User blog comment:Mayodayo7/Which episode is worse: Brawl in the family or No such Luck?/@comment-31563773-20170503133442

Tough call...

Both have instances where the plot starts due to someone being petty, both have a general Idiot Plot, everyone is a jerk, and Lincoln somehow ends up getting the worst of it in both instances...

However, I find Brawl In The Family to be the worst. While Lynn being a sore loser is something that's in character for her due to her cocky nature, Lori and Leni getting into a petty fight over a flipping dress is just so bad it makes me growl in frustration every time I think about it. Not only that, as stated in Syngenesophobia, the sisters had no right to block off sections of the house just because someone needed to cool off. Their names aren't on the mortgage, and they live with 12 other people, so having one part of the house to yourself just because you're in a foul mood is being petty. I also fail to see how someone watching monster trucks would set another off (unnecessary beating).

The sisters couldn't see the obvious flaws in their protocol. Sure, it's nice to let a conflict simmer, but outright preventing the two from seeing each other can let that anger fester into something worse. And as more and more sisters get into arguments, the amount of people to control the situation degrades considerably.

Lincoln was made to be a bigger idiot than necessary and did not know anything about the protocol. Reasons for this, is due to the fact I believe the sisters know he doesn't have as much of a temper as they do, so they ignored him in this respect, hence the name SISTER fight protocol. If it involved him, it'd be Sibling Fight Protocol. I can understand why the parents would know about it because I think their daughters came to them about it so they wouldn't have to worry about solving their conflicts all the time, and they wanted to prove to Lynn Sr. and Rita they are capable of handling themselves. But what really got me was that Bobby knew of it and Lincoln did not. Naturally, Lori told him about it, but why tell someone who doesn't live at your house and not the only other male that DOES live there? It's a stupid decision in all respects.

Another reason why I think they didn't tell him was because they didn't want Lincoln to be caught up in their pettiness, but as Dr. Lopez stated in my story, telling him in the first place could've prevented a lot of mischief.

While I do hate NSL because Lincoln ended up getting removed from the house and the family not learning from their mistakes, at least Lincoln had purposely did something that ended up spiraling out of control. In BITF, what he did was an accident because he was trying to help. In response, the sisters refuse his help, kick him out of his room thrice, and even take his BED SHEETS to use as a divider in the eldest sisters' room (when I'm sure in a family as big as theirs, they have spare sheets), followed by the unnecessary beating he received from Lynn, Lucy, and Lola just because he wanted to watch TV. Essentially, the sisters walk all over him more so in this episode than previously. I never really liked it when they constantly barge into his room, but forcing him out of it? Is Lincoln nothing but some sacrificial lamb to them? Why don't you just back the bus right over him then?

Lastly, the way the sisters said how they resolved their conflicts sounds like they did it shortly after he left the house. Telling Lincoln that keeping out of the conflict should've been done beforehand might seem nice, but there's a big issue though. So, if the SFP involves letting the conflict handle itself, wouldn't that mean the other sisters shouldn't have gotten involved as well? By this, I mean that when Lori and Leni were fighting, instead of forcefully isolating them, everyone should've just let them settle this matter on their own. By separating them, not telling Lincoln what the protocol entailed, and not seeing the flaws of said system if more and more sisters start fighting, the girls themselves set things up to go south from the very moment this episode started.

One theory I have is that it's the first time the SFP was used, as when Lucy and Lynn had a fight in Space Invader, no such thing existed. But anyway, that is why I consider BITF to be the worst of the two. Things were set up to fail right at the beginning, while NSL had a plot that could've been easily avoided.