Recap / The Loud House S 7 E 4 Bye Bye Birthday Tough Guise

Bye Bye Birthday

Embarrassed by her family constantly going all out on her birthdays, Lucy casts a spell to make the Louds forget about her ninth birthday.

---

• Be Careful What You Wish For: Lucy casts a spell to make her family forget her ninth birthday because she is embarrassed about them going all cheerful for the day. However, she soon realizes she misses the things they do to make her birthday special.
• Bedsheet Ghost: In a flashback, Lynn Sr. dresses up as one while serving Lucy ghost-themed pancakes. He promptly runs into the wall because he forgot to add eyeholes.
• Birthday Episode: This episode celebrates Lucy's ninth birthday.
• Dude, Not Funny!: Morpheus hijacks Luan's comedy gig on the Gigglin' Geezer with a quip about people dying to get into cemeteries. Keep in mind the audience is full of elderly people.
• I Ate WHAT?!: Lola is disgusted when Lana mentions the carpet hair garnish on the casserole.
• Gratuitous French: In a flashback, after the Louds finish singing "Happy Birthday to You!" at Jean Juan's, Luna declares that they will now sing it again in French.
  Luna: "Now in French, les dudes!" [starts singing] "Bon anniversaire a toi, bon anniversaire a toi..."
  Lucy: "Groan..." [hides under the table in misery]
• My God, What Have I Done?: Lucy's reaction when she realizes that by having her family forget about her birthday, she's lost the good things they have done with her.
• Phoneaholic Teenager: Leni leaves dinner to go chat with Gavin via video call, forcing Lucy to take her phone away.

Tough Guise

When Zach gets detention after tackling Mr. Bolhofner due to a mistake, Rusty tries to teach him to adopt a tough guy persona.

---

• Bad "Bad Acting": Lincoln, Clyde, Stella, and Liam read their Rusty Spokes Players lines in a dull, robotic monotone.
• Continuity Nod: The bullies who are also in detention are the same ones who harassed Lincoln and company back in "No Bus No Fuss". Zig-Zagged in that they don't remember Zach at all.
• Gone Horribly Right: Rusty's lessons gain Zach the respect of the bullies. Unfortunately, it also means they can now drag him along for their antics in booby-trapping the teachers' lounge.
• Hell-Bent for Leather: Rusty invokes this as part of his tough guy persona, and gets Zach in on the act. Pablo also dons a leather jacket in honor of Zach's Z-Bones persona.
• Hidden Depths: It turns out the aforementioned bullies are more than just generic bullies (and, after the events of this episode, may not even be bullies anymore). Pablo in particular is a Conspiracy Theorist who has believed Mr. Bolhofner is an alien and wants to be in My Fair Lady.
• Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud: Lincoln does this in one of Rusty's mock detention scenarios.
  Lincoln: "'I, Meathead Larry, am never messing with you again, Rusty Bones. Parentheses, dramatically bursts into tears.'"
• Who Writes This Crap?!: Stella and Lincoln clearly have issues with the lines Rusty wrote for them.

---