van. Meanwhile, Lynn Sr. got his van a vest. Yes, the man is disturbing me how obsessed he is becoming with the van. (Someone else needs to write this blog post, I'm out) He goes to other men who are creepy about their vans. Like there's a man who won't let his family in his van either. I( want this town's divorce rate to go up)
The kids decide to convince Dad, SUBLIMINALLY, to get the old van back. They could have also, convinced him let them in the new van. (Or stormed the van!) Again, Rita is being too kind in this episode. The Lori and Leni parts make me laugh as they continue this fake test drive. Rita goes to work with a hunky man (their words) apparently Lynn Sr. doesn't care because he's in love with a van. (If this was a different show...)
Their plan to SUBLIMINALLY get the old van back doesn't work and he hears them talking about their plans. They tell him that he has gone mean and weird (yes) He takes it badly and leaves to complain to his van friends. ( Kind of makes you want to hope his family are changing the locks to the house as he speaks) There's a man with an older van and driving his family and seems all happy. Kind of wish they had him in a new van to make a point. This makes the strange men trade in their new vans because they are idiots. They could have just let their families into the new van. Lynn Sr. decides to come home and tells him they are going to get the old van back. He does let them into teh new van so they could have kept that but, this episode killed any sense of logic 3 minutes and 24 seconds in.
They find out the old van was sold for scrap, they could have just kept the new van , but this episode lost it's sanity at 3 minutes and 24 seconds in. Lori and Leni's sub plot was fun though. They start calling for the van like it can hear them because this episode lost any sanity at 3 minutes and 24 seconds in. They stop the van from getting crunched and back to status quo.
That's the episode. No, No. No. No. Like, I said, it lost any sanity it had at 3 minutes and 24 seconds in and it never recovered. The only saving grace was the part where Lori and Leni fake test drive a car, I'd rather that was the whole episode because the other part was awful. I'm going to compare it to "Out on Limo" a little, but there Lincoln is just an 11-year-old boy caught up in the fun of a limo and got a little over his head here, the father (the first episode where he gets a focus) seems to have went weird with a van. It made me want him to suffer, with Rita throwing him out the house and taking all the money. I don't think that should be a reaction to an episode. I don't know why they took it so easily.
This is where I'd say this episode is like 1/10, but Leni and Lori's part are a slight saving grace, he does figure out that he was acting like an idiot on his own and asks for forgiveness. Yeah it shows a moral of family and togetherness ,and the old van they felt was like a member of the family. It's alright in that respect (there's an episode of Big City Greens that does this better). There's things someone might like from this episode, but it wasn't my taste. I give it 4.5/10. (Also take some of the things I said above as a little tongue in cheek, for effect)
Tune in next time, when we test drive a car all day and get lost in Topeka.
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