This is another nice cartoon designed to emphasize the show’s
theme of appreciating your family for who they are. At the same time, it stresses the brotherly
nature of Lincoln towards the twins, Lola and Lana. With tickets to Dairyland as an incentive, Lincoln
makes himself open to coaching Lola for an upcoming pageant which involves
learning all the ins and outs of looking beautiful. Things become complicated when Lola ends up
getting hurt and is unable to compete in the pageant. Determined to get the Dairyland tickets,
Lincoln discovers that he has no choice but to have Lana take Lola’s
place. The challenge is that Lana, who’s
open to getting her hands dirty complete with having the hobbies of playing in
mud and carrying tools around, not to mention calling a dress a sparkly towel, is
the complete opposite of Lola which makes Lincoln struggle to make her pageant
material. Through it all, we get a lot
of admirable qualities from Lana.
Throughout this season, she’s always livened up her scenes with how she
goes about playing dirty without hesitation, but here, she really tries hard to
put all that aside to please her brother coming off as a sibling who truly values her family.
The thing is though, despite managing to pull off good pageant behavior
in training, when taking part in the actual pageant, she just can’t escape who
she really is. While Lincoln doesn’t
accept that at first, we eventually get a really sweet big brother moment from
him when, after seeing Lana upset about not living up to his expectations, he
comes to the conclusion that Lana should just be who she really is and show it
off in front of the audience of the pageant, even if it means no Dairyland
tickets. Lana ends up winning them the
tickets anyway though by just being herself which is a really nice moment for
her, and while I don’t think the victory makes sense since what Lana does still
isn’t appropriate for a pageant, considering the ending of “In Tents Debate”
it’s extremely satisfying that she and Lincoln made it to Dairyland at all in
the end. On a side note, Lola gets a lot
of enjoyable moments to, mostly showing off her monstrous side when she finds
out what’s going on, and more of her nice side when she ultimately lets Lincoln
and Lana keep what they rightfully won even if Lana got them by doing things
she would never do. Ultimately, the
characters involved in this cartoon get a lot of nice sweet moments that show
off their appeal which in the end, make you feel glad that everyone winds up
being comfortable with who they really are. 9.5/10
Two
Boys and a Baby
Sadly, we’ve got another flop to look at. The worst part about this cartoon is that
Lincoln is punished for doing nothing wrong.
The cartoon is all about him getting out of joining the rest of the family
in visiting their literally unpleasing Aunt Ruth by agreeing to stay home and
look after Lily which is something Dad usually does. From there we’re treated with a collection of
scenes involving Lincoln and Clyde, who comes over to help him, discovering how
hard it is to take care of Lily. I
honestly find it hard to believe that Lincoln would have this much of a hard
time with this. He’s known what to do
with Lily before, and they even legitimately bonded back in “Changing the
Baby.” To be fair, some of the moments
of him and Clyde carrying out the task are fairly entertaining such as how they
manage to get Lily to eat her lunch and an exciting chase scene through the
park to find her after accidentally picking up the wrong baby. Other moments though, are pretty
cringe-worthy like when they yell in response to a zombie movie just after
putting Lily down for a nap, and an uncomfortable amount of gross-out moments
when they’re changing her including a scene where sh*t literally hits the
fan. I know they don’t show it, but the
implications still make me sick.
However, what moves this cartoon into bad territory is the ending where
after all those hardships Lincoln and Clyde went through, they end up being
exposed to a baby with chicken pox and they and Lily have to stay at Aunt
Ruth’s until they recover, and she really is as unpleasant as Lincoln described
her. The fact that Lincoln is forced to
suffer in the end after suffering through the whole cartoon make what we see a
complete pain which never makes for a good watch. Perhaps things could have been better if Aunt
Ruth’s turned out a lot better than what Lincoln constantly described, but them
being accurate to what he said doomed the cartoon to fail. Not to mention, that means Lincoln’s sisters
had to suffer despite doing nothing to deserve it too, making the cartoon worse
in that regard. This cartoon could have
come off as passable if it wasn’t for the ending, but since the ending is in
place, it’s going near the bottom of the cartoon rankings of the season. At least it wasn’t immediately doomed to fail
like “The Green House” was. 4.5/10
The Ranking
1. For Bros About to Rock
2. Undie Pressure
3. Project Loud House
4. Space Invader
5. Driving Miss Hazy
6. Left in the Dark
7. Toads and Tiaras
8. Picture Perfect
9. Sleuth or Consequences
10. Hand-Me-Downer
11. No Guts No Glori
12. Changing the Baby
13. Along Came A Sister
14. Sound of Silence
15. Butterfly Effect
16. A Tale of Two Tables
17. It’s A Loud, Loud, Loud, Loud House
18. Overnight Success
19. In Tents Debate
20. Linc or Swim
21. The Sweet Spot
22. Heavy Meddle
23. Get the Message
24. Ties that Bind
25. Making the Case
26. Chore and Peace
27. Two Boys and a Baby
28. The Green House
Be sure to stay tuned for the review of the next episode including a fun cartoon with a concerning ending with "Cover Girls" and a cartoon sure to please the Lincoln and Ronnie Anne shippers, "Save the Date."
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