History Recap / TheLoudHouseS2E21NoLaughingMatterNoSpoilers

* FlushingToiletScreamingShower: At the beginning, Luan flushes the toilet while Luna is in the shower. After deciding to give up comedy, when Luan doesn't flush the toilet when she enters the bathroom, Leni flushes it instead.
* TheIllegible: According to Lincoln, Luan has terrible handwriting.

* OddlySpecificGreetingCard: The kids need to distract Leni, a known party-spoiler, from helping them plan Rita's birthday, so Lincoln sends her to find a card that has a llama in a spacesuit on the front and "Happy Birthday From Your 11 Kids" on the inside. At the end of the episode, Leni reveals she found a card matching that exact description.

* AnAesop: Don't ever speak ill about your siblings behind their backs.

* GiftGivingGaffe: Invoked by the siblings as they attempt a surprise party for their mother. Lola makes a cake that's too sweet for anyone but herself. Lynn makes a sub that's too spicy for anyone but herself. Lana uses poop brown balloons to decorate. Lucy uses black crepe paper. Lisa (who finds friendships a waste of time) uses a logic method to invite only people her mom interacts with. Luan picks jokes that will remind her mom she's getting old, and Luna wants to jam rather than play something they won't all have to shout over. Leni, however, gets everything right: Mom's favorite colors, favorite food, favorite dessert, family and friends.

* GiftGivingGaffe: Invoked by the siblings as they attempt a surprise party for their mother. Lola makes a cake that's too sweet for anyone but herself. Lynn makes a sub that's too spicy for anyone but herself. Lana uses poop brown balloons to decorate. Lucy uses black crepe paper. Lisa uses a logic method to invite only people her mom interacts with. Luan picks jokes that will remind her mom she's getting old, and Luna wants to jam rather than play something they won't all have to shout over. Leni, however, gets everything right: Mom's favorite colors, favorite food, favorite dessert, family and friends.

* ExactEavesdropping: Luan overhears her siblings right when they begin to scathingly criticize her antics.

* LamePunReaction: Luan's constant barrage of lame jokes have caused her brother and sisters to get sick of her humour.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Lincoln and his sisters have this reaction when they find out that Luan's decision to give up comedy was their fault.

* IMeantToDoThat: This is Lincoln's reaction when Luan believes that he was pretending to mess up at The Chortle Portal.

* SeriesContinuityError: An AllThereInTheManual case; Luan is said to consider knock-knock jokes to be the lowest form of humor, yet she tells one to Lucy in this episode.

* FlushingToiletScreamingShower: Luan flushes the toilet while Luna is in the shower. When Luan decides to give up comedy, Leni flushes it for her.

* ContinuitySnarl: An AllThereInTheManual case; Luan is said to consider knock-knock jokes to be the lowest form of humor, yet she makes one to Lucy in this episode.

* TryingNotToCry: As Luan confesses to giving up comedy, her voice sounds like she's holding back tears.

* FireBreathingDiner: Flip eats a very spicy sub made by Lynn, which makes his face turn red and steam come out of his ears.

* BirthdayPartyGoesWrong: Defied. The kids (except Leni -- because they think she'll spoil the surprise -- and Lily) are making a surprise birthday party for their mother Rita. However, things don't work out: Lana uses toilet paper, gum, and brown balloons (which Lynn thinks look like poop) as decorations, Lynn's subs she provides are covered in Blazing Inferno Hellfire Sauce, Lola's cake is too sweet, Luan's jokes are all about Rita being old, Luna can't think of a song Rita would like, and Lisa has invited three men Rita doesn't like. However, this all happens before Rita gets home and when they realise things are going south, they get Leni over, who throws a successful party for Rita.

* IncrediblyLamePun: Deconstructed. Luan's constant barrage of lame jokes have caused her brother and sisters to get sick of her humour.

* {{Facepalm}}: The siblings does this when Leni continues to SpitTake and fake laugh even after their plan fails.

* {{Facepalm}}: Everybody does this at the end of the episode when Leni reveals that she plans on inviting her dad to his surprise party.

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!!No Laughing Matter

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'''No Laughing Matter:''' When Luan hears her siblings criticizing her comedy, she decides to give it up. Feeling guilty, they try to get her sense of humor back before her big performance at a junior comedians contest.

'''No Spoilers:''' To make sure their mother's surprise party goes off without a hitch, Lincoln and his siblings try to keep loose-lipped Leni at bay.

* ContinuityNod: This isn't the first time Luan gave up comedy, though it's the first time she's done so in reality.

* FireBreathingDiner: Flip eats a very spicy sub sandwich made by Lynn, which makes his face turn red and steam come out of his ears.
* GiftGivingGaffe: invoked by the siblings as they attempt a surprise party for their mother. Lola makes a cake too sweet for anyone but herself. Lynn makes a hoagie too spicy for anyone but herself. Lana uses poop brown balloons to decorate. Lucy uses black crepe paper. Lisa uses a logic method to invite only people mom interacts with. Luan picks jokes that will remind her mom she's getting old, and Luna wants to jam rather than play something they won't all have to shout over. Leni, however, gets everything right: Mom's favorite colors, favorite food, favorite dessert, family and friends.
* {{Irony}}: Leni has a habit of ruining surprise parties, yet she's the only one who knows what to plan for them.