User blog:AustinDR/Thoughts on Tricked!

So, "Tricked." The first Halloween special for the Loud House (well I don't count "One Flu Over the Loud House" and "Price of Admission" as true Halloween episodes; they had creepy moments, but it wasn't creepy as in Halloween). In this episode, Lincoln and Clyde aim on acquiring full-sized candy bars, but when these two bullies are looking for candy, they inadvertently tell them that they could score some candy from their street. Meanwhile, Lucy is throwing a corn maze and as you could tell from her expression, she's really excited about it. But when the bullies from before end up ruining Halloween for everyone, it's up to Lincoln and Clyde to save it.

Like I've said before, one aspect of animated shows that I love are the Halloween episodes. I love them for a variety of reasons, usually ranging from the scare factor to how they seem to be separate from the rest of the show. "Ticked" was no exception: there are many things to love about this episode like Lucy's corn maze. What makes it great are the costumes the sisters are wearing: Lori is going as a vampiress (which I found strangely attractive); Luan's going as a mad scientist (with Mr. Coconuts as Frankenstein's monster); Leni is a headless madam; Luna's a skeleton, and Lucy's the Grim Reaper. No surprise there. The other costumes are also very creative as well. The twins devised a crafty scheme where they start of as Abraham Lincoln and the Statue of Liberty respectively, which spirals into two more costumes (their idea is that they could get 3x the candy from doing this), while Lisa's dressed up as a kangaroo with Lily going as the cutest joey you could ever see. In short, the costumes were very imaginative.

I also loved the animation of the episode as well, especially during the crazy maze scene with the two bullies. The animation is bright and flashy which helps to set the eerie tone of the episode. And of course, Luna's song is awesome in this episode. I especially love how the orchestra she's playing on lights up, glowing in the dark. It gives a particularly freaky tone to the episode. The jokes were also pretty spot-on in this episode my favorite one being when Rita thought that Lucy was going to cut her arm off with a chainsaw. I kind of wished that Lucy was at the same level that Luan gets around Halloween, but I digress. The only thing I didn't really like was Lynn Sr. acting like a scaredy cat. Sure, it's funny at first, but it gets old pretty fast. And then he just passes out from fright not adding anything else to the episode.

Despite that, it was a great Halloween episode that was worth the wait.

Final score:

5 bats out of 5