ARGGH! You For Real?: Lincoln and Clyde find out that ARGGH! is coming to town and decide to go to the taping, but they realize up to now all the ghost hunting was nothing but an act.
Garage Banned: Tired of her siblings, Lori moves to the garage, but quickly finds that it is more than she bargained.
"ARGGH! You For Real?"
- Actor/Role Confusion: Apparently, up until this episode, Lincoln and Clyde thought the ghost hunting on ARGGH! was real. Once they find out it's just an act, they aren't happy to hear about it.
- Agent Scully: The reveal that ARGGH! is staged turns Clyde into one of these. He gets better.
- An Aesop: Most things you see in TV shows aren’t real and you just have to accept that whether you like it, or not.
- Bring My Brown Pants: Clyde admits that the spinning chairs in the episode of ARGGH! they just watched made him pee a little. The same happens to Lincoln when he hears ARGGH! is coming to Royal Woods.
- Broken Aesop: The episode was supposed to teach kids that the real world isn't how we want it to be, but Lincoln, instead of helping his friend Clyde to accept reality (although one might question whether Lincoln would be more of a hindrance than a help in this case), prefers to make him believe the lie again, as if that were healthier for him.
- Broken Pedestal: Clyde doesn't take it well when he finds out that ARGGH! is staged.
- Continuity Nod: Clyde mentions that he's afraid of heights when he and Lincoln are sitting on a top of a tree.
- Costume Evolution: Hunter Spector mentions that at one point he ditched his old uniform for a new all-cotton one. Clyde was apparently the only fan who noticed (or at least bothered to tell him about it).
- Don't Eat and Swim: Harold warns Clyde about this (even though he’s “swimming” in an inflatable pool he can easily stand in). Due to his new skepticism, Clyde doesn’t believe it. He believes it again at the end of the episode, hence why he and Lincoln decline the snacks Harold and Howard offer them.
- Droste Image: Happens with the TV screen outside the haunted house when Hunter is about to go inside.
- Fooled by the Sound: Lori growls in annoyance. Her ditzy boyfriend Bobby, who was on the phone with her, thinks it's a gorilla.
- Heroic BSoD: After finding out that the stuff that happens on ARGGH! isn't real, Clyde stops believing in everything and throws out all his childhood possessions.
- I'm Your Biggest Fan: Lincoln tells Hunter that Clyde is his biggest fan. Considering that Clyde wrote Hunter a fan letter every week, and according to Hunter, he was the only one who noticed when Hunter switched to an all-cotton jumpsuit, he is probably right.
- Mistaken for Servant: While trying to get a glimpse of Hunter, Clyde and Lincoln are mistaken by a lady as members of the crew. They play along so they can enter the house and get a good view of the ghost hunting, but it’s because of this they are able to see what is really going on behind the scenes.
- Nice Character, Mean Actor: Subverted with Hunter. While he does stage his ghost encounters, he only does it because of the show's restrictions. He also seems rather polite with his staff (except when they pester him about pay day) and cares about his fans as he takes the time to help Clyde getting over his Heroic BSoD
- Not-So-Phony Psychic: Hunter has been staging his ghost encounters, until his ghost trap actually caught a real ghost.
- Real After All: It's implied that the ghost of Groundskeeper Dan really did get sucked up at the end.
- Split-Screen Phone Call: Between Lincoln and Harold.
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome:
- Hunter believes in ghosts and wants to be a real ghost hunter, but real paranormal investigation takes time and research. And making a TV show means you are restricted in what you can do in terms of time and budget, forcing him to stage his ghost encounters.
- Lincoln believed everything on ARGGH! was real; when he learns all of it was just an act, he isn't too happy about it.
- Waving Signs Around: Several of the fans gathered outside the haunted house in Royal Woods carry signs.
"Garage Banned"
- A Day in the Limelight: Lori is the main character, and Lincoln isn't involved with her problem.
- Angry Collar Grab: Lola does this to Lisa after she accidentally made Lola bald with her new hair formula.
- Boredom Montage: While living without her siblings, time seems to go really slow for Lori.
- Brick Joke: Lola goes bald thanks to Lisa's solution" to her tangled hair. She wears a wig for the rest of the episode that gets equally tangled, which Lori finds out at the end of the episode when she tries to brush it.
- Characterization Marches On: Luna and Luan argue aggressively and want Lincoln to be their arbiter (against his wishes, of course). A clear indication that the Sister Fight Protocol ("Brawl In The Family") no longer exists.
- Comically Missing the Point: Leni is jealous Lori gets a room of her own, not realizing she will have their room only for herself with Lori leaving. In other words, she comically misses her own point.
- Continuity Nod:
- Lori talks with Bobby, who is still working in his family's bodega.
- Lori having a flatulence problem was previously seen in “Making the Case”.
- Cannot Tell Fiction from Reality: Lana goes to Leni for comfort after a nightmare, but Leni believes that the blood-sucking aliens are real.
- Disapproving Look: Lincoln and the sisters give Lori after discovering that she bribed Mr. Grouse to destroy the house's garage. It also makes Lori break out in a cold sweat.
- Eek, a Mouse!!: Exploited; Lori sets a group of mice loose in the garage to convince her family to let her move out of it, but Lisa uses a hypnotic device to round them up. Played straight with Mr. Loud, who is terrified of them.
- Empty Nest: Mr. Loud suffers from this when Lori moves into the garage, never mind that she is only living 20 feet from the house and his other 10 kids are still living with them.
- "Eureka!" Moment: Lori decides to sabotage the garage when Bobby mentions that there might be a mouse inside his family's bodega.
- Fright-Induced Bunkmate: When the episode begins, Lori wakes up to see that Lana crawled into bed with her after she had a bad dream.
- Gasshole: According to Lynn, Lori has a flatulence problem. Although she denies it, Lori still farts while trying yoga (though with no one else around, thus her sigh after her yoga pose breaks is one of both exasperation and relief). Later on, Lucy claims that the ghost in the garage is leaving because of this.
- Lynn ironically has no shame when it comes to her own flatulence (as seen in "Space Invader", "Lincoln Loud, Girl Guru", "Game Boys", "On Thin Ice", "Sofa So Good", and "Time Trap!").
- "Getting My Own Room" Plot: Lori moves to the garage because she wants her own room, away from her chaotic siblings.
- Had the Silly Thing in Reverse: Lori bribes Mr. Grouse to run his lawnmower through the garage so she won't have to live in it anymore, but he accidentally puts it in reverse and goes into his own garage instead.
- Hypocrite: Lynn told Lori about her flatulence problem. The very same girl who often farts out a good Dutch Oven when the situation applies for it.
- Inelegant Blubbering: Lynn Sr. does this as he and Rita are commenting on Lori moving into the garage.Rita: Oh, I can't believe it. Our first little bird is leaving the nest.
Lynn Sr.: I said I wouldn't cry! (bawls like a baby) - Laser-Guided Karma:
- In "Sleuth Or Consequences", Lori, after hearing Lincoln say that the Princess Pony novel belongs to him (to protect Lucy), says that she and her sisters will laugh at him for years to come. Now it is SHE who seems to be afraid of suffering this...
- Now Lori can experience a small fraction of the pain she inflicted on Lincoln by kicking him out of the house in "No Such Luck".
- Mind-Control Device: An attempt to move back into the house fails on Lori when Lisa pulls out an ultrasonic boombox designed to lure in the mice Lori released into the garage for capture. Right after Lisa states that this is due to the rodents' simple-minded nature, Leni is shown to have been affected by the device, as well.
- Negative Continuity: Lola ends up having all her hair fall out thanks to a de-tangling formula that Lisa made. She has to wear a wig for the rest of the episode. But in the next one, her hair is shown to be back to normal.
- Once Done, Never Forgotten: Invoked. Lori fears her siblings will rub it in her face if she moves back into the house after she made such a big deal about wanting to live on her own.
- Organ Theft: Lisa wants to take Lincoln's kidney for an experiment. And according to Lori, she already took his appendix once.
- Real After All: It's implied that there really is a ghost in the garage. Or rather was, as the ghost decided to leave because of Lori's "flatulence problem."
- Springtime for Hitler: Lori tries to sabotage the garage to convince her family to let her move out of it, but Lincoln and the rest of their sisters come up with solutions.
- Toilet Humor: Lana warns Lori to go easy on the new toilet she installed in the garage for her; no heavy meals.
- There's all the stuff that's said about Lori's "flatulence problem."
