Tuesday, July 2, 2019

The Loudest Thanksgiving (The Loud House Season 3 Episode 21) - 'Toon Reviews 30

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The Loudest Thanksgiving

Big families often come with extravagant holiday traditions, and this show has had memorable specials of certain holidays already.  Now after introducing another big family to go with the Louds, the Casagrandes, they’re set up for a special bringing them together for Thanksgiving.  While this special embraces its meaning to be thankful for what one has, it takes a while to get there. 
Like other holiday specials, this one starts by building atmosphere through showing how the Louds and Casagrandes prepare for the big day.  Some showcase meal preparations and security to ensure nothing’s eaten until Thanksgiving dinner.  Others set up decorations and paintings to enhance the mood, and inventions to help with serving dinner.  On a lighter note, some family members’ big plans involve stunts to be there for the meal and the football games, or stay awake for dessert.  It’s cool to see how vast holiday traditions can be from big families. 
Through all this, Lori and Bobby show each other these traditions, and mention the idea of one of them coming to the other family for Thanksgiving.  This incites the main conflict when the Louds and the Casagrandes overhear this conversation and are shocked.  Neither family likes the idea of one of their kids not joining their family for a big holiday for family gatherings.  Although it should be known that both Lori and Bobby are old enough to make their own choices, given the meaning of Thanksgiving, these feelings are understandable.  The families are very big and only just got back together in Bobby’s case.  In fact, they’re downright reciprocal between both the Louds and the Casagrandes right down to them saying the same things at times.  They go all out to convince their kids to stay from giving them some of the feast early to showing them adorable crafts.  They’re fun scenes at first, but soon get ridiculous, and Lori and Bobby agree as they call their families out for trying to force them to stay.  They decide it’s better if the entire family comes to someone else’s for Thanksgiving, and after a coin toss, the Casagrandes go to the Louds. 
You’d think that with this arrangement, everyone can be happy and decide to alternate between families for years to come.  While this is a logical solution to come from this, when both families get together, they’re unnecessarily hostile for each other.  Instead of enjoying themselves, they try to find things wrong with each family’s customs and upstage each other with everything.  Things get so bad, there are insults and fighting for far longer than welcome.  Even the adults we expect to maintain order are disturbingly in on the scorn and intense rivalry.  They’re all so selfish that their amenities don’t even consider Lori and Bobby anymore and it's not at all pleasing, entertaining, or in line with what Thanksgiving stands for. 
At least it doesn’t end this way.  Lori and Bobby escape the madness to spend Thanksgiving at Flip’s Food and Fuel, and after both families track them down, they realize they did wrong.  It’s only here where they discover that families can take turns hosting Thanksgiving every year, and have a great celebration at the convenience store.  It even comes with a catchy song on how happy both families are by coming together.  As respectful to the holiday’s meaning as the ending is, I don’t see why no one realized they could take turns hosting every year when they first decided a whole family could come over.  It would have avoided the hostility that ends up holding the special back from being as great as it could be.  The payoff is great, but if there were better attitudes from the families, this would be a special I’d be much more thankful for.
B

The Ranking

1.      Really Loud Music

2.      Head Poet’s Anxiety

3.      Roadie to Nowhere

4.      Tea Tale Heart

5.      Shop Girl

6.      Breaking Dad

7.      Gown and Out

8.      Fandom Pains

9.      Insta-Gran

10.  Selfie Improvement

11.  Scales of Justice

12.  Middle Men

13.  Net Gains

14.  Crimes of Fashion

15.  Everybody Loves Leni

16.  The Spies Who Loved Me

17.  No Place Like Homeschool

18.  House of Lies

19.  The Mad Scientist

20.  City Slickers

21.  Missed Connection

22.  Fool Me Twice

23.  Deal Me Out

24.  Teachers’ Union

25.  Tripped!

26.  White Hare

27.  A Fridge Too Far

28.  The Loudest Thanksgiving

29.  Sitting Bull

30.  Game Boys

31.  Pasture Bedtime

32.  Absent Minded

33.  What Wood Lincoln Do?

34.  Jeers for Fears

35.  Friendzy

36.  Pipe Dreams

37.  Be Stella My Heart

38.  Rita Her Rights

39.  Ruthless People

 

 
The next Loud House review follows Lincoln as he tries way too hard to be unpredictable, and we see more of Lori's talents of golf at play.
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