User blog:LoudFanWolf/Why I hate The Sweet Spot

From what I've seen on this wiki, The Sweet Spot is an episode that people seem to love or hate. My opinion: I hate it,  in fact, it's on my list of Loud House episodes that I refuse to sit through (this list also includes the obviously hated epsiodes, and a few other episode that are quite polarizing, but I'll get into those on a later date) There is no moral, no "real" puunishment, and the siblings learn freakin jack from it, after they lose The Sweet Spot, they just start ot fight over a seat on the couch, which, from what we've seen, doesn't make any sense, because they all seem comfiortable sitting on the couch together in the opening, so why have a battle for the couch? CONITNUITY, KEVIN, CONTINUITY!

Now, you could say that this episode is thought/used as an ode to the old, classic slapstick cartoons, such as Tom and Jerry, and Loooney Tunes, where the characters fight over something trifle in a comedically violent fashion and learn nothing from it, thus, having no moral. And when it comes to those cartoons, using slpastick is okay, because the characters are usually enemies or frenemies, and most of the of injuries sustained from slapstick are usually made for laughs (the pointy bump of the head, or the birds around the head while the character is dizzy). As we all know, The Loud House is a cartoon, but in my opinion, it's a (mostly) realistic cartoon, with real familial problems, real familial values, and real 2 or 3 dimensional personalities that viewers can relate to. When it comes to most slapstick cartoons, most of the characters don't really have these kind of personalities (ex: Bugs gets lost, gets in trouble, but gets away through the use of his snark and the stupidity of his enemies, another ex: Toms only purpose in life is too eat Jerry, besides the doesn;t really have much a persoanlity at all, another es: Besides the fact that he' s rich enough to buy and make all these traps to cacth thr road runner, we don't know much about Wile E. Coyote. That's why we see all those satirical cartoons about how after he eats the Road Runner, Coyote loses his purpose in life and has trouble moving on).and for years their personalities have never changed, not once. However,  we've seen the Loud siblings and their personalities change rapidly in the year and a half that this show has been on the air (ex: I originally thought Lori was bossy, mean, and somewhat selfish, but episodes like "Garage Banned" helped me see that Lori is just a 17 year old teenager on the brink of adulthood, who just seems antsy about having repsonsbilities and taking care of her 9 siblings doesn't really lift her spirits up. Lori isn't mean, just misunderstood and not prepared for the life that's ahead of her).

But back to the topic of slapstick itself: Like I said, comedically violent plots and trifle objectives is funny when it comes to slapstick cartoons. But Iike I said, The Loud House is a mostly realistic cartoon, with real familial values, morals, and situations (most of the time, if it wasn't for Lisa being a four year old genius, I would have said realistic characters as well). So, seeing it turn into a slapstick cartoon for one episode just turns me off and rubs me the wrong way. Now, of course, this is an early season 1 episode, when most of the characters real personalities (like Loris) weren't introduced yet,, and the plots weren't necessariy revolved around morals at the time, but even still, I can't help but feel bothered every time I think of this episode. Is a good ode to slpastick cartoons, by my defintion, sure. Do I like it? NO.

If there are any flaws in my reasoning, please tell me in the comments, I love well structured criticism!