Lynner Takes All

"Lynn-er Takes All" is the eighty-eighth episode of The Loud House.

Plot
Tired of Lynn's poor sportsmanship during board games, the siblings decide to team up to take her down.

Synopsis
It's game night at the Loud House, and Lincoln explains to the viewers that he and his sisters dread this day, because Lynn always wins every game they play, and has the need to showboat in front of everyone's faces. When the siblings gather in the dining room, Lily suggests that they play Go Fish. As they play the game, Lynn manages to win, and begins showboating in front of everybody's faces, which is made worse when Lynn announces that this was her 300th win. The siblings admit that they're now sick and tired of Lynn constantly winning. Lincoln suggests that they play a game that Lynn has no experience in, since she'll most likely lose.


 * The first game they play is called "Pretty, Pretty Pageant Queen", which is suggested by Lola. Lynn is hesitant to play it, but decides to play it to avoid admitting loss. As they play the game, Lola appears to be winning. Just before Lola can declare victory, Lynn reads in the instruction book that if you get all 10s on the dice, you get an instant win. Lynn spits on the dice, and tosses them. Just when Lisa says that the chances of getting 10s on all three dice are highly unlikely, Lynn ends up winning due to all three dice displaying 10s, causing Lola to faint.
 * Lana suggests "Plumbing Pro", a game that requires pulling items out without touching the sides. Lynn tries to grab the hairball from the shower drain, but she ends up touching the wall. Because of this, Lynn has only one more chance before she loses. Lynn walks out of the house, and begin doing some exercises to boost her motivation. She runs back in, and successfully pulls out all of the items from the toilet, resulting in another victory.
 * Lincoln suggests that she play the Ace Savvy Trivia Game, since Lynn has no experience in Ace Savvy at all. However, when he and Lynn play the game, Lincoln has gotten every question wrong, because Lynn keeps making Lincoln lose his mojo by telling him that he might choke when he says an answer. When asked "Who is Ace Savvy's sidekick?", Lincoln, under stress, answers "Massachusetts", and Lynn answers "One-Eyed Jack", once again giving Lynn the victory.

Just when the siblings start to admit that Lynn can't be stopped, Lisa suggests that they play a game that requires all of them to go against Lynn. Lisa presents the game she has in mind: "The Settlers of Cat-Land". The objective is to build as many structures as possible, which can only be done by forming alliances. If no one sides with Lynn, she's sure to lose. Later, the siblings and Lynn play the game, and the siblings end up being in first place, while Lynn ends in second. The siblings (sans Lynn) leave the dining area, and conclude that Lynn should finally stop with the competitiveness and excessive gloating.

The next day, Lynn seems to be exhibiting a more obnoxious side of her gloating, as she begins to chug a carton of milk faster than Lincoln, run up the stairs faster than Leni, build a taller wooden block structure than Lily, create an explosion with chemicals faster than Lisa (even though that wasn't Lisa's intention), wash dishes faster than Lucy, and brush her teeth faster than Lola. Not only does Lynn do this to just her siblings individually, but all of them at once, saying she can go to sleep faster them, snore louder than them, and be the first to wake up. The siblings attempt to get away from Lynn going on a peaceful drive, but unfortunately, Lynn chases them, showing that she can go faster than them.

At night, the siblings hold a meeting, where they admit that beating Lynn at "The Settlers of Cat-Land" was a bad move. Lincoln suggests that they hold a rematch, but this time, they'll throw the game (meaning intentionally lose), so that Lynn will win, and hope it'll stop with the obnoxious gloating. Lynn accepts the rematch, and the siblings begin the game again. As they play, the siblings attempt to make Lynn win by giving her any card she requests, placing a valuable card in the card pile for her to pick up, and change the side of the dice to a higher number. The plan appears to be working, when suddenly, Leni grabs the game board, and tosses it out the window, apparently taking Lincoln's words too literally.

With the plan revealed, Lynn asks why they wanted to lose. Lincoln says that they wanted to lose so she can win, in hopes she would stop being competitive. Lynn says that she was being competitive because she wanted to regain her edge after losing. Lisa and Luna further explain that the reason she lost was because of the fact that that all of the siblings teamed up and were going against her, because after 300 wins, they couldn't take anymore of her gloating. With all this information, Lynn apologizes to her siblings for being jerky towards them, and promises that if they give her another chance, she'll stop being a bad winner and sore loser, and start being a good sport, to which the siblings agree to.

Later, Lynn wins a card game, and instead of rubbing her victory in front of everybody's faces, she tells them "good game", and leaves. She heads outside, and walks over to the driveway, where she suddenly begins showboating. The other siblings look out the window, and despite Lynn showboating as usual, they're fine with it, because as Lincoln says, "At least it's not to our faces."

Cast

 * Collin Dean as Lincoln
 * Catherine Taber as Lori
 * Liliana Mumy as Leni
 * Nika Futterman as Luna
 * Cristina Pucelli as Luan
 * Jessica DiCicco as Lynn / Lucy
 * Grey Griffin as Lana / Lola / Lily
 * Lara Jill Miller as Lisa

Trivia

 * This is currently the lowest viewed episode of Season 2.
 * This is the first episode of Season 2 to have a character's name in the title.
 * In addition, this is the fourth episode overall to have a character's name in the title.
 * The first one is "No Guts, No Glori" (Lori),
 * The second one is "Linc or Swim" (Lincoln),
 * And the third one is "Lincoln Loud: Girl Guru" (also Lincoln).
 * This is also the second episode to have one of Lincoln's sisters' names in the title, with the first one being "No Guts, No Glori", since Lori was in the title name.
 * On the title card:
 * Although Lincoln himself doesn't appear, the orange game piece represents him, because it is his theme color, and the remaining game pieces represent his sisters, because of their theme colors.
 * So technically, this counts as Lincoln's "appearance", as the show has a tradition of having Lincoln on every title card.
 * This, in turn, is the first title card that doesn't have anything that physically resembles Lincoln.
 * Since this episode is related to Lynn winning, the red piece (which represents Lynn) is on an ending space, which further indicates that the episode is focused on her.
 * On the dice, the numbers shown add up to 13, a reference to either Lynn's age, or the total amount of Loud family members.
 * The dark blue and pink pieces, which represent Lana and Lola, respectively, are together since they're twins.
 * The title card excludes the hyphen in the word "Lynn-er".
 * This episode might take place before "Hand-Me-Downer", because the bike Lynn used to chase her siblings in the van was her BMX bike.
 * This episode's title card has a similar appearance to the title cards of "Project Loud House", "It's a Loud, Loud, Loud, Loud, House", and "Party Down"; all depict a blank background with red text.
 * This is one of the rare episodes to feature just the Loud siblings, and no one else.
 * This is the seventh episode where all of the supporting characters are completely absent. The first was in "Space Invader", the second in "Funny Business", the third in "Intern for the Worse", the fourth in "Patching Things Up", the fifth in "Pulp Friction", and the sixth in "Out of the Picture".
 * This is the first time since "Shell Shock", where Lincoln speaks to the audience.
 * This episode's promo image depicts the Loud kids as a trophy statuette. This was previously shown on the title card for "Making the Case", where Lincoln was a trophy statuette.
 * In the original storyboard, when Lynn was brushing her teeth, instead of losing a tooth, her gums would start bleeding from the excessive brushing.
 * This episode shows that Lynn is good not only at sports, but also at board games.
 * When Lola fell over when Lynn beat the game she suggested, one of her high heels was briefly shown.
 * The way the sisters were glaring at Lincoln when he's failing the Ace Savvy trivia game, is similar to the way they were glaring at him in "Out on a Limo".
 * In the beginning of the episode, Lynn refers to Lincoln as "Stinkoln", the nickname given to him by the girls' male counterparts in "One of the Boys".
 * Lynn doing a victory dance seems to be a callback to "Come Sale Away", where almost all of the Loud kids' victory dances involved twerking.
 * Coincidentally, both of these episodes involve competition in a way and are the second half of the 19th produced episode of their respective seasons.
 * The way Lucy was laying down on the table in the living room, is the same way she pretended to be dead in "Roughin' It".
 * Leni's nose turned red when Lynn smacked her into the wall.
 * According to Lisa, she says that the chances of getting all 10s with three ten-sided dice is 1:1,720.
 * Luan made a total of six puns that involved the word "gloat".
 * This is the first episode where Lori doesn't use her usual flat shoe as a gavel when holding a sibling meeting. Instead, she uses a white high heel shoe.
 * This is the first episode with the Nickelodeon Productions logo from Kids Choice Awards 2017.
 * This episode's ending is similar to "A Tattler's Tale", as both involved the central character promising to improve their behavior, but when they're away from the other siblings, they begin displaying their usual behavior, though at a lesser extent.
 * Coincidentally, both episodes were written by the same writers.
 * When Lynn lost her tooth, her appearance was similar to her original character design.
 * Irony: The Loud kids thought Lynn losing would make her gloat less, but it ended up making her gloat even more than ever.
 * Karma:
 * Lynn couldn't stop gloating about her victories, so all her siblings united against her.
 * Lynn competed with Lola on teeth brushing, so she lost one of her teeth.
 * Moral:
 * You can't win all the time.
 * Games are about having fun, not winning or losing.
 * Nobody likes a sore loser or a bad winner.
 * Incessant showboating will annoy others.

Errors

 * As Lynn was heading outside after the last game, she was missing her sideburn.
 * There is a moment where's Lynn's eyelashes are disconnected from her eyes.
 * When Lynn was shaking the dice around during the rematch, there's a clacking sound heard, even though there's one dice present.
 * Plot Hole: Lynn is riding the bike she handed down to Lincoln who handed it down to Lana in Hand-Me-Downer instead of Lori's bike she won the bike contest with.
 * At one point, one pair of Luan's eyelashes are disconnected.

Running Gags

 * Lynn constantly showboating.
 * She often says "Lynn-er, Lynn-er, chicken dinner!" when doing so.
 * Lynn trying to prove she's better than everyone else, even at everyday activities.
 * The siblings getting annoyed by Lynn's gloating.
 * Luan making puns that involve the word "gloat".