Back in Black

"" is the fifty-ninth episode of The Loud House.

Plot
When Lucy develops a crush on a normal boy, her sisters decide to give her a makeover.

Synopsis
Lincoln is hard at work making a working model of the Solar System. As Lincoln checks to see if his model works, Lucy suddenly appears, scaring Lincoln, and making him spill Lucy's fake blood all over his project. After Lincoln and Lucy clean up the mess, Rusty and his brother, Rocky, arrive to add the finishing touches to the Solar System model. As Lincoln and Rusty work on the project, Lucy suddenly lays eyes on Rocky, causing her to drop her container of molasses, and flee the scene. From time to time, Lucy spies on Rocky, much to his discomfort. When Rocky meets Lucy in the kitchen, Rocky is too scared to talk to her. When Lucy tries to help Rocky by giving him a new shirt, due to his shirt being covered in fake blood, Rocky runs out of the house in panic. Concerned, Rusty leaves as well to make sure Rocky's okay. When Lincoln's asks Lucy what she's been doing, Lucy explains that she's trying to talk to Rocky, but he's too scared to talk to her. When Lincoln learns that Lucy talks about her favorite things (blood, bruises, embalming kits), Lincoln states that Rocky might not be into those things, and that he's just a "regular and normal" boy. Hearing Lincoln say these words, Lucy takes them into consideration, and heads upstairs.

Later that day, Lori is missing her lipstick, Lola is missing her perfume, and Leni is missing her pink chiffon dress. As the three girls pin the blame on each other, Lola smells her perfume coming out of Lynn and Lucy's room, and when they open the door, they see Lucy trying to prim herself up, telling the three girls that she wants to be regular and normal to impress Rocky. The remaining sisters, who have been waiting for the moment where Lucy wants to act normal, step in to give Lucy a massive makeover. After deciding on a final outfit, the girls tell Lucy what to do and what not to do. As Lucy runs out of the room, Lincoln arrives upstairs, and asks his sisters who just ran past him. When they tell him it's Lucy, they want him to bring Rocky back to the Loud House. When Lincoln says he doesn't need to, now that his project is complete, Lynn deliberately destroys it, thus giving Lincoln a reason to bring him back.

As Lincoln and Rusty fix their damaged project, Lucy arrives and tries to woo Rocky under the girls' guidance. Suddenly, Lori and Bobby arrive, complaining that they need two other people to go with them to mini-golf (which is staged, taking note on how unprepared Bobby is). They decide to take Lucy and Rocky with them. At Hole In One-derland, Lori, Bobby, Lucy, and Rocky play mini-golf. Lori intentionally messes up so Bobby can help her. Lucy tries to do the same, but only succeeds in hurting Rocky. At the next hole, Rocky screws up his shot, but Lucy applauds him and shoves him into the water. As the cemetery-themed hole, Lucy, intrigued with one of the coffins at the hole, attempts to climb into it, but Lori won't allow it. As Lori and Lucy struggle, they accidentally trap Rocky in one of the open coffins, which ends up ruining the trip.

Back at the Loud House, Lori and Lucy arrive back home. Lucy tells the girls she failed, and everybody apologizes her for trying to change who she is. As Lucy heads back upstairs, Lori and the other girls learn their lesson: "You can take the girl out of the coffin, but you can't take the coffin out of the girl." As Lincoln walks by carrying his project, he sees Lucy talking to his bust of Edwin, lamenting that Rocky doesn't like her for who she is. As Lucy lies in her coffin, Lucy calls her pet bat, and the bat swoops by, shocking Lincoln and once again, causing him to damage his project.

At the Spokes residence, Lincoln and Rusty (once again) try to repair the project. When Rocky walks in covered in blood, Rusty ends up fainting. When Lincoln discovers that Rocky has a container filled with fake blood, he says that he remembered Lucy making it and thought it was cool, so he gave it a try. This gives Lincoln an idea. He intentionally damages the project, and tells Rusty that they have to go to his house to fix it.

At the Loud House, as Lincoln and Rusty (yet again) fix up the project, Lincoln asks Rocky to fetch some sodas from the kitchen (since Lucy is in the kitchen). Rocky and Lucy encounter each other, and have a decent conversation. When Lucy asks Rocky why he was scared to talk to her when they met, Rocky admits that he thought she was too cool for him, and he didn't know what to say. With Lucy and Rocky blushing, Lucy offers to show Rocky her coffin collection, and he accepts.

As Lincoln and Rusty carefully transport their project to school, Lucy and Rocky suddenly appear behind them, saying that they finally perfected their fake blood. When they reveal that they made it even better by adding popcorn kernels for brain matter, Rusty, grossed out at what he saw, faints, causing him to drop the project, destroying it once again.

Cast

 * Collin Dean as Lincoln
 * Catherine Taber as Lori
 * Liliana Mumy as Leni
 * Nika Futterman as Luna
 * Cristina Pucelli as Luan
 * Jessica DiCicco as Lynn / Lucy
 * Grey Griffin as Lola / Lana / Lily
 * Lara Jill Miller as Lisa
 * Carlos PenaVega as Bobby
 * Wyatt Griswold as Rusty Spokes
 * Ethan Mora as Rocky Spokes

​Trivia

 * This is the first title card that Lincoln and Lucy share together.
 * Rusty is revealed to have a younger brother named Rocky.
 * It's revealed that Lucy has a pet bat named Fangs.
 * This bat was mentioned on Lucy's Instagram page created for the Instacomic, Lost Control.
 * This is the fifth time Lincoln isn't the main focus of a segment (instead, Lucy is).
 * This is the seventh time Lincoln didn't speak to the audience.
 * It is revealed that Lori is on the Varsity Golf team.
 * For the first time, Lincoln and Lucy are shown going to the same school.
 * This segment shows Lucy being scared by someone appearing near her for the first time.
 * Apparently the sisters had been preparing for years to give Lucy a makeover.
 * It is unknown whether or not Lucy was wearing a wig. Her hair could be naturally blonde, and her hair dye was washed away. Her hair could have also been dyed blonde.
 * The way the other sisters try to help Lucy to obtain Rocky's love is similar to how they did with Lincoln in "Heavy Meddle".
 * Usually the "Loud Cloud" is used to cover a fight. This is the first time the "Loud Cloud" was used for a positive event (Lucy's makeover).
 * This is the second time Lincoln is on title card but has a minor role. The first time was "House Music".
 * Episode 4 of Season 2 is the first episode where Lincoln does not speak to the viewers in either segment.
 * When Rocky is playing his handheld game at the beginning, the sound effects are the same as Lincoln's, Game Goggles from Get the Message.
 * During the title card before the beginning of the segment, a creepy instrumental version of the show's theme song is played.
 * This marks the first time Rusty is in segment B.
 * This is the third time Lucy blushes.

Cultural References

 * Back in Black - The title of this segment may refer to:
 * The tagline of the 2002 film .
 *  - Lucy's second look slightly resembles Eunice, Frankenstein's wife, which itself is based on Peg Bundy's from the TV show .
 * In addition, Lucy and Rocky resemble Mavis and Johnny, also from Hotel Transylvania.
 * Alice in Wonderland - The mini golf name 'Hole in One-derland' is a pun for the book "Alice in Wonderland".
 * Hole in One - The minigolf name 'Hole in One-derland' is a pun for "Hole in One" which is a golf terminology.
 *  - Lucy mentions the infamous acronym when responding to Lori and Bobby's proposal.
 * Hole in One - The minigolf name 'Hole in One-derland' is a pun for "Hole in One" which is a golf terminology.
 *  - Lucy mentions the infamous acronym when responding to Lori and Bobby's proposal.

Errors

 * Luna's head is oversized compared to Lori's when the sisters are talking to Lincoln while sticking out of Lynn and Lucy's room.
 * Lily is seen above Lana during that scene, but she wasn't being carried by any sister to seem that taller.
 * Luan's ponytail goes through the wall when the sisters stick out of Lynn and Lucy's room.
 * Rocky falls back-first downstairs in a way his head would be looking to the door. But when he stands up and runs, his head is looking to the stairs.
 * In the credits, the title is mistaken as Back Is Black.

Running Gags

 * Lincoln and Rusty's Solar System project getting destroyed.
 * Lucy adding improvements to her fake blood.
 * Rusty getting scared whenever Lucy appears.