The Sweet Spot

"The Sweet Spot" is an episode of The Loud House.

Plot
It's the night before the family road trip in the family van, affectionately dubbed "Vanzilla", and Lincoln explains that he's preparing to stake the night out on "the sweet spot," the one good seat in the car, as it protects him from the various inconveniences of the vanand the annoyances of his sisters. After he sneaks out and gets comfortable on the seat, Clyde asks him over his walkie-talkie who will be sitting next to him. After some thinking, Lincoln decides that Leni can sit next to him, since she is usually dazed out for the entire trip.

After convincing Leni to sit next to him, Lincoln goes back into the van, only for Clyde to point out the oversight of who will sit behind him. Following some more thinking, Lincoln convinces Lisa to sit behind him, but only if she doesn't have to sit next to Luna. After speaking to Luna, she agrees to sit up front so long as she isn't next to Lori. This leads to a chain of deals and agreements between Lincoln and his other sisters as to who gets to sit next to who.

After finally finalizing the secret van seating chart under his mattress, Lincoln goes back to the sweet spot to get some sleep. However, by this time the girls have gotten suspicious of Lincoln's intent and, after discovering his seating chart, the confront him about it. Lisa calculates that Lincoln has deduced which seat is the best seat in the van and has angled his sisters in the positions most favorable to him. Now that they all know about The Sweet Spot, they demand that they get to sit in it. A melee ensues between them the front yard, waking up the entire neighborhood, including Mom, who tells them to get back to bed and not to go in the van until 7:00am.

The kids go back to their rooms, waiting impatiently for the clock top strike 7:00. When the time comes, Lincoln and his sisters begin a mad dash to the van and have an even more violent and destructive brawl. By the time their parents call it to a halt, the van has been completely destroyed. As Dad laments the loss of the van, Mom tells them that the trip is cancelled and that they'll be spending the weekend together on the couch until they learn to get along, much for everyone distress.

With Lincoln's plan a total bust, he decides that in a family like his, you can't control every little thing. That said, he knows of another "sweet spot" on the couch, then he race out of his room for it (and probably his sisters as well).

Trivia

 * This episode, along with "A Tale of Two Tables", was released on Nick.com and other digital platforms on April 1, 2016, ahead of its television premiere.
 * While Lily does not appear in this episode, she is heard in a flashback.
 * Part of the girls' argument over the sweet spot is reworked dialogue from the comic Lincoln Loud's ABCs of Getting the Last Slice.