User blog:TheMaximumMatt/Making the Case Re-written

An explanation
'''A/N: Story time. So back in August 2017, a few days before I even made this account, I decided to do a re-write of one of my favorites episodes at the time, Making the Case. The reason? I dunno. Maybe I just wanted to put my own unique spin on this certain episode. Or maybe it was because of all the negative reception it got at the time. The re-write was initially going to be the first thing I was going to publish on this account, and all was going well until one day I just... stopped. Again, I dunno why. Maybe it was because I wanted to move on to something original, hence why All's Fair in Pranks and War was my first true fanfic. After the positive reception that AFiPaW got, I moved on to doing original fanfics, and I sort of just forgot about this re-write for a while. The poor re-write was hidden away in my files, thought to never see the light of day again, until one day, while scrolling through my files, I found this file and then remembered everything again. Since I won't be able to do any full-length fanfics for while due to school work, I've decided to post this for you instead. Without further ado, this is everything from the original Making the Case rewrite that I was able to finish at the time. Do note that this written long before I made AFiPaW, so it may not be the best quality since I was new to fanfics at the time.'''

Making the Case (Re-Written by TheMaximumMatt)
[Opens with Lincoln looking at The Loud Family Trophy case]

Lincoln: (to the viewers) The Loud Family trophy case. The place where we get to show off our very own accomplishments. My sisters have done some pretty impressive stuff to get in here. There’s Lynn’s soccer trophies-

[Flashback to Lynn in the middle of a soccer game as she kicks the ball into the other team’s net]

Lynn: Wooh! I did it!

[Lynn is given a large trophy and the entire family cheers for Lynn. Flashback ends.]

Lincoln: (to the viewers) Lola’s pageant crowns-

[Flashback to Lola at her beauty pageant.]

Announcer: And congratulations to Lola Loud, this year’s prettiest little girl in all of Royal Woods. (hands Lola the pageant crown)

Lola: Thank you, thank you. Please. It was nothing.

[Flashback ends]

Lincoln: (to the viewers) Lisa’s Junior Nobel Prize-

[Flashback to Lisa winning the Nobel Prize at a stage]

Announcer: and this year’s Nobel Prize goes to… Lisa Loud, for her discovery of a brand new element.

Lisa: (calmly) No surprises there. (Lisa walks up to the stage and receives her Nobel Prize)

[Flashback ends]

Lincoln: (to the viewers) And there’s also Luan’s golden play button-

[Flashback to Luan excitedly rushing out the door to see a package]

Luan: Oh yes! Thank you! It’s finally here!

[Luan carefully opens up the box to reveal a golden plate in the shape of a play button]

Luan: (reads letter inside box) For your outstanding achievement on internet fame, we present to you your golden play button! Yes!

[Flashback ends]

Lincoln: (to the viewers) Even Lily’s won her thumb sucking contests… don’t ask. And then there’s me. The only trophy-less Loud.

[Lincoln’s trophy spot is completely vacant.]

Lincoln: I’ve tried everything to get into this trophy case, but all that ended up happening was me going to the hospital from karate class, finishing last in a marathon, getting a stomach ache from a hot dog eating contest, and even humiliating myself at one of Lola’s beauty pageant!

[Lincoln’s eyes widen after saying the last part]

Lincoln: Uh… ignore that last part. (nervously chuckles) But today, all of that is going to change. (Holds up a flyer) You see this right here? This is the 5th Grade Video Contest. A contest where people submit their own videos, obviously, and whoever’s video gets the most votes wins this baby! (draws a heart around trophy on flyer in black marker) And I know for a fact that this will soon be all mine! Finally, I will be able to accomplish something in this family! All I have to do is wait for Clyde to get here and-

Clyde: Hey, Lincoln!

Lincoln: AHH! Clyde! How did you get in here?

Clyde: Your door was unlocked so I thought I might just walk in.

Lincoln: Could you knock the next time? You don’t just go barging into people’s houses when they don’t let you in yet.

Clyde: Sorry. Are you really sure about this? I mean, this isn’t just some random contest you can just glide through. We’re talking over 50 people participating and-

Lincoln: Clyde. Look at who you’re talking to. I got this in the bag.

Clyde: You said that about the beauty pageant and-

Lincoln: I was robbed! (glances at the viewers and blushes) Uh- I mean-… let’s just go to the backyard.

[Cut to Lincoln and Clyde standing in front of a pool full of diet soda]

Clyde: Are you sure about this? This seems a bit… excessive.

Lincoln: Trust me. Everyone’s gonna wanna see this! Are we rolling yet?

Clyde: In three, two, one… now!

Lincoln: (In character) Hey, fifth grade! Lincoln Loud here! Ever wonder what happens when 672 breath mints meet 88 gallons of diet soda? Well, you're about to find out! (rides on Lana's skateboard off a ramp onto a catapult where he is launched by Charles and Cliff into a swimming pool full of diet soda, causing the soda and mints to shoot out like a geyser)

Clyde: (Drenched in soda) That… was… (excitedly) amazing!

Lincoln: See? I told you so!

[Cut to Lincoln and Clyde waiting in front of the computer]

Lincoln: Now watch, Clyde, as I win 5th Grade Video Contest right before your eyes, starting now!

[Lincoln refreshes the page and gawks in disbelief as his video has no votes]

Lincoln: What the guac?! No votes?!

Clyde: Maybe it’s because you refreshed the page three minutes after you posted the video.

Lincoln: (irked) Okay. You might have a point…

Clyde: That, or maybe their watching that HamstaCam video.

[Video plays of what is simply a hamster just running around his wheel until he trips and spins around the wheel]

Lincoln: Fifty votes?! What’s so great about some dumb hamster?

[Geo overheard that and chitters at him angrily]

Lincoln: Oh! Sorry, Geo! I didn’t mean it!

[Geo rolls away angrily]

Clyde: Look! A comment!

[A comment appears on Lincoln’s video]

Lincoln: (reading comment) Nice try, U shld go to UR BIG SISTER'S site for some tipzz. Her videos R sick: L.O.L. COMEDY CHANNEL. (to Clyde) I have no idea what this person’s saying. Clyde, can you translate?

Clyde: The commenter says you should go to your sister for tips on her channel.

[Clyde clicks the link as it opens to LUAN OUT LOUD'S COMEDY CHANNEL)]

Lincoln: Cute, but how many people wanna watch Luan- (notices her fan total) 50,000 followers?!

Clyde: Wow. No wonder she won that golden play button.

Lincoln: Clyde, do you know what this means?

Clyde: People waste a lot of time on the internet?

Lincoln: No! It means Luan can help us win the video contest! Come on!

[Cuts to Luan looking over Lincoln's video)]

Luan: Mm-hmm...

Lincoln: Pretty sick, right?

Luan: Yeah, not in this case.

Lincoln: (shocked) What?!

Luan: Sorry, Linc. Stunts are so last year.

Lincoln: Come on! Do you know how much soda I used to pull of this stunt?! This cost me more than fifty bucks!

Luan: If you want to win the contest, you have to make funny videos.

Lincoln: Well, how do I make those? I’m not exactly the funniest.

Luan: Easy. You just follow my one simple rule. Keep your camera on at all times, because you never know when you’ll strike comedy gold. Ooh! Like this! (films Clyde picking his nose)

Clyde: Aw, come on! Erase that!

Luan: Don’t worry, Clyde. I would never post it without your permission.

Clyde: Phew.

Luan: Besides, I said comedy gold, not digging gold. (laughs)

[Cut to Lincoln and Clyde waiting in bush]

Lincoln: Alright, Clyde. You ready to strike comedy gold?

Clyde: You bet I am! Only where are we going to find it?

Lincoln: Simple. We wait in this bush until something funny happens. How long can it take.

[Three hours later]

Lincoln: We’ve had the camera on all day! Where exactly is this comedy gold?

[Beat]

Lincoln: Clyde? Are you listening to me?

Clyde: Sorry, Lincoln. I was just worried that Lynn was going to accidentally step on that rake, resulting in a series of escalating mishaps.

Lincoln: (excited) Ooh! Where?!

Lynn: (bouncing a Soccer ball off her head) Fifty-seven, fifty-eight, fighty-nine- (steps on the rake and gets hit) Ouch!

[The ball bounces off a pole and onto her face, sending her flying onto a trampoline where she bounces off and lands in the soda pool.]

Lincoln: That was hilarious! Are you thinking what I’m thinking?!

Clyde: That we should go see if Lynn is okay?

Lincoln: Well, I guess that… or… I was gonna say we should upload it. We’ve struck comedy gold!

Clyde: (worried) Oh. Lincoln, about that, I don’t think we-

Lincoln: If we struck comedy gold with one sister, with ten, we’ll have Comedy Fort Knox! And that trophy will come running towards me!

Clyde: Well, Lincoln, I don’t think we should-

Lincoln: Oh, and Clyde, for helping me out, if I win this contest, I’ll let you borrow my trophy for a few days.

Clyde: (pauses) REALLY?! Well… I do like a shiny trophy myself.

[Lincoln and Clyde laugh evilly as he sinks into the bush]

[They film Luna next]

Luna: (in a British accent) Just like me ido, Mick Swagger. ALL RIGHT! (splits and rips her new jeans; in her normal accent) Oof! Ooh, drafty.

[Lincoln and Clyde zoom-in on her rip and laugh and move onto Lucy who's holding a bust of a vampire.]

Lucy: Oh, Edwin, I know you're forbidden to love a mortal like me, but I can't resist your piercing gaze, your sparkly skin, your icy lips... [kisses the bust and gets its wax lips over hers.]

Lincoln: Hmm...maybe something like this is a little too personal.

Clyde: [checks the school's site's poll] HamstaCam just got 10 more votes!

Lincoln: [shakes fist] "HamstaCam! Eh, it's not that personal. Keep rolling.

[Cue montage of Lincoln recording his sisters doing embarrassing things] [End montage]
 * Lori walks up to the fridge and looks around and thinks she’s alone; she lets out what looks like a fart.
 * Lola is sleeping with a mud mask, a sleeping mask, hair curlers, and a retainer to make herself beautiful.
 * Lana rummages through the trash and finds a piece of gum has stuck to her hair; she tries to pull it off, but the gum ends up spreading across her hair, messing up her hair in the process
 * Lori presumably lets out another fart while texting on the couch
 * Lisa walks into a wall while reading a book; Leni, who’s tried on some new makeup, then comes in and bumps into Lisa, tripping and hitting her face against the wall, smearing her make-up on her face and on the wall; they groan in pain
 * Lily gets her head stuck in a pail in the backyard; she looks around confused
 * Luan tries to floss a piece of corn out of her braces, but the flosser gets stuck in one of her brace brackets; she pulls it out, but the bracket comes off
 * Lori, yet again, presumably lets out a fart in Vanzilla; she notices the stench and rolls down the window

Clyde: (intoxicated) Ah, Lori’s toots. It’s like music to my ears.

Lincoln: (gawks) You have issues man. Serious issues.

Clyde: Sorry…

Lincoln: Now where was I? Oh yeah. This is gonna beat HamstaCam by a longshot! Let’s upload it!

Clyde: Oka-! (Clyde then remembers Luan’s act of kindness from before) Wait. Actually, no.

Lincoln: No? Why not? Don’t you want me- I mean- us to win?

Clyde: Well, yeah, but… remember how Luan said she wouldn’t post a video of me doing something embarrassing without my permission?

Lincoln: Yeah, so?

Clyde: Aren’t we kind of about to post a video without their permission?

Lincoln: Well, that’s different cause- well- cause-

Clyde: Yeah?

Lincoln: (defeatedly sighs) You’re right. Maybe we shouldn’t-

[Lincoln’s phone rings. Lincoln checks the school site.]

Lincoln: Ah! HamstaCam just got 20 more votes!

Clyde: Woah.

Lincoln: [looks down] You know… maybe my sisters should learn to take a joke. I mean… some of this is pretty funny.

Clyde: Yeah, but if Luan wouldn’t do this to us, then why should we do it to her and the others?

Lincoln: Remember the trophy?

[Clyde then fantasizes a shiny trophy]

Clyde: Mmm… maybe you’re right.

Lincoln: Let’s go!

[The next day at school, all the kids are talking about Lincoln's video.]

Female Classmate: Lincoln, your video rocks! You got my vote!

Male Classmate: Man. Lucy and that sculpture? What a weirdo!

Female Classmate: And how about Lori?

Male Classmate: You mean Miss Toots-A-Lot? She should see a doctor about that.

[As the kids laugh, Lincoln starts to look a little worried.]

Female Classmate: So embarrassing.

Lincoln: (worrying) Embarrassing?

Male Classmate: Yeah! My sisters would pulverize me if I posted a video like that!

Lincoln: (scared) Pulverize?

[Later, Lincoln and Clyde are walking.]

Clyde: You can't get pulverized, Lincoln! I'd never be able to find another best friend as good as you!

Lincoln: You won't have to. After I win the trophy on Friday, I'll just delete the video.

Clyde: [hugs his best friend] Just in case...we had a good run, buddy.

Lincoln: Don't worry, Clyde. My sisters will never know.

[But just as he opens the door, his sisters are right there, and they are incredibly furious. Lori is holding her cell phone with the video on it.]

Clyde: They know.

[The sisters rant about Lincoln's video.]

Lincoln: Wait, wait, wait! Let me explain!

Lori: You've got exactly three seconds before we pulverize you!

[Lynn cracks her knuckles and Lisa starts a stopwatch to time Lincoln's very limited time.]

Lincoln: There was this video contest at school and I really wanted to win, so I-

Lola: (angrily with tears in her eyes) YOU SHOWED MY SLEEP FACE FOR SOME STUPID CONTEST?!

Lincoln: I just wanted a trophy to put in the case like you guys!

Leni: (sadly) A trophy! That’s what all of this is about?!

Luna: (angrily) You think you deserve a trophy for showing my underwear publicly?!

Lincoln: (Worried) Okay… when you put it like that, maybe it sounds a bit messed up.

Sisters: (in unison) A bit?!

Lincoln: Look, I’ll delete the video.

Lucy: Too late, Lincoln. The damage has already been done.

Lincoln: No, it hasn’t! In fact, I’ll delete it so quickly, no one will ever even know about the video.

Lynn: (furiously) No one will know?! Uh, I think you might want to ask the internet if they know!

[Lynn snatches Lori’s phone and shows Lincoln the video being shared on multiple media websites]

Lincoln: What?! How did it get on all those websites so quickly?!

Lori: (angrily with tears) That’s not important, idiot! Thanks to you, we’re literally a laughing stock to the ENTIRE WORLD! And I mean the ENTIRE WORLD!

Leni: (sadly) How could you? (cries)

Lincoln: Guys! I’m sorry! I just-

Leni: The entire mall thinks I’m an idiot!

Lucy: I was kicked out of my poetry group thanks to you.

Lynn: And my sports team! They said they wouldn’t allow someone like me to hurt their reputation!

Leni: (Sadly) Even people who I don’t know are laughing at me! And I don’t like it!

Lola: (Sadly) My pageant career is over!

Lori: (sadly) My boo-boo bear saw the video and he hasn’t spoken to me since! What do you say about that?!

Luna: And Sam! She-… she-… (cries, hugging Lori) I don’t even want to talk about it!

Luan: You’ve messed up big time.

Lincoln: (to Luan) Well, I just thought since you said to keep the camera on at all times-

Lori: (to Luan) So, this is all your doing?!

Luan: What?! No! I didn’t tell him to post it without your permission!

Lori: I don’t want to hear excuses from both of you!

Leni: (sadly) How could you both? (runs upstairs crying)

Lisa: (angrily) Don’t think this means you’re out of this, Lincoln! I’m not even in the mood to talk to you anymore.

Luna: Neither am I. (to Luan) You can find your own room to sleep in. I gotta set things right between me and Sam! (sadly walks upstairs)

Luan: No wait! I didn’t-!

[The sisters sans Luan angrily march upstairs. Luan turns back to Lincoln angrily.]

Luan: (angrily) As if filming me with corn in my braces wasn’t bad enough. (walks upstairs without a word)

[Lincoln stands silently, completely filled with guilt. Clyde looks at him worried.]

Clyde: Aw, man. I’m so sorry. This is all my fault. I was going to talk you out of it, but-

Lincoln: (sadly) No, Clyde. It’s all mine. You did try to tell me out of it, but my greed got the best of me and I made you go along with me. Now thanks to me- (voice breaks) -my sisters lives are ruined. And the entire world knows it. Literally.

Clyde: (hugs Lincoln) Lincoln. It’s alright. I’m sure it’ll-

Lincoln: No. What I did was unforgivable. I’ve messed up before, but this is inexcusable… Clyde. I think it’s best if you go home.

Clyde: But Lincoln- oh, okay. Well… (trying to cheer Lincoln up) tomorrow’s another day… (tries again) It’ll be better then… (gives up) Okay. I’ll go now. (leaves house)

Lincoln: (walks up to the computer) Well, not that it’ll make a difference but… (sighs and deletes the video) How am I going to make things right with everyone? I made everyone look like a fool! (pauses) Everyone… except me. That’s it! I think I know how to make things right! But I’m gonna need some help, and it won’t be easy to get it! Luan! (runs up the stairs)

To be continued…

'''A/N: So... how was that? What do you think? Do you think I should finish this re-write? Or better yet, should I do more of these? Taking episodes (whether they be good or bad) and putting my own spin on it? Let me know your thoughts in the comments below. This was actually pretty interesting to do, talking about the story behind my oldest work.'''

Thank you for reading and until next time, salutations.