Our Journey through Loud House season 1 continues , if you missed the past post you can check that out here. Now on to the pairing for episode 3.
Episode 3A: Driving Miss Hazy
The character of Leni is one of those dumber characters but this show does do more to her character than just make her the "dumb one" which is a nice welcome change. In the series canon Lori is 17 years old and the next oldest sister Leni, is 16-years-old and is also legal to drive that drives (boo!) our plot for this episode. In the Loud House, Lori likes her power to be able to drive as the only Loud child who can legally drive. This means when the others want to have a ride she makes them pay with different thing like having Lincoln do her laundry., Lisa doing her calculus, and Lucy do a poem.
Lincoln remembers that Leni is old enough to drive but apparently Leni has a Spongebob problem meaning she has failed her driver's test 12 times. This episode gives us the first glimpse of a parent as well. This show was feeling a little Peanuts there anyway, Lincoln decides to help Leni learn how to drive by using a video game. (Not Grand Theft Auto, that'd be strange ,right?) Leni does prove to be a tough case to teach. Apparently, Lincoln thinks that her doing well on a video game is good enough for a real test and she goes to do another test. Lincoln thought wrong she did tackle an old lady though.
Lori makes fun of Lincoln for trying to teach Leni how drive and Lincoln tries again. Leni is also good at making a bed. The others in the family decide to also in tune their help with making sure Leni knows how to drive. After some more problem Lincoln decides the best way to teach Leni how to drive speaking the way she speaks. This works.
When Leni goes to bed, Lori decides in a moment of madness to corrupt Leni by putting a recording into Leni's head of driving instructions. Now, umm this is bad idea because you know, she could get Leni killed if this was different show, in fact when Lincoln finds out that Lori did this he mentions that she really could have gotten Leni hurt. Lori does explain that she would feel unneeded if Leni gets her license. They rush to go check on her and she's not hurt but she did fail her test. Lori lets the truth out to Leni and makes it up to her by teaching her how to drive.
Again, this show did a nice job of making the "dumb character" archetype work and giving Leni more than just that as her personality where she has genuine sweetness to her. The episode itself was great as well. I give this episode 9.7/10.
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Episode 3B: No Guts No Glori
Lori's role in the family as eldest sister means that she is also relied upon to watch the family when the parents are out. Sometimes though she can tend to be a strict person. This time a Friday Night and the feeling was supposed to right but the parents who've been working for the weekend decided to go out because it's Friday and they're in love. They've decided that due to family ties the Lori's the boss for the evening.
Lincoln doesn't like this because of Lori's more strict attitude as she bans the members from doing anything essentially. Her schedule is strict as well she's pretty much cold as ice. Of course, Lincoln has plan to dethrone Lori, it's coupe. So, he makes him and his siblings gang up against Lori. They tie her up and Lincoln tells her that she gets a sick trill from bossing them. She says none of them could lead the others but since they aren't gonna take it anymore, they pick Lincoln.
Lori says they won't last 5 minutes. Will she be right? It's time for that part where things go right then go horribly wrong which of course happens. When Lincoln tries to keep some order the chaos ensues. It does kind of show why Lori just wants them to sit on their beds and twiddle their thumbs because going after each family member the entire evening seems to be a little much. Lincoln tries to be Lori at first by trying some rules but they disregard him so he decides to give all apologies to Lori.
It goes through a sequence of Lori handling her family by making them clean up after saying that the parents are the way home in 10 minutes which was true actually. This is also the first episode we see the parents in existence mode not their faces, that was a thing in season 1 but, at least in existence mode now. It ends with Lori and Lincoln playing a video game showing as they both learned that maybe she doesn't need to be so strict and he learned that she does need to keep some order.
A good episode I'd give 10/10 but the running of the cat missing the litter box cost it .5 points so 9.5/10. (I'm kind of strict.)
That's it for now , tune in next time when we see how the Louds handle a Manic Monday and how many more song titles can we reference in a blog post you ain't seen nothing yet.
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