Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-32784502-20170818003250/@comment-26478829-20170821010540

I can look past the stereotyping, but I still really dislike the episode.

The reason I really dislike it is it's just so boring. It's not just all the brothers are bullies, is that they're one note bullies. None of them have any real distinctions from one another. Sure, Luke likes music and Lexx is a drama queen, but we don't see enough of their quirks, making all the brothers blend together as a single homogeneity of unpleasentries. None of them are interesting or have any real depth, they all appear to have the same personality with some shallow traits tacked on.

These problems are mostly caused by the sloppiness of the episodes writing. Like most episodes, it's only 11 minutes, and the first half is building up to the second half. This makes the episode just fall apart, you can't just introduce 10 new characters in 5 minutes. What made "Relative Chaos" so great was we got to spend time with the Casagrandes, we got to see their family dynamic, their quirks and their individual traits. We don't really get that with "One of the Boys", which makes all the boys seem even more one note.

Lastly, the episode just isn't very funny. The humor of the episode boils down to Lincoln getting bullied for 11 minutes straight, sans the brief moment when he got pizza. The Loud House doesn't do slapstick well since the world they build is 'realistic', as in, the injuries characters get aren't funny and over the top like Looney Tunes or even classic Fairy Oddparents, instead they're seen as more serious. This makes it really hard to laugh when Lincoln gets punched really hard.

Like with "Curious Poker Chip", I do enjoy the first half of the episode, and I quite like the ending (which spawned some pretty cute fanfics, by the by) but all the Boy stuff was hard to watch. It wasn't all bad though, they got the voice actors of the TMNT to voice the four oldest brothers, which as a huge TMNT fan was a treat.

Again, like with "Curious Poker Chip", it really bothered me how the brothers were supposed to be parallels, yet removed any redeeming qualities from the sisters they parallel. Loni was a huge jerk and Luke was a massive bully, which especially bothers me because the metal-heads I know are the nicest guys.