History Recap / TheLoudHouseS4E16DeepCutsGameOff

* {{Irony}}: When Lincoln returns home and is about to discover the truth about his video game, Lynn Jr. and Lisa run to save their lives... even though Lynn has already hit Lincoln countless times!

* AnAesop: Regardless of how good the intentions are in making a difference or protesting, all actions will have consequences.

* AnAesop: Don't use things without asking the owner's permission. Which, ironically, Lincoln himself learnt all the way back in Season 1's "Hand-Me-Downer".

* AbsenteeActor: Luna, Lori, and Luan are the main characters of this episode, though Lincoln also appears. Leni, Lynn, and Lucy only make very brief, non-speaking [[TheCameo cameos]] at the fundraiser. The rest of the younger sisters are completely absent.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: This episode finally shows Lana not wearing her hat to bed, indicating that she isn’t so uptight about displaying her tomboyish personality.

* NotSoAboveItAll: Lisa celebrates several times as Lana gets closer and closer to the point where Lincoln left off, helping her sister along with the game guide.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: This episode finally shows Lana not wearing her hat to bed, indicating that she isn’t sop uptight about displaying her tomboyish personality.

* LeaveMeAlone: Lincoln tells Lana this when she offers to do something to make it up to him for this blunder. This leaves Lana to leave the room looking heartbroken. She even stops share one last remorseful look at her brother.

* BeleagueredAssistant: Principal Rivers' assistant is aware that Rivers is a conflict shy [[TheDitherer ditherer]] who has difficulty making decisions (even about her own lunch). As a RunningJoke, he tries in vain to make her stand by her decisions about budget cuts to the clubs (at least until the budget problems eventually become too big for even her to ignore).

* ApologyGift: Lana apologizes to Lincoln for losing his progress in his game by doing all of his chores and making him a snack tray of his favorite flippy and a bowl of his favorite crackers.

* NotSoAboveItAfterAll: Lisa celebrates several times as Lana gets closer and closer to the point where Lincoln left off, helping her sister along with the game guide.

* SeriousBusiness: Lincoln and his video games. Even with their tendency to walk all over him, his sisters know to ''never'' tamper with his games, noting how furious he gets when they mess with them. Lucy outright says if he finds out Lana lost all his progress that [[ThisIsUnforgivable she'll be dead to him]].

* NotSoAboveAfterAll: Lisa celebrates several times as Lana gets closer and closer to the point where Lincoln left off, helping her sister along with the game guide.

* TakeAThirdOption: In the end, the sports, theater, and music clubs all join forces to create a fundraiser event that makes enough money to repair the school ''and'' guarantee no clubs have to be cut to save the school's budget.

* JerkassHasAPoint: While Principal Rivers' assistant is a bit snooty, he's understandably frustrated with her ditherer personality and he's not wrong to point out that one of the three most expensive clubs (music, sports, and theater) has no choice but to get canceled because they don't have enough money to keep all three of them up and running.

* TakeAThirdOption: In the end, the sports, theater, and music clubs all join forces to create a fundraiser that makes enough money to repair the school and guarantee no clubs have to be cut to save the school's budget.

* TheDoorSlamsYou: At the start of the episode, Luna ends up slammed in the wall by the janitor, when he comes out of the music club.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The episode's description says the music club is cancelled resulting in Luna's protest. The title card shows Lori and Luan holding picket signs for sports and drama, showing that they get dragged into the conflict when Principal Rivers cuts their clubs.

* AbsenteeActor: Leni and the younger sisters don't appear.

* MeleeATrois: The episode's climax has a three way battle between Luna's music club, Luan's theater club, and Lori's sports club when Principal Rivers is forced to cut out one of these three clubs to save the school's budget. Unfortunately, the damages caused by this battle were so severe that she was forced to cut ''every single club in the school'', including all of the ones the sisters weren't even part of ([[MyGodWhatHaveIDone much to their despair]]).

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Lana is ''devastated'' when she gets a GameOver and loses all of Lincoln's progress. She spends the rest of the episode trying to get back up to his point while the other sisters keep Lincoln distracted from finding out.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Lana gets ''devastated'' when she gets a GameOver and loses all of Lincoln's progress. She spends the rest of the episode trying to get back up to his point while the other sisters keep Lincoln distracted from finding out.

'''Deep Cuts'''

* ADayInTheLimelight: For Luna first and foremost, but also for Luan and Lori to a lesser extent.

* BeleagueredAssistant: Principal Rivers' assistant is aware that Rivers is a conflict-shy [[TheDitherer ditherer]] who has difficulty making decisions (even about her own lunch). As a RunningJoke, he tries in vain to make her stand by her decisions about budget cuts to the clubs (at least until the budget problems eventually become too big for even her to ignore).

* MeleeATrois: The episode's climax has a 3-way battle between Luna's music club, Luan's theater club, and Lori's sports club when Principal Rivers is forced to cut out one of these three clubs to save the school's budget. Unfortunately, the damages caused by this battle were so severe that she was forced to cut ''every single club in the school'', including all of the ones the sisters weren't even part of ([[MyGodWhatHaveIDone much to their despair]]).

* TheDitherer: Principal Rivers, of "The Wishy-Washy" type with shades of "The Insecure/Submissive". She's too spineless to actually assert her authority and just can't seem to make up her mind about anything. The pressure of trying to decide which school club to cut drives her to lie on the floor in the TroubledFetalPosition .
* TheDoorSlamsYou: At the start of the episode, Luna ends up slammed in the wall by the janitor, when he comes out of the music club.

'''Game Off'''

Desperate to play Lincoln's trash-themed video game "Total Trash Takedown", Lana conspires to distract her brother away from the console.

* ApologyGift: Lana apologizes to Lincoln for losing his progress in his game by doing all of his chores and making him a snack tray of his favorite flippy and a bowl of his favorite crackers.
* DreamSequence: Lana has one that puts her right in "Total Trash Takedown". Quickly turns into a NightmareSequence when a [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever gigantic, monstrous Lincoln]] appears and stops her progress, causing her to wake up.

* NintendoHard: "Total Trash Takedown" is an in-universe example, as Lincoln says it took him two weeks to get to the final level and Lana fails to make it past the seventh level even with a tips and tricks guide.
* SequenceBreaking: Lisa helps Lana by providing some ways of skipping a couple levels in order to get through "Total Trash Takedown" quicker. At the end of the episode, this is what allows Lana to make amends with Lincoln after he finds out what she did to his game.

* ShoutOut: The "Total Trash Takedown" game map bears a resemblance to VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: Lincoln, who spent two weeks to nearly beat "Total Trash Takedown", is ''not'' pleased after he finds out that Lana made him lose all of his progress, something she was trying to avoid to the point of asking all of her other sisters for assistance. Thankfully, Lana quickly redeems herself to him, enough for him to actually let her play his game once he's finished.

* SeriousBusiness: Lincoln and his video games. Even with their tendency to walk all over him, his sisters know to ''never'' tamper with his games, noting how furious he gets when they mess with them. Lucy outright says if he finds out Lana lost all his progress that she'll be dead to him

* SeriousBusiness: Lincoln and his video games. Even with their tendency to walk all over him, his sisters know to ''never'' tamper with his games, noting how furious he gets when they mess with them. Lucy outright says is he finds out Lana lost all his progress that she'll be dead to him

* BeleagueredAssistant: Principal Rivers' assistant is aware that Rivers is a conflict-shy BenevolentBoss who has difficulty making decisions (even about her own lunch), and is too easily impressed by students showing off their talents. As a RunningJoke, he tries in vain to make her stand by her decisions about budget cuts to the clubs (at least until the budget problems eventually become too big for even her to ignore).