Esoteric Happy Ending: The ending, where Lily and Luan bond over the former's April Fools prank, is clearly meant to be heartwarming. However, this completely ignores the fact that Lily manipulated and tortured her family, who only wanted to avoid being pranked with another April Fools and even tried to protect her. Not to mention, she did it all just to get Luan interested in pranking again and is portrayed in the right for doing so. This, combined with Lynn Sr. having been traumatized by all the previous April Fools, ends the episode on a pretty mean-spirited ending.
Fanon Discontinuity: Some fans disregard the episode due to the fact that Lily handles the Jerkass Ball through her torturous pranks on her terrified family as a deliberate attempt to rekindle Luan's love of April Fools' pranking. Not helping is the ending, where Luan goes back on her promise from "Fool Me Twice," showing that she learned absolutely nothing in the end.
Unintentionally Sympathetic: All of the Louds, minus Luan and Lily. They're seemingly set up as the bad guys for locking up Luan and not believing her when she says she didn't booby trap the house. However, given all the past April Fools, it's hard to blame them, given how beaten up and scarred they got from Luan's previous April pranks. Lynn Sr. is even shown to have been traumatized from the previous pranking sprees. Yet, the scene where they get pranked in Vanzilla is meant to be Played for Laughs.
