Trying to avoid a trip to the eye doctor, Lisa makes a new pair of glasses that actually makes her eyesight worse.
Synopsis[]
Lisa has an irrational fear of the ophthalmologist.
Rita and Lynn Sr. are preparing breakfast. As they're about to take a sip of their drink, Lisa rushes into the kitchen and bumps into Charles, thinking he was a trash can. Rita points out that Lisa has been having vision issues the entire week, like bumping into a side table, bumping into the rail at the bottom of the stairway, and petting a skunk thinking it's Cliff. After Lisa mistakes a vase of flowers for orange juice, Lynn Sr. tells Lisa it's time for her to go to the eye doctor, but Lisa dismisses the idea and accidentally walks out the back door and falls onto a cactus. While Todd is taking cactus thorns off of Lisa, she tells Todd she has an irrational fear of going to the ophthalmologist. Wanting to avoid going to the eye doctor, Lisa decides to make a new pair of glasses herself. After making her new specs, Lisa tries them on, and despite her vision being worse, she proceeds to go to her parents. After Lisa exits her room, she falls down the stairs. Lisa tells her parents that she forged some new glasses for herself and claims she can see now, but Rita and Lynn Sr., having witnessed Lisa fall down the stairs, proclaim that they're taking her to the eye doctor tomorrow.
The next day, Lisa makes numerous attempts to prevent her parents from taking her to the eye doctor, like having Lana dismantle Vanzilla, hacking the traffic lights and creating a storm, but to no avail. At Dr. Tran's Optometry, Lisa sits on a seat while Dr. Tran tells her the exam is completely painless. Lisa asks Dr. Tran what languages she speaks, and when she discovers that Dr. Tran didn't mention French, Lisa brings out her walkie-talkie and whispers instructions to Todd in French. Todd uses his robotic arm to grab Lisa and pull her out the building and into the bushes. As Lisa and Todd make their break, while mentioning they have 4.3 minutes before someone suspects they're gone, Lisa hears a honk and believes that they're near a train station, but they're actually heading towards the mall.
Lisa finds the "train out of Royal Woods".
At Royal Woods Mall, Lisa thinks she and Todd found a train to escape on, but it's actually the mall's kiddie train, and she and Todd fall asleep after riding on it for several hours. When the train stops, Lisa jumps out while Todd struggles to get off. Lisa believes she's in Florida after mistaking a palm tree prop for a real palm tree and mistakes a mist of perfume as Florida's natural aroma. As she continues on, a janitor's vacuum gets snagged by Lisa and mistakes it for Todd. Todd, having gotten out of the train, wonders where Lisa went, but his attention is quickly diverted to Reininger's. Meanwhile, Lisa thinks she found a hotel, but it's actually a shoe store. She tries to enter, but ends up walking through an exit door and mistakes a bear prowling for food as a bellhop.
As Lisa follows the bear in the woods, they enter the bear's cave. Inside, Lisa mistakes a fish for room service. When Lisa offers some money for the "service", she begins to piece together that she's confronted by a bear, and that "Todd" is actually a vacuum. Panicking, Lisa runs out of the cave and back to the mall, where she bumps into Flip, who is trying to find any loose change he can find. At that moment, Rita and Lynn Sr. arrive, finally realizing she was gone. Lisa, knowing that she can't excuse herself out of her current situation, tells them she's ready for her eye exam.
At Dr. Tran's office, Lisa is fitted with a new pair of glasses and can finally see perfectly. Lisa thanks Dr. Tran and plans to do checkups with her on a regular basis. Lisa then begins to question where Todd is; it's revealed he's at Reininger's, acting as a runway model the latest in summer fashion.
Lana is the only Loud kid besides Lisa to appear physically in this episode, Lincoln only appeared in a flashback and Leni only was heard talking offscreen and in the same flashback Lincoln was in.
Thanks to a presumable Christmas gift, as she mentioned Santa, Lisa is shown to have software that can hack into Royal Woods governmental systems. It can even seed clouds. A device like this would be shown again in "Dine and Bash".
This is the third episode where a Loud sibling encounters a bear, the first two being "In Tents Debate" and "Roughin' It". This is also the first time where it wasn't Lincoln who encountered a bear.
This is the last official episode to premiere on Nicktoons UK. The last time a new episode premiered was the accidental release of "Great Lakes Freakout!" Starting from the next episode, all episodes would go on to premiere on Nickelodeon UK.
Dr. Tran knows Thai and English, but doesn't know French, a vital weakness that Lisa finds and exploits to exit the doctor's office. This scene also reveals that Lisa has learned French somewhere between the events of "Fool Me Twice" and this episode.[2]
References[]
Eye Can't - The title of this episode is a pun of the phrase "I can't".
Possible plot hole: Lisa's vision starts to go bad in this episode, even with her glasses on, even though it was shown in "Making the Grade" that she was able to improve her eyesight via laser eye surgery. While it may be assumed that the LASIK has worn off since then, laser eye surgery never wears off.[3]
Considering the procedure was done by her and not by a professional, she may have had a flaw of some sort when doing the procedure.
This was previously implied in The Loud House Movie, as in one scene, Lisa attempts to high-five Lola with her glasses off, but ends up hitting her instead.
It was also implied in "The Loudly Bones" as she seems to have trouble looking without her glasses.
The sign on Dr. Tran's Optometry is missing an apostrophe.
Lisa states in French that Dr. Tran's office is on the third floor, but when shown outside the mall, the building only has two floors because it has two rows of windows.
After Lynn Sr. finishes filling the cereal, the front of both boxes are reversed.
When Lisa is dragging around the vacuum, which she mistakes for Todd, the vacuum's cord is stuck to her backpack. But when Lisa believes that she found a hotel, her backpack is missing, and she is hold the cord. Then when she enters the bear's den, her backpack reappears with the cord stuck to it.
Despite not being plugged in, the vacuum turns on once Lisa flipped the switch on it.
Possible: When coming to the realization that she is in the den of a bear, Lisa refers to it scientifically as an Ursus americanus (American black bear), although the bear more closely resembles a Grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis).
Despite their name, some American black bears do have brown fur.
When shown at the end of the episode, Todd's printer is the same color as his head. Also, he is shown with chest hair despite being a robot.
Videos[]
Lisa's New Glasses 🤓 - "Eye Can't" Full Scene - The Loud House
Sources[]
↑Loud, Lisa (April 8, 2022). "Eye Can't" (in English). The Loud House. Season 6. Episode 7b. Nickelodeon. "The problem, Todd, is that I have an irrational phobia of the ophthalmologist."
↑Loud, Lisa (February 9, 2018). "Fool Me Twice" (in English). The Loud House. Season 3. Episode 5b. Nickelodeon. "Now in addition to English, I speak Mandarin, Latin, Swedish, and West Cost Rap."
↑Does LASIK wear off?(English). Memorial Eye Institute. Archived from the original on 2022-05-24. Retrieved on 2022-05-23. “No, the effects of LASIK do not wear off.”
