User blog:AustinDR/Review: Two Boys and a Baby

I'll be honest; I find it pretty hard to find a bad episode of The Loud House. I know that several have their picks as the worst episode from the series whether it be "Lincoln Loud: Love Guru," or "The Loudest Yard." I know that I'm in the minority when I am in the minority by saying this, but I somewhat liked both episodes. With "Lincoln Loud: Love Guru," I expected that the situation would turn bitter for Lincoln when he was giving horrible advice, so I felt that it went hand-in-hand with Lincoln getting pelted by pies at the end. I mean on paper, I should've despised this episode, but somehow I didn't. It's mean-spirited, yes, but I felt that it was the right balance. Same with "The Loudest Yard." I should hate it given how Lincoln scores for the wrong team, thus causing his teammates to chase after him, but the episode had established that Lincoln had no knowledge of the sport, so it came off as not too hard to believe that he would mess up like this. Oh, and Lucy pulling the football away from Lincoln was also genuinely humorous. I guess what I'm trying to say is that while I can understand other LH fans dislike for both episodes, I was more forgiving of the two episodes. That isn't to say that they are my favorite episodes, but I tried to be as neutral as I could regarding either episode.

Now, with the rest of the series...some episodes admittedly are hit or miss for me as some I really enjoyed, while others I felt were meh. Now, the only episode of the series that I gave a 5 out of 5 thus far was "11 Louds a Leapin'," which while cliched, did its best to embody the Christmas spirit. The one episode I have confessed to hating was "One of the Boys" for various reasons, specifically being that it felt insulting that Lincoln's brothers were stereotypes, as well as jackasses that I wanted to see kicked in the nads. So far, that's the only episode that I gave a 2 out of 5 stars as, while it was bad, there were some salvageable moments to be had. So, as you can see, I don't hate the show whatsoever, but I feel that some episodes are weaker, but it's balanced out by a handful of good episodes.

With that being said, onto "Two Boys and a Baby." In this episode, Lincoln offers to babysit Lily when his family goes to visit Aunt Ruth. However, as you would've guessed, they have some problems when it comes with taking care of the youngest of the Loud siblings. I'll get this off my chest now; I hated this episode, perhaps more than "One of the Boys." Here's why. I actually felt nauseous when I was watching this episode, which is saying something because I hardly ever feel like throwing up when watching a show. Let's start with Aunt Ruth....oh dear lord, the siblings were right about Ruth. She is a disgusting hag of a woman who has an extra toe, and feeds moldy pudding to her nieces and nephews. I actually threw up in my mouth a little when I first saw that. Okay, maybe that's over exaggerating it, but I actually felt pained by watching them consume the moldy pudding. At the very least, Lana enjoyed it, so it did lessen my disgust ever so slightly. Now, the next part that nearly made me puke had to be when Lincoln and Clyde were attempting to change Lily's diaper. Now, I know that part of the joke with Lily is how she produces putrid diapers that may as well be hazardous towards human life, but I felt that they were going too far in this episode. The worst part for me has to be when they accidentally fling the soiled diaper towards the fan. Thankfully, we don't see the result, but I actually considered skipping this episode midway. Only "One of the Boys" had that honor of making me want to skip an episode of The Loud House.

And most infuriatingly on my part was the ending. Lincoln agrees to babysit Lily so that he wouldn't have to visit Ruth. After some initial slip ups, it seems that he succeeds...only for it to be revealed that Lincoln had unwittingly exposed himself as well as Lily and Clyde to chickenpox whilst attending the park. Given that Ruth had chickenpox at one point, Lincoln ends up getting sent to her house anyway. Oh, and we get to see Ruth's extra toe. OK, I'm done. Somehow I found the ending to this episode as being abysmal compared to the previously two episodes for some reason. I had explained my points on both episodes. "Lincoln Loud: The Love Guru" came as not surprising because Lincoln made the mistake of thinking that all girls shared his sisters' interests, so he needed to be punished for his mistake, and "The Loudest Yard" points out that Lincoln had little to no knowledge on football, so I concluded that Lincoln would score for the wrong team. But with "Two Boys and a Baby," it left me with such a sick feeling that I consider it even worse than "One of the Boys." While I hated that episode, it had a few redeeming elements that kept me from giving it a low score. With "Two Boys and a Baby," there was nothing redeeming about it. I felt nauseous midway through the episode, I absolutely hated the ending, and I utterly loathed Ruth (as well as hoped that she never gave back). It's fairly tedious to identify a bad episode from this series, but it's because there are several good episodes to balance out the bad ones. But with "Two of the Boys," I feel that it deserves to be shredded up, just like that diaper.

Final score:

1 out of 5 stars