The Loud House Nickelodeon
Episode 21a: Fam Scam
This is one of those episodes where I can tell the ending from the plot, it's one of the oldest sitcom plots where you pretend a person, place, thing (nouns really) that aren't yours are yours. In fact, the sister show "The Casagrandes" did this plot in season 2. The main point of the plot then should be the execution, so the savvy viewers wouldn't be too turned off. A lot of this is more personal opinion as well. The plot is that Lola Loud decides to impress a new friend by pretending the Clyde's family is her family.
I can already figure that something will end up making her friend know that she was lying and will have to go from that. Like I said, the execution is somewhat the value. There's a new pageant girl named Cricket. (Weird that this has happened twice) Cricket apparently is well traveled and fancy and Lola wants to impress her. So Cricket offers to hang out with Lola, BUT, she wants to go Lola's house. Lola lives in the Loud House and her family kind of embarrasses her , so she needs a plan. (She has to kill her family, what? oh wrong show)
Thankfully, Clyde is at the Loud House to set the motion the action and Lola asks him to make a practice dinner for her and Cricket and yes, she's going to pretend she lives at Clyde's house and his dads who aren't there, are hers, and Clyde as her brother.
I kind of wish that she asked Clyde to join in the pretend party, to soften the blow, it also might have shortened the episode , just because Clyde has been shown to not hold in lies very well. Most of the episode is Lola going around and making sure nothing gets revealed. Now part A is a success, Lola gets away with it.
The 2nd half is slightly more interesting to me. It's Lola and Cricket at the mall and the Louds are there because plot reasons. She has to make sure that Cricket doesn't find out the truth. The interactions a fun to see. Cricket seeing Lincoln and Clyde and Lola making sure that she thinks Clyde is the brother, Lana walking by and confusing Cricket, which I mean is the best small joke in this episode.
Eventually though, she's found out thanks to a new curveball, Clyde's Dad's show up at the mall because the plot said there's like just 2 minutes left so get on that) and this ends up causing the story to die. Cricket is sad that Lola lied to her, Lola apologizes, and because a) it's not that kind of show b) we have like 45 seconds left c) the power of forgiveness; Cricket accepts it, and then gets to meet the Louds and gets eaten by Lana's snake. (Lana was arrested, trailed, found guilty, and executed for manslaughter with a deadly snake)
It's not a bad episode, though for me , I get own emotion when I figure that she's going to get figured out and kind of making me cringe at her actions, but it that doesn't take away from the episode, it's a solid, but I have seen this done slightly better, and also have seen it worse, so this is alright. I give 7/10.
More after the Jump
Episode 21B: Farm to Unstable
Nice, an episode about Liam. Liam's family farm is about to have the biggest event of the year, that brings in most of the business, because farm's are business, and I'm glad the show knows that. Liam had been doing the farm work himself, because his grandmother had an injury, apparently he has a father and a brother (whom we've never seen, don't see in this episode and will never be brought up again , most likely) and they are conveniently out of town.
Lincoln (oh dear Lincoln) gets an idea to help Liam on the farm, the other friends also agree. Then they find that farm work, including working with Liam's injured grandma (Rusty's job) is hard. Lincoln then gets a dumb idea to just buy farm goods in town and resell them instead of doing the work, because short cuts always work in this show. (sarcasm font) Rusty continues to watch the grandma while the plan gets stupider. Because the town has only one grocery store, that's closed for an hour, they end up at Flip's and buy stuff there because this is a stupid plan and they should feel bad.
Flip benefits because he got their money, so the real winner is Flip.(We all lose) Where's Liam in this episode? He just kind of dissolved for awhile, oh there he is. Now it's time for the food stand sale. It seems to be going well, but you know and I know it will go wrong some how, very soon. And there it is, everyone who bought stuff earlier come back angry because the food from Flip's was bad. (Well duh)
Well the farm is ruined thanks to Lincoln and the other's lazy plan and Liam will have to move away, this is sad episode, gonna miss him. Then Liam's grandma finds out that rutabaga came from Flip's because Lincoln and friends were lazy at putting stickers on. Liam and his "Memaw" go inside sad.
Oh now, Lincoln gets a less stupid idea to just do the work they should have done in the first place. They fix the problem and thus the power of friendship works and Liam's grandma is carried a way by a gopher. (what?)
Another episode that's simple. It's harder to write about because it's simple and you can see where the story is going because it just is written that way. It wasn't as much Liam focused as I thought it would be, but the episode is alright. There's nothing in that makes it bad, but you will possibly be slightly annoyed at how obvious the bad decisions can be. If this was a season 1 episode where you didn't know the characters as much , or this was Flip's introduction, or this is your first episode, then it might work be slightly less noticeable. If you the characters, and even episode structures, it just hits the beats. It also makes me question the going to Flip's decision when they even know him, even seeing Lincoln's face wince at saying to go there. It's a little strange to me. (Also I'm knocking off .5pts for the sardines thing, tired of shows saying sardines are bad)
Again, it's still an alright episode to watch, it's not bad, but it did give me questions. Anyway 7/10.
That's it for now, tune in next time, when I sue Flip, Lincoln, Stella, Zach, and Clyde, for trying to kill me with their bad food.
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