Funny Business

"" is the forty-seventh episode of The Loud House.

Plot
When Lincoln becomes Luan's clown assistant, he starts hogging the spotlight.

Synopsis
The story begins with Lincoln ready to read a comic book under a tree when Luan appears, asking for someone to help her with her party toys and props. Lincoln helps her, and then she offers to make him her clown assistant because the other sisters she contracted ruined each of the birthday parties she performed for. Lincoln declines at first, but when Luan tells him that the clown and her assistant receive free pieces of birthday cake, he eagerly accepts the job.

At the next birthday party, where he assists, Lincoln accidentally slips on a whipped cream can and falls on the presents, something the kids see as hilarious. Flattered with the laughs and applause, Lincoln begins to hoard the show by making pratfalls to make the children laugh while overshadowing Luan, who becomes jealous of him.

One day, Luan receives a call from a mother of the neighborhood to contract her as a clown in her daughter's birthday party but Lincoln takes her place believing it's gonna be easy, as with the previous parties, and ignoring Luan's advice that being a clown is about more than just "falling on his butt". When he arrives at the party, he's surprised to see that all the kids are alternative tweens, and the birthday girl, Maggie, is 13 years old. He then begins to do his act, but the alternative kids boo him and don't find him funny. Humiliated, Lincoln calls Luan for help but she denies at first due to his inappropriate and selfish attitude towards her. He apologizes and recognizes that she's the expert and he isn't. He also tells her that if she doesn't come, her clown business will have a bad reputation.

Luan comes to assist Lincoln and after looking at the audience, she gets an idea. She and Lincoln perform a mime play, which all the alternative kids enjoy and clap to. On their way home, Lincoln thanks Luan for her aid and apologizes to her for his misbehaving. She forgives him as she also apologizes, saying she shouldn't have been so harsh to him, and asks him if he will continue being her assistant which he agrees. In the end, they both enjoy a moment of laughing together after they fall on some whoopee cushions.

Cast
Lucy has no lines in this segment.
 * Collin Dean as Lincoln
 * Liliana Mumy as Leni
 * Cristina Pucelli as Luan
 * Jessica DiCicco as Lynn / Audience Kid
 * Grey Griffin as Lana / Maggie's Mom
 * Lara Jill Miller as Lisa
 * Kari Wahlgren as Maggie / Mom #2 / Kids
 * Kimberly Brooks as Tween #1 / Kids
 * Charlie Schlatter as Dad #1 / Tween #2
 * April Stewart as Bratty Kid's Mom

Trivia

 * The title of this segment means unpleasant, or dishonest actions, which seems to describe both Lincoln and Luan's actions throughout the segment, and the fact that the segment's central theme is clowns.
 * Luan's other assistants, and the reason they were fired:
 * Lucy - Scared Luan and the other kids, causing her to pop the balloon animal she was making.
 * Lynn - Threw a watermelon at Luan a bit too hard during her juggling act.
 * Leni - Stopped assisting to watch the show.
 * Leni was the only assistant who is older than Luan.
 * Lisa - Thought the whoopee cushions were cases of gastroenteritis.
 * Lincoln - Hired!
 * Lori, Luna, Lola, and Lily are absent in this segment.
 * This is the first time that one of the twins is present (Lana), while the other is absent (Lola).
 * This is the second episode in which all ten supporting characters (both sets of parents, the Santiagos, and the four pets) are completely absent (no physical appearance and no mentions). The first is "Space Invader".
 * Bratty Kid's Mom, the female shopper from "Cereal Offender" and the female customer from "Come Sale Away" make an appearance in this segment.
 * This is the second time Luan is in her mime outfit, after "Ties That Bind", plus, she do the same mime trick when she calms Lily down and at Maggie's party to satisfy the alternative tweens.
 * This is also the third time Luan is in her clown outfit, after "Cover Girls" and "Lincoln Loud: Girl Guru".
 * Is revealed that Luan has her own pet rabbit named Gary.
 * Lucy's signature is her name with a drawing of a bat in the end.
 * Lisa's writing style is digital clock typography.
 * On Leni's business ID card, she didn't write "assistant" in the position space. Instead, she used both the signature and position space to write her signature.
 * Because the Bratty Kid's Mom appeared during Maggie's birthday, there's a chance Bratty Kid has siblings who are Lynn's age.
 * After Lincoln's second birthday, in Luan clothes, she has a SMOOCH shirt.
 * In Luna and Luan's room, it was a poster which said "June", when Lincoln answered the phone.
 * Charlie Schlatter, Grey Griffin, Kari Wahlgren, Brian Stepanek, Catherine Taber, John DiMaggio, Jessica DiCicco, Daran Norris, Susanne Blakeslee, Greg Cipes & Fred Tatasciore were coincidentally the cast of Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil in which Savino first created the show.
 * On their assistant ID's, Lucy, Lynn, Leni, Lisa, and Lincoln's photos all show them in their designs from the pilot and "Left in the Dark".

Errors

 * Lynn's business ID card shows that she has two freckles on her left cheek instead of three.
 * When Lynn and Lana are laughing at one of Lincoln's pratfalls, the FiOs captions said LENI and Lana were laughing, instead of LYNN and Lana.
 * While at the fifth birthday party with Lincoln, Luan gets angry, and when she shows her teeth, her braces are missing.
 * Not only that, but that party had a medieval theme, but when it shows Lincoln being admired by his fans afterward, it changes to a pirate theme.
 * When Luan arrives at Maggie's party, her eyelashes are missing.
 * Lincoln was calling Luan by his cellphone, but she answers by the "Funny Business" phone instead of her smartphone.
 * In most of the birthday parties, Lincoln uses an "assistant" black outfit instead of varying like the sisters who helped Luan in her acts.
 * In the panoramic shot of Maggie's birthday party and its following shots, there are several continuity errors:
 * The piñata and the disco ball suddenly appears in the following scenes after the panoramic shot.
 * The arrangment of kids texting with their smartphones in one scene was different in the panoramic shot.
 * The piñata and the disco ball are not hanging from anything, making them look like they're floating on mid-air.
 * Two kids are shown being standing up in front of the stage, but then they are showing in the piñata scene. Additionally, the blonde hair girl with a wool cap is shown in three different consecutive scenes of the party.
 * In the panoramic shot, there are two cakes over the table next to the stage. However, when Lincoln falls on the cake table, there is one cake and a tray with muffins instead.

Running Gag

 * Lincoln doing his pratfalls to make people laugh.