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Thursday, November 15, 2018

The Loud House Celebrates Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Nickelodeon 





    Usually, I do a post right after an episode or special comes out  with the last "The Loud House" special I covered, (the Halloween one) I waited a year after it aired, this time I am doing this post just after it aired so that's different. I thought it would be good to do this look now while I can.  Anyway this time we look an episode of the Loud House that is called "The Loudest Thanksgiving".

   For those that don't know what The Loud House is  in simple premise terms : it's an animated series that premiered in 2016 on Nickelodeon about a large family called the Louds with 11 children, 10 of which are girls. The middle child, Lincoln, also happens to be the only boy.  Most of the episodes focus on their  lives the things that happen. Also, for this episode there is more info.  there's  a character named Ronnie-Anne  Santiago she was introduced in the series back in season 1 , her brother is named Bobby and he is also the boyfriend of the oldest Loud sister, Lori.  In season 2 they moved away to a place called in the series as simply "The City" (not the old ABC soap series I hope) and they and their mother live with their extended family called the Casagrades.  This is also being made into a spinoff. That is my simple explanation for those who haven't seen the series at all.


 Now, here's a look at the special.

        It starts with Flip, the man who runs a convenience store, being our host for the story it's like a classic holiday special which I think is a nice touch.  It starts with the day before Thanksgiving where Louds and the Casagrandes are prepping for Thanksgiving.  Lori and Bobby explain to each other what their families are doing for Thanksgiving.   This part gives us a nice Thanksgiving prep feel of seeing how these two large families prepare for such a big  holiday.   Bobby and Lori both lament they wish to have  Thanksgiving together. 

Holiday separation is what happens/ Copyright Viacom 


    Lincoln overhears his sister and Bobby's  Grandfather overhears well Bobby, saying this and they get worried about their respective  family members that they will lose them for all the holidays.  Both families start doing things to convince not to leave without outright telling them.  This escalates  as much as you can probably can tell where it is going where both Lori and Bobby find out why their families are acting in such a way.

They got caught/ Copyright Viacom 



   I like how the episode kind of shows how similar they are to each other.  Anyway, their finding out brings us to next part of the plot. The two families decide to merge their Thanksgivings together after some contention a coin is flipped and dinner will be at the Louds.  Meaning these two families are still going to compete on making their Thanksgiving better than the  other so they won't lose their family member for the next Thanksgiving.  The Casagrandes show up  and bring all their stuff and make their Thanksgiving work.  The Louds put on a  trial (with the People's Court music) for Lilly, the baby Loud, who is dressed like a turkey to be pardoned. (Interesting tradition)  The Casagrandes put on a Turkey dance because of course.  Then comes the dinner where this goes where you are probably expecting this to go , well badly. It descends into chaos and a food fight.

Does save on leftovers , I guess/ Copyright Viacom 


    Lori and Bobby leave this chaos and end up  at Flip's where he tell us that's how they ended up there. The two families find their members  and Bobby and Lori tell them they don't wanna chose sides.   Flip offers the best and most obvious answer  that  Lori and Bobby could just alternate Thanksgiving.   The two families come together at Flip's and have dinner there.  Also a fun episode for Flip being kind instead of greedy.  The special ends with a song with Luna and  Bobby's grandfather doing a duet song it's a good song.
sweet harmony / Copyright Viacom 

    I think it was a fine Thanksgiving special it had one primary plot with no B plot meaning all it's energy was filled into this plot. Nothing felt too  dragged out either. You can feel that both families really just don't want to not have their member be there and are trying to do anything to  keep them with them.  It is kind of funny that Flip suggests probably one of the  most obvious suggestions ever yet, one that might have not been thought up so easily.  For people who want a Thanksgiving special but haven't seen the Loud House you don't really need to see the entire series to understand the special it pretty much works self contained.    I do think it really could  have been longer because it would have been nice to see more character interactions. but, this doesn't mean what we got wasn't good and it was quite fun.  

 That it for us tune in next time when we force two random families we found to have Thanksgiving together.  Something ensues. 


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