User blog:AustinDR/Review: Suite and Sour

In this episode, Lynn Sr. and Rita win a trip to the Royal Woods Spa. Then we get a neat little callback to "Ties that Bind" when the Loud kids eavesdrop on their conversation via the bathroom air vent. Surprising how their parents never considered removing the vent after the events of that past episode. Distraught by the idea of having to spend the week with Aunt Ruth (I don't blame them), they convince their parents that they will be on the best behavior....no fingers crossed, I swear! Though of course, chaos ensues when the Louds arrive.

Now, this episode was a hit-or-miss for me. On the one hand, there were several things in the episode that did make me chuckle a bit. For instance, I found Lola booking the spa room for herself and her stuffed animals humorous. As I had mentioned in my review of "Baby Steps," I laughed at how Leni finds a name tag and puts it on, and begins to work for the hotel. She actually does a pretty good job at it too, but that's just me. I also liked how the real reason that the Loud family was kicked out because Rita and Lynn Sr. were skinny dipping in the pool. Additionally, I liked how Lincoln and Lucy team up to search for the ghost supposedly haunting the spa. I liked how they were able to bond over that.

So, with all that being said, I can't really say that it's my favorite episode to start the week off with. While there are several humorous moments in the episode, I only really chuckled a few times. I personally didn't like how destructive the children were. I mean, normally it is funny whenever they wind up destroying something, but here, they practically cost the spa hundreds of dollars in repair. I also found Luan legitimately annoying in this episode. I mean, I get that Luan says bad puns per episode (that's her shtick and all), but I was seriously getting fed up by her bad puns in this episode. I almost was wanting to scream at my television for Luan to shut up. I mean, she even tells some of her jokes at the most inopportune of times; all the technician was doing was trying to fix the elevators that Lynn and Lana broke when they were seeing who would get to the bottom first. At the very least, they make it up to their parents by the end of the episode.

Overall, a pretty passable episode that I might watch a few times.

Final score: 4 stars out of 5