Back Out There: Clyde, worried that Lincoln is hung up on Ronnie Anne after she has moved away, decides to try and cure his post-breakup blues.
Spell It Out: Tired of her siblings walking all over her, Lucy turns to a spell book once owned by Great Grandma Harriet to teach her siblings a lesson.
"Back Out There"
- A Day in the Limelight: This episode is more about Clyde, Liam, Zach, and Rusty than Lincoln himself.
- Armor-Piercing Question: After hearing Clyde and the other call her out for messing with Lincoln's feelings, and after she explains why Lincoln kept hanging out in front of her old house, Ronnie Anne immediately asks them if they just did something stupid again. Unbeknownst to her, they had already shoved Lincoln onto a bus so he can go on a three day trip to paradise.
- A Simple Plan: All Clyde and the others wanted to do was help Lincoln get over Ronnie Anne since they thought he was hung up on her leaving. The end result is that they have to chase down a bus in order to get Lincoln off it and they, sans Lincoln, are forced by Rusty's dad to clean up the suits they borrowed due to bird poop.
- Big "NO!": Rusty after the suits get covered in bird poop.
- Bird-Poop Gag: the expensive suits Lincoln and friends wear end up ruined when birds poop on them.
- Call-Back: This episode is a follow-up to "The Loudest Mission: Relative Chaos".
- Cassandra Truth: Because of Clyde's pamphlets, he and the others assume Lincoln is in denial over missing Ronnie Anne when he honestly isn't hung up over her.
- Chekhov's Lecture: Rusty's dad informs his son that they are to return the suits they are borrowing later without them being messy, or he will be grounded. One bird poop incident later, Rusty and the others, sans Lincoln, are seen cleaning the suits by hand.
- Dodgeball Is Hell: Downplayed, but it's evidently not the favorite sport of Lincoln and his friends.
- Doomed New Clothes: The suits Rusty’s father rented for the boys, which he explicitly told Rusty to keep clean.
- Friendship Moment: Although they were gravely misinformed of the situation, Lincoln's friends thought he was hurting after Ronnie Anne left and they wanted to help him move on.
- Oh, Crap!:
- This is Lincoln's reaction when he thought no one told him that he had peanut butter breath.
- After learning directly from Ronnie Anne herself that Lincoln kept waiting outside her house to get a package for her, Clyde and the others promptly chase down the bus they forced him onto.
- Poor Communication Kills: Clyde and the others literally wait until the last moment to inform Lincoln that they are trying to help him get over Ronnie Anne. They refuse to believe that he isn't actually hung up over her leaving when they shove him onto the bus for a three day trip to paradise.
- Produce Pelting: Lincoln and Hattie get pelted with snacks by the audience in the cinema when Hattie spoils the ending of the movie.
- The Reveal: Why was Lincoln constantly hanging out in front of Ronnie Anne's old house? A package was being delivered there, and Ronnie Anne asked Lincoln to pick it up.
- Running Gag: Rusty ordering his friends to use the snake formation.
- "Shaggy Dog" Story:
- The package Lincoln waited several days to pick up for Ronnie Anne? A springloaded pie that she herself sent.
- Clyde and the others spend most of the episode assuming Lincoln missed Ronnie Anne, something Lincoln himself denies until the last seconds of the episode, when he privately admits it with a smile on his face.
- Shout-Out: Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964) appears as a poster in the comic shop.
- Stating the Simple Solution: When Clyde informs the other guys about Lincoln's situation, Zach and Liam respectively guess if they should either talk to him about what's going on or leave him alone entirely. Clyde rejects both of these ideas in favor of intruding in his business.
- Wham Line: "I guess the guys were right...I really do miss her."
- Worth It: This is Ronnie Anne's reaction when she states that it cost her $25 to pie Lincoln in the face.
"Spell It Out"
- A Day in the Limelight: For Lucy.
- Bait-and-Switch: A particularly mean one: as Lucy is starting to learn of the consequences of (supposedly) muting her siblings, she overhears Mr. Loud remark that Lincoln got one of his friends killed... in his online game.
- The Bus Came Back:
- Maybe. On Lynn's canoeing team, there's a girl who looks just like Polly Pain from "Dance, Dance Resolution", though she doesn't speak and isn't wearing her get-up from said episode (though it makes sense given the activity in question).
- There's also a kid in that same team that may or may not be Francisco, Lynn's love interest from "L is for Love".
- Butt-Monkey: Lucy. In the beginning, we discover that she always gets along badly in the family (a female Lincoln?): her opinion is not taken into account, her presence is rarely noticed (because she is too quiet), no one is interested in the things she likes (so much so that she has to call the house pets to do her seance), almost no one respects her space, or bother to take care of her objects, and she even has her face on the floor. Of course, her siblings didn't mean to do any of that or cause any distress, but Lucy takes this left-behind feeling quite personally. This continues into her first round of spells, but comes to an end in the second round, when she finally succeeds. From then on, all the siblings start to get along badly, except her.
- Contrived Coincidence: Through sheer coincidence, all the Loud siblings have something happening to them that makes it look like Lucy’s spells actually work.
- Creepy Changing Painting: In the photo Lucy has of a young Great-Grandma Harriet, Harriet is frowning, but at the end of the episode it suddenly changes to a smile.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Downplayed. Lucy's siblings never meant to cause Lucy any distress, but Lucy takes it quite personally, to the point she decides to enact the spell on them, whether it be the ones that were directly responsible (such as Lola) or the ones that were relatively innocent (such as Luna).
- Doing In the Wizard: At first, it seems that the spells Lucy tried on her siblings really worked. However, it's later revealed that they didn't, and the effects were actually the result of more realistic causes.note
- Dramatic Thunder: Happens at the start of the episode when Lucy arrives home and opens the front door, and again at the end when the young Great-Grandma Harriet starts smiling in her picture.
- Foreshadowing: Lucy annoyed at the two times the majority vote has overridden her will. A harbinger that she will yet act as the sole vote so everything conforms to her will.
- Gone Horribly Right: Lucy, at first, is happy when she supposedly succeeds in silencing the voices of all her siblings, so that every decision revolves around her. But it doesn't take long for her to realize that her "spell" worked too well: Lynn Jr. lost the canoeing race, Lori lost a friend, and Lincoln got screwed on the video game. So she feels bad and apologizes to her family for being so selfish and spiteful with them, and sets out to reverse what she's done.
- Leeroy Jenkins: Rusty dusts off this tactic, yelling his own name and all, during an online game with Lincoln and Clyde.note This nets Rusty a death via an ambush.
- Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: The episode ends showing that the siblings' troubles were from absolutely mundane cause, but Great-Grandma Harriet's picture actually changing shows that something supernatural is happening. Plus the spells can be of the subtle, probability-manipulation kind.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Lucy’s reaction when she sees how her siblings are suffering because they can no longer talk.
- Palette Swap: There's a girl on Lynn's canoeing team that resembles Ronnie Anne, only she has caucasian skin and has a different hairstyle.
- Pink Means Feminine: All the girls, minus Lucy, and even Lincoln, vote to paint the bathroom pink.
- Poor Communication Kills: Lucy's sorrow is not because the siblings are doing it in purpose or anything, but because they are completely unaware of how Lucy actually feels. Lucy, instead of directly telling them about how left behind she feels (Lucy didn't even attend an important sibling meeting), decides to cast a spell on them and have everything revolve around her. Ultimately, Lucy regrets casting it, and learns to actually communicate how she feels, and learns in the process that her siblings really care about her after all.
- Shout-Out: The MMORPG that Lincoln, Rusty and Clyde were playing is similar to World of Warcraft.
- So Proud of You: Implied by Harriet's picture changing from a frown to a smile; her spirit is proud of Lucy for realizing "true" magic comes in the form of family and friendship, learning to actually communicate her feelings, and learning that her siblings really do care about her.
- Spiritual Antithesis: The episode resembles a No Such Luck with a happy ending. In the first, a sibling Loud (Lincoln) feels constrained and suffocated by his family and decides to "bring bad luck" to them in order to gain more freedom, and he succeeds, even committing some acts that "spit in the face" of his family (Lincoln sits in just his underwear on top of Lola's tea table) In the last one, a sibling Loud (Lucy) feels constrained and suffocated by her family and, while they didn't mean anything by it, she decides to "bring bad luck" to them in order to gain more freedom, and she succeeds, even committing some acts that "spit in the face" of her family out of sheer malice (Lucy, apparently, eats the entire refrigerator, and leaves nothing for her siblings). The difference is that in No Such Luck, Lincoln only realizes his mistake when he sees himself more and more harmed by the family and ends up apologizing for inventing the bad luck story, but in the end, everyone continues to believe that he is bad luck. Already in Spell It Out, Lucy realizes her mistake when she sees her family being harmed more and more and ends up apologizing for bringing bad luck to them, but in the end, everyone laughs and explains that, in fact, she never brought bad luck to them.
- The Speechless: All the Loud siblings, minus Lucy, become this for the majority of the episode, due to blowing out their voices at Pop Pop's shuffleboard championship and not Lucy's mute spell.
- Sore Loser: Lucy doesn't take being the sole dissenting vote particularly well.
- Spell Book: Lucy finds one that belonged to Great-Grandma Harriet.
- Strange Minds Think Alike: Although these are two different situations, Clyde and Lucy misinterpret Lincoln's pantomiming as him wanting to frost a birthday cake.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Lucy finds an old photo of Great-Grandma Harriet in her youth. She is the spitting image of Lucy.
- Stuff Blowing Up: Lisa’s chemicals cause Lucy’s poetry book to explode.
- Toilet Paper Trail: Happens to Lisa when she gets sticky.
- You Have Failed Me: In a downplayed yet inverted example, Lynn's canoeing team threw her off the canoe and into the water after she botched her team's racing event.
- Your Makeup Is Running: Happens to Lori when she cries because her friends are ditching her.
