The Loud House: Season 1: It's a Loud,Loud,Loud,Loud House/ Save the Date

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   If I could turn back time, I'd go back the other previous Loud House post, if  I missed it, you can read that here.
 
      This is going to be the last time ,for awhile, where I jerry-rig two episode segments together because of the other paired episode.  First I've done the episode paired with "It's a Loud Loud Loud Loud House" already, that's "For Bros about to Rock" , that you can read here.  Meanwhile jumping to episode 15B since, I've already done "Cover Girls" (my favorite TLH episode) I'm taking "Save the Date" and putting it on this post.  (Cover Girls can be read here)

            Babbling over, time to babble, but about the episode.

   Episode 13B : "It's a Loud,Loud,Loud,Loud House" 

     Hey! How many louds do you need episode, calm down!    Lincoln finds a quarter in the couch which in a normal house would be fine, but in the Loud House no all the sisters want the quarter so they go insane and start fighting to find more quarters.  The parents exist and punish their kids for once. (yeah I went there)    So, now they have to clean the attic.  Lincoln finds a letter from a previous owner of the house named Sharon Demony. (hmm, someone owned that house?) 

               She said she hid money in the house and everyone around the house starts looking for the money. Eventually, they all get into fight again and get sent back to the attic.  Lincoln found another letter for a clue.  Lincoln gets hit in the face alot with a floor board when he walks on i this episode, anyway, they go crazy and start looking around the house.  Causing a mess.

          Eventually, Lincoln stops everything and tells everyone that maybe they should share instead. They came together and find the money buried in the backyard. Leni is good at picking locks apparently. It's 500 dollars and they split it, anyway, the money comes from the father's work bonus.   He has to clean the house though.

          This was another Loud House members fighting episode but to a purpose where they learn something at the end.   I like the title and plot being a reference to  "I't's a Mad Mad, Mad, Mad  World". That makes it really fitting.  The Jokes were fun and there wasn't any thing that dragged the episode down to me personally.  A fine episode with  some fun to be had  8.5/10. (Divide that by 11 for each Loud sibling)



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The Loud House: Season 1: Toads and Tiaras / Two Boys and A Baby

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          Thinking back, those past two episodes were pretty fun, take a read of our previous Loud House post here. Now on, to episode 14.

 Episode 14 A: Toads and Tiaras 

           This episode dives a little more into the twin Loud girls, Lana and Lola. They each have their own personalities that contrast and have been shown in the previous episodes. If the title doesn't show you a reference to the former TLC network series "Toddlers and Tiaras" then I want to be happy that some didn't know that show existed.  What? It's about a pageant. 

        Lola is training for a pageant with Lincoln helping, thus showing how helpful a brother he is with his sisters.  Also, there is a price to the famous "Dairy Land" and if Lincoln gets to go along if Lola wins then bonus!    The first part also sets up Lana where you see her running through the mud  it's a nice touch to show her difference to Lola.

            Lola trips over a hairspray can and now is injured. So, they can't go the pageant. Lincoln then figures out that Lola's twin sister looks like Lola. (Mind blown)  He convinces her to join the pageant for the season passes since they both like Dairyland. They also have to make sure Lola doesn't find out.

              He helps teach her some of the pageant essentials.  Though,  Lana's ability to do plumbing would be a great talent skill for the pageant. After a montage, things get done.  Lincoln's encouragement is also sweet touch this episode. Since the rules say that Lola has to find out, Lola finds out and gets scary and trudges her way on crutches to stop Lincoln and Lana from ruining her "good name".  Like how the dad doesn't care about his injured daughter storming out the house.

            When Lana tries to do the routine she still also acts like Lana like fixing the loose floor board  with a hammer she has there.  When Lana says she thinks maybe there's something wrong with her , Lincoln tells her that nothing wrong with her and that she should be herself.  Then he lets her do her own talent instead. Lola finds Lincoln and I think wants to kill him but Lana won. Lola doesn't mind now and lets them have the tickets.

        This is a good don't turn people into something they aren't episode,it's well done with the characters and I really think it's genuine and earnest in it's presentation.  I think Lana is a great character so this episode really feels like it was written for her in mind than just any of the sisters.  I give it  10/10.  It's a high ranking episode.

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The Loud House: Season 1: The Green House/ Chore and Peace

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    If you missed out past post , click here.  So, once again, Since I've already covered episode 11A, "The Butterfly Effect", which also happens to be another favorite episode of mine, we have to skip ahead to episode 11B.  Meanwhile,  Kind of funny , that the post where  I wrote about "The Butterfly Effect" also was has the look at the episode "Along Came a Sister" ,which is paired with "Chore and Peace". So, to read those click here.  This post looks at episode 11B and 12B.

  Episode 11B : The Green House

              You know this isn't a good episode , if you like it that's fine, but I don't think it's a good episode.   I've written about two episodes of "Captain Planet" that told it's audience of 7-year-olds to stop having a bunch of children otherwise you hate the environment.  This episode feels like it was written by those episodes , sub consciously.

                Lincoln's class is doing an energy reduction project  to win a save a polar bear challenge. (Yes that'll work?)  They want to get a polar named after the class (what would that name even be?)  I going to assume that everyone else in the class doesn't live in a house with 12 other people, I'm going to assume that. (reaching a limb here)  Meaning, that Loud family usage would be higher than everyone else by default.  The teacher and some of the other class members seem to not understand logic and that using more energy as a larger family means that he hates polar bears , somehow?

        Now to put logic into this , Lincoln's family could be eco-friendly or whatever for their family size compared to the the other kids, but again these people are being idiots. (Yeah I called them idiots!)    The teacher doesn't act like a responsible authority at all chastising Lincoln and implying that he hates polar bears. The other students are of no help and chastise him because they want their stupid names on a polar bear or whatever.

          Random question , why does Lola have a gas powered car? What?  Yes, there are somethings the Louds could do to reduce some energy use and that's show in the episode.   So he's  gets them to lower their usage.   Apparently, this show forgot Laptops are!   Battery power shouldn't mean that using more energy. (Prove me wrong!)   For part of this episode you can sympathize with Lincoln  but, then he makes his sisters give up more things so he and some stupid other kids can come over and use up energy for a game.   The sisters find out after he makes them wear sacks (clothes take energy now?)  and honestly , they are the only ones this entire episode that acting like stupid people.

      Lincoln does make up for it, which gives this episode a little redemption , small, but there.  During reruns and things this is an episode I avoid , really, the only one I do. There's nothing here, if it's an environmental message it's bad and without logic (If I was doing this a those PSA episodes it would have failed the getting it's message out test)  Everyone but the sisters are awful at some point (maybe not Clyde, but he's of no help either) and really just plain awful in every way. There's nothing even funny to hold it well. Yeah I really hate this episode, it's 0.03/10.

             Yuck, I hate being negative, more after the Jump

The Loud House : Season 1: Overnight Success/ Hand-Me-Downer

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                Sometimes the present is difficult, maybe you feel nostalgic for the past or you want to see things from before, well you can read about episode 8's pair of segments here.

    A quick explainer first.   Since I did the Loud House out of order in past posts , using a ranomizer site, I already did a few episodes.  We've reached the point where I've done some of the episode pairs so, here's how this  post will be done :  This will be a combo of episode 9A: Overnight Success and episode 10A: Hand-Me-Downer.  For anyone wondering if 10B's episode will be done will 11a , that answer is no , for two reasons. The most important reason is I've already done 10B's episode as well.
 
           Links to those will be posted in this post and you will see those, but now let's get going.

   Episode 9A: Overnight Success

                  For the first time, Lincoln gets to have a sleep over  as he explains that  because of previous sleep overs by the other sisters have not gone well.  Fun fact: This is the first episode to explicitly state that Lynn is Lynn Jr., though we still weren't sure which parent was Lynn Sr. yet. (AT least I wasn't. )  Lincoln tell us that he convinced his parents through a presentation, which we've seen him do in "In Tents Debate" as well.  Also, cats hate Lincoln, this episode.

         This is more for history, otherwise has no barring on the plot, but gets a mention: This episode was when the Loud House revealed that Clyde's parents are a gay couple.   Oh, yeah Clyde apparently went to the bathroom to sniff the shampoo he thinks is Lori's ,because comedy?  The robot thing doesn't bother me so, it's evened out?  (What?)  Lincoln has the evening planned out because that always never fails.
 
       Clyde decides to interact with the sisters  which, Lincoln is bugged about.  The Clyde and Lynn hacky-sack interaction is awesome.   As Clyde is engaged with more sisters Lincoln gets more annoyed. (It's like a math problem)  He decides to call the sleep over off and walk away in anger. (Don't look back in anger, I heard you say)

   Lincoln decides to find  a new friend to sleep-over with   and this brings us the first time we see Liam, who runs out after getting made over by Lola.  Then, some kid I never saw after this episode so, I assume he's dead. This another kid that I never saw after this episode so he's also dead, and few more who are dead as well. (we get the point of this "joke). The legend himself, Zach, was introduced to the series and he has the best reaction.

    Anyway, Lincoln realizes he misses  Clyde and goes to make up with him  and eventually finds that he never left because fainting works for the plot.  Lincoln finds out that Clyde likes hanging out with the sisters because he is an only child. Lincoln destroys his plans and decides to let Clyde do what he wants and it ends well.

            An entertaining episode.  Clyde being with the sisters was fun and seeing their interactions with him.  I like they gave a little more insight into Clyde's family life including the fact he is an only child, giving him a contrast to Lincoln.  The only thing I didn't like was the thing with Clyde being creepy with shampoo sniffing, the robot thing doesn't bother me though.  I'm giving this episode 8/10.



          Before we go to the next episode.  Episode 9B is  "Ties that Bind" you can read about that (along with another season 1 episode) here. 


Now to Hand-Me- Downer , after the Jump

The Loud House :Season 1: Linc or Swim/ Changing the Baby

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            I don't  know how to start this creatively so instead, here's where you can read the previous Loud House post  that's here   meanwhile,  here's today's Loud House look at episode 8.

   Episode 8A : Linc or  Swim

                Apparently, it's a hot summer day and The Louds keep getting kicked out of public pools  because why of course they have. Lincoln really just wanted to do a cannon ball.  So he decides to go to a store and get a family pool but he imagines that things would go not the way he wanted to so instead he buys a pool called  Paradise for One. (Coming soon to ABC)

               Now he tries to put the pool together and different gags come of out his setting up this poll which makes this quite fun.  When he tries to do a cannon ball now, he finds Leni and Lori in the pool because the pool for one is apparently marketed badly.  The other sisters join in the fun as well and Lincoln still hasn't got to his swimming. 

                   Guy whisperers in my ear : Has there been a conflict in this episode? I  say no, not really no.  We have like 3 minutes left.  Yes, I know.

                     Anyway, Lincoln snaps and kicks his family out of the pool. Also, plot convenient label says no canon balls.  So Lincoln now finds out that his alone fun isn't fun after all and  he starts to miss his sisters.  Then He finds out they have  a pool now.  They allow  Lincoln to join their pool  and o he canon balls and destroys the pool and good this his pool works now.

             It's not episode where much goes on  but it's alright episode  I love the long gag play that Lincoln has while setting up the pool it has an old time cartoon feel to it.   I'll give the episode a 8/10 ... oh wait yeah, why is there like a multiple "fecal incident" gag going on?  7/10.


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The Loud House: Season 1: Picture Perfect / Undie Pressure

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    This is the part of the blog post where I point to the previous episode blog post in case , you missed it here.   This is the part of the blog post where I say we now continue to the next episode in this case episode 7's two segments. Thanks for reading!

  Episode 7A : Picture Perfect 

   

                Lincoln makes his parents coffee mugs every year for their anniversary they don't look that good but are still serviceable (the mugs not the parents)  he makes them with his pride. For some reason this year his sisters criticize his mug workmanship. Lola decides to let it slip that the parents put their mugs in the attic every year.   After seeing this is true , Lincoln isn't a give up person he decides to instead chart a new direction a new concept a new idea!  (Calm down!_ 

         He decides to make them a family photograph because, the best anniversary gift is to remind them of what most likely started on their honeymoon night. (This is mostly a joke) So he takes the picture and apparently the camera has the world's longest plot convenient timer because they get ansy and start doing things and the camera , 80 years later, snaps the picture of the chaos.  

      Lincoln is displeased with this picture and wants to do it again.  Also apparently, the Loud House has a really long hose that he could bring up to the second floor and wash his sisters' faces off with the water. So, he starts re gathering the sisters to re do the picture. He makes Lisa take off her glasses  puts the glasses on Leni (causing two sisters to fall down the stairs),  Lynn is easy to convince because she is apparently part dog this episode, Lucy was easy to move by book,  he hides Luna's ax and Luan's  funny glasses. He gets a replacement Lori to convince Lori to do it again. 

          Then he puts them in "perfect picture" and it seems to go well for  him until he notices that  a) his sisters are happier as themselves and b) looks miserable in the picture.  Now it's anniversary day  and he gives them the original picture and everything ends well. 

  

                Today's moral: there is so such thing a perfect person  and that each person is an individual and that's what this episodes says as a message. Kind of the parents learned that with the dang mugs but alright. It's a fine episode to show us that message plus, some fun jokes and moments that add iot it. 9/10 from me.  

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This is a post about Nichijou

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             I wasn't really going to do this post but, there's a really good reason why I'm doing this and will mention that way later.  I found "Nichijou" a few years ago and enjoyed it. The hard part is writing about it because how do I describe this to someone and make them interested in watching without either killing a joke, looking insane, or making the show  sound boring?  Eh, who knows?

      Nichijou is  a 2011 anime with 26 episodes based of a manga of the same name written by Keiichi Arawi. The anime was produced by  Kyoto Animation (who also did "K-ON") . It's pretty much about the everyday lives of the characters in the series. It's comedy and slice of life series, but again that is underselling it badly.


           This series has a large cast of characters mainly focusing on a trio of three high school girls  named Yuko Aioi, Mio Naganohara, and Mai Minakami.   The  other main characters are in a different part of town with Professor (no other name is given , In Japanese it's Hakase )  Shinonme, Nano, and Sakamoto. The professor is an eight-year-old girl  who made Nano, who is a robot, Sakamoto is a cat who can talk because the professor made a scarf that allows him to speak.

     The plots of many of the segments have Yukko trying to get a joke in, being lazy, or having just hte worst luck.  Mio is Yukko's friend and she has more a short tempter and  plays a straight man to Yukko's comedy. She also is a talented manga drawer and prefers to draw yaoi which she likes to hid doing and this has caused some great scenes in the series.  Mai  is the quietest of the three but is a prankster  and really is a foil to Yukko's comedic acts.   

     Meanwhile in the Shinomone household, Professor is one of those really smart kids who might have a degree or something. She doesn't really act like an overly intelligent girl and more like your average 8 year old.  Has a penchant for sharks, snacks, and fun. She spends most of her time at home . She created Nano, who is a robot that looks like a teenage girl (The future is now!)  Much  like how when watching you can forget that the professor is a genius the same is forgetting that Nano is a robot.The only way you can tell is the giant key in her back, or if a limb comes off.   The cat, Sakamoto, wants them to treat him like an adult since in cat years he's the oldest.  He also still is  a cat.     Nano does want to go to school and be a normal girl when she does she ends up meeting the three above thus, combining the worlds that were separated.


   These aren't the only characters that have a role in the series either. There's a teacher with the characteristic  of being nervous and easily frightened.  Her name is Izumi Sakarai. Meawnhile, there's a male teacher that likes her but afraid to tell her. The principal has the same name has The Professor but we don't know if they are related in anyway.  There's also a vice principal who likes to do mean things to the principal he's kind of bitter.  There's also a science teacher who comes into play later on with her plots centering on being obsessed with Nano being a robot


         I'm not done yet, but more after the jump

2019 Prime time Emmy Nominations

Emmys 

           The 71st annual prime time Emmy Awards nominations are out.  The awards show airs on FOX  , Sunday September 22nd  at  8PMET.


 Here are the list of nominees:

Outstanding Drama Series

Better Call Saul
Bodyguard
Game of Thrones
Killing Eve
Ozark
Pose
Succession
This Is Us

Outstanding Comedy Series

Barry
Fleabag
The Good Place
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Russian Doll
Schitt’s Creek
Veep

Outstanding Limited Series

Chernobyl

Escape at Dannemora
Fosse/Verdon
Sharp Objects
When They See Us

Outstanding Television Movie

Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
Brexit
Deadwood: The Movie
King Lear
My Dinner with Herve

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series

Jason Bateman, Ozark
Sterling K. Brown, This Is Us
Kit Harington, Game of Thrones
Bob Odenkirk, Better Call Saul
Billy Porter, Pose
Milo Ventimiglia, This Is Us

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series

Emilia Clarke, Game of Thrones
Jodie Comer, Killing Eve
Viola Davis, How to Get Away With Murder
Laura Linney, Ozark
Mandy Moore, This Is Us
Sandra Oh, Killing Eve
Robin Wright, House of Cards

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series

Anthony Anderson, Black-ish
Don Cheadle, Black Monday
Ted Danson, The Good Place
Michael Douglas, The Kominsky Method
Bill Hader, Barry
Eugene Levy, Schitt’s Creek

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series

Christina Applegate, Dead to Me
Rachel Brosnahan, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep
Natasha Lyonne, Russian Doll
Catherine O’Hara, Schitt’s Creek
Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie

Mahershala Ali, True Detective
Benicio Del Toro, Escape at Dannemora
Hugh Grant, A Very English Scandal
Jared Harris, Chernobyl
Jharrel Jerome, When They See Us
Sam Rockwell, Fosse/Verdon

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie

Amy Adams, Sharp Objects
Patricia Arquette, Escape at Dannemora
Aunjanue Ellis, When They See Us
Joey King, The Act
Nicey Nash, When They See Us
Michelle Williams, Fosse/Verdon

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series

Alfie Allen, Game of Thrones
Jonathan Banks, Better Call Saul
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Game of Thrones
Peter Dinklage, Game of Thrones
Giancarlo Esposito, Better Call Saul
Michael Kelly, House of Cards
Chris Sullivan, This Is Us

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series

Gwendoline Christie, Game of Thrones
Julia Garner, Ozark
Lena Headey, Game of Thrones
Fiona Shaw, Killing Eve
Sophie Turner, Game of Thrones
Maisie Williams, Game of Thrones

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series

Alan Arkin, The Kominsky Method
Anthony Carrigan, Barry
Tony Hale, Veep
Stephen Root, Veep
Tony Shalhoub, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Henry Winkler, Barry

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series

Alex Borstein, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Anna Chlumsky, Veep
Sian Clifford, Fleabag
Olivia Colman, Fleabag
Betty Gilpin, GLOW
Sarah Goldberg, Barry
Marin Hinkle, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Kate McKinnon, Saturday Night Live

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie

Asante Blackk, When They See Us
Paul Dano, Escape at Dannemora
John Leguizamo, When They See Us
Stellan Skarsgard, Chernobyl
Ben Whishaw, A Very English Scandal
Michael K. Williams, When They See Us

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie

Patricia Arquette, The Act
Marsha Stephanie Blake, When They See Us
Patricia Clarkson, Sharp Objects
Vera Farmiga, When They See Us
Margaret Qualley, Fosse/Verdon
Emily Watson, Chernobyl

Variety Talk Series

The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
Jimmy Kimmel Live
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
The Late Late Show with James Corden
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Variety Sketch Series
At Home with Amy Sedaris
Documentary Now
Drunk History
I Love You, America with Sarah Silverman
Saturday Night Live
Who Is America

Competition Program

The Amazing Race
American Ninja Warrior
Nailed It!
RuPaul’s Drag Race
Top Chef
The Voice

Outstanding Animated Program

Big Mouth  - "The Planned Parenthood Show"
Bob's Burgers - "Just One of The Boyz 4 Now For Now"
Bojack Horseman - "Free Churro"
Come Along with Me (Adventure Time)
The Simpsons - "Mad About The Toy"