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The Loud House Trope Examples
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• Absent Animal Companion:
  • In "The Price of Admission", Lana is seen with a monkey and a pig as well as her usual pets (a frog, snake, rat, and lizard). The monkey and pig are never seen again.
  • In "Mall of Duty", Lola, Lisa, and Lucy adopt a duckling each, but the ducklings are never seen again.
• Abhorrent Admirer:
  • Clyde starts out as one to Lori, as the latter feels uncomfortable with the former's attempts to win her over; however, it's eventually revealed that she uses his Precocious Crush on her to boost her ego in addition to her relationship with Bobby.
  • Lincoln is seen as this in Cristina's eyes, so much so she transferred classes to avoid him.
• Abnormal Allergy:
  • In "Fool's Paradise", Lana is shown to be allergic to rhubarb, which in real-life would not commonly cause reactions.
  • In "Pasture Bedtime", Rusty is shown to be allergic to hot sauce, which is extremely rare in real-life.
• Aborted Declaration of Love: A plot point of "Stage Plight" is Luan repeatedly trying to come up with excuses to avoid the scene in the play where she has to kiss Benny because she's insecure of her crush.
• Absurd Brand Name: One burger joint is called the Burpin' Burger and the jingle mentions "When it comes back up [i.e. makes you burp], it's twice as nice."
• Abusive Parents: On rare occasions, the Loud parents of all people can dip into this territory when getting a grasp on the Jerkass Ball.
  • In "April Fools Rules", they lock Luan in a crate as punishment for the havoc she wreaks on April Fool's Day. Granted, Luan did deserve punishment for her actions, but she didn't deserve one that cruel and extreme, as staying in that cage for the rest of the day would have caused her to starve and sleep uncomfortably.
  • In "No Such Luck", they lock Lincoln out of the house for the entire night, forcing him to sleep in the rain.
• Accidental Good Outcome:
  • In "Funny Business", Lincoln is trying to help Luan work as a party clown. However, the kids don't find him funny at all. That is, until he accidentally falls down, which they find hilarious.
  • In "Butterfly Effect", Lincoln unintentionally wrecks an experiment Lisa has made and fears that she will disown him, but to his surprise, she's actually glad he did, as it proved a hypothesis she had formulated.
  • In "The Whole Picture", a Flashback shows that on his seventh birthday, Lincoln accidentally careened down the bowling lane with a ball stuck on his hand, but that it made him get a strike.
• Accidental Misnaming:
  • Leni mistakenly calls Lincoln "Landon" in "Sound of Silence," and his best friend Clyde "Claude" and "Clark" in "Overnight Success."
  • Lily, being a baby, calls Lincoln "Incoln" in "Overnight Success", "No Such Luck", and "Game Boys" and "Yincoln Youd" in "White Hare", Lisa "Sa-sa" in "Friend or Faux?", and Clyde "Cad" in "Game Boys".
  • In "Potty Mouth", Lynn Sr. accidentally calls Dr. Shuttleworth "Dr. Scuttlebutt".
  • In "Tripped!", the announcer mistakenly calls the Loud family the "Load" family.
  • In "Suite and Sour", Leni misreads Lynn Sr.'s name as "Mr. La-ood".
  • In "The Whole Picture", Rusty calls Luan "Lola".
  • In "The Price of Admission", Bobby misspells Lori's name as "Lory".
• Accidental Pervert: Invoked in "Along Came a Sister" when the kids are trying to get the exterminator to leave and Lori does so by pretending to think he was gawking at her in the bathroom.
• Accidentally Real Fake Address: In the episode "Tricked!", Lincoln shoos some bullies away to "1216 Franklin Avenue", belatedly realizing that's his own address.
• Acid Reflux Nightmare: In "A Flipmas Carol", Flip has a dream about several kids he knows manifesting as the Ghosts of Christmas. He thinks it's because of the broccoli he ate before bed.
• Action Girl: In "Pulp Friction", Lincoln makes a comic involving ten action girls, based on his sisters, who fight off goons.
• Actor Allusion:
  • In "One of the Boys", the four eldest Loud brothers are voiced by Seth Green, Sean Astin, Greg Cipes, and Rob Paulsen. Sounds familiar from Nickelodeon?
  • The episode "Legends" has a father-son duo voiced by Cooper Barnes and Jace Norman. Now where did the staff get that idea?
• Added Alliterative Appeal:
  • In "Out of the Picture", Coach Pacowski says "tough toenails".
  • There's also a gas station called Flip's Food and Fuel and two restaurants called Gus' Games and Grub and Burpin' Burger.
• Adults Are Useless: Both Lynn Sr. and Rita have rules around the house, but they're usually too oblivious to notice when they're being broken, let alone around to see them be broken. Downplayed in later Seasons, though its clear that they're still to afraid to punish some of the more extreme behavior of their children (namely Lynn Jr.).
• Advertised Extra: A rare fandom-related variant, overlapping with One-Episode Wonder and Ensemble Dark Horse. Fans of the show have taken notable attention to plenty of minor, one-shot or background characters. The droves of fan works involving these characters, alongside a surprising amount of traction with ships, would make a person outside the fandom think that they're at least frequently recurring characters (among other misconceptions based on how fans portray them). Some of the biggest examples are Maggie from "Funny Business", Rocky from "Back in Black", and the love interests from "L is for Love" who didn't re-appear afterwards (Francisco, Silas, Skippy, Winston and David) or at least didn't have significant further development (Paige).
  • To a lesser extent this also occurs with reoccurring but still very minor characters, often ones who only appear in 2-3 episodes per season (out of 40+). A few of the biggest examples are Girl Jordan (due to being a semi-popular ship for Lincoln), Chaz (a popular ship for Leni that was later sunk), and Sam Sharp (due to her sexuality), the latter of which occasionally crosses into an official example as well.
• All Women Hate Each Other: In "Brawl in the Family", the Loud sisters assert that Sibling Rivalry is meaner and pettier when it's two sisters fighting. This mentality, however, isn't present for most of the series.
• An Aesop: Almost every episode ends on an aesop, with Lincoln or one of his sisters learning a lesson. Lincoln especially offers us advice.
  • Just be yourself. Many episodes, such as "Toads and Tiaras", "Out on a Limo" and "Making the Grade", have various members of the Loud family be thrust into situations where they are acting like somebody they're not, which acts as the conflict of the episode. It is always resolved with said character realizing that they are better off just being themselves.
  • Many episodes have the message that being in a large and chaotic family isn't an excuse to be selfish, since your other siblings deal with the exact same thing, too.
  • Another series-wide moral is this: yes, family can drive you insane in ways that no other person in the world can. Yes, family is hard to deal with. But in the end, they're the people who love you the most and who have your back no matter what. Specific episodes that emphasize this theme include "Project Loud House", "Overnight Success", "Attention Deficit", "House Music", "Roughin’ It", and "One of the Boys".
  • In "Toads and Tiaras", the lesson of "Be yourself" manages to pair quite well with "New and different doesn't mean bad" because while Lana wins the competition by being herself, she does admit to enjoying dressing up to play the part of Lola, something she never would have discovered otherwise.
  • "A Tale of Two Tables" uses Lincoln wanting to sit at the adult table as a metaphor for not being in a rush to grow up. Growing up will happen eventually, so don't rush to do so and enjoy your childhood while it's still happening.
  • In "Gown and Out", Lola worries that she will lose when she moves up to a higher-profile regional child pageant than the ones she easily won in her hometown, and she fakes being sick to avoid the loss. Lori then delivers the moral that if you take your passions seriously you will always be facing stronger competition, victory will never be a guarantee and that you cannot expect to achieve greatness if you insist on remaining a big fish in a small pond.
  • "Ties That Bind": The lesson is that you shouldn't come to conclusions based on hearsay, which the Loud family learn when they overheard their parents wanting to throw away 11 ties and thinking they wanted to get rid of their own children.
  • "Fandom Pains": Regardless of your feelings towards changes or certain elements in a show you like, there’s no need to make a big fuss over it.
• Aesop Amnesia: Due to the show's Negative Continuity and usage of the Reset Button, Lincoln has to learn the same lesson over and over again. Well, he's eleven after all. The same also applies to just about every other character.
• Affectionate Nickname:
  • Bobby calls Lori "Babe", while Lori calls Bobby "Boo-boo Bear".
  • Lincoln's sisters and Ronnie Anne sometimes call him "Linky."
• Affection-Hating Kid: Lincoln and Ronnie Anne (who are both eleven) are often disgusted whenever Lori (Lincoln's big sister) and Bobby (Ronnie Anne's big brother) are being romantic.
• Again with Feeling: In "Bathroom Break", Lincoln, while waiting for his sister Lori to get out of the bathroom, disgustedly mutters, "Could clear a room" regarding the stench of the soiled diaper of his other sister, Lily. Then, he gets the idea of scaring Lori out of the bathroom with the diaper and says in an inspired way, "Could clear a room!".
• Age-Inappropriate Art: In "Potty Mouth", it's revealed that Lisa likes rapping and dancing to songs not suitable for 4-year-old children, and because she and her infant sister Lily share a room, Lisa worries she might have been a bad influence on her. She attempts to be a good influence on her by rapping a Blarney the Dinosaur song.
• Age-Stereotypical Food: In "A Tale of Two Tables", the Loud family members at the "kiddie table" (whose oldest resident is eleven) are served chicken nuggets and have dessert afterwards, while the ones at the "grown-up table" (whose youngest resident is thirteen) eat liver and don't get dessert.
• Agony of the Feet: In "A Fridge Too Far", as a result of a booby trap set up by Lincoln, Luan gets her foot smashed by a watermelon.
• All Animals Are Dogs: Lynn and Lana acted like dogs in "Picture Perfect" and "Undie Pressure", respectively. Taken a step further in "Study Muffin", where Lana drinks from her own dog bowl. Luna literally pants after the titular study assistant.
• All-Stereotype Cast: The entire cast enforces some sort of stereotype and have little depth beyond their default personalities (although they become less shallow as the series progresses):
  • Lincoln is a generic fun-loving everyman boy who is by default the main Butt-Monkey and voice of reason.
  • Lori is a stereotypical teenage Valley Girl who's obsessed with her phone, her boyfriend, and holds an assertive Big Sister Bully status above her younger siblings, but has her heart in the right place at the end of the day.
  • Leni is your typical Dumb Blonde (although played with because she's clearly not dumb because she's blonde).
  • Luna is your typical metalhead, albeit a rare female example.
  • Luan is your typical Plucky Comic Relief, albeit a rare teenage girl example.
  • Lynn is your average Passionate Sports Girl.
  • Lucy is your typical goth girl, though one of the few child examples of such.
  • Lana is your average filth-loving tomboy.
  • Lola is your typical spoiled Girly Girl.
  • Lisa is your typical Child Prodigy genius.
  • Lily is The Baby of the Bunch and thus little more than a Living Prop.
  • Lastly, the Loud parents are typical good parents but are somewhat oblivious and aren't always there to support their 11 children.
• The Alleged House: Although the house has been in the family since before the start of the series, the Loud family's house still fits this. "Homespun" in particular makes it clear in how severe a state of disrepair it is.
• Alliterative List:
  • Lincoln, in the pilot, has "three P's to go poo and pee": patience, perseverance, and problem-solving.
  • In "Baby Steps", Lincoln says that the key part of being an older sibling is the three C's: caring, confidence, and cookies. Clyde also comes up with his own three C's for looking after a cat: the first two are the same, but the third is cat treats.
• Alliterative Name:
  • Every child in the Loud family's first and last names both start with an L.
  • In "Out of the Picture", there's Marty Malach, who lives behind Liam's barn. He's later referred to as Matty Malach by Clyde then Manny Malach by Lincoln.
• Alliterative Title: "Back in Black", "Pets Peeved", "Picture Perfect", "Sound of Silence", "Suite and Sour", "The Sweet Spot", "A Tale of Two Tables" and "A Tattler's Tale".
• All Just a Dream:
  • All of the eventual events of "Butterfly Effect" turned out to be one big Imagine Spot by Lincoln wondering what would happen if he doesn't tell Lisa the truth.
  • "One of the Boys" turned out to be a weird nightmare that Lincoln had.
• All Women Love Shoes: Lori and Leni. Leni's shown to have a whole closet of shoes, but mostly wears sandals, while Lori has a whole bunch of shoes under her bed, which she didn't notice due to kicking them off at random times.
• Almost Kiss: In "Save the Date", Lori and Bobby almost kiss after reconciling but are interrupted by Clyde.
• Alphabet Song: In the licensed comics, Lucy writes an alphabet poem to cheer up her crying baby sister. It involves lines like "S is for staircase where Leni pratfalls".
• Alphabetical Theme Naming:
  • All the kids' names start with L. In addition, all the girls' names (or nicknames) have four letters in them, whereas Lincoln has seven.^note Though he is occasionally referred to as Linc, similar to their names. This also applies to the father, Lynn Sr., his father Leonard, and his brother, Lance.
  • Mrs. Loud's first name is Rita and she has an aunt named Ruth.
  • In the Show Within a Show Dream Boat, the names of the protagonist Karen's love interests start with B.
  • Lance Loud's wife and children all have names that start with S and have six letters (Sharon, Shelby, Shiloh), with the exception of Shane's who has five.
• Alternate Species Counterpart:
  • In "White Hare", Lincoln is knocked out and dreams a World of Funny Animals where the Louds and Lincoln's then-unseen crush (the later Stella) are anthropomorphic rabbits (and the former is considerably larger with fifteen extra sisters), while Clyde is a beaver; to top it off, all the characters have entirely different names from their real versions. This doubles as a Development Gag, as the show was originally pitched as being revolved around these dream characters.
  • Several of the characters the Louds make up for their story in "A Dark and Story Night", most of which are based on themselves in one way or another, are of various fictional species rather than humans. These include Lori's Mermaid, Lynn's Tricksy (an alien-like being), Lucy's Dominic Dunkster (a ghost), Lana's Ribbon (an anthropomorphic frog), and Lisa's Robot.
  • Lincoln's imagined story in the short "10 Headed Beast" (itself an adaptation of a story from the comic book) has all of his sisters reimagined as the individual heads of the titular draconic being.
• Ambiguously Human: Flip is revealed to be not entirely human in "Blinded by Science". He has misplaced organs such as the heart in the stomach and liver in the neck, is able to not stand pain, can survive subzero temperatures and breathe underwater for several minutes, has gills, and has two sets of butt cracks. Other episodes established he is able to grow a mustache in anger, has a second set of wisdom teeth, and sweats out nacho cheese.
• Amplified Animal Aptitude: The Loud family's most commonly seen pets are all smarter than bog standard for their species:
  • Hops the frog understands English and is able to communicate with Lana and Lincoln as seen in:
    • "Toads and Tiaras" where he shames Lincoln for hurting Lana's self esteem,
    • "Frog Wild" where he helps the kids save a bunch of lab frogs destined for dissection and
    • "Snow Way Out" in which he shames Lana for selfishly putting winning a contest over her siblings' health and safety.
  • Charles the dog and Cliff the cat also understand English and can operate human appliances as seen in "Pets Peeved".
  • Geo the hamster can follow instructions as seen in "No Guts, No Glori" despite Lori berating him and the other pets as not being able to understand anything beyond "sit".
• Anachronism Stew:
  • The series seems to be set in the current day, where smartphones, tablets, laptops and websites like YouTube are used. However, everything else, from the music to the video games^note With the exception of a Nintendo Switch analogue making a one-off appearance and other pop culture items, seem to be set from the '80s-present.
  • An In-Universe example in the episode An Inspector Falls - the play that Luan's drama club performs, The Case of the Missing Corgi, is an anachronism of multiple periods of British history. The play is meant to be a homage to Sherlock Holmes, which takes place in the late Victorian era, but a royal messenger shows up wearing a traditional Shakespearean outfit, while the premise of the play centers around the Royal Corgis (which wouldn't enter the picture until 1944).
• Animal Lover:
  • Lana is the one who found all their pets when she was a baby, according to Lincoln's vlogs. She also likes to rescue animals.
  • Lincoln has also rescued animals and he likes to play with all the pets.
  • Although Leni is afraid of spiders and rats, she likes other animals. In fact, she apparently has to restrain herself from adopting all the pets from the pet store.
  • Lily knows the words "doggy" and "kitty cat" and likes to play with the pets.
• Animal Motifs: Due to the original premise for the series, rabbits are commonly associated with the Loud family:
  • Rabbits are known for their explosive breeding, and there are 11 children in the Loud family.
  • Lynn Sr. has a tie of a ugly rabbit.
  • Lincoln's most prized possession is a stuffed rabbit he calls "Bun-Bun".
  • Lincoln's very appearance is rabbit-like, with his white hair, buck teeth, and large feet.
  • Luan has a pet rabbit named Gary.
  • Lincoln once referred to quinoa as rabbit food.
  • Leni tends to pose her arms in a limp-wristed manner, much like how a rabbit would pose its front legs when standing on its hind legs.
  • "White Hare" features the original conceived premise via a dream Lincoln has.
• Animal Sweet on Object:
  • In Lights Out, a Licensed Game, a tentacled creature inadvertently created by Lisa falls in love with Lola's toy octopus.
  • In "A Pimple Plan", Luan puts a unicorn mask on to cover her pimple. A horse thinks it's another horse and develops a crush on the mask, causing Luan to run away and get stuck in a hollow tree.
  • In "Love Birds", Walt the canary has a crush on his neighbour Mr. Grouse's plastic flamingo. When he realises it's fake, he goes into a funk, so his friends try to find him a proper girlfriend.
• Annoyingly Repetitive Child: In "The Crying Dame", baby Lily keeps playing with a singing fox toy over and over, much to the annoyance of her siblings (especially since she also does it at night).
• Annoying Younger Sibling: Some of the siblings can be like this:
  • Leni is one to Lori, who she often gets on the nerves of with her stupidity.
  • Luan is this when pranking her older sisters and telling them jokes but inverted when doing the same to her younger siblings.
  • Lola tends to be manipulative and blackmailing, while Lana tends to be messy towards their older siblings.
  • Lincoln, more-so in earlier episodes, is often seen as one by Lori, though she really loves him deep down (and sometimes not so deep down).
  • Most strongly exemplified in "A Tale of Two Tables", where Lincoln is stuck at the kids' table for meals with his younger sisters and wants to sit at the adult table. However, when he gets his wish, he decides that the grass is greener on the other side and persuades his parents to send him back.
• April Fools' Plot: The show is the current reigning champ of April Fools' episodes in Western Animation series, having four of them so far. They mostly focus on Luan going from a friendly comedian to a merciless prankster with her excessive pranks on each April Fools' Day.
  • In "April Fools Rules", Luan unleashes an arsenal of pranks on April Fools' Day, and Lincoln tries to avoid whatever she may have in store.
  • In "Fool's Paradise", the Louds send Luan to a clown camp so they won't have to deal with her pranks, but it turns out that Luan had planned the whole thing to lure them into a Saw-like trap.
  • In "Fool Me Twice", the rest of the Loud family hire stunt doubles to take their places on April Fools' Day. Luan had anticipated this, and she uses the stunt doubles to ruin her family's reputations.
  • In "Silence of the Luans", Luan has been locked in a cell in the basement in a similar manner to Hannibal Lecter, yet her brand of extreme pranks keeps happening anyway, and Lincoln has to team up with her to find the real culprit.
• Art Evolution: Nothing too major, but the animation has gotten more bouncy and fluid as of later seasons.
• Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?: In "Child's Play," after seeing Luan with a bunch of cash attained through entertaining at young kids' birthday parties, Luna asks her bandmates if they're thinking what she's thinking. Bandmate Sully was surprised to learn that she meant their band should play at kids' parties, because he wanted to swim in Luan's money. Later, the group sees Lily on her trike, singing, and play the trope again. While the others realize that Lily's taste in music would match those of their new target audience, Sully just wanted to ride the trike. Later still, Lily become unavailable, so the band needs to come up wit their own song. Luna asks if the others are thinking what she's thinking, and Sully guesses that she wants them to act like little kids. Luna is surprised Sully actually got one right.
• Artistic License – Biology: In "Linc or Swim", a bee's stinger is sharp enough to puncture the kiddie pool and it stings Lincoln and survives.
• Artistic License – Child Labor Laws:
  • 4-year-old Lisa works at Flip's Food and Fuel in "The Butterfly Effect" after everything goes wrong. Lampshaded when she states it's the only place she knows that would hire a 4-year-old, and eventually justified when it turns out the whole episode was All Just a Dream.
  • Lisa is seen working again at a science lab in "The Mad Scientist", and even moves out of her parents' house to work there.
  • In "Intern for the Worst", Lincoln and Clyde, both 11 years old, get to work at Flip's Food and Fuel. It's somewhat justified, since it's stated to be a one-day internship and not actual employment, but even so.
• Artistic License – Law: Sometimes, a Loud sibling younger than 13 can be seen riding shotgun in Vanzilla. In real life, this would be illegal.
• Artistic License – Medicine:
  • The flu in "One Flu Over the Loud House" manifested in minutes, if not seconds, spread from humans to a dog, cat, hamster, and canary, and doesn't make the infected tired.
  • In "No Such Luck", Lana volunteers to pee on the wound if anyone gets stung by a jellyfish. Jellyfish stings should actually be treated with hot water and vinegar, not pee.
• Artistic License – Ornithology:
  • In "Face the Music with the Casagrandes", Sergio the scarlet macaw gets a sore throat from chilli shrimp, said to be from the chilli. Chilli peppers are actually good for parrots.
  • Crows are portrayed with yellow beaks and feet. Real crows have black beaks and feet.
  • In "The Loudest Thanksgiving", Sergio sees the killing of a turkey, goose, and pigeon as a "triple homicide". Macaws, turkeys, geese, and pigeons, despite being all birds, are different species.
• Artistic License – Sports: Paula Price is allowed to partake in sports despite having her leg in a cast and needing a crutch to walk. No sane coach or referee would allow someone to play with a cast on, much less a crutch, as it's illegal to do. Occasionally, Paula also uses her crutch in her plays, which counts as cheating.
• Art Shift: In "Slice of Life", the art style changes to a more Animesque style when Lincoln and his sisters are about to duke it out over who gets the last slice of pizza. It happens again with the pets at the end of the short when they're about to fight over the last slice.
• Ascended Extra: Many, many, MANY examples. Mr. Grouse, Flip, most of Lincoln's friends, the Morticians Club, Chandler, etc. have all become more prominent characters as the series progressed.
• Aside Glance: In "Space Invader", after Lynn Jr. remarks to Lincoln that she notices there's a complete lack of balls in his room, she then rambles on about he doesn't have any balls (as in, sports balls), prompting him to give an uncomfortable look to the audience.
• Astonishingly Appropriate Interruption:
  • In "No Guts, No Glori", Lincoln says, "In this house, we call Lori the Queen of—-" and is interrupted by Lori saying, "No!".
  • In "Frog Wild", Lincoln says, "That sounds—" then the scene cuts to Lana saying, "Horrible!".
  • In "A Novel Idea", Lincoln is playing astronaut and says, "One giant leap for..." only to hear Lana scream and say, "Lana?!". Then, he says, "Zip" meaning nothing, only to look outside and remark, "Line?!" after seeing his sisters on a zip-line.
• Athletically Challenged: "Net Gains" features three such characters — Maya who keeps falling asleep, Diane whose palms keep sweating, making her clumsy, and Amy, who is always on her phone. As such, they are terrible at playing basketball.
• Attack Backfire: In "Fool Me Twice," Lynn Sr. hires a group of stunt doubles to take their place on April Fools' Day. When Luan locks them in the garage, she tells them them look at the monitors where they see that Luan talked the doubles into:
  • Lincoln's double: professes his love to Mrs. Johnson.
  • Lola's double: she hands her championship tiara to her rival.
  • Leni's double: gets a hideous permanent and vows to show her friends.
  • Luna's double: interrupts her rock recital to play bad polka music.
  • Lana's double: runs away from a worm.
  • Lynn Jr.'s double: ends a 300 winning streak by wimpishly batting at a tetherball.
  • Rita's double: takes her unfinished and unedited book and submits it to her publisher.
  • Lisa's double: ends her physics symposium by saying cats go "meow".
  • Lucy's double: she shows her friends her eyes, which she vowed never to show anyone.
  • Lynn Sr.'s double: cost his team a trivia challenge by giving an incorrect answer to an easy question.
  • Lori's double: continuously farts on her date with Bobby and blames it on her squeaky shoes.
• Author Avatar: Chris Savino based Lincoln on himself when he was a kid.
• Awkward First Sleepover: In "Sleepstakes," Lana is invited to a sleepover. Problem is, she's tried to go to sleepovers in the past, but has gotten too homesick and had to return home, never staying for very long. With the help of her family, she hopes to work up the courage to complete a sleepover.
• Awkward Poetry Reading: In the pilot episode "Bathroom Break", Lucy reads Lincoln (who has to use the bathroom quite badly) a poem she made that compares love to water. Naturally, this does not help Lincoln's urgency one bit.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Lincoln and his sisters clash a lot, but at the end of the day they'll always be on each other's side. The theme song makes it clear.
  "Duck, dodge, push and shove
  This is how we show our love"

B

• The Baby of the Bunch:
  • Lily is literally this, as she's the only baby in the Loud family.
  • Luan qualifies as this in a more metaphorical sense, as she appears to be the least seriously treated member of the family, with everyone - even Leni and Lily - mercilessly expressing irritation towards her eccentricity.
• Baby See, Baby Do:
  • Zig-zagged in "Potty Mouth". Lily says, "Dannit!" and her older siblings think she meant "dammit" (aka the "D-word"), and think that she is copying them because all of them (except Lucy and Luan) once said the D-word in front of her. They try to recreate the accidents without swearing to have her imitate that instead. Later, it's revealed that she was trying to say, "doughnut" because she wanted a doughnut. She does say a real swear (bleeped) but that's never stated to stem from copying. At one point, she also imitates Lana singing Jingle Bells, Lori and Leni sharing a sweater, and Lynn cheering.
  • In "Room With a Feud", Lily copies Lori's "literally" tic.
  • In "Changing the Baby", Lily's older siblings try and get Lily to copy them so they'll have someone who shares their interests. Lily also copies Clyde's "two thumbs - this guy!" gesture.
  • This is Carlitos Casagrande's defining character trait. He's often seen mimicking his family. Even the dog.
• Babysitter's Nightmare: In "Sitting Bull", the four eldest Loud sisters, sick of Lynn's violent nature ruining their babysitting reputations, try to get her to quit by having her watch the Fox quintuplets, the worst kids they've ever sat. They soon feel guilty and try to save her from them, but find that Lynn's rough-and-tumble attitude helps her get along fine with them.
• Babysitting Episode:
  • In "No Guts, No Glori", Lori babysits her younger siblings.
  • In "Sitting Bull", all the older sisters babysit different families for money.
  • In "Two Boys and a Baby", Lincoln and Clyde look after Lily while the rest are at Aunt Ruth's.
• Baby Talk:
  • Lily, being, well, a baby, uses baby words like "kitty-cat" and "poo-poo".
  • When Lisa soils her diaper pretending to be Lily in "Potty Mouth", Lincoln asks, "Did Lily-wily go poo-poo in her diapie-diapie?"
• Baffled by Own Biology: Played for Drama in "Space Jammed", in which Lisa has no clue why she's making so many mistakes and why she feels so foggy (at one point, wondering if Leni is rubbing off on her). As it turns out, she skipped her nap (she's only five) and turned down some food Leni offered her, leading to a combination of Exhaustion-Induced Idiocy and hunger-induced idiocy that leads to her being stranded in space.
• "Balls" Gag: In "Space Invader", Lynn observes a "complete lack of balls" in Lincoln's room. She means sports balls, but Lincoln looks visibly awkward.
• Banister Slide: Lincoln does this in the show's opening sequence.
• Bathroom Control: In "Ties That Bind", Margo tells Lynn to hold her hot dog for her so that she can use the gas station's bathroom, but Lynn turns down this request because she thinks that using the bathroom before a major game is bad luck.
• Batman Gambit: In "April Fool's Rules", Lincoln plans to lock himself in his bedroom for the entire day to avoid Luan's pranks, but then he gets a text from Ronnie Anne saying she's coming over that day to hang out, so he sets off all the pranks in the house for her sake; it was revealed afterward that Luan was the one who invited Ronnie Anne over to lure Lincoln out of his room so he could suffer her pranking; but she instead directs the final blow at Luan because of what he did for her.
• Beauty, Brains, and Brawn:
  • Lori, Leni, Lola, and Lily are the beauties, the first three due to being fashionistas and the latter because she's a baby.
  • Luan, Lincoln, Lucy, and Lisa are the brains: Lisa is a genius, Lincoln is strategic, Luan is good at thinking up pranks and jokes, and Lucy is a very talented poet. Lana also has a brainy side because she's good at engineering.
    Luan (of the clown business that she and Lincoln have gone into together): Who did we just book?
    Lincoln: Actually, the correct question would be, "Who did I just book?".
    Lisa (off-screen): You're both wrong! It's "whom"!
  • Luna, Lynn, and Lana are the brawn; Luna because she's expressive when rocking out, and Lynn and Lana because they roughhouse.
• Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Averted thoroughly. The Loud sisters burping, farting, using the bathroom, clogging the toilet, etc. is frequently shown or mentioned. Lori farting is a Running Gag. Slapstick humor is also used frequently, and the girls are far from immune.
• Bedhead-itis: Some of the Loud siblings get ratty hair as a result of their illness in "One Flu Over the Loud House".
• Be Yourself: A frequent Aesop on the show is not to hide your true self; the moral of episodes such as "Toads and Tiaras" and "Back in Black".
• Big Ball of Violence: Whenever the Loud siblings get into a fight, they're seen in a dust cloud. Freeze-Frame Bonus sometimes include a ripped-off eyeball. Sometimes subverted when something cuts the fight abruptly - you can see how they manhandle each other.
• The Big Damn Kiss:
  • Lincoln undergoes one with Ronnie Anne in "Save the Date".
  • Luan and Benny share a heartwarming First Kiss at the end of "Stage Plight", realizing that they were both nervous to proceed to do so in the play because they've never done it to anyone before.
• Big Friendly Dog: Lalo is very affectionate and he's big enough for little Carlitos to ride on.
• Big Little Sister: Zigzagged with Lola. She'll either be taller than her older twin sister Lana or the same height as her depending on the scene.
• Big "NO!": Lincoln tends to react this way (i.e. screaming, "No!") whenever his plans are foiled.
• Big Sister Bully:
  • Lori, the oldest of Lincoln's sisters:
    Lori: Beat it, twerp.
    Lincoln: Aw, come on, Lori, no fair! I was here first!
    Lori: Well, I was born first.
  • Sometimes, Lynn acts this way toward Lincoln, calling him names (most commonly "Stinkin'") and playing rough.
  • Lola can be pretty mean to Lincoln and her other siblings as well with her bratty nature (except maybe Lily), but she's one of the younger Louds, so she inverts this trope, making her a little sister bully.
• Big Storm Episode: "Homespun" is about the Louds sheltering from a tornado.
• Birds of a Feather: All of the siblings' crushes in "L is for Love" each have something in common with them:
  • Leni and Chaz both like fashion.
  • Luna and Sam both like music.
  • Luan and Benny both like comedy.
  • Lynn and Fransisco both like sports.
  • Lincoln and Paige both like video games.
  • Lucy and Silas are both goths.
  • Lana and Skippy are both mechanics.
  • Lola and Winston both like being fancy.
  • Lisa and David both like chemistry.
• Bird-Poop Gag:
  • Walt the canary has pooped on Lincoln, in Lincoln's room, and in a dogcatcher's drink.
  • In "Back Out There", Lincoln's friends are wearing tuxedos, which a flock of birds poop on.
  • When Lincoln and Clyde's birdhouse collapses with a bird inside, the bird poops on it.
  • Vanzilla often gets covered in bird poop, so when Lynn Sr. replaces it, he gets obsessive about keeping bird poop off the new van.
  • Flip the huckster once tries to trick the ten older Loud kids out of their garage sale money by claiming that a certain cloth is good at cleaning bird poop.
• Birthday Episode:
  • In "No Spoilers", it's Rita's birthday, and since Leni has a bad habit of spoiling surprise parties, Lincoln and the rest of his sisters try to keep her away. When they try to throw a party without Leni's involvement, it turns out to be a disaster, and only Leni knows everything that their mom likes; her favorite colors, food, dessert, family and friends.
  • In "Present Tense", it's Lynn Sr.'s birthday. Lincoln and his sisters work on a scrapbook as a birthday present, but when Lori shows a picture of what Carol Pringley got her dad for his birthday, they worry that their scrapbook isn't a good enough present, so they go to the Royal Woods Mall to seek out the perfect birthday present.
  • Lola and Lana celebrate their seventh birthday in "Strife of the Party". It's revealed that Lola has planned the birthday parties every year, so Lana wants to plan it this year. Lola does everything she can to sabotage Lana's plans, and when she succeeds, she hurts Lana's feelings and has to make things right for her.
  • The licensed game "Surprise Party" is about Lori's seventeenth or eighteenth birthday.
• Bittersweet Ending: Several episodes end with Lincoln content with his position, despite being screwed over in some way.
  • "Left in the Dark": Lincoln misses the ARGGH! finale, but what's better than that is he lived it, thanks to Luan recording the whole adventure during the blackout.
  • "Sleuth or Consequences": Feeling sorry for Lucy and not wanting her to be a laughingstock, Lincoln decides to take the blame for her clogging the toilet with a Princess Pony comic, resulting in him grounded and can't go to the Ace Savvy convention. Lucy makes it up to him by making him his own comic.
  • "Raw Deal": Lincoln misses out on all the fun at Grand Venture State Park, since he panicked over Lucy's prediction that the day will be tragic and ends up making it come true himself. However, he does witness the geyser erupting before the family leaves.
  • "Really Loud Music": Luna cannot accept her new "Lulu" persona and instead plays the song she wrote from the start as herself; because of this, she is disqualified and doesn't win the record deal. However, she doesn't care, as what matters is she's keeping her true self.
• Bizarre Beverage Use:
  • In "Making the Case", Lincoln dives into a kiddie pool full of soda with breath mints tied to him as a publicity stunt.
  • In "Breaking Dad", it's revealed that Lynn Sr. and the kids once filled a kiddie pool with slushies for some reason.
  • In "Pranks for the Memories with the Casagrandes", Ronnie Anne and Carlota spray the boy cousins with pickle juice as part of a prank.
  • In "The Boss Maybe", Leni washes Lana in tomato juice after the latter deliberately makes a skunk spray her.
• Bizarre Taste in Food: Lincoln. In "Changing the Baby", he's seen eating a peanut butter and sauerkraut sandwich.
• Black Comedy Pet Death:
  • A deleted scene from "Home of the Fave" implies that Geo is the sixth hamster to bear that name after five others died in the past. It also implies that this is the fate of the pony Lynn Sr. got for Lola.
  • In "Spell it Out", Lucy tries to raise the ghost of her dead pet fish Goldie.
  • In "Insta-Gran", Myrtle, the kids' grandfather's girlfriend, kills three spiders in Lynn and Lucy's room, only for it to turn out that they're Lucy's pets.
  • Downplayed in "A Grave Mistake". Ricky the rooster dies, and there is a bit of comedy such as him having said to have "gone to the big barn in the sky", Lincoln belatedly realising that he shouldn't serve chicken nuggets at the funeral, and the funeral itself being botched up, but it's also treated relatively seriously with characters crying and the funeral being redone successfully and with no jokes.
• Black Dot Pupils: Every character is drawn with squash-and-stretch black ovals for eyes.
• Bland-Name Product: Most of the board games seen in "Lynner Takes All" are fictional, but "Settlers of Catland" is a pretty blatant parody of Settlers of Catan.
• A Bloody Mess:
  • In "Get the Message", Lincoln's blueprints have ketchup on them, which Clyde mistakes for blood.
  • In "Homespun", Lori mistakes sauce on Bobby's hands for blood.
  • According to one of the podcasts, at one point on Lori and Bobby's first date, Bobby thought Lori was bleeding, but it was just salsa.
• Bloody Smile: A scene in "Lynn-er Takes All" originally had Lynn use four toothbrushes to brush her teeth extra fast, resulting in her gums bleeding as she smiles. In the version from the actual episode, all that happens is she loses a tooth.
• Borrowed Catchphrase:
  • In "Potty Mouth", Lisa is disguised as Lily and says Lily's catchphrase "Poo-poo!". Lincoln does the same in "Cover Girls", as a synonym for Oh, Crap! when he has to play video games with his classmates dressed as Lily.
  • When Leni is pretending to be Lori in "Change of Heart", she says Lori's "literally" catchphrase, as does Lynn when she pretends to be Lori over the phone in "Sitting Bull".
  • In "The Loudest Thanksgiving", all members of the Loud, Santiago, and Casagrande families say "Let's do this!" (which is usually said by Lincoln) except Lori, Bobby, and Lily.
• Bottle Episode: There are a bunch of episodes that take place only at and around the titular household.
• Boyish Short Hair:
  • Luna has a pixie cut, and her interest in rock music is stereotypically associated with boys. To drive it home, before she got into rock, she had longer hair and a more feminine look.
  • Lisa has a short, scruffy bob cut (which is actually a wig according to some episodes), and is interested in all manner of physical, hard sciences.
• Brainy Baby:
  • Lily mostly behaves like a normal baby, but she has also exhibited several senses of knowledge and skill, as she seems to be aware of what's going on around her, occasionally joins in on the sisters' fights, and knows how to use a cell phone.
  • In the comic "It's Just a Phase", Lisa is revealed to have started being a scientist when she was one.
• Bratty Half-Pint: Lola is quite bratty, shouting, telling tales, stealing food, etc.
• Bratty Teenage Daughter:
  • Given her modern Valley Girl personality, Lori tends to get uptight when things don't go her way.
  • Lynn is one of the rare examples who's not a Valley Girl, as she's a Passionate Sports Girl who will often resort to Tantrum Throwing over the pettiest of offenses like losing a board game.
• Break the Cutie:
  • Lincoln is disciplined in "No Such Luck" to such a ridiculous extent that he's forced to sleep outside in the rain.
  • Luna undergoes a painful image revamp in "Really Loud Music" in which she undergoes a massive Girliness Upgrade and is forced to perform as a materialistic, glamorous pop star because it's more popular than rock, her real aspiration. She suffers a milder case of this in the climax of "Racing Hearts" in which she is left bummed out after she realizes how little she and Sam have in common.
  • Luan becomes so disheartened over her siblings' harsh criticism in "No Laughing Matter" that she decides to retire comedy as a whole and thereafter transitions into a former shell of herself.
• Breaking the Cycle of Bad Parenting: In "Home of the Fave", it's revealed that Lynn Sr.'s father played favorites when he was a kid, giving him the short end of the stick. When he fears he's doing the same thing to his own kids with Luan, he makes a genuine effort to spend equal time with all eleven of his children.
• Brother–Sister Team: Lincoln often teams up with his sisters when they have a common goal.
• Bumbling Dad: Downplayed with Lynn Sr., who, while shown to be a bit childish and clumsy, hasn't really done anything outright stupid.
• Butt-Monkey:
  • Lincoln is the quintessence of this trope. Any episode he plays a major role in, he's bound to have his day ruined by his sisters' antics (although that's been toned down after Season One). Aside from that, he's also bullied very often at his school.
  • Clyde is not free from the receiving end of the Amusing Injuries stick either.
  • Leni tends to qualify owing to her klutzy nature, what with her frequently bumping into walls.
  • Luan gets this treatment from her family in regards to her puns.
  • Lori is actually starting to lean more towards this direction in the recent seasons. "Selfie Improvement" and "City Slickers" both feature montages of her suffering humiliations.
• But You Were There, and You, and You:
  • In "One of the Boys", Lincoln dreams that he has ten brothers who are based on his sisters.
  • Invoked in "Pulp Friction", where Lincoln deliberately bases the team of heroines on his sisters, the villain who reforms on Principal Huggins, and the villain who's actually evil on Scoots.

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