Making the Case

"Making the Case" is the fourth episode of Season 1 of The Loud House.

Plot
Lincoln secretly videos his sisters' most embarrassing moments in order to win a video contest at school.

Synopsis
Lincoln explains that all his sisters have won a number of awards, and acknowledgements, like Lynn's soccer trophies, Lola's pageant crowns, Lisa's nobel prize, and even Lily won trophies by sucking her thumb. Lincoln feels overshadowed by his sisters, as he is the only one without a trophy, award, certificate, plaque, medal, nor an accolade. He had already tried everything to get a trophy; three flashbacks are shown, the first one shows Lincoln running a marathon, only to fail miserably, the second one shows Lincoln at a karate tournament trying to chop three planks of woods, but he breaks his hand and gains a cast, the third and final one shows Lincoln in a kid pageant, only to be runner-up.

Lincoln says he finally has his chance, because there is a video contest he is entering. He explains whoever's video gets the most votes will win a trophy. Clyde asks if Lincoln thinks he can win, and the latter says yes, but the former mentions the results of the pageant from earlier. Angered, Lincoln says he was robbed, then tells Clyde to get his camera. Later at Lincoln's house, Clyde is filming Lincoln, who is covered in breath mints and attempts to skateboard into a kiddie pool full of soda and succeeds forming a geyser with it. Clyde thinks it is good and claims everyone is going to vote for Lincoln but when they upload the video, he gets no votes at all.

Clyde says the reason nobody is voting for Lincoln is because of a video called "Hamstacam", which got 50 votes. Annoyed, Lincoln wonders what's so great about a simple hamster, which offends his hamster, Geo. Lincoln then states he's awesome. A comment appears asking him to check out Lincoln's sister's website. They click the link to see it's Luan's website. Lincoln is shocked to see that Luan has 50,000 followers, and hopes Luan can help them win. Upstairs, in Luna and her room, Luan examines the video but doesn't think it is good. She states that stunts aren't gonna cut it. Desperate to know how to make an entertaining video, he asks her how and she says to follow her number #1 rule: to always keep your camera on you, as you never know when you'll find "Comedy gold".

Outside, Lincoln and Clyde are trying to find humorous stuff to film. Clyde spots Lynn repeatedly bouncing a soccer ball on her head counting how many times she can do so near a rake and Clyde wonders if she will get hit by the rake. Lincoln gets an idea and both of them hide in a bush, while Lynn is counting she accidentally stumbles backwards and gets hit by the rake, stumbles backwards and trips on the soccer ball, falls backwards onto the trampoline and is bounced into the soda-filled pool, getting drenched.

Lincoln is astonished by this and thinks the only way to beat Hamstacam is by filming his ten sisters. A montage plays of the duo filming Lincoln's sisters doing embarrassing and funny things, once the video is uploaded, his classmates are impressed and vote for him. Once they make fun of his sisters, he regrets this. As Clyde and Lincoln walk home, the latter says his sisters would never know about it. Unfortunately for him, his sisters are enraged that Lincoln embarrassed them and he explains that he wanted to win a trophy like the girls, but they are too furious at him. They all disown him and pretend that he not their brother anymore.

Lori was the most angry at him because when she farts she lies by saying it's her shoes. He tries to apologize to them, but to no avail. He turns to Luan because she was the one who told him to do it, but she says that he broke the rule to never upload the video without anyone's permission and then shuts the door on him. Lincoln is devastated and heartbroken that all his sisters hate him.

He immediately deletes the video, thus disqualifying himself. Lincoln gets an idea of how he can make it up to his sisters. He runs to Luan to help him and she opens her closet to show him many video tapes from Lincoln's past. He then uploads a new video of him doing embarrassing and funny things to himself this time, but to Lincoln's dismay, his classmates tease him (with one named Cristina, who is shocked that Lincoln has a crush on her) and say that his new video isn't going to help him win the contest.

He sadly walks home, before walking in, he hopes his sisters will reconcile with him, but when he opens the door his sisters still looks angry. He is mortified that it didn't work, and tries to apologize to them, and explains that he embarrassed himself to make it up to them. Luckily, they are happy and joyful that he embarrassed himself to get even, and they walk up to him, and they forgive him. Luan consoles Lincoln about not winning the trophy, and Lori says they appreciate what he did, and gives him a small trophy. Grateful, Lincoln thanks them. After Luna, Lola, and Lynn embrace him, he runs to the trophy case and puts it in his empty spot.

The trophy has a #1 on the top and says "Most Improved Brother" on the bottom. Lincoln is glad that he won a trophy, he then awkwardly says Cristina is switching classes, and is even more glad that his sisters no longer hate him, and that he finally made the case. A fart can be heard, much to Lincoln's confusion. It turns out it was Lori who farted and she still lies by angrily stating it was her shoes as her siblings stare at her, ending the segment.

Cast
Lisa has no lines in this segment.
 * Grant Palmer as Lincoln
 * Catherine Taber as Lori / Computer Voice
 * Liliana Mumy as Leni
 * Nika Futterman as Luna
 * Cristina Pucelli as Luan
 * Jessica DiCicco as Lynn / Lucy
 * Grey Griffin as Lana / Lola / Lily
 * Caleel Harris as Clyde
 * Daran Norris as Little Miss Cutie Pie Pageant Judge
 * Zoe Pessin as Classmate #1
 * Jay Gragnani as Classmate #2

Trivia

 * It's revealed Lincoln and Clyde are in 5th grade.
 * Edwin is a character from "Vampires of Melancholia", which was said to be Lucy's favorite show in "Left in the Dark".
 * Though Lily is an infant, she realizes what Lincoln has done when Lori shows her the humiliating video involving her and her sisters. But Lincoln recorded no videos of her so it is unknown why she was mad at Lincoln. Unless she just wanted to be part of the group.
 * This is the first time Mick Swagger is mentioned on the show.
 * Lincoln stated how 10 sisters would help benefit his video, despite the fact he only caught 8, as Luan and Lily were excluded.
 * This segment might take place after "The Green House", since Cristina is still in Lincoln's class.
 * This episode has a similar title to the upcoming segment Making the Grade.
 * Lincoln wasn't the only Loud sibling without a trophy in the case. There is also Lori, Leni, Luan, Lucy, and Lana.
 * It is possible that they share the one in the top row of the middle column, as that one has nobody's name on it.
 * This is the first time we see Luna wearing pants.
 * Innuendo: Lynn's sports certificate reading "Kicks A+", a subtle reference to the phrase "kicks ass".
 * This is the first time Lincoln is naked onscreen.
 * This segment is one of those rare examples of Leni and Luna acting mean towards Lincoln, but this was for posting a video without their consent.
 * This is the first segment storyboarded by Darin McGowan.
 * This is the first time Lincoln is heard singing. He sings in the shower in one of his comedy videos.
 * This is the first time Lincoln becomes an outcast. This happens later in "The Green House", as well as "Lincoln Loud: Girl Guru".
 * In the Latin American version, when Luna does a "split", it's her who says "Oh rayos" ("Oh dang it!"), instead of Lincoln as in the original version (in that case he says "Oh drafty!").

Running Gags

 * Lori farting when no one else is around, or so she thinks, and blaming it on her shoes when she denies it was her.
 * The sisters slamming the door in Lincoln's face.
 * Lincoln and Clyde mentioning Hamstacam.

Errors

 * When Lincoln is opening the case to put his trophy in, in the top right row of the case is golden gramophone as Luna's trophy but after he put the trophy the golden gramophone is gone.
 * Lily has 5 trophies in the beginning of the episodes and later only 2 are seen.
 * When Lincoln opens the front door to reveal his angry sisters, Luna and Lynn are standing to Lori's right, while Leni, Lisa, and Lily are standing to her left, but in the next shot when they are chastising Lincoln, their locations are reversed.
 * When Clyde telling Lincoln "They know", he has a chipped front tooth.
 * When Classmate #1 laughs at the embarrassing video that Lincoln made to humiliate himself, the eyelashes on both her eyes were disconnected.