The Loud House/YMMV

These things about The Loud House are subjective - not everyone will agree with all of them.

• Alas, Poor Scrappy: After earning her share of controversy from her actions in "No Such Luck," it's hard not to feel sorry for Lynn Jr. in "Middle Men" after she revealed that she herself was bullied, which is why she's such a bully to Lincoln and likes roughhousing people.
• Alternative Character Interpretation: Is Leni really a moron, or is she faking it?
• And You Thought It Would Fail: Maybe not outright fail, but when The Loud House was first announced, most of the internet had low hopes for it, theorizing that, like most Nicktoons that aren't SpongeBob SquarePants and The Fairly OddParents!, Nick wouldn't give it a fair shake and cancel it after a few years for its ratings being unable to match its two giants. Within a month of airing, it was the highest rated children's animated show on American television. And it only went up from there.
• Angst? What Angst?: Despite all the crap Lincoln has gone through, he seems to just simply shrug it all off by the next episode.
• Author's Saving Throw: After Season 1 showed Lincoln's sisters being somewhat aloof towards him, Season 2 addresses this issue by having his sisters be more caring towards him. For example, in "Yes Man," after Lincoln helps teach his sisters how to get more money from their parents, his sisters return the favor by holding a concert for Lincoln to make up for him missing the Smooch tour, with a song titled "The Best Dang Brother Anywhere Around."
• Base Breaker: With such a large cast, anyone is liable to be this; Is Lincoln a nice and interesting character or a dull brat next to his sisters? Is Lori the Only Sane Man or a Big Sister Bully? Is Lisa a funny Mad Scientist or awful for experimenting on people? None however are as divisive as Lynn. Some view her as a fun Escapist Character while others view her as a static Jerkass who is needlessly cruel to others. Her Freudian Excuse from "Middle Men" is also rather divisive; some viewing it as adequate, others as nowhere near enough; along with some viewing her as superfluous next to the similarly characterized, but much less divisive, Lana.
• Cliché Storm: At its worst moments. The Loud House is based on old newspaper comics and it often shows in a rather unoriginal Slice of Life premise and simplistic artstyle. The lead is an everyman and many of the sisters fall into common archetypes of siblings in fiction (the Dumb Blonde, the Big Sister Bully, the goth, the sports star, the baby).
• Creator's Pet: Flip.
• Crosses the Line Twice: The destruction of Fenton the Feel-Better Fox, and how much the show hammers home that the toy has been destroyed, is Black Comedy at its finest.
• Designated Protagonist Syndrome: Like most leads in an ensemble show, there are some fans who find Lincoln to be the most boring character considering that much of the show is based around him interacting with his more eccentric and unique sisters while he's the POV character.
• Draco in Leather Pants: Lincoln is an odd example. He's not evil, but he can be short-sighted and selfish. In "No Such Luck", he is often seen as an innocent victim after he's left outside and later forced to wear a squirrel suit despite the fact that a lot of it was his fault for letting his family think he was The Jinx.
• Ensemble Darkhorse: There are many, such as Kirby from "Out on a Limo" or Lincoln's dates from "Dance, Dance Resolution", but the standouts are probably Howard and Harold McBride, Clyde's openly gay, interracial dads. Bonus points for the fact that the show never really draws attention to their homosexuality, instead focusing on them being Good Parents.
• Fan-Disliked Explanation: The recounting of Lincoln's birth in "Not a Loud" is not very well liked due to how outlandish it is.
• Fandom Rivalry: Zig-zagged. While no other fandom seems to hate The Loud House, the loud attitudes of TLH's Vocal Minority seem quite adept at aggravating other fandoms. Doesn't help that the Vocal Minority enjoys redrawing other franchises in the style of The Loud House or inserting the Loud family into other properties as some form of "improvement", seemingly enacting their own version of the infamous "Needs More Pony" memes.
• Fandom Specific Plot:
  • Fix Fics about the infamous "No Such Luck" are very common, usually applying Reality Ensues to the episode's events. May or may not dip into a Revenge Fic.
  • Crossovers seem to be commonly enacted either through: Some other family moves into Royal Woods or the Loud House was destroyed during "Homespun" and the family moves elsewhere.
  • Switching around the sibling dynamics with the most common two being reversing the ages, making Lori the baby and Lily the oldest, or cutting out the siblings that the author feels are superfluous.
• Fanon Discontinuity: "No Such Luck", and to a lesser degree "Brawl in the Family", are ignored by a large portion of the fanbase for their Idiot Plots, how selfish everyone acts towards Lincoln while emerging as Karma Houdinis both times and how Lynn Sr. and Rita join in the bullying of their son.
• Friendly Fandoms:
  • The fandom seems to get along quite well with Gravity Falls, Star vs. the Forces of Evil, Hilda and, for some reason, Rick and Morty.
  • They also seem to get along well with fans of The Ren and Stimpy Show, since both shows are Nicktoons with a lot of Toilet Humor that had the misfortune of their respective creators getting fired from Nickelodeon.
• Funny Aneurysm Moment: Following creator Chris Savino being fired from Nickelodeon following accusations of sexual harassment in October 2017, some jokes have aged poorly.
  • "The Loudest Yard" contains a split-second gag in which Lynn Sr. holds up a newspaper with a headline that says "Savino Indicted,"
  • The Loud sisters becoming creepily obsessed with Hugh in "Study Muffin" is quite disgusting to watch since Savino was revealed to be sexually harassing his female employees.
  • Some of the squickier aspects of Clyde's crush on Lori (i.e. getting a Nosebleed at the sight of her and saying he likes her flatulence in "Making the Case") are rather horrifying given the accusations of Savino going after his employees. This is presumably the reason Clyde's crush on Lori was downplayed more after Season 3 and he starts to have less disgusting interactions with other girls his age.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: The series is popular in its native North America, but it has quite the following in Latin America and Southeast Asia.
• Growing the Beard: The show really started to pick up steam in the second half of Season 1, as it shifted to a more ensemble feel.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • "One Flu Over the Loud House" became rather hard to watch in wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • In "Ties That Bind," Rita and Lynn Sr. state that they will never kick any of their children out after a misunderstanding involving Lynn Sr.'s ties. Guess what they do to Lincoln in "No Such Luck"?
• Hype Backlash: The show was heavily hyped up even before it aired and it only increased from there, leading it to rival SpongeBob SquarePants and The Fairly OddParents! in popularity. Some new viewers, in light of both the hiatuses and Chris Savino's sexual harassment allegations, however found the humour fairly unoriginal, the morals Anvilicious and a few characters rather divisive, leading them to question what all the fuss was about for what they saw as a fairly okay show.
• Idiot Plot: A few but none are quite so bad as "No Such Luck". Lynn's team loses a ball game that she forced Lincoln to attend. Logical conclusion? Lincoln is a bad luck charm whom the family must exile. When he proves he's not a bad luck charm? Forced to spend the rest of his life in the squirrel costume that clearly counters his bad karma.
• Incest Yay Shipping: Shipping the Loud sisters with Lincoln is pretty popular within the fanbase. It's even got a title of its own; "Loudcest".
• It Was His Sled: The Twist Ending in "L is for Love" where Luna is confirmed to be LGBT quickly became well-known even among people who haven't watched the show.
• Jerkass Woobie:
  • Lynn in "Middle Men". Up to that point, she had been overly rough and aggressive towards Lincoln, but this episode gives her a somewhat understandable Freudian Excuse; she was bullied in middle school and she had to become tough in order to fight back. She ended up Becoming the Mask and she was never quite the same again.
  • Mr. Grouse is a Grumpy Old Man, but he is worthy of some pity when it's revealed that he misses his family in "11 Louds A-Leapin'".
• Nausea Fuel:
  • Lily's used diaper hitting a ceiling fan in "Two Boys and a Baby". Thankfully, the camera cuts away before we see the... uh... results.
  • Lola sneezing in people's faces in "Sister Act".
  • Anytime one of the zombified sisters sneezes on someone's face in "One Flu Over the Loud House". Lynn drinking a contaminated glass of juice (and we get to see the germs) is also pretty gross.
  • In "Lynn-er Takes All", there was originally going to be a scene where Lynn's gums bleed during the scene where she brags that she can brush her teeth faster than Lola. In the actual episode, however, this was replaced with one of her teeth falling out, probably because the bleeding gums were too disgusting.
  • At the end of "Along Came a Sister", Frank's egg sac hatches in one of the vents and we get to see the newborn spiders crawl everywhere.
  • In "Left in the Dark", a flashback shows that one of Lisa's experiments resulted in Leni's head swelling up and being covered in pink welts.
  • Lisa soiling herself on purpose while she's disguised as Lily in "Potty Mouth".
  • We get to see Lisa's green, glowing brain beneath her wig in "Room with a Feud".
• Never Live It Down: Not everyone can forgive the Loud family for the events of "No Such Luck". They refused to let Lincoln go anywhere and wouldn't let him inside out of the fear that his "bad luck" would spread to them.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • Lincoln's nightmare in "Tale of Two Tables". When he tells his five older sisters he'd rather go back to the kids' table, the background turns purple, the sisters turn yellow, and Lincoln is dragged into a purple swirl. The deranged music doesn't help either.
  • In "One Flu Over the Loud House", the sisters act like zombies when they're affected with the flu, complete with green eyes and moaning.
  • In "Along Came a Sister", Frank's egg sac hatches and baby spiders crawl everywhere. One can't blame Leni for screaming in terror.
• Only the Creator Does It Right: Despite Chris Savino's rightfully tainted reputation, many do find Season 4 onwards (after he'd been forced out) to be a step down from the prior three. See Seasonal Rot for more details.
• Periphery Demographic: Despite being aimed at kids, the LGBT references, particularly the positive depiction of Howard and Harold McBride, have earned it adult and teenage fans.
• Rescued From the Scrappy Heap: Zig-zagged with the Loud sisters given the show's loose relationship with Character Development. For example, while "Middle Men" didn't rescue Lynn outright, it did give her some long overdue Hidden Depths. She was also slightly more likeable in season 3 and most of season 4. But then episodes like "On Thin Ice" and "Schooled" threw her right back onto the heap.
• Ron the Death Eater: All the sisters can often get this with fans emphasizing their worst moments, especially "No Such Luck", but none quite so much as Lynn due to being a near Static Character whose Character Development is often tossed aside.
• Seasonal Rot: Some will argue that the show took a dip in quality in or following its third season, falling back on Recycled Scripts, more Flanderization of the characters and simply Denser and Wackier premises (such as an actual ghost or having Lincoln be banned from Canada). Though some also argue that the show got back on track around the midpoint of Season 6.
• Ships That Pass in the Night: Luan/Maggie. They've shared no lines, yet it's one of the most popular parings.
• So Okay It's Average: A common view on The Loud House when compared to prior Nicktoons. Hardly the worst show Nickelodeon ever produced but it doesn't break much, if any, new ground.
• Squick:
  • Many of the bathroom jokes can be pretty disgusting.
  • Whenever Clyde gets a Nosebleed at the sight of Lori, a waterfall of blood bursts out of his nostrils.
• Testosterone Brigade: With a show starring ten girls, it's kinda inevitable.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: An inevitable feeling with such a large cast. The whole family can't be given equal prominence in each and every episode, leading to this feeling popping up from time to time.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: "A Star is Scorned"/"Senior Moment" was the show's 100th episode and could have been a Milestone Celebration. Instead they were just spotlight episodes on Lola and Lori, respectively. No one thinks they were bad episodes, simply that the 100th should have had more pageantry attached to it.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: Lincoln in "No Such Luck". He may have dishonestly fed his family's belief that he was The Jinx, but his family kicking him out of the house is considered too harsh a punishment within the fanbase.
• Vocal Minority: Some fans of the show are just a bit too loud about how great it is, mainly accomplishing nothing but causing people who haven't seen the show to look down on it and turning away any potential new fans.
• Win Back the Crowd: For some, this show itself got them to watch Nicktoons again as it showed that the network would finally allow quality animation once again instead of shoving more SpongeBob SquarePants down everyone's throat.
• The Woobie:
  • Lincoln at times, being the Butt Monkey and all, especially in "No Such Luck". He did bring it on himself by going along with his family's belief that he was bad luck, but it went too far when he had to stay outside and his possessions were sold.
  • Luan in "No Laughing Matter", when she enters a Heroic BSOD when she overhears her siblings complaining about her puns.
  • Luna has some moments, especially in "L is for Love", when she genuinely doesn't think Sam could like her back, and in "Really Loud Music", when she's forced to give up her passion for rock and roll in favor of being a popstar.
  • Lucy, since she's often unnoticed and excluded. In "Spell It Out", it's shown that she is not happy about her siblings walking all over her, and in "Back in Black", her siblings try to make her girly against her will so she can win over Rocky.

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