A Tattler's Tale

## *The Loud House*"A Tattler's Tale"

**"A Tattler's Tale"** is the forty-sixth episode of the first season of *The Loud House*.

## Plot

Lola wants to be a part of the siblings' secrets club, but her siblings are reluctant to let in a tattle tale.

## Synopsis

At nighttime, the Loud kids are having a secret meeting in Lori and Leni's room, discussing their deepest, darkest secrets to each other. Lincoln explains to the viewers that each of them has secrets, and they need to let them loose somewhere, so they started a secret secrets club to tell each other, since they could always trust each other... except for a certain someone. On cue, Lola enters and says she wants to join their club, but the siblings refuse, as she has a reputation of being the family tattle tale. Lola claims she has changed, but her siblings still refuse. Angered, Lola tosses her tiara away and storms out of the room to go their mother. The moment she leaves, the siblings go back to telling secrets.

The next day, Lola proceeds to force her siblings into doing her bidding lest she reveal their secrets to their parents. She has Lincoln be her personal butler, Lucy her chauffeur, Luna into giving her the middle of the couch and Lori to scratch her head. Sometime later, Lola has forced everyone into being a part of her tea party; Lincoln is still her butler, Luna is singing her medieval songs (in a clearly frustrated voice), Luan is her jester (by telling even worse jokes), Lynn is painting her nails, Lana is her tea party partner, and Lisa is doing her homework. At the end of the day, the siblings are upset that Lola knows their secrets and is using them to blackmail them. Eventually, everyone begins to argue when they suspect someone is ratting them out. During the fight, Lincoln is flung out and lands on top of Lola's tiara. Realizing something, he tells them to stop, saying that Lola is snooping on them; she attached a microphone to her tiara and used it to learn all of their secrets from the night before. Now knowing the truth, the siblings question how they could possibly get back at her. Lincoln suggests that they try to find a secret of her own, but Lynn believes it's impossible, since she's always one step ahead. However, Lincoln assures them that everyone, including Lola, makes mistakes.

The next day, as some of the sisters cater to Lola, Lincoln uses this opportunity to snoop around Lana and Lola's room in an attempt to find any dirt on Lola, but as Lynn suspected, Lola is one step ahead of them and has left notes saying that she's not that dumb to reveal her secrets in easy-to-find locations. As Lincoln questions how Lola is one step ahead of them, he is warned that Lola approaching her room, forcing him to jump out the window, where he lands on a potted cactus (which was placed by Lola). The Louds' neighbor, Mr. Grouse, sees Lincoln wearing Lola's tiara, and sarcastically asks him if he's going to participate in a beauty pageant. This gives Lincoln the idea to go to the pageant hall and ask Lola's competitors if they know any dirt on her. Unfortunately, the competitors are too scared to tell him anything, but one of Lola's competitors, hiding in a closet, says that she knows a secret about Lola and is willing to help Lincoln due to her deep animosity towards her. She tells the secret to Lincoln, who is flabbergasted upon hearing it, as do the other sisters when he tells it to them. They confront Lola and let her know they know her secret. Lola is shocked that her siblings managed to find a secret of hers, and they all make it clear that if she ever tells their parents their secrets, they will rat hers out in return, leaving Lola at a stalemate.

The next night, as the siblings hold another secrets meeting, Luan arrives and tells them that she saw Lola entering their parents' room. Fearing she's telling them their secrets, they quickly rush down to rat her out in return. Upon arriving to the parents' bedroom, they witness Lola sadly exiting, and Rita telling her she's grounded for a month. The siblings ask her what happened, and Lola sadly tells them that she took the fall for all the things they did, and admitted that the reason why she threatened to blackmail them into doing her bidding was because she assumed it was the only way to get them to spend time with her. Now understanding she went out about it the wrong way, Lola proceeds to spend the 30 days in her room to try and come up with a way to earn their trust, making the siblings to feel bad for her.

As Lola lies on her bed (in a similar fashion to a jail cell), Lincoln enters and says that after he and the other sisters talked it out, she's allowed to be in the club. This causes Lola to jump off her bed in excitement. As the other sisters enter the room to initiate their meeting, Lola looks on happily, knowing that she's finally one with the group. Later, as Lincoln and the sisters leave, Lola proceeds to tell her stuffed dolls her siblings' secrets (since they are not alive, and won't be able to tell anyone), reminding the viewers that given the type of person she is, she has to spill some secrets somehow.

## Cast

* Collin Dean as Lincoln
* Catherine Taber as Lori
* Liliana Mumy as Leni
* Nika Futterman as Luna
* Cristina Pucelli as Luan
* Jessica DiCicco as Lynn / Lucy / Lindsay
* Grey Griffin as Lana / Lola / Lily
* Lara Jill Miller as Lisa
* Jill Talley as Rita
* John DiMaggio as Mr. Grouse

Lynn Sr. and Lola's rivals have no lines in this episode.

## Moral/Lesson

* You shouldn't ditch someone when they can join.

## Trivia

* The way Lola made her siblings do menial things for her is similar of how the girls made Lincoln do menial things for them in "Sound of Silence", which was also started by Lola.
* It is revealed that the neighbor's name from "Chore and Peace" and "A Novel Idea" is Mr. Grouse.
* This episode reveals that Lola has won so many beauty pageants that her competitors fear her. In fact, one of Lola's competitors downright despises her, due to always coming in second to her. It's hinted that it is Lindsay Sweetwater, who was previously mentioned in "Making the Case".
* The newspaper Lynn Sr. holds is call Morgan News, which references Jared Morgan, a staff member of the show.
	+ Also, there are various smaller headlines that reference others members of the show's staff, including "Savino trial takes a turn", "Rynda Quarantined", "One too many Jordan defenders claim", and "Freilich finished burrito in record time".
* In addition to spiders, it is revealed that Leni also dislikes rats.
* Lola choosing to take the blame for all the bad things her siblings did so they do not get in trouble is similar to what Lincoln did for Lucy in "Sleuth or Consequences".
* The hat Lincoln wears when he's snooping around is the same hat he wore in "Get the Message".
* The scene of Luna turning her amp up to max and preparing to strum is reused from "No Guts, No Glori".
	+ In addition, the scene of the power going out in town was reused from "Overnight Success".

## External Links

* The Loud House wiki
* Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_The\_Loud\_House\_episodes#Season\_1\_(2016)