Home of the Fave

"Home of the Fave" is the forty-second episode of the third season, and the one-hundred-forty-third episode of The Loud House.

Plot
After a pun-filled trip to the grocery store with Luan and Lola, Dad worries Lola thinks he plays favorites.

Synopsis
Lynn Sr. tells his kids that he's heading off to the grocery store, and asks if any of them want to come along. Luan and Lola decide to go (Luan needs more bananas and eggs for pranks, and Lola needs more macaroni for a necklace). Throughout the entire trip, Luan and Lynn Sr. exchange jokes in a continuous flow, and Lola gets more and more annoyed at the two bonding. When they arrive back home, Lynn Sr. takes note on how agitated Lola looks, and fears that Lola thinks he is playing favorites. When Lynn Sr. explains this story to his wife, Rita assures him that he can resolve things.

Later, as Lola gets to work on her macaroni necklace, Lynn Sr. reveals that he bought two princess dresses, one pink and one light green. Lola, seeing that Lynn Sr. bought her a dress of the color she loves, plus stick-on earrings, hugs her dad in gratitude, and proceeds to spend her whole day with Lynn Sr., partaking in many of her favorite things, while Lynn Sr. goes along to make Lola feel included. After a whole day of spending time together, Lynn arrives, and tells her father that he was supposed to meet her so they can work out together. Seeing Lynn upset, Lynn Sr. begins to fear that he now picks Lola over her. Before long, Lynn Sr. begins spending time with the kids, trying not to make all of them feel left out. Feeling that he satisfied everyone, Lynn Sr. believes that he accomplished his task.

As he makes dinner, Luan arrives and takes note how he's making beef stroganoff, which is her favorite food. Fearing that if he makes stroganoff, everyone will believe that he picks Luan over everyone else, so he proceeds to make everyone's favorite dinner instead, and decides to sit in a corner to avoid sitting next to anybody else. Eventually, Lynn Sr. becomes so stressed out at trying to make the kids feel equal, that he runs out of the house screaming. As Lynn Sr. lays on top Charles' doghouse, the kids ask him what the problem is, and Lynn Sr. says that he was acting strange because he feared that they were assuming that he was playing favorites. However, the kids state that they never believed that he was playing favorites, and explain that the reason they were upset was because of a personal issue. Realizing that his constant worrying was meaningless, Lynn Sr. hugs his kids, knowing that he loves all of them equally.

Sometime later, Lynn Sr. is explaining to Rita that he managed to resolve things, and as he starts playing with Cliff, the other pets arrive and shoot dirty looks at Lynn Sr., as they believe that he has a favorite pet, putting Lynn Sr. back to square one again.

Cast

 * Tex Hammond as Lincoln
 * Catherine Taber as Lori
 * Liliana Mumy as Leni
 * 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. / Young Lynn Sr. / Annoyed Customer
 * Jill Talley as Rita

Luna has no lines in this episode.

Trivia

 * This is the second episode where Sammie Crowley and Whitney Wetta don't collaborate with each other when writing an episode. However, this time, Whitney Wetta wrote this episode by herself, as Sammie Crowley wrote her first solo episode with "Tea Tale Heart".
 * Other than the Israeli short "Clyde and His Dads", this episode marks Miguel Puga's directorial debut.
 * Lynn Sr. and Lincoln watch Legends of the Hidden Temple while wearing their Orange Iguanas costumes from "Legends" in this episode.
 * This episode reveals that:
 * Lynn Sr. has a brother.
 * Lynn Sr.'s father used to play favorites when he was younger.
 * Lynn Sr. had a knack for cooking when he was young.
 * Lynn Sr. used to say "Ding dang darn it!" back then, which was first said in "Tripped!".
 * Lynn Sr.'s great-great grandfather, the kids' great-great-great grandfather, was named Lynwood.
 * Lynn Sr.'s idea of spending time with Lily was by dressing up as Fenton the Feel-Better Fox from "The Crying Dame". It's also quite strange to see him do this kind of activity, as he and Rita deeply feared Fenton just by the mere mention of its name in the aforementioned episode.
 * One of the episode's storyboards by Miguel Puga reveals three deleted scenes:
 * One showed Leni cutting Lisa's meal with her hand.
 * After Lynn Sr. hugs his kids Lynn's pushes the family and shouts "I call Dibs on the Grub".
 * One where it explains why Rita said to Lynn Sr. why the pony for Lola "didn't work so well". the scene shows a tombstone of Lola's pony along with all the previous Geo's that died.
 * According to Luan, her favorite food is beef stroganoff.
 * Vanzilla has the same appearance as it did in the photograph with Lynn Sr.'s father in "Vantastic Voyage", but the silhouette of his father in his flashback has curly hair rather than the long straight hair he had in the photograph from that episode.

Errors

 * When Lincoln slips on Luan's banana peel, his freckles are missing.

Running Gags

 * Lynn Sr. trying to appease all of the kids equally.
 * Lynn Sr. and Luan doing their song in the supermarket.
 * Lynn Sr. seeing his kids unhappy.

Videos
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