User blog:AustinDR/Review: Come Sale Away

This episode, guys. Just this episode. In "Come Sale Away," the Loud kids compete against each other in a yard sale the objective being who could out-sell each other. In typical LH fashion, they go a little too far, and they end up selling everything in the house. However when it seems as though they might've accidentally sold Lily's blanket in their attempts to out-sell each other, they set out to be teh first one to retrieve it.

Now, this episode was absolutely funny, especially towards the end when they were having their victory dance. I couldn't keep a straight face for the life of me. Good god the twerking.....I couldn't even believe what I was being made to witness. It felt so wrong, but I couldn't help busting a gut. The humor is over-the-top per usual, everyone was in character, etc. What also caught me off guard was the flashback in which the kids were trying to out-burp each other, and guess who won. That's right: Lola. I had to replay that scene twice to comprehend what I was witnessing. Lola Loud - little miss prim and perfect - actually won by belching the loudest. To see a normally proper person like Lola actually do something not lady-like, is something to say the least.

My only problem is the fact that the Loud kids didn't learn anything. Yes, they get grounded for selling everything in the house, but they are never made to realize that they went too far in their competitiveness. Instead, they decide to have a contest to see who had the best grounded dance moves. And even the parents got in on it. That actually made me confused when I first saw it. So like are they grounded or not? I'm not saying that the episode needed a moral, but I just felt that they received a light punishment for letting their competitiveness dominate their judgment. As I've said before, the episode also uses the "kids do something that ends up affecting Lily" formula by making it seem that they had unintentionally sold her blanket. Of course, it turns out that Rita actually had the blanket the entire time thus making the Loud kids' efforts of getting the blanket back meaningless. However, this is a minor nitpick so I won't dwell on it. I also liked how Mr. Flip ending up causing his gas station to blow up. After he was taking advantage of each of the kids, it was pretty cathartic that he gets some punishment which is actually foretold earlier in the episode (well, he took it to mean that his business would be successful, not literally exploding).

Overall, another good episode that knows how to exaggerate its humor without making it offensive.

Final score: 4 stars out of 5