Baby Steps

"" is the fifty-sixth episode of The Loud House.

Plot
Clyde thinks that Howard and Harold are planning on having another baby, so Lincoln helps him learn how to be a good big brother.

Synopsis
Lincoln gets a call from Clyde at one in the morning with some news. He believes that his dads are going to have a baby, and asks for advice on how to be a great big brother. The next morning, Lincoln tells him the three C's on being a great big brother, which are confidence, caring, and cookies.

With fanny packs full of cookies, Lincoln begins training Clyde by showing how he cares for his younger sisters while Clyde is taking notes. Lincoln starts off with helping Lily after she hurt her thumb. Next, he hears the twins arguing and enters their room. Lola wanted Lana to guard her castle, but she thought it was boring and attacked it instead. Lincoln resolves this conflict by pretending to be a troll. In the kitchen, Lincoln gets a bag of frozen peas from the freezer after hurting his eye from the twins and makes Lisa some PB&J sandwiches and then gives Lucy words that rhyme with tomb. Feeling confident that he knows what to do, Clyde decides to fill in for Lincoln when he hears Lana and Lisa arguing upstairs. But at the same time, Lucy tries asking about how he knows when he's found a soul mate, and then Lola comes to him asking to choreograph her ribbon performance just as Lily comes to him with a broken toy. Feeling overwhelmed, he tries to leave the house, only to find Lori at the front door and passes out.

Feeling that he doesn't have confidence like Lincoln, he gives up on learning to be a big brother. After Lincoln leaves the room, Clyde starts playing video games until Lisa comes in asking for him to tie her shoes. After that, she calls him a lifesaver and leaves. Lucy suddenly appears in the room and asks Clyde for words that rhyme with Lori. After giving her thousands of words, she thanks him, calls him a lifesaver and leaves. Lola then rolls in with her car and asks Clyde to show her how to buckle her seat belt. Once he gives her proper instructions and her seat belt is buckled, she also calls him a lifesaver and drives away. Lily crawls to him with a book and he reads her a story. Feeling more confident, he heads downstairs to search for Lincoln, only to catch him paying his sisters for asking Clyde to do things for them just to boost his confidence. Angered by this, Clyde hands him Lily and is about to leave until Lana calls out to him while stuck in a tree. At first, he believes it's also part of the act, but Lana tells him she's actually stuck and that she and her rat are afraid of heights. Clyde then retrieves a ladder to get her down and once they were back down, she calls him a lifesaver and runs off.

Lincoln finds him and tries to apologize, but Clyde reassures him that he is feeling confident enough and is going to tell his dads he is ready to be a big brother. However, later that day during dinner, Clyde's dads tell him there's been a mix-up and that they had actually gotten a new kitten. The next day when Clyde is about to be left home alone with the cats, he tells his dads he's got the three C's down.

Cast

 * Collin Dean as Lincoln
 * Catherine Taber as Lori
 * Jessica DiCicco as Lucy
 * Grey Griffin as Lana / Lola / Lily
 * Lara Jill Miller as Lisa
 * Caleel Harris as Clyde
 * Michael McDonald as Howard
 * Wayne Brady as Harold

Trivia

 * Lincoln and Clyde are shown as babies on the title card. Lincoln's tooth is not chipped, implying that he chipped it later in his life. Clyde is wearing his glasses, implying that he has needed them since he was a baby.
 * Except for a small cameo by Lori, only the younger sisters appear in this segment.
 * This is the fourth time Lincoln isn't the main focus of a segment (instead, Clyde is); "House Music" (Luna) was first, "A Fair to Remember" (Lori) was second, and "Snow Bored" (Lisa) was third.
 * This is also the first segment to focus on a character not related to the Loud family.
 * It is revealed that Lana is afraid of heights.
 * When Clyde rescues Lana from a tree, he mentions that he is also afraid of heights, something that is shown in "Dance, Dance Resolution".
 * This segment marks the third appearance of Clyde on a title card after "Two Boys and a Baby" and "Roughin' It".
 * Lucy's notebook has the initial L.L.L, meaning that her middle name starts with an "L".

Errors

 * In the scene where Lily is crying, she has visible eyebrows, which she normally doesn't have.
 * When Lincoln says "Six year-olds can spell!" while Lola and Lana attacking him for cookies, Lincoln's teeth has shown.
 * Lincoln made Lisa four peanut butter and jelly sandwiches shaped in triangles with the crusts cut off. But there are three of them.
 * In Lola and Lana' fight dust cloud, one of Lucy's legs is seen popping out from it despite the fact she wasn't there.

Running Gags

 * Clyde giving a younger Loud sister a cookie.
 * One of the younger sisters asking Clyde to assist them with something.