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Recap / The Loud House S 3 E 20 Jeers For Fears Tea Tale Heart

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Jeers for Fears: After agreeing to go to the Royal Woods House of Terror, Lincoln and Clyde have to toughen up and face their fears.

Tea Tale Heart: Lola discovers Lucy has an old, fragile doll, and decides she must borrow it, no matter what Lucy says.


"Jeers for Fears"

"Tea Tale Heart"

  • Acid Reflux Nightmare: Lola apparently tends to have nightmares if she eats cheese before going to bed.
  • Bad Liar: Lola claiming she isn’t mad during her interactions with Lincoln. While yelling very shrilly.
  • The Cat Came Back: The doll just keeps finding its way back to Lola, no matter how she tries to get rid of it, leading her to believe it is haunted.
  • Cement Shoes: Lola's last attempt to get rid of the doll involves throwing it in a pond with a brick tied to it.
  • Contrived Coincidence: Lana goes to all the places Lola placed Lucy's doll, even though she has no reason to be in those places. This is lampshaded by Lana after this is revealed.
  • Creepy Child: Lola gradually becomes creepier as she tries harder and harder to dispose of the doll. Even Flip is freaked out by her behavior when she tosses the doll into the pond.
  • Creepy Doll: Lucy's doll becomes this to Lola once she accidentally ruins it and tries to hide her mistake, only for it to keep returning each time.
  • Diegetic Soundtrack Usage: Lola hums part of the theme song while having a tea party with the doll.
  • Doing In the Wizard: The doll always coming back to Lola, no matter how she tries to dispose of it. It's eventually revealed not to be something supernatural, but the work of Lana, who somehow kept finding it and didn't know the doll was Lucy's.
  • Dramatic Thunder: Repeatedly.
  • From Bad to Worse: It starts with Lola spilling tea on Lucy's doll. Then she finds out the tea soaked through staining both the dress and the doll itself. Then she breaks the doll's head. And then she causes the doll to lose nearly all its hair.
  • Gaslighting: Lana unintentionally gaslights Lola by making her think Rosie is haunted whenever Lola tries to get rid of her, only for Rosie to return to Lola because Lana found her in the places Lola put her in.
  • Gross-Up Close-Up: Flip's bare dirty feet are shown in detail as he's resting them on his cash register.
  • Here We Go Again!: The episode ends with the original doll back in Lucy's possession, with Lynn thinking it's haunted after it appears to move on its own.
  • Instantly Proven Wrong: No sooner does Lola deny Lucy's claims that things can get rough in her and Lana's room, Lana is seen racing through the hallway on a skateboard pulled by her pets.
  • Irony:
    • Lucy refuses to lend her fragile doll to Lola, not because she thinks Lola is clumsy (on the contrary, Lola is a lady), but because she knows Lana is wild. But in the end, all the damage to the doll is caused by Lola (except for Lana's red hat, which ends up in the washing machine, but Lola could have noticed that detail, so Lola is to blame for that too)!
    • Lola is very clumsy with fragile objects, and ends up destroying Lucy's doll. But when Lola buys another fragile doll at the antique store, she customizes it without much difficulty...
  • It's Always Spring: Averted—even though it has no relevance to the plot, the episode is clearly set during autumn (such as the leaves on the trees all being colored).
  • Lampshade Hanging: When Lana reveals she was the one that kept on bringing Lucy's doll back to Lola, Lynn questions why Lana would even be at the places Lucy's doll was. Lana simply states that she doesn't know.
  • Literary Allusion Title: The title is a reference to The Tell-Tale Heart.
  • Milholland Relationship Moment: After Lola confesses to Lucy about the whole doll situation, Lola initially figures that Lucy will be (understandably) mad about what happened. However, Lucy assures Lola that she's not mad and elaborates: she's happy that Lola told the truth about what happened and acknowledges that Lola would never have done anything to intentionally damage the doll—plus, now that the original doll appears to be haunted, Lucy loves it even more.
  • The Millstone: Lana, albeit indirectly. She not only indirectly ruined the dolls' clothes by washing her hat at the same time in the machine, but she also kept returning the ruined doll to Lola (not realizing that it was technically Lucy's doll).
  • Oh, Crap!: Lola when she spills tea on Lucy's doll. It only gets worse from there.
  • Overly Long Name: Lola names Lucy's doll Lady Rosalind Cordelia Annabella Pembrookington. Or Rosie for short.
  • "Psycho" Strings: Similar music is heard at several points throughout the episode.
  • Red Sock Ruins the Laundry: Lana's hat accidentally ends up in the washing machine, staining all the white clothes (including the doll's dress) pink.
  • Replacement Goldfish: When she's unable to repair the damage to Lucy's doll, Lola decides to get her another one, tweak it a bit to make it look like Lucy's doll, and discard the original.
  • The Reveal: It turns out the reason the doll kept coming back to Lola was because Lana kept finding it in all the places Lola tried to get rid of it, and brought it back thinking the doll was Lola's.
  • Running Gag: Lola getting angry at Lincoln due to her frustrations, even though Lincoln gives her no reason to be mad.

 
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