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***The Loud House*** is an American animated television series created by Chris Savino for Nickelodeon. The series revolves around the chaotic everyday life of a boy named Lincoln Loud, who is the middle child and only son in a large family of 11 children. It is set in a fictional town in southeastern Michigan called Royal Woods, based on Savino's hometown of Royal Oak.

## Premise

Lincoln Loud is the only boy and the middle child in a family of eleven children residing in the fictional town of Royal Woods, Michigan. He has ten sisters with distinctive personalities consisting of bossy eldest child Lori, ditzy fashionista Leni, musician Luna, comedian Luan, athletic Lynn Jr., gloomy poetic goth Lucy, polar opposite twins Lana and Lola, child genius Lisa, and baby Lily. Lincoln occasionally breaks the fourth wall to explain to the viewers the chaotic conditions and sibling relationships of the household, and continually devises plans to make his life in the Loud House better.

In the fifth season, the Loud siblings aged up a year with Lori going to Fairway University, Lincoln going to middle school, and Lily going to preschool.

## Characters

* **Lincoln Albert Loud** (voiced by Sean Ryan Fox in the pilot "Bathroom Break!!", Grant Palmer in S1E1A-S1E22B, Collin Dean in S1E23A-S3E18A, singing voice by Jackson Petty in S3E17, Tex Hammond in S3E18B-S4E21B, Asher Bishop in S4E23A-S6E3A, Bentley Griffin in S6E4 onwards) - An 11-year-old boy with white hair, who is the middle child and the only son of the Loud family. Lincoln has a passion for comic books, in particular his favorite superhero Ace Savvy which has a playing card theme. Lincoln is also the family nerd, along with Lisa. Lincoln has other talents like cooking, playing video games, performing magic tricks, and helping his younger sister Lola in preparing for her pageants as her coach. Lincoln wears an orange polo shirt, blue jeans, gray socks, and white sneakers.
* **Lori Loud** (voiced by Catherine Taber) - The 17-year-old eldest child of the Loud family. Lori is the roommate of her younger sister Leni. While Lori is depicted as a bossy, and short-tempered teenager who is condescending towards her younger siblings, she cares deeply about her family. Lori wears a light blue tank top, brown cargo shorts, blue slip-on shoes, and white pearl earrings.
* **Leni Loud** (voiced by Liliana Mumy) - The 16-year-old second child of the Loud family. Leni and her older sister Lori are roommates. Leni wears a seafoam green dress, red hoop earrings, white sandals with seafoam green bows, and white sunglasses that she is almost seen wearing on top of her head. She often goes shopping at the Royal Woods Mall. She has a fear of spiders that is referenced in multiple episodes.
* **Luna Loud** (voiced by Nika Futterman) - The 15-year-old third child of the Loud family and Luan's roommate. She wears a purple shirt, a lavender skirt, a white belt, high purple boots, paperclip earrings, three black bracelets, and a choker. She is depicted as a wild and upbeat musician who owns and plays various instruments, with her signature instrument being a purple Dean ML electric guitar.
* **Luan Loud** (voiced by Cristina Pucelli) - The 14-year-old fourth child of the Loud family, the roommate of Luna and is named after one of Savino's five sisters. She is depicted as the comedian of the house, with most of her dialogue consisting of bad puns that annoy her siblings. Luan wears a white sleeveless shirt, a yellow skirt, yellow socks, brown shoes, and 3 pink flowers. Every April Fools' Day, she becomes a sadistic prank-obsessed maniac which leaves her family and Clyde in complete fear of the holiday.
* **Lynn Loud Jr.** (voiced by Jessica DiCicco) - The 13-year-old athletic fifth child of the Loud family. She tends to start competitions among her siblings and plays a large number of different sports. Lynn is very superstitious as she does not want anything to ruin her winning streaks and makes various assumptions for each superstition. She wears a red and white jersey, red-and-white track shorts, black cleats, and white high-knee socks.
* **Lucy Loud** (also voiced by Jessica DiCicco) - The 8-year-old seventh child of the Loud family and Lynn's roommate. Her name came from Savino and his wife's plans for having daughters. She wears long arm sleeves, stockings, a black dress, a shirt, and black shoes. Lucy has pale white skin and long black hair with bangs that cover her eyes and looks identical to the Loud children's great-grandmother Harriet. Lucy seems to appear out of nowhere at times which often frightens her siblings when she pops up near them. She is also a fortune-teller, whose predictions turn out to happen in a very literal manner. Lucy has a bust of the vampire Edwin who is from her favorite book and TV series *The Vampires of Melancholia*.
* **Lana Loud** (voiced by Grey DeLisle) - The 6-year-old eighth child of the Loud family. Lana is the identical twin sister of her roommate Lola and was born two minutes before her. This makes Lana the older twin. She wears mostly a red baseball cap, white sneakers, a murky green t-shirt and dark blue overalls. Lana is depicted as a tomboy who loves to play in the mud and get her hands dirty. Lana is a skilled handy worker, plumber, and mechanic who loves animals (mostly frogs and reptiles) that she will defend from any possible harm. She also has a close bond with her sister Lola, who she hangs out and works together with.
* **Lola Loud** (also voiced by Grey DeLisle) - The 6-year-old ninth child of the Loud family and the identical twin sister of her roommate Lana. Lola was born two minutes after Lana, making her the younger twin. Lola is depicted as a "Princess" who plots and schemes to get her way, and becomes maniacal if her siblings or anyone else angers her in any way. She is mostly seen wearing a long pink gown, sash, a white pearl necklace, long pink gloves, white earrings, pink high heels, and a tiara. Lola is constantly entered in child beauty pageants. Lola is shown to constantly tattletale out loud on her siblings (mostly Lincoln) when they confess quietly to what they did. Underneath her rather mean-spirited demeanor, she is shown to be forgiving and affectionate to others and self-admits to being a "crazy pants" sometimes.
* **Lisa Loud** (voiced by Lara Jill Miller) - The 4-year-old 10th child of the Loud family, and is also named after one of Savino's five sisters. Lisa is a child prodigy and gifted child who has a Ph.D. but is currently in kindergarten by her own choice. Lisa enjoys solving complex equations, math problems, and performing elaborate experiments where she often uses her unaware siblings and Clyde as test subjects. She wears glasses, an olive green turtleneck sweater, dark pink pants, and brown loafers. Lisa often uses formal and detailed terms to refer to basic things before saying it in layman's terms. She often tends to be quite reckless and unethical with her experiments but is a good-hearted girl down to her core.
* **Lily Loud** (also voiced by Grey DeLisle) - The 1-year-old baby of the Loud family as well as the 11th child and Lisa's roommate. She is generally happy-go-lucky but also intelligent in her own right, as well as having a mischievous streak. Lily is mostly seen wearing only a diaper. Lily is babysat by Lincoln on several occasions. She has a habit of losing her diaper causing her to go naked and also causing her fellow siblings to put her diaper back on. Lincoln, the siblings, and the parents always change Lily's diaper in Lisa and Lily's room. The only phrase Lily used to say, aside from gibberish, was "poo-poo", generally coupled with her diaper flying across the screen or needing a diaper change.
* **Lynn Loud Sr.** (voiced by Brian Stepanek) - The father of the Loud children. Lynn Sr. often breaks up fights between his children before it goes too far. He is shown to be completely ignorant of the use of modern technologies to the point of not knowing how to text. Lynn Sr. wears a sea green sweater, brown slacks, and brown shoes.
* **Rita Loud** (voiced by Jill Talley) - The mother of the Loud children. Rita is shown to be caring towards her children, but she is not afraid to punish them if their fighting goes too far. Rita wears a pink buttoned shirt, purple pants, white earrings, and black low tops. She first met Lynn Sr. when she was working as a crossing guard.
* **Clyde McBride** (voiced by Caleel Harris in S1E1A-S3E8A, Andre Robinson in S3E8B-S5E26B, Jahzir Bruno in S6E1A-S6E15B, Jaeden White in S6E19A onwards) - An 11-year-old boy who is best friends with Lincoln. He owns a walkie-talkie that he uses on missions with Lincoln, and is usually up-to-date on code words used when conveying messages. Clyde shares many interests with Lincoln, such as video games and science fiction movies. He used to have an unrequited crush on Lori and tended to get nosebleeds and faint whenever he saw her. He wears circular glasses, black pants, a yellow-and-blue striped shirt and black tennis shoes.

## Reception

### Critical reception

*The Loud House* has received positive reviews, specifically for its animation, voice acting, characterization, and the heartwarming themes of each episode. Emily Ashby of Common Sense Media praised the show's voice cast and thematic messages, writing that "kids will come to *The Loud House* for the laughs, but they'll return for the ensemble cast and the surprisingly heartwarming themes that dominate every story." Kevin Johnson of *The A.V. Club* gave the series a B+, noting that "the female characters are defined by their traits, but never judged for them."

It attracted negative attention from some fans and critics later on for its heavy amount of spin-offs and merchandising. Ryan Lewis of CBR.com wrote that "Yonatan Ashad Channel and Nickelodeon both tried too hard to match *SpongeBob'*s influence and *Gumball*'s influence and immediately took to creating spin-offs, a full-length movie, and countless merchandise. These efforts may have been justified had *The Loud House* not been written with one-note stock characters making up its main cast."