Fridge Brilliance / The Loud House

In General

• Why is Lincoln's hair white? Well many people are towheads, especially children. "Towhead" refers to a person with "tow" colored hair, which is hair so blond it looks almost white, comparable to platinum blond. The word tow can refer to an untwisted bundle of rope-like fibers in one sense of the word, as used in towhead.
• The amount of children in the Loud family (Lincoln himself included) being eleven makes perfect sense because 11 is the age of the main character, Lincoln, in the first five seasons before his Birthday Episode at the start of Season 6. Too bad they've yet to introduce a Cousin Oliver to the family to make it twelve.
  • Additionally, Chris Savino based the Loud House on his life as an only boy in a house full of girls but while Savino's sisters are five, making them six in total, Lincoln has ten, resulting in a total of eleven. He literally took it up to eleven.
• Leni is shown to be capable of making a bed, and it's mostly Played for Laughs. But what's her hobby? Designing clothes, which is a craft, just like making a bed frame. It is within her talent.
• Lily's diapers are known to be rather toxic. What's the reason for that? Since she and Lisa share the same room, she's inevitably been exposed to the toxic chemicals.
  • Which can also explain why Lisa is capable of replicating that toxic scent herself in "Potty Mouth"^note For context, the siblings thought Lily had sworn, so Lisa was pretending to be Lily in an interview so that the person doing the interview wouldn't think Lily was a rude kid but she was acting like herself rather than like a baby and Luna told her to act like a one-year-old so she pooped her diaper..
  • Unlikely. While this show isn't 100% realistic, if she breathed the toxic chemicals in, they'd go into her bloodstream rather than her intestines. Besides, if Lily was having any side effects of sleeping in Lisa's room, she'd probably seem sick or at least have other symptoms than just foul-smelling diapers. And if you've ever changed a messy diaper, you'd know that they can smell pretty bad without actually being toxic.
• Why is Lily a Brainy Baby? Because since she shares the same room with Lisa, she's bound to inevitably learn something from her whenever she does an experiment.
• The frantic happenings amongst these eleven siblings ensures that there is seldom a dull moment in their immediate environment. The number eleven is said to symbolize disorder, chaos, and judgment.
• Out of the cast of 11 kids - two stand out in particular: Lucy and Lincoln. Whereas the other children take after some aspect of their parents (most notably hair colour), neither Lucy nor Lincoln do - right down to their physical appearances, where they take after their great-grandma Harriet and Pop Pop, respectively. Makes sense, then, that their unique designs reflect their unique personalities.
  • It turns out to go back for at least 20 generations, since The Loud House Movie shows that they also take after their after ancestors Lucille and The Duke. Which also makes sense, since there are cases where people in the modern day GREATLY resemble their ancestors.
• Why does Lisa sometimes do experiments on people without permission? She's four/five years old. She may be smart, but preschoolers' brains still aren't fully-formed, which means they don't do morality as well as older people. Being so young could also explain why she's easily distracted and lets her experiments blow up.
• A family of 11 kids being able to maintain a stable livelihood seems to be stretching the limits of logic even for a show like this at first, later episodes imply that the Loud parents, when running low on funds, pawn off some of Lisa's inventions to big companies. This explains why she has friends in high places (see: NASA).
  • The synopsis of a Season 2 episode mentions that their father normally has a job as a IT worker. IT workers make fairly decent money, so it's a bit more plausible than it first seems. It can even explain why the spare money at play fluctuates a bit: IT workers can go through stretches of time when computer work isn't in high demand and periods where they have to work full nights. Leaving it for a dishwashing job could explain a poorer family episode later, even after he becomes a co-chef. This eventually leads to the events of "Cooked!", where Lynn Sr. becomes the proud owner of his own restaurant and could have a more stable income.
  • Lisa providing finances to the family could tie in to her habit of experimenting on the family. As she has mentioned filing patents in the past, it is highly likely she is able to earn royalties on them which go into the family's coffers to some extent. The parents don't tell her to knock it off because the money flow is too important. As to why we don't see these inventions affect the world at large or nobody acts like she's a big noise in the series, it is quite possible that she is paid more by larger companies to keep her inventions off the market than she'd earn from having them on it after the money is divided up, as is given at times for why guys like Reed Richards haven't changed the world widely (in between supervillain attacks of course, which Lisa does not have a problem with.. yet).
  • "Cover Girls", "Insta-gran" and "Fool Me Twice" show her present at scientific events. She's a child prodigy whose inventions are routinely patented and sold to big companies; who wouldn't pay through the roof to have such a semi-famous name (in the scientific world) to be present at your event? The appearance money, as well as the aforementioned royalties, probably goes into the family coffers (given Lisa, as smart she is, is still a minor), as do any monetary prizes from Lola's pageants or any money Luna and Luan make from their respective gigs. This is also why the parents encourage them; these aren't just hobbies, they're income sources.
• In "Any Given Sundae", Rita says that Flip grew another set of wisdom teeth. This makes a lot more sense after "Blinded by Science", which reveals that Flip is a freak of nature, who has things like gills, a heart in his belly, etc.
  • In "A Flipmas Carol", he, as a kid, grows a mustache out of anger. Another sign of his freak-dom.
  • One of Flip's biological quirks is that he's immune to hypothermia. This could be part of the reason he didn't care about leaving the Louds in the blizzard in "Snow Way Out" — since the cold doesn't effect him, it requires effort for him to remember that it can harm or kill others.
• Luna describing Lincoln's substitute teacher as "smokin'" in "Study Muffin" makes a whole lot more sense come the episode "L is For Love", the episode where it's revealed that Luna is bisexual. Since she also finds girls attractive, she can definitely relate to Lincoln's issues of being Distracted by the Sexy.
• The Casagrandes occasionally show Maria picking on her brother Carlos. That might explain Ronnie Anne's own aggression not just to Lincoln but as Royal Woods Elementary's toughest girl.
• People often attribute Leni saying that "My favorite colour is zebra" to her lack of intelligence, but, after thinking about it for a while, it makes sense - Leni is an aspiring fashion designer, and what is one of the most prominent colour patterns used in fashion? Zebra stripes. While her terminology may be off (and also given her Hidden Depths), Leni's statement holds a lot more water than it seems.
• Lucy sighs a lot, and she has the odd habit of saying the actual word. Seems kind of pointless at first, but then I remembered that The Loud House takes a lot of inspiration from comic books. In most of them, particularly Peanuts, when a character sighs it appears as the actual word in their text bubble. It's a stealthy joke on how readers will most likely imagine the character saying the word "sigh" instead of making the sound. (Lucy also says other sound effects, like "cough", "gasp", and "sniff", but not as often.)
• It makes perfect sense that Lynn is a Big Eater. Anyone can tell you that being active tends to increase your appetite and with all the sports Lynn plays, her appetite is probably regularly through the roof. Not to mention at 13, she is likely starting puberty, which any girl can tell you does crazy things to your metabolism.
  • Her Trademark Favorite Food of meatball grinders also makes perfect sense for similar reasons. Meatball grinders would contain large amounts of carbs, protein and calories, all things any growing girl needs but especially an athlete.
• In "What Wood Lincoln Do?", Clyde passes out whenever he tries to blow up a balloon. This can't be due to fear, since he's not afraid of handling balloon animals in "Lincoln Loud: Girl Guru", so it's probably to do with lack of oxygen. Considering he uses an inhaler, it makes sense that he loses consciousness more easily.
• "Ghosted!" reveals that ghosts do exist, with Shanks Bogey, a ghost who haunts Fairway University, as its good-luck charm. Now that may seem a little contrived, but back in "Don't You Fore-get About Me", Leni ends up scoring a hole-in-one by accident by sending a ball into the water hazard, only for a frog to spit it into the hole. Who's to say that was an early sign of Shanks's presence?
• Craftsmanship appears to run in the family. Leni, Lynn, Lana and Lisa have all shown great craftsmanship talent; Leni making Lori's bed in exchange for a ride to the mall, Lynn modifying the family bike into a top-of-the-line sports bike, Lana's obsession with operating heavy machinery and Lisa's many arcane inventions.
• Clyde acting like a robot when he sees Lori makes sense if you remember that, like Lincoln, he's a comic book nerd. Saying, "Does not compute" might be a nerdy, jokey way of saying that he feels love-dazed.
• Many people have noted how Lynn, Luan, and Luna haven't developed a bust despite being at the respective ages where most children enter or are going through puberty. However, it sort of makes sense when taking into account their personalities which notably contrast from the other two teenage sisters: All of them are immature and idealistic in their own ways; Lynn throws tantrums, enjoys playing outside with Lana and Lola, turns the most mundane of things into fun, and literally has the temper of a spoiled child; Luan is hopelessly naïve and ignorant when it comes to cynicism, can't take criticism as "No Laughing Matter" shows, has a love for comedy and fun, has showbiz aspirations in the form of a comedienne, and is generally a combination of a Cloudcuckoolander, Pollyanna and Kiddie Kid; Luna, while definitely the most mature of the trio (knows about and is a member of the LGBT community), still has show business aspirations and thus uses music to hide the painful likelihood of being faced with the world's cynicism. In contrast, Leni and Lori are both teenage girl stereotypes of the Valley Girl variety (albeit one is more pessimistic than the other), so Lynn, Luan, and Luna's odd prepubescence is accurate to their hopeless naivety and ideals a là a child, and showcases them as standing out from the teenage girl stereotypes that their older two sisters are depicted as.
• In "No Place Like Homeschool", Lisa mentions that arts and crafts are her one academic weakness because of her "stubby" fingers, which could explain why her experiments, during which she has to carefully manipulate dangerous chemicals, tend to end up in explosions.
• Look at Luan's design, and you may notice her hair has a widow's peak. This rare V-shaped hairline makes her brown hair, combined with her light skin, look like the design of a cartoon monkey. Monkeys are notorious in fiction for being hyperactive and - definitely more often - mischievous.
• The intro shows the Loud kids' portraits with different colors to match the kids. But the pictures are coded to the clothes they normally so why is Lily's lavender instead of white like her diaper? It's the color of her blankey.
  • Following on this, "Schooled" showed that she's starting to wear full clothes, with one of the items being purple shorts. It's another reminder of her blankey.
• Lynn's superstitious beliefs. Her roommate is Lucy who's interested in supernatural things. Lynn probably asked her about superstitions related to sports and would follow them if it would improve her odds compounded with her hard work.
• Why does Clyde get nauseous when he lies? Well, in "Overnight Success", he quotes Blarney: "Every time you lie, a leprechaun will cry" and "ARRGGH You for Real?" reveals that Clyde actually believes in leprechauns. And while it's relatively rare, guilt does cause nausea sometimes.
• Lisa wears dentures now, but being four/five years old, she probably still had all her baby teeth when the accident happened. Just give it a bit of time and she'll grow new teeth.
• In "Space Invader", we see Lincoln ready to go to sleep, but Lynn still alert and wanting to play. This is probably at least partly because she's two years older than him and thus probably doesn't need as much sleep.
• Paula's leg is still in a cast even after the year-long time skip. With her being made to continue playing despite her injury it's no wonder her leg isn't healing.
• In "Home of the Fave", Lynn Sr. thinks his father played favourites with him and his brother. However, when we meet his father, Leonard, in "Camped!", he seems to be very nice, and in fact, a bit of a sap like Lynn Sr. himself. This makes more sense after "Twas the Fight Before Christmas", which reveals that Lynn Sr. and his brother, Lance, have had a rivalry since childhood. Most likely Leonard didn't actually play favourites; Lynn Sr. was just jealous of Lance.
• The reveal in "Pop Pop the Question" that Myrtle used to be a spy could be the reason for her never having kids or friends, as mentioned in "Insta-gran". She maybe used to think that making friends put her at risk of her identity being discovered, and was too busy being a spy to have kids. Now that she is old, it's been long enough since her days of being a spy ended, so she no longer feels that it's risky to make friends, but she's too old to have kids.

Names

• Lincoln's name when shortened down is Linc, which keeps with the four-letter name theme. It makes sense since it's shown many times that he interacts with all of his sisters helps solve many problems between them. Basically, he's the link that keeps his siblings together.
  • His tendency to break the fourth wall and the fact that he's written to be relatable to the audience also means he's the link between the show and the audience. Sounds like another "Link" between a fictional world and its audience, right?
• Leni isn't a very common name, but it does exist. It is a German name or nickname. Three Olympic atheletes of the early 20th century bore this name: Leni Schmidt, Helene "Leni" Junker, and Magdalena "Leni" Lohmar.
  • The most famous Leni is Leni Riefenstahl, arguably the most well-known female filmmaker, who directed Triumph of the Will and other Nazi propaganda films.
  • Since Lynn Sr.'s dad is named Leonard, it's possible Lynn Sr. was going to name his second kid after his dad, but then it turned out to be a girl, so they kept the name anyway and tweaked it to be more feminine (Leonard to Lenny to Leni).
    • Which fits the idea that Chris Savino named her after Lennie Smalls, meaning in and out of universe, she's named after a Lenny.
• Why does Mrs. Loud's first name not begin with an L? L is the twelfth letter of the alphabet, and there are twelve members of the Loud House whose names begin with L (the eleven kids and Mr. Loud).
  • Furthermore, she wasn't a Loud by birth, she married into the family.
• Lincoln shares a name with a president. He was born in the presidential limo, so maybe that's why.

Siblings' Relationships/Contrasts

• The pairings of the rooms for the Loud Kids may have been done according to age, but there's a little brilliance in how said characters were paired as well:
  • Lori and Leni — Both are high school Valley Girls that fall into different categories of blonde stereotypes.
  • Luna and Luan — The latter confirms that the former listens to her material, and it just so happens that Luna has a drum kit nearby... no prizes for guessing what that's used for. On top of that, both are different types of entertainers (a musician and a comedian, respectively) and their names are anagrams of each other.
  • Lynn and Lucy — Both seem to be polar opposites to each other - one is a mellow, seldom-active Goth who her sisters barely notice, the other is a ruckus raising sports junkie that makes her presence felt. As of "Future Tense", they're now both basketball players. On a meta note, they are voiced by the same actress, Jessica DiCicco.
  • Lana and Lola — The twins are Polar Opposite Twins - Lola's the Girly Girl to Lana's playful Tom Boy. Also, Lola is the Token Evil Teammate of the Loud family, whereas Lana is the Friend to All Living Things, a complete inversion of what you'd expect from those tropes. Also, as of "Toads and Tiaras", they are both beauty pageant winners. On the same meta level as Lynn and Lucy, they're voiced by the same actress, Grey Griffin.
  • Lisa and Lily — Lisa has basically reached the pinnacle of human intelligence at a tender age. Lily, being an inquisitive baby, would naturally be ripe for new knowledge. Also, though nowhere near Lisa's genius, Lily is also considered very smart for her age.
  • Lincoln — By himself, being the only boy. His room is a repurposed linen closet that is smack-dab in the middle of everyone's rooms. And wouldn't you know it - Lincoln himself is the middle child!
• It may seem like Negative Continuity that none of the girls wanted to go to Dairyland in "One Of The Boys", while half of them (the Tomboys) wanted to go there in "In Tents Debate". However, it’s not so illogical if you consider the fact that these are two completely different circumstances. In "In Tents Debate", the girls were voting where to spend their entire vacation, with the choice being Dairyland vs Aloha Beach. In "One Of The Boys", the discussion was about where to go on a mere day trip, with the choice being Dairyland vs the mall. Luna, Luan, Lynn, Lana and Lisa still like Dairyland; they just like the mall even more, especially if it’s for only a day trip rather than a vacation.
  • Also, even if they are tomboys, they can still find something in the mall that they might like. Luna can find some music equipment, Luan can find something she can use to prank others, Lynn can find some sports equipment, Lana can find some new pets or fixing tools and Lisa can find scientific books or something that can help her with her experiments. Sure, an amusement park is cool, but a mall can provide anything you want, even if you are a tomboy!
    • And as for why Lincoln didn't enjoy the mall despite this fact, maybe he already has all he wants.
• In "Sitting Bull", Lynn tells a story about how she fell off a climbing wall and broke her leg so bad that the bone was sticking out, in order to help the kids she was babysitting go to sleep. While Lynn isn't the smartest cookie in the jar, it still doesn't make sense why someone with any ounce of common sense would think that was a suitable bedtime story. Then you remember who she's roomed with. Lucy probably enjoys morbid stories like that, and considering the age gap between her and Lynn, Lynn probably read to her at night often, and figured out pretty early on that those were the kinds of stories Lucy liked to hear before bed, and assumed the same was true for every kid. Her younger sisters after Lucy probably further cemented this to a certain degree:
  • The story relies on a bit of grossness due to the injury Lynn suffered in it, something Lana would appreciate
  • The story involves Lynn getting injured, so the oftentimes sadistic Lola would probably enjoy it
  • Lisa would also probably be somewhat fascinated by that kind of injury, due to her interest in the medical field.
  • The only one of Lynn's younger sisters who doesn't seem like they would enjoy that kind of story is Lily, though because her status as a blank slate, we can't be sure.
• In "Schooled!", during Lily's subplot^note She gets kicked out of her preschool after pooping her pants, as one of the preschool's requirements is that all students must be fully potty-trained, Mr. and Mrs. Loud claim that they don't remember potty-training being this hard with the rest of their kids. When you really think about it, all ten of Lily's older siblings probably have a reason on why potty-training would be (relatively) easy for them:
  • 1.) Lori — She loves being the oldest and probably would've taken pleasure in being able to do something that her younger siblings can't do.
  • 2.) Leni — While she may not be the sharpest knife in the drawer, she loves fashion and is also kind of easily grossed out, so potty-training wouldn't be that bad for her because Leni wouldn't want to keep soiling herself (and ruining her clothes).
  • 3.) Luna and Luan — They (especially the latter) like to make people happy, so if their parents wanted them to be potty-trained, they'd probably be motivated to learn quickly and please their parents.
  • 4.) Lynn — She's a Competition Freak, so she'd probably see being potty-trained as a type of "victory."
  • 5.) Lincoln — He's very smart and strategic.
  • 6.) Lucy — She's very independent and also seems pretty clean.
  • 7.) Lana and Lola — They're twins, and twins tend to be rather competitive with each other, so Lana and Lola would probably compete over who would be the first of the two of them to be potty-trained.
  • 8.) Lisa — She's a Child Prodigy, so she learns and picks up on things very quickly. In fact, Mr. Loud claims that Lisa had herself potty-trained within just an hour.
• In "In Tents Debate", there could be other reasons besides the Tomboy and Girly Girl divide about which sisters want to go where. Lori and Leni being the fashionistas might have wanted to go to the beach to get tans, while Lola might have wanted to build a sandcastle due to being in her Princess Phase, and Lily is too young to ride most of the Dairyland rides. On the flip side, Luna and Lynn are very energetic so would have preferred an amusement park, Luan probably likes the milk puns, and we know from a licensed game that Dairyland has a petting zoo, which probably would attract Lana. As for Lisa, perhaps she wanted to avoid the beach due to knowing all the dangers of a sunburn.
• In "April Fools Rules" and "Fool Me Twice", Lily is the only Loud not to get pranked by Luan (or even speak). Apparently none of the "Fool's Paradise" pranks are even meant for her (to small to reach the door or a car wheel), not even the one meant for mom, or even her being replaced by a chimp that attacks Lynn. If you look at the "Picture Perfect" moment where Lily and Luan were giggling at each other, it seems that, Prankageddon lunatic or not, Luan might have a soft side for the baby.
  • Alternatively, she is subconsciously aware of the psychological trauma such harsh pranks can inflict on her siblings, and being a baby would leave Lily very distraught. They are still her family(other than Clyde who is friends with just about every family member), and she doesn't want to leave her baby sister scarred for life.
  • Plus, Lily's crying distresses, or at least annoys, everyone including Luan.
  • Also, the point of a prank is to make people laugh, scare them, etc. Maybe she thinks Lily would just be too young to comprehend her pranks.
  • Yeah, right. "Silence of the Luans" outright states that Lily actually enjoys Luan's April Fools pranks.

Other

• Lynn Sr. doesn't allow Leni to get a piercing on her belly button, yet he's fine with Lori, Leni, Luna, and even Lola having their ears pierced. This may be because of his nervy personality and the fact that belly button piercings are more likely to get infected than ear piercings.
• In the "Bathroom Break" pilot, there's no toilet paper left. Earlier, Lana is shown running around as a mummy. Now, what common household item do kids use to cosplay as mummies? Toilet paper.
• Lincoln's crisis about leaving a nasty voice message for Lori in "Get The Message" was ultimately pointless - Luna's guitar playing would have drowned his rant out completely, and, as the end of the episode proves, it was highly unlikely Lori would even sit through several loud chords strumming in her ears to even reach the lone part at the end where he goes: "....and that is why you are the worst. Sister. EVER!!!"
• In "Driving Miss Hazy," Leni thinks that there's a country named after her when Lincoln talks about "speaking Leni." While far from being a country, there is indeed a place named with the same name: Leni, also called Comune di Leni, a municipality on the small Italian island of Salina.
• In "A Tale of Two Tables", Lily is served ice cream. However, "Any Given Sundae" claims that she hasn't had her first ice cream yet. What were the kids doing at the end of "A Tale of Two Tables"? Throwing food. Maybe Lily threw her whole ice cream before she could eat any.
• In "One Flu Over the Loud House", the word "RUN" can be seen written on the wall with a backwards "R". Lincoln didn't write it because he wasn't awake then, Lily's illiterate because she's a baby, so are the pets because, well, they're pets, the parents enforce the rules so they wouldn't be writing on the wall, Lisa would obviously be too smart to do so, the twins got infected early on so they wouldn't have had the chance to write it (and none of the sick people could have written it because they didn't seem to care about the healthy people running away), and the only teen who is dumb enough to not know how to write an "R" properly is Leni, but she is the only healthy person who doesn't want everyone to run away. That leaves only Lucy. But Lucy is too educated to accidentally write an "R" incorrectly — which means she did it on purpose, for dramatic effect, which is something she would do.
• With the revelation that Bobby and Ronnie Anne's father is a mission doctor, the line about the hernia operation in "A Tale of Two Tables" now takes on a new, (somewhat) less ominous light.
• It's noted by fans that the Sister Fight Protocol from "Brawl in the Family" didn't appear during Lucy and Lynn's fight in "Space Invader". It's not an error, however, if one assumes that the protocol was created after this to try and avoid the situation, particularly given how separating Lynn and Lucy with Lynn in Lincoln's room did work out. Its newness is also why it caught Lincoln off guard. The fact that Lincoln's intervention did lead to the Space Invader fight ending also explains why Lincoln kept trying to intervene.
  • Further the reason they kept shoving a feuding sister into his room, and him out, could be from awareness of his issues with being stuck with Lynn. In a sense the sisters noted how the Lucy/Lynn fight went, but took the lessons from it in the wrong directions.
• "Room With a Feud" has a few:
  • Luan asks Lisa how she got their DNA samples when the latter mentions it by accident. Remember her fecal studies from previous episodes?
  • Lynn is seen bench-pressing Leni later in the episode. In other words, she's using her as a dumbbell (dumb belle).
• In "Hand-Me-Downer", one might wonder why Lincoln handed his new sports bike to Lana instead of Lucy, since the latter is next in line for hand-me-downs. There might be two reasons: One, Lucy, being a Goth, wouldn't be much of the outdoorsy type, and secondly, the fact that Lynn is currently in possession of the "girly" bike means that, with them being roommates and girls, Lynn would just hand hers over to Lucy when she's through with it. It would then be a simple matter of Lucy spray painting it black afterwards, since, being a girl, she wouldn't be teased for its appearance. As an added bonus, one episode already revealed that, being a Princess Pony reader, she actually doesn't mind such things since it's a break from the darkness.
• Lucy's fondness for Princess Pony as seen in "Sleuth or Consequences" might be part of a multi-show gag about dark characters liking it, but it could be a reference to how the Brony community ^{Don't know what that is?} A community of men who like My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and other My Little Pony-related things. is somewhat infamous for having a ton of dark fics, such as Cupcakes (Sergeant Sprinkles), the Pony POV Series, and The Conversion Bureau.. Lucy can easily enjoy the series even when she doesn't need to get out of the darkness, and the online nature of fanfics can allow her to view it without being as detectable as a book or video.
• When Lori stops doing the laundry in "Chore and Peace", Lincoln and Lola are the only ones without clean laundry while everyone else was fine, however it could be because Lincoln has been shown with little clothing at his dispense, and Lola could have just the one dress considering that the kind of dresses she wears aren't that cheap.
• Lola has an idea in "April Fools Rules" to keep Luan from listening in on the siblings' anti-April Fools scheme by turning on the washer, claiming she "saw it in a mob movie once." A throwaway line, right? The idea to run over Lincoln's leg to cause a sports injury? Bug Lori's room with a microphone on her tiara to listen in on her siblings' secrets? Hide money inside her stuffed animals? Seems like Lola's watched that kind of movie more than once.
  • Or she watched that particular movie once and watched other similar movies.
• When Lana is having trouble with pageant training in "Toads and Tiaras", she eventually turns around and makes significant improvement only to repeat her mistakes during the pageant. She either forgot everything overnight or was suffering Performance Anxiety.
• The reveal that Lynn Sr. was the one who left the money out in "It's a Loud, Loud, Loud, Loud House" gives a good explanation for the pun on one of the notes (a note saying that they got to the "bottom" of the mystery that was taped to Lily's bottom). Lynn Sr. is shown to have a similar sense of humour to Luan.
• How did Bobby wrap himself in a box in "11 Louds a Leapin'"? He probably had Ronnie Anne help.
• Luna's overall shyness toward her love interest (unlike her siblings) in "L is for Love" is because her crush Sam is a girl. She likely feels uncomfortable about it since her attraction towards another person of the same sex might be a sudden, recent development, thus she doesn't know how to deal with it. Luna probably felt that if Sam didn't reciprocate her feelings (due to Incompatible Orientations being a common, unfortunate reality, especially for LGBTQ+ teens), it would be THE never-live-it-down moment of her entire school life.
  • In fact, the whole episode where Luna didn't directly approach Sam or anyone not refer to her by name instead of "she" or "her" was all to keep Sam's true gender a suprise to the very end.
• Lola being homeschooled in... well, "No Place Like Homeschool", could stem from her having trouble reading, as shown in "Read Aloud".
• During "Spell It Out", Lucy's magic-based ire did not strike Lincoln or Lynn individually, despite the two being part of the five individual annoyances siblings gave her way (interrupting her spirit calling thrice, wrecking her book and taking her seat on the couch). As the sibling she is closest to, and her roommate, they get along better and it takes a lot more for her to really get annoyed with them. Also given that Lincoln's game he was shouting about involved fantasy elements, including zombies, Lincoln's activity had the benefit of being something she does emphasize with more than phone chatter and chemistry. As to Lynn's boat....given the Loud House's chaos it probably got totaled at some point before it could be hexed.
• In "Potty Mouth", it is revealed that Lisa wears dentures. People with false teeth sometimes speak with a lisp, so it's a possible reason for her lisp.
• During the de-vulgarizing of Lily in "Potty Mouth", Lincoln isn't shown recreating his swearing incident. Notice that while the others swore due to injury, breaking less expensive items, or rapping along to a song, he swore after breaking a TV, so recreating it would create more trouble than ruining a shirt or a guitar string. Not to mention that Lily's interview occurred in the same room as the T.V., so a damaged T.V. would negatively impact the interview.
  • Similarly, Lucy and Luan are the only siblings who aren't shown swearing around Lily. Lucy is generally The Stoic, and no one really notices her, so it's not only rare for her to swear, but also rare for anyone to actually hear her do so. Meanwhile, many comedians, which Luan aspires to be, find blue or off-color humor to be distasteful (not to mention that, as Luan performs at children's birthday parties, it's not cool that she has a reputation for foul mouth).
  • Lisa also only swore because she was simply rapping along to a song that had profanity in it. This makes sense because, like Lucy, Lisa is a stoic, so is unlikely to swear for emotional reasons, but she does enjoy rap music, which is notorious for having profanity in it. They were probably lucky that "dammit" was the only swear in the song!
  • In the same episode, when asked to act like a one-year-old, why did Lisa poop her diaper instead of doing another, less gross (and, for her, more dignified) baby action? Well, the "It's Just a Phase" comic reveals that she started doing experiments when she was one. Therefore, when instructed to "act like a one-year-old", she may have taken that to mean "act the way she was when she was one", which is just like her usual self, only incontinent.
• Lisa's planned fake-out against her siblings in "Snow Bored" does have some foreshadowing. Take it from a troper who comes from a Northern state, even if Lisa had salted the roads early on she could not get a cancellation undone: weather surprises with much more mild conditions than expected a day in advance do not mean school is made back on. Lisa is more likely to know this than the rest of her siblings, who even if they had seen that happen before would not have that fact in the front of their mind.
• Lynn taking the first prize in math in the episode "Future Tense" seems like a stretch of logic since she's patently bad at academics. However, if one were to remember her actions in "Lynner Takes All", the episode bundled with this one, if there's one thing Lynn doesn't cater to, it's losing at anything. Why wouldn't she buckle down and dominate the class despite her disdain for it?
  • Also from the same episode, the sisters are all made to do drastically different things compared to their usual behavior, but Lincoln merely has to read educational comics. That's because he's already well-rounded, being a Jack of All Trades, while the sisters are all specialized in one particular subject. Sure he didn't enjoy the change either, but his status in the family gave him some slack.
• In "Fool Me Twice", Luan makes the Loud stunt doubles do things to humiliate the real Louds. How does she know exactly what would humiliate them? She grew up in that family.
• In "Ties That Bind", Rita miscounts the children as ten. Maybe she accidentally counted the twins as one because she only got pregnant ten times.
• In "The Waiting Game", Lincoln is going out of his way to earn tickets to a party from somebody who is clearly using him. Then it hit me - the party is being held at a sewage plant. In this episode, one way or the other, Lincoln is/was going to be subject to crappy treatment.
• Why is Leni's alter-ego in Lincoln's comic book the "Eleven of Hearts"? Because out of the eleven children in the family, she's the kindest and sweetest, a.k.a., The Heart. On a side note, given her....personality, it makes sense that she would choose a number that doesn't actually exist in a deck of playing cards.
  • On that note, Lucy being the Eight of Spades also has some significance. In a tarot deck, an upright Eight of Swords (the closest counterpart to the Eight of Spades) signifies isolation. Lucy, being a heroic character in the comic book (in other words, an upright citizen) but feeling emotionally distant from everyone else in real life, can certainly relate. She also happens to be an eight-year-old.
• In "Flying Solo", Clyde has Lincoln sing "One Hundred Jars of Jam on the Wall" instead of "Bottles of Beer". This is probably because Clyde is so straight-laced that he thinks it would be improper to sing about alcohol at school.
• In "The Loudest Mission: Relative Chaos," it seems kind of odd that Bobby, who cried like a baby at the thought of being away from Lori for two days, doesn't shed a tear over moving in with the Casagrandes, even though it means being away from Lori for much longer than he expected. It's no wonder that Lori thinks of Bobby as a callous Hypocrite who "cares about [the bodega] more than he cares about [her]." But towards the end, we, along with Lori, learn that Bobby is in fact just the opposite, having come up with a surprisingly well-thought-out plan to make his and Lori's relationship work. Chances are, he was already developing his plan even before his mom announced the move.
• In "Change of Heart" when over Lincoln is overhearing Leni calm down Mr. Grouse by telling him to recite the names of the 40 states, telling him that by the time he's done, he'll forget why he was mad in the first place, only for Grouse to reply that there were 48 states. Leni's advice can be chalked up to the fact that she's a Dumb Blonde, but Grouse's response signifies that he's so old that he may remember learning that Alaska and Hawaii were still territories, and at the end of the episode he starts reciting the states alphabetically: "Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas..." Notice what state is missing?
• Lori's image spot of her own set of eleven kids in "Driving Ambition" noticeably has more boys among them then her own set of siblings, where Lincoln is the only one. Beyond simple probability being against the idea that Lori would also have ten daughters and a single son, there are two factors in play. One is that Lori, having nine sisters and through a combination of being 'one of ten' and the bickerings of girls at a similar age (her and Leni and clothing fights) that having gaps via gender is a good thing. The second is that she is observant enough to pick up that Lincoln does get bothered by being the only boy, and she'd rather not have any sons of her own go through the same problems.
• In "Absent Minded", Clyde writes in his diary that he ate Rusty's leftover pizza, but then there's a drawing of a toilet, implying it gave him a bad stomach. Why would it? Well, the game "Living Loud: Summer School" establishes that he's "allergic to gluten", which probably actually refers to celiac disease. Clyde probably realized too late that the pizza wasn't gluten free.
• In "Kernel of Truth", Chef Pat is seen cooking chili that has a boot in it. Come "Diss the Cook", we learn that she always serves Lincoln and Lynn subpar meals, so who's to say that chili wasn't a "special" batch she was making for Lincoln?
• It may seem like a continuity error Lucy not wanting to go to the beach in "Sand Hassles", but wanting to go there in "In Tents Debate". However, in the latter episode, Luna expresses surprise that Lucy wants to go to the beach and Lucy clarifies that she only wants to go there because of shark attacks. Therefore, Lucy has always hated beaches up until "Sand Hassles", and that time was just a fluke.
  • An alternative interpretation: Lucy really likes the beach, but she was afraid of being made fun of by her sisters (as almost happened in "Sleuth Or Consequences") and she used the shark as an pretext (in fact, as morbid as she is, it seems unlikely that she be able to have fun at the expense of other people's tragedy, unlike Luan and Lynn Jr.). But as she got involved with the Morticians Club, she forced herself to believe that the beach was not the right environment for her, and in the end, she was never really convinced of that, so much so that in "Sand Hassles" she adapted more easily than her Club colleagues, because she ALWAYS liked the beach, unlike them, who had to learn the hard way!
• In "Tripped!", Lana's pets accompany the Louds on their road trip, while Charles, Cliff, Geo, and Walt are being looked after the McBrides. This leaves Fangs and Gary. While it's still uncertain who was taking care of Gary, an episode of Listen Out Loud reveals that Dante, one of Lucy's goth friends, bat-sits Fangs, providing a good explanation of where he was.
• In "Time Trap!":
  • We see that in the alternate timeline where the Loud kids don't exist, Clyde is seen wearing a different shirt than the one in the original timeline. There was an episode which showed that Lincoln was the one who introduced Clyde's shirt to him.
  • Not only do Rita and Lynn Sr. have no kids, they have no pets either. Why? Well, in one promotional video, it's revealed that Lana was the one who originally found the pets.
  • The alternate versions of Rita and Lynn Sr. have fancier looking furniture and a fancier car, and they travel more often. This may be because, due to not having to pay for raising any kids, they're wealthier.
  • Rusty and Zach are friends with Chandler. This makes sense because when Rusty was first introduced (in "Hand-Me-Downer") he was a bully and only turned around after making friends with Lincoln, while "Everybody Loves Leni" reveals that Lincoln started hanging out with Rusty and Zach at the same time, implying that Rusty and Zach were already friends before they made friends with Lincoln.
• "Blinded by Science" reveals that Lisa has created a snake/bird hybrid. Lana owns a snake (El Diablo) and the whole family owns a bird (Walt). Perhaps that's where she got the snake and bird DNA from.
• In "For Bros About to Rock", the sisters tell Lincoln not to let Luna interfere with his first concert, since whenever she interfered with their first concerts, it ruined the experience. However, when Luna interferes with Lincoln's first concert, he has the time of his life. Why is his first concert different? Well, Lori's, the twins', and Lisa's first concerts were not rock, and Lincoln's was, and rock is the music genre Luna is most into, so she'd probably know rock concerts better than any other kind.
• Lucy is sometimes seen with random organs (a spleen in "The Boss Maybe" and a heart in "Snow Escape".) Well, she is part of a Mortician's Club; maybe she keeps the organs from the bodies. It's disturbing, but at least she's not killing anyone.
• In "Change Of Heart", Lori, at first, is happy to think that Clyde now has Leni as his crush instead of her. But when Leni thanks Clyde on the phone for being the nicest guy she's ever seen, giving her some shoe stain spray, Lori is soon apprehensive. It's as if she discovers a possible reason for Clyde to leave her for Leni: while Lori never thanks Clyde for the gifts he gives her, Leni genuinely congratulates him, showing that she really cares for him. Likewise, Lori reacts angrily to her every shoe being stained by Clyde, while Leni, after going through the same situation, has forgiven Clyde and moved on. No wonder, after Lori learns her lesson, Clyde stains her shoe one last time and she doesn't care anymore.
  • This also explains why Leni's plan went wrong: Clyde, after Leni's lessons, was really ready to face Lori without a nosebleed. That's because he thought Lori was still indifferent to him. But when he sees Lori changing her attitude and showing kindness to the point of giving him a kiss on the cheek, Clyde bleeds his nose again, because it was a completely new experience for him.
• In "No Guts, No Glori", the sisters decide to put Lincoln as leader in Lori's place, while the parents go out to dinner. At first, you might think they do this because they value his leadership qualities. But soon after, the exact opposite is proven: they know that he is a terrible leader, and they chose him precisely so that they could mess up the house at will. So much so that, when Lincoln changes his permissive attitude and tries to impose a little strictness to his sisters, they snub him, with Lynn jokingly asking, "Who do you think you are? Lori?". And all the sisters laugh at him, as if to say, "you fell into our trap!" And Lincoln surrenders, "No, I'm not." In fact, he is not a born leader like Lori.
  • Why does Lori play videogame with Lincoln at the end? Just to disguise it, so that the parents have the illusion that everything is harmonious inside the house? None of that. Just as she taught Lincoln to be firm with the sisters, she also learned to be more flexible.
• In "No Such Luck", the confusion that ends with Lincoln being evicted from his home is caused, in part, by Lincoln's desire to gain more time to do the things he enjoys. Although it is a legitimate desire, the way he handles the situation makes him selfishly think that he is the only one who suffers from a lack of time in the family, as if he were a slave in the service of 10 privileged women. But think about it: is he really the only sibling who complains about his events schedule? Lynn and Lana don't seem to love Leni and Lola's fashion shows and pageants. Lucy also doesn't get anyone interested in the same things as her (in "Spell It Out", she summons the pets to do her psychic session). Lisa is not a fan of play activities. And definitely, no one finds humor in Luan's comedy shows. Putting it all together, it's not hard to see that none of the sisters has the luxury of always doing what they likes, and that they all force themselves to sacrifice a little bit of themselves to show mutual support. That said, Lori's statement in "No Such Luck" that all siblings have a duty to support each other takes on a completely different light. Lincoln was wrong all along because he was only thinking about himself. ^note In fact, Lincoln himself recognizes this soon after confessing his lie, but the fandom's revolt ends up eclipsing the lesson contained in his speech.
  • In "Driving Miss Hazy", Lori could also claim that she has little time to do her own thing: her siblings always ask her to take them to the events they like, as she is the only sister who has a driver's license. So, to buy time, she makes the brothers do her tasks in exchange for taking them with Vanzilla.
• In "No Laughing Matter", Luan gives up comedy after hearing his siblings comment (behind her back, not knowing she was listening) that she is annoying and unfunny. This seems to contradict "Head Poet's Anxiety", where Luan is resilient to criticism. But if Luan was merely offended by the fact that she was seen as unfunny, the most likely thing is that she would take revenge on her siblings, pulling even more cruel pranks on everyone. The fact that she stops pranking her siblings shows that she is actually worried about feeding the image of being a "bad sister", and fears that the comedy is leading her down that path. So she decides to give up on her dream as she really cares about her family.
  • Luan cares so much about her siblings that she decided to "reprise" the script she had performed the morning before, following the same order of meeting her brothers and repeating some acts (offering fruit punch to Lincoln and saying "Knock Knock" to Lucy and Lynn), just acting nice. She did this on purpose to immediately demonstrate that she was changed.
• In "Ties That Bind", when the siblings think they'll be thrown out of their house for being "masters of chaos", Luan guards Mr. Coconuts into the case, and Luna does the same with her guitar. Why don't they throw their items in the trash, like Luan does in "No Laughing Matter"? Because they are still willing to follow their respective vocations (comedy and rock n' roll) and just want to buy time to negotiate with their parents.
• In "Spell It Out", Lynn Jr., after losing her voice, might as well switch places with a member of the rowing team. But she is obsessed with always being the leader, and she insists on being the helmsman of the boat, and no one questions it.
• It's unknown if this was intentional, but "Purrfect Gig" has a small nod to "No Such Luck": Luna enlists her girlfriend Sam to help her look after the McBrides' cats. But Sam brings her little brother Simon with her, and Luna can't stress the cats with too many strange people. Sam, calm, remembers that she can't leave Simon waiting outside the house, but Luna says, jokingly, that she could, because the weather is nice outside, making Sam get irritated with her. Well, taking into account that Luna already kicked Lincoln out of her house for being "bad luck", her idea doesn't seem so sarcastic (not least because Simon could also be "bad luck" for cats). It looks like she really hasn't learned anything. Sam, on the other hand, demonstrates that she would never do to Simon what Luna did to Lincoln (although Sam is also shown to not be a very caring sister, as she almost forgot Simon when she left).
• Lola has a private collection of wigs (which can be very useful for her to quickly switch between various trendy hairstyles). In "L Is For Love", she wears a brown wig to take advantage of her sisters' supposed suitors. In "Garage Banned", she wears a blonde wig after getting her hair destroyed by Lisa.
• In "Funny Business", neither sister lasts long as Luan's assistant at the children's birthday parties she hosts. This says less about the sisters' incompetence and more about Luan's impatience and timelessness, as, rather than training and perfecting the sisters in her craft, she prefers to get rid of the problem quickly. The fact that she's been working without an assistant until she gets Lincoln suggests that she's such a perfectionist that she'd rather screw herself than work with unpredictable co-workers.
  • On the other hand, Lincoln, in the role of assistant, sounds as annoying as the other sisters, but Luan never thinks about firing him. How can she be so patient with him? Well, since Lincoln still manages to keep the kids at the party happy and satisfied, maybe she finds Lincoln's ego easier to tolerate than technical problems (Lynn Jr. and Leni) or unwelcome intrusions (Lucy and Lisa) that might hurt the kids and ruin the party. After all, Luan is less jealous of Lincoln and more concerned about her audience.
• While it's never stated in the episode, in "Undercover Mom" the long bangs on Rita's Brita disguise are situated in just the right place to hide the crow's feet that are invisible to the viewers but anyone in-universe can see.
• In "Vantastic Voyage" and "Home of the Fave", we briefly see Leonard in his hippie phase, with Vanzilla having been modified to match; this includes replacing the Fungo logo with a peace sign. "'Twas the Fight Before Christmas" reveals that one Christmas, he accidentally chopped a tree on top of Vanzilla, knocking off the Fungo logo. Maybe his hippie phase happened during this time?
• In "Mall Of Duty" and "Net Gains", no one in the Loud Family will cheer for Lynn Jr. at her games (except Lynn Sr. in first episode). In light of "No Such Luck", it seems unlikely that this was a requirement of Lynn. After the parents and sisters reconcile with Lincoln and accept that he is not bad luck (although the cartoon does not show how they did this), they decide to boycott Lynn's tournaments for a while in retaliation for her coercing Lincoln into going to her softball game in "No Such Luck", thus triggering the whole bad luck incident.
• In "Gown And Out", Lynn Jr. is upset when she sees Lola performing at her municipal pageant and Lincoln is happy with Lola. At first you can't understand why Lynn is angry. Days later, when Lori calls "expert" Lincoln on smartphone to help Lola with her regional pageant (since he's her coach), it's clear that Lynn is upset that there is at least one thing in that she is inferior to Lincoln.
• In "Game Off", the sisters tell Lana that Lincoln will be furious and consider her "dead" because she accidentally lost all of his progress on the video game Total Trash Takedown. This doesn't seem to be Lincoln's style, as he is almost always ultra-patient with his sisters, no matter how much they always harm him. But when you remember the second episode of the first season, "Get The Message", where he has another video game of his damaged by Lori and he is filled with rage to the point of recording an aggressive message for her on smartphone (in language so heavy that Luna drowns out his words with her guitar), the idea of him getting mad at Lana becomes much more plausible.
  • Furthermore, Lincoln doesn't go out of character, because after he discovered the truth, he could hit Lana or threaten to turn her into a human pretzel, like the sisters always do to him, but he doesn't go beyond his line of non-violence, limiting himself to yelling at Lana and order her to get away from him.
• In "Health Kicked", it at first seems a little odd how even Lynn got tired from the parents' exercise routine. However, part of the exercise routine involved waking up early — maybe Lynn just needed some sleep.

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