Running gags

This is a complete list of recurring gags throughout the episodes of Shorts, Season 1, and Season 2.

Frequent Running Gags

 * Lincoln: Breaking the fourth wall to explain what's happening in each episode, and coming up with long operation names.
 * Lori: Texting or calling Bobby with her phone, or saying "literally".
 * Leni: Having ditsy moments.
 * Luna: Speaking in a British accent, or quoting song titles and lyrics.
 * Luan: Telling bad puns and jokes for every situation.
 * Lynn: Always engaging in sports, or rough activities, turning everyday things into a sport, and roughhousing with her siblings (particularly Lincoln).
 * Lucy: Always appearing suddenly, and scaring her siblings, or other people.
 * Lana: Either having gross habits, or eating gross things.
 * Lola: Being bratty, and performing mean acts towards her siblings.
 * Lisa: Talking in technical terms.
 * Lily: Saying "Poo-Poo".
 * Clyde: Talking about how beautiful Lori is, and how he wishes to have a date with her, or acting like a robot and bleeding from his nose when he's around her.
 * Rita and Lynn Sr.: Not showing their faces. (This gag ended at the end of Season 1, as their faces were finally revealed in the Season 2 premiere "11 Louds a Leapin'".)
 * All Louds: Saying "Dang it."

Fourth Wall Breaks not by Lincoln


Although Lincoln speaks to the viewing audience in every episode, characters in bold have been observed doing so as well while others look at the fourth wall, not speaking to the audience, but breaking the fourth wall nonetheless.

Season 1

 * Space Invader: Lori
 * Undie Pressure: Lisa
 * Ties That Bind: Luan
 * Hand-Me-Downer: Colonel Crackers
 * Butterfly Effect: Charles
 * For Bros About to Rock: Luna
 * It's a Loud, Loud, Loud, Loud, House: Lynn Sr.
 * Two Boys and a Baby: Billy, Clyde
 * A Novel Idea: Fisher
 * April Fools Rules: Luan
 * Cereal Offender: Lily
 * Come Sale Away: Lily, Neighbor with hose
 * Raw Deal: Lucy
 * Dance Dance Resolution: Ronnie Anne
 * A Fair to Remember: Flip
 * A Tattler's Tale: Lola
 * One Flu Over the Loud House: Clyde
 * Snow Bored: Lisa
 * Funny Business: Gary, Lisa, Luan

Season 2

 * 11 Louds a Leapin': Luan
 * Suite and Sour: Lisa
 * Lock 'N' Loud: Lana
 * Kick the Bucket List: Luna
 * Pets Peeved: Cliff
 * The Loudest Mission: Relative Chaos: Ronnie Anne
 * Back Out There: Liam'''

Lincoln's long operation names

 * Left in the Dark: Operation Distract My Sisters So That I Can Get to the TV First and Watch the Special Live Season Finale of ARGGH and Think of a Shorter Name For This Operation.
 * Come Sale Away: Operation Pretend You've Never Met Me And Are Really Interested In My Stuff So Other People Will Buy It And Also Think Of A Shorter Name For This Operation.
 * Homespun: Operation Paint The Peeling House To Give Mom And Dad The Greatest Anniversary Gift Ever And Also Think Of A Shorter Name For This Operation.
 * Promotional video for Lost Control: Operation Track Down Which Of My Sisters Has The Remote So I Can Watch My Favorite Show And Think Of A Shorter Name For This Operation.
 * 11 Louds a Leapin': Operation Scale the Fence and Retrieve Big Red Before Mr. Grouse Finds It and Takes It Into His House Forever and Also Think of a Shorter Name For This Operation.
 * Commercial bumper for Lincoln Loud's Ultimate Year End Countdown-a-thon: Plan Count Down This Year's Top 3 Mission Fails and Hope That This Plan I'm Making Right Now Doesn't End Up on the List.
 * The Whole Picture: Recreate All My Most Cherished Memories & Think Of A Shorter List Title, List.
 * Kids' Choice Awards 2017 Instagram post: Operation Let's Win a Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Cartoon While Keeping Slime Out of My Hair and Also Think of a Shorter Name For This Operation.
 * Out of the Picture: Operation Sneak Into a Yearbook Group Photo So We're Not Forgotten Like Marty What's-His-Face. / Operation Get Coach To Hire Us So We Can Edit Ourselves Into The Yearbook Photos.
 * Fool's Paradise: Operation Find Our Family and Get Back at Luan for Causing Years of Emotional Damage and Also Think of a Shorter Name for This Operation.

Lori saying "literally"
This list recounts all the times Lori says the word "literally".

Leni's dumb moments
This list recounts all the times Leni says or takes things the wrong way.

Luna's song references
This list recounts all the times Luna's dialogue references a song title or song lyrics.

Luan's jokes and pranks
This list recounts all the times Luan has delivered a joke or pulled or a prank to her siblings or to others.

Lynn's sports
This list recounts all the times Lynn has been playing a sport of some kind.

Lucy's pop-ups
This list recounts all the times Lucy popped out of nowhere and causing her siblings to get jumpscared.

Lana's gross moments
This list recounts all the times Lana has done something that is considered unruly.

Lola's mean moments
This list recounts all the times Lola has done something horrid, directly towards her siblings or not.

Lisa's experiments and inventions
This list recounts all the times Lisa has created a new invention or try to test her experiments on her siblings.

Lily saying "Poo-Poo"
This list recounts all the times Lily has uttered "Poo-poo".

Clyde's Lori moments
This list recounts all the times Clyde swooning over Lori.

Innuendos

 * "Making the Case" - Lynn's sports certificate reading "Kicks A+", a subtle reference to the phrase "kicks a**".
 * "A Tale of Two Tables" - Clyde says "Don't worry beautiful, I'll share my buns with you" to the cardboard cutout of Lori.
 * "Space Invader" - Lynn: "You know, I'm noticing a complete lack of balls in this room." [Lincoln makes a discomforted face at that remark]
 * "Ties That Bind" -
 * Lori finds out Leni is wearing one of her shirts and angrily demands her to take it off. Leni responds she can't as there are boys present. The only "boy" present is Mr. Coconuts, who raises its eyebrows causing Luan to cover its eyes.
 * Lynn Sr. talks about getting rid of "the one with the white hair" which he doesn't even know if it's his. He's actually talking about a tie that's designed like a rabbit (hare), but Lincoln thinks he's talking about him.
 * "Butterfly Effect" - Luna was about to say that the family is on a highway to hell, but before she said "hell", she got interrupted, and said "hello" instead.
 * "Two Boys and a Baby" - The scene where Lily's dirty diaper is flung into the ceiling fan is a subtle visual pun on the phrase "sh*t hits the fan".
 * "A Novel Idea" - Lincoln: "I can see Uranus from here", and boy, "is it gassy."
 * "11 Louds a Leapin'" - During the third song Luna was singing, she was about to say "p***ed".
 * "Suite and Sour" - The Louds were actually kicked out of the resort due to Rita and Lynn Sr. skinny dipping in the pool. However, it is implied that they did much more than skinny dip.
 * "Back in Black" - Lincoln: Did you bring Uranus?, Rusty: Never leave home without it.
 * "Lock 'N' Loud" - When Lucy imagines the burglar stealing her bust of Edwin, the burglar is shown turning the bust around before stealing it. The way the burglar does this resembles someone snapping someone else's neck.
 * "Frog Wild" - When one of the classmates asks what two of the frogs are doing, Mrs. Johnson quickly covers them with a map of the United States, which implies they were doing something really inappropriate.
 * "Cheater by the Dozen" - When Lincoln and Clyde were viewing the footage from the dog, Bobby is seen taking off his pants, and Clyde quickly shielded his eyes. The way this scene plays out is that Clyde was given the implication that he was watching an erotic film.