Sound of Silence

"Sound of Silence" is the eleventh episode of The Loud House.

Plot
Lincoln buys a pair of sound-canceling earbuds to drown out the sounds his sisters make, but it doesn't last long, as he has to keep a promise he unwittingly made to Lola.

Synopsis
The story opens with Lincoln coming home with a new comic book and plans to read it in peace and quiet, but in a family like his, he can barely find any of it. While in the living room, he sees a TV commercial for "Noise-B-Gone 2000", a pair of earplugs that can block out all loud noises with soothing sounds, and he orders them without his sisters' knowledge. After getting them in the mail (same-day delivery via drone), he puts the plugs on, and finds that he can no longer hear his sisters' noises. As he goes through his day in peace, his sisters ask him for various favors, and Lincoln, unable to hear them, unwittingly agrees to them to shut them up.

The next morning, Lola wakes up Lincoln to remind him of the promise he made to her the previous day, telling him to do it by 3:00. However, she's not the only one he unknowingly made a promise to. He also promised Lynn to be her sparring partner for kickboxing, Leni to act as a mannequin for her new fashion idea, and Lori to use him as an ottoman to rest her feet so she can paint her toenails. As Lincoln is roped into the other promises he unintentionally made to his sisters the previous day, he asks them what was the promise he made to Lola. They all react with fear and horror, and they tell him stories of the extreme revenges Lola extracted on them for making her mad (such as popping Lynn's soccer ball for eating the last pudding, selling Leni's stuff for breaking her tiara, boiling Lori's phone for not saying "Bless you" when she sneezed, and doing away with Lana's pet frog, Seymour, for distracting her while putting on her makeup), making Lincoln ever more afraid of what Lola will do to him at 3:00. Lincoln decides that he should do all the things Lola would expect him to do for her, such as cleaning her room, cleaning out the gutters, and creating topiary statues in the front yard.

When the clock strikes 3:00, Lola bursts in saying that Lincoln has failed her, and she ominously approaches him as she prepares to unleash her vengeance. Cowering before her, Lincoln confesses that he was wearing earplugs and couldn't hear her demands. Lola suddenly calms, and she reveals that she knew he was wearing the plugs on the whole time. It's also revealed that she had the others tell Lincoln made-up stories about her to teach him a lesson; they remind him that he can't ignore his family, and that they all have to live in a noisy house together. Unfortunately, the girls have inadvertently forgotten to fill Lisa in on the plan, as her experiment about to explode and the others (except Lisa) are in shock to expect what is coming to them. Lisa's experiment creates an explosion so powerful, that it blows the whole roof off of the house, and lands back upside down. Alongside that, it deafens all of the Loud kids, as Lincoln yells out, "NOW I CAN'T HEAR ANYTHING!", due to going deaf for real.

Cast

 * Grant Palmer as Lincoln
 * Catherine Taber as Lori
 * Liliana Mumy as Leni
 * Nika Futterman as Luna
 * Cristina Pucelli as Luan
 * Jessica DiCicco as Lynn / Lucy
 * Grey Griffin as Lana / Lola / Lily
 * Lara Jill Miller as Lisa
 * Daran Norris as TV Announcer

Trivia

 * This is the fist episode with characters who have eyes in colour different than black. Two of Leni's Friends have green and blue eyes.
 * Abject Terror, a SpongeBob soundtrack, starts playing when Lola yells "LINCOLN! ITS 3:00!"
 * Charles make a quick cameo at the end, he's outside in the front yard, watching as the house explodes.
 * This is the first episode to feature Lincoln's smartphone.
 * This is, so far, the only episode not to have any background music playing on the title card. Instead, it plays some audio of the sisters causing a ruckus in the background.
 * Lily is the only Loud sister who was not shown being ignored by Lincoln wearing the Noise-B-Gone 2000 earbuds, although she was shown with the group at the end.
 * Lola's trophy case has 13 shelves and 44 trophies. This means she participates in beauty pageants at least once a month.
 * Luan is shown throwing away the trash. In a later episode, it would be shown that this is Lincoln's chore.
 * Episode 6, of Season 1, is the first episode of the series where neither of the Loud parents' voice actors, Brian Stepanek (Lynn Sr.), and Jill Talley (Rita), have done voice work for an entire episode.
 * The voice in the TV Commercial sounds like Mr. Turner's voice from The Fairly OddParents!.
 * Most likely because Daran Norris is the voice of Mr. Turner.
 * Moral: You shouldn't ignore your family.
 * Family unfriendly Aesop: Fear is very convincing.
 * Irony: The girls could've just talked to Lincoln, instead of pranking him.
 * Karma: After Lola reveals to Lincoln that he has had all of the sisters, sans Lisa prank him, the sisters, with the exception for Lisa, get their comeuppance by becoming deaf themselves.

Errors

 * In the Latin American dub, for about one second, Lincoln's voice sounds different (one half line isn't dubbed by José Luis Piedra), when he says "Todo por que accidentalmente rompiste su tiara?" ("All because you accidentally broke her tiara?").
 * The outfit Leni has Lincoln model for her has legwarmers which is strange, since in "The Sweet Spot" when she is talking in her sleep it's revealed she hates legwarmers.
 * In the end credits, Daran Norris' name is misspelled as Daran Morris.
 * When Lana warns Lincoln about the "Frog Fiasco", she suddenly has full front teeth and no missing teeth.

Running Gags

 * Lincoln being forced to do menial tasks by his sisters, and his sisters telling him about Lola's acts of vengeance.
 * Lola giving a sinister grin.
 * Lincoln's sisters warning him "you know what happens when you make Lola mad".
 * Lincoln trying to get his sisters to shut up.
 * Lola doing a bad thing to one of her sisters, because she did not like what they did.
 * Deflating Lynn's soccer ball, because she ate the last pudding.
 * Selling Leni's stuff, because she accidentally broke her tiara.
 * Boiling Lori's phone, because she did not say bless you, when Lola sneezed.
 * Killing (or burying, it is still unknown exactly what Lola did) Lana's pet Seymour, because he messed up her make up.
 * Lincoln's sisters talking to him while he has his earplugs in.

El Sonido del Silencio