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- Taking the Heat:
- In "Sleuth or Consequences", Lucy was the one who clogged the toilet with a Princess Pony comic, but Lincoln takes the blame for it because he understood her pain and didn't want her to be a laughingstock.
- In "A Tattler's Tale" when Lola is livid her siblings won't let them into their club of secrets, she takes the blame for all the damage they've secretly done so she's even.
- A Tale Told by an Idiot: In the episode "Not a Loud", Lincoln asks his dopey big sister Leni what she remembers about his birth. She claims an eagle brought him. Really he was brought by the First Lady but he was swaddled in a blanket with the presidential seal on it.
- Tastes Better Than It Looks: Downplayed in the episode "Friend or Faux?". Lisa invents some "kelp leather" which looks like a greyish-green, slimy lump but it doesn't taste bad. However, it doesn't taste good either; it actually has no taste at all.
- Tea Is Classy: Lola is the most posh of the Loud siblings, and she's commonly seen drinking tea, often while role-playing as a wealthy noblewoman.
- Technical Euphemism:
- Lisa often dabbles in using overly-sophisticated words for small things, some of which are euphemistic, such as telling Lola to move her "oversized posterior" in "Baby Steps".
- In the pilot, when Lincoln is suffering from a Potty Emergency, he says that he has a "pressing engagement".
- In "Linc or Swim", whenever Lily poops in the pool, someone calls it a "fecal incident".
- In "Project Loud House", Lincoln makes burnt eggs for Lucy, but she refers to them as "well-done".
- Teens Love Shopping: Played Straight for Lori and Leni (Leni even describes the mall as the best place in town), but downplayed for Luna, Luan, and Lynn, who like shopping but have other things they like a lot more.
- Tender Tomboyishness, Foul Femininity:
- Luna, the family rock star, is a gentle Cool Big Sis to Lincoln, whereas Lori, the family Phoneaholic Teenager, constantly threatens Lincoln with violence.
- Lana is a caring Animal Lover who enjoys Filthy Fun, whereas Lola is a bratty pageant queen who wants to rule the world.
- Inverted with Lynn Jr. and Leni. Lynn Jr. is a Jerk Jock obsessed with sports, whereas Leni is a Kind Hearted Simpleton obsessed with fashion.
- That Poor Cat: Cliff is frequently caught in the crossfire of the kids' antics. In general, any time cat yowls are heard around the Loud House's vicinity, chances are it's him.
- Theme Naming:
- Bobby and Ronnie Anne's cousins are all named some variation of Carlos: Carlota, Carlos Jr., Carlino and Carlitos. They're almost certainly named for their father.
- The Ace Savvy characters use various playing card puns. There's Ace Savvy himself, and his sidekick One-Eyed Jack. We also get Lincoln's sisters as The Full Deck: The High Card (Lori), the Eleven of Hearts (Leni), the Night Club (Luna), The Joker (Luan), The Strong Suit (Lynn), the Eight of Spades (Lucy), the Royal Flush (Lana), the Queen of Diamonds (Lola), the Card Counter (Lucy) and the Deuce (Lily).
- Theme Tuneless Episode: Season 4's story arc focusing on the Santiago/Casagrande family only played a little bit of the theme tune before cutting to Ronnie Anne introducing her family.
- Third-Party Peacekeeper:
- In "Space Invader", Lynn and Lucy have such a bad argument that they don't want to bunk together anymore. This leads to Lynn sharing a bed with Lincoln. He's annoyed by her roughhousing and snoring, so he tries to get the two girls to make up by cooking them spaghetti.
- Attempted in vain in "Brawl in the Family", when Lori and Leni had been fighting over identical dresses and Lincoln tries to get them to make peace by claiming to both that one sister dislikes how the other looks in the dress. However, they'd already made up, and this just causes them to start fighting again.
- Threaten All to Find One: In "Sleuth or Consequences", the toilet is clogged, and Lynn Sr. doesn't know who did it, so he grounds all his children until one of them fesses up. Lincoln, who wants to go to a convention, and Lucy, the only sister who doesn't suspect him (due to him having clogged it several times before) investigate to see who did it.
- Title Theme Tune: The theme tune repeats "In the Loud house!".
- Toilet Humor:
- The pilot for the series focused on Lincoln attempting to use the bathroom, followed by Lincoln using Lily's dirty diaper to chase Lori out.
- There is no shortage of poop jokes coming from youngest sister Lily, though the toilet humor in the show is toned down from the pilot.
- A large number of Lynn's gags involve her bathroom habits, from forbidding herself (and her entire team) from "going number two until we're number one", to repeated jokes about her desperately needing to go. In one episode, she describes feces she is about to push out of her body as "puppies [that] are barking to be let out", which is fitting because it is the remains of hot dogs she ate the day before in a contest she had won.
- Lana's tomboy habits involve her fondness for unsanitary, smelly things such as collecting feces and eating her own mucus. She also likes going #2 outdoors as stated in "In Tents Debate" and done in "Tripped!".
- Lisa studies poop.
- As of "Appetite for Destruction", the following Loud kids other than Lily have been seen needing to go #2: Lincoln (the pilot), Lori ("Undie Pressure"), Leni ("Appetite for Destruction"), Luna ("Cursed" from The Casagrandes), Lynn Jr. ("Sleuth or Consequences" and "Pipe Dreams"), Lana ("Tripped!" and "Cursed!" from The Casagrandes), and Lola ("Pipe Dreams").
- Token Wizard: Zig-zagged for Lucy Loud, a young Goth. She tries to do magic frequently, and while a portrait of her great-grandmother was seen to smile after she attempted a spell, one game has things floating around her, suggesting she's telekinetic, and she sometimes appears as though she's teleported, she's never proven to be magical.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: All the girls have varying degrees of masculinity and femininity, but Lana and Lola are the most obvious and centralized examples. This is showcased in "In Tents Debate" where the girly girls (Lori, Leni, Lucynote, Lola, and Lily) vote to spend their vacation at the beach while the tomboys (Luna, Luan, Lynn, Lana and Lisa) vote for an amusement park.
- In general, the level of most tomboyish to girliest between the sisters is considered as this: Lana, Lynn, Luna, Lisa, Luna, Lucy, Lily, Lori, Leni and then Lola. Ronnie Anne is usually considered to be probably somewhere around Lynn or Lana's level as well.
- Tomboy with a Girly Streak: Lincoln's tomboy sisters (Luna, Luan, Lynn, Lana, and Lisa) are not completely devoid of a girly side; they get giddy over the prospect of Lincoln having a girl interested in him and watch a soap opera called The Dream Boat, about which they discuss shippings between the show's characters.
- Too Unhappy to Be Hungry:
- In the episode "The Crying Dame", Lily is very sad because she misses her favourite toy, so when her big sister Leni tries to feed her, she just pushes the food away.
- Played with in "House of Lies". Lisa installs lie-detecting cameras around the house to try to reduce the family's habit of lying to each other. When everyone finds out the truth about each other, Lynn Jr. leaves the table with her bowl of cerealnote , claiming she lost her appetite. One of the cameras tells Lynn Jr. she's lying and that she still has her appetite.
- Totally Radical: Luna uses words like "dude" and "bro".
- Toy-Based Characterization:
- Trademark Favorite Food:
- The Loud family as a whole has pizza, to the point that the siblings would fight for the last slice. Individually, Lynn Jr. loves meatball subs and Lincoln loves Mac and Cheese bites.
- Mr. Grouse loves Lynn Sr.'s lasagna, to the point where the Loud siblings bribe him with it whenever they need him to do something for them.
- Training the Pet:
- In "A Mutt Above", Lana wants to enter her dog Charles in a dog show, but, while not particularly naughty, Charles is unrefined. Her twin sister Lola manages to train him to be sophisticated, but then he loses interest in playing in the mud, so Lana tells him to drop his sophistication.
- In "Training Day", Stella gets a rabbit named Jazzy, but he is extremely destructive, pees everywhere, and attacks people. She knows Lana is very good at training pets, so she gives him to her to train, but all her attempts fail. Luckily, however, it turns out that Jazzy was only acting up because he missed his brother, Snazzy. Once Stella adopts both rabbits, they start behaving themselves.
- Troubling Unchildlike Behavior:
- Lucy Loud's depressed, gothic personality might just seem like typical preteen or teenage angst, until you realize she's actually just eight years old.
- Even more so with Lola who, at six years old, has become known for her violent temper tantrums to the point where even her older siblings make it a point not to ever mess with her. Worse still, her idea of a perfect day involves world domination. That said, it's better for everyone that she never be given cause to become angry with them.
- At best, in both Lucy and Lola's cases, the other Loud children see the aforementioned sisters' behavior as being disturbing and off-putting, but thankfully, due to the series' Negative Continuity, Lucy and Lola's atypical personalities never cause anything truly tragic to happen to the world around them.
- Truncated Theme Tune: The Season 4 premiere, "Friended", shortens the theme song and includes an introduction from Ronnie Anne.
- Tuckerization:
- Almost each of the Loud siblings were named after someone or something from Chris Savino's life.
- Lincoln was named for the street where his childhood home was located.
- Lori, Luan, Lynn, Lana, and Lisa were named for his five sisters.
- Luna and Lola were named for Dachshunds his family owned.
- Lucy and Lily were names he and his wife planned on giving to a potential daughter (they have three sons).
- Many of the pets featured on the show are ordinarily named after prolific cartoonists and comics artists.
- Charles was named for Charles M. Schulz, creator of Peanuts.
- Cliff was named for Cliff Sterrett, creator of Polly and Her Pals. ("Sterrett" also being the name of Luna's preferred brand of amplifiers).
- Walt was named for Walt Kelly, creator of Pogo.
- Watterson was named for Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin and Hobbes.
- Leni was named for Lennie from Of Mice and Men.
- One of the rabbit sisters from "White Hare" was named after Savino's wife, Bethany.
- Almost each of the Loud siblings were named after someone or something from Chris Savino's life.
- Twins Are Special: While Lola and Lana usually avert this, in "Training Day", it's revealed that one twin can always smell where the other one is. So can Stella's pet rabbits Jazzy and Snazzy, who are brothers from the same litter (though it isn't revealed if they have any littermates).
- Two Girls to a Team: Inverted with the Loud family—not counting any of the family's pets, Lincoln and his dad are the only men in the house, as everyone else is a girl (Mrs. Loud and her ten daughters).
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- The Undead: Never seen, but ghosts and zombies are sometimes mentioned.
- Unexpected Kindness:
- In "Shell Shock", Lincoln and Ronnie Anne have an Egg Sitting project. Lincoln fears that Ronnie Anne is going to break the egg on purpose, so he gives her what he thinks is a decoy, only to unknowingly give her the real egg. He goes to her house to retrieve it and he sees her removing a splinter from Bobby's finger. He also sees that she's prepared dinner and has washed Bobby's work uniforms. His trust in her is rekindled, so he decides to put the egg back (though the egg ends up being smashed anyway).
- In "Butterfly Effect", Lincoln is afraid that Lisa will disown him for accidentally destroying her experiment. She's actually grateful because he proved that her hypothesis was right, and she even gives him a big hug. While the gratitude wasn't kind in itself, the hug was.
- In "Stall Monitor", Lincoln thinks Mrs. Johnson is going to tell his parents he's a bad student, but she actually tells them he's a good student.
- Unique Moment Ruined:
- Played straight in "Left in the Dark", where Lincoln wants to watch a special episode of his favorite TV show, but ends up missing it because the power cuts out.
- Subverted in "Mall of Duty". One of Lincoln's favorite TV stars is signing books at the mall, and he does get his book, but has to give it up to bargain with an old lady. However, his parents then give him a signed copy of the same book.
- Subverted again in "Any Given Sundae", where Lily is about to eat her first ice cream, but a bird knocks it over. Then her family makes her a sundae so she gets to eat her first ice cream anyway.
- Universal Group Reaction: In "Health Kicked", when the Loud children drink onion-infused water, they all spit it out at once (with the exception of Lana.)
- Unwillingly Girly Tomboy:
- Happens in "Toads and Tiaras" to Lana when Lola gets injured and cannot appear at an upcoming beauty pageant, so Lincoln, who wants to win the two season passes to Dairyland that are the prize, bribes Lana to dress up in a pink dress and give up her mannish habits to fill in for her sister. She actually proves quite adept at the task, admits it was surprisingly fun, and wins the pageant, though for the talent section Lincoln finally relents and lets her Be Yourself.
- A more Played for Drama example happens in "Really Loud Music", where Luna has a big chance to win herself a record deal in a music contest, and decides to send in a popular cover of pop music over her usual style to have a better chance of making it. While it does get her into the running, she's forced to change into a more glamorous and pop-oriented image with the stage name "Lulu", which she clearly isn't fond of and is forced to decide whether or not the record deal is worth her new persona.
- Urine Trouble: In a flashback in "Head Poet's Anxiety", Charles pees on Luan.
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- Valley Girl: Blonde beauty roommates Lori and Leni both play the teenage girl stereotype straight.
- Verbal Tic: Three of the sisters have words that they use a lot: Lori has "literally", Leni has "like", and Luna has "dude". Luan's recurring "Get it?" after laughing at her own puns may also count.
- Verbed Title: It's common for a special in the main series (and before Season 5, other Extra-Long Episodes) to be titled this way with an exclamation mark at the end (e.g. "Tricked!", "Tripped!", "Cooked!", "Schooled!", "Ghosted!"). The Casagrandes uses the title convention for some of its own specials too ("Cursed!").
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Viewer Name Confusion:- It's spelled Luan. Not "Luann" or "Luanne."
- Lincoln's crush from "Making the Case" is named Cristina, not "Christina."
- Lola's male counterpart's name is spelled as Lexx, as opposed to being spelt as just "Lex."
- In one game, Fangs is called "Fang".
- The closed captions sometimes spell Lily's name as "Lilly" or "Lili".
- Virtual Assistant Blunder: In the episode "Can't Hardly Wait", Lori is trying to be a waitress, so Lisa invents some voice-activated robot arms. Only, they keep mishearing Lori: they hear "bill" as "pepper mill", "stop" as "chopped", and "not what I meant" as "condiments".
- Visible Odor: The dirty diapers generally have a green "stench cloud" coming from them, as does any fart or burp and several cases of dirty clothes.
- Vocal Evolution:
- For characters who have had their voice actors recast:
- During the tenures of Lincoln's voice actors, their voices have gradually deepened due to puberty, necessitating recasts. For instance, Grant Palmer's voice as Lincoln sounds deeper in "Slice of Life" and the later episodes of Season 1 due to puberty, and when Collin Dean replaced him in "One of the Boys", his own voice as Lincoln started off as a slightly whinier version of Palmer's original Lincoln voice.
- Clyde's voice gets deeper in the early episodes of Season 3 due to Caleel Harris hitting puberty. Starting with "Head Poet's Anixety", he was replaced by Andre Robinson.
- For character who have retained their voice actors:
- Jessica DiCicco's voice for Lynn has been the most inconsistent, and has been all over the place, ranging from sounding like Summer Penguin note , to sounding like a more charismatic version of Lucy, to even sounding very similar to Luna and Lana.
- DiCicco's voice for Lucy, while consistently an emotionless, deadpan monotone for the longest time, initially had slightly more child-like sound that quickly gave way to the deeper and mature tone she has become known for. Since then, not only she taken on an ever-so-slightly broader emotional range, but her voice has reverted back to a higher and girlier sound.
- Also of note is DiCicco's voice for Zach, which, as of Season 5, is now much deeper, which has made him sound far less similar to Lynn.
- Grey Griffin's voice for Lana has gradually gotten deeper, raspier, and more boyish-sounding, while her voice for Lola has gradually gotten higher, squeakier, and more girly-sounding.
- Nika Futterman's voice for Luna has also gradually gotten higher and softer over time, though still maintains its distinct husky quality.
- For characters who have had their voice actors recast:
- Vocal Dissonance:
- Lisa is a 4 years old, yet has a stoic, lispy voice reminiscent of a young adult or pre-teen nerd. Justified, as she's a Child Prodigy.
- Luan is 14 years old, yet she has a high-pitched voice reminiscent of a prepubescent girl; she also occasionally has a lisp (possibly due to her braces and bucked teeth), but it's not as frequent or prominent as Lisa's.
- Ronnie Anne is 11 years old, yet she has a deep and raspy voice reminiscent of a older teenage girl.
- Volumetric Mouth: This is occasionally seen whenever a character shouts.
- Vomit Discretion Shot: People throw up offscreen in "Get the Message", "The Sweet Spot", "In Tents Debate", "Changing the Baby", "Toads and Tiaras", "Two Boys and a Baby", "Cover Girls", "Save the Date", "The Loudest Loud", "Dance, Dance Resolution", "Patching Things Up", "Kick the Bucket List" and "Not A Loud".
- Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Happens to Lily in "Changing the Baby" and "Cover Girls", where she throws up onscreen.
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- Wearing It All Wrong:
- In the episode "Stall Monitor", Lincoln is stalling so his parents will be late for the parent-teacher conference. First he comes out of his room with no pants, then with no shirt, then he puts his pants on his head.
- In "Driving Miss Hazy", Lincoln, who is tasked with doing Lori's laundry so Lori will take him to the comic book store, bumps into Leni, who is on her way to Lori's bedroom to make Lori's bed.note When the two pick themselves up and talk to each other, Leni is seen wearing a pair of Lori's pants on her head.
- In "Crimes of Fashion", when Lincoln is considering giving up playing superhero and discards his cape, Leni tells him he can wear it as a scarf and does so herself. Then, it's revealed that a little boy is using the missing scarves as superhero capes.
- Wedgie:
- In "Sleuth or Consequences", Lori gives Lincoln a wedgie and puts the underwear on his head.
- In "Lincoln Loud: Girl Guru", Girl Jordan threatens Andrew, who gave her a Dutch oven, with an "American wedgie".
- We Want Our Idiot Back!: Downplayed in "Butterfly Effect". The dopey Leni gets a head injury that makes her smart, but unfortunately it makes her even smarter than her Child Prodigy sister Lisa, who gives up studying in a fit of insecurity, causing Lynn (who she tutored) to flunk, and she kicks a ball in frustration that hits Lola, disfiguring her face, so the two start a life of crime together. Also, becoming smarter makes Leni arrogant, so she leaves home. Leni's siblings wish Leni was dumb again just so that everything could go back to normal. Thankfully, it was all in Lincoln's head.
- We Will Not Use Photoshop in the Future: Played with in "Insta-Gran". The Loud kids do use photoshop to make a fake photo of Seymour and Myrtle apparently kissing. However, Pop-Pop never considers that the photo might be fake, and immediately confronts Seymour about it, even telling him that "pictures don’t lie".
- What Happened to the Mouse?: In "Lincoln Loud: Girl Guru", Liam gets a girlfriend. However, she's never seen again and in "Dance, Dance Resolution", he's back to being single.
- Where the Hell Is Springfield?: Averted. Royal Woods is located in Michigan, it is based on Chris Savino's hometown of Royal Oak. Its exact location was shown in "ARGGH! You for Real?".
- Whoopee Cushion: One of the pranks Lincoln is shown suffering in the montage at the start of "Heavy Meddle" is being tricked into sitting on a whoopee cushion during lunchtime.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?:
- Leni hates spiders because she's afraid of them, as does Lynn Sr.
- Lana, Bitey, and Clyde are all afraid of heights.
- Why We Can't Have Nice Things:
- In "Overnight Success," Lincoln tells the audience that he had to beg his parents to let Clyde come for a sleepover. The reason for begging them was because Leni and her friends overloaded the power grid, Lynn Jr. turned the living room into an impromptu soccer field, and Luna held a rock concert in the living room and had Lynn Sr. kicked out for not being on the list.
- In "Pipe Dreams," Lynn Sr. contemplate building a second bathroom, just for him and Rita, only for her to tell him that the kids will take it over as soon as it's built. To illustrate her point, Rita reminds him of the adjustable mattress they bough just for themselves, which the kids wrecked in less then a minute after they used it as an impromptu mechanical bull.
- Win Her a Prize: In the episode “Road Trip: From Brad to Worse,” the Louds meet Brad, Rita’s old boyfriend from childhood, making Lynn jealous. While at a carnival, Lola wants a unicorn from a carnival game. Lynn tries to win the prize, but only succeeds in winning a tiny stuffed mouse. Brad however is able to win several unicorns, which does not help Lynn’s jealousy.
- Woken Up at an Ungodly Hour: In "Who Ghost There?" (a licensed comic), Lincoln and Clyde think that the former's house is haunted and start searching around for ghosts in the middle of the night. At one point, Lincoln's sisters all shout, "Go to bed!" in unison.
- Working Through the Cold: In "Sister Act", Lola tries to ribbon dance at a pageant while stricken with a cold, but is too lethargic to do the dance correctly.
- Worst. Whatever. Ever!:
- In "Get the Message", Lincoln writes a letter with the heading "Why (name) is the worst sister ever."
- In "Along Came a Sister", when Leni witnesses Frank the tarantula, she screams "Worst surprise party ever!"
- Worthless Currency: In "Game Off", Leni tries to pay with buttons, mistaking them for money. Lincoln implies that it, or something similar, has happened before.
- Wrench Wench: Lana Loud plays this straight as she is a girl who loves auto repair.
- Writers Have No Sense of Scale: Lincoln states in "One Flu Over The Loud House" that the family house is 13 people sharing 1,200 square feet. Since that makes the house only a couple rooms bigger than most singles apartments, this couldn't possibly be accurate. Just the upstairs hallway shown in the title intro looks to be about 1,200 square feet. A more realistic size would probably start at 8x that size.
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- Yet Another Christmas Carol: In "A Flipmas Carol," skinflint Flip tries to swindle customers, leading to the Loud children visiting him as "spirits" to try and mend his ways.
- You Are Grounded!:
- In "The Sweet Spot", after all the siblings get into a big brawl over the titular seat that results in Vanzilla being destroyed, the family road trip is cancelled and the siblings are forced to sit on the couch for the entire weekend until they learn to get along.
- In "Sleuth or Consequences" when all of the siblings are guilty for clogging the toilet, Dad declares everyone is grounded until the culprit is found. The guilty party is Lucy, but Lincoln decides to take the blame for it so she doesn't become a laughingstock; this results in the sisters let off the hook while he remains grounded, meaning he has to miss the Ace Savvy convention he was longing for, so Lucy decides to make up for him.
- In "A Tattler's Tale", Lola takes the heat for all the stuff her siblings did, resulting in her punished.
- In "Suite and Sour", all of the siblings are grounded for the rest of the weekend for causing a ruckus at the hotel.
- In "Stall Monitor" when Lincoln is caught trying to delay his parent-teacher conference, he ends up grounded for a week.
- You Can't Fight Fate: A typical plot usually involves Lincoln scheming to avoid confronting a rocky situation, only for events to backfire so it ends up happening anyway.
- Your Costume Needs Work: In "Great Lakes Freakout," while trick or treating as zombies, Carlota and Leni give another pair of zombies advice on how to improves their costumes, before realizing they are real zombies.
