Homespun

"" (also known as "Home-Spun") is the Season 1 finale of The Loud House.

Plot
The kids complain about their house, but when a tornado threatens to destroy it, they start to feel differently.

Synopsis
As Lincoln takes out the garbage, he hears Lori screaming from upstairs. It turns out that the doorknob to the bathroom door broke off, and now Lori's trapped inside. Upset at all the misfortune she's receiving, Lori yells out that the house is falling apart. Lincoln admittedly tells the viewers that in a house that has eleven kids, four pets, and two parents who insist on fixing everything themselves, the house is a disaster. Lincoln proves his point when he explains that the house suffers from faulty water pressure, creaky floorboards, rotting wood, a clunky furnace, crummy TV signals, the numerous times the doorknobs broke off from their doors, and the malfunctioning mailbox, which falls on Lincoln's foot. When Lincoln laments that there wasn't a breeze strong enough to knock the mailbox off its post, Lisa proves him wrong when she explains (through some meteorological instruments) that the wind is significantly starting to pick up, claiming that a big storm is coming. Lincoln is at first skeptical, but he (and the other sisters) are proven wrong when a meteorologist announces that a tornado watch is approaching Royal Woods. Mr. and Mrs. Loud tell the kids to wait in the basement while they keep the TV antenna secured.

In the basement, the kids are scared, but Lisa reassures them that just because there's a tornado watch doesn't mean that one is coming, and also remarks how most residential houses can withstand high wind speed of up to eighty miles per hour (though Luan makes a joking statement that contradicts Lisa's last statement). Pretty soon, the kids begin remarking all the times when the house began falling apart. Those include:
 * Bobby arriving to the Loud House for the first time, and experiencing all the flaws of the house.
 * The house walls being so thin, that the whole house can hear.
 * Water leaking from the walls because someone flushed the toilet.

When Lisa gets new information that wind speeds have decreased, the kids are relieved, and yet, go into another series of flashbacks that explains all the good times they had living in the house, which include:
 * The basement being flooded when a storm hit them, and the dumped out water resulting in their own swimming hole.
 * Possums chewing up their wiring, cutting off all Internet access and TV signals. Though, they entertain themselves by acting like pioneers, after reading a series of books owned by their Dad.
 * The air conditioner malfunctioning, resulting in the living room freezing over and the kids turning it into their personal winter wonderland.
 * Slanting floors, which allows items to slide from one room to another.
 * A hole in the bathroom floor, allowing Lynn to get more toilet paper from the first floor (courtesy of someone).
 * The broken doorbell, resulting in the kids getting free pizza.
 * The kids repainting the house as a gift for their parents' wedding anniversary. When it turns out disastrous, they respectfully repaint it back to normal, even putting their handprints on the side of the house.

As the kids laugh at all the good times, Lisa's equipment begins acing up again. Lisa examines the information it's providing, and states that the wind speed has increased, and the tornado watch has become a tornado warning. The tornado strikes down, causing the thunder to begin roaring uncontrollably, and the electricity to begin flickering. As the kids huddle in fear, they admit they were harsh on the house, and take back everything bad they said about it. As the kids shiver in fear at the impending doom, the storm suddenly ceases. When Lisa says it's clear, they all exit the basement to check on how the house looks.

Outside, the kids and parents look at their house with concern, and a passing bicyclist comments that their house looks pretty beat up. The house turns out to be just the same, and Lincoln tells the bicyclist that's the way the house always is, and they like it just the way it is. The family is about to head back inside, but the doorknob to the front door breaks off, resulting in everybody saying "Dang it."

Cast

 * 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 / Lily
 * Lara Jill Miller as Lisa
 * Brian Stepanek as Lynn Sr. / Pizza Guy
 * Jill Talley as Rita
 * Carlos PenaVega as Bobby
 * John DiMaggio as Patchy Drizzle / Cyclist

Trivia

 * This is the last segment produced for Season 1, but was aired midway through the season.
 * This is the first segment to have a one word title.
 * The tornado warning lasted for a total of 37 seconds.
 * This is another one of the few times where the rest of Loud siblings actually find Luan's jokes funny.
 * The Loud siblings don't argue with each other in this segment.
 * The third time Lincoln had a too-long name for an operation, after "The Sweet Spot" and "Come Sale Away".
 * Lincoln is sitting at the adult table again in Luna's flashback, which he tried to get to in "A Tale of Two Tables".
 * Luan, Lana, and Lisa are the only siblings not to share any flashbacks about the house.
 * It is revealed that Luan has the ability to translate Lily's babbling.
 * It is revealed that Lori's earrings were a gift from Bobby.
 * It may seem that this segment could be chronologically before or after "April Fools Rules" as the period when tornadoes often occur is between March and May in the middle of United States.
 * However, The Loud House takes place in Michigan, as revealed in "Driving Miss Hazy" and "Study Muffin."
 * "Dang it" is said a total of 12 times in this segment, the most times so far.
 * This is the first time Luan groans at one of her father's jokes.
 * It's been confirmed that a flashback of Clyde McBride's backstory was cut from this episode so that it could be used as the focus of a currently unknown future episode.
 * Patchy Drizzle made his first aired appearance in this episode but "Snow Bored" was his actual debut in production order.
 * The color of the handprints each Loud sibling places on the house, all match the colors they appear in the show's theme song:


 * Lincoln - Orange
 * Lori - Light blue
 * Leni - Turquoise
 * Luna - Purple
 * Luan - Yellow
 * Lynn - Red
 * Lucy - Black
 * Lana - Blue
 * Lola - Pink
 * Lisa - Green
 * Lily - Lavender

Cultural References

 * The term "homespun" means simple and unsophisticated.
 * During the scene where Lynn Sr. tries to fix the TV antenna, one of the programs that comes on is a parody of the opening scene from A Charlie Brown Christmas.
 * During one flashback, a makeshift covered wagon has a "Starship Groupers" blanket. Said franchise is a parody of "Starship Troopers", and was seen before in "Changing the Baby".
 * Lincoln's model ship box that says "Morgan Models ship" is a reference to Jared Morgan, a staff member of the show.
 * When Leni was covering the leaks on the walls, this seems to be a parody of the opening scene of the 2006 film Ice Age: The Meltdown, where Scrat was covering the leaks on the wall of ice.
 * Rita's book from Lucy's flashback, "The Mom Jeans Ultimatum", is a spoof on The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.

Running Gags

 * Someone saying "dang it" when a doorknob/door handle breaks off.
 * The Loud kids having flashbacks about the events of their house.

Errors

 * During the montage of doorknobs breaking off, when Lynn and Luna's scenes are featured, their voices are swapped when they each say "dang it."
 * The thing about the walls being very thin contradicts "A Tattler's Tale" because if that is the case, Lola could have just listened in from outside the room, and wouldn't have needed a hidden microphone.
 * In the flashback of the slanting floors, Lincoln is shown eating at the grown-up table with his older sisters; yet in "A Tale of Two Tables" he wasn't ready for it yet. This likely means that the flashback took place after that episode.
 * When Lynn tried to tell another "hole in the bathroom floor" story, some of her hair was missing.
 * When the Loud kids were painting the house back to normal in Lily's flashback, Lori was holding onto Lily while she was painting the house, but in the very next scene, Lily is out of Lori's grasp.
 * When Lynn Sr. tells a joke in the flashback of possums chewing the wires, Luan sighs with the others even though she laughs at his other jokes.