User blog comment:SpongeGuy12/Fools Paradise vs April Fools Rules/@comment-24281967-20170901001939

Fools Paradise was one of the best surprises of season 2, an April Fools episode that was actually great, so let me explain why.

April Fools Rules was such an unpleasant and cruel episode that was about what happens in the Loud House during April Fools day every year with Luan being the prank master that she is. Luan was very unlikable and also disappointing as an entertaining villain since she was barely in the episode and barely got any payback for everything she had done, plus none of her jokes worked which is something you want in an episode all devoted to her favorite Holiday. Even worse were the pranks, instead of coming off as creative and amusing they were mean, cruel, and worse NOT funny. The quote on quote "pranks" Lincoln had to suffer through seemed more like setups for someone to get seriously hurt yet Luan doesn't care which is really disgusting to me.

Fools Paradise fixes all this by placing a similar plot to April Fools Rules in this episode, yet spin it around to come off as a satire of Slasher horror films, and the writers executed this perfectly. The characters while scared all react to their pranks with such exaggeration, yet this is also something common that you would find in cheesy horror films, so I couldn't help but laugh at each family member getting a prank. Also the pranks this time around are creative, amusing, and best of all unpredictable! Unlike April Fools Rules these pranks are really just harmless with the most harmful prank being Lana's, but even then compared to what Lincoln suffered last year this is nothing and it's all in good fun. The stand out pranks include Lucy's prank of her getting bleached and especially Luna's prank of her drowning in Jello in what has to be one of the funniest moments in the entire series, I really loved that scene of her sinking and then quoting a famous song! And then Luan actually gets payback for what she had done, by getting the biggest prank in the whole episode. Even after getting pranked, Luan still laughs as an evil genius promising to prank her family even harder next year with a specific target at Lynn Sr. and now I'm suddenly very excited for next season's April Fools episode.

So Fools Paradise is MUCH better than April Fools Rules and is one of my favorite episodes in the entire series, and also one of the funniest episodes in the series too. There are my reasons, thoughts?