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- Rags to Riches: In "There Will Be Mud" the Hunnicuts strike oil on their farm and move into a mansion in a rich neighborhood. When they don't fit in, they take etiquette lessons from the McBrides, but by the end of the episode, they decide to move back to their farm.
- Raw Eggs Make You Stronger:
- In the episode "The Loudest Yard", when training Lincoln for football, Lynn prepares the typical raw eggs for him. All they do is make Lincoln get sick and throw up.
- In "Sitting Bull", Lynn has a couple of little kids she's babysitting guzzle down some raw eggs (two each) after making them do strenuous exercises. One of the kids is seen puking up the eggs he swallowed later, to which Lynn remarks that it was a waste of "two perfectly good eggs".
- Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud: In "Tough Guise", Rusty teaches Zach how to be a tough guy. Part of this involves a mock scenario where Rusty "threatens" Lincoln, who is pretending to be a bully. In response, Lincoln reads, "I, Meathead Larry, am never messing with you again, Rusty Bones, parenthesis, dramatically bursts into tears."
- Rearrange the Song:
- The theme tune has several different permutations, some of which double as Leitmotifs for some characters.
- The all piano version of the tune is a Homage to Peanuts.
- The title card for "Tricked!" has the theme tune played on pipe organ and theremin for Halloween.
- Recycled Soundtrack: The sting "Vibe Link (b)", which was previously used in SpongeBob SquarePants, is heard often.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni:
- The twins, Lana and Lola. In an interesting twist, however, the prim and proper, girly Lola is the red oni, while the dirty and rough Lana is the blue oni. Lola has a Hair-Trigger Temper and can be quite the manipulative psychopath on her worst days, while Lana is actually quite calm and relaxed, especially by the standards of the Loud siblings.
- Of the youngest siblings, the near stoic, scientifically driven Lisa (blue) and the emotional baby Lily (red). Lisa also plays blue oni to her more socially outgoing friend, Darcy.
- Luan is the red oni to Lucy's blue oni. Both are interested in the performance arts, but Luan is a cheerful comedian while Lucy is a Goth.
- Luna is also the red to Lucy's blue. Both wear dark clothing and have "edgy" fields of interest. But Luna is an energetic, aspiring rockstar, while Lucy is The Stoic and a gloomy goth girl.
- Of the middle children, Passionate Sports Girl Lynn is the red oni to both The Everyman Lincoln and The Stoic Lucy's blue. Cheerful Child Lincoln also plays the role of the red oni to Creepy Child Lucy's blue oni whenever Lynn's out.
- Between the girliest sisters, hot-headed Lola is the red to Nice Girl Leni's blue. Similarly, on the tomboyish side, Competition Freak Lynn is the red to Animal Lover Lana's blue.
- To a minor extent, Leni could be considered a red oni relative to Lori's blue out of the oldest sisters. Lori is more rational and level-headed (though she does have a bit of a temper at times, even if it's not as bad as fellow girly girl Lola's), while Leni is less intelligent and can do some very silly things as a result of this.
- Even though they've never interacted on-screen, the two rough and tough tomboys Lynn and Ronnie Anne fit this trope. Lynn (hyperactive, energetic, sports nut) is the red, Ronnie Anne (grouchy, snarky, irritable) is the blue. Furthermore, Lynn will often rely on her strength and brute force to solve a problem, while Ronnie Anne in spite of her roughness often resorts to scheming, plotting, cunning and trickery when faced with a challenge, similar to Lincoln.
- Lynn and Liam Hunnicutt also fit this trope whenever they're paired together. Liam is a generally laid back and nice, friendly farm boy while Lynn is a boisterous and aggressive, confrontational tomboy. This is especially prevalent in "Lynn and Order".
- Restaurant-Owning Episode: The episode, "Cooked!" has the Loud family acquire an abandoned seafood restaurant and turn it into a family restaurant called Lynn's Table. On the day of the grand opening, a printing error leads to the kids coming up with their own promotions, but their lack of teamwork and crazy promos lead to an ultimate nightmare in the kitchen for Lynn Sr.
- The Reveal: "Not a Loud" reveals Rita was driven to the hospital the day of Lincoln's birth by none other than the President and First Lady; the reason they didn't tell this to Lincoln was that both figures were going to a top secret safe house in Royal Woods and the parents were warned not to blow their cover.
- Revolting Rescue:
- Discussed in "No Such Luck", when Lana volunteers to pee on the wound if anyone gets stung by a jellyfish.
- In Guessing Games, a comic based on the show, Virginia the pig prevents the bull from charging at Geo by farting on him.
- Rhyming Title:
- "Grub Snub"
- "Fam Scam"
- "Jeers for Fears"
- "Double Trouble"
- Road Trip Plot: "Tripped!" is about the Louds being unlucky on a road trip.
- Robot Buddy: Lisa has made three robots called Todd, Mr. Reinforced Titanium Alloy Arms, and the Friendbot.
- Rock is Authentic, Pop is Shallow: In the episode 'Really Loud Music', rocker Luna wants to send her music to a contest but is afraid nobody would like her type of music and and tries to think of a type of music everyone would love. She then decides to create a generic pop music that does make her win the contest but isn't truly her.
- Rod-and-Reel Repurposed: In the episode "Two Boys and a Baby", when Lincoln and Clyde change Lily's diaper, Lincoln attempts to dispose of the dirty diaper with a fishing pole. Unfortunately, Lily's dirty diaper accidentally hits the ceiling fan and
makes a mess of Lily and Lisa's room (which, thankfully, isn't shown to the viewers). - Rule 63: The episode "One of the Boys" features a canon example involving Lincoln imagining what it would be like if his sisters were boys à la Malcolm in the Middle. Also, the episode briefly shows a dimension that, while more or less exactly the same as Lincoln's original world, has a girl (Lincoln's female counterpart Linka Loud) with ten brothers.
- Running Gag:
- All of the siblings have at least one running joke associated with them.
- Lori: saying "Literally", fartingnote , and sometimes her romance with Bobby is played for comedy.
- Leni: missing the point of things, being clumsy, and saying "Like" (though this last one currently isn't brought up anymore).
- Luna: referencing songs and using slang like, "Dude", "Dudette", "Bro", and "Brah".
- Luan: her jokes and pranks.
- Lynn: turning mundane things into sports and having unusual superstitions.
- Lincoln: making plans with long names (which end in him lampshading them) and reading comics in his underwear.
- Lucy: saying "Sigh", suddenly appearing, and occasionally her poetry is treated as a joke.
- Lana: her gross habits.
- Lola: telling on people.
- Lisa: doing wacky experiments.
- Lily: pooping her diaper and/or saying "Poo-poo".
- Lincoln gets so worked up with what he expects of his sisters from previous experiences that he ignores them trying to stop him by saying his name repeatedly only to have his expectations subverted. This happens in "Room with a Feud" and "White Hare" at the least.
- People unfamiliar with the family mispronounce their name as "La-ood".
- Anytime the parents come into money, it's gone by the end of the episode, leaving them stretching their shoestring budget again.
- All of the siblings have at least one running joke associated with them.
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- Sadist Show: The series isn't entirely a Sadist Show, but a major part of its comedy in the earlier seasons (which still happens in later ones from time to time) involves Lincoln being the victim of the antics and bullying from his family and other characters. Even when Lincoln's Butt-Monkey status was toned down considerably, later seasons added new characters as regular Butt-Monkeys, such as Lori.
- Same Clothes, Different Year:
- When Lincoln is shown as a six-year-old in "The Whole Picture", he's wearing the same orange polo as he does in the present. Downplayed in that he's wearing different pants and shoes.
- Lori is shown in several flashbacks of her at a younger age wearing the same outfit as she does in the present (albeit with sneakers and socks instead of slip-ons).
- Lynn wore a very similar outfit to her present one when she was seven, as shown in "Deal Me Out".
- In "Deal Me Out", Lana is shown wearing a the same outfit as she does now as a toddler. She and Lola also wore the same outfits they do now when they were four, as shown in "Strife of the Party".
- In the opening "Life Is Better Loud" sequence from The Loud House Movie, as well as including all of the examples above, Leni is shown to have had her sunglasses since she was a baby. Luna and Luan's outfits haven't changed much since they were toddlers either.note
- Averted with Lynn Sr., Rita and other characters who are adults in the present, who are always seen wearing different clothes in flashbacks to them at younger ages. In the aforementioned "Life Is Better Loud" sequence, Lynn Sr. and Rita even change their outfits with the birth of each Loud sibling, regardless of how many years passed between each birth.
- Santa Ambiguity: In "11 Louds a Leapin'", Lisa does in equation that she thinks proves that Santa Claus doesn't exist. She changes her mind when she thinks she's seen him, but it turns out to be Mr. Grouse in a Santa suit. However, Santa's existence is not outright disproven either.
- Santa Clausmas: Whenever Christmas is featured in the show. Specifically, in "11 Louds A-Leapin'", the family declares Christmas to be over as soon as all of the presents have been opened, with no mention of going to church. However, there are some fleeting references to the Nativity in the same episode.
- Say My Name:
- Taken literally whenever Mr. Grouse yells "LOUDS!" at the Loud family. He always calls every member of the family by their last name, but he yells it if they're annoying him.
- Whenever Philip "Flip" Philipini tries to steal Chef Pat's food or drinks, she shouts "PHILLIPINI!!!!" at him.
- When Luan pranks the family with blue paint, they shout, "Luan!".
- In "Funny Business", when Gary poops in Luan's hat, she says, "Gary!".
- Saying Too Much: Comes into full effect in "Brawl in the Family"; when Lincoln tries to resolve Lori and Leni's fight over a dress, he accidentally reveals a Dark Secret each one thinks of the other, which ignites another argument. And in the end once the fight has finally simmered down, he ends up telling more secrets each sibling thinks of another, igniting a fight once again.
- School Play: In "Stage Plight", Luan and her crush Benny get cast in a Romeo and Juliet play, and when they end up in the lead roles, she gets nervous about having to kiss him.
- Season Fluidity: So far, the series is more on the “fluid” side of the scale, with only a small number of episodes having a lasting impact on the continuity (Lincoln getting into a relationship with Ronnie Anne, Ronnie Anne + Bobby moving away from Royal Woods, and Mr. Loud getting a new job being the most prominent examples). No matter what happens in an episode, you can bet everything is back to normal at the start the next episode (like the family car getting destroyed in “The Sweet Spot”, but being back to Vanzilla-normal again in the following episodes, or the Loud siblings selling all the furniture in “Come Sale Away”, but somehow, the family got it all back by the start of the next episode).
- Self-Fulfilling Prophecy:
- In "Raw Deal", Lincoln panics when he gets a reading from Lucy that his day at Grand Venture State Park will "end in tragedy", and begins believing there are dangers in the park's activities and avoids every one. As it turns out, there wasn't anything dangerous after all, and Lincoln ends up ending his day in tragedy by missing out on all the fun. Subverted though, as he saw a glacier, so his day didn't end in tragedy after all.
- In "Stall Monitor", Lincoln is worried Mrs. Johnson will say something bad about him at his parent-teacher conference, so he tries to delay it; but it turns out she was actually going to tell his parents what a smart student he was, but because he tried to ruin the conference, he is given a week of detention and is grounded for a week in return.
- Sensitive Guy and Manly Man:
- By a very narrow margin, Clyde is the sensitive guy to Lincoln's manly man. Both are conventionally nerdy, somewhat wimpy kids with a series of feminine qualities, but Clyde takes these traits to bigger extremes than Lincoln. Also, Lincoln has a thick skin and can handle things going bad, while Clyde is far more emotionally fragile and sensitive. Compare their reactions to finding out their favorite show ARGGH! is fake in "ARGGH! You For Real".Lincoln: I can handle it, but my friend Clyde is crushed.
- Downplayed with Lincoln as the sensitive guy to Liam's manly man. Liam isn't devoid of a sensitive side himself, as he is hurt over Lincoln and their guy friends ditching his sleepover, takes a nervous approach to the start of middle school, and tears up at Lincoln's singing voice, but he is an expert at baseball, enjoys it, can wrestle, proudly tends to get dirty as a farm boy, and lacks the In Touch with His Feminine Side qualities that Lincoln has.
- Then you have the nerdy, Casanova Wannabe Rusty Spokes, the timid boy who faints at the drop of a hat, as the sensitive guy to his brother Rocky's manly man, who is relatively athletic and cool, and has a hidden interest in spooky stuff like fake blood and guts.
- In "One of the Boys", there's the Loud brothers. While some of them could be seen as this with each other (the quiet, poetic Lars versus the athletic, brutish Boy Lynn, or obviously the gruff, dirt loving Leif and the bratty pink-wearing Lexx), they're really all the same gross ruffian at the end of the day, making them all manly men to Lincoln's sensitive guy.
- By a very narrow margin, Clyde is the sensitive guy to Lincoln's manly man. Both are conventionally nerdy, somewhat wimpy kids with a series of feminine qualities, but Clyde takes these traits to bigger extremes than Lincoln. Also, Lincoln has a thick skin and can handle things going bad, while Clyde is far more emotionally fragile and sensitive. Compare their reactions to finding out their favorite show ARGGH! is fake in "ARGGH! You For Real".
- Series Continuity Error:
- In "Making the Case", Lincoln posts a video of himself kissing a statue with a picture of his classmate Cristina taped to it. Lincoln mentions that Cristina transferred to a different class. In "The Green House", Cristina is shown in Lincoln's class. However, it's possible that the episodes aren't chronological.
- According to the official Instagram, all the Loud sisters have the middle name Marie, but in "Driving Miss Hazy" both Lori and Leni had L. as their middle initial on their driver's licenses.
- There's an episode in which Lynn Sr. asks Lori about how Bobby's dad's surgery went. But the next time we see Bobby's family, they have a single mom. This eventually gets addressed later when we're introduced to Arturo, who happens to be a veterinarian, thus recontextualizing Lynn Sr.'s question.
- The plot of "Anti-social" revolves around the kids showing Lynn Sr. how his life could be better with technology, but this implies he's completely unaware of how technology works, despite his former occupation being an IT technician, which requires some knowledge on modern technology.
- The Series Has Left Reality: The show started off as a quirky but still relatively grounded series about what life is like for the only boy among 11 siblings, with the more fantastical elements and episodes usually turning out to be All Just a Dream or an Imagine Spot Lincoln or someone else is having. Over time, however, the more outlandish and silly elements slowly began to bleed into reality until things like time travel, ghosts, and magic became an everyday occurrence for Royal Woods instead of being confined to the kids' imagination.
- Severely Specialized Store: Luan goes to a store that sells only cats and hats to buy a new hat for her ventriloquist's dummy Mr. Coconuts.
- Shady Scalper: Subverted in the episode "For Bros About to Rock". Lincoln and Clyde buy some concert tickets from a shady guy... who then turns out to be a cop and arrests them because buying tickets from unofficial salespeople is illegal.
- Sham Supernatural: "The Whole Picture" reveals that the gothic Loud sister Lucy once dressed up as a vampire for Halloween.
- Share Phrase: "Dang it." Initially mostly used by Lincoln, but later frequently heard from all siblings. Best demonstrated in "Homespun" and again in "Potty Mouth".
- She's a Man in Japan:
- The Arabic dub of the show makes one of Clyde's two dads a female, due to homosexuality being a crime in most parts of the Middle East.
- In some dubs, the McBrides' unseen therapist Dr. Lopez is referred to by male pronouns.
- Shock-and-Switch Ending:
- "Project Loud House" makes it look like Lincoln is about to get into the van for school, only for his diorama to break... but then, his sisters tell him that it'll all be fine and the real last scene is him giving a speech about family, with his sisters posing as the diorama.
- "Butterfly Effect" looks like it'll end with Lincoln being eaten by a giant Lily, but then it turns out to all have been a Fantasy Sequence. This not only cancelled out the bad ending, but it undid all the other bad things that happened during the course of the episode, such as Lucy becoming a vampire and Lola's face being disfigured.
- Shown Their Work: Lily is 15 months old and can walk by herself. Most babies can walk independently by that age.
- Show Within a Show:
- Lincoln and Clyde are fans of a show called "Arggh!", which is about ghost hunting.
- There's also a show called The Dream Boat, which is about a woman on a boat deciding which man to date.
- Then there's a cooking show called Operation: Dessert Storm.
- In "Any Given Sundae", the twins watch a show called Penguin Pageants.
- In "No Show with the Casagrandes", the Casagrande and Santiago families watch a soap opera called Adios, Anna, Adios.
- Lucy is a big fan of the drama Vampires of Melancholia.
- Lincoln loves the comic book series Ace Savvy, about a playing card themed detective.
- David Steele is the name of a spy-theme movie franchise.
- Sibling Rivalry: While they do usually get along, the siblings argue sometimes. The theme even mentions pushing and shoving.
- Sick Episode:
- In "One Flu Over the Loud House", Lori comes down with the flu, which quickly spreads to the rest of the family. Lincoln and his uninfected sisters (save for Leni, who realizes her family simply wants and needs care while they're sick) treat the situation like a Zombie Apocalypse.
- In "Sister Act", while Lola and Lana have been switching places to get out of doing stuff one twin dislikes, but the other enjoys, they decide to dress up as each other so the former can get out of going to a doctor's appointment and the latter can get out of a dentist's appointment. This backfires on both of them the next day, because Lola catches a cold, rendering her unable to participate in a pageant, while Lana gets an abscessed tooth that hurts when she tries to eat the sundae she won from a recycling contest. Neither of those things would have gotten as bad as they did if Lola and Lana actually went to their respective appointments, because the medical professionals could have caught the early warning signs of their respective ailments and have immediately treated them before they got worse.
- Signature Instrument: Luna loves to play music, but her most commonly-seen instruments are her Flying V guitar and her bass drum, both of which are purple like her clothes.
- Silence of Sadness: In "The Crying Dame", when Lily is sad over missing her toy fox Fenton, she's too sad to even cry.
- Silly Prayer: In the episode "Fool's Paradise", Lana prays for her pets, including her ant farm.
- Singing Mountie: In "Schooled!," a Canadian border guard sings to Lincoln about all the parts of Canadian daily life, such as moose, maple syrup, beavers, and hockey.
- Skinny Dipping:
- In "Linc or Swim?", Lily takes off her diaper while swimming. Unfortunately, she then poops.
- In "Suite and Sour", the parents get kicked out of the hotel for skinny dipping.
- In "The Old and the Restless", Pop-Pop claims he doesn't need his trunks to swim.
- Sleep Mask: Both Leni and Lola wear sleep masks for their nightwear to showcase their femininity. Leni's mask in particular takes place of the sunglasses she wears as part of her regular outfit, and has closed eyes drawn on it.
- Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: Somewhere in the middle of the scale. Much of the show revolves around protagonist Lincoln Loud being at odds with his ten sisters and there's some rather cynical humor at times but it ultimately leans closer to the idealistic end as they ultimately all love each other and everything (more or less) works out in the end.
- Slippery Slope Fallacy: "Butterfly Effect" turns out to all be Lincoln imagining what would happen if he didn't tell Lisa the truth about breaking her chemistry set:
- First, he thinks that the explosion from the crash would lead to Lori discovering a photo of Leni with Bobby, causing her to think Bobby cheated on her and dump him for Clyde, and it would also give Leni a head injury that would make her smarter than Lisa, which would make Leni arrogant and she'd leave home.
- Then, he thinks Lisa would give up her studies in a fit of insecurity due to no longer being the smartest, leading to Lynn flunking due to Lisa no longer tutoring her, she'd throw a ball in frustration, which would hit Lola in the nose and disfigure it, making her insecure and she and Lynn would turn to crime.
- Then, Lana would worry that she'd also sustain an injury like Leni and Lola and move into a hamster ball, and Luna would write a song about the chaos, get famous, and go on a world tour. Luan, with no roommate, would take to watching the news, which would turn her into a jaded environmentalist.
- Finally, as part of her environmentalism, she'd let Lana's pets out of their cages, and her vampire bat would bite Lucy, turning her into a vampire, and Lincoln would go back to Lisa and Lily's room to try to fix the situation, only to find that Lily had drunk or inhaled Lisa's spilled formulae, causing her to grow into a giant and eat Lincoln.
- Slipping into Stink:
- In the episode "Pasture Bedtime", Liam goes rolling down the hill and lands in manure. He doesn't seem to mind, though.
- In "Raw Deal", Lori trips on some oil and lands in garbage, therefore "going on a long trip" like her fortune said.
- Snowball Fight: In "Snow Escape," Competition Freak Lynn is shown to go nuts during weather that allows snowball fights, bombarding everyone she can.
- Soda-Candy 'Splosion: In "Making the Case", one of the ways Lincoln tries to win a trophy is by sticking a bunch of breath mints to himself and stage-diving into a wading pool full of soda to make the soda go crazy.
- Sound-Effect Bleep: Used at the end of "Potty Mouth" by Lily, after the siblings realize she hasn't been swearing the whole episode - she was saying "donut". But then Charles comes over and steals her donut, which causes Lily to use another choice word, which is bleeped this time.
- Soundtrack Lullaby: In the episode "Two Boys and a Baby", a lullaby tune plays whenever Lily falls asleep.
- Soup Is Medicine: Parodied in "One Flu Over the Loud House", when the healthy siblings squirted the sick family members with chicken soup to slow them down.
- Speak in Unison:
- In "One of the Boys", when Lincoln's thumb hurts, his sisters say, "Oh, poor Linky!" in unison.
- In "Slice of Life", all the kids except Lana (who chants, "Pizza, pizza, pizza"), shout "PIZZA!" in unison.
- In "Changing the Baby" when the kids wonder who Lily will crawl to and she crawls to Clyde who has her blankie, the kids say in unison, "She chose Clyde?!".
- Spiders Are Scary:
- Leni definitely thinks so due to her arachnophobia.
- Lynn Sr., so much so that his scream is even very similar to Leni's.
- Inverted with Lucy, who is a goth and adores all things creepy, including spiders. She had a family of three living in the cobwebs over her bed who were swept out in "Insta-Gran" whose loss she mourned. She had named them.
- Spin-Off: On March 6, 2018, Nick announced Los Casagrandes as a companion series to The Loud House, starring the Santiago/Casagrande family, Ronnie Anne and Bobby's family as first seen in "The Loudest Mission: Relative Chaos" and "City Slickers". The spin-off was eventually renamed The Casagrandes shortly before airing in 2019.
- Spooky Animal Sounds: Sometimes, crows can be heard cawing in the background in scenes focusing on Lucy, since she's the spooky sister (wanting to be a mortician and/or vampire, dressing in black, etc.)
- Squirting Flower Gag: As the family prankster, Luan by default carries one of these as part of her regular outfit. In the pilot, Luan tries to squirt Lincoln with the flower; he dodges it, but she then squirts from one of the flowers on her shoes straight into his mouth.
- Status Quo Is God: A large number of episodes involve Lincoln trying to improve the living conditions in the house, only to realize that things were better before.
- Stealth Escort Mission: In "The Spies Who Loved Me", the Casagrandes fear for Ronnie Anne's safety when she goes downtown on her own, since she's not used to city life. So Carlota and Carl secretly follow her, while they keep the rest of the family informed through their cell phone. Their worries turn out to be for nothing, since Ronnie Anne can take care of herself and isn't happy when she finds out.
- Stealth Hi/Bye: Lucy sometimes appears or disappears without warning, usually scaring the rest of the characters currently on-screen.
- Stock Sound Effects: The "foghorn noise = stinky" trope has been used in one of the podcasts for Lily's poop, "Funny Business" for Gary's poop, and "Brawl in the Family" for dirty laundry.
- Students Playing Matchmaker: In the episode "Teachers' Union", Lincoln is frustrated with his coach's strict instructions, but knows that he has a crush on Mrs. Johnson, the teacher, who also believes Coach P. is too strict. He tries to get them together, but due to Lincoln getting facts wrong about Coach P., it doesn't go too well, so he tries his luck getting Mrs. Johnson and the janitor together.
- Stylistic Suck: In one of the vlogs, Lincoln and Ronnie Anne design intentionally-ugly sweaters.
- Sudden Eye Colour: At least two characters were shown to have blue eyes: Lola when using a periscope in "Study Muffin", and Lincoln in a Nightmare Sequence in "Predict Ability".
- Swirlie: In "One of the Boys", Luke dunks Lincoln's head in the toilet.
