The Loud House

The Loud House is an American animated television series and media franchise created by Chris Savino. It is produced by Nickelodeon Animation Studio and animated at Jam Filled Entertainment in Canada. It is the parent show of The Casagrandes and The Really Loud House. The series is inspired by Savino's own "chaotic life growing up in a huge household," and follows a boy named Lincoln, who lives at home with his ten sisters, Lori, Leni, Luna, Luan, Lynn, Lucy, Lana, Lola, Lisa, and Lily.
Seven seasons of the show have been greenlit, with the first six confirmed to contain 26 episodes each. The seventh was confirmed to have 20 episodes. The series premiered on May 2, 2016, and started its fifth season on September 11, 2020. The sixth season was greenlit on September 9, 2020, with 26 more episodes. The series was also greenlit for a seventh season by Nickelodeon on March 24, 2022.
The name of the series is a pun on the phrase "loud house," which means a very noisy house, and also a reference to the Loud family's constant mess. This is the first cartoon created and directed by Savino himself, as in the other cartoons he worked on, he was only the producer, or storyboard artist. However, on October 19, 2017, Chris Savino was fired for sexual misconduct allegations.
A feature film based on the series was announced on January 16, 2021 and released on Netflix on August 20 the same year, while a live action movie based on the series was announced on August 18, 2021 and released on Nickelodeon on November 26 the same year.
==Plot==
==Episodes==
Season	Episodes	Segments	Original Airdate 	Original Airdate
Season	Episodes	Segments	Season Premiere 	Season Finale
1 	26 	52 	May 2, 2016 	November 8, 2016
2 	26 	49 	November 9, 2016 	December 1, 2017
3 	26 	48 	January 19, 2018 	March 7, 2019
4 	26 	50 	May 27, 2019 	July 23, 2020
5 	26 	47 	September 11, 2020	March 4, 2022
6 	26 	49 	March 11, 2022 	May 16, 2023
7 	20 	TBA 	May 17, 2023 	TBA
==Characters==
===Main Characters===
*Lincoln Loud — At 12 years old (11 prior to Season 6), Lincoln is the only son and middle child of the Loud children; he is an avid reader of comic books and frequently speaks to the viewers about other things and on how he gets around the often chaotic conditions and sibling relationships of the household by finding creative solutions to his problems.
*Lori Loud — At 18 years old (17 prior to Season 5), Lori is the eldest of the Loud children. She is depicted as bossy, sarcastic, and condescending towards her siblings. Despite this, she cares deeply about her brother and sisters. She often talks on her smartphone and uses it to talk to her boyfriend Bobby.
*Leni Loud — At 17 years old (16 prior to Season 5), she is the second oldest of the Loud children; Leni is depicted as a dumb blonde, who is kind and pretty, but is naive and lacks intelligence and awareness. She shows talents in fashion designing.
*Luna Loud — At 16 years old (15 prior to Season 5), she is the third oldest child of the Loud family; Luna is a free-spirited musician interested in rock and roll music, and she owns and plays an electric guitar and other instruments.
*Luan Loud — At 15 years old (14 prior to Season 5), she is fourth oldest of the Loud children; Luan is fond of practical jokes and comedy. She wears braces, has squirt-flowers on her shirt and shoes, and owns a ventriloquist dummy named Mr. Coconuts.
*Lynn Loud — At 14 years old (13 prior to Season 5), she is the fifth oldest of the Loud children; Lynn is very energetic and competitive and often engages in sports and other physical activities.
*Lucy Loud — At 9 years old (8 prior to Season 7), she's the fifth youngest of the Loud children; Lucy is a cynical, deadpan and sarcastic gothic girl, who dresses in black and has an interest in poetry and gothic fiction. She has very pale skin and long black hair that conceals her eyes. Lucy also has an uncanny ability to suddenly appear in places, which often frightens her siblings.
*Lana Loud — At 7 years old (6 prior to Season 5), she is Lola's identical twin sister and fourth youngest of the Loud Family. Unlike her sister, she is a fun-loving tomboy who loves to get her hands dirty, which often annoys Lola. She is also a skilled mechanic and plumber.
*Lola Loud — At 7 years old (6 prior to Season 5), she and Lana are identical twin sisters and the third youngest of the children. Lola is a bratty girly-girl, who dresses in pink princess attire and acts as a tattletale for the family. She and Lana are missing their front teeth.
*Lisa Loud — At 5 years old (4 prior to Season 5), she is the second youngest of the Loud children; Lisa is a child prodigy, who has graduated college with a PhD and often engages in complex equations and experiments. She wears large glasses and speaks with a lateral lisp.
*Lily Loud — At 2 years old (15 months prior to Season 5), the youngest child of the Loud family; Lily is an infant, who tends to defecate in her diaper and leave a foul stench, which disgust her older siblings. She can walk independently and can be carried by one of her siblings for longer distances.
*Clyde McBride — At 12 years old (11 prior to Season 5), he is Lincoln's best friend, who serves as a wingman to him in his exploits. He is an only child and spends almost all of his time with Lincoln. He used to have an unrequited crush on Lori until after "Absent Minded".
==Production==
Chris Savino based The Loud House on his own experiences growing up in a large family. He pitched the idea to Nickelodeon in 2013 as a 2½-minute short for their annual Animated Shorts Program. In June 2014, Nickelodeon announced that The Loud House had been picked up for a season of 13 episodes. The episode order was later increased to 26.
Early into the show's development, Savino saw other existing cartoons as mean-spirited just for the sake of it, and he believed that audiences would want something different, so he decided to drive the series in the opposite direction in order to satisfy those audiences.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6NE_qTaD3A
Early in development, the Loud family was originally going to be a family of rabbits, and instead of 11 children, there were going to be 26, a reference to the fact that rabbits can reproduce so quickly. An employee at Nickelodeon suggested to Savino that it would be best if the characters were humans. At first, Savino disliked the idea, but the more he thought about it, the more he realized that the characters being human was a much better decision, as it felt more realistic and relatable, so he changed the characters from rabbits to humans, and also lowered the number of children from 26 to 11 in order to make things less complicated. This abandoned concept was eventually explored in the Season 3 episode, "White Hare."
Before Leni became the character she is now, she was originally going to be an overweight 8-year-old who "didn't know her own strength." The decision to change Leni into who she is now is currently unknown, but one popular theory is that it was to make her fit in with the other characters, design wise.
Before it was decided that Lincoln would be the middle child, he was initially going to be placed in either with his older sisters or younger sisters. Eventually, it was decided that Lincoln would be best suited perfectly in the middle, as it made sense thematically.
Jam Filled Entertainment, a Canadian-based animation studio located in Ottawa (now owned by Boat Rocker Media), animates the whole series digitally with Toon Boom Harmony software.
===Animation notes===
*The show's animation style has been inspired by various newspaper comics:
**The backgrounds are more crudely styled than those of the characters, and the detailing of paper can be seen. The episode title cards are also in the style of such.
**Certain things don't move, such as the flag at Royal Woods Elementary School.
*Occasionally, some characters are drawn with their eyebrows floating above their eyes, or partially detached from their head.
*Most characters have white eyes with black pupils instead of colored eyes, some have dot eyes. In addition, when a character's eyes are closed, the lids are usually shadowed in a darker color than their skin. However, in some cases eye colors are shown (ex. Lola, Lincoln, Maybelle).
**This probably works with those who wore glasses.
*Characters only have four fingers in each hand and four toes on each foot.
*According to Chris Savino, the more feminine a female character is, the more eyelashes they'll have.
**This is most evident on Leni and Lola, since they're the two most feminine sisters in the family. Lynn also had more than two eyelashes in the past as shown in "Deal Me Out."
*To add the feel of 20th century cartoons, Rita and Lynn Sr.'s faces are blocked and usually seen from chin down. Other adults avert this. The trope was discontinued in the Season 2 premiere. According to Chris Savino on Instagram, the decision to conceal their faces during Season 1 was because he wanted to visually empower the Loud kids to solve problems on their own.
==Reception==
The Loud House became the number-one children's animated series on television within its first month on the air. Throughout May 2016, it received an average of 68% more viewers in its target audience of children aged 6–12 than broadcasts on Nickelodeon in May of the previous year. It became the network's highest-rated program (as of June 2016) after SpongeBob SquarePants, holding an average Nielsen rating of 4.9 among the 2–11 demographic at the time.
The Los Angeles Times cited The Loud House as a major factor in maintaining Nickelodeon's position as the highest-rated children's network in summer 2016. During the show's fourth week of premieres, Cyma Zarghami announced that it was continuing to draw more viewers than any other program on the channel.
The show's highest-rated episode, with 2.28 million viewers upon its premiere, is "Two Boys and a Baby." This was the first episode to air after it was announced that Howard and Harold McBride would be debuting on the program. The first episode of The Loud House shown in prime time, "11 Louds a Leapin'," was the seventh most-viewed telecast across all U.S. households on Friday, November 25, 2016.
==Censorship==
As the show prominently features characters in same-sex relationships (e.g. Clyde's fathers Howard and Harold, Luna and her girlfriend Sam), several episodes featuring them were either censored or banned in countries where homosexuality is seen as taboo (such as Poland, Russia, Turkiye, Indonesia and Malaysia). It also caused the entire show to be banned in Kenya in 2017.
These episodes were also banned in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, as well as on Nicktoons in Germany since December 25th, 2021 as a consequence of Nickelodeon's Central and Eastern European feed merging with its former Nordic and German feeds on the aforementioned date, as well as in South Africa as a consequence of airing on a common African feed, despite those countries having very liberal attitudes to LGBT+ causes.
Additionally, the Arabic and Sinhala dubs gave Howard a female voice actor and addressed him as Clyde's mother, while Clyde addresses Howard as his uncle and Harold as his only father in the Korean dub. Luna's girlfriend Sam was also given a male voice actor and addressed as Luna's boyfriend in the Arabic dub and the Korean dub in season 2.
==Voice Cast==
NOTE: This only involves the Loud Family and main characters. For a complete cast list, see Cast.
*Grant Palmer (S1E01a-S1E22b), Collin Dean (S1E23a-S3E18a), Tex Hammond (S3E18b-S4E21b), Asher Bishop (S4E23a-S6E03a), and Bentley Griffin (S6E04-present) as Lincoln
*Catherine Taber as Lori
*Liliana Mumy as Leni
*Nika Futterman as Luna
*Cristina Pucelli as Luan
*Jessica DiCicco as Lynn and Lucy
*Grey Griffin as Lana, Lola, and Lily
*Lara Jill Miller as Lisa
*Jill Talley as Rita
*Brian Stepanek as Lynn Sr.
*Caleel Harris (S1E01a-S3E08a), Andre Robinson (S3E08b-S5E26b), Jahzir Bruno (S6E01a-S6E15b), and Jaeden White (S6E19a-present) as Clyde
==Trivia==
*Being on the air for seven years, The Loud House is the longest-running Nickelodeon series from the 2010s decade, the oldest Nicktoon from that decade still in production today, and the fifth-longest-running Nicktoon of all time, only behind Hey Arnold!, Rugrats, The Fairly OddParents, and SpongeBob SquarePants.
*According to Amphibia creator Matt Braly, the fantasy elements shown in its pilot short were toned down for the series in response to the success of The Loud House.
**Furthermore, Braly once described a very early design of Amphibia's main character Anne Boonchuy as looking like a character from The Loud House.
*The series was featured in an answer on the April 28, 2023 episode of Jeopardy!.
*This is currently the only series in the franchise to premiere in the first half of a year.
==Errors==
*For S1E14, the Nickelodeon iTunes logo changed to the Nick Jr. iTunes logo.iTunes listing
==Background information==
*The title of this series has three meanings:
**It is the main setting of the show.
**It is literally a loud/noisy house.
**It is the surname of the family who resides there.
*For the creation of the show, Savino took some art concepts from different comic strips like Peanuts and Dennis the Menace. He also based it on some of his first works like Rocko's Modern Life, Hey Arnold!, and Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil.
*According to Chris Savino, it takes approximately 10 months to make a single episode.
==See also==
*The International Loud House
==External links==
*Nickipedia: The Loud House
*The Loud House on Wikipedia
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