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Recap / The Loud House S 3 E 16 Sitting Bull The Spies Who Loved Me

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Sitting Bull: The four oldest sisters reluctantly let Lynn into their babysitting club, but she quickly proves to be too aggressive.

The Spies Who Loved Me: Ronnie Anne wants to go downtown, but her grandparents think it's too dangerous, so they decide to spy on her.


"Sitting Bull"

  • Agony of the Feet: One of the McCauley kids pops something and tells Lynn about it, to which she responds that it's "perfectly normal" and to walk it off.
  • Babysitter from Hell: Lynn is considered to be this due to her aggressiveness, which ultimately causes her four older sisters to lose their babysitting jobs. This is averted with the other four sisters, who are apparently considered to be the best babysitters in Royal Woods.
  • Babysitting Episode: Lincoln's four oldest sisters are revealed to run a babysitting service together—Leni also claims that they all started taking babysitting jobs when they were 13. Lynn (who's 13) ends up joining their babysitting group when her four older sisters are in need of a babysitter for a fifth family.
  • Badly Battered Babysitter: Anyone who babysits the Fox quintuplets become this...except for Lynn, who's able to handle their rowdiness.
  • Big Sister Bully: Lynn does this to Lincoln three times.
    • First when the older sisters offer their extra babysitting job to Lincoln, Lynn demands the job since she's the next oldest kid.
    • When the sisters tell Lynn she can't babysit anymore and Lincoln butts in to say he's available, she throws a football at him, knocking him down, which the sisters use as proof she can't babysit.
    • The next day, Lynn picks up a phone call asking Lori to babysit and steals it from her, the phone rings again and Lincoln offers to take the call only for Lynn to yell at him and steal more babysitting jobs from the other sisters.
  • Broken Aesop: The episode is saying that sometimes, you have to make adjustments for a task so everyone can do their part. However, Lynn has terrorized every family she babysat except for the Fox Quintuplets, and she went behind everyone's back just so she can babysit them.
  • A Day in the Limelight: This episode focuses largely on Lincoln's five elder sisters, especially Lynn.
  • Diving Save: As Lily is about to get hit by Lynn swinging on a tire, Charles dives in to save her in time.
  • Enfante Terrible: The Fox quintuplets. They've did stuff like trapping Leni inside the crawl space or locking her outside in the rain, wrapping Lori in a rug, pushing her downstairs and tossing stuff at her, throwing a skunk in the bathroom while Luna was using it or flushing items that shouldn't be flushed down the toilet and dumping a bucket of water on Luan while she was sleeping. Luckily, Lynn herself was one as well, meaning she's able to control the quintuplets by showing them how much worse she can be.
  • Guilt by Association Gag: When Lynn goes Babysitter from Hell on whichever kid she's babysitting, said kids' parents fire her four older sisters as well as Lynn.
  • Intellectual Animal: Charles saving Lily from getting hit by a tire swing.
  • Irony: The four older sisters inadvertently give Lynn the perfect babysitting job when they assign her the Fox quintuplets. Her aggressiveness ends up resonating with them.
  • Lack of Empathy: Lynn towards the McCauley twins. She forces them to do everything her way, without listening to their complaints, makes them wrestle each other and doesn’t even apologise for making them feel sick.
  • Malicious Misnaming: Lynn calls Lincoln "Stinkin'" throughout the episode, a gag that would continue throughout the rest of the series.
  • Must Make Amends: Lynn makes it up to her older sisters by getting them their babysitting jobs back, after their clients ditched them because of her.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: The four older sisters begin to feel bad for getting Lynn a babysitting job with the Fox quintuplets.
  • Nightmare Fetishist: The Fox quintuplets enjoy listening to Lynn's tibia story, in contrast to the other kids.
  • Not Helping Your Case:
    • When Lynn objects to her older sisters' complaint that she's not a nurturing type, she tries to prove her point by grabbing Lisa and rubbing her hair. However, she's so aggressive that Lisa runs away screaming the moment Lynn lets go.
    • When Lynn's begging her older sisters to give her another chance, Lincoln butts into the conversation and says he's available. Lynn then throws a football at him, knocking him down.
    Lori: This is literally what we're talking about.
  • Rage Breaking Point: Lynn manages to get the Fox quintuplets to stop throwing food by stripping the table sheets.
  • Raw Eggs Make You Stronger: Lynn gives the McCauley kids some raw eggs to drink to replenish proteins after a workout. They clearly don’t like it.
  • Running Gag:
    • Lynn's aggressive babysitting and apology punches.
    • Lynn rejecting Lincoln as the next babysitter, and calling him "Stinkin'".
  • Springtime for Hitler: The four older sisters trick Lynn into accepting to babysit the Fox quintuplets, knowing how rough they are, in hopes that it will scare her out of babysitting forever. Instead, it becomes a huge success for all involved. Unlike most cases of this trope, the sisters are actually glad their plan failed because, aside from finding the perfect babysitting job for Lynn, it also means that none of them have to babysit the quintuplets anymore.
  • Squick: invoked Lynn tells a story about when she fell 20 feet and broke her tibia so bad, it caused the bones to stick out, causing one of the McCauley kids to puke.
  • Vomit Discretion Shot: After Lynn's tibia story, one of the McCauley kids pukes.

"The Spies Who Loved Me"

  • Berserk Button: For Flip, any of his machines breaking down.
  • Brick Joke:
  • Brutal Honesty: When Carlota tries politely telling her grandparents that they are too old to accompany Ronnie Anne downtown, C.J. simply blurts it out.
  • Butt-Monkey: Carl suffers this role while spying on Ronnie Anne, repeatedly falling victim to the dangers that he tries to save Ronnie Anne from (and that she easily avoids on her own).
  • Comically Missing the Point:
    • Ronnie Anne argues to her grandparents that Bobby's the one they should worry about, especially because of his habit of getting stuck in the mercado's dairy case. Her grandmother states that at least he is safe and has plenty to eat.
    • When the Casagrandes find the tracking device stuck to a rat, Hector concludes that the rats ate Ronnie Anne, while Rosa thinks Ronnie Anne was turned into a rat by dark magic. Carlota calls them out on this and concludes what really must have happened.
    • After Ronnie Anne saves them all from the rats, Carlos states they learned their lesson, to which Hector replies he sure did; from now on, he and Rosa will do all the spying.
  • Conspicuous Trenchcoat: Carlota dresses up in the classic trenchcoat + fedora combo when spying on Ronnie Anne.
  • A Day in the Limelight: For Ronnie Anne and her family.
  • Dumpster Dive: Carl does this to find some leftovers he can use to distract the pigeons surrounding Ronnie Anne.
  • Faint in Shock: Ronnie Anne is walking straight towards an open cellar door. Frida faints because she thinks that Ronnie Anne hasn't noticed.
  • Feathered Fiend: Averted at first; the Casagrandes' fear this will occur when Ronnie Anne is surrounded by pigeons while she's eating a pretzel, but she simply gives the birds some of her pretzel and they leave her alone. This is played straight when Carl tries to distract the pigeons with leftover pizza and popcorn, and they attack him.
  • Good Luck Charm: Rosa has several, including a lucky wishbone and candles. And she repeatedly claims that they are the reason Ronnie Anne doesn't get hurt.
  • Kid Has a Point: As noted by Ronnie Anne (who's 11), Bobby (who's 17) is the one they should be (more) worried about—even if Ronnie Anne's much younger than Bobby, she's generally more mature and responsible.
  • Oh, Crap!: Carl when the pigeons are about to attack him.
  • Stealth Escort Mission: Carlota and Carl try to keep an eye on Ronnie Anne without her knowing.
  • Tracking Device: Carl plants one in Ronnie Anne's backpack so the Casagrandes can keep an eye on her without her knowing. However, the chip falls out when Ronnie Anne takes her skateboard out of her backpack, and gets stuck to a rat.
  • You Dirty Rat!: The Casagrandes find themselves surrounded by a large pack of violent rats, when they follow the tracking device to an old abandoned house.

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