Garage Banned

"Garage Banned" is the eighty-fourth episode of The Loud House.

Plot
Tired of her siblings, Lori moves into the garage, but quickly finds that it is more than she bargained for.

Synopsis
Lori wakes up one morning, when a rather muddy foot kicks her in the face. She discovers it's Lana, who snuck in after having another bad dream. At that moment, all the other siblings arrive, and start to annoy Lori:


 * Lola needs her to untangle her hair, but refuses to do when Bobby calls.
 * Leni asks her if the dress she's wearing clashes with her toenail color.
 * Lynn and Lucy are fighting because of the former breaking the fangs on Edwin.
 * Lisa volunteers to boot up her MRI machine, and Luan cracks a pun with Cliff.

Annoyed by everyone's attitude, she tells everyone to get out, but when Luan cracks another joke while talking with Bobby, Lori, now fed up, decides to take action.

Lori calls a house meeting, and tells her siblings that because she's nearly an adult, she can't stand to live in the house anymore. Because of this, Lori talked to Mom and Dad about it, and said that she'll be moving into the garage, much to everyone's dissatisfaction. Lori assures them that they'll be fine, since she's just 20 feet away from the house. With that said, the siblings proceed to start moving her stuff into the garage.

After moving all of her stuff in the garage (complete with a working toilet Lana installed), Lori finally gets all the alone time she has wanted. After painting her toenails, reading over a dozen issues of Sixteen 1/2 Magazine, watching TV, and dancing alone, Lori concludes that it must be bedtime. However, to her discovery, only 10 minutes have passed. She tries to pass the time by talking with Bobby, but Bobby is tied up at the moment, dealing with angry customers. Lori tries to do yoga, but only succeeds in releasing flatulence. Lori tries to sleep, but she's unable to, seeing how early it is. She tries to have a conversation with Mr. Grouse, but he's to preoccupied doing yard work.

Inside the house, Lola's still unable to get all the tangles out of her hair. Lisa reveals that she has a spray that will get rid of the tangles, and sprays it on her hair, which results in all of Lola's hair falling off. When 11:00 arrives, Lori finally decides to go to sleep, but the shadows of dead trees reflect off the moonlight, and the heavy wind causes the branches from the dead trees to scrape against the windows, prevent Lori from going to sleep. Lori tries to ignore it, but when Mr. Grouse smacks a squirrel with his rake that hits against the window, Lori accidentally hits the garage door button, causing the garage door to begin opening. Under stress, Lori repeatedly hits the button, and gets into a defensive position, all while shuddering in terror. Lana enters Leni's room, and tells her about a bad dream she was having. When the two become scared, they wish that Lori was back, since she can calm them down.

The next day, a sleep-deprived Lori gets a call from Bobby. When Bobby asks how she likes it in the garage, Lori tells him that it was a bad move, and that she wants to move back into the house. However, she's too embarrassed to move back, because she made such a big deal out of it, that if she crawled back to the house, the siblings would never let her live it down. When Bobby has to go, due to a mouse being present in the bodega, Lori gets an idea. She releases a few mice into the garage, and calls for her family, saying that the garage is infested with mice. The trick almost works, until Lisa reveals a machine that hypnotizes the mice (and Leni) to trap them. Lori tries to call for her family again, this time, saying that the plumbing on her toilet is broken. The plan almost works again, until Lana steps in and fixes it, while the remaining siblings keep the water out using buckets. Desperate for a solution, Lori realizes that she can bribe Mr. Grouse into wrecking the garage. When Mr. Grouse asks what he'll get in return, Lori says that she'll give him some of Lynn Sr.'s cooking, and he can pay for the damage to the garage by using money from her allowance. With all of this, Lori and Mr. Grouse shake on it.

After helping Luan with the dishes, Lori decides to call it a night. However, she decides to stall herself by saying goodnight to everybody in a steady manner. When 7:30 comes, there's a loud bang outside. Everybody goes to investigate, and to everyone's surprise, Mr. Grouse crashed into his garage, due to setting his mower in reverse. However, in the process of explaining himself, he reveals the plan he and Lori had agreed on, making the remaining siblings suspicious of Lori's action. Lori ultimately confesses, and says she wants to move back into the house, but was too ashamed to admit it, fearing that they would continually ridicule her. However, the siblings are happy about Lori moving back into the house, prompting them to engage in a group hug, which is abruptly cut short when Mr. Grouse complains about his damaged garage. Lana steps in, giving him a business card so she can fix it.

The next day, Lori, with all of her stuff now back in her room, encounters the same issues with her siblings (Leni's questions about fashion, Lana asking to let her sleep in her bed, Lisa trying to take Lincoln's kidney), but instead of feeling irritated, she's feeling glad, because she gets to be with her siblings.

Cast
Lily has no lines in this episode.
 * 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
 * Lara Jill Miller as Lisa
 * Jill Talley as Rita
 * Brian Stepanek as Lynn Sr.
 * John DiMaggio as Mr. Grouse / Yoga Instructor
 * Carlos PenaVega as Bobby

Trivia

 * This the 14th episode where Lincoln is not the main focus (instead, Lori is).
 * This is the third episode where Lori is the main focus. The other two are "A Fair to Remember" and "Party Down".
 * As of this episode Lori is the first character besides Lincoln, to have more than two episodes focused on them.
 * This is the 25th episode where Lincoln does not speak to the viewers.
 * Season 2, Episode 17 is the 7th episode where Lincoln does not speak to the watchers in either segment.
 * This is the sixth piece of Loud House media to not be directed by Chris Savino. The others were the shorts "Slice of Life" and "Deuces Wild!", and the episodes "Frog Wild", "Pulp Friction", and "Room With a Feud".
 * This is the third episode to feature a Loud being bald. The first was "Room With a Feud", and the second was "Potty Mouth".
 * The title of the episode is a pun of "garage band".
 * This could be a callback to the Season 1 episode "House Music", where the Loud Family was a garage band.
 * There is an episode of the show , also a show written by Chris Savino, with the same title as this episode.
 * On the title card:
 * One of the boxes is labeled "BOBBY".
 * One of the items shown is a golf bag, which could be a callback to episodes that feature Lori's hobby as a golfer, such as "Back in Black" and "No Such Luck".
 * Lincoln appears on the title card as a doodle of his head drawn on one of the boxes.
 * This is the second episode where Lori lies about her flatulence being a noise from an inanimate object, the first episode being "Making the Case". In this case, she blames the floorboards, where in "Making the Case", she claimed the farting noises came from her shoes.
 * Leni is the third sister to have painted toes in an episode.
 * Mr. Santiago is mentioned in this episode, which reveals that he is neither sick, nor deceased.
 * It is revealed in this episode that Lisa took Lincoln's appendix.
 * This is the second time where Lori's hair has been different than her usual style, after "The Loudest Mission: Relative Chaos".
 * Irony: In the beginning of the episode, Lori despises all of the interruptions in her room, but by the end, she enjoys them.
 * Moral: Never ignore your family.

Errors

 * When Lori is talking to Bobby on the phone while Leni is about to ask her if her outfit matched her toenail polish, both Lori's feet are shown to be both left feet instead of left and right.
 * While Lori was sleeping in her bed at the beginning of the episode, she have three eyelashes on each eye instead of her usual two.
 * Lori's eyelashes were missing when Lola wants her to brush/fix her messy hair.

Running Gags

 * Lori being unable to tolerate her siblings' behavior.
 * Lola wanting to get the tangles out of her hair.
 * The siblings wishing that Lori was back with them.
 * Lori trying to get herself out of the garage by sabotaging it, only to eventually fail because of her siblings.