A Loud House Christmas

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A Loud House Christmas (originally titled The Loud House: A Very Loud Christmas!) is a live-action made-for-TV Christmas film based on The Loud House, originally aired on Nickelodeon and released on Paramount+ the day after Thanksgiving of 2021. Its televised premiere was accompanied by a new episode of the cartoon itself, "The Loudly Bones".
The film spun off a live-action series, titled The Really Loud House and utilizing much of the same cast, which was announced for Paramount+ on March 24, 2022 and premiered on Nickelodeon in November 2022. A Halloween-themed sequel, A Really Haunted Loud House, was announced on April 4, 2023.
==Synopsis==
Two days before Christmas, everyone in the Loud House is once again preparing for the festivities. A delivery truck arrives to bring a special holiday present that Lincoln has ordered for the whole family - a giant toboggan big enough for thirteen people. As the family is sitting down to breakfast, Rita gets a phone call; it's Lori, calling from Fairway University. Lori tells her parents and siblings that she is unfortunately not going to come home for Christmas, since she has exams and a tournament coming up and figures it would be too much of a hassle to drive home and back in so few days, much to Lincoln's dismay. Luna then mentions that she's been invited to go skiing with her girlfriend Sam and her family, and Luan is hosting a comedy gig at the Sunset Canyon retirement home. Rita and Lynn Sr. then decide that, since three of their daughters are going to be away, they and the rest of the kids should take a trip to Miami, Florida. Leni, Lynn Jr., Lucy, Lana, Lola, Lisa, and Lily agree to this, but Lincoln protests, not wanting to skip out on their usual holiday traditions. He tries to convince them otherwise by showing them his new 13-person toboggan, saying he was hoping they could all ride it down the big hill at Tall Timbers Park together; unfortunately, the sled is broken, and there's no snow expected to fall in Royal Woods this year.
Lincoln calls up his best friend Clyde, who's waiting in line with his dads, Howard and Harold, to see Santa at the mall, and explains that his Christmas plans are ruined because of his family's new plans. Clyde, who was looking forward to visiting the Louds on Christmas Day, agrees to assist Lincoln in his plan to "save Christmas". To do this, Lincoln and Clyde set forth a series of schemes to sabotage Lincoln's family's plans:
*Lincoln sends a box of Lynn Sr.'s figgy pudding to Lori. This makes her feel homesick enough to want to come home, getting her boyfriend Bobby to drive her there on the Casagrande Mercado's delivery moped (he mentions that the mercado van isn't working, though it is not explained why Lori does not use her own car).
*Lincoln and Clyde then send a call to Luna's phone, seemingly from her favorite rock star, Mick Swagger (using audio spliced from his autobiography), saying that he's coming to Royal Woods on Christmas and wants her to join him for a jam session.
*Next, Lincoln and Clyde place Luna's comedy props around Sunset Canyon, and trigger them to pull pranks on the elders living there, including Lincoln's maternal grandfather, Albert, and Clyde's grandmother, Gayle. Angered over getting pranked, the elders decide to fire Luan from performing.
*Finally, Lincoln and Clyde film a video depicting an attack by a mutant creature called the "sharkodile" in Miami, using Tanya (the mannequin from Reininger's, the fashion store Leni works at) as the "victim". They then send the video to the local news.
On Christmas Eve, the Louds watch the local news and see Katherine Mulligan reporting about the sharkodile attack in Miami, showing the "footage" that Lincoln and Clyde sent her. After introducing wilderness survival expert Rip Hardcore, Katherine warns her viewers not to go to Miami, much to the dismay of Lincoln's sisters. Lynn Sr. and Rita try to put a positive spin on this, since they can at least still go to see the big tree lighting at the Royal Woods Mall, which Lily has been picked to do.
Lincoln is at first pleased that his plan has worked, but after he has dressed himself up for the tree-lighting ceremony, he soon sees that his sisters are all miserable as a result of his actions. Leni is in creative distress without Tanya, and even worse, she's been fired from her job (again); Luna is heartbroken because Sam broke up with her due to her taking the chance to see Mick Swagger; Luan is upset that their Pop-Pop fired her for seemingly no reason and is considering giving up comedy (again); and Lynn Jr., Lola, and Lana are all sad about not getting to do the activities they were looking forward to doing in Miami. Likewise, Lynn Sr. and Rita are also sad about having to cancel the trip, saying they may not get another chance for a vacation like this until they've retired. Meanwhile, Bobby's moped runs out of gas, leaving him and Lori stranded 20 miles away from Royal Woods.
Back at the Loud House, Lisa announces that she's created a sharkodile repellent for them to use. Lincoln questions if it's safe to use, at which point he accidentally sprays it in Lynn Sr.'s face, causing the family patriarch to act loopy for the next hour or so. Rita then gets a call from Lori, asking her to come pick her and Bobby up. Right after Rita leaves, the family sees Katherine Mulligan reporting on the news that the sharkodile is now in Royal Woods, according to video footage captured by Scoots when Lincoln and Clyde tried to hide it in the woods earlier in the day. Katherine says that with the sharkodile lurking about, all of Royal Woods is being placed under a curfew, and the tree-lighting ceremony is cancelled. Seeing Lily heartbroken that she won't get to light the tree proves to be the final crushing blow for Lincoln, and he calls Katherine to tell her that the sharkodile was just a hoax he created. Unfortunately, she doesn't believe him, thinking that he's just pranking her.
Lincoln goes into the woods, and along with Clyde, takes their sharkodile prop (which is controlled by Clyde's dads' tandem bike) to show it to Katherine at the mall. However, Rip Hardcore sees the "sharkodile" lurching through the woods and gives chase after "it". Lincoln and Clyde try to take a shortcut through Franklin Avenue, inadvertently snagging and taking down the decorations from Lincoln's house. When the sisters see the "sharkodile" passing through their yard, Lisa also runs out after it, wanting to capture the creature and study it for science. The other Loud sisters, realizing Lisa could be in danger if she tries this, rush out after her, accompanied by their father just as he's regaining consciousness.
Lincoln and Clyde bring the "sharkodile" to the parking lot of the Royal Woods Mall, but can't stop with Rip still chasing after them. They end up driving the prop all the way inside the mall and cause a lot of property damage in the process, during which Lincoln stops to let Clyde get out and read his wish list to Santa. Eventually, after Lincoln crashes the "sharkodile" into Santa's meet-and-greet area, the other members of the Loud family arrive just in time to see Lincoln climbing out of the prop. Lincoln finally confesses to his family that he created the sharkodile hoax and sabotaged his sisters' Christmas plans, admitting that he was afraid they were all growing apart. Knowing that his intentions weren't malicious, Lincoln's family forgives him, and Katherine Mulligan declares that the tree-lighting ceremony is back on. After Lily lights the tree, Luna performs her new song, "It's Christmas Time".
The next morning, the Loud family is opening their presents, while Lincoln explains the aftermath for the viewers. He has been sentenced to 300 hours of community service due to the property damage he caused; but on the upside, Luna and Sam have gotten back together and are going to go on their ski trip after all, Leni has been rehired at Reininger's and gotten her creative spark back, Luan has reconciled with Pop-Pop and has been re-booked for her Sunset Canyon gig, and the family's going to go to Miami after all. Lincoln's parents and sisters then surprise him by revealing that they fixed up the giant toboggan, and thanks to some cloud-seeding, Lisa manages to make it snow above their house. The movie ends on the Louds and Clyde riding the big toboggan down the hill at Tall Timbers Park.
==Cast==
*Wolfgang Schaeffer as Lincoln
*Jahzir Bruno as Clyde
*Lexi DiBenedetto as Lori
*Dora Dolphin as Leni
*Sophia Woodward as Luna
*Catherine Ashmore Bradley as Luan
*Morgan McGill as Lynn Jr.
*Aubin Bradley as Lucy
*Lexi Janicek as Lisa
*Ella Allan as Lola
*Mia Allan as Lana
*Charlotte Ann Tucker and Lainey Jane Knowles as Lily
*Muretta Moss as Rita
*Brian Stepanek as Lynn Sr.
*Matt Vansmith as Bobby
*Zoë DuVall as Sam
*Justin Michael Stevenson as Howard McBride
*Marcus Folmar as Harold McBride
*Bill Southworth as Pop-Pop
*Jill Jane Clements as Scoots
*Gail Everett-Smith as Nana Gayle
*Catherine Taber as Katherine Mulligan
*Jeff Bennett as Mick Swagger
*Brian Patrick Wade as Rip Hardcore
*John Mullins as Mall Santa
*Garrett Hammond as Bill the Delivery Driver
*Kathleen Shugrue as Audrey Hoffman
*Saron Frank as Sunset Canyon resident
*Joy A. Kennelly as Shopper
*Courtney Mason as Fairway University coach
Among the cast, Brian Stepanek (Lynn Sr.), Catherine Taber (Katherine Mulligan), and Jeff Bennett (Mick Swagger) reprised their respective roles from the animated series, with Bennett only reprising his role through audio recordings. Jahzir Bruno would also become Clyde's official voice in the cartoon (replacing Andre Robinson) starting in its sixth season, which began airing the following year.
Of the main cast, Dora Dolphin, Morgan McGill, Charlotte Ann Tucker, Lainey Jane Knowles, and Muretta Moss didn’t reprise their roles for The Really Loud House.
== Production==
According to Hollywood Reporter, the special was in the process of finding its cast.
When this special was announced, it was also confirmed that a second season of The Casagrandes has been greenlit.
Production for the special began in April 2021, where it was filmed in Atlanta, Georgia and aimed for a November release.
==Trivia==
*The Loud House is the sixth Nickelodeon Movies film to become a franchise, after The Rugrats Movie, Hey Arnold!: The Movie, The Wild Thornberrys Movie, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
**This is the first The Loud House TV Movie by not using the Nickelodeon Movies Logo.
*This is the second live-action Christmas film based off a Nicktoon series; the first was A Fairly Odd Christmas in 2012.
* Brian Stepanek, the voice actor for Lynn Loud Sr., reprises his role in the film. In addition, Catherine Taber, who voices Lori Loud and Katherine Mulligan, portrays the latter character here.
**Coincidentally, this also makes The Loud House the second Nicktoon adapted in live-action to have the main character's father being portrayed by their voice actor (the other being Mr. Turner in The Fairly OddParents live-action movies).
*Four of the actresses playing the sisters are sisters in real-life. Lana and Lola were played by the Mia and Ella Allan, and Luan and Lucy were played by Chaterine and Aubin Bradley, in order to accomplish a genuine family feel to the movie.
**This was the first time The Bradley sisters worked with each other onscreen.https://www.tvfanatic.com/2021/11/sisters-catherine-and-aubin-bradley-discuss-their-transformation/
*In the NFL Slimetime episode that aired the week following the movie's premiere, Wolfgang Schaeffer appeared as the live-action Lincoln, in the spot usually occupied by his animated counterpart.
*On December 15, 2022, it was announced that A Loud House Christmas: Plussed Up Edition would air on Nickelodeon on December 24, 2022
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