Save Royal Woods!
The citizens of Royal Woods band together to save their town from being destroyed to make way for a new Great Lake.
- Big Bad: Joyce Crandall.
- The Cameo: Lori briefly appears at the end of "Right Where We Belong", specifically on video chat through Leni's phone. Shortly after said song, she's also inexplicably present in the wide crowd shot near the dam, even though the fact that she was last seen through video-chatting with Leni implies she's still at Fairway.note Admittedly, the extended version of "Right Where We Belong" shows her singing with her family at the end of the first chorus and during the second chorus, and she's also shown having a video date with Bobby at Jean Juan's, so that may explain her presence in the crowd shot.
- Community-Threatening Construction: Royal Woods is threatened to be razed to make room for a new Great Lake.
- Continuity Nod: During "Right Where We Belong", Rita and Lynn Sr. sing about how they first met at a crosswalk, as seen in "L is for Love" and The Loud House Movie.
- Comically Missing the Point: When Joyce reveals that Lake Gladys will go over Royal Woods, Leni squees over the prospect of otters living in the lake.
- "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: Lisa interrupts "Right Where We Belong" to point out that Royal Woods is abundantly rich in several minerals and is located on top of a large oil deposit. Lynn complains that Lisa could've mentioned that earlier.
- Everyone Has Standards: The two demolition workers hired to destroy the dam refuse to do so, touched by the Royal Woods' citizens love for their town.
- Given Name Reveal: Meryl and Cheryl's last name is revealed to be "Farrell".
- Guest Star: Christine Baranski provides Joyce Crandall's voice.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Zig-Zagged with Flip, who decides to fill the giant Flippee with expired gasoline as a way to use it up. While this was an extremely braindead move on his part, he did have some legitimate reasons for doing this. Not only would it require several truckloads of (undoubtedly expensive) Flippee syrup to fill the giant cup (especially when nobody was actually going to be drinking it to begin with), but all of that sugar would've made for a major pest problem, something no food store (even one with low sanitation standards like Flip's) would want. Still, Flip could've easily set aside his greed for once, especially with the entire town's future on the line, or at least used something non-volatile like water to fill the space. Nonetheless, he seemed genuinely saddened when the plan failed, and he had no way of knowing that the special chemical Lisa added to the giant Flippee would've made for the chemical reactions that it did.
- No Reprise, Please: Subverted. At the end, the citizens begin to launch into a reprise of "Right Where We Belong", only for Joyce to yell at them to put a cork in it and rage about how they're prone to impromptu singing. They simply shrug and do the reprise anyway.
- Opening Shout-Out: One of the final shots of "Right Where We Belong" has the sisters (even Lori) shaded in the same tint as in the theme song. The same shot has Lincoln appear in three boxes in similar poses to how the title sequence begins.
- Shout-Out: The song "Keep Us Around" about colonial Royal Woods includes a rap number, not unlike Hamilton.
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Joyce learns the hard way that trying to flood a thriving community to increase tourism won’t get you promoted to a higher position of power. Just the opposite, in fact: when Joyce’s superior finds out what she’s doing, she’s not happy about it and fires her on the spot.
- Understatement: Joyce describes the Royal Woods citizens losing their homes as "not ideal."
- Villain Song: "Already Forgot About You", sung by Joyce Crandall to convince the citizens of Royal Woods that they have nothing special to justify destroying it in favor of Lake Gladys.
- Villain Has a Point: Joyce was rightfully angry that the giant Flippee cup destroyed her car, even if moving up the hour of the town's demolition because of it was rather petty.
- Visual Pun: During her Villain Song, Joyce briefly gets up in Mayor Davis's face and starts pressing buttons on her keyboard, riling her up. Joyce is quite literally pushing Mayor Davis's buttons.
- A Wild Rapper Appears!: Lisa sings a gratuitous rap verse during the colonial Royal Woods number.
- Ye Olde Butchered English: Lincoln briefly speaks like this when telling Joyce of Royal Woods' "history."
