Even though The Loud House is the show that helped Nickelodeon get back on its feet after an Audience-Alienating Era, there are so many times you can cause the same brand of pure, uncut familial chaos before something goes horribly, horribly wrong. Here are a selection of times when that happened.
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- As For My Handle: While The Loud House isn't a bad show, it does have a bunch of issues. What stuck out the most was this moment in the episode "Heavy Meddle". The Loud sisters are willing to defend Lincoln from his bully... until they learn that said bully is a girl. Then they Squee because obviously the only reason a girl bullies a guy is because she likes him. It actually went in a good direction when Lincoln goes to kiss her, only to get socked, because then it would not only give a lesson on bullying, but also maybe a lesson on meddling and assuming. But of course, the girl does turn out to be a Loving Bully, and then they become an Official Couple. How touching. As a victim of bullying, you can probably see how this rubbed me the wrong way.
- Alex_26373: I concur, as I share my opinion with The Mysterious Mr. Enter when he reviewed this show during his Nick-O-Rama marathon. What's worse is that this episode came out in 2016, and apparently, Chris Savino still thinks it's the '90s, where the "if a girl bullies a boy, then that means she likes him" thing was prevalent. Why in God's name anyone thought that was a lesson to teach kids is far beyond me, but I'm pretty sure even kids in 2016 (let alone at this time of writing) would disapprove of it.
- Braz: This episode even raise Unfortunate Implications that it's okay for a girl to mistreat a boy since it isn't the opposite, what a good lesson for kids to learn, people!
- Deadpan Fly 2: The Loud House is a pretty good show, and Lori is a very decent character (for one thing, she's an excellent judge of character when it comes to boyfriends), but her characterization in the early episodes is very difficult for her to live down. One example that stands out is "No Guts, No Glori", where she rules the Loud house like a dictator whenever the parents aren't around. When Lincoln and his sisters overthrow her, Lori claims that she only uses absolute rule to keep the house from falling apart, but when the sisters democratically elect Lincoln as their new leader... Lori turns out to be right! Because obviously, democracy doesn't work, and dictators who blatantly abuse human rights are the only good leaders in the world. You can see why this episode reeks of Unfortunate Implications, and you can see why it's a good thing that Lori Took a Level in Kindness.
- ilovededede: Since "Brawl in the Family" is taken I'll go with "Come Sale Away", because not only is nearly everyone flanderized into idiots for the sake of the cliche sibling competition plot with no comedy to make it worth it but has a victory dance gag that makes me wanna punch a hole through my computer. And this isn't even a one-time joke, it's a Running Gag, and the episode ends with a long, cringey, and painful sequence of this running gag. Just... screw this episode.
- fairygirl567: I freaking hate "Come Sale Away"! I don't hate a lot of episodes in tv shows, it'll take a lot to make me hate an episode, but this one actually did it! The beginning is boring because their having a garage sell and seeing who the winner will be so they can do a dumb victory dance, we have one joke where Leni actually tries to sell their garage because no one in the family thought to tell the dumb sister what a garage sell actually is. Anyways, Lincoln wants to win, but after realizing he's losing, he starts selling everything in the living room and after Lori calls him out on this, he plays it off like he's doing nothing wrong and so, instead of telling on him for you know, selling everything that's not supposed to be sold! They actually start doing the same thing so they can win a competition! And yeah I know it's a competition, but that doesn't make it better! Then they think they sold Lilly's blanket, search all over town, and all get tricked by this old man into giving him all their garage money, respectively (except Leni who's dumber then a sack of rocks and comes back with a napkin) and it turns out the mother had the blanket all along and just washed it. Then she discovers her kids sold everything in the living room and grounds them. Yeah, she only grounds them! I'm sorry, but a thing like this warrants a full scale hunt to get all their stuff back! They managed to sell their freaking couch and lost all their money! And then the ending... good night the ending. These episodes usually have lessons in it. I assumed this one would be, 'Don't let competition cloud your judgement." Which it should have been. Nope! The episode ends with Lincoln doing his dumbass victory dance along with the entire family... for nothing! They didn't accomplish a damn thing! Just to recount: They lost all their stuff, lost all their money, and look like idiots, what the flying freak do they have to dance about? They learned nothing! The butt dancing is just so cringe-fest too and looks weird because the viewer knows they didn't gain anything. I cannot watch this episode with how terrible it is, especially that god awful ending. I don't even think No Such Luck ended that badly, oh yeah I went there! At least a conflict was resolved, in this they still don't get their stuff back. I actually was expecting a two part episode, but nope it just ended there. Seriously this episode can bite me.
- Black Giro: although I loveThe Loud House, the show is far from being a Feminist Fantasy that most people like to claim, since many episodes reinforce the overly outdated Mars and Venus Gender Contrast trope, but the most obvious example is the episode "One of the boys", that is by far, one of the worst episodes of the show, the episode starts with Lincoln wishing to have ten brothers instead of ten sisters, why? Because in this episode, Lincoln’s sisters act all the same, they are all mushy, non-violent and girly shopaholics just to the sake of Lincoln feel more left out by his sisters, I mean, I know that the Loud sisters were shown to behave in this way in previous episodes, but "One of the boys" acts like if they are only air-headed and motherly valley girls who only care about shopping and giving makeovers on their brother, this episode also completely ignores that not all the sisters are entirely demure and feminine(for example: Lana is a Tom Boy, Lynn is a Passionate Sports Girl, Luna is The Rock Star, Luan is a Plucky Comic Relief, Lucy is a Goth girl and Lisa is a Child Prodigy) and this episode seems to forget it. But the episode gets worse, then Lisa gives Lincoln a watch and he goes to a Alternative Universe where the Loud sisters are boys and they’re all rude, messy and aggressive, they have zero redeemable qualities and they constantly mistreat Lincoln(even though I don’t like Lincoln, I kinda felt bad for him) and the moral of the episode is one of the worst things that i ever seen in my entire life: “Sisters are better than Brothers because unlike brothers, they are extremely kind and pure pushovers who will do anything to please their siblings(usually the male ones)”,this episode leads to so many Unfortunate Implications.
- PRStorm: "Brawl in the Family" is the worst for me. The message the episode is basically going for, is that "You shouldn't try to get involved in other peoples' fights, or you'll only make things worse". Not to mention the 'sister fight protocol' goes against everything "Space Invader" stands for. Fuck this episode.
- Bouken Dutch: Let's also not forget that Lincoln is unaware of the protocol, proving the sisters came up with it without bothering to include him in the process. And how the sisters, despite their claims that they want Lincoln to stay out of their fight, do everything they can to drag him into it, like confiscating his room and his bedsheets. Plus the ending, where the fight finally dies down (for a while at least) and Lisa has the guts to say that leaving the house was the best thing Lincoln has done.
- Samuel Crazy: "No Such Luck" The entire episode could count really, especially the part where Lynn threatens Lincoln with a bat and that abysmal ending. In this episode, after Lynn forces Lincoln to come see her game, even though he just wants to read comics, she blames him when her team loses, and claims he's bad luck. Lincoln decides to spread the rumor so he can finally get some peace, but it backfires when the entire family believes it, and doesn't allow him to come with them anywhere, afraid he might jinx them. That's already bad enough, but then the part that made this episode infamous comes. They lock Lincoln outside not just his room, but the house itself! Even Mr. and Ms. Loud take part in this! They are aware this is illegal right? And then that abysmal ending I mentioned earlier. In the end, Lincoln proves himself not to be bad luck by going to the game dressed in the team's squirrel mascot suit... And they now belief he's only good luck when wearing that and force him to wear the damn squirrel suit, even to the beach! And the episode just ends there! Ignoring the fact that the heat in the suit probably won't be very healthy and probably dangerous to the kid (He's only 11 by the way), this ending stinks at Unfortunate Implications, and the family gets away with everything, even Lynn and the parents! It's not hard to wonder why this episode is so infamous in the fandom.
- Sampa CM: To me, the April Fool's Trilogy (April Fool Rules, Fool's Paradise and Fool Me Twice) are the lowest point in an otherwise great series, due to what they did to Luan: Now, my opinion about Luan is that she's nice and funny, despite her occasional bad puns. However, these episodes in particular turned her into a prank-obsessed sociopath who is feared by her family, and celebrates April Fool's Day with a Psychotic Smirk (Something very Out Of Character for her, and even the parents are too scared of her to tell her "Stop!"). However, as I can only pick one specific moment, I'll go with "Fool's Paradise": Long story short, the Loud family, fearful of Luan's pranks, escape to a motel, where apparently they'll be safe. But then it's revealed that Luan actually followed them, and set traps on the motel for her siblings and parents to fall in. However, My DMOS is the reveal that dad was acting as The Mole, helping Luan out of fear by luring the rest of the family to her carefully planned trap (Again, makes me wonder why mom or dad didn't use their authority to put a stop to this). Eventually the family gets the last laugh on her, but Luan, with a Psychotic Smirk, vows revenge. Now, in the next episode, "Fool Me Twice", the family fooled Luan into thinking they'll move, given how she ruined their lives, and in tears, she pomises to never do pranks again, but... Really? They basically turned a nice and funny girl like Luan into an outright villain.
- Mighty Mewtron: The episode that I remember disliking the most is "Change of Heart." Clyde's creepy crush on Lori is probably my least favorite aspect of the show (not helped by certain allegations against the show's creator) and this episode weirdly portrays it as a good thing. Clyde tries to get over his unhealthy crush on Lori, but Lori, despite being uncomfortable with his behavior before, misses all the nice things Clyde did for her and becomes jealous that he seems to like Leni instead of her. By the end of the episode, he goes back to being obsessive and Lori is fine with it. Watching Lori want Clyde to like her again is unsettling considering that A) she's nearly an adult, and B) Clyde's behavior has never really been that healthy. Yeah, yeah, Status Quo Is God, but it comes across as a lesson that you shouldn't turn away the person with an unhealthy crush on you, even if they're way younger, then that's a really bad lesson for kids, or anybody.
- Hylian-Highwind: Holy shit, can I not stand the April Fool's episodes. April Fool Rules didn't bother me enough to be Dethroning since I could write it off as cartoon slapstick, but the later two just make it worse. Since the above poster covered my issues with "Fool's Paradise" (save the Rhubarb Pie Gag, which as someone with allergies felt a bit too "real" among the other gags), my moment will probably be "Fool Me Twice." First of all most of the episode amounts to basically nothing happening, setting up the fmaily finding the stunt doubles in a different part of town when they could have gotten the idea just from talking over a show or something like the magazine ad in Fool's Paradise. The set up feels way too long-winded and illogical since they get the idea from the same people they end up hiring, so did Luan set up the movie shoot with the Dad look-alike, or did she somehow manage to bribe them into breaking the deal (I'd assume they had to know what they were getting into since Lynn Sr. laments the cost)? Fool's Paradise showed that she only could do something on that scale because their father was in on it, which he clearly no longer was at the end of that episode. But the prank itself, where the doubles go around and essentially humiliate the family in front of their friends or damage their livelihood (like falsely submitting Mom's book early) honestly feels like it's gone past the point of joking when it affects their image around others, since even the previous episodes were confined to the family. Luan is supposed to get her comeuppance at the end with the fake move, promising to tell everyone the truth and everyone ultimately calling it on having pranked her, but I fail to see how this is a victory. Ignoring the question of if people would believe Luan, she only shows remorse when the family goes all in on the ruse, and sounds more distressed at having to move. For being a "sobering up" type of ending, it doesn't feel like Luan learned her lesson about her pranks potentially being hurtful when taken too far, to the point I almost think it's a worse ending since it makes Luan unintentionally selfish rather than cartoonishly exaggerated. There's nothing that makes me feel like she won't try this again the next year, she doesn't apologize in a way that shows remorse for hurting them, only for driving them to this desperation when it affected her. At this point, they've had three episodes of this and don't seem to have addressed the key problem, despite the endings across them seeming like they do want to fix it. Luan is a character I want to like, especially with episodes like "Head Poet's Anxiety," but until they get a good April Fool's episode out of her, which they seem increasingly incapable of doing, I can't get the stink of these episodes off of her and it makes it hard for me to sympathize with anything she does.
- Kissinger113: I thought “On Thin Ice” was a decent enough episode, but there was one moment that really bothered me. In a flashback to a previous hockey game, Lynn forces Lori to get up and dance along with the mascot. She does, and the fans all point and laugh at her while poor Lori is utterly mortified. I'm sorry, but I just don't find that funny.
- W Kennedy 334: I like this show, quite a bit. However, it has quite a few bad episodes. I would like to talk about the episode where the loud kids bring Flip into the house, because they didn’t want their parents to know that they injured him, even though it would’ve been better for them had they left him at the hospital. Or maybe a ton of season 5 episodes, which shows that the show doesn’t know what it’s doing anymore. However, if there’s an episode that pissed me off more than the others, it'd have to be "Schooled." In it, Lincoln wanted to switch classes to be closer to his friends, only for him to go into Canada, because for some reason the principal had an empty seat there. I like to go in about how abysmal the rest episode is, The only good subplot being the parents trying to get Lily to be potty trained, but I have enough of a headache even thinking about it.
- curiouskat: I agree with the above tropers that Luan just comes off as obnoxious and unhinged whenever April Fool's Day comes along (this taints my view of her character even outside of these episodes), but the season 5 episode Silence of the Luans just makes it even worse. We learn that the family locks Luan in the basement now like she's some kind of criminal every time the holiday comes around (what kind of parents are these? They can't stand up and be authoritative to their own child but they'd rather lock her in the dark basement by herself, only being fed her meals through a slit door in the cell??). It's a reference to Silence of the Lambs, as evidenced by the title, but it still leaves a bad taste in my mouth. That made me sick, and actually feel bad for Luan. Several pranks are then pulled in quick succession on the remaining family members, and of course everyone in the family blames Luan, even though she's wearing a straitjacket and locked in the aforementioned basement. It's not bad enough that they now treat her like a subhuman pariah, but they now think she's a magician who can pull pranks despite her being stowed away in the furthest point of the house. When Luan wants to redeem herself by finding the true prankster, Lincoln lets her out—but only if she wears a hockey mask and is strapped to a dolly. Because the writers cannot stress this enough: this 14-year-old girl is nothing but a raging psychopath. They find out that the prankster is Lily, and my suspension of disbelief immediately left the building right then and there. This two-year old managed to rig all these dangerous pranks without hurting herself or caring about how her family would get hurt? On top of that, she commandeers Vanzilla and makes it drive around in circles to make the rest of the family sick. They could've died from the whiplash or some other circumstance, and this is treated as a good thing to stop Luan from giving up pranks. Status Quo Is God is in full effect here, except for the fact that Rita and Lynn managed to raise two prankster maniacs instead of one. All they can say at the very end is "There's two of them..." What.
- Tropers/Savagegenius: I actually think the family's reaction can be somewhat justified thanks to my dethroning moment of the episode: the flashbacks. It turns out that in previous April Fool's Days, Luan has flooded the house with mustard, shaved everyone's hair (a reused joke from the first one), and-get this-pushed the entire house in a river and almost drowned the family. What. The. Hell?!!
- FlyingDuckManGenesis: Despite me thinking that a lot of the first four seasons of the show are some of Nickelodeon's best animated content since the days of T.U.F.F. Puppy, the show has quite a few things holding it back, with one of the biggest problems being Lisa Loud, one of the few characters in the show I don't have high praise for, for a variety of reasons, namely how she's an inconsiderate buzzkill who sucks the life out of everyone around her and how she's the most unrealistic of the Loud sisters, being a 4 or 5-year old rocket scientist. If I had to pick one that symbolizes why Lisa is a bad character, look no further than "School of Shock", an episode from its fifth season (the one where the series unfortunately dropped massively in quality) that focuses on Lisa being the substitute teacher for her first-grade class. I have many issues with Lisa in this episode, from her questioning the logic of a book aimed at children, to using robots to enforce lethal discipline. However, the moment I disliked in the episode the most was when she gave her classmates all Fs for failing a pop quiz that they have no chance of getting a passing grade on. I get that Lisa is supposed to be a child prodigy, but just because she's academically advanced doesn't mean her classmates are, nor does it mean they have to be. By the end of the episode, I was actually rooting for a cloned dinosaur she brought to life based on the aforementioned children's book to eat her.
- Joji MC: Holy shit, do I hate "Appetite for Destruction". Basically, the plot of the episode goes like this: When Lily starts misbehaving, Rita and Lynn Sr start to wonder if Lily's new classmates at school are the cause of it. Yeah, that's all well and good but my main issue with this episode is Lily herself. She's fucking insufferable in this episode. First, she growls at Rita for trying to tell her not to play on the cheese, then she gets up in the middle of the night to try and eat more cheese and then she fights with Luan over her wheel of cheese. Then we find out that the reason why Lily was acting so bad is because she's constipated. Really? We watched a ever-so cute and adorable toddler act like a borderline Enfant Terrible because she was constipated? And I thought Starlight Glimmer has a terrible excuse for her actions. And to top it all off, Lily doesn't even get punished for all the horrible things she's done throughout the episode. Honestly, this episode can bite my shiny metal ass.
