The Loud House Nickelodeon
Episode 7a: Present Tense
It's the father's birthday and the kids are working together on his gift- a scrap book. That's when Lori plot devices to tell her family that her friend, Carol, got her father a statue head made of chocolate. That's when kids the decide they need to get a better gift. (Gee, I wonder how this episode will go, if I already didn't know)
I guess since most of the episode is the kids trying to find a gift, I can do something else. I will say of the elements are somewhat interesting, like seeing how the kids always buy him a tie. The Lola buying a glass unicorn gag was fun. When they find a gift that they think will work, the episode laughs at them as there is 5 more minutes left in the story so (spin the wheel) someone else already got him the same exact gift, but better. (I want to feel the episode is being mean to the British somehow, so minus 0.1pts)
They decide to find their father a parasailing experience, but then (spin the wheel) the plot convince of showing another character's father getting the same gift and not having that much fun means back again. They get a gift to be with not Gordon Ramsey, but once again read the room and yeah back again. Flip offers an idea to ride him. (mom, pick me up, I'm scared)
The kids come home with some smatterings of ideas, and then here their father crying. (What's new?) They think he's sad because reasons, but if you've been paying attention, he found the scrapbook and is in love with it, so all is fine.
It's going to be a theme for some of the season 4 episodes where you, or at least I could tell where they were going to end up and pretty much the episodes were hitting beats it needed to hit. It had some spots of fun to make it work to appreciate the journey to the end. There's some alright journey in this, there's nothing that makes it bumpy or off putting. It's a simple all the Loud kids episode and it works to extent. I give it 7/10.
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Episode 7b: Any Given Sundae
I think this happens to be the first episode focused on Lilly where Lilly is the POV character to an extent. The parents are going to get the kids ice cream and Lilly's going to get her first taste ever. Lilly didn't get much of a lead role because she didn't talk and there's only so much you can do with her. I will add they at least didn't try an "Arthur" route when that series decided it would be fun to steal from Rugrats, but also be able to have the baby be able to talk to dogs/ animals.
They also decided to go real off end and artsy this episode. There are image spots of Lilly's fantasies. There's only one thing that has to happen for Lilly to get ice cream- her siblings have to be good. So that's what she has to do: keep them in order. Lilly does a sibling meeting call, but since they don't understand her they think she's just being cute. There's a lot of fun views to see how she sees the world, it's fun.
Since the siblings didn't listen to her, she takes the work into her own hands and making sure there's no slip up for the parents. I do like the almost crudely drawn Louds, I would have watched an whole episode in that style. (adding 0.3pts) She successfully gets everything to stay in order and now they can get ice cream.
Also apparently, the baby can't talk but can tell time somehow. (minus 0.1pt) The next part of the episode she finds out that the ice cream store closes at 5pm, and it's like 4:30pm. (Good thing there's only ice cream store or place to buy ice cream in the entire town) Also somehow Lilly is able to figure out directions on a gps on a phone, uhhhh ok.
She is able to find a solution to every problem that has shown up, and then she gets her chance to her first ice cream. (I want to note that Lynn Sr. said this the last Loud that will be getting this so, he must have had that vescesmety) Then a bird decides that this episode is too happy and she's not able to have her first ice cream. (minus 1pt for the diaper thing) She is able to figure out that there is another place in this town that has ice cream for sale. So she's able to have her sundae after all.
For the first episode where Lilly is the main POV character, it's not bad. I like how they went creative on the art and looks like they had some fun. They didn't make Lilly be able to talk in some way, though she might have been a little above average in how a kid her age would act, but all the Louds are that way. It takes a simple idea and does it well then it even finds away to make more challenges for Lilly to not give up and overcome so it's not just the whole episode of her doing one thing for her goal. It's good. I give it 7.3/10.
That's it for now, tune in next time when Babies Attack.
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