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Episode 24a: Day of the Dad
Apparently, Lori hasn't met Arturo at all even though he's been around many times and she has seen Bobby since the man randomly appeared in season 4 of the Loud House. But sure, plot force reasons. They even went to back that few seconds of A Casagrande Christmas and showed Lori had to go to the bathroom and thanks to plot reasons there didn't meet him. Also, also, she apparently has never even seen what he looks like, and Bobby has never shown a picture of his girlfriend of at least two years to his father. So apparently, this going starting well.
It's raining (because drama) and the two of them "meet" but don't the other one is which and they start to argue. She pushes him out of the way and gets on a cab. The episode remembers that Bobby got a new space at the end of The Casagrandes season 3. I'm glad the episode isn't trying to make me feel like I've fully lost it. (eh +0.2pts, it's still not doing well) She makes it Bobby's place and gets freshened up, she hears that Bobby's dad is come over and oh no! the man she sees when peaking out the door is the same man she pushed out of the way! Oh no! Not that! She's going to apologize and this will clear up stuff. Oh wait, we are like 3 minutes in. So that means we get plan B, Lori freaks out and decides to disguise herself instead. (I need some Tylenol, this is getting painful)
Bobby is confused, thankfully, and apparently Arturo just doesn't care. (He's probably thinking of his Llama) Lori decides to rub her face with spicy mayo since a car ran over a puddle washing the green foot cream off her face and she was in a hurry and rubbed mayo on her face. (Because we really need to stretch this out) She runs to Margareta to help give her a new look. The episode decides to play with me, I'm on to it. Bobby was going to show his father some pictures of Lori, you know, something I think he would have done a long time ago! (Almost half way through) Lori is able to get the phone away from him, then she appears showing a new look. The dinner seems to go well though.
Then she has to go. I wonder if she changed her look for that, she's gonna have to do it or keep it that way because well yeah, when she has to see him again which will be.... now. Bobby calls Lori and says that his father wants to see her again the next day. Lisa (yay) comes in with an idea where she could Men-In-Black the memory, with a device, of their bad meeting, because Lori apologizing would be too easy. (ding)
There's still 3 minutes left. Oh good it went wrong and Lori has wiped a lot of his memory. (yay) Ironic, I too would like to forget something. She calls Lisa to help, but the plot wants to be harder so the thing gets destroyed instead. She ends up pushing Arturo down when he seems to be having a sense of remembering THE INCIDENT that started this episode in the first pace and yes he gets his memory back. Lori then recaps everything to them (not to us, thankfully) and she then says she should have apologized in the first place. (curling into a ball and crying now) Then it ends with Lori accidently pushing the pizza. which is some how still very hot, on to him and him screaming it's hot. (On the one hand, the last time I saw Arturo was that bad Llama Casagrandes episode so, him getting pushed, memory erased and burned hmmm it's tough but fair)
It's probably ,at least, for someone else, an alright episode. but I didn't really find it that good mostly because it made me wonder more questions than I should. There are somethings I could accept, in this show, but the idea that Bobby had never shown his father any pictures of the love of his life and with the amount of time, that just doesn't make any sense. It can't even be handwaved with "oh he's an aloof character" because that's the one person he consistently communicates with and has mentioned her a lot. Explain to me how that makes sense. I can maybe accept that Lori hadn't met Arturo because golf college, but that's holding on by a thin string, because I also can't believe Bobby wouldn't have shown pictures of his dad to her at some time, even a snap of him, Ronnie Anne, and Arturo doing something. Bobby and Lori have been shown to be the sickeningly sweet glommy couple, the episode is going to really go out and say they don't even know what each other looks like?
It would have been better if it was Lori thinking that Arturo didn't like her because he to be distant around her or something, and have it be a misunderstanding, or really almost anything else. I'm saying the episode weakened itself at the start and never could get back on track to me. It's also hard to go along with the drawn out, just apologize already thing, it just felt a like a slog here. The only things I liked in the episode were they at least kept Bobby's apartment as a thing. The Lincoln getting cut off running gag even bugged me, just by existing in this episode. Even Lisa, my favorite Loud sister, save the episode because her invention just prolongs the episode to keep it going. I'm giving it 5/10 and going on with my day.
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Episode 24b: Small Blunder
It's a Lilly episode. She has show 'n tell in 2-year-old preschool. She brought a Blarney toy, then some other girl brings a better toy. The it's a montage of stuff Lilly brings then someone does something better. ( I call that Chevy and then Ford does something better-ouch) Then Lilly goes mad and tries to get sibling help. Which is at least cute. Lilly finds out that Lisa has a shrink ray, which going by the plot description, Lilly will take. (Mom! They're running the Lisa's birthday is her pass key to her bunker reference into the ground!)
Todd catches Lilly, but plot needs him to be easily distracted by candy. She brings the thing and apparently it's been Peanut Butter'd. (I hope it was Skippy) Anyway, it does work later and she's able to get praise. Now the other young children want to play with it and now everyone has gotten shrunk. The Loud House has done a shrining episode, we've reached peak plot. The Guinea pig is giant and wants to chase the tiny children. Lilly finds a toy plane and is able to get back to the ray.
The day is saved, after Lily messed it up in the first place, and everyone is back to normal. The next day, more show n' tell. (Why does this class have so many of them?) She brings a box that she thought was empty. It was a teleportation box, which ends with her entire class ending up in Lisa's room.
This episode was wacky. I'm also happy that they did a pre-school plot that didn't feel to Rugrats or those strange episodes of "Arthur" where it was Kate and Pal because someone thought that was a good idea. While not an idea I was craving from this show, it was at least not bad. They did a shrinking episode, which might rub some the wrong way because it's another wacky scenario, but at least it stayed in the confines of not trying to insult the viewer. (harping about that other episode) This was a better Lilly episode than the one from season 5.
There's really not much else I can say about it, it's fine, it's not wow, but I'll accept it, it's not horrible either. I give it 6.5/10.
That's it for now, tune in next time when we use our mind eraser to wipe out our memories of some stuff.
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