User blog:DandyAndy1989/Discussion - Episodes airing out of order

Okay, I gotta bring this up. It's something that has been really irking me for quite a while about the show. And that's how the episodes have been airing out of order. Why? Because the episodes that have premiered as of late seem like they're supposed to take place after ones that hadn't premiered yet. And this month's batch of episodes is starting to really get on my bad side about that issue.

You see, when the episodes air out of order, it feels like the network forgets what is supposed to happen when and how. Allow me to explain with back when the show was just getting started and had the following episodes premiering. Here's the production order of those episodes.

-Left in the Dark/Get the Message (Episode 1)

-Heavy Meddle/Making the Case (Episode 2)

-The Sweet Spot/A Tale of Two Tables (Episode 4)

-Project Loud House/In Tents Debate (Episode 5)

-Along Came a Sister/Chore and Peace (Episode 12)

That's the production order. The only different for the premiere order is this. Just swap Episodes 4 and 12 around. So, Chore and Peace, which showed Chunk in a point where we're supposed to already know who he is, premiered before Project Loud House, where Luna introduces him as her roadie.

And other example is the season 1 finale, Homespun. You see, that should have been the last episode of the season to premiere since it was produced that way and gave off a good feeling of a season finale. But no. There were still some episodes of the season left to premiere. The only thing that kept me from hating this episode and actually had it as one of my favorites of the season is because it wasn't a clip show. If it had shown clips from the episodes that would have premiered after it...

-April Fools Rules

-Cereal Offender

-Raw Deal

-One of the Boys

-Funny Business

-Snow Bored

-The Price of Admission

-One Flu Over the Loud House

-Study Muffin

...then we wouldn't have known when those events had taken place, though given the episode titles that were revealed at the time, we could have made a good guess. But Homespun I was able to forgive since it didn't go that route. Sure, we didn't see those events happen on-screen and they felt like Family Guy's cutaways, but it was still them reminiscing about the good times despite the house's flaws. We didn't see anything from past episodes that had been seen or yet to have been seen thanks to the executives screwing up the order.

And that brings me to this month's batch. In today's episode, Potty Mouth, I noticed two things that I had already seen prior to it.

-The Nose Goes gag where Lincoln loses again like he did in Suite and Sour

-Lisa being bald

The former's problem is that in yesterday's episode, Fool's Paradise, Leni actually lost that time because she somehow got her finger in her ear (and says she always gets that wrong). In today's episode, Lincoln says he always loses. And for the latter, we saw Lisa's hair fall off in Room With a Feud. Potty Mouth was produced before those two, and yet premiered AFTER. So, going with production, I assume this is supposed to take place before those two because Leni lost Nose Goes in Fool's Paradise and Lisa reveals her baldness to her siblings here while the others are more shocked about her green brain in Room With a Feud than the baldness.

And that really brings me a little something I'm worried about with tomorrow's episode, "L Is For Love". What if the love letter turns out to be for Lori from Bobby (even though he could have just texted her, and he wanted to go with something more old fashioned) and sets up the events for Relative Chaos? I mean, it'd be kinda cheesy and obvious if it came out that way, but the problem is that this is the last episode produced before Relative Chaos and we already know what's gonna happen, so the suspense will be ruined because of how the executives decided to premiere the episodes. It'll ruin the drama and the suspense because Relative Chaos already premiered.

Now, you could make the argument about how Attention Deficit takes place before Sleuth or Consequences despite it having been produced after because of Lana not knowing how to fix the toilet then, and that is true, but we can put together our own timeline to fix that. And the show can have continuity every now and then. Heck, back to Homespun, it could have been hit with something like that if it went with the clip show route. Not that I'd want it to. After all, the photo Lincoln and his sisters took for their parents' anniversary in Picture Perfect was shown in the infamous only child fantasy scene in Ties That Bind. And speaking of Picture Perfect, in Project Loud House, Lori was looking forward to homecoming, which Carol Pingrey beat her out for queen of.

Heck, Rusty started off looking like a mean kid to Lincoln with his debut in Hand-Me-Downer, but as time went on, he became one of Lincoln's closer friends. Don't know how that happened, but it did.

Bottom line, while I can't control the network's scheduling of the premieres of each episode, I do wish they would do them in production order rather than however they want, because with it that way, it kinda ruins some of the things that are supposed to be revealed there that we already know. And I'm really hoping I'm wrong with what I'm thinking about with L Is For Love. At this point, I want to be wrong. I would be fine with that. If I'm right, I won't like the episode as much as I should since it will lead up to the beginning of Relative Chaos.

If it sounds like I'm nitpicking and going off on a tangent here, it's just because sometimes, airing the episodes however you want can ruin the flow. We know some things that will happen or see them happening in an earlier produced episode that should have aired first. Otherwise, it comes off as inconsistent. And I'm tired of that.

So, what do you guys think?