Line #65 Recap/TheLoudHouseS1E10HandMeDownerSleuthOrConsequences


1	'''Hand-Me-Downer:''' Lincoln tries to impress a bike-riding gang by riding Lynn's cool bike rather than a pink, frilly, hand-me-down bike from Lori.
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3	'''Sleuth or Consequences:''' When someone clogs the toilet resulting in the kids being grounded until the culprit is found out, Lincoln tries to find out who did it so he can go to a comic book convention.
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5	!!"Hand-Me-Downer"
6	* AnimateInanimateObject: Colonel Crackers, Luan's old ventriloquist dummy.
7	* BigWhat: Lynn when Lincoln confesses that he took her bike that is now stolen.
8	* BreakingTheFourthWall: Besides Lincoln as usual, Colonel Crackers occasionally comes alive and talks to the viewer.
9	* BrickJoke:
10	** In a flashback, Lincoln receives Lynn's old jockstrap as a hand-me-down. Later, when he falls painfully on her bike seat, he admits he should have worn it. Furthermore, when Lincoln goes to confess to Lynn that he lost her bike, he puts on the jockstrap to protect himself from the expected reaction.
11	** In one scene, Clyde makes an offhand remark that his parents are going antiquing for the day. At the end, Clyde brings back Lynn's stolen bike, saying that his parents found it while antiquing.
12	* CoolSideCar: In a flashback, Luna modified the hand-me-down bike with a sidecar for Charles to ride in.
13	* CoverInnocentEyesAndEars: The farmer covers his pig's eyes when Lincoln rides by them on his hand-me-down bike.
14	* DemonicDummy: Colonel Crackers, apparently.
15	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: One of the members of the biker gang, Rusty Spokes, becomes a part of Lincoln's friendship group in later episodes.
16	* GroinAttack: Lincoln when he lands on Lynn's bike seat from above. He also wears a cup to avoid this when he almost confesses the truth about what happened to her bike the first time.
17	* HelpingAnotherSaveFace: [[spoiler:Lucy]] reveals that she was [[MysteryEpisode the one who clogged the toilet]] with a book she's embarrassed about reading since it's SickeninglySweet. Her brother Lincoln prevents their other sisters from mocking her for it by pretending it's ''his'' book.
18	* KarmaHoudini: Downplayed: It isn't revealed who stole Lynn's bike, but it ''does'' wind up back at the Louds.
19	* {{Malaproper}}:
20	-->'''Lincoln:''' I'll be back before you can say "combover sloppy".
21	-->'''Lynn:''' Crossover stoppy.
22	-->'''Lincoln:''' Right, those.
23	* NegativeContinuity: Despite him giving Lynn's bike to Lana at the end, Lincoln will be seen riding it in future episodes.
24	** Unless there’s a likely chance the two share it.
25	* TheReveal: After Lynn's bike is stolen, the girls reveal to Lincoln that it is also a hand-me-down.
26	* RhymesOnADime: When Lincoln shows up at the park on Lynn's bike, he says, "Hey, guys, feast your eyes."
27	* RockersSmashGuitars: In one flashback, Luna gives a smashed guitar to Lincoln as a hand-me-down. The gag being is that it’s now near-impossible to use.
28	* RunningGag:
29	** Papa Wheelie getting annoyed every time he's replaced as the leader of the bike gang.
30	** Colonel Crackers constantly being alive from time to time.
31	* SeriesContinuityError: In the flashbacks, Lincoln seems to be comfortable reading comics while wearing pants, despite that in "Undie Pressure" he's not comfortable reading in them.
32	* {{Squick}}: [[invoked]]
33	** This is Lincoln's reaction after Lynn gives him her jockstrap as a hand-me-down.
34	** This is the siblings' reaction when Lori reveals that her shirt is actually the top of their mom's old girdle.
35	* TandemParasite: Clyde rides his parents' tandem bike around by himself, and then with a dummy in the back seat.
36	* ThemeNaming: Luan's original dummy, Colonel Crackers, and her current one, Mr. Coconuts, both have names based on food.
37	* TheToothHurts: In a flashback, a younger Luan bites into a juggling pin and loses two of her teeth in the process:
38	-->"Looks like I made a 7-10 split!"
39	* VisualPun: While Lincoln is riding Lynn's bike, a farmer comments "Nice hog," to which Lincoln compliments him back for his. It turns out he's riding an actual hog.
40	* WaxingLyrical: Luna a couple of times:
41	-->[[Music/TheBeatles "All it needs is love. Love is all it needs."]]
42	-->"...and then it was ride, Sally, ride."
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45	!!"Sleuth or Consequences"
46	* BigBrotherInstinct: Lincoln takes the blame for clogging the toilet so Lucy wouldn't have to endure the embarrassment for reading ''Princess Pony''.
47	* BittersweetEnding: Lincoln takes the blame for Lucy so she won’t become a laughingstock, therefore he gets grounded and misses the convention. Fortunately, Lucy cheers him up by making him a comic of his own.
48	* BottleEpisode: Most of the episode takes place inside the Loud house, save for a brief shot of Clyde's room and a few outdoor shots.
49	* ComedicSociopathy: All the sisters, who aren’t Lucy and Lily, mock Lincoln’s Ace Savvy outfit, cut him no slack when it seems he clogged the toilet again and vow to tease the owner of Princess Pony for the rest of his or her life. And when Lincoln interrogates Lori about clogging the toilet, her method of proving her innocence is [[BigSisterBully giving Lincoln an atomic wedgie]]!
50	* ContinuityNod:
51	** This isn't the first time Lincoln wears red underwear.
52	** Ace Savvy is mentioned again.
53	* DestroyTheEvidence: To cover up her part in clogging the toilet, Lucy steals a file from Lisa's cabinet containing the records of the family's bathroom habits.
54	* EurekaMoment: Lincoln finds out that the ''Princess Pony'' book that clogged the toilet belongs to Lucy when he reads a page of it featuring a quote that she shouted to Lola in an earlier scene.
55	* EveryoneHasStandards: Not even Lola wants to read something as sickeningly sweet as ''Princess Pony''. Ironically enough, Lucy enjoys it, as she usually reads it when she needs a break from the darkness. The moral? We all get sick of our favorite things sometimes.
56	* EyepatchOfPower: Clyde wears an eyepatch as part of his sidekick costume.
57	* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Lincoln spreads his suspect cards on the table and goes: ''"One of you is the perp. But which one?"'' [[AnswerCut Lucy shows up right next to him, almost on cue.]]
58	** When Lincoln's sisters laugh at his costume, Lucy's the only one not joining in on the mocking.
59	* FourthWallPsych: When the girls (save Lily) are glaring at Lincoln for supposedly clogging the toilet, it makes it look like they're glaring at the audience.
60	* FunWithFlushing: Lincoln has flushed many items down the toilet, such as [[StockYuck his liverwurst-loaf dinner]], [[HomemadeSweaterFromHell an embarrassing sweater his mom made him]] for Christmas, Lynn Sr.'s CD collection for karaoke night, and the ''Princess Pony'' book, the last of which, he flushed by accident, not knowing it was in the toilet.
61	* HereWeGoAgain: At the end, when Lynn goes into the bathroom to go #2 after eating too many spicy meatball subs:
62	-->'''Lana:''' Dad, I think we're gonna need Big Bertha again!
63	** In saying she needs to relieve herself, Lynn uses the universal gesture for #2 (two fingers pointed out, the others rolled up).
64	* ICallHerVera: The plumber's snake used to unclog the toilet is called "Big Bertha".
65	* JerkassBall: All the sisters whose names aren’t Lucy and Lily handle this big time throughout the episode, even [[KindheartedSimpleton Leni]].
66	* NotMeThisTime: Lincoln claims he didn't clog the toilet like he usually does. However, it turns out that, while it was ''Lucy'' who threw the book into the toilet, Lincoln flushed it down not knowing it was in the bowl.
67	* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: Lynn Sr. calls Lincoln "Mr. Flush-My-[=CDs=]-Down-The-Can", referring to the latter flushing the former's [=CDs=] on karaoke night.
68	* OnlyOneFindsItFun: Most of the Louds find the ''Princess Pony'' book too saccharine, even Lola, who usually likes saccharine things. Ironically, the one Loud who likes it is Lucy, the stoic goth.
69	* OpenSaysMe: Lincoln repeatedly kicks his sisters' doors open until his father tells him to cut it out.
70	* PerpSweating: Parodied; Lincoln and Lucy interrogate the clogging suspects by shining a flashlight on them.
71	* PlayingCardMotifs: For the comic book convention, Lincoln and Clyde dress up as Ace Savvy and his sidekick One-Eyed Jack. Lincoln also attempts to imitate Savvy's trademark of posing while holding out a deck of cards:
72	-->'''Lincoln:''' Let's go see this joker! ''(holds up a card)''
73	-->'''Lucy:''' That's a two-of-diamonds.
74	-->'''Lincoln:''' ''Ugh!''
75	* RecycledSoundtrack: The APM track "Caped Crusader" plays throughout the episode. This is a song frequently used on ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', usually in the episodes featuring Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy.
76	* SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud: When Lucy decides to tell everyone the truth, she says "Sigh".
77	* SecretlySelfish: Lincoln, when investigating the "crime" and constraining Lucy to tell the truth. It might seem that Lincoln is committed to truth and justice, but what he really wants is not to miss his comic book convention.
78	* ShoutOut:
79	** ''Princess Pony'' is [[MyLittlePhony a parody of]] ''Franchise/MyLittlePony''.
80	** Clyde's "One-Eyed Jack" song sounds [[SuspiciouslySimilarSong suspiciously similar]] to ComicBook/SpiderMan's.
81	* SickeninglySweet: ''Princess Pony'', according to Lisa:
82	-->'''Lisa:''' It's so sickeningly sweet, I get a toothache just looking at it.
83	-->'''Leni:''' Can that really happen?!
84	* TheStoolPigeon: Every time Lincoln clogs the toilet, Lola notifies Lynn Sr. about it
85	* TakingTheHeat: Lincoln takes the fall for Lucy clogging the toilet so she wouldn't have to endure the embarrassment of reading ''Princess Pony''. Granted, he's really only half-guilty on that one.
86	* TemptingFate: When Lincoln accuses Lucy of tossing the ''Princess Pony'' book in the toilet, she claims he has no evidence against her, only for one of her posters to fall down, revealing a ''Princess Pony'' poster behind it:
87	-->'''Lucy:''' Dang it.
88	* ToiletHumor: Lynn's way of saying "take a dump" is "bomb[ing] the toilet", and never goes #2 on the same day of a roller derby game, ''before'' the game, considering doing so to be "bad luck" for her favorite team. Then at the end of the episode, when her favorite team wins, Lynn comes back and proceeds to go #2 in victory, with Lana warning Lynn Sr. that they're probably gonna need Big Bertha to unclog the inevitably massive dump.
89	* TokenGoodTeammate: Lucy is this, concerning the sisters.
90	* UnderwearOfPower: Lori mocks Lincoln for wearing his underwear on the outside for his Ace Savvy costume.
91	* TheUnreveal: We never actually see the Ace Savvy convention.
92	* {{Wedgie}}: This is all Lori has to do to convince Lincoln she didn't clog the toilet.
93	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: After Lincoln shuts the door on Clyde after realizing it was Lucy who clogged the toilet, he is not seen again for the rest of the episode.
94	* YouAreGrounded: Until the perpetrator of the clogged toilet is found, ''everyone'' is grounded. In the end, when Lincoln decides to takes the blame for Lucy clogging the toilet, the sisters are ungrounded while he remains grounded. As a result, he misses the convention.

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