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Previously on the Loud House, Lincoln needs his memories back! You can read that here.
Now to episode 8
Episode 8a : No Such Luck
So, with this being a family that would make "7th Heaven" quiver, and make "Eight is Enough" go and say "damn straight eight was enough" it means they would have lots of events that they'd want the others to attend. Lincoln doesn't want to attend these events because his schedule is over packed. A fair and understandable point. He manages to avoid all his sisters but Lynn who wonders if he's going to attend her softball game. Lincoln tries to tell her that he doesn't want to go but she tells him that he's the only one who hasn't gone, which he explains that he had to be at other events.
So he goes to the game. This show has shown before that Lynn has superstitions like what is known for sports players to have so, they bring that up here in this episode. This game doesn't go well, and Lynn says Lincoln should stay back because he's bad luck because her team lost this game, after winning others. (Science has gone too far) She doesn't want him to attend anymore games, so he's lucked out, he was tired of going places, now he has one less place to go.
Leni asks Lincoln if he could attend her fashion show, Lynn warns Leni that no don't invite him, he's bad luck. Here's where Lincoln gets an idea , an awful idea, Lincoln got a wonderful awful idea. He goes along with the idea that he's bad luck so, he can get out of events. (He could have just said Hey I don't feel like going, or we can have some people learning about personal time, Lincoln could have found an activity to do. I don't know better than this idea) Lana asks Lincoln if he could go to her alligator wrestling event. (Pause. Are the alligators wrestling each other, or is she wrestling the alligators?) Leni tells Lana that's he bad luck and yeah. Leni, sure yeah, I can be convinced that she'd along with this, but why does Lana think this is true, later Lola maybe I could see, Luan, I'm not sure. Lisa even says there's no such thing which is in character for once. Lori demands he goes to her golf thing because the family supports each other. (remember that) Lincoln does this thing where he fakes really badly that he tripped and messed up the golf clubs. Lisa and Lori believe this. (because they're idiots, apparently)
Lincoln gets is alone time and montage. The next morning Lincoln finds out he has to eat breakfast in the living room as his parents make him eat in there because bad luck. I was going to save this for my ending, but I remember when I first watched this episode when it actually premiered and this the point, because this show did have some predictability to it, where I thought the parents had figured out that he was doing something and decided to play the game. It wasn't out of the realm of possibility of this show.
Like when later on, when they go to a movie, they say he can't go because bad luck. (Again, I thought that's how they were playing the game) Lincoln seems to be less happy about being unlucky now. They also reused animation, good for them. Next, Lincoln finds out that they've locked him out of his room because reasons. If you were to place logic in this, besides Lynn, wouldn't they have noticed that nothing of bad luck has happened in the past couple days? Also, forgetting that, if this part of them being in the joke, then fine, kind of fine.
Lincoln has to sleep outside and they lock him out of the house. Here's where I thought the episode was going in the place happens, he admits that he was lying. Then Lynn brings up that if he's bad luck then why did the team win the next game. Rest of the family takes this as logic. (They how baseball and softball work right?Like are better teams, you know that right? Like other teams can win games, it happens. Why is everyone being an idiot this episode?)
Lincoln hides in a squirrel mascot costume, and hey Charlie Brown clothes flying off reference, but with Lynn. (Alright episode you get something for that) This game isn't going well, until it doesn't and Lynn's team wins. Lynn doesn't think Lincoln is bad luck and they apologize but they make him wear the costume.
Like I said, I really thought they were going to do the plot with the predicable oh let's play on Lincoln until he admits he's lying then they don't and run it literally it's quite surprising. I honestly give it something for having the will to do that risk.
If this episode is still trying to fit into the show's concepts of having a moral, what was the moral? Saying that someone should have some time to themselves and private time is selfish would be a bad message. If the moral was Lincoln shouldn't lie, to get what he wants, then well they messed up resolving that.
"Lori demands he goes to her golf thing because the family supports each other" Remember when I said remember that? (funny) She and the others didn't seem so supportive of him later on, so that doesn't work does it. For the characters themselves it does seem like in this episode they all got really stupid at the same time. Lucy, I'd believe in believing in back luck, Lana, I can't see it? Lisa is complex because on hand why would she deny science because of Lincoln's fake trip? On the other, she's still a four-year-old so, maybe that triggers something. Leni would believe that Lincoln was the pope if you told her such so, sure. Why do the parents believe this?
It's kind of funny, because his plan works just way TOO well where everyone else thinks yeah he is bad luck. The part where there are things he wants to do with his family, but can't is where he starts to understand that this wasn't a fully thought out idea. The family, for some reason, then starts thinking he's getting more unlucky, without any evidence of it, and pushes him out of his room, house, etc. feels a little whoa. In a funny way, if they went with the predictable (or least what I thought was happening) The family (minus Lynn even) playing a trick on him because they figured out he was lying would have worked.
I don't mind harsh things in media. Peanuts is built with harshness mostly with Charlie Brown, but other characters experience harsh things as well. I don't mind "The Loud House" doing it because sometimes things are harsh. I just feel they didn't how end this episode the idea that Lincoln goes to the game in disguise to prove that he's unlucky then his family believes it because Lynn's team got lucky at the end then, the family's apology doesn't fit. It didn't feel like they were sorry for supporting him because even if they thought it he was bad luck. Then squirrel suit thing at the beach at the end shows they learned nothing, compared to Lincoln who learned something. That's kind of mess.
If they had done it with Lynn's team losing again, and they see Lincoln feeling rejected and maybe actually doing his idea of moving into the bunker they'd see they'd rather have Lincoln with bad luck because care more about him than their perceived fortunes. Even the Simpsons in the non-golden seasons would have done that. You could still have that be a slightly harsh episode with an ending at least shows Everyone learned something.
For the humor, it's not fully episode, but I can't say it's empty of jokes and humor. You can do a Peanuts reference and I'll bite on that like fish on a worm. In it's own logic it's working on it's funny because it's an overreaction that story telling allows versus realism. Back to "The Simpsons" the gag of Homer strangling Bart is an overreaction putting real life into the story, it's horrifying but it's not treated something real and we can be detached from. If this was real, we would be mostly horrifying that a family is so superstitious they'd throw their own kid out of the house and etc but, the episode never treats it as a serious matter, because they know and we know that this episode is self contained, next episode everything normal and status quo. I don't hate this episode, it's not a favorite, it's re watchable, it's silly, it doesn't get a heavy reaction from me compared that Van episode with bugged me more. I give it 6/10.
more after the Jump
Episode 8b : Frog Wild
I really like Lana's character and this episode brings her some more charm. I'm starting off here this like plot of being against dissecting live frogs but, it's going to preach at you and say you're bad person if you do this or did this. It's not doing any of that and it doesn't use Lana as some sort mouthpiece for that. Lana finds out that Lincoln's class is going to be doing this traditional (rather) action, and doesn't really like this idea.
Lincoln was excited but Lana tells him why she doesn't like the idea. She puts it in her own personal terms. She shows Lincoln how she met her friend Hops (the frog). I like the classic movie style use for her film. The film explains how they get along as friends and she and her frog friend get along. It's sweet and shows her character side of caring. It works to convincing him.
They end up going to "rescue" (steal) the frogs. We also learn that Lana knows about locks. It's great to see these two working together again in an episode. (Check out "Toads and Tiaras" ) They get the frogs out of the classroom. Now of course, the frogs weren't used to being in the wild, these are those frogs that were probably born for the purpose of dissection. Then they take them home, until they think of a plan.
The Principal, Principal Huggins, wants to find the frog hero by breaking the 4th amendment and searching everyone's house. (uhhh I'm calling the police) Man has no warrant, they should sue. They make it home and have to hide the frogs like they are hiding booze in the 1920's. The Man comes to their house and they should have asked for his warrant. The episode has some suspense to it as, they try to keep the fact that frogs are in their house while this man searches.
I love the part where Huggins searches the rooms and first he gets attacked by Lucy's bats, then executed by Lori and Leni's door. (This episode is shocking!) The tension of them trying to get away with it makes it very suspenseful. They do get caught , because this is "The Loud House". So, they get a new way to convince him and the teacher to not do the dissections after all, by doing Lana's film. The frog s live! (Also frog mating joke!)
This episode is great, the team work of these is once again, great even better than in T&T, and I like that episode. It's a superb episode with it's humor, sweetness, and has everything going for it. We get nice expansion on Lana's character. Lincoln shows his caring brother side and it all works out. So, yeah 10/10.
Thanks for reading, tune in next time, when we get Principal Huggins arrested for not having a warrant.
Previously on the Loud House, Lincoln needs his memories back! You can read that here.
Now to episode 8
So, with this being a family that would make "7th Heaven" quiver, and make "Eight is Enough" go and say "damn straight eight was enough" it means they would have lots of events that they'd want the others to attend. Lincoln doesn't want to attend these events because his schedule is over packed. A fair and understandable point. He manages to avoid all his sisters but Lynn who wonders if he's going to attend her softball game. Lincoln tries to tell her that he doesn't want to go but she tells him that he's the only one who hasn't gone, which he explains that he had to be at other events.
So he goes to the game. This show has shown before that Lynn has superstitions like what is known for sports players to have so, they bring that up here in this episode. This game doesn't go well, and Lynn says Lincoln should stay back because he's bad luck because her team lost this game, after winning others. (Science has gone too far) She doesn't want him to attend anymore games, so he's lucked out, he was tired of going places, now he has one less place to go.
Leni asks Lincoln if he could attend her fashion show, Lynn warns Leni that no don't invite him, he's bad luck. Here's where Lincoln gets an idea , an awful idea, Lincoln got a wonderful awful idea. He goes along with the idea that he's bad luck so, he can get out of events. (He could have just said Hey I don't feel like going, or we can have some people learning about personal time, Lincoln could have found an activity to do. I don't know better than this idea) Lana asks Lincoln if he could go to her alligator wrestling event. (Pause. Are the alligators wrestling each other, or is she wrestling the alligators?) Leni tells Lana that's he bad luck and yeah. Leni, sure yeah, I can be convinced that she'd along with this, but why does Lana think this is true, later Lola maybe I could see, Luan, I'm not sure. Lisa even says there's no such thing which is in character for once. Lori demands he goes to her golf thing because the family supports each other. (remember that) Lincoln does this thing where he fakes really badly that he tripped and messed up the golf clubs. Lisa and Lori believe this. (because they're idiots, apparently)
Lincoln gets is alone time and montage. The next morning Lincoln finds out he has to eat breakfast in the living room as his parents make him eat in there because bad luck. I was going to save this for my ending, but I remember when I first watched this episode when it actually premiered and this the point, because this show did have some predictability to it, where I thought the parents had figured out that he was doing something and decided to play the game. It wasn't out of the realm of possibility of this show.
Like when later on, when they go to a movie, they say he can't go because bad luck. (Again, I thought that's how they were playing the game) Lincoln seems to be less happy about being unlucky now. They also reused animation, good for them. Next, Lincoln finds out that they've locked him out of his room because reasons. If you were to place logic in this, besides Lynn, wouldn't they have noticed that nothing of bad luck has happened in the past couple days? Also, forgetting that, if this part of them being in the joke, then fine, kind of fine.
Lincoln has to sleep outside and they lock him out of the house. Here's where I thought the episode was going in the place happens, he admits that he was lying. Then Lynn brings up that if he's bad luck then why did the team win the next game. Rest of the family takes this as logic. (They how baseball and softball work right?Like are better teams, you know that right? Like other teams can win games, it happens. Why is everyone being an idiot this episode?)
Lincoln hides in a squirrel mascot costume, and hey Charlie Brown clothes flying off reference, but with Lynn. (Alright episode you get something for that) This game isn't going well, until it doesn't and Lynn's team wins. Lynn doesn't think Lincoln is bad luck and they apologize but they make him wear the costume.
Like I said, I really thought they were going to do the plot with the predicable oh let's play on Lincoln until he admits he's lying then they don't and run it literally it's quite surprising. I honestly give it something for having the will to do that risk.
If this episode is still trying to fit into the show's concepts of having a moral, what was the moral? Saying that someone should have some time to themselves and private time is selfish would be a bad message. If the moral was Lincoln shouldn't lie, to get what he wants, then well they messed up resolving that.
"Lori demands he goes to her golf thing because the family supports each other" Remember when I said remember that? (funny) She and the others didn't seem so supportive of him later on, so that doesn't work does it. For the characters themselves it does seem like in this episode they all got really stupid at the same time. Lucy, I'd believe in believing in back luck, Lana, I can't see it? Lisa is complex because on hand why would she deny science because of Lincoln's fake trip? On the other, she's still a four-year-old so, maybe that triggers something. Leni would believe that Lincoln was the pope if you told her such so, sure. Why do the parents believe this?
It's kind of funny, because his plan works just way TOO well where everyone else thinks yeah he is bad luck. The part where there are things he wants to do with his family, but can't is where he starts to understand that this wasn't a fully thought out idea. The family, for some reason, then starts thinking he's getting more unlucky, without any evidence of it, and pushes him out of his room, house, etc. feels a little whoa. In a funny way, if they went with the predictable (or least what I thought was happening) The family (minus Lynn even) playing a trick on him because they figured out he was lying would have worked.
I don't mind harsh things in media. Peanuts is built with harshness mostly with Charlie Brown, but other characters experience harsh things as well. I don't mind "The Loud House" doing it because sometimes things are harsh. I just feel they didn't how end this episode the idea that Lincoln goes to the game in disguise to prove that he's unlucky then his family believes it because Lynn's team got lucky at the end then, the family's apology doesn't fit. It didn't feel like they were sorry for supporting him because even if they thought it he was bad luck. Then squirrel suit thing at the beach at the end shows they learned nothing, compared to Lincoln who learned something. That's kind of mess.
If they had done it with Lynn's team losing again, and they see Lincoln feeling rejected and maybe actually doing his idea of moving into the bunker they'd see they'd rather have Lincoln with bad luck because care more about him than their perceived fortunes. Even the Simpsons in the non-golden seasons would have done that. You could still have that be a slightly harsh episode with an ending at least shows Everyone learned something.
For the humor, it's not fully episode, but I can't say it's empty of jokes and humor. You can do a Peanuts reference and I'll bite on that like fish on a worm. In it's own logic it's working on it's funny because it's an overreaction that story telling allows versus realism. Back to "The Simpsons" the gag of Homer strangling Bart is an overreaction putting real life into the story, it's horrifying but it's not treated something real and we can be detached from. If this was real, we would be mostly horrifying that a family is so superstitious they'd throw their own kid out of the house and etc but, the episode never treats it as a serious matter, because they know and we know that this episode is self contained, next episode everything normal and status quo. I don't hate this episode, it's not a favorite, it's re watchable, it's silly, it doesn't get a heavy reaction from me compared that Van episode with bugged me more. I give it 6/10.
more after the Jump
Episode 8b : Frog Wild
I really like Lana's character and this episode brings her some more charm. I'm starting off here this like plot of being against dissecting live frogs but, it's going to preach at you and say you're bad person if you do this or did this. It's not doing any of that and it doesn't use Lana as some sort mouthpiece for that. Lana finds out that Lincoln's class is going to be doing this traditional (rather) action, and doesn't really like this idea.
Lincoln was excited but Lana tells him why she doesn't like the idea. She puts it in her own personal terms. She shows Lincoln how she met her friend Hops (the frog). I like the classic movie style use for her film. The film explains how they get along as friends and she and her frog friend get along. It's sweet and shows her character side of caring. It works to convincing him.
They end up going to "rescue" (steal) the frogs. We also learn that Lana knows about locks. It's great to see these two working together again in an episode. (Check out "Toads and Tiaras" ) They get the frogs out of the classroom. Now of course, the frogs weren't used to being in the wild, these are those frogs that were probably born for the purpose of dissection. Then they take them home, until they think of a plan.
The Principal, Principal Huggins, wants to find the frog hero by breaking the 4th amendment and searching everyone's house. (uhhh I'm calling the police) Man has no warrant, they should sue. They make it home and have to hide the frogs like they are hiding booze in the 1920's. The Man comes to their house and they should have asked for his warrant. The episode has some suspense to it as, they try to keep the fact that frogs are in their house while this man searches.
I love the part where Huggins searches the rooms and first he gets attacked by Lucy's bats, then executed by Lori and Leni's door. (This episode is shocking!) The tension of them trying to get away with it makes it very suspenseful. They do get caught , because this is "The Loud House". So, they get a new way to convince him and the teacher to not do the dissections after all, by doing Lana's film. The frog s live! (Also frog mating joke!)
This episode is great, the team work of these is once again, great even better than in T&T, and I like that episode. It's a superb episode with it's humor, sweetness, and has everything going for it. We get nice expansion on Lana's character. Lincoln shows his caring brother side and it all works out. So, yeah 10/10.
Thanks for reading, tune in next time, when we get Principal Huggins arrested for not having a warrant.
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