Ruthless People

"Ruthless People" is the twenty-fourth episode of the third season, and the one-hundred-twenty-fifth episode of The Loud House.

Plot
When the house is infested with termites, half the family stay with Pop-Pop and the others stay with Aunt Ruth.

Synopsis
The siblings are playing football on the second floor. As Lynn runs past her siblings, she suddenly crashes right through Lincoln's bedroom wall. While observing the damage, Rita and Lynn Sr. discover termites roaming around in the walls, and declare that they have to stay somewhere else while the house gets fumigated. When the idea of staying at a hotel together gets shot down due to the large amount of family members, they say that they should split up. One half of the family stay with Pop-Pop, while the other half stay with Aunt Ruth. Almost immediately, the siblings call dibs on Pop-Pop, but Rita calls no dibs, and decide to draw names from a hat. After the drawings, the results are in: Leni, Luan, Lucy, Lana, Lisa, Lily, and Rita go to Pop-Pop's, while Lincoln, Lori, Luna, Lynn, Lola, and Lynn Sr. go to Aunt Ruth's.

While fixing up his damaged wall, Lincoln tells the viewers that he has a plan go to Pop-Pop's regardless. He goes to Lana, who's hosting a party a group of termites she saved, and convinces her to switch over when talking about all the gross things she'll miss out on. While packing, Lola discovers what's in Lincoln's suitcase, and tattles him out to the other members on his side. As Lori, Lynn, Lola, and Lynn Sr. complain, Lincoln says that they too can come to Pop-Pop's if they can convince the others to switch. Taking his words, Lori, Lynn, Lola, and Lynn Sr. manage to convince the opposing side to switch. After Leni, Luan, Lucy, Lana, and Rita are dropped off at Aunt Ruth's, Lincoln, Lori, Luna, Lynn, Lola, and Lynn Sr. quickly rush over to Sunset Canyon.

Upon arriving to Sunset Canyon, problems already arise. The pool is closed due a pool noodle jamming the filter, the shuffleboard court is closed when a flock of geese attacked one of the elders (and is now labeled as a crime scene), Scoots steals all of the pudding, their dinner is a mysterious mush, Lynn Sr. can't add salt to his meal due to a high blood pressure epidemic in 2013, they have to go to bed, even though it's only 6:00 PM, no drinks before bed, and the AC is broken. The family calls up the others in hopes that their misery would make them feel better, but to their disappointment, the ones staying with Aunt Ruth are actually having a great time, since Aunt Ruth took them to a lake house.

Unable to take it anymore, and out of jealousy, Lynn Sr. and the siblings call up the others so they can switch places by making promises. They all agree, and both halves of the family switch places. As Lynn Sr.'s group begin to celebrate that they now have somewhere more tolerable to stay, Lynn decides to do some football, but upon crashing into the wall, it is revealed that the lake house has termites as well. While observing the damage, Lincoln discovers a miniature disco ball present, meaning that Lana brought them along with her just to spare them from being killed during their house's fumigation. Realizing they can't stay at the lake house, the family is forced to stay at Aunt Ruth's house. The family decides to call up the others, hoping that their misery would make them feel better, but they are disappointed to learn that the retirement home has rented out a cruise, making Lincoln, Lori, Luna, Lynn, Lola and Lynn Sr. furious that they still got the short end of the stick.

Cast
Lily, Ruth, and Seymour have 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 / Scoots
 * Lara Jill Miller as Lisa
 * Brian Stepanek as Lynn Sr.
 * Jill Talley as Rita
 * Phil LaMarr as Orderly
 * Fred Willard as Pop-Pop

Trivia

 * This is the third episode to feature Aunt Ruth, the first being "Two Boys and a Baby" and "No Spoilers".
 * Despite this, she was mentioned and given a non-cameo in "Suite and Sour".
 * According to the episode's storyboard artist, Sarah Johnson, she designed the title card, while Amanda Rynda colored it in.
 * This episode's title card has the exact same color scheme as the one for "Lock 'n' Loud".
 * Despite Ruth appearing in the episode, as well as the title mentioning her name, she doesn't speak in this episode, nor does she play a major role.
 * This is the sixth episode where a character's name is on a title card the others are "No Guts, No Glori" (Lori), "Linc or Swim" (Lincoln), "Lincoln Loud: Girl Guru" (Lincoln), "Lynner Takes All" (Lynn), and "Rita Her Rights" (Rita).
 * This is the first time a character's name is on a title card in both segments.
 * This is also the first time a minor character has their name on the title card.
 * This is also the first time the character whose name appears in the title doesn't speak.
 * Ruth's house number is revealed to be 1521.
 * Lisa and Lily are the only roommates to be in the same group.
 * The bargains Lynn Sr.'s group make with Rita's group to switch places with them:
 * Aunt Ruth's house with Sunset Canyon
 * Lincoln - Lana (Tempts Lana with the possibilities of scooping cat litter, eating expired food, and popping Aunt Ruth's boils)
 * Lori - Leni (Offers to give Leni any clothes from her side of the closet)
 * Lola - Lisa (Initially offers to give Lisa her desserts for a month, but gives her cash instead when she mentions having lost some of her grant money)
 * Lynn - Lucy (Offers to be an open casket cadaver for Lucy's practice funerals)
 * Luna - Luan (Offers to let Luan saw her in half for her magic show)
 * Lynn Sr. - Rita (Offers to change 100 of Lily's diapers, including blowouts, along with potty training her and teaching her how to drive)
 * Sunset Canyon with Aunt Ruth's house
 * Lincoln - Lisa (Agrees to give Lisa a pint of his plasma after temping her with a 118 year old male resident for her to study)
 * Lola - Leni (Agrees to give Leni her hair crimper after temping her with Seymour's grandson, claiming that he is a "total hunk")
 * Lori - Lana (Agrees to give Lana 5 rides to the dump with no blackout dates after temping her with a plumbing crisis in the pool for her to fix)
 * Lynn - Lucy (Agrees to let Lucy's bats take her side of the closet after temping her with a psychic she likes to watch on TV being a resident)
 * Luna - Luan (Agrees to de-tangle all of Luan's clown wigs after temping her with providing entertainment for the residents due to the TV in the rec room being busted)
 * Lynn Sr. - Rita (Agrees to attend 20 parent-teacher conferences, including Lola's, after temping Rita with using the life stories of the residents as inspiration for her writing)
 * Lily was the only member of Rita's group that did not make a deal with anyone.

Running Gags

 * Lynn crashing through walls.
 * The Louds making a deal with each other.
 * Lynn Sr. calling Leni to see how terrible their trip is, but turns out they were having fun.

Ruthless People