'Toon Reviews 13: The Loud House Season 2 Episode 17: ARGGH! You For Real?/Garage Banned

ARGGH! You For Real?

One of my favorite things about TV shows and movies, especially animated ones, is that the sky’s the limit for something grand and creative.  Whether it’s to tell a big epic story, or create a unique vision of the world, or even to exaggerate common occurrences in life, there’s a great sense of imagination or different points of view that sticks with you for life.  This is why I feel sorry for those who don’t like something just for being unrealistic. Everyone has their own taste in entertainment, but this scenario to me feels like these people don't understand that fiction has its appeal too.  Not helping is that this cartoon falls into this trap.  Past cartoons have shown Lincoln and Clyde to be huge fans of the TV show, ARGGH (Academy of Really Good Ghost Hunters) and now we have a cartoon dedicated to it.  What’s more, the show is going to be filmed in their hometown, and of course the boys are excited for it.  However, when they’re mistaken for crew members, they’re roped into working the special effects for the show and in the process find out that everything they’ve seen on the show is fake.  First of all, you have to wonder how this is such a surprise to Lincoln and Clyde.  You’d think they’d know that things like ghost hunting aren’t real at their age.  Then there’s the biggest problem of the cartoon.  Now that Lincoln and Clyde know that the show is fake, they completely abandon their love for it.  It’s not like the people behind the show betrayed them after they took its message to heart.  They just see that the show is simply fictitious, therefore, it’s bad and worth deleting every recorded episode over.  I find this way of thinking too extreme and pretty insulting.  Just because something isn’t real doesn’t mean it can’t be enjoyed.  A lot of my favorite shows aren’t real, and I’ll enjoy them for the rest of my life.  Lincoln and Clyde look so closed-minded for believing shows have to be realistic to be enjoyed.  Actually, Clyde’s the most problematic of the two when learning the truth about ARGGH leads him to abandon all childish beliefs that he SHOULD be past.  Though again, something not real shouldn’t be disliked, even if you should have a sense of knowledge of reality for a healthy life.  This belief gets so ridiculous that the only thing that snaps Clyde out of his funk is a staged ghost hunt that appears to be real, and he goes back to believing in everything.  It would’ve been better if he just accepted that some things aren’t real, but still found the strength to enjoy them. Now, with him thinking everything is real, he appears to be dumber than ever, and I can’t picture him turning out healthy in the future.  That said, the third act has plenty of strong moments that prevent it from being bad.  Hunter Specter, the main character of ARGGH has an endearing dilemma of legitimately wanting to hunt ghosts and feels bad that TV guidelines means he has to lie about his hunts.  It helps show that even when shows do questionable things, the people behind the scenes aren’t always happy about it, contrary to certain reviewers who blame writers and artists for a show or movie turning out bad might say.  Plus, even with the problematic portions of the plot, there’s a lot of heart through Lincoln pulling off all stops to help his friend.  Overall, this cartoon has some frustrating ideologies that miss a point to fiction's appeal, but there are enough good-hearted moments that spare it from being worse than it is. 6.5/10

Garage Banned

 

This show is no stranger to having characters want to prove that they’re all grown up to do certain things, and this cartoon continues the trend to engaging effect.  As the oldest Loud, Lori feels like she should be treated to certain privileges. In this case, she wants to be allowed to have her own space away from her siblings especially when they’re constantly bugging her with requests like Lana bunking with her due to nightmares (which adds to her endearment formed this season), Lola needing help getting tangles out of her hair, and constant fights between siblings she needs to break up.  This may sound harsh, but given how constantly up in her business her siblings are at the start of the cartoon, it feels like she earns the audience’s sympathy.  She soon gets a chance at her own place when her parents allow her to move into the garage.  At first, Lori’s time alone feels ideal to how most people would view living on their own with her doing all her favorite activities.  However, it literally isn’t long before she realizes that living on one’s own isn’t as easy as it seems when she gets through her activities much too quickly, and when it’s bedtime, she’s constantly frightened by the strange noises from outside.  The interesting thing about this is that in addition to Lori realizing how solo living can really be, though there could be better hardships for her to endure as opposed to mostly fear from the outside, we also get scenes of how hard the other kids have it without Lori around.  Each one of them ties into an issue brought up in the beginning with Lana not feeling as safe, Lola completely losing her hair while trying to untangle it in a hilarious scene, and no one being able to settle the sibling fights, not even Lincoln.  Basically, both sides of the issue offer good reasons for Lori to want to move back in.  While the kids are actually respectful of Lori’s space, which makes them likable, it’s Lori who comes up with various stunts to convince everyone that she can’t stay in the garage.  The attempts are fine enough on their own, and the family comes up with various clever ways of fixing the problems that play to the strengths of various siblings, but I’d be lying if I said that these scenes are the show at its most entertaining.  However, through Lori’s attempts to get herself out of the garage, we get more proof of Mr. Grouse coming to better terms with the Louds when even though he loves the thought of destroying their property out of Lori’s request and getting lasagna out of it, he’s on seemingly good terms with Lori with no malice.  The interaction leads to a humorous backfiring on Mr. Grouse’s part, but we also get a nice scene of Lori being welcomed back in with open arms when she admits what’s up.  We also end with both sides of the inciting issue on good terms with the siblings being more respectful of Lori’s needs, and Lori being happier to help her siblings .  Even if it’s not the most interesting or entertaining cartoon out there, the take on sibling relationships and the attempt to share the truth of getting one’s own place make it a good one to watch if you’re up for it. 9/10

The Ranking

1. 11 Louds a Leapin’
2. L is for Love
3. Pulp Friction
4. Frog Wild
5. Party Down
6. Room with a Feud
7. Lock n Loud
8. Fool’s Paradise
9. Fed Up
10. Out of the Picture
11. Job Insecurity
12. Potty Mouth
13. The Loudest Mission: Relative Chaos
14. Spell it Out
15. Baby Steps
16. Shell Shock
17. Suite and Sour
18. Back in Black't
19. Patching Things Up
20. The Whole Picture
21. Garage Banned
22. Back Out There
23. The Old and the Restless
24. Kick the Bucket List
25. Intern for the Worse
26. Cheater by the Dozen
27. Pets Peeved
28. Making the Grade
29. Vantastic Voyage
30. ARGGH! You for Real?
31. No Such Luck
32. Brawl in the Family

Be sure to stay tuned for the review of the next episode to see if Clyde's "Change of Heart" really leads to a change and Mom and Dad take up exercising in "Health Kicked."

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'Toon Reviews 13: The Loud House Season 2 Episode 16: Fool's Paradise/Job Insecurity

Fool’s Paradise

With this cartoon, it seems to suggest that every season is going to include a cartoon about April Fool’s Day considering that Season 1 gave us “April Fool’s Rules.”  That raises a lot of questions about the timeline of this show.  Will the kids continually age with every new April Fool’s Day cartoon?  Won’t Lori have to go to college during one in the following seasons?  Do these cartoons even have a way to logically fit in the timeline?  Questions aside, the appeal of this cartoon is that it takes all the interpretations of April Fool’s Day to the apocalypse from last season and further expands on them creating an unforgettable atmospheric experience filled with hilariously imagined pranks with the perfect Loud for the day, Luan, as the mastermind.  The rest of the family believes they’re finally able to catch a break from the annual prank onslaught this year when they find a magazine ad for a clown camp they send Luan to.  However, just when they think they’re safe, those thoughts are dashed when their car breaks down and they have to spend the night at a crummy motel.  Once at the motel, a series of antics lead them to evidence that Luan set up pranks all over the facility, and it’s only a matter of time before one gets set off for each of the siblings.  The whole family is forced to make a run for it without any knowledge of when the next prank will strike and their fright is creatively staged as running from a strange monstrous force.  It also helps that what they get up to is set against a dark and threatening setting like an old motel at night.  When the pranks do get set off, they really up the creativity in execution from the last time.  There’s collapsing balconies into a big gelatin mold, trap doors that launch people up to a fly paper-laden sign, fake rooms filled with nasty obstacles like a skunk and rhubarb pies (which Lana’s allergic to), Lily getting replaced with a monkey that attacks Lynn, and a ton of bleach covering a certain sister who loves darkness.  Through it all, there’s a huge revealing twist to this prank barrage that Lincoln is quick to discover.  It turns out that Dad was in on Luan’s plans the whole time to get out of her April Fool’s Day pranks for a decade, and the explanations for how everything from the pranks to the clown camp ad that started it all are highly clever.  The best part about this reveal is that Dad feels genuine regret for helping Luan with her prankish tortures on his family, right down to questioning what kind of father he is.  Fortunately, he gets a big moment of redemption when he and Lincoln form a special prank to get back at Luan, and it’s a huge success as Luan gets flung into the air, stuck on that fly paper sign, lands in dirty laundry, and gets stuck in the sky.  This is sure to satisfy anyone who felt that her simply getting a pie in the face last April Fool’s Day wasn’t enough for her.  However, in fitting with the horror genre of the cartoon, the ending isn’t completely happy as the whole family is left running scared of the prospect of next April Fool’s Day which Luan promises to be even worse.  What she does then actually turns out to be a pretty nasty set of pranks, but that will be discussed in my eventual reviews of Season 3.  For this April Fool’s Day cartoon though, it’s easily one of the show’s most creatively structured cartoons aided by the genuine suspense, fun and insightful character moments, imaginative pranks, and some sense of victory from the victims. 10/10

Job Insecurity

If all the Loud siblings working as a team more often than in the first season wasn’t enough to prove how mature they’re becoming, perhaps this cartoon where they’re led to question how their actions impact their dad’s life can help.  With so many cartoons where the kids frequently run wild for their own amusement without much concern for others, it’s great that they turn out so thoughtful here.  They find out that Dad no longer works at his old IT job and has instead taken a dishwasher position, a job he doesn’t like, at a local fusion restaurant.  It’s here where the kids become more considerate of their actions to others, getting the idea that they got him fired from his IT job, namely for their hyperactive antics at the latest Take Your Kids to Work Day (nice to know that his old job at least became more inclusive since Season 1).  Anyway, they take a generous route of finding Dad a new job and making sure he gets it.  There’s plenty of heart in how seriously the kids take finding a new job for sure, but there’s also some humorous bits like imagination spots of Dad doing random jobs and, after they find a new IT job and get someone to pose as Dad to make sure he gets it, teaching Mr. Grouse, someone with an old world mindset, what certain computer terms mean.  Speaking of Mr. Grouse, he’s fast becoming one of the best supporting characters.  He’s still a grump and typically does things for Dad’s famous lasagna, but this is where it starts feeling like he’s putting in some effort in a bargain through actively trying to understand computer terms and getting better as time goes on, and showing happiness for the kids when he gets the job in Dad’s place.  With the job secured, the kids let Dad know what they got for him, and it’s at this point that even if the kids meant well, there’s no shaking off that this is another misunderstanding plot.  They didn’t know that Dad lost his old job for three weeks and he never told them, then when they found him washing dishes, they went with the idea that it was their fault.  However, Dad tells them that he actively quit his IT job and became a dishwasher to train to be a chef at the same restaurant which is his dream job, tying into his frequently seen talent for cooking.  Anyway, since Dad shows no hesitation in telling the kids this despite having a reason not to tell them, that means nothing was stopping the kids from just asking him why he has the new job. Granted, their beliefs seemed believable from what they saw, at the time it looked like Dad didn’t want to talk about it, and we weren’t given a scene of the truth the kids didn’t know, so the plot could’ve been executed worse.  Plus, what the kids learn leads to a very impactful ending when they push for Dad to get his restaurant job back, regretting their actions again, Dad kindly makes them feel better, and circumstances lead to him not just being allowed to work at the restaurant again, but also become a chef right then and there.  It’s all one of the most pleasing and satisfying conclusions the show has turned out.  Overall, this cartoon stands as one of this season’s strongest.  It’s not just humorous in parts, but it’s also got legitimate heart through the character bonds, opening new chapters for characters’ lives, and especially presenting the Loud siblings at their most thoughtful and mature.  9.5/10

The Ranking

1. 11 Louds a Leapin’
2. L is for Love
3. Pulp Friction
4. Frog Wild
5. Party Down
6. Room with a Feud
7. Lock n Loud
8. Fool’s Paradise
9. Fed Up
10. Out of the Picture
11. Job Insecurity
12. Potty Mouth
13. The Loudest Mission: Relative Chaos
14. Spell it Out
15. Baby Steps
16. Shell Shock
17. Suite and Sour
18. Back in Black
19. Patching Things Up
20. The Whole Picture
21. Back Out There
22. The Old and the Restless
23. Kick the Bucket List
24. Intern for the Worse
25. Cheater by the Dozen
26. Pets Peeved
27. Making the Grade
28. Vantastic Voyage
29. No Such Luck
30. Brawl in the Family

Be sure to stay tuned for the review of the next episode with "ARRGH! You For Real?" misunderstanding the appeal of fictional media, and Lori discovering what having your own place is really like in "Garage Banned."

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'Toon Reviews 13: The Loud House Season 2 Episode 15: Back Out There/Spell it Out

Back Out There

This cartoon combines two of the weaker types of cartoons for this series which are the misunderstanding plot and the Lincoln and Clyde misadventure, though to be fair, the latter type has an interesting addition of Lincoln’s other friends, Rusty, Liam, and Zach.  At the very least with this one, we get a strong sense of characterization, and the way it’s executed makes the experience thoroughly entertaining.  What Lincoln’s friends get up to is that they worry about him on account that he hasn’t hung out with them in a while.  They find that he’s been spending a lot of his time at Ronnie Anne’s old house long after she moved away. Coming to the conclusion that he has post break-up blues over her (even though Lincoln has a different love interest and “Relative Chaos” has several moments where he and Ronnie Anne agree they’re not a couple), they set out to try and “cure” him.  This is where the whole plot becomes problematic and a little unengaging.  As is common with misunderstanding plots, everything that happens is based on wild assumptions, and no one thinks to directly ask said person what really goes on.  Actually, the other friends do suggest respecting Lincoln’s privacy or talking with him about the issue, the smart option, but Clyde flat out insists on spying on Lincoln and going along with the assumption.  These guys following their belief instead of taking a chance and finding out the truth just makes them look dumb and not that well suited for being leads.  However, they seem just fine as leads anyway for how great these guys value Lincoln as a friend.  They treat Lincoln to a legitimately fun and thoughtful boy’s day out filled with things they love to do like trips to the arcade, rock-climbing, go-carting, and going to the pier all in stylish white suits.  Even when they follow an assumption for all they know could be completely wrong, their subsequent attempts to get Lincoln a new girlfriend are thoughtful given their mindset.  They even make for a few humorous encounters between Lincoln and some of the girls, even though a few encounters don’t work as well.  There’s also fun personality quirks from all of Lincoln’s friends working off of each other.  We have Clyde as the overconfident brains, Rusty is both boastful as a ladies man but also hilariously nervous about something happening to the white suits, Liam adds in a unique country feel with his mannerisms, and Zach…honestly doesn’t add that much apart from going with the plan.  Going back to the misunderstanding plot guidelines, you can easily predict that the guys find out the real reason why Lincoln was constantly at Ronnie Anne’s old house, which was to look out for a package that was sent there. While they look like total fools, it’s great that Lincoln understands their motivation, though it is disappointing that we never see how they stopped a bus they sent Lincoln on.  Also, as the cartoon ends, we see that the guys’ actions weren’t completely pointless when Lincoln feels like he does miss Ronnie Anne a bit after all, opening up possibilities for how he’ll truly cope with her not being around in the future.  While this cartoon is fueled on a dumb plot thread that lessens the engagement factor, the fact that Clyde and the gang still come off as likeable and devoted friends as well as some noticeable effect of their efforts help what we see to come out good.  9/10

Spell it Out

When a cartoon character has their own unique way of going about life, chances are that character is one of my favorites, and Lucy probably has the most unique way of life out of all the Loud siblings.  Her fascination with darkness shapes practically everything she does, like how she dresses in black, always has her hair cover her eyes, hangs out in a coffin, goes for night walks with her pet bat, has a dark monotone voice, and her tendency to scare people.  These are all examples of how Lucy stands out as a character, but like “Back in Black,” she’s made even better for how endearing she is through her unusual ways.  The opening to this cartoon consists of several ways Lucy’s siblings seemingly ignoring her.  They turn down her disdain towards certain decisions, never listen to her when she says something, and overall don’t notice she’s not around.  It’s quite impressive that someone as dark as Lucy can be so sympathetic through it all.  It genuinely feels like everyone keeps ignoring her existence and never acknowledges that she has feelings too.  Well, since Lucy has a habit of scaring people, it makes a little sense why this keeps happening.  Fortunately, Lucy comes up with a plan to get back at her siblings.  In previous cartoons, she’s mentioned a distant relative named Great-Grandma Harriet, who’s revealed to look just like her via an old photo.  Her role is in the form of the reveal of an old trunk Lucy finds in the attic which contains an old book of spells.  You can imagine all the fun Lucy has with this book as she uses it to work all kinds of spells on her siblings like killing Lori’s phone, making Lana’s butt itch, and making Lisa’s entire body sticky.  While you wouldn’t expect these spells to work given the down-to-Earth nature of this show, they’re executed to be perfectly convincing and lead to funny reactions from the siblings which also feels cathartic after what they put Lucy through.  However, it’s also fascinating how they work around the supposed spells.  Since they continue to walk all over Lucy and she’s still highly sympathetic, we’re lead into the most drastic and convincing spell of all.  Lucy takes extreme measures to cast a spell that makes all her siblings unable to speak, and the following montage of everything going Lucy’s way while the other Loud kids are forced to go along with her requests while they’re mute is extremely satisfying with Lucy being happy while everyone else endures what she did.  However, time is also taken to get Lucy to regret becoming to her siblings what they were to her, and how she feels is easy to buy as is the nobleness of her decision to undo the spell through potentially making herself mute.  Then, in an entertainingly staged scene where Lucy’s monotone voice is all that’s heard as the other siblings pantomime their words, we get creative reasons for what really caused the spells. The biggest reveal is for everyone else’s inability to speak coming from losing their voices by cheering for Pop-Pop at a shuffleboard match.  It’s all nicely capped off by everyone realizing their fault in the matter and they all give a genuine apology, showing that even with their less than pleasing qualities, all the siblings truly do have a heart.  Through effective comedy, creativity from the spells and the reveal of how they seemed real, and Lucy’s genuinely crafted sympathy, like her and the siblings coming together, this cartoon is a pretty magical result. 9.5/10

The Ranking

1. 11 Louds a Leapin’
2. L is for Love
3. Pulp Friction
4. Frog Wild
5. Party Down
6. Room with a Feud
7. Lock n Loud
8. Fed Up
9. Out of the Picture
10. Potty Mouth
11. The Loudest Mission: Relative Chaos
12. Spell it Out
13. Baby Steps
14. Shell Shock
15. Suite and Sour
16. Back in Black
17. Patching Things Up
18. The Whole Picture
19. Back Out There
20. The Old and the Restless
21. Kick the Bucket List
22. Intern for the Worse
23. Cheater by the Dozen
24. Pets Peeved
25. Making the Grade
26. Vantastic Voyage
27. No Such Luck
28. Brawl in the Family

Be sure to stay tuned for the review of the next episode which is our April Fool's Day kick for Season 2, "Fool's Paradise," and the Loud kids once again show consideration of the world around them as they try to get a good new job for Dad in "Job Insecurity."

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'Toon Reviews 13: The Loud House Season 2 Episode 14: Out of the Picture/Room with a Feud

Out of the Picture

I always love it when a plot that doesn’t sound all that interesting turns out to be something great that you weren’t expecting.  That’s just what happens with this cartoon, and the final result isn’t just great, but also one of the most heartwarming through character bonds and developments.  At its core, this cartoon is just another Lincoln and Clyde misadventure this time featuring the boys trying to get themselves in yearbook group photos so that they won’t be forgotten.  At first glance, it doesn’t really sound that interesting since it’s hard to think of what noteworthy things can be done with this setup, not to mention they both have family and friends who will always remember them.  Admittedly, in execution, this part of the cartoon turns out to be the least interesting and a little stupid since Lincoln and Clyde’s attempts to put themselves in group photos are filled with obvious drawbacks that are easy to see coming.  When they first sneak into the photos in disguise, you can easily see that their attempt will fail because they obviously don’t have the right grasp on the groups they're sneaking into, except for the morticians club whose failure is beyond their control.  Stupidity also abounds when they get jobs on the yearbook staff and Photoshop themselves in all groups, even ones that don’t make sense to have members, which could clearly get students and staff to notice something’s not quite right.  The cartoon may have the boys look very dumb which isn’t the best impression of them to leave on the audience, but that’s where the true greatness of the cartoon comes in.  There’s also a subplot of Lola getting extremely angered by the yearbook’s mediator, Coach Pacowski, taking a bad yearbook photo of her, putting her pageant reputation at great risk.  You’d think it would be hard to sympathize with someone vain, bratty, and overactive like Lola, but through exaggerations of her anger spurts, she’s honestly pretty hilarious, and worth following as she tries to switch out her photo.  This leads to entertaining interactions with the sisters who have different ideas of photographing her, ending with Lily, of all Louds, taking the best one.  Also when she finds out that Lincoln and Clyde are on the yearbook staff, there’s a lot of genuine sweetness from her as she entrusts them to switch out her bad yearbook photo with the improved one.  Of course, the boys intend to add in the group photos with them included, but as Lincoln is doing so, he listens in on Clyde’s mock therapy session for Coach Pacowski.  In an interesting move that develops the coach beyond a standard gym teacher, he reveals that he gets stressed due to being forced to move away from his hopes, dreams, and reason to live by his parents. This isn’t only relatable to most people who feel stress, but Lincoln also finds it relatable to Lola, which brings on one of his most noble deeds of deciding to forget adding the staged group photos (which really wouldn’t have worked anyway) and switching Lola’s picture instead.  In the end, the boys’ sacrifice for the good of one of Lincoln’s sisters is greatly rewarding for everyone.  Lola gets a good photo in the yearbook and has one of her nicest moments with her brother and his friend, Lincoln and Clyde end up as part of the staff photo, which they honestly joined, in the yearbook, and even Coach Pacowski gets to live out his true passion of Irish step-dancing for a while.  This cartoon would’ve been dumb and drab if it wasn’t for the funny, heartwarming, and insightful subplots.  As a result, we’re left with one strong cartoon most wouldn’t see coming. 9.5/10

Room with a Feud

Most fans of this show, including me, have made it perfectly clear that the cartoon, “Brawl in the Family” is a major failure of this show.  It rewards a protocol that creates major hardships for everyone that only Lincoln notices, makes Lincoln look like an idiot when he’s supposed to be a brotherly, man with the plan, and gets really unpleasant by throwing in needless insults that don’t relate to the main conflict.  I can’t say for sure if the crew behind this show intended for this to happen, but this cartoon, with a very similar subject of fights, greatly gets right what “Brawl in the Family” got wrong.  Lincoln’s sisters are constantly having roommate issues which gets out of hand, leading Lincoln to step in to help them. He gives them a compatibility test to have them find better roommates, and unlike in “Brawl in the Family,” the sisters are open to letting him try to solve their issues, as if they appreciate that he wants to help and get his talent of problem-solving.  As for the sisters’ fights, they never harshly affect the lifestyle of the house and the sisters' fighting stays on point, never getting worse through adding on extraneous, unrelated insults.  Plus, the fights are leveled out by several nice moments that make up the cartoon.  It’s well-known that the sisters have their own entertaining quirks which is what makes life in the Loud House fun to watch most of the time, so to see two sisters who normally wouldn’t be roommates together is great to see.  Lynn and Lana bond over playing dirty, Luna and Lisa enjoy being loud, Leni seems to find Luan’s jokes funny, Lola and Lucy nicely socialize over a tea party, and even Lori and Lily, the oldest and youngest Loud together, bond over their love of using the phone.  Unfortunately, while the new team-ups work well at first, the sisters still find something to fight about, though the fights greatly continue to stay on topic.  Also, even if Lincoln’s compatibility test failed, the reveal for the failure makes him look misguided due to following something from a comic he understandably wouldn’t know would be a good option for anyone not a fan of the comic in real life, as opposed to the careless idiot he was in “Brawl in the Family.”  Also, the sisters continue to try and settle the fighting roommate issue with Lisa’s more scientific measures directing everyone where to go, including Lincoln who ends up paired with Lily.  It turns out that even though he’s had a good relationship with Lily before, her baby habits don’t make her an ideal roommate.  However, everyone else gets along splendidly as shown through even more nice interactions between different sisters.  In fact, the new pairings are so nice to watch, from ones with shared interests like Luna and Lana, Lori and Lola, and Luan and Lucy to unexpected good teams like Lynn and Leni, that Lincoln can’t bring himself to protest this and willingly puts up with his problematic roommate.  This is made even better by what happens next. Like in the previous cartoon, Lincoln’s generous actions are appropriately rewarded with him being moved back to his own room.  The sisters even decide to go back to their old rooms too, even if they don’t have to, saying that they can all get along if they change their attitudes.  Not only does this continue to completely trump the last fight-centered cartoon’s idea of settling conflicts, but it nicely wraps up everyone’s hardships with a great display of family love this show can’t live without.  Everything here amounts to a great little cartoon with pleasing character interactions, proof that the siblings do care for each other, and best of all, presenting the sibling fights in a respectable and considerate manner. 10/10

The Ranking

1. 11 Louds a Leapin’
2. L is for Love
3. Pulp Friction
4. Frog Wild
5. Party Down
6. Room with a Feud
7. Lock n Loud
8. Fed Up
9. Out of the Picture
10. Potty Mouth
11. The Loudest Mission: Relative Chaos
12. Baby Steps
13. Shell Shock
14. Suite and Sour
15. Back in Black
16. Patching Things Up
17. The Whole Picture
18. The Old and the Restless
19. Kick the Bucket List
20. Intern for the Worse
21. Cheater by the Dozen
22. Pets Peeved
23. Making the Grade
24. Vantastic Voyage
25. No Such Luck
26. Brawl in the Family

Be sure to stay tuned for the review of the next episode where it really shows that Lincoln has great friends as well as a great family as Clyde and the others get him "Back Out There," and Lucy has some fun with an ancient book of spells in "Spell it Out."

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