User blog comment:MrTyeDye/After seeing "Yes Man", I have this to say.../@comment-1650307-20170929052435/@comment-1650307-20170929055658

Very simple.

The fact that the kids were asking the parents money rubbed me the wrong way, as well as the fact that the parents were so eager to give the children all their money. The parents need that money to pay bills, get food and other basic necessities, but nope they waste all of it on their kids. It also makes them incredibly spoiled as a result and it makes the parents look like they are idiots and will give their kids any money necessary to get anything. I am sure that if they came home and asked their parents for money to buy a gun so they can shoot a kid who bullied them in school, they would do it.

They could've had a strong message with the parents refusing to have Lincoln to go the SMOOCH concert. It could be a message of "sometimes parents won't allow kids to do everything they want to" and I am really tempted to make a rewrite of this episode where Lincoln learns to respect his parents authority and wishes by them saying that he does not have to go to the SMOOCH concert. They do not even need a reason for him not go, but the reasons could be the exposure to the loud music could damage his hearing, or the infidelity typically associated with rock concerts, as well as the potential mature subject matter and lyrics heard in some songs could be reason enough for the parents to not allow their 11-year-old son to see them. But the only reason they give is that they "do not have the money" to grant his wish because they used it all on the sisters, which would imply that if they did have money left over or had at the very least had the foresight to split their money evenly among the eleven kids, knowing that it is in their nature to ask the parents of stuff, that they would let Lincoln go to the concert anyway, making them even worse parents than they already are.

While the ending does need to be given some credit for the sisters looking out for Lincoln and rewarding them for helping them convince the parents to get them what they wanted, it just makes Lincoln's situation worse because he got exactly what he wanted anyway, rendering the parents decision completely pointless. Also, judging by the amount of noise that SMOOCH will no doubt make in the front driveway, they would hear that, no that Lincoln with the sister's help disobeyed them and promptly punished them even though it was with good intentions like "Cover Girls".

Or they will just do nothing about it and continue to let the kids handle their own problems like they usually do because they are horrible.