11 Louds a Leapin'

"" is the Season 2 premiere of The Loud House, as well as the series' first Christmas episode.

Plot
The Louds are getting ready for Christmas, when the unthinkable happens to Lincoln: his sled goes in their neighbor's yard. As Lincoln and Clyde attempt to pull off a sled rescue mission, they end up finding secrets about Mr. Grouse.

Act I
It's only one more day until Christmas Day. Lincoln is about to head outside to ride his sled. As he gets read he encounters his sisters, each of them doing an activity before the holiday arrives. Luna is trying to come up with a new song, but seems to have trouble coming up with lyrics. Luan is trying to come up with 12 Christmas puns for her "12 Puns of Christmas". Leni has made a new dress, but she made it out of her Mom's tinsel. Lori is calling Bobby to ask if he found the perfect gift for her, but he can't decide on what to give her. Lynn Sr. is making the figgy pudding, and needs someone to taste test it. Lynn and Lucy are searching every corner of the house trying to find the presents their parents are hiding. Lola is trying to act super nice so she can appear on Santa's nice list, but Lisa contradicts this by saying that with the amount of time left until Christmas, she's less likely to succeed. As Lincoln exits the house, he falls prey to one of Lana's reindeer traps, saying she wants one as a pet.

In the backyard, Lincoln is about to ride his sled down the slide. He dashes down the slide, but within seconds, the sled hits a rock and suffers a terrible fate: it lands in Mr. Grouse's yard. Lincoln is unhappy with this, saying that anything that lands in Mr. Grouse's yard never comes back. Lincoln calls Clyde over and tells him about the sled incident, and the two immediately devise a plan to get it back. As Clyde sings Christmas carols to Mr. Grouse, Lincoln sneaks into Mr. Grouse's yard to grab the sled, but in the process, makes a loud noise that catches Mr. Grouse's attention. He walks into his backyard, and immediately takes the sled into his house.

Now that the sled is in Mr. Grouse's house, getting it back is now a harder task. Luckily for them, Mr. Grouse is leaving his house, and Lincoln could use that opportunity to get it back. As Clyde keeps an eye out for Mr. Grouse, he ends up falling for one of Lana's traps, which flings him far away. As Lincoln searches the house, he discovers that Mr. Grouse used to have a sled like him when he was Lincoln's age. At that moment, he manages to find his sleigh, but immediately after, Mr. Grouse arrives back home and begins to unlock his door, much to Lincoln's shock.

Act II
As Mr. Grouse enters his house, Lincoln is forced into hiding. After he successfully evades his grouchy neighbor several times, Lincoln is caught by him when he tries to escape through the back door. Lincoln, scared that Mr. Grouse caught him, accidentally tosses his sled into the air in shock, causing it to break when it hits the floor. Because Lincoln left a mess while trying to hide from him, Mr. Grouse orders him to clean up the mess. As Lincoln cleans up, Mr. Grouse gets a call from one of his family members, where he says that he can't visit them. All while he's on the phone, Lincoln notices that Mr. Grouse is a member of a large family, just like him. When Lincoln tries to ask Mr. Grouse why he doesn't see his family during Christmas, Mr. Grouse, not wanting to talk about it, escorts Lincoln out of his house.

When Lincoln arrives back home, the rest of the family are going on about their business. When Lincoln catches their attention, he says that he knows the reason why Mr. Grouse is so grouchy around Christmas. Initially, the sisters are upset because of Mr. Grouse's grumpy attitude around this time, but after he explains the entire story, the sisters are touched. They realize that because they cared about what they wanted to accomplish during Christmas, they never thought about what Mr. Grouse really wanted. This revelation causes Luna to realize why she had trouble coming up with lyrics: it didn't have the spirit of Christmas. Now that they all know this, they know how to lift Mr. Grouse's spirit. At night, as Mr. Grouse snoozes away, he hears caroling outside. He walks over to the door, and sees the Loud and McBride families singing the song that Luna wrote. When they finish the song, Lincoln presents Mr. Grouse with a present: a bus ticket to see his family. Mr. Grouse is touched by the two family's gratitude, that he invites them into his house to celebrate Christmas with him. As the two families decorate the house, Mr. Grouse decides to give back their confiscated items as a form of apology. Lori tells Clyde that he's standing under a mistletoe, and gives him a kiss, causing Clyde to blush.

The next day, on Christmas day, the Loud family is surrounded by their recently opened gifts. Lori opens the largest present they were given, which is revealed to be Bobby himself, since he couldn't think of a good present, so he gave himself as a present. Lisa managed to get proof that Santa does exists, and left a present under the couch. Lynn and Lucy pull the gift out, and it's revealed to be for Lincoln. Lincoln opens it, and realizes it a sled. However, he notices that it's similar to the one Mr. Grouse used to own. Curious, Lincoln exits the house, and sees Mr. Grouse packing his stuff into a taxi, before he departs. Lincoln thanks Mr. Grouse for the gift, but Mr. Grouse reassures that he should thank Santa. As Lincoln prepares to ride his new sled, he suffers the same accident, but this time, the sled crashes through one of Mr. Grouse's windows. As Mr. Grouse yells out Lincoln's name in anger, Lincoln quickly leaves the scene.

Luan manages to say one more Christmas related pun, and in celebration, says Merry Christmas to the viewers, when suddenly, she gets caught in one of Lana's traps, where Lana mistakenly believes that she finally caught a reindeer.

Cast

 * Collin Dean as Lincoln
 * Caleel Harris as Clyde
 * Catherine Taber as Lori
 * Liliana Mumy as Leni
 * Nika Futterman as Luna
 * Cristina Pucelli as Luan
 * Jessica DiCicco as Lynn / Lucy
 * Grey Griffin as Lana / Lola / Lily
 * Lara Jill Miller as Lisa
 * Jill Talley as Rita
 * Brian Stepanek as Lynn Sr. / Mailman
 * Michael McDonald as Howard
 * Wayne Brady as Harold
 * John DiMaggio as Mr. Grouse
 * Carlos PenaVega as Bobby

Trivia

 * This is the series' first full-length episode.
 * This is the last episode to be aired in 2016.
 * At the end of theme song where Lily was walking, it changes to a winter scenery where Lily is wearing her winter clothes.
 * This episode reveals Rita and Lynn Sr.'s whole faces for the first time.
 * Their faces were hidden until they lowered the Christmas boxes while talking to Mr. Grouse.
 * Chris Savino has confirmed that from this episode on, their faces won't be hidden anymore.
 * This is the second winter-themed episode, after "Snow Bored".
 * However, unlike "Snow Bored", this episode is explicitly a holiday special.
 * Miguel Puga mentioned that he worked on the storyboard for this episode in a live drawing session at Nickelodeon Animation Studio.
 * This is the second episode set on a holiday, after "April Fools Rules" (April Fool's Day).
 * This is Mr. Grouse's first starring role in the series. He previously had quite a bit of screen time in "The Price of Admission", but didn't really play a big part in it.
 * This is the first episode produced for the season, but is the third aired.
 * Lynn Sr's eyes are seen for the 5th time.
 * Howard's hair is light brown instead of red throughout the entire episode.
 * This is the series' very first holiday special.
 * This episode aired about a month before the date the episode takes place on.
 * This episode has the most writers and is the first to be storyboarded by two people.
 * This is the first time that an episode aired in prime-time: 7:00 pm EST.
 * This episode reveals that Mr. Grouse also has a large family, but isn't able to see them.
 * It's revealed that Luan tries to come up with 12 puns every Christmas.
 * Luna always tries to write a song to sing every Christmas.
 * Apparently, Lola deludes herself by assuming that people see her as a sweet little girl, when in reality, she's seen as a selfish, egotistical brat. Such hypocrisy is called The Morality of Mrs. Dulska.
 * This episode was produced as two separate parts.
 * This is the first episode to have an alteration to the title sequence, and also the first episode to use an alternate credits sequence.
 * Innuendo: During the third song Luna was singing, she was about to say "Pissed".
 * During the title card, and in parts of the episode, a special instrumental holiday version of the show's theme can be heard.
 * This is the first time that Mr. Grouse calls Lincoln by his name.
 * This is the second time Lisa cried: despite being "impervious to human emotions", the first time was in The Green House.
 * This is also the second time Lisa stating being that, the first was in Heavy Meddle.
 * Lisa is the only Loud who doesn't have a Christmas stocking.
 * The color of the Christmas stockings of each Loud sibling (except Lisa), all match the colors they appear in the The Loud House Theme Song, and the parents' stockings match their clothes.
 * Ronnie Anne is the only supporting character who did not make an appearance.
 * The gifts each of the Loud siblings received on Christmas day:
 * Lincoln - A game system & a replacement sled
 * Lori - Bobby (just Bobby)
 * Leni - Shoes.
 * Luna - A banjo
 * Luan - A magic kit
 * Lynn - Sporting shoes
 * Lucy - A bust of Edwin
 * Lana - A dungeon play set
 * Lola - A castle play set
 * Lisa - A meteorite, book, and photo of Santa
 * Lily - A teddy bear
 * Other gifts were unclear to see, unknown who they were for, or not shown on screen.
 * Howard and Harold were featured when singing the song, but they did not play any role in the episode until then.

Cultural References

 * The title of this episode is a parody of the lyric "ten lords a-leaping" (which can change) from the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas", and the fact that there are 11 children in the Loud family.
 * Luan's "12 Puns of Christmas" is a parody of the Christmas song "The Twelve Days of Christmas"
 * Lana's dungeon play set could possibly be a reference to one of the locations from He Man and the Masters of the Universe
 * Lincoln calls the Fearsome Flyer 8000, Big Red, which is resembles the book and 2000 tv series, Clifford the Big Red Dog.
 * The part where Rita holds up Lily to put a star on top of the Christmas tree, is a nod to the 1964 special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, where Bumble holds up Hermey to put a silver star on the tree.
 * The Santa picture Lisa has looks similar to the other Santa from Teen Titans GO!.
 * The Reindeer antlers headband Luan was wearing looks similar to Olive's from the book and 1999 special, Olive, the Other Reindeer.

Running Gags

 * Lori trying not to open any Christmas presents.
 * Leni using house decorations to make outfits.
 * Luna trying to write her Christmas song.
 * Luan coming up with her 12 Christmas theme puns.
 * Lynn and Lucy searching for Christmas presents.
 * Lana testing out her reindeer traps.
 * Lola doing good deeds to be on Santa's Nice List.
 * Lisa disbelieving in Santa Claus and Lola's niceness.
 * Lily blowing a raspberry to Luan's jokes.
 * Clyde wanting a kiss from Lori under the mistletoe.
 * Mr. Grouse saying "My yard, my property!".
 * Lynn Sr. wanting someone to taste test his figgy pudding.

Errors

 * When Lana was cheering that she finally caught a reindeer (which was actually Luan), the eyelashes on her right eye were disconnected.
 * When Lincoln opens his sled, and it zooms out, Rita, and presumably Lynn Sr. are tanding on top of the dresser, as opposed to behind it.