User blog:Thomperfan/LH episode commentaries- Making the Case (transcript)



Hmm. I don’t think I’ve seen this in the Loud Household before. What is it?

Lincoln: [to the viewers] "The Loud Family trophy case. My sisters have done some pretty impressive stuff to get in here.

Oh, thank you, Lincoln. So, apparently this case is for whenever the sisters win something and get an award for it. And all the sisters have made some pretty nice accomplishments. But, Lincoln is only kid who hasn’t done anything spectacular, or won any awards. He’s tried, but it’s always ended with failure. I understand Lincoln’s struggle here. He feels like the odd man out, (both literally and figuratively) and he wants something of his own to be proud of. So we cut to later in the day and Lincoln tells us about a video contest that he wants to enter because the winner gets a big trophy. Alright, whatcha gonna do, Linc?

[Lincoln's wearing some kind of uniform for a stunt as Clyde films it.]

''Lincoln: "Are we rolling?" [in character] "Hey, fifth grade! Lincoln Loud here! Ever wonder what happens when 672 breath mints meet 88 gallons of diet soda? Well, you're about to find out!" [rides on Lana's skateboard off a ramp onto a catapult where he is launched by Charles and Cliff into a swimming pool full of diet soda, causing the soda and mints to shoot out like a geyser.]''

Whoa, that was awesome! Lincoln was all like “You’re about to find out!” and then he was on the skateboard, and then the soda just shot up like a rocket! Oh man, I would not be surprised if that video won the contest.

So Lincoln and Clyde upload their video to the contest webpage, but after a while no one votes for it. OK, no one goes viral in a few minutes. Clyde then notes that all of the people are voting for video called “HamstaCam” which is just a hamster running around in a wheel. (stammers) Seriously?! It’s just a hamster, on a wheel! Lincoln just rode of a really tall skateboard ramp and catapulted into a exploding soda pool! OK, this just goes to show some people have no taste, in videos. None at all.

So the boys’ video gets a comment that says Lincoln should go to Luan for some tips. They then click a link for her internet channel, and find out that she has 50,000 followers. Yeah, I figured Luan would be the sister who would have the most experience with this. So the boys show their video to Luan, and she has this to say:

Lincoln: "Pretty sick, right?"

Clyde: "That means awesome."

Luan: "Yeah, not in this case."

WHAT?! But it’s- And they- And you- WHY NOT?!

Luan: "Sorry, Linc. Stunts are so last year. If you want to win the contest, you have to make funny videos."

Oh, right. She’s the comedian of the bunch. Of course. So when Lincoln asks Luan how to make funny videos, she tells him to always have his camera on at all times, because they’re always might be something good on.

''Luan: "Ooh! Like this!" [films Clyde picking his nose]''

Clyde: "Aw, come on! Erase that!"

''Luan: "Don't worry, Clyde. I would never post it without your permission. Besides, I said comedy gold, not digging for gold." [laughs]''

Hm. Luan would never post an embarrassing video of Clyde without his permission, I wonder if that’s going to be essential to the plot later on. Nah.

So Lincoln and Clyde have spent the last few hours with the camera on and they haven’t found anything funny. Until they find something interesting.

Clyde: "Sorry, Lincoln. I was just worried that Lynn was going to accidentally step on that rake, resulting in a series of escalating mishaps."

''Lincoln: "That's great, Clyde, but-series of escalating mishaps?!" [hides in a bush to film Lynn]''

''Lynn: [bouncing a Soccer ball off her head] "56...57...58...59..." [steps on the rake and gets hit] "Ouch!"''

[The ball bounces off a pole and onto her face, sending her flying onto a trampoline where she bounces off and lands in the soda pool.]

Lincoln: "That was hilarious!"

Clyde: "Let's go upload it! This is gonna get a ton of votes!"

Whoa, Clyde! Where did that come from? First you say you’re concerned about Lynn getting involved in escalating mishaps and now you say you should upload it to the contest? How caring of you. Lincoln, what do you think you should do?

Lincoln: "I don't know, Clyde. Enough votes to beat HamstaCam?"

Clyde: [shakes his fist] "HamstaCam!"

Lincoln: [gets an idea] "If we struck comedy gold with one sister, with ten, we'll have Comedy Fort Knox!"

[They laugh evilly]

Of course. (sighs) This is NOT gonna end well. So if you didn’t already figure it out, Lincoln are going to film Lincoln’s sisters doing embarrassing things. Let’s see how that’s working out for them.

''Lucy: "Oh, Edwin, I know you're forbidden to love a mortal like me, but I can't resist your piercing gaze, your sparkly skin, your icy lips..." [kisses the bust and gets its wax lips over hers.]''

Lincoln: "Hmm...maybe something like this is a little too personal."

Yeah, no kidding.

Clyde: [checks the school's site's poll] "HamstaCam just got 10 more votes!"

Lincoln: [shakes fist] "HamstaCam! Eh, it's not that personal. Keep rolling."

Dang it, Clyde! Why did you bring that up. You’re Lincoln’s best friend! You’re supposed to talk Lincoln out of doing something that’s wrong. Or wait, he probably doesn’t think it’s wrong does he? Clyde is certainly not being a good friend here.

So the two keep on recording all of the sisters and their embarrassing stuff.

[They move onto Lana who rummages through the trash and finds a piece of gum and chews it.]

Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! How is this embarrassing?! Lana is the tomboy-est out of all of Lincoln’s sisters, she loves anything gross/grody, so something like this would not be something you would never expect from her. Now if maybe Lincoln and Clyde filmed Lana getting herself clean, or putting on a dress, or playing with girly toys or something, then I would understand, but I just don’t feel like this would be something Lana would be embarrassed by.

Anyway, the two guys finish their filming after getting Lori farting on tape for a third time. Yeah they already recorded Lori farting two times already. Weird, right?

Clyde: [intoxicated] "Ah, Lori's toots. It's like music to my ears."

Yeech! Clyde, that was just disgusting. Nothing else to say here. Although I want to point something out: Lincoln said that with 10 sisters he and Clyde would have Comedy Fort Knox, but we only saw Lincoln record 8 of his sisters. Luan and Lily were never seen recorded. Eh, maybe they filmed them off screen or something. I don’t know.

So Lincoln and Clyde upload the video and everyone at school starts talking about it.

Female Classmate: "Lincoln, your video rocks! You got my vote!"

Male Classmate: "Man. Lucy and that sculpture? What a weirdo!"

Female Classmate: "And how about Lori?"

Male Classmate: "You mean Miss Toots-A-Lot? She should see a doctor about that."

[As the kids laugh, Lincoln starts to look a little worried.]

Female Classmate: "So embarrassing."

Lincoln: [worrying] "Embarrassing?"

Male Classmate: "Yeah! My sisters would pulverize me if I posted a video like that!"

Lincoln: [scared] "Pulverize?"

Mm-Hm. Maybe that’s something you should’ve thought of before you decided to go through with this. Then again, maybe you never would’ve gotten the idea if someone hadn’t given it to you. (coughs) Clyde (coughs)

So, Lincoln seems to not be worried about it, as he says that after he wins the trophy he’ll just delete the video. Yeah, let’s see how that works out for you, Linc.

''[But just as he opens the door, his sisters are right there, and they are incredibly furious. Lori is holding her cell phone with the video on it.]''

Yep, I figured as much. So as you can plainly see, the sisters found out about what Lincoln did and are understandably mad at him.

Lincoln: "There was this video contest at school and I really wanted to win!"

Lola: "YOU SHOWED MY SLEEP FACE FOR SOME STUPID CONTEST?!"

Lincoln: "I just wanted a trophy to put in the case like you guys!"

Luna: "You think you deserve a trophy for that, bro?"

Obviously not. Lincoln tells his sisters he’ll delete the video, but Lucy tells him it’s too late and that the damage has already been done, before she and the other sisters walk off, still angry.

''Lori: "You made me look like I fart! And for the record, it was these shoes! See?" [tries to make it look like they were making the farting noise but fails] "Of course it's not working now."''

Come on, Lori. Stop trying to deny it. Everyone saw the video, so they they know it was real. It’s nothing to be ashamed of. Everyone farts sometimes. Even me and even you.

[Clyde leaves nervously]

Hey, Clyde, where are YOU going?! Get the heck back here!! (sigh) But no, folks. That’s the last we see of Clyde in this episode. He doesn’t come back or is seen in any scene after this. So just to recap, Clyde convinced Lincoln to upload the video of his sisters doing embarrassing stuff, motivate him to keep on going, and when Lincoln finally faces his angry sisters, he just leaves Linc there. OK, that settles it, Clyde is a bad friend in this episode. I would’ve like to see him get some comeuppance also, but oh well.

Anyway Lincoln tries to apologize to his sisters, but they ignore his pleads and slam their doors on him.

[Lincoln sighs and Lana opens it which he thinks she will forgive him.]

''Lana: "I wanna slam it, too!" [does so]''

Wait. So, are you mad at Lincoln or did you just want to slam the door for the sake of slamming it? (sigh) Honestly I wouldn’t be surprised with either the former or the latter.

''Lucy: "I have no brother!" [starts to close the door then opens it] "I know I say that a lot, but this time...I mean it." [slams door]''

Um, wow. I… have no idea what to make of this line. First off, Lucy says that a lot? Well, this is the first time I’ve ever heard her say that. Second, if Lucy meant it this time, I’d hate to find out what happens when she doesn’t mean it. Third, this is just too harsh. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying Lucy shouldn’t be mad at Lincoln, but saying she doesn’t have a brother? I mean, if my sister uploaded an embarrassing video of me, I would be mad at her, but I would never say “You’re not my sister anymore!”, that would just be cold. Lucy’s line here was just bad. Moving on.

Lincoln goes to Luan and asks her where he went wrong, and Luan says he broke the unspoken rule: never post videos of other people without their permission. Hm. What do you know? That thing Luan said about never posting Clyde picking his nose without his permission WAS essential to the plot after all.

So, Lincoln, now all on his own, deletes the video and after watching some more of the HamstaCam video discovers a way he can make things right.

''Lincoln: "I guess it's hard for anyone to have the camera on you all the time." [gets an idea] "Camera on you all the time! That's it!" [goes to Luan] "Luan! You said your one simple rule is to always have your camera on, right?"''

Luan: "That is correct, Captain Obvious."

Lincoln: "Then I'm going to need to borrow all your footage of me."

''Luan: "You mean...Comedy Fort Knox?" [reveals a vault of footage of Lincoln she's filmed over the years.]''

Wow, that was really nice of Luan. I give major props to her for helping Lincoln put right his mistake. But I have to ask, what happened to Luna? I don’t think she would be in the mood to see Lincoln, especially considering what she did to him after he tried to apologize. Maybe she went to bathroom or something. Eh, I guess it doesn’t matter.

So if you didn’t already know, Lincoln’s plan is to make a video with embarrassing clips of himself, so he and the girls will be even. And this video consists of Lincoln admiring his body, obsessing over some girl named Cristina or something, and other embarrassing mishaps this eleven year old boy has gotten into. Okay, let’s see how his fellow classmates react to this.

Female Classmate: "Oh, Lincoln."

Male Classmate: "And just to be clear, we're laughing at you, not with you."

''Female Classmate: "I thought your sisters' video was embarrassing, but this takes the cake! And still to lose out to a hamster? Ouch!!" [Lincoln sighs in defeat]''

Oh, Kids can be so cruel. But their reaction is not the most important, the most important reaction is from the sisters. Do they forgive him or not? I sure hope they forgive him. Let’s find out.

[Lincoln opens the door only to find out that his sisters are STILL furious]

Oh come on!

Lori: [sternly] "Lincoln..."

Lincoln: [apologetically] "I know I embarrassed you and I can't undo it, and I'm sorry, but the least I could do was embarrass myself right along with you, that way we'd all be even!"

Lynn: "Even? You think this makes us even?"

Lincoln: "Well, I was trying to-"

Lynn: "Yours was way worse!"

Lori: [cheerfully] "Yeah! That video was hysterical!"

[The girls surround Lincoln and ensure him that they forgive him.]

Oh, so that was just a fake-out. That was kind of unnecessary. I didn’t like that.

But it’s not important, because the sisters do forgive Lincoln and are good with him again.

Luan: "Sorry you didn't win the trophy."

''Lori: "But we really appreciate what you did and thought you deserved something." [hands him a tiny trophy.]''

Awwww, that was really sweet. And “Most Improved Brother”, that is something to be proud of, and it suits Lincoln very well. Not just because of this episode, but because of all the other episodes after this.

[Another flatulent sound occurs and the other girls look at Lori suspiciously.]

Lori: "It was my shoe!"

Sure it was, Lori. Sure it was. And in case you can’t tell, I was being sarcastic. You really should not be afraid to admit to farting, everyone does it.

But I’m getting off track here. What are my thoughts on this episode? Well, it’s not really that bad, but it isn’t really that good either. It’s just one of those episodes that was in the middle for me. Much like it’s sister episode

Lincoln was less empathetic in this episode, than the last three episodes I covered. I mean, it’s not that he didn’t have some moments of empathy it’s just out of all these 4 episodes, this was not his best, for obvious reasons. But at least he does feel guilty for his mistake, and worked to make things right, and he did get what he wanted in the end. The sisters were ok, they were justified to feel mad after what Lincoln did, but Lucy’s line and the fake out they all did the end, was unpleasant, but they did make Lincoln that trophy and Luan did help Lincoln fix his mistake. And then there was Clyde. He started out being his normal self, being loyal to Lincoln, but later, he started to act like the bad side of Lincoln’s subconscious, I say this, because he keeps on motivating Lincoln to keep on making the video, and when Lincoln finally faces the consequences, he ditches him and doesn't come back. What I would’ve preferred, was if Clyde stayed with Lincoln and also made things right, by adding clips of embarrassing things HE did. That would’ve made his performance here a lot better. And that line he said about liking Lori’s farting… (shuddering) I usually don’t mind Clyde’s crush on Lori, but that was just disgusting.

One other thing I want to add was that I notice that when Lincoln was going over his sisters’ accomplishments, he mentions that Lily won a trophy for just sucking her thumb. Wow. There seems to be a contest for just about anything these days, am I right? That’s all I have to say here. Next up is Driving Miss Hazy. Thank you for watching.