User blog comment:Dragonzako/Thoughts on Luan Loud/@comment-4618045-20171207003840

While I do generally agree with you, she is down at number 5 for me (largely because of how I stack her up with others). The thing that gets me about Luan is that her passion is one very oriented towards making others feel good. While that’s not how it plays with her family most of her time, there’s this thin lining that tells me she wants to make them crack a smile (though if the groans are anything, she’s tapped the same well a little too much). I find that a noble mission and one that redeems a lot of her behavior, even when it’s annoying. I think it’s also for the same reason that the April Fools episodes are so jarring for me. They are not in good, altruistic spirit at all; Luan is doing it for her own selfish pleasure. It’s when that compassion vanishes that her love of comedy turns into something terrible and hard to watch.