'Toon Reviews 13: The Loud House Season 2 Episode 22: Legends/Mall of Duty

Legends

There are many cartoons in this series that show the relationship between two or more of the Loud siblings, but very few show one of the kids’ relationship with their parents.  That’s the value of this cartoon which focuses on the relationship between Lincoln and Dad.  It also helps that this cartoon has the added benefit of paying homage to the classic Nickelodeon game show, Legends of the Hidden Temple.  My experience with that show was watching reruns of it back when the channel, Nickelodeon GaS, was a thing.  It was a nicely constructed physical challenge and knowledge-based show with an interesting premise of teams of kids taking on challenges related to a certain legend which would lead up to the always exciting temple runs where the teams would attempt to navigate through different rooms to find a treasure while avoiding the temple guards.  It’s a game show concept so appealing that it even worked well in movie form as a live-action TV movie from 2016 proved.  As for this Loud House cartoon, it’s utilized well here as something Lincoln and his dad, both trying hard to find something to bond over, get on the actual game show since the show itself is something they both enjoy.  The game show’s environment is filled with references to the source material like the names of the teams, the Orange Iguanas and Silver Snakes, the host, Kirk Fogg, voiced by the real actor, the usage of the talking stone head Olmec, and the temple challenges feeling like they’re lifted straight from the original game show.  It’s a fun environment that not only will surely appease to nostalgic Nickelodeon fans, but also help invest anyone in Lincoln and Dad’s bonding.  Their shared love for the show is easy to feel when they start out the show with great enthusiasm in the first few challenges, even if they don’t always win.  However, their rivals in the game, Stand and Steak Stanko, don’t make what we see as enjoyable as everything else sets it up to be.  They’re one-dimensional antagonists who delight in mocking their opponents for no good reason at all and only care about the fame of winning.  The worst part about it is when they challenge the Orange Iguanas to a bet at the end of the game, Lincoln and Dad buy into their petty torments and fail to cooperate as well as before.  Such a grating father and son team shouldn’t be worth Lincoln and Dad's concerns, and the fact that they get on each other’s nerves during the following temple challenges is frustrating considering how much their bonding was working before.  Fortunately, just when Lincoln and Dad’s tensions get really bad, they come to their senses and decide that being on the show together is more important than beating the Stankos.  As a result, their temple run to retrieve the assigned treasure is a solid high point for their bonding, and is a fun, fast-paced sequence filled with respect for its source material to boot.  The Stankos end up winning with the fastest time anyway, but this outcome leads to an even stronger moment in the cartoon.  Lincoln and Dad have to go through the airport in their underwear as part of the bet, but despite how embarrassing this is, everyone at the airport who saw them on TV claps for their great bond, showing that even to random bystanders, good relationships are more important than winning a game.  Too bad the security guards don’t as the moment is followed by Lincoln and Dad getting arrested.  Overall, despite that ending sting and the one-dimensional antagonists, this cartoon wins for its nice father-son bonding moments, and the interesting backdrop they’re set against. 9/10

Mall of Duty

Looking after younger siblings can be a big challenge, especially if you’re Lincoln’s age.  However, out of a story set against this challenge can come something really entertaining, and that’s what we get here.  Lincoln is assigned to watch his younger sisters while his parents and older sisters are out.  However he develops responsibility issues when he wants to get an autograph from another favorite TV figure of his, Rip Hardcore and goes to the mall where it’s happening, taking his little sisters with him.  Lincoln, the man in charge, makes the younger sisters wait around in an endless line, and they all constantly complain about being bored, forcing Lincoln to try and entertain them.  While his attempts do ease the fact that he forced the young ones into doing something they didn’t want to do which does lead to humorous antics and comeback lines, Lincoln’s responsibility issues grow even more when he puts them all on a kiddie train, expecting them to stay put which can be neglectful.  Considering that Lincoln has been a good, loving big brother before, it’s really hard to imagine him as neglectful.  Well, Lincoln ultimately gets his Rip Hardcore autograph, but then the cartoon really starts picking up with the challenging part of caretaking afterwards when the kiddie train goes off the rails due to Lincoln jacking up the quarter power, and lands the younger sisters in various places of the mall.  Lincoln then proves that he truly can be a good brother after all as he sets all his priorities into finding them.  In the process, he puts everything we saw of Rip Hardcore at the beginning to good use giving him more value than just being part of one of Lincoln’s favorite shows.  Because of Rip’s methods, Lincoln tracks his sisters down to stores that fits their interests.  He follows a trail of chemicals to find Lisa at an appliance store, tracks Lucy based on a disturbance of the severed head of a clothes mannequin, finds Lola in her natural habitat, a princess-themed toy store, and deduces a chewed bone at a toy store as a clue to Lana in a pet store.  Not only are these scenes of Lincoln’s methods of finding his sisters successful in making Lincoln’s interests credible to the story, but they also lead to some entertaining, and even cute, bits from the younger sisters, particularly one that further enhances Lana’s endearment when she hatches baby ducklings who follow her around.  Then Lincoln has to retrieve Lily from the kiddie train still speeding through the mall which is a challenge since her infant mindset made her the only one to actually enjoy the train.  There’s a lot of great action as Lincoln uses his yo-yo to get to the engine and holds Lily tight as it crashes through various obstacles, and also heart when he gives up his autograph, his reason for coming to the mall, away for her sake.  The heart even continues through to the end when the younger sisters show sympathy for Lincoln losing his autograph and even keep what he did a secret from Mom and Dad.  It’s a cute way of showing that even if they get on each other’s nerves that will never stop the love between them.  This, along with its use of little things leading to something big, and everything taking place in an interesting environment of the mall make this cartoon a fun and heartfelt adventure in looking after younger siblings. 9.5/10

The Ranking

1. 11 Louds a Leapin’
2. L is for Love
3. Pulp Friction
4. Frog Wild
5. Yes-Man
6. Party Down
7. Friend or Faux
8. Room with a Feud
9. Lock n Loud
10. Fool’s Paradise
11. Fed Up
12. Out of the Picture
13. Job Insecurity
14. Potty Mouth
15. Mall of Duty
16. The Loudest Mission: Relative Chaos
17. Spell it Out
18. Baby Steps
19. Shell Shock
20. Suite and Sour
21. Back in Black
22. Legends
23. Future Tense
24. Patching Things Up
25. No Spoilers
26. The Whole Picture
27. No Laughing Matter
28. Health Kicked
29. Garage Banned
30. Back Out There
31. The Old and the Restless
32. Kick the Bucket List
33. Intern for the Worse
34. Lynner Takes All
35. Cheater by the Dozen
36. Pets Peeved
37. Making the Grade
38. Vantastic Voyage
39. Change of Heart
40. ARGGH! You for Real?
41. No Such Luck
42. Brawl in the Family

Be sure to stay tuned for the review of the next episode with more development for Lola's character, even if it does break continuity a bit, in "Read Aloud," and Lincoln's crazy birth story in "Not a Loud."

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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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'Toon Reviews 13: The Loud House Season 2 Episode 3: Baby Steps/Brawl in the Family

Baby Steps

Since this season has already given development to the Louds’ neighbor, the gas station owner, and Lincoln’s grandpa, that sets up a major strength for this season, which is developing characters outside the Loud family . This makes the show’s world more vast and appealing.  This time, it’s Clyde’s turn to get development which helps move him past just being Lincoln’s supportive friend and constantly crushing on someone older than him. He’s given a believable conflict to deal with which comes with understandable anxieties.  He hears and sees signs that his dads are planning on adopting another baby, meaning that he’ll be a big brother, except he doesn’t know how to pull it off.  Since his best friend is a big brother of a significant number of sisters, of course Clyde turns to Lincoln for help.  We’re treated to several examples of how Lincoln really knows what to do when taking care of his younger siblings which give Clyde good reasons for turning to him.  From cheering up siblings who get hurt to simply helping them with a problem or difficulty, Lincoln’s character is on good display as he shows how to deal with his younger siblings as well as act cool under the pressures of a big family.  Plus, his brotherly moments are particularly adorable.  Clyde, being someone who’s new to being a big brother, is understandably not as good as Lincoln, completely cracking under the pressure of the younger sisters’ demands for help, having no choice but to bribe them with cookies.  The thing that makes Clyde endearing here is that he admits that it’s because he lacks confidence for caring for a younger sibling, which is a reason why anyone can falter badly at anything.  With Clyde’s problem easy to get behind, that’s enough to hope that he can get through it.  Lincoln at first has some of the younger sisters’ stage fake problems for Clyde to solve, but he finds out the act.  What does get Clyde the confidence he needs is rescuing Lana from a tree when she’s genuinely in trouble.  Not only does the moment show a more endearing side of Lana (which we’ll see more of this season) but it’s a very nice and clever end to Clyde’s anxiety problems.  They do seem all for naught when he finds out his dads were just talking about getting a kitten.  I would also say that the plot could’ve been avoided if Clyde asked his dads what was up at the start (which will be the case with many cartoons this season), but at least what made Clyde initially believe what he did seemed convincing at the time.  Plus, while he doesn’t have a new human sibling, what Clyde learned is at least put to some good use.  Overall though, this cartoon is a cute little success for Clyde as a lead character, further enhanced by the noteworthy and adorable moments of all who support in the story. 9.5/10

Brawl in the Family

I never thought this show's cartoons could get worse than “The Green House,” but here we are.  Everything about this cartoon snowballs into a completely frustrating pain for the entire runtime, going against everything great about this show. 

It’s about Lori and Leni buying the same dress which leads to a fight between them.  You might wonder what the big deal about this is.  Fights happen between the Loud siblings all the time and actions are always taken to stop them when they go too far.  Here, the fight is approached with a protocol with very harsh and unfair guidelines as to what rooms can be accessed, what activities people can do, and what things people can use.   I don't know about you, but I'd say that the fight leading to guidelines like this is definitely it going too far. That said, the biggest point of frustration is that almost everyone doesn’t see a problem with this.  Do they seriously WANT to be forbidden from getting a good snack from the kitchen or use a bucket to do their business instead of the bathroom?  Also, how can they POSSIBLY tolerate letting what’s going on get in the way of their hobbies?  I certainly don’t expect Luna to be fine with not being able to play music, Lynn not playing sports, Lisa not doing experiments, or anyone not being able to watch their favorite TV shows.  All this is because two of the sisters can’t get along, and the fact that their routines are drastically shaped from this one fight over something frivolous is unhealthy.  It’s the equivalent of giving into a spoiled brat or an abusive partner in a relationship.  Behaviors and fights like this should be not tolerated, not treated as a normal part of life especially when they direct what innocent bystanders can and can’t do.  It gets even worse when even the parents (despite disciplining the kids when they were out of line before) and people outside Loud family just go along with this.  The only character smart enough to see the protocol's problems is Lincoln which only enhances the pain when it directly affects him through him getting kicked out of his room or him losing his bedsheets.  Yet, he’s not portrayed well either.  The show constantly establishes him as the man with the plan who knows how to get around the Loud House and how to solve problems between him and his siblings, which was even present in the cartoon this one is paired with.  Here however, Lincoln idiotically makes the fight worse by saying insulting things about Lori and Leni wearing the dress which of course wouldn’t work.  You just know the cartoon will just get worse if it has to go against one of the big rules of the show’s setup to make the plot work.  If that’s not enough, there’s another frustrating source of fight escalation.  Lincoln actually comes up with a smart plan of having Luna bunk with Lori and Luan bunk with Leni.  Going back to the protocol, it’s said to exist to not have others get involved in the fight.  Ignoring that lives being shaped by the fight and the victims moving the fight’s instigators already botches the protocol, Luna and Luan completely break that rule by taking sides in Lori and Leni’s fight instead of staying neutral and ignoring them talk about what happened.  Plus, they and other sisters add on stupid insults that have nothing to do with the dress issue which escalates the fight, but SOMEHOW this is Lincoln’s fault.  Speaking of that, everything builds up to an ending where Lincoln escapes the fight for a while, and it stops when he returns.  The sisters explain that whole fight stopped because Lincoln left.  I get the cartoon is trying to say there are some problems you can’t solve, which is true to real life, but the ending’s execution makes it seem like ALL problems as opposed to SOME problems could be solved if Lincoln wasn’t around, and bring unfortunate implications that anyone watching could solve problems if they weren't in anyone's life, or life in general.  That's just really depressing and hurtful; no one should ever feel like they're worthless no matter what the circumstances.  Basically the scene’s a big disgrace to Lincoln’s established role in the show which is hammered in further when we end with him starting another fight with idiotic and pointless insults…

I know this review ended up being pretty long, but this cartoon is filled with so many problems and points of frustration that I ended up with lots to vent about.  It could’ve turned out this way because it needed to be get to the animation phase quickly which meant there wasn't time to fix any story issues, or what the writers find funny is simply different from people like me find funny.  No matter what the reason for the quality, this cartoon is one huge mistake.  It goes against everything this show has established regarding how fights are approached, how Lincoln is portrayed, and how fine with overbearing abuse and ridiculousness the world around him is.  It’s hard to see humor or entertainment, and is devoid of the heart the show is known for.  As a result, the audience is left with a complete pain of an experience.  Take my advice, avoid this cartoon and watch better ones from this show (or any other show) instead.  For now, we can only hope that The Loud House never messes up this badly ever again. 1/10

The Ranking

1. 11 Louds a Leapin’
2. Baby Steps
3. The Old and the Restless
4. Intern for the Worse
5. Brawl in the Family

Be sure to stay tuned for the review of the next episode where we see how well Mom and Dad can carry a cartoon now that they're free to express themselves with their faces shown in "Suite and Sour," and we see how well Lucy can act as a regular, normal girl in "Back in Black."

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'Toon Reviews 4: The Loud House Season 1 Episode 23

One of the Boys

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Coming off a cartoon where Lincoln got his own figurative big brother, here’s a cartoon that further explores how hard it is to live with so many sisters.  It follows him being put down by the cons of the lifestyle, even if one of them contradicts the continuity of "In Tents Debate" with all the sisters turning down an offer to go to Dairyland even though 5 of the sisters, especially Lana like it.  Anyway, Lincoln is led to wonder what life would be like if he had 10 brothers.  The bulk of the cartoon gives a Lincoln a chance to see that life with the aid of a watch that can allow him to travel to different dimensions and at first, life there seems great for him.  The brothers themselves are basically male versions of the sisters, except they all share the same interests and gross habits as Lincoln just turned up to 11.  This makes the brothers stereotypical making it seem like all boys like being gross.  Well, for one thing, I'm a boy and I don't enjoy the gross habits these brothers partake in, and for another, we already have male characters like Clyde and Bobby who aren't gross, brutish figures, so why enforce stereotypes like these. Well, I suppose stories could make a lot of worse decisions than this.  However, the stereotypical portrayals get worse when shortly after Lincoln decides to stay in this dimension, the cartoon’s entertainment goes down as the brothers start bullying Lincoln, not caring that they’re causing him actual pain.  These scenes are very hard and uncomfortable to watch after the legitimately nice moments Lincoln got up to with the brothers.  Worse than that, they further enhance the stereotypes that all boys are like this when that's completely untrue, even in the context of this very show. Still, there is a somewhat positive to all this when Lincoln realizes how good he has it in his real life.  After all, from what we’ve seen this season, his sisters may have their moments, but he still has a good relationship with all of them, so Lincoln really shouldn’t have even thought to give his old life up.  Eventually, Lincoln does successfully get back to where he belongs, first by arriving in a dimension which shows that the brothers would be a lot nicer and respectful to him if he was a girl which admittedly is a pretty nice scene, and him realizing that the whole experience was just a dream.  Yes, it’s a cheap decision to explain what we saw, but it still makes for a nice satisfying end where the sisters, despite later calling out Lincoln for acting weird, show how much they care for their brother by comforting him from his nightmare, and Lincoln showing that he’s learned his lesson.  The decisions made with the story and characters may hurt the entertainment factor and contradict a lot of what the show has established, but thanks to its good display of the show’s theme of appreciating what you have in life, in my eyes, it narrowly avoids turning out bad. 6.5/10

A Tattler’s Tale

 

 

 

 

 

 

We’ve already seen how Lola can be entertaining despite falling into a character archetype that usually isn’t enjoyable.  While being entertaining is all fine and good, it’s great that we have this cartoon to let us know that Lola is capable of being a strong character in her own right, making this one of the best cartoons of this show to date.  We start off with a set of scenes that demonstrate her entertaining qualities as a bratty character when she picks up secrets her siblings tell each other in their own club which they won’t allow her to join due to her status as a tattletale.  By the way, the scenes of the secret club show some nice sibling love with everyone knowing they can trust each other with holding secrets they don’t want to tell their parents really adding to this cartoon’s appeal.  Back onto Lola, her entertaining qualities come through where she gets her siblings to do things for her by silently and ominously reminding them of their secrets, subtly threatening to expose them if they don’t do as she says.  It’s a great contrast from what we usually see from brats who often act the opposite way to get what they want, and it’s also funny to see such a creepiness factor come from a girly and pink character.  Plus, a lot of humor comes from the siblings doing Lola’s bidding.  All these moments lead up to the ending where Lola surprises her siblings and all in the audience with how great and mature she’s capable of being.  It happens when she realizes that her blackmailing has turned her brother and sisters against her when they manage to dig up major dirt on her and threaten to tell on her.  You might think, given her nature, that Lola would just go ahead and rat them all out to end it all.  Instead, she actually gets herself grounded on behalf of her siblings’ wrongdoings.  If that’s not enough, she goes onto say that she blackmailed everyone so they could hang out together regretting that she went about it the wrong way, showing off a vulnerable and lonely side to her character.  It’s just amazing that a character of Lola's kind has all these endearing layers to her.  It helps make you view her differently in the future, and also show genuine sorrow for her getting grounded, not to mention happiness when her actions appropriately reward her with her siblings’ trust.  The way this cartoon plays with your emotion delivering laughs, tears, and great character moments make the whole viewing experience insightful and heartwarming.  It does so much so well, I gladly rank it near the top. 10/10

The Ranking

1.      For Bros About to Rock

2.      A Tattler’s Tale

3.      Undie Pressure

4.      Project Loud House

5.      Space Invader

6.      A Fair to Remember

7.      Driving Miss Hazy

8.      Left in the Dark

9.      Toads and Tiaras

10.  Picture Perfect

11.  Dance, Dance Resolution

12.  House Music

13.  Save the Date

14.  Sleuth or Consequences

15.  Hand-Me-Downer

16.  No Guts No Glori

17.  Roughin’ It

18.  Attention Deficit

19.  Changing the Baby

20.  Along Came A Sister

21.  April Fools Rules

22.  A Novel Idea

23.  Sound of Silence

24.  Butterfly Effect

25.  A Tale of Two Tables

26.  Cereal Offender

27.  Cover Girls

28.  It’s A Loud, Loud, Loud, Loud House

29.  The Waiting Game

30.  Overnight Success

31.  Raw Deal

32.  In Tents Debate

33.  Lincoln Loud: Girl Guru

34.  Out on a Limo

35.  Linc or Swim

36.  The Sweet Spot

37.  Heavy Meddle

38.  Get the Message

39.  Come Sale Away

40.  Ties that Bind

41.  One of the Boys

42.  Making the Case

43.  Chore and Peace

44.  The Loudest Yard

45.  Two Boys and a Baby

46.  The Green House

Be sure to stay tuned for the review of the next episode where Luan proves to be more than just a pun machine in "Funny Business," and the Louds have fun with snow days, snowballs, and Peanuts references in "Snow Bored."