Don't Say, "Dannit"
is a fanfiction of The Loud House written as a sort of "part two" to the episode "Potty Mouth".
Unlike other follow-up fanfictions to Loud House episodes, such as Syngenesophobia and What is a Person Worth?, this fanfiction is played for comedy rather than to deconstruct the episode.
It follows Lily as she goes to daycare and her parents try to convince her not to say, "Dang it!" (which is treated as a profanity).
Don't Say, "Dannit" provides examples of:
- Argument of Contradictions: When Lily and a boy at daycare argue over the block, all they say is "Block" and "No". Justified as they're babies and have limited vocabularies.
- Baby See, Baby Do: Lynn Sr. thinks that Lily learnt "dang it" from her siblings, and whenever the word "dang" crops up, he's afraid that she will copy.
- Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere: Lynn Sr. wants to prevent Lily from saying the word "dang", but unfortunately it's on the radio.
- Doomed New Clothes: Rita puts on a new sweater and skirt, but then gets splashed with water from a passing car.
- Gosh Dang It to Heck!: "Dang it" is treated as swearing. Justified due to the site's rules and the author's "personal hesitancy to type […] the real bad words."
- Innocent Swearing: Double subverted because Lily continues to say "dannit" at daycare, and unlike in "Potty Mouth", she doesn't mean "donut" this time.
- Melancholy Musical Number: A song plays on the radio with a lyric about "It hurts inside the whole dang time."
- Roadside Wave: Rita gets sprayed with water when a car drives past.
- Sound-Effect Bleep: Discussed when Lynn Sr. says, "Dang it!" and hopes his beeping horn is loud enough so that Lily won't hear.
- Suddenly Shouting: Upon hearing that Lily was suspended, Lola says, "You can get suspended from DAYCARE?!".
