User blog:ClassicHollywood/The One Reason why “Garage Banned” is my favorite Lori Episode is...

How it develops Lori as a character and a sister. Sure, she got some development before, but nothing that truly shows us how much she loves her siblings. In this, Lori moves out of the house and into a garage. But is per the thing with these type of episodes, she doesn’t like it and hijinks ensue. Now, this would just be your run of the mill “moving out” episode, if it wasn’t for the development that Lori received. We get to see a Lori that’s vulnerable, not really ready to move out and a Lori who deep down loves her family. She was just too scare to admit it to them, out of fear of her letting her guard down and getting mocked. So she doubled down and performed some kind of funny schemes to get out. But they all fail. So when she is exposed, she finally lets her guard and tells them the reason she did all she did. And as you’d expect they hug and Lori moves back in, happy to be in company of family. The lesson can be seen as a typical “don’t rush growing up, and be grateful of your family” and stuff like that. But the way it’s executed, allows Lori to be developed. It shows just how someone like Lori can miss the company of a big, Loud, yet loving family, and how she took that for granted. Maybe I’m over analyzing it, but as it stands, “Garage Banned” is my favorite Lori episode.