The Loudest Yard

"" is the forty-first episode of The Loud House.

Plot
When Mom signs Lincoln up for peewee football, he schemes to have Lynn take his spot.

Synopsis
The story begins with Lincoln playing a video game in his room, when his mom enters and tells him to go outside, because it is not healthy stay inside playing video games all day. Lincoln obeys and go to the backyard, but he still playing his video game. Mom catches him and tells him that he needs to do some more exercise, so she sends Lincoln with his dad to jogging with him and his friends in the mall, but Lincoln prefers to go to the arcade instead of jogging. After catching Lincoln in the arcade, his dad returns Lincoln to Rita to make him do aerobics on TV with her, but while they're doing that, Lincoln keeps reading a comic book (that he sticks on her rear). When it falls off and Rita notices, she tells him that she will have to take other measures; that means inscribing Lincoln for the Royal Woods Roosters football team. Lincoln tells her that he isn't good at sports (which he proves by showing some flashbacks of him playing baseball with Clyde and basketball with Liam while reading a comic book, badminton with Lola and horseshoes with Lynn while playing video games), but Rita tells him that he needs to exercise one way or another.

Lincoln then tells to the audience that he clearly can't play football, so he asks Lola if she can hurt him to avoid playing football. Lola agrees and later she tries to break Lincoln's leg running over him with her kiddie car, only to crash with some garbage containers because Lincoln changed his opinion and takes away his leg. Lola, enraged, attacks him but is interrupted by Lynn. After she knows that Lincoln is going to play football, Lynn offers happily to teaching Lincoln everything he needs to know about football. The next scenes show Lincoln being trained by Lynn, but at the end he proves that he really isn't good for football. During a training in the Ketchman Park, Lincoln and Lynn bump with two rough players from the Hazeltucky Hockers, the rival team of the Lincoln's school football team. The guys mock them and leave, giving Lincoln an idea; Lynn can pretend to be him and play in his place so she can play and he can have his own life. Lynn accepts.

The two siblings later begin their plan. While Lynn goes to play instead of him, Lincoln stays under a tree reading comics and when she comes back, he puts on the uniform and Lynn throws mud to his face to make their parents believe that Lincoln really plays. They keep doing it until autumn arrives. The plan looks to be successful, until dad shows to Lincoln a newspaper announcement which tells that the crowd loves Lincoln (who really is Lynn) due to his (her) excellent playing. Dad then says that he and the rest of the family will go to see Lincoln playing tomorrow in his final game, much to the latter's horror.

The next day, it's the final game of the season. Mom, Dad, and the rest of the Loud sisters assist to the game to see Lincoln playing. He manages to make Lynn plays instead of him and in some moments (like when they have to sing the national anthem or the TV interview during the halftime) they switch places. Near to the last minutes for the endgame, the players of the rival team injured Lynn producing a sprain in her ankle. When she's taken out of the field, the coach removes her helmet, revealing to everyone that she really is Lynn and not Lincoln. Without any other option, Lincoln appears and confeses to the coach and his parents what he had done. Because of Lynn's injury, she can't continue playing and the Royal Woods Roosters will lose by default, but Lincoln then offers to replace Lynn in the field.

With just one point to win, and one minute to finish the game, Lincoln enters the game, and is pursued by the rival players to obtain the ball from him. At the end, Lincoln makes a touchdown. After that he talks to the viewers that sports can be pretty awesome, but then it's revealed that he went to the wrong side of the field, scoring a safety for the other team; that means the Royal Woods Roosters lose, and the Hazeltucky Hockers win the game and the trophy. Because of this, the other Royal Woods Rooster players pursue him, and he flees from them, but during his fleeing, he suffers a charley horse, and the segment ends.

Cast
Leni, Luan, Lucy, Lisa, Clyde, and Liam have no lines in this segment.
 * Grant Palmer as Lincoln
 * Catherine Taber as Lori / Reporter
 * Nika Futterman as Luna
 * Jessica DiCicco as Lynn
 * Grey Griffin as Lana / Lola / Lily
 * Brian Stepanek as Lynn Sr. / Referee
 * Jill Talley as Rita
 * Wade Williams as Coach / Public Address Announcer
 * Joshua Rush as Quarterback
 * Wilber Zaldivar as Big Kid #1
 * Mateus Ward as Big Kid #2

Trivia

 * Sean Gantka, Todd Oman, Darin McGowan, Chris Savino, Kat Ketchum, Jordan Rosato, Jordan Koch, Whitney Wetta, Karla Sakas Shropshire, and Ken Mu are seen amongst the crowd.
 * Dad's eyes are seen when he wears the chicken costume.
 * This story takes place in autumn.
 * Third appearance of the reporter who also appeared in "Butterfly Effect", and "Out on a Limo".
 * In the newspaper Dad holds up, there are various smaller headlines that reference members of the show's staff, including "Savino indicted", "David King wins prize for headlines", "Morgan crushed in accident", and "Oman guilty of forgery".

Cultural References

 * The title is a parody of the film The Longest Yard.
 * It could also be a reference to the fact that Chris Savino's household was nicknamed "the loud yard" when he was a child, according to the Behind the Scenes video on the Nickelodeon YouTube channel.
 * The music used in the title card is "Fight! Fight! Fight!", an APM library music piece composed by Will Schaefer, notably used as the instrumental to the song "Now That We're Men" from The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie. It was also used in the title card for the SpongeBob Squarepants episodes "The Great Snail Race" and "Don't Look Now". Additionally, another APM music track called "Quest For The Best" played during the training montage, which was most notably used in the SpongeBob SquarePants episode Krusty Krab Training Video.
 * This marks the fourth and fifth times APM music from SpongeBob SquarePants was used (the first three are "Vibe Link (b)" in several episodes, "Caped Crusader" heard in "Sleuth or Consequences", and "Sneeky" played in "April Fools Rules".
 * The video game console that Lincoln uses in this segment looks like a mix between the Game Boy Advance and the PSP.
 * The video game that Lincoln plays at the beginning of the segment resembles the Sonic the Hedgehog video games.
 * There is a reference to Peanuts when Lucy pulls the football away from Lincoln; even the music played during the scene is reminiscent of "Peanuts". The same music also plays during the "Picture Perfect" and "Project Loud House" title cards.

Running Gags

 * Lincoln doing something else instead of exercise.
 * Lincoln getting a charley horse.
 * Lynn throwing mud at Lincoln.
 * Objects falling on Lincoln's head.
 * Lincoln and Lynn saying that they need to go to the restroom, then changing places.

Errors

 * In "Sound of Silence" and "Undie Pressure", Lincoln reads comics in his underwear because he mentions reading comics while clothed is distracting and uncomfortable. In this episode he reads comics just fine while clothed.
 * When Lola is about to hit Lincoln with her princess car, she is wearing black fingerless gloves, but when she is beating Lincoln up, she is wearing pink gloves.
 * This episode shows that Lincoln is very lazy and doesn't like to excercise. However, in other episodes he's seen doing excercises.
 * It is possible that this episode took place before the episodes where he exercises.