Lincoln is on the couch with all his older sisters except Luna. The reason Lisa isn't present is because, with Grammy around, she has decided not to appear in every episode, but don't worry— she's not leaving the show entirely. He then tells Grammy that the author, being Austrian, does not speak English fluently but, despite complaining in the last episode, Grammy has no problem with this. They will be reading The Sleeping Boy.
It begins on a sunny Saturday morning with the Loud sisters eating breakfast, but they notice that one of them is missing and they decide to count (even though, as Lori points out, they could just look.) When fanfic Lucy counts herself as six instead of seven, they realise it's Lincoln who's missing and go up to find him still in bed. Leni pulls out her handy... something... photographs him, and the real Louds wonder what the object is.
The sisters try to wake fanfic Lincoln up, but Lincoln (the real one) thinks that it's normal to sleep in on a Saturday. Lynn says that she wakes up early on a Saturday, but he just calls her a maniac. Fanfic Lincoln wakes up and sleepily goes to the bathroom, but doesn't come down. They go up there to check and find that he's fallen asleep while brushing his teeth. The real Luan wonders if he's a narcoleptic and Leni doesn't know what that means, thinking it means one who does drugs.
Fanfic Lori yells at Lincoln and he falls asleep again. She decides he needs help getting dressed, but none of them want to do it. Eventually, Lori does and they take him downstairs and give him breakfast, but he falls asleep while eating. At this point, Lori thinks that this is clearly not normal and they should take him to the doctor.
The fanfic sisters are wondering why their brother is so sleepy and Lucy has him do the dishes. Then, they wonder what they will do that day... even though earlier, they had big plans. Then, it's revealed that the plan was to watch a movie... in the evening. They hear water running and find out that Lincoln has fallen asleep again.
Fanfic Lynn suggests they play sports, which the real Louds point out is Lynn's answer to everything, but the real Lynn says that it's always a good time to play sports. Her siblings suggest situations and Lynn comes up with excuses to play sports then, until she admittedly goes too far when she suggests casket surfing at a funeral. Fanfic Lynn explains that people who play sports are energetic, so they should have Lincoln jog to wake him up.
The sisters play "not it", but then they all take him jogging anyway, and they go to Ketcham Park, where they somehow count to measure how well they're running. Fanfic Lincoln somehow falls asleep despite them running in single file and Leni carries him to Vanzilla by the feet. Everyone, in and out of the fanfic, thinks that's a bad idea, and Leni demonstrates all the different ways she can carry Lincoln.
Fanfic Lynn then decides to take Lincoln to school where they can take him swimming in the pool. She's gotten the key from the coach due to her athletic prowess, and the real Lynn says that she wishes that were true so she can eat a certain kind of snack her coach has... which was discontinued years ago.
Everyone changes into swimwear and fanfic Leni tells Lynn to shower before going into the pool, which causes debate among the real Louds over whether pre-pool showering is necessary or not. Fanfic Lori puts a floatie on Lincoln and throws him into the pool, with a typo that even Grammy can't correct. This doesn't wake up Lincoln, so they give up and go home, and Lynn Sr. texts Lori, saying he will be taking Rita out that night.
At dinner (mashed potatoes and sauerkraut), fanfic Lincoln falls asleep again and the girls go to watch the movie without him despite having wanted him to watch it earlier. Even more confusing, they claim he was in their way, and they drink out of beakers. Fanfic Lori dramatically refuses to... turn off her phone.
The sisters watch the movie, but it makes them sleepy and they fall asleep. Fanfic Lincoln finally wakes up, and he watches the rest of the movie, but then he yawns. Thankfully, he doesn't fall asleep again, and he takes the sisters up one by one and puts them to bed, then goes to bed himself. The end.
With the story over, Luan jokingly wonders if the moral is "never try to wake Lincoln up early on a Saturday", then they all go to bed for real and everyone gets a goodnight kiss from Lori, even Grammy.
This episode provides examples of
- Adaptation Personality Change:
- The fanfic sisters are very nosy, watching Lincoln sleep and peeking in on him in the bathroom.
- Fanfic Lincoln keeps falling asleep and he's thankful for being asked to do the dishes.
- Alliterative List: The fanfic sisters eat and drink from "bowls, bottles, and beakers".
- Answer Cut: Fanfic Leni wonders what's for dinner, then we cut to dinner.
- Black Comedy:
- When Luan wonders how you could play sports at a funeral, Lynn suggests casket surfing, but then admits that's going too far.
- When fanfic Lynn suggests swimming to wake up Lincoln, the real Luan jokingly suggests that the sisters plan to "throw him in, hope for the best, and if he drowns, he drowns."
- Boomerang Bigot: Lynn at one point acts misogynistic.
- Character Exaggeration: Lori's a Phoneaholic Teenager and a bit of a drama queen. Fanfic Lori cries over having to turn her phone off for a movie.
- Continuity Nod:
- The Louds remember the time Lincoln tried to be green while playing video games, which happened in "The Green House".
- Luan brings up the time she was called a horse and Lincoln a mouse, while Lynn wants to be a rhino again, which happened in Episode 15. Also, Luan brings up the Louds' behaviour in Cringeworthy where they broke into a karate dojo.
- Crazy-Prepared: Luan keeps a handyman LEGO figure in her purse just in case she needs to use it for a joke.
- Did Not Do the Bloody Research: Lynn says, "cojones", which is a profane term for the scrotum in Spanish.
- Facepalm: Lincoln facepalms when Luan brings up the time he was called a mouse in Cringeworthy.
- Fainting: Grammy shows the Louds a gif of a chimpanzee smelling its hand and fainting.
- Go-to-Sleep Ending:
- The fanfic ends with the sisters all asleep and Lincoln taking them to bed.
- The episode proper ends with the siblings all going upstairs to bed.
- Guys are Slobs: Lori says that fanfic Lincoln is lazy because he's a boy, which Leni calls out as sexist.
- Heavy Sleeper: Nothing wakes fanfic Lincoln up. Not yelling, not water, not jogging, not being carried by the feet.
- Hidden Depths: The real Luan admits to knowing the basics, and acidics, of chemistry.
- Lampshaded the Obscure Reference: When Luan quotes from the song "Albuquerque" by "Weird Al" Yankovic, Lincoln says that no one will get the joke.
- Plot Hole:
- The sisters wake fanfic Lincoln up in the morning, then it's later revealed to be because they want to watch a movie with him... in the evening.
- The sisters abruptly shift from wanting fanfic Lincoln to watch the movie with them, to not wanting him to.
- Pun:
- Luan says that she wouldn't "dream" of being able to sleep while Lori was yelling at her.
- She later says that she knows the basics "and the acidics" of chemistry.
- Shout-Out:
- One of the ways Leni holds Lincoln is a reference to "Circle of Life" from The Lion King (1994).
- Luan mentions something about being force-fed sauerkraut until she's 26-and-a-half years old — a reference to ""Albuquerque" by "Weird Al" Yankovic.
- Sleepyhead: Fanfic Lincoln falls asleep while brushing his teeth and then sleeps for hours.
- Way Past the Expiration Date: Lynn wants to try some treats that were discontinued years ago.
