Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1650307-20171004065519

I know that the episode is generally well-liked and received by the fanbase and I can totally understand why, but to me, "Yes Man" is one of the worst episodes of The Loud House ever. Easily in my Top 5 worst... or would that be "Bottom 5". And I figured I would say why.

So the whole concept of this episode is that Lincoln is the family member that the sisters go to when they want to help reason with the parents to give them money for things that they need stuff. Unlike "Brawl in the Family" or "No Such Luck" which had terrible ideas that could not be salvaged by any writer IMO, this idea is not horrendous and could be done well with a couple of rewrites, but as is, I think it is a terrible episode.

First off, showing that all the sisters need stuff from the parents is not necessarily bad, but it is the fact that their routines work instantly with the parents and that they basically throw large piles of money at them (I do not feel like counting it but I think it is upwards of $10,000) in order to get what they need. I thought that in "Fed Up" they said that they were "on a budget" and that is why they could only afford to have Lynn Sr. cook the same seven meals every week. And obviously Lynn Sr.'s career change from I.T. guy to restaurant worker in "Job Insecurity" clearly was a downgrade in pay (at least for now) so they are not really in a position to go and splurge. And besides, that limited budget needs to pay for food, medicine, clothes, and other basic necessities that are needed to run a family, especially one with 11 hungry, growing members.

This whole episode really just makes the parents look stupid and paints them in a poor light. I have always said that Lynn Sr. and Rita are terrible parents what "Brawl in the Family" having them not breaking up Lori and Leni's fight for the three or four days that they literally had to change their lifestyle to cater to their two oldest daughter's trivial dispute about a silly dress instead of just grounding them to their room until they learn to get along, thereby solving the problem outright, or "It's a Loud, Loud, Loud, Loud House" where they have the kids go on a "treasure hunt" in the house to have them learn to share money. While it is well-intentioned, they probably would learn nothing from the experience and they trashed up the entire house in the process. Oh and by the way, Lynn Sr. gets to clean up the mess and not the kids who started the mess. Ugh.

Also one more thing, we see that Lori is asking for money even though technically she is still working at "Gus's Games and Grub" as she was never shown getting fired, and even if she did get fired, she probably has enough financially independence that she can get what she wants if the situation arises.

But anyways after the sisters get all of what they want, Lincoln tries to get his parents to get him money to give him a ticket to see SMOOCH, to which they deny. After Lincoln's frequent requests they say no. This was the point in the episode where I started to think it may be going in the right direction. I almost admired the episode because I thought they were going to have a lesson of "sometimes you can't always get what you want" with Lincoln being denied the money to get the money for his SMOOCH ticket. The parents do not really even need to give reasons as to why because there are several reasons. One, as Lincoln is only eleven, him and his friends going to a rock concert could expose them to a lot of adult things, namely scantily clad women, drugs, alcohol and other such things typically associated with adults who attend rock concerts. It looks like Lincoln, Clyde and the other two kids that I cannot remember their names because they are so forgettable are going without a chaperone like they do for a lot of public outings (another issue that I have problems with but we do not have all day). Two, the volume of the instruments and the vocalists singing could be potentially dangerous to the boys' young ears, especially as they are still developing. Three, the songs that SMOOCH could sing about could reflect the more adult things that I mentioned above. This one could be a grey area as there are a number of bands with songs that have fine lyrics for the most part, but seeing as how SMOOCH is a rock band with influences to KISS (which could be an acronym for Knights in Satan's Service), I will not rule it out as a possibility.

But instead the parents say that the only reason that they deny Lincoln's requests to give him the money for the ticket is because "they do not have the money because they spent it on the girls". Which leads me to think that they would've given their eleventh kid an eleventh consecutive yes to get them whatever they want had they just had the money left over. Ugh, you could've been cool, Lynn Sr. and Rita. You could've been cool. And if all the sisters asked for money for their objects, wouldn't the parents have a little bit of insight on how much each item costs, at least in the ballpark and know that most likely another kid (or most/all of them) will additionally want something and divide out the remaining money accordingly instead of just haphazardly giving all the money to the girls and leaving nothing for Lincoln. You guys are just getting more and more deplorable with each passing second.

Now if I was on The Loud House writing staff, I would have the parents not accept Lincoln's request. Not sure if I would give a reason because sometimes parents are aloof and do not really give you answers as a kid, or they do not want to tell Lincoln about the debauchery usually associated with rock concerts, so I think a simple "Because we said so" answer is justified. Lincoln would be in his room and at first is angry about his parents not getting him what he wants, but he does have a little mini-concert in his room with his laptop as I am such looking up "SMOOCHVEVO" on YouTube will get something up, and eventually he learns to respect his parents as authority figures.

But in the real episode, the sisters pull some strings and have SMOOCH perform in their own driveway and let Lincoln attend that concert. While this is a legitimately nice and kind gesture, this raises so many questions. First of all, how exactly do the Loud sisters finagle all the bandmates to perform in a random kids' front yard for free? I am sure that they are very busy entertainers and get requests to perform with a fan or sing a fan's original song a lot while they are on the road, and while the entertainment industry is usually a cutthroat and unforgiving place, it is not outside the realm of possibility that they would be rude to the sisters and deny their request, but even if they are game for it, they cannot possibly make every request given to them, especially Lincoln's because they need to prepare for the next show, if not in Royal Woods than in the next town as I am sure they are on a very busy tour schedule. It was really nice of them to be able to do this for Lincoln, if not almost completely impossible. This nice gesture also has some drawbacks. Of course, the noise levels that would come up for the neighbours would be terrible, especially for Mr. Grouse who would probably manually walk over and destroy/unplug all the instruments if he could because he is trying to get to sleep. And the noise would probably alert the parents, notify that Lincoln disobeyed the parents orders with the aid of his sisters and probably punish him... or not, the Loud parents usually don't punish their kids because they are horrible. Lincoln and the sisters will get off scott free because they are the most spoiled kids on television. But if "Cover Girls" is any indication, if they do receive a punishment, even if it is for a "crime" that is done with good intentions, the punishment usually does not fit the crime at all and will lead to them probably embarrassing themselves in some way or another. This episode makes parents look really, really, really bad.

And the song is okay. Not good, not bad, just okay.

But I feel I have vented long enough. I don't like this episode, but if you do that is great. I am glad you do. I am glad that you actually enjoy something, but this is why I think that "Yes-Man" is one of the worst Loud House episodes they ever made. 