Pilot

Pilot is the series premiere of Loud House Adventures. It aired in the U.S. on March 27, 2016, the same day as Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, as a "sneak peek" of the show.
The series premiere starts with Luna Loud working on a science project with her lab partner Chad, when her older sister, Leni, storms into the house. Leni’s upset that her partner for the annual showcase at Hollywood Arts High School is Lincoln Loud (referred to in this episode as Linky by Leni), a 10th grader. She knows that there are going to be important talent scouts and musical industry workers at the show, which is making her nervous as she really wants to impress them. Leni kicks Chad out and insists that her sister helps her and Lincoln with the song that she'll perform (Make It Shine).
While working together, Luna and Lincoln form a friendship despite Leni driving them insane, and Lincoln awes Luna with his talent as he sits down at the piano and plays a little tune.
Outside the front porch, Lincoln is calling his grandma, When Luna comes by and asks him who he is calling. He says that his grandma will be attending the Big Showcase. Lincoln then explains that it is the first time that his grandma has left the house in 6 years.
Luna skips school to attend the showcase with her parents. The family is called backstage before the performance starts, only to discover that Leni’s tongue has swollen up because she was allergic to an herb gargle that she drank, which she said was to help her sing better. The guidance counselor, Grant, who is a very calm and sensible man, asks if anybody can take Leni’s place. Lincoln assumes that Luna can because she'd heard the song numerous times during rehearsals throughout the week. At first, Luna refuses, but Lincoln forces her to, so she slips on a fancy dress and gets on stage. Realizing that she has nothing to lose in front of a crowd of strangers, Luna decides to sing.
Her top-notch performance surprises the audience, and even herself. Principal Winston takes Luna and her parents backstage and offers Luna a once-in-a-lifetime chance to attend the elite performing arts high school. Luna doesn't think that she's talented enough, but after watching such a strong performance, Lincoln believes otherwise. He pulls up the curtain and asks the audience if Luna should join them, to which they all chant, "Yes!" After a moment, Luna accepts the offer.
During her first day at Hollywood Arts, Luna gets lost and meets Clyde McBride, a shy boy who often speaks through his ventriloquist dummy, Mr. Coconuts. Luna also meets Luan Sullivan, a hyper and happy, but sensitive girl who is easily upset, often shouting, "What's that supposed to mean!?" when she feels offended.
Clyde (through Mr. Coconuts) gives Luna directions to her first class with Mr. Flip, and when Luna enters the classroom, she accidentally bumps into Bobby Santiago, spilling his coffee on his shirt. Luna then rubs the coffee off of his shirt. When Bobby’s short-tempered and overprotective girlfriend, Lori Wilson walks in, she becomes mad at Luna for rubbing her boyfriend, which in her books is a flirtatious move.
Luna is introduced to Flip to whom she gives $2 to after mistaking him for a homeless person.
During an improvisation exercise, Flip asks Lori to choose four other students to act with. She chooses Luan, Bobby, Luna, and Liam. He asks Clyde to pick a setting, and he chooses 'home.' And Lincoln chooses 'big news,' as the situation. Just before they begin, Lori asks Luna to go and wait in the hallway.
The scene starts with Bobby (the husband) getting fired from his job, and Luan and Liam (the kids) complaining about this situation. Lori tries to cheer them up by telling them that she got them a new dog, and Luna enters and gets onto the stage. At first, Luna did not play the proper way of a dog, but then Lori told Flip to tell Luna to act like a real dog. Luna then does so. Lori claims that dogs usually have fleas and ticks in their fur, and schemingly tells the kids that coffee is a good way to get them out. Bobby and Lincoln tried to warn her to not do it, but Lori pours an entire cup of coffee on Luna’s head, as revenge for 'flirting' with her boyfriend.
Embarrassed and upset, Luna runs from the room and attempts to call her mother, Rita Loud, hoping that she can take her out of the school. Lincoln meets up with Luna in the hallway and takes her phone from her. Luna feels that she should simply give up, and face the fact that she isn't unique at all. Lincoln then tells her that everybody is unique and special in their own way, and dissuades her from walking away because of Lori.
At home, Luna is watching the video of her performing at the Big Showcase. Leni then comes over, convincing her to stay at the school. Luna does not want to come back though. Leni tells Luna that she actually liked Luna’s performance, which Luna thanks, but then chimes in to say that if she would’ve performed, she would’ve been amazing.
On Luna’s second day at Hollywood Arts, Luna is chosen to pick the actors for a game of Alphabet Improv. She picks Lincoln, Luan, Bobby, and Lori. During the game, Lori and Luna are fighting (but they follow the rules) while the other actors are out. Bobby also fainted, which left Lori and Luna for most of the game. Luna tries her best to push Lori hard enough to get out of the game, until Lori gets eliminated. Bobby wakes up again, and tries to make Bobby feel better by kissing him, as Luna gets her revenge on Lori by kissing Bobby, which is the start of Lori and Luna’s rivalry for. (see: Lorna)
* Expo whiteboard markers are seen in Flip’s room. At one point, you can see the logos.
* This episode was shot months before The Bird Scene. As a result, there are many differences in this episode from other episodes:
** Luna’s hair is straightened instead of wavy (like Nika’s appearances when she was younger), unlike many other episodes. (Excluding the scenes that take place at the showcase, and after Lori pours coffee on her head.)
** Luna wears showing toe shoes, skirts and dresses. Most other episodes show Luna wearing jeans, sneakers and boots.
** Clyde’s afro is shorter than for the rest of season 1 and he dresses geekier.
** Mr. Coconut’s head is bigger in this episode than in any other episodes. His body is also big and his skin tone is darker. In the promo for the whole TV show, Mr. Coconut’s voice sounds very different from the way it normally sounds.
** Lori has a slightly different appearance. This could be due to more eye makeup and different styling of hair. Her voice sounds different in some scenes of this episode. E.g.: "That explains his pants." (talking to Flip). Catherine Taber mentioned in an interview that the reason for this was that in this episode, she portrayed Lori similarly to how she portrayed Lucy from the Broadway musical, 13. This included the way she spoke for the role.
** Luan’s hair is curly in this episode, as opposed to straight in later episodes. Cristina Puccilli’s natural hair is curly and dirty blonde, and her hair was dyed brown (so the entire cast would not be dirty blonde) for the series.
** Bobby’s hair is shorter.
** Leni has darker hair and is skinnier in this episode unlike other episodes.
** Mr. Loud's hair is much longer than it appears in other episodes.
** The Loud's house has a different backyard porch area than in later episodes.
** Luna’s PearPhone 2G looks more like the original iPhone during the cutaways, as it has a round home button.
** The locker prop that eventually became Luna’s locker appears to be occupied in this episode. In later episodes, the locker shifts to the right and the locker that was first next to it is gone. In The Bird Scene, when Tori flirts with Robbie, you can see the locker that disappeared.
* The original broadcast of this episode was an extended version, but some scenes were removed to fill its time slot in subsequent airings. The extended version can be found on the Season 1, Volume 1 DVD. On iTunes, it says it is extended, though it is the normal version. Scenes in the extended version that are not in other airings:
** Leni attempting to rehearse saying her song needs to be a power ballad.
** The staff dressing Luna up for the big showcase.
** Clyde explaining to Luna where Flip’s classroom is, but being interrupted by Mr. Coconuts.
** Flip asking Luna if she's familiar with improv, and Luna replying "Both. Yes and no".
** Luan saying "Daddy's a loser" after Bobby says he got fired.
** Bobby asking Lori if the dog can sleep in their room, and Lori replying "No, honey. It can't".
** Flip coming in through the window on Luna’s second day.
** Luan saying "Salami" after Flip tells her her line had to start with an S.
** Lincoln saying "Hey, the alien's moving" before Flip tells Luna and Bobby to keep the scene going.
** Bobby saying "Little weird" before "Let's do it" at the very end of the episode.
* This episode has the shortest title than any other episode.
* When Luna enters Hollywood Arts for the first time with Leni, you can hear the same music that was played in the iCarly episode "iSaved Your Life" when Girl Jordan was playing Violin Hero.
* For some reason, Lori didn't get detention, even though she poured coffee all over Luna, unless Flip gave Lori detention off-screen.
** It could also probably be because of how eccentric Flip is.
* TwitFlash is only shown during the first half of this episode. For the remainder of this episode, TheSlap is shown.
* When the transitions where it shows Luna’s TwitFlash page, on the bottom right of the page you could see trending topics with one of them being iCarly as the third trend.
* This episode was filmed in February 2009, with the scenes at the big Showcase being re-filmed on January 6, 2010.
* An alternate name for this episode, used in some listings, is Series Premiere.
* Even though this was the series premiere, promos say that "The Bird Scene" was.
* Pilots for TV series usually have a card of the title before going directly into the episode, with no theme song (like the pilots for Psych or Supah Ninjas). As such, the title card is the only indication of what series this is.
** This is the only Chris Savino show to do that so far.
* The black boots Bobby wears in the episode actually belong to the actor who portrays him, Carlos PenaVega as the costuming department didn't have shoes for him to wear by the time filming began.
* The part where Lori says to Luna, "What's the prob, dog?" has become a popular internet meme.
* When Luna tweets that she's ditching school for the big showcase, below her post is a post from JaxieCat that says, "More cat food please...NOW." JaxieCat is the name of the Twitter account of Jackson, Chris Savino’s real life cat.
* Luna calls Luan bipolar when she tells Lincoln that her old school didn't have 'barefoot teachers, nerds with puppets, bipolar cats and mean girls who make you bark like a dog'.
* Ending tagline: "You're a demon!" - Clyde
* This is the first time Luna asks what a certain thing or word means. For example she asked what Improv and Alphabetical Improv was.
* According to the end credits, this was filmed/taped at Ren-Mar Studios Hollywood, California, now known as Red Studios Hollywood. This is the first and only episode to mention this. This can be seen in the end credits found on the Season 1 volume 1 DVD.
* There is an iJordan.com sticker seen in the background on the fridge while Luna and Chad were doing their science project.
* Leni’s singing problems, specifically her pitching, are less exaggerated than in the rest of the series, specifically during the scene when she is rehearsing "Make It Shine", where she manages to stay on key (in the extended version) and the tuning problems could have been resolved with André lowering the key of the song to match her voice. She also seems to be slightly self-aware and insecure about her singing voice, to the point of trying a herb gargle to sing better.
* In this episode, Rex reminds Cat that she didn't have a date to the prom last year. But later in Prom Wrecker, we learn that Tori hopes to host the first ever Hollywood Arts prom. Also, they were in 9th grade the previous year, and prom is usually for mainly 11th and 12th graders.
** Though, Rex may have been joking.
** Also, since many plot details change from a pilot episode to the rest of the series, Hollywood Arts may have originally had a prom before it was changed.
== Goofs ==
* Principal Winston didn't know if Luna was a student or not at Hollywood Arts. The school doesn't appear large enough that he wouldn't know all of the students.
** Though, Principal Winston also may have been joking, impressed with Luna’s talent.
* In Luna’s picture on TheSlap mobile, you can see the locker that says "Luna’s Locker" on it in the background. However, this was not even in existence until The Bird Scene.
* When Luna posted her last post she wrote 'is feeling conflicted'. However when she posted it the post said 'Luna is feeling...conflicted' and Luna didn't write her name and the ellipse.
* When Lori is picking her partners for Improv, Cristina starts to stand up before Catherine can say her line (choosing her to participate), meaning that Cristina did her blocking while anticipating the line instead of waiting for motivation.
** An in universe explanation for this could simply be that Luan knows Lori well enough to know she'll pick her.
* When Lincoln asks Luna for aspirin, she gives him a handful. But after Lincoln claims his pills, if you look closely, Luna’s hand is empty. This infers that Lincoln may have taken all the pills from Luna. (Note: Some of the pills fall onto the piano when Luna shakes the bottle; this may have happened to the remaining pills in her hand.) It could also be a simple continuity error.
* In the Alphabet Improv, when Lori leaves, the letter to be used next is F. Instead, Luna said "Get up, Alien." Flip, however, told them to continue by the letter G.