User blog:The Smarter, Wiser King Dedede/Best and Worst Episodes of Season 2

Title is pretty much self-explanatory. Here is what I think are the best -- and worst -- episodes of Season 2 of The Loud House. I'm aware I already made a similar blog where I rank every episode and tell my top 5 and bottom 5 episodes of the season a few weeks ago, but this one is broader on why I think these episodes are the best/worst of the season.

THE BEST:

11 Louds a Leapin' (S02E01, aired 11/25/2016): This WOULD have probably been the best if it was just the second half I was judging. It's too bad the first half is only merely good. Overall, it's a great nonetheless, very heartwarming, but the first half and second half don't really balance each other out into something perfect.

Fed Up (S02E10A, aired 4/12/2017): One of the funniest episodes of the show.

Pulp Friction (S02E11A, aired 4/14/2017): Basically, everyone gets a chance to shine and everyone gets a happy ending. What more could I ask for in an episode, especially an 11-minute one?

The Loudest Mission: Relative Chaos (S02E13, aired 5/29/2017): Not only is this one of the funniest episodes of the show but it's also heartwarming and proof that the show can defy the Status Quo is God trope if it tries; something that one of the worst episodes of this season, and the show, fails to do.

Out of the Picture (S02E14A, aired 5/16/2017): While the comedy and general plot is good, it's Lola that really brings this episode up into one of my favorites of the season. It's quite frankly amazing that a character that started off as someone I didn't really like in the first half of the first season transformed herself into my third-favorite Loud sibling, behind Leni in second and Lucy in first.

Fool's Paradise (S02E16A, aired 6/13/2017): Aside from being another elimination episode, which are among my favorite plot types in cartoon episodes (and doing it very well), it fixes the biggest problem with one of the worst episodes of this season, having Lynn Sr. realizing his wrongdoings via his own conscience instead of an outside force.

Legends (S02E22A, aired 11/11/2017): Even never watching "Legends of the Hidden Temple", this is still a really fun episode that you can enjoy even if you know next to nothing about Legends of the Hidden Temple. It's also a very nice Lincoln-Lynn Sr. bonding episode.

'''Tricked! (S02E24, aired 10/13/2017)''': All the plots work well here, but Lucy's subplot is what solidifies this episode to me as Great. It's one of the, if not the main, deciding factor in declaring my favorite Loud sibling.

THE WORST:

Brawl in the Family (S02E03B, aired 1/11/2017): Do I even need to go into detail on why this episode is a load of garbage? Plenty of people have explained why this episode sucks far better than I have ever have. To quickly summarize, this episode is literally entirely based around sibling conflict caused by the stupidest reason (the "Sister Protocol", which makes no sense), and the ending and moral completely contradicts past episodes.

Vantastic Voyage (S02E05B, aired 2/23/2017): Did you ever wanna see Lynn Sr. be dummied down to the point of loving his new van more than his family? I certainly didn't, but I unfortunately had to. He also only learns his lessons through an outside force. The ending also renders the episode completely pointless, as the family didn't necessarily need to retrieve Vanzilla back from the dump (wasn't the whole reason to get a new van because Vanzilla was starting to stop working?), and the subplot with Lori and Leni is pointless and amounts to nothing.

Patching Things Up (S02E06A, aired 3/15/2017): I didn't wanna put this episode on the worst list. I was actually debating doing this. But I had to do it, because I can't remember anything that happened in this episode. This episode is just completely boring, plain and simple. Sure, there have been other boring episodes in the past, but I least I could remember SOME of those episodes. This episode I can remember also nothing from it. Maybe if it took it's simplistic plot of "two siblings compete to outdo each other in various activities" and took a fresh turn on it I could remember this episode better (and like it better), but sadly, nothing new is done here, it's exactly what I'd expect to see in a plot like this. It's predictable.

At the very least, it definitely does not rank up there with the other worst episodes of this season, as this one is more mediocre than truly bad.

Pets Peeved (S02E11B, aired 5/15/2017): A lot of problems I have with this one. The cliche plot is the least of it all. First of all, this episode isn't very funny, with only one or two jokes getting a chuckle out of me. The first few ways the Loud pets try to get rid of the new pet just get an eye-rolling reaction out of me because I know that the siblings are gonna misinterpret the situation as the new pet doing something cute. Then the Loud pets get the new pet sent off to the pound and are happy. Then they watch a commercial about the pound and decide to rescue him. Wait, what!? Wasn't getting the new pet sent to the pound their intention? Now I wouldn't be complaining about this if the commercial depicted the pound as being a horrible place where pets receive torment, physically and/or emotionally, and give out the threat to euthanize them if they don't get claimed, but the commercial wasn't any of that, it was the most basic commercial for a pet pound I've ever seen in my life. The rest of the episode is just boring and feels a lot like The Secret Life of Pets.

Also, there's a running gag involving people (mainly Rita and Luna) mistaking the new pet's butt for his face, which results in Rita stuffing a treat up his butt and then Luna KISSING it. It's one of the most disgusting jokes I've ever seen in the series, mostly due to personal experience, and it honestly makes me shudder thinking about it.

Lynner Takes All (S02E19B, aired 7/28/2017): Oh boy...HOO boy...now, let me state for the record, that my claim that "Come Sale Away" is my least favorite episode of The Loud House still stands. However, this episode is a close second, a very close second. This might even top "Brawl in the Family", which was my least favorite episode of this season. For the short answer: this episode is terrible. But for the long answer:

Where do I begin with this episode!? Where!? Let's start with the fact that literally ALL the humor in this episode is nothing but Lynn Jr. gloating. No, really, that's the comedy of this episode. Not some of the comedy, the comedy. Most of you guys know how I feel about gloating. When you make almost all of the comedy in an episode about Lynn Jr. being an obnoxious gloater or sore loser, I'm sorry, but to me, you've failed on a rather epic level.

Now how about Lynn Jr., huh? This is by far her worst appearance in the whole show, and considering her performance in "No Such Luck", that is definitely saying something. She is not even close to likable in this episode, and I get that was the point of the episode and the catalyst to the other siblings teaming up against her, but there were ways to make her less obnoxious than this, really, there were. Personally, to me, it is very difficult to make a sore winner and/or loser likable, so I'm not going to fault this episode so much for that, but what I will severely fault this episode for is...

...the ending. Seriously, the ending is what really puts this episode in the worst of the worst. Now, had this episode had Lynn Jr. learn a lesson that she shouldn't be such a sore winner or loser, than this episode wouldn't have been so bad! Sure it wouldn't have made the obnoxious gloating any less...obnoxious...but at least it would be satisfying to see Lynn Jr. realize that what she's doing is wrong and promise not to do it again. And, at first, when she wins another board game it looks like that's going to be the case...but then she goes outside...and GLOATS AGAIN. She's doing it outside though, and not in front of her siblings, so it makes it better right? No it doesn't! She's still going to be a gloater! She basically learns nothing! Any fake-out of a character learning a valuable lesson is guaranteed to tick me off, but this is one of the worst examples of I've ever seen in a cartoon, with the only example being POSSIBLY worse than this is in the Family Guy episode "Brian the Closer".

If any episode where to show why I hate Lynn Jr. so much as I do now, almost as much (if not more than) as Powerpuff-Pony, then this is the episode. There's no way I can sympathize with, laugh at, or feel any other emotion than anger towards Lynn Jr. in this episode because she is extremely unlikable here, and the fake-out at the end just kills any potential character development she could've gotten. Oh, and I haven't even TALKED about the scene with Lola's jewelry game! Despite Lola looking pretty cute wearing all the jewelry, we see Lynn Jr. winning that game through...rolling 3 10s on the dice, which just feels extremely forced and stupid.

I'm done talking about this episode, if I continue to do so, I will probably end breaking myself.

The Crying Dame (S02E25A, aired 11/24/2017): Most of my problems with this episode stem from the fact that we have to hear the Fenton song, on loop, for at least half the episode. The song wasn't annoying at first but it certainly got that way after like the fifth time it played, and it isn't catchy or upbeat either. There are plenty of cartoon episodes that have done this plot better, like Earworm (SpongeBob SquarePants), Head Band (Dexter's Lab), and I Dream of Jesus (Family Guy), because they actually have catchy and upbeat songs, and at least do something different with the song each time, such as show off different lyrics. And at least they knew when to take a break from them instead of playing it on loop. Also, as :iconthecrimsondemon14: pointed out, why couldn't the siblings just get another Fenton toy for Lily? I highly doubt that Fenton toy was the only one left in the world.

There you go, my favorite and least favorite episodes from Season 2 of The Loud House. If you disagree with any of these, that's totally fine. I'm just stating my opinion. I'm most certainly fine if you find humor in Lynn Jr.'s gloating in "Lynner Takes All", among other examples.