The Loud House Nickelodeon
Episode 10a: Leave No Van Behind
The family van they call , Vanzilla, has broken down again... this time they think it's dead. Lana, who has been shown to have an attachment to it, and the father who also has an attachment to it both don't want it be rid of and want to find a way to give it another chance. This is the Loud House episode to focus on the family and the van, this one is much better than the last one. (Don't get started on Vantastic Voyage again)
Given a stay of execution from the governor- meaning Rita, Lana and Lynn Sr. recruit Lynn Sr's father, the OG owner of the van, and three go and find out how to save the ole girl. This episode is really fun. I like how it's a nice father-father-daughter/granddaughter episode of these three working together on something they love. There are some fun scenes of the creative ways they try to fix the van.
The other Louds showed up in starter of the episode and bring a little fun to it. It broke down at the car wash and they were stuck and that brought some funny moments. Lucy had Boris there to uh bury the van, which uh what? Then the episode pares everyone else down to just Lana, father and grandfather. It does it well with a natural flow.
Flip is also in this episode but provides purpose he actually helps the trio find out that the van isn't a FUNG but a FUNGO. (Not currently ,it had no go) Which is interesting the season 7 of the show decided to have both Mr.Coconuts lore and now van lore. The van's creator's story goes like many auto businesses, he made a van because he thought people would want them for large families but he didn't do it in 1987... shame.
The creator has decided to live inside a dead factory where he wonders sadly about why the van market didn't work for him. (Mr. Fungo wishes he was Henry Ford or should waited until 1987.) Lana, Lynn Sr. , and Gramps make their way into the factory and they tell him they love his van unlike the others and he's happy. They work together to make a new replacement part for Vanzilla. The van works now and everyone is happy.
This episode is charming, I like how it flows and the story is interesting. I like the van lore, it's strange but it works. Though it's interesting that the show decided to rebrand the van as Fungo, for some reason. It picked a great trio to lead the episode and it was a lot of fun. I give it 7.5/10
Episode 10b: Sponsor Tripped
In some countries soccer is called football, Lynn and her team of Maddie, Margo, Paula, and interestingly adding a new girl for this one named Carla have just won their match. (In soccer it's called a match) The Burpin' Burger has decided to sponsor Lynn and she gets some free stuff too. She wonders if her team mates can get sponsored too, but is told no because they had money to fund her only.
Lynn's character through season 5 and 6 has become more team focused in her team sports to where this is another moment showing that. She decides to encourage them to help them get sponsors too and free stuff. Margo gets one from Flip's and there's a fun scene where she holds her own against Flip on terms of sponsorship. Maddie gets a Gus' Games and Grubs sponsorship, Carla gets a sponsorship from Dairy Land. Paula gets one from Duds and Dudes. Things go well, the girls share in their free stuff and perks which I think was also a nice touch. They win soccer matches and yeah that was nice.
Until it wasn't. The episode doesn't take a turn of the friends going too far into taking perks, trying to get out of doing what the sponsors wanted, or infighting. Instead, the sponsors apparently make the girls do weird stuff for the big match. Lynn has to wear a burger costume, Paula has to wear a suit and dress shoe (one shoe), Carla has to drink cheese smoothies (eww), and Maddie has to carry around a blast cannon thing. This effects their game and they start to lose as things go south. That's why soccer players don't whirl around signs during games.
After the first half goes badly, they decide that the best plan is to just stop being sponsored and go play the game they love. This episode is fairly good, has some fun moments. The announcer guys from the past few Lynn sports episodes have shown up again and they had an interesting thing going on there this episode. The episode's conflict really comes into play near the part where they have to do the weird stuff and they play through it and decide that they will stop. It's not a hard moral edged episode, which is interesting for this show. I give this one 7.5/10.
That's it for now, tune in next time when we get sponsored by Sprint. What? What do you mean, Sprint is gone? When? Fine, we when get sponsored by Sears.
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