User blog comment:AustinDR/Not a Loud (My Prediction)/@comment-31563773-20170814062415/@comment-32202721-20170814140825

@FDS:

"No Guts No Glori" didn't really show us that Lori is smarter than Lincoln. She just commands more authority than he does, both by virtue of being the oldest and because of her more domineering personality. Besides, the show had Lincoln set Lori straight in "Driving Miss Hazy" after she tried to sabotage Leni's driving test, not realizing that she could have gotten Leni seriously hurt.

In "Sound of Silence", all of Lincoln's sisters (except Lisa) worked together to trick him, so you can't really say that he was outsmarted by Lola alone. As for "Ties That Bind", all she did was catch onto Lincoln's plan by virtue of being able to read.

Finally, I think you're underselling how often Lincoln's managed to get himself out of a bind. I know you hate "Lincoln Loud: Girl Guru", but you have to admit that solution he came up with was really clever, in that it solved three of his problems at once (the whole town hates me, I'm going to fail my business project and I have a ton of inedible pies lying around). Aside from that, you have him figuring out Sharon DeMonet's riddle in "It's a Loud 4x House", figuring out a way to teach Leni to drive in "Driving Miss Hazy", effortlessly resolving the twins' arguments in "Project: Loud House" and "Baby Steps", using random tidbits he learned from his sisters to get him and Clyde out of the woods in "Roughin' It", successfully digging up dirt on Lola in "A Tattler's Tale", beating Luan at her own game in "Fool's Paradise", and finally...

...you know, I hate to bring up the absolute nadir of the series, but if there's anything positive I can say about "No Such Luck", it's that his plan at the end was kind of brilliant when you think about it. Even if Lynn lost the game, he could have just snuck away, the family never would have known he was there, and they'd just say, "Oh, Lynn's just having a bad season. Looks like Lincoln isn't bad luck after all." Either way, he'd win.