User blog:AustinDR/Response to: Lincoln Loud: Girl Guru

OK, so this isn't technically a review, well it is, but it's pretty shorter than the reviews I tend to make. Now, several Loud Housians I know despise this episode for being mean-spirited. In my previous blog, I did say that I personally have nothing against mean-spirited humor. The Loud House doesn't need to have constant happy endings or whatnot, that much I agree. However, I do believe that there has to be a reason as to why mean-spirited humor is applied whether it be humorous, or if it is justified. In this episode, Clyde and Lincoln try to make a business for a school project, they decide to make pies. As Lincoln's sisters are chocoholics, they opt to make the pies out of salt and vinegar instead. Yeah......well, that falls on its head, so Lincoln gets the idea to help boys pick up girls by using what he knows that his sisters like.

I've said this many times already, but I'll say it again: I did not hate this episode in part because I felt that the mean-spirited humor was well intertwined with the plot of the episode. To me, it succeeds at executing mean-spirited humor perfectly as it shows that Lincoln was in the wrong thereby he gets what's coming for him. Granted he didn't mean any malice by giving his male classmates horrible advice, but it still clearly shows that he was in the wrong. You could argue that Lincoln getting pelted by pies at the end is a cruel way to end an episode, but I felt that it was warranted. Besides, it actually uses the salt and vinegar pies as a plot point rather than as some one-off gag. Overall, I find this episode pretty passable. I don't hate the episode, but I do understand why it's hated.

Final score: 3 stars out of 5