Sound of Silence: Lincoln buys a pair of earbuds to block the sounds his sisters make, but he gets into trouble when he says yes to all the girls' requests and doesn't know what he agreed to.
Space Invader: After Lynn and Lucy get into a fight, Lincoln agrees to let Lynn bunk in his room for the night. But when Lynn overstays her welcome, Lincoln must get the two to reconcile.
"Sound of Silence"
- Aesop Enforcer: In order to get back at Lincoln for tuning them out and ignoring them, the Loud sisters force him to do a bunch of chores and tasks he "promised" that he would do for them. Lola is the most prominent one since she was the one who found out about the earbuds and came up with the whole prank in the first place.
- Big "NO!": In the flashback to "the frog fiasco", Lana screams one at the sight of Lola apparently having murdered Seymour the frog.
- Bowdlerise: Airings on Nicktoons UK remove Lincoln's reaction to Lynn's "lack of balls" line (the actual line was left in, but the UK censors saw Lincoln's reaction to be too suggestive, so it was removed).
- By the Lights of Their Eyes: Lincoln as he is hiding in the trash can.
- Coincidental Broadcast:Lincoln: Sadly, when you've got ten sisters, it's almost impossible to get a moment's peace.
TV Announcer: Do you find it almost impossible to get a moment's peace?
Lincoln: [exasperated] Yes. [suddenly intrigued] Wait! Yes!
TV Announcer: Then you need the Noise-B-Gone 2000 Earbuds! With 12 different soothing sounds, tune out that noisy world and enjoy a little me time. Only $19.95. Call now. - Disproportionate Retribution:
- If anyone makes Lola mad, even in the slightest, they'll pay a very dire price; Lori's phone got boiled in a pot simply because Lori didn't say "Bless You" when Lola sneezed. It's ultimately subverted when it turns out the girls made up the stories about Lola in order to teach Lincoln a lesson.
- Out of all of the "tasks" Lincoln is forced to do,note Lynn's "task" ends up being a bit much. Specifically, he becomes her sparring partner, in which he basically gets his ass kicked. She was also going to violently confront him when Lola told the other sisters about the earbuds until Lola told them her idea for the prank.
- Dominance Through Furniture: Lori uses Lincoln as an ottoman as she paints her toes.
- "Eureka!" Moment: Lola figured out that Lincoln was wearing the special earbuds when he wasn't responding appropriately to her comments and found the earbuds box in his trash.
- Fireball Eyeballs: "You know what happens when you make Lola MAD!"
- Foreshadowing:
- When Lana is having Lincoln do various chores in case that's what Lola wanted him to do, he questions why Lola would want or care about the house gutters getting cleaned out. It turns out that Lola figured out Lincoln has been tuning everybody out with noise-canceling earbuds and the Loud sisters planned out all the tasks as a way to teach him a lesson.
- When Lola is explaining to the sisters that Lincoln is ignoring them, Lisa is nowhere to be seen, explaining why she didn't know about the plan in the end of the episode.
- Home Nudist: Lincoln already starts the episode taking off his clothes while going up to his room to read comic books.
- Locked Out of the Loop: Turns out, Lisa wasn't in on the sisters' plan to get back at Lincoln for tuning them out.
- Mathematician's Answer: One of the reasons why Lola figured out that Lincoln was tuning everybody out with the earbuds was that he responded "I couldn't agree more" to her question if she was wearing too much mascara.
- Mundane Made Awesome: Lori's flashback to "sneeze-ageddon" was Lola cooking her phone because she didn't say "bless you" to Lola's sneezing.
- Not Listening to Me, Are You?: Appears to be averted, as the sisters don't realize Lincoln's tuning them out, and just take him saying "yes" as agreements. It turns out that Lola figured out what Lincoln was doing when his initial responses made no sense in terms of the question she asked and told the other sisters.
- Plot Twist: It turns out that Lincoln's sisters knew all along that he was ignoring them.
- Poor Communication Kills: Lincoln inflicts this on himself, as ignoring his sisters with the earbuds ends up causing him to agree to several commitments in advance without knowing any of the details. It turns out to have been invoked when Lola found out he was tuning them out with the earbuds, and got the rest of the sisters together to teach him a lesson for ignoring them. It then comes up again at the very end, as the girls forgot to keep Lisa in the loop, resulting in her experiment that she thought Lincoln would help her with going out of control and causing a massive explosion, deafening everyone except her, since she used the earbuds Lincoln wore earlier.
- Running Gag: "You know what happens when you make Lola mad! Did I ever tell you about [insert problem here]?"
- The Scream: Lori in the flashback to "Sneeze-ageddon" when she takes her destroyed phone out of the stove pot.
- Secretly Selfish: Lincoln is right to want some quiet, but he loses his reason when he starts ignoring his sisters.
- Series Continuity Error: The sisters' plan hinges on Lincoln not knowing that Lola has a reputation for cruelty. But if the stories about Lola were real, how would Lincoln not have prior knowledge of them? Is he adopted?
- Shout-Out:
- The title comes from a Simon & Garfunkel song.
- Lincoln tells the delivery drone "Take my money!".
- Lynn tells of the time she made Lola mad, and woke up to find a popped soccer ball in her bed. Her and Lucys voice actress, Jessica DiCicco appeared as a little girl in The Godfather Part III at age 10.
- Lori tells of the time Lola boiled her phone in a pot.
- Slasher Smile: Lola makes several smiles when she plans revenge on her sisters for slighting her in their fake stories about making her mad.
- Staggered Zoom: "Noise-B-Gone...You! Are!! AWESOME!!!"
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: The special earbuds Lincoln uses to tune out his sister's voices and his inability of reading what they truly meant by their lip movements alone results in not having any idea what they said to him, and he is rather confused when he is talking to them without his earbuds of what he just agreed to. None of his sisters have seen him in places he is supposed to be in, doing certain things for them, or properly responding to their comments, which Lucy and Luan noted. Lola is also able to quickly figure out what Lincoln was doing when his initial responses made no sense to the questions she asked him.
- This Explains So Much: The other sisters' reactions to Lola telling them about the noise-canceling earbuds Lincoln got and how he used them to ignore all of them.Luna: No wonder he didn't help me restring my guitar!
Lucy: Or come to my seance.
Luan: And that's why he didn't laugh at my jokes!
Lori: Yeah, that's why. - Wham Line: When Lincoln confesses that he didn't hear what Lola wanted him to do because he used the earbuds to tune her out, Lola suddenly stops being mad:Lola: I know you didn't hear me.
[The other sisters suddenly show up in the doorway with big grins on their faces - except Lucy, who remains serious]
Lincoln: Huh?
Lola: You're not as clever as you think, Lincoln Loud. - Wrong-Name Outburst: Leni calls Lincoln "Landon" when he tells her that he forgot what he promised Lola.
"Space Invader"
- Bookends: "Space...the final frontier."
- Can't Stand Them, Can't Live Without Them: Lynn and Lucy love being roomies, even though they don't want to admit it.
- Double Entendre: Lynn after inspecting Lincoln's room:Lynn: "You know, I'm noticing a complete lack of balls in this room."(Lincoln has a uncomfortable look on his face)Lynn: "No soccer balls, no footballs, no baseballs, no balls. Good thing I brought my own!"
- "Eureka!" Moment: Happens twice while Lincoln and Clyde are going to school. The first time it happens is when Lincoln decides to become a bad roommate for Lynn after Clyde mentions that he's such a good one. The second time is when Lincoln decides to set up a dinner for Lynn and Lucy in their room after Clyde mentions that he was thinking having a romantic dinner with Lori.
- Foodfight!: Lynn, Lucy, and Lincoln does this when Lynn and Lucy make up. This ends up having both of them sleep with Lincoln in his room.
- Gasshole: Lynn makes a "Dutch oven" while sleeping in Lincoln's bed. He returns the favor later on, but unfortunately for him, Lynn enjoyed it for some reason, and it was the final straw towards her staying in Lincoln's room for good.
- This episode establishes Lynn's lack of shame when it comes to her bodily functions, in particularly those of the digestive system.
- Hypocritical Humor: At the beginning of the episode, Lynn and Lucy are fighting over the toothpaste. When Lincoln grabs it, Lynn tells him that he needs to learn how to share.
- "I Can't Look!" Gesture: Leni can't stand to look at Lynn and Lucy fighting, so she puts cucumbers slices over her eyes.
- Loud Sleeper Gag: One of the things that Lincoln doesn't like about Lynn bunking with him is when she snores.
- Please Dump Me: Just switch "unwanted suitor" for "unwanted roommate" and you've got this episode.
- Running Gag: Lincoln remembering that he has to wait until after school before he set his plans into motion.
- Secretly Selfish: Lincoln says he cooked dinner for Lynn and Lucy because he wants to see the two reconcile. But if we remember that at the beginning of the episode, he retreated smiling to his room while Lucy and Lynn had a big fight... it can be clearly seen that he doesn't care about the two fighting. He's just worried about kicking Lynn out of his room.
- Shout-Out: At the start of the episode when Lincoln is addressing the viewer, he begins with "Space... the final frontier."
- The title comes from the 1978 video game Space Invaders.
- Springtime for Hitler: Lincoln tries to be a horrible roommate in order to get Lynn to leave his room intentionally. His attempts to do so go rather poorly. First, when he tries to emulate Lucy, Lynn thinks he's just doing an impression for comedy's sake, and when he tries to use Lynn's own roughhousing antics against her, she instead loves it so much that she decides to move in with him permanently.
- The Thing That Would Not Leave: Lynn, while she's bunking in Lincoln's room. It starts to take its toll on him as she and Lucy continue their fight over the next few days.
- Water Wake Up: Lincoln sleeps in the bathtub to get away from Lynn, and he ends up getting awoken this way when Lori prepares to take her shower.
- Would Rather Suffer: Lucy would rather wear pink than sleep with Lynn.
