Talk:Kings of the Con/@comment-40193747-20191014200401/@comment-37044055-20191014203920

another thing about that is, the sisters aren't perfect little angels either. Lori legit tried to sabotage Leni's driver's license test because she wanted her siblings to rely on HER exclusively, despite the fact that she basically tries to bargain with them for it -- for instance, she makes Lisa do her homework before driving her to the museum. Luan has threatened the lives of her siblings in multiple cases with her pranks, especially in Fool's Paradise. remember the rhubarb pie and Lana being allergic to rhubarbs? and the raccoons attacking the other siblings, including Lincoln himself?

and there have been other episodes in the past with a similar premise to this one, where a Loud sibling feels left out in their own field of expertise -- for example, Lynn getting tense with Margo over gaining the best kick in a soccer game and getting famous, and Lucy getting tense with Haiku over winning the status of new president of the Morticians Club. the difference is how those episodes were written. in both cases, the characters acknowledged that their friendship was more important than some status quo of popularity. King of the Con, on the other hand, was written under the same mindset as some earlier Season 1 episodes where Lincoln was always considered the Bad One and deserved to go through the worst, despite multiple cases of his sisters doing things that are just as bad, if not much worse, in other episodes.

a slightly different ending could have changed the impact of the episode entirely. the sisters didn't even have to let Lincoln and Clyde in with them, they could have just declined the offer. and that's assuming the "Full Deck" didn't also include Ace Savvy and One-Eyed Jack