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Early Installment Character-Design Difference:
- The first episode, "Left in the Dark", had some small differences in character designs. Mostly, it's about how the characters' clothes are colored (Lola's dress is in a brighter shade of pink, Leni's dress is in a duller shade of teal, Luan's skirt, socks and scrunchie are a brighter, almost neon yellow and Lisa's sweater is a darker shade of green), but then there are Lana's hat (whose hole on the back is oval-shaped rather than rectangular) and Lucy's hairline (which leaves a bit of skin above her nose uncovered). This promotional picture◊ shows the designs used in that episode.
- Also, in "Left in the Dark" and in a bunch of other early episodes, the Great Mazinger-esque robot in Lincoln's room has its eyes colored in yellow.
- In the original promotional poster for the show◊ (and other similar artworks that feature the characters in the same poses but in different positions), Lola is the only one of the sisters with three eyelashes per eye, with everyone else having only two. In the final show, Lily, Lana^note and Leni have three eyelashes too. Other small design differences can be found in the poster.^{Such as}
- In Season 1, Lynn Sr. and Rita were The Faceless, with only a few teasers here and there (such as the shadow of Lynn Sr.'s face at the end of "It's a Loud, Loud, Loud, Loud House"). The Season 2 premiere revealed their faces towards the end, and they were constantly shown ever since then (except for three episodes that came before in production order but were aired later).
- When Sid Chang first appeared in the first few episodes of Season 4, she had no eyelashes. In the proper spin-off series The Casagrandes, she has two eyelashes per eye.
Early Personality Signs: All of the Loud children have hinted at their personality as babies and young children.
- Lori has always been interested in phones ("Not a Loud"), and has been gassy and blamed her farts on others since she was one (The comic "It's Just a Phase").
- Leni has been experimenting with fashion since she was one ("It's Just a Phase").
- Luna had a loud cry as a baby ("It's Just a Phase") and now sings loudly. Also, as seen in "Not a Loud", she was always interested in music in general despite not becoming a rocker until later.
- Luan gave people a Pie in the Face since she was one ("It's Just a Phase") and has been experimenting with stand-up comedy since she was eight ("Head Poet's Anxiety").
- Lynn was "too competitive" at age one ("It's Just a Phase") and tried to lift weights as a baby ("Not a Loud"). Now, she's a super-competitive athlete.
- Lincoln used to take off his pants a lot at age one ("It's Just a Phase"). Now, he reads comics in his undies.
- Lucy used to stare at people in a creepy way and didn't cry much as a baby ("The Crying Dame") and buried the family's dead hamster at age one ("It's Just a Phase"). Now, she's a Goth who barely expresses emotion.
- Lana has been shown to love mud as a toddler ("It's Just a Phase" and "Deal Me Out") and when she was a baby, she cried until they got to keep their cat, dog, and canary (the vlog and "Head Poet's Anxiety"), hinting at her Animal Lover personality.
- Lola has loved to give things makeovers since she was one ("It's Just a Phase").
- Lisa started doing experiments when she was one ("It's Just a Phase").
Eating Contest: Discussed in "Pipe Dreams", when Lynn says she won a hot dog eating contest.
Edible Theme Naming: In "Community Disservice", Lola gets awarded a crown made of garlic bread.
Embarrassing Ad Gig: In "A Star is Scorned", Lola is humiliated when in an ad for a spa, she is peeking out of a bush while Covered in Mud, and her baby sister Lily is hogging the spotlight.
Embarrassingly Dresslike Outfit: In "Broadcast Blues", when Rusty Spokes is disguised as a woman, he complains about having to wear a "dress", even though what he's wearing is actually a pantsuit.
Embarrassing Pyjamas: In "Missed Connection", Carl is embarrassed by his mother entering a video chat with his train pyjamas.
Ensemble Cast: Back in Season 1, the show began with Lincoln as the main character and central focus of pretty much every episode, but starting with Season 2 the show has gradually shifted to this format, with Lincoln's role being toned down to give other characters their Day in the Limelight and an opportunity to show them outside their interactions with Lincoln.
Entertainment Above Their Age:
- In "Stage Plight", Lucy (who is 8), the twins (who are 6), Lisa (who is 4), and Lily (who is 1) go watch a production of Romeo and Juliet. Justified because the reason they're there is because their older sister is playing Juliet.
- In one episode, six-year-old Lola mentions that she once saw a mob movie.
Entertainment Below Their Age: 11-12-year-old Clyde McBride is a fan of Blarney the Dinosaur (a parody of Barney the Dinosaur), which is meant for a preschool demographic.
Episode Tagline:
- In "Lincoln Loud: Girl Guru", Lincoln and his best friend Clyde say, "How hard could it be?" several times before realizing that it can actually be pretty hard.
- In "Not a Loud", Lincoln and Clyde say, "Field test!" before testing to see if Lincoln has strange powers or was swapped at birth.
- In "Potty Mouth", Lily keeps saying, "Dannit" which is thought to be a mispronunciation of "Dammit". It turns out to actually be a mispronunciation of "Doughnut".
- In "Racing Hearts", whenever Luna or Sam fails at something she's not interested in, she describes it as "not really my thing".
- In "Attention Deficit", both the Loud parents and Clyde's dads tell the Loud children to wait for specifically five minutes several times.
- In "Linc or Swim", whenever the Loud family gets banned from the pool, someone says, "Loud family, out!" to which they reply, "We were just having fun", to which the person replies, "[Infraction] is/are not fun!". The phrase "fecal incident" (referring to Lily pooping in the pool) is also used several times.
- In "Washed Up", the Loud family is marooned on an uninhabited island and they frequently say, "Louds never quit!". This is relatively true, since the Loud family has displayed Determinator tendencies in past episodes.
Episode Title Card: It's done in the style of comic strips. Lincoln always appears somewhere in the top photo next to the title, whether he is the focus or not.
Escalating War: In "Friendzy," Lincoln figures out that having Clyde over activates the "Friend Card," which allows him to get what he wants because he has a friend over. When the sisters figure it out, they invite one of their friends before Clyde shows up. Lincoln retaliates by inviting two of his friends over, and his sisters retaliate by each inviting one more friend than the other, until several dozen kids start a fight over the TV, and the Loud siblings start a fight over whose fault it is.
Establishing Character Moment: Every one of the sisters gets one in the pilot, all in under two minutes. It also happens in the first minute of "Left in the Dark".
Establishing Series Moment: The pilot which shows what a huge ordeal it is in a huge family simply to get to the bathroom.
"Eureka!" Moment: Lincoln in the pilot; after Lori beats him to the bathroom and starts to panic about holding it in, he gets distracted by the smell of Lily's dirty diaper:
Lincoln: Ugh, could clear a room. (realization) Could clear a room!
Everybody Cries:
- All of Lincoln's sisters cry in "The Green House", when Lincoln convinces them to lower their energy use, by using a poster of an adorable polar bear to arouse their sympathies.
- All of the Loud kids cry in "Pets Peeved" when the pets go missing.
Every Pizza Is Pepperoni: Whenever pizza is shown, it is always pepperoni.
Evil Laugh: Luan gets one in the April Fool's episodes to show how uncaring and unsympathetic of a prankster she is that day.
Exposition Fairy:
- In the licensed games "Germ Squirmish" and "Summer School", Lisa sits in the corner of the screen giving the player advice.
- In the game "Lincoln's List", Clyde gives the player advice.
Expository Theme Tune: Like the show, the theme song is about being the only boy among ten sisters.
Extreme Omnivore:
- Lana eats bugs and pet food sometimes. She also eats paper in "Brawl in the Family".
- Charles ate Lincoln's bag once. He's also eaten money in "It's a Loud, Loud, Loud, Loud House".
- In "Funny Business", Gary the rabbit eats part of Lincoln's comic.
Eye Scream: Lincoln gets sunscreen in both his eyes in one episode. The right one as he is giving his usual monologue to the viewer and his left when Lily flicks some at him as he is holding her.
Eyes Out of Sight: Lucy always has her eyes covered by her hair. Even when she was shown as a baby several times, she either wore an Eye-Obscuring Hat or already had her bangs grown. Considering the reason why Lynn Sr. and Rita let her hair grow out as said in one episode, her eyes must have been creepy enough for them to not want to look at.

The Faceless:
- Lynn Sr. and Rita during the first season, although Lynn Sr.'s eyes were occasionally seen. Their faces are revealed at the climax of the Season 2 episode "11 Louds a Leapin'", and they have remained with their faces visible ever since then.
- We don't get to see the faces of the President and First Lady in the flashback to the day Lincoln was born in "Not a Loud".
- The Season 4 pets-focused episode "Love Birds" brings this back, hiding the faces of every named human character that appears, if not outright making them The Voice (Lynn Sr., Lincoln, Lola, Lana, Leni, Lisa, and Mr. Grouse).
Fainting:
- Luna faints in "Roadie to Nowhere" when she sees Flip's meat molar.
- In "It's a Loud, Loud, Loud, Loud House", Luan passes out from being made dizzy due to Luna banging on the furnace which she was hiding in.
- Referenced in the song the Louds sing in "Tripped!", which has the lyric, "Mom passed out!". Rita doesn't actually pass out, though.
- In "The Whole Picture", Lincoln passes out upon finding out the camera is empty and so does Clyde upon seeing Lori.
- In "The Spies Who Loved Me", Aunt Frida passes out because she's worried about Ronnie Anne.
Faint in Shock:
- Clyde had a crush on Lori in early seasons, which would occasionally cause him to black out.
- Lynn Sr. in particular has a habit of passing out when afraid, notably in "Tricked!" when he spends most of the episode unconscious due to his fear of Halloween, and "Not a Loud" where he and the President both black out at the prospect of delivering Lincoln. The First Lady ends up delivering him instead.
- Howard, one of Clyde's fathers, faints out of worry for the safety of his cats in "Purrfect Gig".
Family Portrait of Characterization: "Picture Perfect" has Lincoln trying to get a tidy family photo of him, his sisters, and the pets, but the impatient sisters act as they usually would when the camera takes to long to shoot. The end result is the picture depicting the unwinding chaos that are the Loud siblings, which their parents appreciate since they think it sums up the family well.
The Fashionista: Leni and Carlota are very into fashion, and to a lesser extent, so are Lori and Lola.
Fear-Induced Idiocy: Downplayed in "Driver's Dread", where it's revealed that the reason Leni was bad at driving was due to her fear of failing to drive. That said, she wasn't all that smart to begin with, fear or no fear.
Fear Is Normal: In "Hurl, Interrupted", Lynn's pals want to go on the new roller coaster, the Whipped Scream, at Dairyland. Lynn is less than enthused, though it's not because she's scared of the ride itself; she's actually emetophobic (meaning that she's afraid of vomiting). She does everything in her power to avoid riding it, but ultimately confesses to her friends that she just doesn't want to throw up. They tell her that if she doesn't want to go on the Whipped Scream, they won't force her to. By the end, Lynn does end up puking due to overeating, but she realizes it's not as bad as she thought and she does want to try the Whipped Scream now.
Feminine Leg Swish: In a video featuring the Louds singing a parody of "12 Nights of Christmas", Lori the Valley Girl is shown lying on her bed, swishing her legs, as she says she got a new phone plan.
Fight for the Last Bite:
- In "Slice of Life", Lincoln and his sisters argue over the last slice of pizza.
- Downplayed in "Spell it Out" where Lola and Lucy both want the last piece of pie but they don't argue.
Filthy Fun:
- Lana likes playing in the mud, along with other gross things such as unclogging toilets, Nature Tinkling and eating spoiled food.
- Some of the twins' classmates also play in the mud.
- In "Undie Pressure", Charles and Cliff play in the mud.
Fisher Kingdom: In "Out on a Limo", staying too long amongst Lord Tetherby and learning the ways to be fancy causes Lincoln to start acting like a high-class snob, to the point of refusing to take his sisters to the Burpin' Burger and insulting his own driver.
Food Coma:
- In "Snow Way Out", the Loud kids eat three burgers each to try to find a winning ticket, and after their third burger, they all look groggy. They perk up pretty quickly, though.
- In "The Loudest Thanksgiving", Lincoln remembers that in previous Thanksgivings, he always ate too much and fell asleep, so this time he's trying not to.
Foodfight!:
- The younger sisters have several food fights in "A Tale of Two Tables", with their older siblings and, to a lesser extent, Rita, eventually joining in.
- One licensed game involves a food fight: Lincoln vs. all the sisters except Lily.
- In "No Guts, No Glori", two of the sisters throw food at each other.
Fooled by the Sound:
- In "Left in the Dark", Lori thinks she hears a ghost moaning, but it's only the pipes settling, then Leni hears a scratching sound and also thinks it's a ghost, but it's only their cat Cliff using a scratching post.
- In "Study Muffin", the sisters say, "Buh, buh, buh" when they're distracted by Hugh, a man on whom they have a crush. The other sisters hear this noise and initially mistake it as a goose or a sheep.
- In "Garage Banned", Lori growls in annoyance. Her ditzy boyfriend Bobby, who was on the phone with her, thinks it's a gorilla.
- In "Washed Up", a boat's engine makes a weird sound. Leni apologizes, thinking it's her own stomach as she didn't have much for breakfast.
Forced Meme: The show would occasionally try to evoke Left the Background Music On repeatedly in a few episodes.
Foreshadowing:
- Up until they finally appeared in person, Clyde would always refer to his dads as "my parents" and never "my mom and dad".
- Prior to The Reveal of Luna's lesbianism, in "Study Muffin" she is the only sister who notes Ms. DiMartino is "smokin'".
- Note that Lily is always smiling or calm in every instance of Luan's April Fool's Day pranks, foreshadowing that she's the only one of the family who likes them as revealed in "Silence of the Luans".
Foul Cafeteria Food: Justified in "Diss the Cook". Chef Pat serves normal food to most of the students at the Royal Woods Middle School, but disgusting or subpar food to Lincoln and Lynn. They talk to their older sisters, and find out that Leni, Luna, and Luan were also given unpalatable lunches when they went to the school. As it turns out, it was because Pat has a grudge against Rita.
Four-Fingered Hands: The show's default style; however, the animesque versions of the characters in the "Slice of Life" short have five fingers. Lisa and Aunt Ruth both have an extra toe, so they're depicted with five-toed (and six-toed in close-ups) feet rather than four toes like other characters.
Four-Temperament Ensemble:
- Sanguine: Leni, Luna, Luan, and Lana.
- Choleric: Lori, Lynn, and Lola.
- Melancholic: Lucy and Lisa.
- Phlegmatic: Lincoln and Lily.
Fourth-Wall Observer: Lincoln will often monologue to the camera about some aspect of his life to set up the episode's events. This was dropped throughout most of Season 2, however, to focus on the "slice of life" aspect a little more.
Freeze-Frame Bonus: During "Driving Miss Hazy", the Louds' address can be seen on Lori's driver's license, showing that they live in Royal Woods, Michigan. This is a Shout-Out to creator Chris Savino's hometown of Royal Oak, Michigan.
Freudian Excuse: It's revealed in "Middle Men" that the reason Lynn acts like such a jerkass is because she had a tough time in middle school in that she was mercilessly bullied and the school staff were of no help, so she put on an abrasive façade to survive the rest of the year without being targeted anymore.
Frothy Mugs of Water: In "Flying Solo", Lincoln and Clyde sing "99 Jars of Jam on the Wall".
Funny Phone Misunderstanding:
- In "Project Loud House", Lori is heard saying on her phone, "No, not puke, Bobby; puce. It's a colour."
- In "Missed Connection", Bobby wants to tell Lori a story, but then Lori says, "Not another one!". She quickly explains that she thought she saw a baby snake, but it was only a scrunchie. Bobby then says, "That was a dumb idea", offending Lori, but he was talking to himself about accidentally making his dog throw up.
- In "Get the Message", Lori accidentally insults Lincoln while on the phone to Bobby.
Fun with Flushing:
- In "Sleuth or Consequences", it's revealed that Lincoln has tried to flush a sweater, some food he didn't like, and his father's CD's.
- In "One of the Boys", Luke apparently flushed Bun-Bun.

Games of the Elderly:
- In the episode "Come Sale Away", baby Lily's siblings think they've sold her blanket and go out to look for it. Lucy and Lisa end up at an old woman's house, where she has them play bingo with her. Lucy finds it boring, but Lisa enjoys it.
- In the episode "Cooked!", Leni adds a bingo game to Lynn Sr.'s restaurant and the only characters seen participating in the game are seniors.
Gasshole:
- Lori's flatulence is a Running Gag.
- Lynn loves giving Dutch ovens. She also burps a lot.
- Lana loves to burp alot.
- Lincoln can fart on cue, as seen in "A Tale of Two Tables," "Space Invader," and "Roughin' It".
- According to Lola in "Brawl in the Family", Lana often sleep-farts so loudly that it blocks the sound of snoring.
- Lola herself won the family burping contest in "Come Sale Away". Downplayed, however, since she's not normally heard burping or farting.
- Lily farts a lot and sometimes burps.
- In the dream universe in "One of the Boys", the boy versions of the sisters like to burp and fart.
Gassy Gastronomy:
- In "A Tale of Two Tables", Lana sings, "Beans, beans, the magical fruit. The more you eat, the more you—" and then does armpit farts. Later, Lincoln says the same rhyme and farts for real (even shaking the table), which succeeds at annoying his parents so much they send him back to the kids' table.
- In "Tripped!", Lori gets gas from eating bean chips, resulting in a Visible Odor. A Running Gag throughout the episode is that Lori's family keeps teasing her about having farted in the van.
- In "Camped!", Lynn is dared to drink a bottle of hot sauce, and it makes her fart... so much so that a nearby moose loses its fur.
- In "Roughin' It", Clyde and Lincoln eat a can of beans during their camping trip. Clyde later farts and apologizes (though he also states that he doesn't know if it was the beans or the numbness in his lower body that did it), but Lincoln is amused and cuts one as well.
- In "The Old and the Restless", Pop-Pop farts after he eats chili and jokes that someone must’ve stepped on a frog.
- In "Come Sale Away", the Loud children drink some soda and have a burping contest during the montage of them being competitive.
- In "Making the Grade", Lisa quips that she's out of the conversion game, "Except for converting beans to methane!" She proceeds to fart so hard that it shakes the table.
Gender Flip: The entire premise of "One of the Boys" involves Lincoln imagining what it would be like if his sisters were boys à la Malcolm in the Middle. The episode also gives a small glimpse of what the Loud family would be like if Lincoln was a girl (named "Linka") with ten brothers—it's more or less exactly the same as Lincoln's current life.
Genius Sweet Tooth: Lisa is a child prodigy and likes candy.
Genki Girl: Leni, Luan and Lily are very happy-go-lucky, Lynn is energetic enough to do many sports at once, and Luna is a rocker. Darcy also seems quite cheery, although she does cry when Lisa rejects her. Sid is also very upbeat and energetic and Polly Pain is energetic too.
Genre Throwback: The show is made In the Style of mid-late 20th Century comic strips like Peanuts, as well as old sitcoms like The Brady Bunch.
Genteel Interbellum Setting: The comic story "Private Eyes" seems to combine elements from the 1920's (Lola being a silent film actress, Lana being a newsboy, and Leni being a flapper) and the 1930's (Lincoln and Clyde being private eye detectives and Lori wearing a pillbox hat).
The Ghost: The McBrides' therapist Dr. Lopez. All we can gather is that she's a woman.
Girls Love Chocolate: "Lincoln Loud: Girl Guru" shows us that the sisters really love chocolate. Lincoln even calls them "chocoholics" for it. This example provides the trope's page image, too.
Glasses Curiosity:
- In "Picture Perfect," while trying to make his sisters look presentable for a sibling photo reshoot, he removes Lisa's glasses and puts them on Leni to make the latter look smarter (than she already is, as he himself says).
- In "The Old and the Restless," Lincoln takes a passerby man's glasses and puts them on when the boy thinks he sees Pop Pop about to skydive.
Golf Clubbing: In "No Guts, No Glori", Lola knocks Lincoln out with a golf club.
Gone Horribly Right: In "No Guts, No Glori" when Lincoln recruits the sisters to lock up Lori when the parents go out, he takes charge and lets the sisters have fun, but they enjoy their freedom so much they're free to make a big mess of the house, leaving Lincoln to free Lori so she can get them under her control.
Good Parents:
- Lynn Sr. and Rita Loud are shown to be caring and nurturing parents to their eleven children. Although, due to how frequently they go out or flat-out don't appear, we only ever so often get to see this side to them.
- Clyde's adoptive gay fathers do nothing but dote on him and make him nutritious meals.
Goo Goo Getup:
- In "Cover Girls", Lincoln has to dress as Lily.
- In "Changing the Baby", Clyde sees Lincoln with Lily and dresses up as a baby to win Clyde back, thinking that Lincoln wants a baby to hang out with.
- In "Potty Mouth", in order to trick an interviewer to see if Lily is qualified for daycare, Lisa impersonates Lily and dresses in a diaper.
Gosh Dang It to Heck!:
- The cast have a Share Phrase of "Dang it!", said by at least one character when something unpleasant is going on. This makes sense for characters at Lincoln's age on down, but it gets amusing when the teens and adults use it.
- The above becomes more hilarious in the episode "Potty Mouth", where the Loud siblings start freaking out over who swore in front of Lily.
Goth:
- Lucy is a goth; she wears black, likes the occult, and writes dark poetry.
- Lucy's crush from "L is For Love" seemed to have the same dark interests as Lucy.
- Haiku is also a goth, wearing black, liking a vampire, and being all gloomy and pessimistic.
- By extension, all of the members of "The Mortician's Club" are this, being into the same things as Lucy and Haiku and having similar appearances.
Goths Have It Hard: While this is averted usually, with goths such as Lucy and Haiku being reasonably content if a bit cynical in terms of personality, in "The Crying Dame", when baby Lily's siblings are having trouble cheering her up, they worry that they'll never be able to and she'll grow up to "wear black and listen to sad music all the time".
Green Around the Gills: People often go green in the face when they feel sick. Happens to...
- Lincoln and Lana in "Toads and Tiaras".
- Clyde in "Dance, Dance Resolution".
- Lola in "Patching Things Up".
- Lincoln suffers it alone in "Not a Loud".
- The whole family in "Tripped!".
Gross-Out Show: Downplayed, as the show has more of a slice-of-life thematic, but a handful of episodes feature toilet humor in one way or another that's sometimes even the center of the plot, from Lori's Gasshole tendencies to the house's bathroom. Heck, the pilot for the series involves Lincoln attempting to use the bathroom, followed by him using Lily's dirty diaper to chase Lori out.
Group Hug: Lincoln is often the victim of claustrophobic group hugs from his sisters.
Growling Gut: Lynn gets this more than any other character in the series.
Guilt-Tripping: In "The Green House", Lincoln is assigned to do a school project on saving energy, but his sisters are being wasteful. He tries to get them to be more energy-efficient by showing them a photo of a baby polar bear sadly sitting on a melting ice cube.
Gym Class Rope Climb: In "Predict Ability", Lincoln tries to get out of having to climb a rope by asking to go see the nurse, apparently having done so many times before, since Coach Pacowski immediately knew what Lincoln was going to say. As part of his attempts to break his predictability, next time he volunteers first for the rope climb and actually makes it to the top.

Hairball Humor: In "Along Came a Sister", Cliff coughs up a hairball that's mistaken for Frank's corpse. When he coughs up another that looks identical, they realise that Frank isn't dead.
Hallucinations: In "Really Loud Music", the Louds' random musical numbers are implied to just be aural hallucinations of Luna, because of her consciousness trying to find the right genre for the song she is writing.
Haplessly Hiding: In one episode, Lincoln is hiding under the bench where the spectators are sitting to watch a game, because he's pretending that he's playing on the field when actually it's his sister Lynn. However, he keeps getting hit by food that the spectators accidentally drop.
Has Two Thumbs and...:
- In "Changing the Baby", Clyde says, "Who has two thumbs and totally wants to hang out with his best pal? This guy!". Later, he says about him and Lily, "Who has four thumbs and likes milk? These guys!".
- In "Season's Cheatings", Lincoln asks Clyde, "Guess who has two arms and a Rip Hardcore backpack to slip over them?" Clyde is all too happy to answer, "This guy!" before realizing Lincoln means himself.
Hated Item Makeover:
- In "Insta-gran", Myrtle paints the bedroom of two of her boyfriend's granddaughters, Lynn and Lucy, does their laundry, cleans away the cobwebs, and kills the spiders. The girls disapprove because Lynn deliberately kept her sports jerseys dirty for good luck, and Lucy hates pink rooms, likes the cobwebs, and was keeping the spiders as pets.
- In "Room With A Feud", when Lola and Lucy try sharing a room, Lucy gets mad at Lola for giving her bust of Edwin (a vampire from a Show Within a Show she watches) a makeover.
  Lucy: What have you done to Edwin?
  Lola: Brought him into the 21st century. You're welcome!
  Lucy: That's my least favourite century.
- In "No Spoilers", Lana tries to decorate for her mother Rita's birthday party with brown balloons and "balloons" made of used gum. Her siblings hate this and think that the gum "balloons" are gross and the brown balloons look like cat poop.
Have a Nice Death: Losing at the game "Germ Squirmish" will result in the phrases "Sneezy diseasey", "You're 'snot' looking so good", "Welcome to bed-and-barf town. Population: you" or "Your new name is Germy McGermface."
Hazmat Suit:
- In "Along Came a Sister", Leni wears a hazmat suit to protect herself from the bug spray.
- In "The Crying Dame", Lisa wears a hazmat suit to check Lily's diaper.
- In "One Flu Over the Loud House", Clyde wears a hazmat suit to take care of the sick Louds.
Heel–Face Turn:
- At the end of the comic Lincoln makes in "Pulp Friction", the villain turns good.
- While it's hardly fair to say Chandler was ever really an all-out bad guy, he becomes a lot nicer and friendlier towards Lincoln and Clyde in "Jeers for Fears" than he was beforehand and ceases to be an antagonist. However, this didn't last.
Helping Another Save Face: In "Sleuth or Consequences", Lucy reveals that she was the one who clogged the toilet with a book she's embarrassed about reading since it's Sickeningly Sweet. Her brother Lincoln prevents their other sisters from mocking her for it by pretending it's his book.
Here We Go Again!:
- The pilot ends with Lincoln finally using the toilet, only to realize there's no toilet paper to wipe his bottom with.
- At the end of "The Sweet Spot", when the kids are confined to the couch for the weekend, Lincoln claims that he knows of another "sweet spot" there.
Hibernation/Migration Situation: In the episode "Love Birds", Walt the canary gets a girlfriend, a duck. Unfortunately, the duck has to migrate. She considers not doing it, but she misses her family too much, so Walt decides to go with her, but he misses his owners too much, so they spend winter apart, but she promises to return in spring.
Hold Your Hippogriffs: Lisa says, "Sweet mother of ^discoveryGod!"
Homemade Sweater from Hell:
- One promotional video is the "Ugly Sweater Guide", which shows sweaters the Louds would either like but everyone else would find ugly or which they would find ugly.
- In one of the vlogs, Lincoln and Ronnie Anne design intentionally-ugly sweaters.
- In "Sleuth or Consequences", Lincoln attempts to flush one made by his mom down the toilet.
- In "Insta-gran", Myrtle makes all the Loud kids these.
Honesty Aesop:
- In "Butterfly Effect", Lincoln accidentally destroys one of Lisa's experiments, and he imagines a worst-case scenario of what would happen if he didn't tell her the truth.
- Inverted in the episode "House of Lies". Lisa invents lie-detecting glasses after deciding that her family lies too much. But by preventing her family from telling even the most benign lies, she forces them all to use Brutal Honesty all the time, making everyone miserable. She finally realizes that a certain amount of lying is necessary to avoid hurting other people's feelings.
Housepet Pig: Liam keeps a pig named Virginia as a pet to prevent her to be slaughtered along with her pig brethren.
How Can Santa Deliver All Those Toys?: In "11 Louds a Leapin'", Lisa tries to figure out how Santa works and concludes that it's impossible.
How We Got Here: "Friendzy" starts with the Loud siblings fighting each other, until Lincoln pauses the action and starts explaining what happened. He goes on to explain that fights in the house are common because he and his sisters can't agree on anything, and as a result their parents make all the decisions, until Lincoln figured out the "Friend Card," which allows Lincoln to get what he wants so long as Clyde comes over. When the girls figure out his scheme, they invite a friend over before Clyde shows up and they get what they want. Lincoln retaliates by inviting over two friends, and the sisters counter by inviting one more friend than their siblings. As several dozen kids fight over what to watch on TV, the Loud siblings start a fight over whose group of friends started the riot, and Lincoln informs the audience that's how it all began.
Human Alien Discovery: Subverted in the episode "Not a Loud". Lincoln finds out that his birth story is missing from his baby book, so he and his friend Clyde try to find out why. They ask Lincoln's four eldest sisters what happened and one of them, Luna, remembers seeing a lot of men in black suits and so the boys wonder if Lincoln is an alien and those guys were The Men in Black, especially because Lincoln has white hair. Eventually, it's revealed that Lincoln is actually human. The guys in black suits were just there because he was delivered by the First Lady.
Hypocritical Humor:
- Despite their annoyance at Luan's puns, this doesn't stop the others from making their own puns. Lincoln also laughs at the puns in the "Ace Savvy" comics.
- In "A Tale of Two Tables", the Loud parents prohibit Lincoln from eating at the grown-up table on account of immature behavior, when they themselves are not above said behavior.
- In "The Write Stuff", Principal Huggins insists Rita to teach the writing club by reading from the rule book, but it's enough to even bore him to sleep after a while.

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