User blog:CartoonFan14/Rant: The Green House

About a month a ago there was a blog asking for the worst torture episode, and a common one I saw was Green House, so pretty shocked, I defended that episode. Let me make something clear though, I AM NOT CALLING IT A GOOD EPISODE. I just don't think it qualifies as a torture. But that's not to say this one is flawed as all hell.

So the episode starts off with a scene that doesn't do to well with me, Mrs. Johnson is looking at her students' energy charts. When she comes to Lincoln she sees he is regressing rather than progressing. This of coyrse only means one thing to her, antagonize him, condone bullying him and threatning him, and join in on it. Sure, it's less threatning and more telling him what happens if he single handedly messes them up, but I still don't like this scene. But I dont entirely hate it because I would be annoyed if one person couldn't comply in a big group. So it is a little understandable.

Then Lincoln walks home woth Clyde, and even he's a dipwad here. The "loyal" best friend tells Lincoln that they can't hang out in public if he loses the challenge. And Lincoln explains to us what a two year old could understand, but his teacher couldn't. (Seriously, his 5 older sisters probably had her if not ran through the school, Lisa aas probably in the school before Lucy, and Lucy and the Twins are in school now, not to mention Project Loud House when he brings his sisters to the class).

But CartoonFan, are you seriously acknowledging all that and not calling it torture?! Well, it is torture for me, but not for Lincoln. All that really happened was he was accused of hating polar bears, and booed, the threats weren't executed, and Clyse is still hanging with Lincoln, ao nothing absolutely torturous has happened.

So Lincoln tries to get his wasteful sisters to cut back, but they refuse. Then comes the only real joke in the episode, and all it boils down to is "polar bears are cute", too bad it wasnt funny, and too bad it got reused several times. Amyways, the girls are on board, and help successfully help Lincoln get into the green.

So now we're about halfway in, amd the conflict is resolved no torture, just bad scenes and nothing hilarious.

But here's where things start to bring this episode down.

Lincoln has a game tournament coming up, so he tries to take the girls things so he can pug out. He takes the TV, and everything is right in the world. But three of Lincoln's fouche classmates show up and want to play here, assuming he's in the red and it won't matter. Here's the thing, if these guy are being nothing but jerks to you, it would be very easy to say no to them, but he accepts, and continues screwing his family over to look good for the kids.

Finally, the jig is up, the girls know Lincoln is screwing them over, and they are very fairly outraged. But they dont want to be allowed more stuff as long as its in the green like they were before the tournament, oh no, they want to pug out just like Lincoln. It could be done to teach him a lesson, so I don't hate it entirely, but I don't like it either.

Of course douchebags one and two leave, and be jerks to him, and Clyde stats, only so he can tell Lincoln they can't hang out in public, and for the "polar bears are cute" joke. Lincoln reaizes the error of his ways, and decided to do his part himself, amd not to force others to do it without him. So he powers the house via a cycle with a bunch of cables.

So how is that not torture you ask, Lincoln did it to himself, and was proud of actually helping the cause albeit for a week.

Then the ending, the class wins, Lincoln doesn't have to worry about jerkbags, but smells awful and isn't allowed in the class.

So that's the green house for you, poor writing, unlikeable characters, but not torture. I won't say I didn't laugh at all through this episode though. Lincoln thinking Clyde wanted to kill the sisters, Mr. Loud and the car gag, how the class teacted to the polar bears name, those jokes all hit their marks and brought somw enjoyment out of ne, butother than that I don't care for this one.

Rating: 4/10