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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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