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1'''Funny Business:''' Lincoln becomes Luan's clown assistant, and he quickly steals the spotlight with his pratfalls.
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3'''Snow Bored:''' On a snow day, Lincoln and his sisters try to teach Lisa how to have fun.
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5!!"Funny Business"
6* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism:
7** Lincoln when he becomes popular for his pratfall routine.
8** Luan admits at the end of the episode that she was NotSoAboveItAll when it came to getting her first big laugh, but eventually understood that different crowds enjoy different forms of comedy.
9* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Luan admits at the end of the episode that Lincoln's pratfalls ''are'' hilarious, especially after he trips and falls into her collection of whoopie cushions; she even joins in and pratfalls on top of him in good humor.
10* CallBack: Luan's job at entertaining children at birthday parties was shown early on in "Cover Girls". Her payment for such was also shown in "Lincoln Loud: Girl Guru".
11* ContinuityNod:
12** This isn't the first time Luan dressed as a jester.
13** This isn't the first time a Loud sibling got mad at someone and tried to handle something alone.
14* DishDash: Luan and Lincoln (upstaging her) do variations of this trope as birthday party entertainment.
15* EmoTeen: Maggie and the other emos.
16* {{Facepalm}}: Luan does this in a couple of flashbacks when she reveals the reasons why Lucy, Lynn, Leni and Lisa are no longer her assistant.
17* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: At first, Luan feels it would be a sobering experience when Lincoln's pratfalls are bombing at Maggie's party. However, when he points out [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome that Funny Business, Inc. will take a hit in reputation and customers]], she changes her mind and comes to bail him out.
18* FailureMontage: Luan recalling her previous assistants, all of which caused her performances to fail humorously one way or another.
19* HeliumSpeech: Lincoln inhales helium to make the crowd laugh in one of his performances.
20* HiddenDepths: Luan is the one to know that different audiences like different forms of comedy, as Lincoln learns the hard way when his pratfalls [[ToughRoom fail to impress a crowd of emo tweens]].
21* IWasToldThereWouldBeCake: Luan initially convinces Lincoln to become her assistant by offering to share her leftover cake with him.
22* MirrorRoutine: Lincoln and Luan perform a routine at the emo tween party, which the gloomy audience takes as a metaphor for conformity.
23* OhCrap: Lincoln, when he realizes that the birthday girl, Maggie, is 13 and that the party is emo-themed.
24* PhotoBoothMontage: Luan shows Lincoln a filmstrip depicting him freaking out following his disastrous act at the emo party.
25* PictorialLetterSubstitution: [[TheFashionista Leni]] dots the "i" in her name with a heart.
26* ThePratfall: Lincoln becomes popular at Luan's parties thanks to his repeated goof-ups onstage. It doesn't work when he's hired to perform at a party full of emo tweens.
27* RageBreakingPoint: When Luan gets annoyed at Lincoln for prominently displaying his pratfalls while she's trying to tell jokes at parties, she tries to keep calm towards him afterwards. But then after one of them when they're walking home, he suggests to her that she should cut down on the jokes and let him do more stunts. This causes her to finally lose her patience and tell him off.
28* RudelyHangingUp: When he is bombing at the teen party, Lincoln calls Luan for help. But she is still holding a grudge against him for upstaging her, and when he first tells her it's him, her perky demeanor turns sour and she instantly hangs up. He tries again, only for her to verify that she knows she just did that, and does it ''again''. It's only when he keeps doing it that she finally gives up to listen to him.
29* ShoutOut:
30** Luan's phone receiver looks like [[WesternAnimation/OutOfTheInkwell Koko the Clown]].
31** One of the posters in Luan's room, judging from the positions of the silhouettes[[note]]|/||/||/|_[[/note]], is [[MemeticMutation the infamous]] [[WebComic/CtrlAltDel "Loss" comic]].
32* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
33** Lincoln finds out the hard way that what works with one kind of audience, doesn't necessarily work with another audience as well.
34** As mentioned above, Lincoln learning that, in comedy, sometimes FailureIsTheOnlyOption ''is'' a good life lesson, but not so good in getting repeat business for Luan's comedy show, which is why she changes her mind and helps him out at Maggie's party.
35* TakeThat: One of Maggie's friends interprets Luan's mime act as describing "[[JuniorHigh the soul-crushing pointlessness of seventh grade]]."
36* TerribleIntervieweesMontage: Luan tells Lincoln her last few assistants didn't work well: Lucy startled her in the middle of balloon animal making, Lynn accidentally hit her with a watermelon, Leni remained in the audience instead of helping her, and Lisa took the birthday cake claiming it's bad for kids.
37* TitleDrop: "Funny Business" turns out to be the name of Luan's neighborhood comedy act.
38* ThirteenIsUnlucky: The last kid having a birthday in the episode, Maggie, is turning 13, and her party happens to be ''goth'' themed.
39* ToiletHumor: Luan puts on a bike helmet that her rabbit, Gary, pooped in.
40* ToughRoom: Lincoln gets this treatment when he tries his pratfall style comedy with an emo tween crowd.
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42!!"Snow Bored"
43* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Lisa fails to see what is so great about a snow day, but when it comes to a snowball fight, she admits that it is fun.
44* ArtisticLicenseEducation: Although brain functionality actually ''does'' decrease very slightly for every school day someone misses, most school districts require the making up of snow days at either the end of the year or on designated days during the year because of this. Therefore, even if the Loud siblings had a snow day, they would still need to make it up at some point, rendering Lisa's blunt efforts to ruin everyone's snow day moot.
45* BatmanGambit: Lisa's deal with NASA to make it snow longer is to get her siblings so fed up with her snowball-throwing that they'll want to settle for a school day.
46* BigNo: By Lincoln and the sisters when Lisa proclaims snow days are not fun and will unleash the salt which melts the snow and sends the back to school.
47* BreakingTheFourthWall: Lisa this time, when she admits to the viewer that going overboard with the snowball fight resulting in her siblings no longer wanting a snow day was her plan all along.
48* ComedicUnderwearExposure: Lana is forced to run from the bathroom with her overalls down when Lisa ambushes her with her snowball cannon.
49* ComplexityAddiction: Lisa's really didn't need the plan to make her siblings want to go to school, since they were prepared to go back in the first place.
50* ContinuityNod: Hazeltucky and Huntington Oaks are mentioned again.
51* DangerThinIce: When Lola tries to show Lisa how enjoyable figure skating is, Lisa makes fast calculations in the snow to predict when Lola will fall through the ice. She's a second off.
52* DoubleTake: Lincoln does this verbally when he realizes that Lisa tricked him and the other siblings into actually ''wanting'' a school day instead of a snow day:
53-->'''Lincoln:''' Wait, what just happened?
54* FailureMontage: The kids trying and failing to impress Lisa with their winter activities.
55* FrigidWaterIsHarmless: When Lola [[DangerThinIce falls into the frozen lake]], per Lisa's prediction, she emerged out of it merely annoyed, with no ill effects like hypothermia (which is acknowledged by Lucy later on).
56* GoneHorriblyRight: Lisa's siblings eventually convince her to have fun with her snow days. However, Lisa ends up enjoying her snow days ''too'' much, and starts overwhelming her siblings with snowballs. This, combined with her deal with NASA to create more snow days, ends up making everyone wish that they could go back to school just so they can get away from her, but it turns out that [[BatmanGambit this was Lisa's plan all along]].
57* GoodLuckCharm: Lola has the classic LuckyRabbitsFoot, Lana a lucky booger, and Lynn a lucky jockstraps.
58* GotMeDoingIt: Leni misspells fun as "F-O-N", but she chants it with such gusto for a snow day that the rest of the Loud siblings (even Lisa, eventually) join in anyway.
59* IResembleThatRemark: When Lisa explains that snow days can lead to a decrease in intelligence, Leni spells "fun" as "F-O-N".
60* LetThereBeSnow: At the start of the episode, all siblings minus Lisa desperately wish and hope for enough snow to make the schools stay closed.
61* PottyEmergency: Lana has one at some point, but is ambushed by Lisa and her snowball gun in the bathroom.
62* ProducePelting: When Lisa announces her plans to prevent a snow day, her siblings pelt her with pillows.
63* ShoutOut:
64** Lincoln's winter attire looks very much like [[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} Charlie Brown's]].
65** Lucy's cloak strikingly resembles Raven's.
66** Lincoln crashing into a tree mirrors the opening of ''A Charlie Brown Christmas''.
67** "Dance of the Reed Flutes" plays during Lola's ice skating routine.
68** Lisa exclaims, "[[Film/Scarface1983 Say hello to my not-so-little friend!]]" before shooting Lynn with a snowball gatling gun.
69* SnowballFight: The only part about a snow day that Lisa actually likes. Unfortunately for her siblings, she takes it to such extremes as building firearms and even a tank specifically for pelting people with snowballs.
70* StockScream: The Wilhelm scream is heard when Lynn and Lucy are ambushed in the vents.
71* TemptingFate: Lucy and Lynn think they're safe in the vents. Turns out Lisa didn't forget about Lucy's favorite private place.
72* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Lisa's attitude towards snowball fights. She assaults her siblings everywhere they go, even in the house, with an increasing variety of snow weapons.
73* ThermalDissident: it's revealed that most of the Loud children enjoy playing in the snow, but Lisa does not, at one point being concerned she'll get hypothermia when playing Lucy's game of [[IncrediblyLameFun lying in the snow]]. Her dislike for cold weather gets brought up later in "[[Recap/TheLoudHouseS7E4ByeByeBirthdayToughGuise Bye Bye Birthday]]", when she complains about the cold when the family eats dinner outside.
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