The Loud House (Seasons 1-3)

***The Loud House*** is an American animated television sitcom series created by Chris Savino. It has aired on Nickelodeon since May 6, 2016.

## Plot

Set in the fictional city of Royal Woods, Michigan, *The Loud House* centers on Lincoln Loud, a 12-year-old (formerly 11-year-old) boy with nine (formerly ten) sisters. His siblings are bossy eldest child Lori, ditzy yet beautiful Leni, aspiring rock star Luna, aspiring comedian Luan, athletic Lynn, gloomy goth Lucy, polar-opposite twins tomboy Lana and girly Lola, child prodigy Lisa, and baby Lily.

## Why It Rocks

1. Incredibly witty humor, jokes, idioms, satires and slapsticks.
2. Likable characters with unique personalities.
3. Memorable characters, especially the Loud siblings themselves.
4. Great animation with an interesting comic-esque cartoony style.
5. The writing is pretty good.
6. Great soundtrack with a catchy theme song and awesome and touching songs such as "That's What Christmas is All About" and "Lincoln Loud, The Best Dang Brother Anywhere Around" a song where the sisters showed their love and how much they care for their brother.
	* *Really Loud Music* brings this up to eleven, and has Luna sing about her true passions.
7. Tons of cultural references, including references from *Peanuts*.
8. Awesome voice acting.
9. Lily Loud, the baby sister, is adorable.
10. In every title card, the "Skater Dudes" font is used, which looks very cool, as well as having comic book-style panels.
11. Some of Lincoln's sisters, including Lori, Leni and Luna, really love him for various best relationships and he has true preferences between them.
12. Some endings have really funny moments.
13. Good morals and lessons for kids, teenagers, and adults alike.
14. Lincoln is still grateful for having a large family, which is a positive message for other large families.
15. It uses the slice-of-life formula very well.
16. The Christmas special released the same year as the first season and a majority of the episodes of the second season was amazing.
17. Lincoln's relationship with his sisters is relatable and accurate, even if they sometimes don't get along.
18. The moments where Leni's clumsiness is shown are hilarious and memorable.
19. It is the first-ever Nickelodeon show to feature same-sex, biracial parents. Also, Luna is bi and dates another girl, Sam, as of "Racing Hearts". Which is a good sign, showing Nickelodeon is accepting of gay rights.
	* This, however, may be a bad quality to more conservative parents who would rather introduce their child to the concept of sexuality during puberty (i.e., when the actual sexual drive and orientation arises). This led to many episodes being banned overseas and the entire show being banned for "LGBT propaganda" in Kenya.
20. All Loud siblings have really cute and charming character designs.
21. Depending on your view, Lynn started to improve in season 3 and is a bit more likable in season 4 (except in the episode: On Thin Ice).
22. The characters are getting some character development as the show progresses, especially the parents as we get to know more about them. This is especially true to Lori and Lola.

## Bad Qualities

1. It has its share loads of bad episodes like "Get the Message" (depending on your view), "The Sweet Spot", "The Green House", "Making the Case", "On Thin Ice", "Heavy Meddle", "Sleuth or Consequences", "Save the Date", "One of the Boys", "Come Sale Away", "Brawl in the Family", "ARGGH! You For Real!", "Friendzy", "Ruthless People", "Kings of the Con","A Grave Mistake", "House Flip", "Don’t You Fore-Get About Me", "Deep Cuts", mostly the second half of "Schooled!" and most infamously, "No Such Luck".
	* Some of the episodes involve Lincoln being put through hell (either for stupid reasons, or for no reason whatsoever), such as the infamous episode *No Such Luck* where Lincoln gets kicked out of his house and has to sleep in the cold, with him later being to wear a squirrel mascot costume to earn their trust back. After heavy fan backlash, the show's writers had to tone down the mean-spirited vibes in later episodes, though this is brought back in some cases in Season 4 and 5.
	* Some episodes are predictable, such as "Predict Ability" (no pun intended).
	* Some episodes, particularly in Season 3 and 4, have plots recycled from earlier episodes of Season 2 or Season 1, probably since the writers are running out of ideas after the firing of Chris Savino. For example, the plots of "Scales of Justice", "Game Boys" and "Sister Act" are similar to "Frog Wild", "Shell Shocked" and "Cover Girls" respectively. Often times, it's hit or miss.
2. Some attempts at humor are hit-or-miss:
	* Luan's jokes can be annoying to the easily annoyed.
	* Some hit-or-miss running jokes.
	* There are uses of the toilet and/or gross-out humor, like the running joke of Lily's stinky diapers. However, Lily's stinky diapers gag came to an end in "Schooled!" where she managed to get potty-trained.
	* It does have a couple of inappropriate jokes. At the near end of the episode, "Come Sale Away", we see the Loud siblings do their "victory dance" by twerking, which is something that is not only cringing but extremely inappropriate (and incredibly disgusting and uncomfortable in terms of children doing it) **for a family-friendly show**.
	* Aside from that, some of the other jokes are dated, repetitive, forced, or unreasonably mean-spirited.
3. Lynn can be extremely unlikable due to how she was rather flanderized in the episode "On Thin Ice" and to her mean-spirited bullying tone towards other characters, especially Lincoln. In fact, she's given no permanent character development whatsoever. Furthermore, she was infamously the one who started Lincoln's bad luck jinx in the above mentioned "No Such Luck".
	* The Loud parents were also a bit unlikable during the early seasons as they were little neglectful and irresponsible towards their children. Though in earlier seasons, they were not nearly as bad as Peter and Lois Griffin from *Family Guy* despite their flaws given.
	* Some of the recurring and minor characters also can be or are unlikable.
	* Speaking of the Loud Parents, they didn't show their faces until "11 Louds A Leapin", though they also didn't show their faces in some Season 2 episodes like "The Old and the Restless", "Making the Grade", and "Brawl in the Family", but it's at least forgivable since that was the intention they went back then.
4. The show didn't start too well in the beginning, as Season 1 had a few more bad episodes compared to season 2 and 3, which barely had any bad episodes. However, season 1 is still good enough to be here.