The Loud House Nickelodeon
Episode 18a: Let's Break a Deal
The concept of taking Morpheus (imagine naming your kid that) from the morticians club, and Rusty who is one of Lincoln's friends and pushing them together in one episode is an interesting idea. I am slightly bothered they did this and not an episode with Lincoln and one of his friends are aren't Clyde. I do hope that this works better than than the Dante episode did.
Rusty was playing the Dance Battle game and finds that he's still not beating the highest score from a player named "GrooveMaster 15" then he walks off to get some pizza. Meanwhile, Lucy , Boris, and Morpheus are at the same place waiting for pizza. I will mention that Rusty seems to be used without the need of Lincoln being there, but Morpheus seems to need her in shot.
Morpheus decides to use a spell to cause their pizza to hurry up. (We have spells now) Rusty sees this witchcraft and decides to check this out. Lucy seems annoyed by Rusty, which is a natural reaction and she introduces Rusty to Morpheus. Rusty wants a spell to help him get the highest score in Dance Battle. I'm going to take a point off for cringe and cringe Rusty might do in the episode after this. Anyway he offers a discount at his father's store and gets a deal done and is able to take first place.
Rusty enjoys the power. (What could go wrong?) He decides to offer deals with him and Morpheus decides to allow a contract for one day of wishes (like a genie) in exchange for something he wants Rusty to do later. Rusty asks for a moustache which fits something he's wanted for a long time, then helps with the store's sell. (Finally Denim zombies) Rusty wants to interfere with true love, and Cosmo and Wanda wouldn't allow this. Morpheus stabs him with words.
They have finally made genderbend Rusty, I'm scared. Rusty gets a date, at night, I wonder how that will play into the plot? Oh yeah, that promise thing. Apparently Morpheus wants Rusty's hair, why would he want that? (To line his bird cage?) Of course foreshadowed earlier and one of Rusty's favorite features in the show has been his hair. (To Rusty, everything about him is favorite feature) Rusty refuses and I think forgot he messing with someone who has the power of magic. And that's what Morpheus does, decides to mess with Rusty using magic.
I do have to say Morpheus , while it is strange is in the right since Rusty made a deal and maybe shouldn't have. It gets to the point where Rusty decides he has to honor his part of the deal and shaves his own head. Funny enough, Morpheus only needed one piece of hair, ok then.
That's the episode. An odd match up and a strange episode. This one again has decided to embrace magic existing and stuff. With that the episode follows an old plot idea of someone making a deal and having to honor their side of the deal or terrible things happen. Rusty was the perfect fit for that since his chracerzation is that he is a overconfident, arrogant, and sometimes selfish. It being Rusty makes it hard to root for him as much and maybe that's by design. Morpheus is interesting, though unlike Dante's episode or a mortician's club episode it works better to have him play off someone like Rusty as they are different in personality and style. This one works because he's not in the blob of sameness and he seems to be more interesting than say Dante. He's somewhat snarky and mischievous. Rusty being given a role outside of his friend group is something I like to see, and it has worked well with Liam, so here it's good because he's working off someone who is different than he is, plus he's not like Lincoln or Liam where you see their good nature and hope the best, here he's not that kind of character so it can be a little bit more mean to him. (Probably for the best Rusty didn't get to be the girl, she might be his cousin or something she looked kind of like him) It did take two things I didn't expect and really worked well. I give it 7/10.
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