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"Friended! with the Casagrandes" is the first episode of the fourth season, the one-hundred-fiftieth episode, the eighth full-length episode, the fourth season premiere of The Loud House, and the first episode of the Casagrande story arc.

Plot[]

Ronnie Anne makes friends with a girl whose family wants to rent the apartment upstairs. When it looks like another couple might get it first, the girls resort to sabotage to try and dissuade them.

Synopsis[]

Act I[]

S4E01 I'm Sid Chang! Nice to meet you!

A new pair of best friends in Ronnie Anne Santiago and Sid Chang.

At Great Lakes City, Ronnie Anne is prepared to spend her day at the park to practice her skateboarding skills. Rosa announces that the apartment above is available, and as the manager of the building, she has to advertise for it. After greeting her family (and assisting them a bit), Ronnie Anne heads out.

When Ronnie Anne asks her local hot dog vendor Bruno to give her a hot dog with "the works" (at 9 AM), a girl behind her asks for the same. Further down the sidewalk, Ronnie Anne attempts to jump over a fire hydrant and succeeds. The girl from before meets up again, and asks Ronnie Anne if she can try, and she agrees. However, when doing the trick, she ends up rolling backwards and nearly crashes into a statue. When Ronnie Anne asks the girl if she has ever skateboarded before, the girl says that she hasn't, but has just recently moved here and wants to try everything new. Fascinated with her enthusiasm, Ronnie Anne introduces herself, and the girl introduces herself as Sid Chang.

While feeding the pigeons pieces of hot dog, Ronnie Anne and Sid exchange several pieces of personal information, like how Ronnie Anne is from Royal Woods and her father lives in Peru, while Sid's mother is a zoologist while her father works as a subway conductor. When Sid gets a text from her mother saying that she's done with something, she leaves.

Sometime later, Ronnie Anne exits the bodega and discovers Sid sitting on the front steps of the apartment, saying that her family is considering on living here. Realizing that they might be potential neighbors, Ronnie Anne pleads with Rosa to give the apartment to the Changs, but Rosa says that she doesn't have the power to do so, since she doesn't own the building. Ronnie Anne tells her cousins about the Changs, and they all express gratitude with them, since each one of them has a quirk that they like. Seeing how they all express the same desire for the Changs to live in the apartment, Ronnie Anne suggests that they try to dissuade any potential tenants from seeing the apartment. This ranges from Ronnie Anne and Carlota going around town to take down any flyers that Rosa put up, Bobby and Carl driving tenants away through several tactics and CJ keeping Rosa distracted.

When Rosa discovers that no one has come to see the apartment, she attempts to call the building owner, Mr. Scully, to consider giving the apartment to the Changs, but Mr. Scully calls her first, saying that he's sending someone over to look at the apartment, whom he is friends with, much to the dismay of Ronnie Anne.

Act II[]

As the kids start to mope at the fact that they might not get the Changs as their new neighbors because of the people Mr. Scully is sending over, Ronnie Anne comes up with a new plan: they'll make the apartment look as terrible as possible and she'll show them around instead of Rosa.

Then plan is set in motion by Carl opening the fridge, which catches Rosa's attention. When Carl hugs Rosa, he sneakily takes the apartment keys out of her pocket and hands it over to Lalo, who then hands it over to Ronnie Anne and Sid. When Carl passes out from eating too much food, Carlota distracts Rosa by asking for a fortune reading to see if a boy she likes likes her back. In the apartment, Ronnie Anne and Sid make the room look as terrible as possible by painting huge cracks and holes on the walls, gluing the windows wide open, and placing several stinky items in different rooms of the apartment. With their work done, CJ heads up to another resident of the building, Mrs. Kernicky, and Ronnie Anne sneaks the keys back into Rosa's pocket. At that moment, the people Mr. Scully sent over, the Reynolds, arrive to the apartment, and in another effort to distract her, Ronnie Anne and Carlota fake that Carl has gotten ill, and Ronnie Anne offers to show the Reynolds around.

Ronnie Anne shows Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds the apartment, and they are horrified at its dilapidated state. The Reynolds are further discouraged when they hear clog dancing upstairs (courtesy of CJ), their inability to close the windows shut, the amount of animals living in the area and how the bedrooms are above the dumpster area. When the Reynolds leave, Ronnie Anne lies to Rosa by saying that the Reynolds weren't interested in the apartment because the building lacks an elevator. Suddenly, just when the kids and Sid begin to celebrate at becoming neighbors, Mr. Scully arrives and tells Rosa about what happened to the Reynolds. Mr. Scully, thinking that Rosa isn't taking care of the apartment, fires her as the manager of the building. This prompts Ronnie Anne to confess about what she did, saying she did it all for her friend wanting the place.

Casagrande and Chang

The two friends are now neighbors!

Sometime later, as Ronnie Anne sulks in her room - and possibly getting punished for what she had done - Maria and Rosa enter, and state that while they are displeased with what Ronnie Anne had done, Ronnie Anne apologizes for she did it, but Rosa is glad that she still gets to keep her job as manager. Maria then tells Ronnie Anne that she must undo all the damage to the apartment. Ronnie Anne promptly fixes up the apartment (with a little help from Sergio) and Rosa tells her to come downstairs to welcome the new neighbors. At the entrance, a moving truck arrives, and the one sitting in the passenger seat is revealed to be Sid. When Ronnie Anne expresses confusion about why the Changs are here, Mr. Scully explains that he was moved by Ronnie Anne going through so much trouble for a friend, and found a way to fix both sides: he had the Reynolds live in another building he owns so that the Changs can live with the Santiagos and Casagrandes, much to Ronnie Anne and Sid's happiness.

Being neighbors is going to be awesome!

—Ronnie Anne Santiago


Cast[]

Lori, Leni, Luna, Lynn, Lucy, Frida, Stanley, and Adelaide have no lines in the episode. Arturo only appeared in a picture on Ronnie Anne's phone.

Smarty Pants Challenge[]

During a rerun of this episode on July 24, 2020, the viewers had the chance to answer trivia questions related to the episode with the Nickelodeon Screens Up app or on Nickplay.com for a chance to see their name on screen.

  1. Who woke Ronnie Anne up?
    1. Abuela
    2. Carlota
    3. Bobby
    4. Lalo
  2. What color is Ronnie Anne's helmet?
    1. Purple
    2. Blue
    3. Green
    4. Maroon
  3. Ronnie Anne jumps over what on her skateboard?
    1. Hotdog Cart
    2. A Pigeon
    3. Carl
    4. Fire Hydrant
  4. Ronnie Anne becomes friends with who?
    1. A pigeon
    2. The Hotdog Vendor
    3. Sid Chang
    4. Vito Filiponio[sic]
  5. What apartment might Sid Chang move into?
    1. Apartment 3A
    2. Apartment 4Z
    3. Apartment 22G
    4. Apartment 33ABC
  6. Who does Ronnie Anne ask for help?
    1. Abuela[sic], Abuelo, Aunt Frida, Tio Carlos
    2. Carlota, Bobby, CJ, Carl
    3. Lincoln, Lori, Leni, Luna
    4. Vito, Lalo, Sergio, Hotdog Vendor
  7. Who was at Margarita's Salon with Carlota and Ronnie Anne?
    1. Lalo
    2. Abuelo
    3. Bobby
    4. Lincoln
  8. What is Ronnie Anne's plan?
    1. Make the apartment look bad
    2. Gut renovation
    3. Decorate the apartment
    4. Give up
  9. What color is Sid's headband?
    1. Red
    2. Purple
    3. Turquoise
    4. Pink
  10. How many pigeons show up in the window?
    1. 4
    2. 10
    3. 3
    4. 1
  11. Who gets chased out by pigeons?
    1. Ronnie Anne
    2. Carlota
    3. Sid
    4. Lalo
  12. Who claims to be sick?
    1. CJ
    2. Ronnie Anne
    3. Carlota
    4. Carl
  13. Who shows the apartment to the Reynolds?
    1. Ronnie Anne
    2. Abuelo
    3. Abuela
    4. Sid
  14. Why does Abuela think the Reynolds don't want the apartment?
    1. Too big
    2. No elevator
    3. No pets allowed
    4. Too noisy

Physical distribution[]

This episode is available on the "Les Casagrandes", "Saison 4 : Partie 1", and "Intégrale de la Saison 4" DVDs.

Trivia[]

  • This is the first episode where Izabella Alvarez voices Ronnie Anne, making the character's voice lighter and more optimistic than in earlier episodes.
  • This episode features a modified theme song: the normal theme song is cut down to half of its run-time and when the logo for The Loud House pops up, Ronnie Anne appears and says to the viewers that if they like the Louds, they should meet her family. She then gives a rundown of each member of her family, ending with her saying that they are the Casagrandes. This continues for the next eight episodes due to the episodes being about the Casagrandes.
    • Along with this change, Ronnie Anne takes Lincoln's position of appearing on every title card.
    • Also, Chris Savino's creator credit is grayed-out from now on due to no longer being involved.
  • This episode reveals that Rosa is the manager of the apartment complex the Casagrandes live in.
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Jun 1, 2019[1]
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Jun 1, 2019[2]
  • Jared Morgan posed and storyboarded the scene in which Ronnie Anne spins and falls after failing to jump a fire hydrant with her skateboard.
    • This is also the first episode to be boarded by Jared Morgan.
  • Lola was originally going to appear with the scene where she was running down the stairs trampling over Lincoln. But her role was replaced by Lucy in the final cut.
  • In this episode, Arturo (Dr. Santiago) makes his first appearance, albeit only in a photo. It is also revealed that he currently lives in Peru and that he and Maria are split meaning they're either divorced or separated. (It would eventually be confirmed that they're divorced in The Casagrandes episode "Operation Dad".)
    • This episode also reveals that the reason why he currently resides in Peru is because of an assignment he's working on called Physicians on Missions.
  • This is the only episode in the Casagrande story arc to be full-length instead of a segment.
    • It is also the only one where Lincoln appears.
  • This is the only full-length episode of The Loud House in which Lincoln is a minor character.
  • When this episode first aired, during the commercial break, there was a bumper where Ronnie Anne explains her current situation to Lincoln, with Lincoln suggesting she consult her cousins for help (utilizing redubbed animation from "The Spies Who Loved Me").
  • This is the first episode (aside from "Left in the Dark") to depict a non-fictional human character who debuts in the episode (in this case, Sid) on the title card.
  • This is the first episode of the series to obtain fewer than 1 million viewers.

References[]

  • A113 - One of the vehicles in the traffic jam Bobby created had this code on the top, which is well known for appearing several animated movies and television shows, including in every Pixar film, excepting Monsters, Inc.

Errors[]

  • The high chair that Carlos sets Carlitos on in the beginning was not there in the previous shots.
  • In the library scene, when Carlitos looks up at Ronnie Anne, he is shown smiling with a full set of teeth.
    S4E01 Carlitos notices Ronnie Anne
  • There is a ring-tailed lemur with Arturo in Ronnie Anne's image of him in Peru. However, lemurs are from Madagascar, not Peru.
  • Possible: When Ronnie Anne says, "Put it on my tab, Bobby", she is seen skateboarding out of the bodega. But when she sees Sid by the apartment, she no longer has her skateboard.

Videos[]

Sources[]

  1. Hot Dog Au Jus [@JaredMorgan] (Jun 1, 2019). "I boarded and posed out the little fall here." (Tweet). Archived from the original on 2023-07-09 – via X (formerly Twitter).
  2. Nickelodeon Animation [@NickAnimation] (Jun 1, 2019). "Animatic + final animation from "Friended!", one of The Loud House episodes featuring the Casagrandes! 👯 https://at.nick.com/2EHwc6z" (Post). Archived from the original on 2023-07-09 – via X (formerly Twitter).


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