Baby Steps

"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 o'clock in the morning with some news. After overhearing his dads having a conversation, he believes that they are going to have another 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: Confidence, Caring, and Cookies.

With fanny packs full of snickerdoodle 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 injures 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. He then gives Lucy rhyming words for "tomb". Feeling confident that he knows what to do, Clyde decides to fill in for Lincoln when he hears Lana and Lisa arguing upstairs. However, at the same time, Lucy tries asking advice on how he knows when he's found a soul mate, and then Lola comes to him asking to choreograph her ribbon performance. Lily then comes to him with a broken toy. Feeling overwhelmed, he throws them the whole fanny pack of cookies and tries to leave the house, only to find Lori at the front door and passes out.

Upon waking up in Lincoln's room, Clyde feels that he doesn't have confidence like Lincoln and 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, Bitey are afraid of heights. Clyde then retrieves a ladder to get her down and once they are safely 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 evening during dinner, Clyde's dads tell him there's been a mix-up, and that they adopted a new kitten from the animal shelter. 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 had chipped it later in his life. Clyde is wearing his glasses, implying that he has needed them since he was a baby.
 * With the exception of a small cameo by Lori, none of Lincoln's older sisters appear in this episode.
 * This is the fourth episode where Lincoln isn't the main focus (instead, Clyde is).
 * This is the second episode where Lincoln speaks to the viewers in a episode that does not focus on him. The first being "Snow Bored". Before the scene where Clyde and his dads are at the table and after Lisa (offscreen) yells "Move your own oversized posterior!", Lincoln says to us that a big brother's work is never done.
 * This is also the first episode to focus on a character not related to the Loud family.
 * As of this episode, both of the male main characters have gotten at least one episode centered around them (Lincoln in all of the previous episodes, except "House Music", "A Fair to Remember" and "Snow Bored").
 * It is revealed that Lana is afraid of heights.
 * This episode 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 may start with an "L".
 * When Clyde panics over fear of messing up Lola's ribbon dance choreography, he fears she will start holding up convenience stores, which is a callback to "Butterfly Effect" when she did it along with Lynn.
 * It's revealed that Lily knows how to say the word "cookie".
 * It is possible that this episode happens after "Ties That Bind", since in that episode, Lincoln didn't know that Lola could read.
 * It is also possible that this episode happens after "Toads and Tiaras", since Lola recovered from her injury, and also in that episode, Lincoln knows how to make a ribbon dance choreography for Lola.
 * The episode was skipped in the Russian dub for unknown reasons.
 * It could be skipped because Russia has very strict laws, and homosexuality is illegal there. Since Howard and Harold are a homosexual couple, this could be the reason it was skipped.
 * The first part of this episode is skipped when it aired in the Philippines.
 * In the Italian dub of the episode, cookies are replaced with crackers.
 * Also, the last part of this episode was cut.
 * Moral: You can't give up after failing the first time.

Errors

 * In the scene where Lily is crying, she has visible eyebrows, which she normally doesn't have.
 * This is the second time this goof has happened since "Changing the Baby".
 * With only one tooth Lily can't bite a cookie.
 * When Lincoln says "Six year-olds can spell!" while Lola and Lana are attacking him for the cookies, Lincoln's teeth are shown, but his bucktooth is missing.
 * Lincoln made Lisa four peanut butter and jelly sandwiches shaped in triangles with the crusts cut off. But there are three of them.
 * Lola is shown with a full set of teeth, when Lincoln tried holding her back against Lana.
 * In that same scene, Lola's eyelashes are disconnected, while Lana's eyelashes are missing.
 * In Lola and Lana's fight dust cloud, one of Lucy's legs is seen popping out from it despite the fact she wasn't there.
 * Also, when Cleopawtra and Nepurrtiti were attacking Clyde for cat treats at the end of the episode, Lola's tiara is seen popping out from it despite the fact she wasn't there.
 * Clyde is seen throwing his fanny pack of cookies to Lincoln's younger sisters, but in the scene where Clyde starts to run off, the fanny pack is back on him.
 * When Lincoln was talking for the first time with Lisa, in the fridge there were only two notes, but later when he was talking with Lucy, there were a lots of notes.

Running Gags

 * Lincoln or Clyde giving a younger Loud sister a cookie.
 * Two of the younger sisters fighting.
 * One of the younger sisters asking Clyde to assist them with something.
 * One of the younger sisters telling Clyde that he's a life saver.
 * Clyde accidentally saying the Third C word.
 * Lincoln and Clyde helping the younger sisters.
 * Lincoln teaching Clyde about how to be a big brother.

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