The Loud House Season 1: Heavy Meddle/ Making the Case

The Loud House  Nickelodeon 


         Our journey through "The Loud House" season  1 continues. Previously we looked at episode 1 if you want to read that , you can check that here.  Now on to episode 2's segments so come along and join the fun! (woah, don't leave!)

       Episode 2A: Heavy Meddle 

           Lincoln has sisters who care about his well being but sometimes care about his well being a little TOO much.  It's understandable when there's a kid picking on him he doesn't want them to find out because they might react in a way that might make matters worse.

         When a bully leaves gum in Lincoln's hair he tries to hide it from the sisters. He describes it like a weather report and sneaks around the house to the fridge to get peanut  butter. (This is the part where I wonder why the heck the Louds have peanut butter in the fridge why? why? why? oh my gosh why? why?)  I guess he thinks peanut butter gets gum out hair some how?  Doesn't matter there's no peanut butter so instead he gets scissors.

    His plan gets derailed though as his mother's voice demands he puts the trash out now. (Bad timing , voice lady) Now he as to do more hiding from sisters but Lisa finds that he has gum in his hair and figures that he didn't put in there. He begs her not to tell anyone but genius girl ends up telling others because she didn't want to keep that info in her head. (what?)

        The gaggle of sisters all run to his room and try to figure out what's going on with him. Lincoln begs them to stay out because they'll make it worse.  Lincoln does have time to break the fourth wall to do more fake weather relating to his sisters.  They suggest multiple weird things to confront the bully.  Lynn grabs a random boy ( who now should sue)  and then he reveals that it's a girl.


        Do they a) still continue the course and decide they should take her because they are girls and boys can't hit girls so they'll do it?  b)  tell Lincoln they can't beat her up because she's a girl  or c) think that it's  a crush because this is a cartoon and of course the answer is c and I wasted my time with this game show like question instead of continuing the episode's talk?   They all get excited and say that it means one thing "that when a girl picks on you, she likes you".  Now they suggest thet he needs to kiss her because sure alright.

        After some prodding from Clyde he lets into the madness and lets the girls him so, he can kiss the girl.   He goes outside to kiss and she punches him (probably because he just walked up and kissed her) the girls feel bad. He tells them not meddle any more but the episode needed a littlemore time and the girl named Ronnie Annie throws her phone number through his window proving the sisters were right.

        Yes  the cliche' that if a girl is bullying a boy that means she likes him is really an over played thing in media. It's my personal opinion, but this episode here has 10 girls (some how a baby too?) saying this like it's a universal fact of truth that if a girl is mean to a boy it's because they like him. That doesn't make sense especially for a show where there are 10 girls that have different personalities and interests.  I'm nor saying that some could express their liking that way, but that's not a universality and again, this is  a show seems like it wants to break stereo types yet, there we go.
 
        The episode does provide some entertainment, minus that, and if I was going to be pedantic I'd mention you shouldn't put raw meat on your face either. At least it ended where the sisters figured not to meddle with Lincoln so much, even thought the episode kind of goes out of its way to say they are right because they want to go with that message that yeah sure, it's a universality and there we go. It's an alright episode but,  I can't give it more than  7/10 though.

 

The Loud House Season 1: Left in the Dark/ Get the Message

The Loud House  Nickelodeon 

     Very long preface first. The Loud has been covered on this blog in a different way where I've not been doing the episodes in episodic order I've been them using a randomizer site  and picking two 11 minute segments to talk about them that way. (Or using seasonal episodes to cover seasonal moments)

           For this period I'll be doing the episodes in order.   When I do get to an episode I've done already from "The Loud House" I'll  mark that with a link to that post then skip to the segment I've not done     

         Just in case this is an introduction post to those who don't know what the Loud House  the here's a short explanation.  The series is a ,as of this writing, a currently running Nickelodeon network animated series about an 11 year old boy named Lincoln Loud who is the middle sibling in a family with 10 other children who are all girls.  The series (mostly) follows the exploits of this boy doing his daily life   That's the very short explanation.

  Episode 1A  : Left in the Dark.

          The plot of a character wanting to watch the TV but having to share it with their other siblings is one I wasn't expecting in a series that seems to take place in a modern time where you normally wouldn't think of that as a thing as much as it still might be a thing. Either that or many modern shows don't want to do that type of plot any more.   That's not fully what this segment is about but I thought it was interesting to note that part of it was that.
 
            Since this is the first full episode of the series, which was originally promoted with shorts, this episode has the purpose of also introducing us to our cast of characters and with 11 of them it has to do that quickly for 11 minutes and still get on with the plot.   Lincoln wants to watch his favorite show  Arrgh! which is like those ghost hunting shows that Travel Channel used or kind of still does do , or really any of those ghost hunting show.  It's having a live finale episode.

         Something shown in the shorts carries on this episode as well, where Lincoln talks to the audiece showing that will be a main feature of the series. (as he stares in your soul.)  Lincoln  explains yes it is hard to watch a show in a family with 11 kids but he has plan for this time.  Clyde, his best friend, is introduced as well as well that kid who has a crush on Lincoln's eldest sister, Lori.  The first segment also introduces what will be a running gag in the series Lincoln doing a really long name operation and even acknowledging it's a long name.  ( Operation write a blog post about The Loud House and make a joke in the margins again when we haven't even gone past the 2:12 mark in the episode and not even know how to finish up this joke so, we just cut it off with a )

        Now Lincoln puts his plan into action. First, there are the twin sisters who are six,   we (the people) get an introduction into the characters' personality traits. Lola likes tea parties, Lana likes frogs. Luan likes to record stuff for the internet (what ever happened to that? oh yeah distracted from the episode again) Lisa likes big words and science (every series needs a young genius) , Lynn likes sports, Leni likes beauty, Luna likes music, Lori likes her phone (because teenager), Lilly is a baby.  Lucy is the spooky sister and he offers her an old TV set to watch her show on black and white TV.  (nice)

          Lincoln plugs the TV in and the power goes out.  We also find out that Luan likes to make jokes and puns.  They added the series running gag of Lucy making characters jump because they didn't know where she was and the response of sighs and moans when Luan makes a joke. Anyway, they all seem to get nervous about  the darkness and Lincoln decides to just go down an turn the lights on himself.

         Now the the power is on, Lincoln makes it first to the TV and missed his show (because some how it took them 30 minutes or an hour to turn on the lights?)  The sisters cheer him up and it's nice happy ending.

    Introducing the audience to the family and using a nice simple plot is a good start to the series. The show's aesthetic is pleasing and the animation style itself is simple yet well done. I think it was fine segment and really brings delightful experience to introducing anyone to the show. 10/10.


 More after the Jump

We look at Stitch and Ai

Disney  

            Remember when I talked about the anime series "Stitch"?  Which I thought was an alright series, I did think that we were done. Disney did announce they are making a live-action Lilo and Stitch movie because Disney has nothing better to do or something.  I found out later that there was another Lilo and Stitch, well Stitch, series and this time from China.  

      But it's not a knock-off series because  Disney was involved in making it or at least endorses it because it's even on the Disney Now service in the United States. (Not even "Stitch" gets that respect) So this series is called "Stitch and Ai" (Pronounced like "I" or eye) where once again Lilo is not involved because what is she done acting, did she quit?   I also thought that maybe Stitch had given up on Yuna, from the anime", but apparently this happens before Japan?  The series ran for 13 episodes in 2017,  first on China state television network on CCTV-1 and CCTV-14 eventually making it to Disney Channel Southeast Asia with an English dub.  

     

        The first episode in English is called  "Hello-Goodbye".( I like that song too) So our not Lilo character is narrating where she lives in the  Huangshan mountains.  A real mountain range in China so, we are learning geography today!  Our main character is named Wang Ai Ling but she says you can call her Ai.   Her English voice is by  Erica Mendez so, Disney really has gone all out on this.  The theme song fits China as much as the first series theme fits Hawaii and the other series, Japan. "Lilo and Stitch the series" has the most catchy theme of all of them.
                                  

      Stitch has been kidnapped by space criminals.  His English done this time by Ben Diskin  who was the voice of him in the English dub of "Sitch" he's also done voices in anime such as "Digimon Fusion" (why we picked that credit, nobody knows), and he was the voice of Nigel Uno in "Codenamed Kids Next Door" , plus more but we aren't IMDB.  Then because everybody loves Stitch another space gang goes after the first space gang to steal him and while they try to get him he escapes.  He crash lands on Earth (with visions of Lilo in his head) and lands guess where?
                         

     Ohio. (Well, you know where he lands)  The Huangshan mountains, but let's see what Ai is up to.  So she doesn't want to go somewhere.  So very much like Lilo, Ai's parents are dead and she's being looked after by her sister,Jiejie. There's an aunt named Daiyu who wants Ai to live with her to be the city because she's mean.   Also, Jiejie and Daiyu are voiced in English by Laura Post, who recently has done the voice of Isabella in "The Promised Neverland" dub.

Here's a picture of Ai and her sister/ Copyright Disney because it's not a knockoff series 

   

      The series Mertle is Meiying who apparently just walks into people's houses as Peanuts characters do. Ai sees star in the daytime and thinks to make a wish on it.  Ai runs out and sees that that star is Stitch.   The bad guys come back and chase Stitch and Ai.  Plus in episode 1, I  have to point out that guy with Ice Cream seen in the original series is in this episode with ice cream!  Meanwhile, Stitch and Ai don't die falling off a cliff and the bad guys are still after them.  The bad guys get stopped and I wonder if we will see them again.  The aunt who wants to move Ai out is trying to still  get Ai out, also Sitch can write Chinese so, he's versatile. 

Woah/ Copyright Disney 

         More after the jump

My Network TV's fall Line Up 2019

My Network TV 

    The FOX owned service, My Network TV has released their fall line up.   The network that acts as a syndication service to bring programming to local stations continues for the 2019-2020 season.


 The return of "Law and Order :SVU" is part of the line up, other series like "Law and Order :CI", "Dateline", "Chicago P.D", and "CSI :Miamai" make their return as well. Meanwhile, "The Good Wife" is leaving the line up.  The New line up starts September 23.

        Full schedule all time eastern/central many affiliates air programming in their own time slots so check listings in your area. 

  Mondays 
  8/7c Law & Order : SVU
 9/8c  Law & Order: SVU

 Tuesdays
 8/7c  Chicago P.D.
 9/8c  Chicago P.D.

 Wednesdays
 8/7c  Dateline
 9/8c  Dateline

Thursdays
8/7c  Law & Order :CI  (new night)
9/8c  Law & Order :CI

Fridays
8/7c  CSI: Miami
9/8c  CSI: Miami

FOX Sets Fall 2019 Premiere Dates

FOX TVLookFall2019 

   

     
FOX has released their fall season  premiere dates. 

     FOX's season starts with the 71th Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday, September 22nd at 8pmet/ 5pm pt. 

      Here are the dates/times for the premieres  all times ET except where otherwise noted.

 Monday, September 23rd
 8PM  9-1-1 (Season Premiere)
 9PM   Prodigal Son (Series Premiere)

Tuesday, September 24th
8PM    The Resident (Season Premiere)
9PM      Empire (Season Premiere)


Wednesday,September 25th
8PM   The Masked Singer (Two Hour Season Premiere)

Thursday, September 26th
7:30PM /4:30PT   Thursday Night Football

Sunday, September 29th
8PM The Simpsons (Season Premiere)
8:30    Bless the Harts (Series Premiere
9PM    Bob's Burgers (Season Premiere)
9:30PM   Family Guy (Season Premiere)

Wednesday, October 2nd
8PM  The Masked Singer (Time Period Premiere)
9PM   Almost Family (Series Premiere)


Friday, October 4th
8PM  WWE's Smackdown Live  (FOX Premiere)



Press Release after the jump

Weekendering : The Weekenders Season 1: Dead Ringer/ Carver The Terrible

The Weekenders   Disney 

 
    If you missed our last post about "The Weekenders" click here to read about episode 7.

      As mentioned before "The Weekenders" has four seasons, but only 39 episodes. Seasons 2 and  3 had 13 episodes, while season 4 had 5 and that means season 1 had 8. So, this is the finale episode pairing for season 1.


              Episode 8A : Dead Ringer 

                       Another episode with an event going on  and this time it's an all school picnic. Tino doesn't want to play a sport because he doesn't want to embarrass himself. His normal choice is usually chess but this year he can't do it because of rabbits.   That means he has to sign up for a sport.  Good thing he has until Sunday to figure out which one.

            He still worries about it.  His friends help him figure out a sport starting with golf (nope) , badminton (bad admit it) , Tetherball (nope)  and 8 other sports.   Lor  has apparently 14 brothers I think. (Fun running gag)  They  are now trying team sports  but Tino fails at that too.  Now they figure out his calling might be horseshoes.

              When he practices horseshoes he doesn't do to well. He does get better but, he finds out that they are using metals ones because of course. After a while he does seem to get a hang of it but doesn't win but it seemed he had fun.

                That was a fun episode. I like how Tino ended up following his mother's advice  about just having fun without even thinking about it.  We get a little more about Tino's characterization. I liked it 9/10.


  More after the Jump

Weekendering : The Weekenders : Season 1: Party Planning/ Pudding Ball

The Weekenders  Disney

    Our Look through the first season of the Weekenders continues with a look at Disney's "The Weekenders". If you missed out Look at episode 6, Read here, now we look at episode 7.

  Episode 7A : Party Planning 

          In this episode Tino gets a party invitation and he's not happy about it , it seems.  It's a boy-girl party without a clown meaning there's dancing. Carver gets one too they both freak out because they don't know what to do at that kind of party.  Lor and Tish offer to help them since they are girls and all.

           Tish and Lor  teach the boys how to handle the party all of that Saturday and little bit of the that Sunday. Then Tino turns the tables and he and Carver teach Lor and Tish how to act around boys.  All of this might be a bad idea.  Of course, Tino's Mom tells him to be himself but she expands on that normal line by saying that not every girl will like him being himself but there will be ones that will.  (Tino's right we might a map for sentence)   The four of them decide to act normal. (yay)

         The one thing they hinted at the beginning what they called LGS (Lateral Gravity Syndrome) where the boys and girls separate at a party happens anyway.

                Almost as if all that all went through in this episode was a waste of time!  But really, the training parts were fun to watch and yes, they had Tino's Mom do the job again of being the clarity before any of them did anything stupid but that's alright.  It did have a good message , yes the simple message of be yourself  which even this show has done alot this season.   It's 7/10 from me.

     More after the Jump

Scooby Doo 50: Scooby Doo on Zombie Island

Scooby Doo 50

                                    



         While by 1998 "Scooby Doo " wasn't in a TV series since the end of "A Pup Named Scooby Doo" ended in 1991 and the television specials and movies kind of dried up there was a new channel to go through: the direct to video market. Though, because of Scooby Doo's rerun popularity on Cartoon Network they did end up airing the DTV movies.  The first of the direct to video and certainly not the last was "Scooby Doo on Zombie Island".
       
               This movie was marked as a darker and "the monsters are real"  though it is not the first time "Scooby Doo" has has real monsters and ghosts.  This isn't even the first Scooby Doo media I've talked about where at least Scooby and Shaggy have met real ghosts and monsters   I will this movie is less comedic than past ones though.

               Since Don Messick, the voice of Scooby Doo, died  before this movie wasmade they had  Scott Innes do the dog's voice, meanwhile, Casey Kasem didn't come back as Shaggy because he wanted Shaggy to be a vegetarian but they said no or something and Billy West took the voice role.  The only voice actor to return from the original series was Frank Welker.

            The movie begins with the gang running around a spooky house from a monster because that's how Scooby works.  Also did you want to hear "Scooby Doo Where are you?" pefromed by Third Eye Blind? Well Merry Christmas!  (That's a semi charmed life there)    Meanwhile, the monster is a man in a suit.  It was actually Daphne talking about a case talking a 90's talk show.  Daphne is now the host of a syndicated show called "Coast to Coast with Daphne Blake" because the talk show host told us she is.  Daphne says that the job got boring and the gang broke up. She and Fred work together though on her show. (Calm down you!) 

I'm more confused if that microphone works or not/ Copyright Warner Bros. 

     Daphne wants to find real ghosts now for her show and Fred gets an idea to bring the band back together.  I know this movie is like 76 minutes long but woah slow down. Shaggy and Scooby work as airport customs (how the heck they get this job? That's right it's before 9/11) Velma works as a  mystery book store owner. (A store with one genre of books)  Shaggy and Scooby get fired for eating contraband.   (How'd they get this job again?)

Whoever hired them for this job should also be fired/ Copyright Warner Bros. 

             Scooby and Shaggy apparently have lost a few jobs. (Can't imagine why)  Plot convenient timing too!  Fred surprises Daphne with Shaggy,Scooby,and Velma. Oh it's  Daphne's birthday too because of course it is her birthday. (ding)   They are going to New Orleans.   After  a montage of them looking for real ghosts and monsters they keep running into fakes because New Orleans is apparently filled with fake ghosts? 

 In New Orleans the food cooks you / Copyright Warner Bros. 

   Since this movie is 76 minutes long, we need to get to that zombie Island but how? How?! Oh hey.  There's  a woman named Lena Dupree who tells them about MoonScar Island she invites them to check out the Island.   Lena works for a woman named  Simone Lenoir, there's also a gardener named Beau Neville , and a fisherman named  Snakebite Scruggs. Simone tells them that her house is haunted.

It's haunted by my cold hands hahhahah/ Copyright Warner Bros. 

     Shaggy and Scooby end up meeting a ghost that tells them to "Get Out" (standard ghost talk).  Then when the rest of the gang see the word Beware appear.  Velma starts to levitate. Anyway they end up seeing the ghost of Morgan Moonscar in film footage.  Fred still wants to think that is fake like normal.  Simone tells them that there was a treasure from the pirate on the island that's not been found.

He seems nice / Copyright Warner Bros.

    Shaggy and Scooby meet the ghost in person this time he's more zombie ish now.  Simone says they can stay the night. (They couldn't leave the Island this early in the movie anyway) Later, Shaggy and Scooby see the a ghost of a Confederate solider who also tells them to get out.  Also, there's a Freddy ascot joke.    A lot of this movie is Shaggy and Scooby eating very hot peppers and Scooby chasing cats. 

      I feel that they are making the gardener seem more suspicious to the point where it is pretty much the movie telling us that he's not part of anything strange.  He does save Velma from dying in quick sand.  Also Fred and Daphne should just kiss already I mean really.   Also they meet  a zombie and it's real one.

Since the Zombie is dead, you really shouldn't try so hard to pull of his head/ Copyright Warner Bros.

      More supernatural stuff happens and there are more zombies. They got SkyCycle to perform music for this movie too which Wikipedia says they are best known for doing music in , uh this movie.   Also, Scooby and Shaggy find voo doo dolls that they use to end up causing their friends to float and hit each other. Anyway , more zombies. Lena and Simone are nowhere to be seen.  Daphne finds the Munster house staircase with Fred fallen in with Lena (oh my). There was a secret passage way in the way and zombies dragged Simone way.  Velma is skeptical because yes. 


   And rightfully so, because Simone and Lena are evil! (What a twist!) Simone and Lena are also cat creature things , that explains why she didn't like dogs. Meanwhile, they want to use the gang minus Shaggy and Scooby, for their continued immorality.  Flashback time, Lena and Simone were settlers on the island with their cat god.  When the pirates came ashore  a do what pirates do and killed off all the settlers that weren't Simone and Lena.   They ended up being cat creatures and killed the pirates.

MEEEOWWWW/ Copyright Warner Bros. 

            The zombies were actually there to help them and telling them to get out from the danger. Velma eventually gets a couple of the voo doo dolls and frees herself, Beau, Daphne, and Freddy and end up using two for Lena and Simone.  This stops those two from doing their plans and causing the cat curse to finish thus, disintegrating them.  The zombies can rest at peace now.  Beau was a detective the whole time. Fred and Daphne seem to have each other again and Velma has a crush on Beau.   They leave the island the end.

    This  movie is great. I've watched it before but haven't in a long time it still quite fun to watch. I like the tone it takes where it is much more serious but not lacking any comedy at all. While it seems the Scooby chasing cats was too much it does fit with hints of why Simone was annoyed by a dog's presence. I also like how the zombie were there trying to help because of Lena and Simone's killing them for their immortality.  It really is a dark movie , where the villains were using supernatural abilities and killing off people that is something you normally don't see in Scooby Doo.   This is really good movie and it deserves to be checked out.


   That does it for us now, tune in next time when we wonder why people where customs to get stuff to work.