Net Gains: Lynn desperately wants to win a basketball championship, but she is assigned to the worst team.
Pipe Dreams: Tired of constantly having to wait in long lines just to be able to use the bathroom, Mom and Dad decide to build a secret bathroom that only they can use.
"Net Gains"
- Big "NO!": Lynn when Flip picks her for his team, the Turkey Jerkies, who are easily the worst of the five teams present.
- Breaking Old Trends: The first episode where Lincoln does not appear at all, although he always appears in the title card.
- The Bus Came Back: The Announcer and Pep return to provide commentary for another of Lynn’s games, Basketball in this case.
- Character Development: Lynn finally accepts that winning isn't everything, and that the point of games are for everyone to have fun. To wit, she doesn't care that she lost the championship at the end of the episode, whereas in the last episode to address this, "Lynn-er Takes All", she still gives in to gloating at the end.
- Continuity Nod: Lynn is still as superstitious as she was back in "No Such Luck". Fortunately this time, she doesn't blame her team losing on someone else being bad luck.
- A Day in the Limelight: This episode is all about Lynn, with her being the only kid in the Loud family to appear in this episode.
- Fun with Acronyms: "FLIBBR" (Football, Lacrosse, Ice hockey, Baseball, Basketball, and Roller derby).
- Gone Horribly Right: After losing a game due to the other team figuring out Lynn's "MVP" tendencies, a.k.a. only focusing on blocking her, she decides to recruit two older and skilled girls to the team. However, while they win games, they don't give the others a chance to play or contribute to the team, leading to Lynn discovering how it feels to be left out.
- Good Luck Charm: Lynn still has her series of good luck rituals, and according to Mr. Loud, they are even more intense than usual in this episode. She doesn’t even let him drive down Elm.St, believing it to be unlucky,
- Hand Signals: When Lynn Jr. sees how uncoordinated the Turkey Jerkies are, she comes up with the idea that the other girls should just pass her the ball, which allows her to win their first game. However, after scoring a few points in the second game, the girls from the other team signal with their hands to just surround Lynn Jr. to intercept the ball and make sure she doesn't score anymore.
- Insistent Terminology: Lynn lets her 5 championships wish take back seat but she's still attached enough to it that she corrects the pronunciation every time someone says the acronym wrong.
- Ironic Echo: After the Turkey Jerkies win their first game because Lynn Jr. told the other girls to just pass her the ball, they lament that they barely got a chance to play, to which Lynn Jr. retorts with "a win's a win, no matter who plays." When their next game ends in defeat, she brings in two older girls to help her win, and when they win the following game, Lynn Jr. calls them out on hogging the ball and barely letting her play to which one girl replies "a win's a win, no matter who plays."
- Laser-Guided Karma:
- This time, unlike so many previous tournaments, no one in the Loud Family goes to the gym to watch Lynn's basketball games. Everything indicates that it is retaliation for her coercing Lincoln into coming to watch her softball game and poisoning his entire family against him in "No Such Luck".
- In both this episode and "No Such Luck", Lynn resorts to her superstitious rituals to have good luck, with the aggravating factor being that in the previous episode, Lynn helped banish Lincoln from the house due to her superstition and obsession with winning. Now, Lynn is once again obsessed with winning and this even helps her, but she regrets it and realizes that the most important thing is to compete and have fun, in addition to valuing teamwork. In the end, she loses the championship, but she doesn't care anymore. Also, no good luck rituals helped her win this time.
- Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: The Turkey Jerkies. One member is constantly receiving calls from her mom, one suffers from narcolepsy, one has a broken leg, and one suffers from sweaty palms due to nervousness.
- Second Place Is for Winners: The Turkey Jerkies lose, but they don't care about it; they're just content that they all got to play.
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: The episode shows that no one player can be a whole team. It only works until the opposing team decides to gang up on the MVP.
- Take That!
- Good luck rituals don't get Lynn onto the best team in basketball.
- And she joins a team called Turkey Jerkies, a doubly derogatory name ("turkey" and "jerk" are two slang terms in English for idiot people).
- And Flip is the worst owner of a basketball team you could ever have (in fact, the worst owner of anything).
- And when Flip chooses Lynn, he doesn't identify her by name, but as "Lincoln's sister." At least he thinks Lincoln is more newsworthy than Lynn.
- When Lynn's teammates complain that she won't let them play, Lynn argues:"a win's a win, no matter who plays." Later, when Lynn complains that the new players on her team won't let her play, guess what response she hears?
- Underdog Victory: Subverted; all of Lynn's team members may have gotten the chance to play, but it's revealed that they lost 50-12. Turns out you can't just become the best team in the league overnight.
"Pipe Dreams"
- Creator Cameo: All the plumbers are caricatures of some of the show's staff.
- A Day in the Limelight: For Mr. and Mrs. Loud.
- The Door Slams You: Happens to Mr. and Mrs. Loud when they sneak into the house carrying supplies for their secret bathroom, and then Lori comes in while talking on her phone.
- Drowning Pit: Mr. and Mrs. Loud's secret bathoom turns into one when they accidentally lock themselves in and are unable to shut off the shower. This is what forces them to call their kids for help, thus exposing it.
- Empty Eyes: Rita gets a variation of this when she finds Lana’s lucky chicken bone in her and Lynn Sr.’s secret bathroom.
- Evil Laugh: Mr. and Mrs. Loud share one after the former turns the security on the bathroom up to eleven.
- Good Luck Charm: Lana has a lucky chicken bone (which both Lori and Mr. Loud find gross). Charles gets hold of it and drops it in the secret bathroom, causing them to think that Lana has discovered it.
- Hanlon's Razor: The parents believe that their kids have snuck into their private bathroom and bypassed all their security measures for it—in reality, it was just their pets sneaking in and fooling around.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: All the security measures Mr. Loud installs to keep the kids out of the secret bathroom end up trapping both him and Mrs. Loud inside. Mr. Loud also gets electrocuted when he tries to escape through the vents, since he and Mrs. Loud wired them as one of their many security measures.
- Laser Hallway: One of the security measures Mr. Loud installs are lasers in front of the bathroom door.
- Opening the Flood Gates: Happens when the Loud Kids break open the already partly flooded secret bathroom.
- Parents in Distress: Mr. and Mrs. Loud end up trapped inside their secret bathroom, which is being filled with water, and have to be rescued by their kids.
- Potty Dance: Several Loud siblings and even both parents can be seen doing this while waiting in line for the bathroom. Based on the looks on their faces Lynn Jr. may not be the only Loud sibling who needs to take a dump (the state of the bathroom several scenes later implies that this may indeed be the case).
- Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Mr. and Mrs. Loud become so paranoid about their kids discovering their secret bathroom and potentially wrecking it that they end up installing a bunch of different security measures. This however leads to them getting trapped inside the bathroom, and having to call their kids for help in getting out, ultimately exposing it to them. During the kids' rescue of their parents, the bathroom gets wrecked in the process, but Mr. and Mrs. Loud are technically the ones at fault for the bathroom getting wrecked. And with all the money they had put into for security measures, Mr. and Mrs. Loud can't afford to have the bathroom fixed/redone.
- Status Quo Is God: At the end of the episode, the secret bathroom is damaged beyond repair (at least until they get money) and the Louds go back to having just the upstairs bathroom (and the bucket, called "Old Sloshie," that Lana uses as a "second bathroom").
- That Came Out Wrong: When Mr. Loud informs Mrs. Loud that aside from his security measures to keep the kids out of the secret bathroom, he also installed a security panel on the inside to trap the kids in case they do manage to get in, she cheers "We'll catch them with their pants down." She then realizes how that can be interpreted considering it involves a bathroom, and quickly states it's just a metaphor.
- This Is Gonna Suck: The look on Mr. and Mrs. Loud's faces when Lynn tells them she won a hot dog eating contest the previous day, and they are behind her in line for the bathroom.
- Toilet Humor:
- Lana uses a bucket that she calls "Old Sloshie" to do her business when the bathroom is occupied.
- "Old Sloshie" might have already appeared in "Brawl in the Family".
- While in line, Lynn Jr. says, after winning a hot dog eating contest the night before, a variation of "needing to let the dogs out", describing her feces as "puppies [that] are barking to be let out", a fitting description for the remnants of the hot dogs she ate the day before.
- Lana uses a bucket that she calls "Old Sloshie" to do her business when the bathroom is occupied.
- Toilet Paper Trail: When the kids rush downstairs to free their parents, Lana has a piece of toilet paper stuck to her shoe.
- Trash of the Titans: The state of the bathroom after all the kids are done with it.
