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"Friendzy" is the nineteenth episode of the third season and one-hundred-twentieth episode of The Loud House.
Lincoln discovers that having a friend over means getting special privileges, and he takes advantage of that.
Synopsis[]
Numerous groups of people are fighting in the Loud House, and the police is alerted by the loud noise. When a police officer bangs on the door, the siblings, who are fighting themselves, freeze in place and Lincoln begins to explain to the viewers how he and his sisters ended up in a situation like this.
Lincoln explains that he and his sisters are notorious for fighting over the simplest things, such as deciding what songs to listen to on the radio, what to have for dinner, or suggesting what to watch on TV. He also explains that because of their fighting, the siblings end up losing their privileges to Rita and Lynn Sr. The entire dilemma all began a few days ago. Lincoln wants to watch ARGGH!, but Lynn is watching a game with Margo. Lincoln goes over to his mother to explain what's happening, but Rita tells him that Lynn has a friend over, so she has the right to use the TV. Getting an idea, Lincoln comes with a system called "Playing the Friend Card", which gives him special privileges as long as he has a friend over. Soon enough, Lincoln invites Clyde over for everything he wants, such as the TV, licking the eggbeaters, using the badminton rackets, and what to have for dinner. Realizing that Lincoln is up to something, Lisa calls a sibling meeting, and explains that because Lincoln has Clyde over, he's getting numerous special privileges, and says that she has an idea to take Lincoln down.
Sometime later, Lincoln and Clyde are prepared to watch ARGGH!, but discovers that Lola has a friend over, and when he explains this to his mother, Rita says that while he and Lola do have a friend over, Lola got the TV first, so she has the TV rights. Lincoln tries to get a plate of cookies, suggest lunch, and use the badminton court, but Lincoln is prohibited from any of those privileges due to his sisters each having their own individual friend. Rita, Lynn Sr., and Lily, realizing the chaos that's about to come, decide to hide out at the mall for a while.
Lincoln, realizing that his sisters have caught on, decides to put his backup plan into action. When Lynn and Margo attempt to watch a game on TV, Lincoln explains that he has two friends over now, Clyde and Liam, giving Lincoln the right to use the TV. Lynn, not wanting to lose the TV and realizing that Lincoln is playing dirty, invites three of her friends over. When Luna realizes that Lynn is defecting from their side, she declares that she can play dirty as well. Before long, the sisters begin to invite more and more friends over to the house in order to upstage each other, resulting in the house to be crowded with over 65 kids present. The siblings begin to blame each other when their friends begin to fight and stir up trouble, leading them to fight themselves (where the episode all began). Alerted by the loud noise, a police car pulls over, and the police officer bangs on the door. The siblings stop fighting, and Lincoln (after briefly telling the viewers that they're caught up) answers the door. The officer breaks up all of the fights and tells the friends to leave the house, just as Rita, Lynn Sr. and Lily arrive back home. The officer gives Rita and Lynn Sr. a $200 ticket for noise violation, and once he leaves, Lynn Sr. demands an explanation for what just happened. Lincoln steps up to explain the whole situation.
After Lincoln finishes up the story, Rita decides to punish the kids by making them all use their allowances to pay off the noise violation fine, and the siblings reassure their parents that they learned their lesson from this experience. They decide that from now on, instead of fighting for privileges, they'll take turns over who gets them; they decide to start with choosing what to have for dinner, and they allow Lori to go first since she's the oldest. However, before Lori can answer, Rita and Lynn Sr. say that they're having goulash, because they invited a couple of their friends over for dinner that night and they got to choose what to eat, much to the kids' anger.
Other than Lincoln talking to the viewers, another instance of him breaking the fourth wall was when he was poking his inanimate sisters, who were frozen in place.
Three of Luna's friends are reused models of Lynn Sr.'s former bandmates from "House Music."
Lana is the only sibling who didn’t invite a friend with a confirmed name.
This episode reveals that the butcher at the grocery store knows Lana's affinity for worms, and usually sets some aside for her.
Lily was the only Loud who did not make use of the friend bonus for privileges.
This is the last episode where Lara Jill Miller voices Margo (though in vocal effects).
Innuendo:
When the fight between the siblings pauses, Luan's butt is in Lola's face.
Possible: When the siblings are discussing Lincoln "playing the friend card" during the meeting, Lola claims she will sneak up on him in the shower, implying that she would try to attack Lincoln naked.
Irony:
The sisters came up with the plan to use against Lincoln only, but they eventually began to turn against each other as well.
Rita and Lynn Sr. punish their kids for inviting their friends over for petty reasons, only to invite a few of their own friends over just to suggest what to have for dinner.
In later airings,[since when?] the police officer's line, "This is a nice neighborhood.", was omitted with the scene being edited to having the police officer stating to Lynn Sr. and Rita to try to keep their kids under control upon his departure.
This line is retained on the The Loud House: Road Tripped DVD and in Russian and English audiotracks release on Megogo Streaming Service in Ukraine. Ukrainian dub, however, was recorded over the censored master, making audio desynchronized with video on the streaming release.
References[]
Friendzy - The title is a portmanteau of "friend" and "frenzy."
Saved by the Bell - Lincoln's stopping the fight to explain what happened to the viewers is similar to the "Time Out" gag from this 1990’s television program, in which the main character Zack Morris would sometimes stop time and talk to the viewers about what was happening. At the same time, this would allow him to be the only moving person while everyone else remains frozen.
Errors[]
When the sisters and their friends were smirking at Lincoln and Clyde, Darcy's bandage is on her right leg, but during the montage of the sisters snagging the TV from each other, the bandage is on her left leg.
When the Loud kids stop fighting for the third time, Lynn, Lana, and Leni's eyelashes are disconnected.
In the Hebrew dub, during Lucy's line "Sorry, Lola, but my nine friends and I would like to watch Vampires of Melancholia.", she is voiced by Lisa's voice actor, Tami Barak, instead of Maya Alon.
In the Polish dub, Sam's name (mentioned by Luna) was left in English, instead of being localized like in "L is for Love."
Possibly, the Polish translation of Sam's name in earlier episode might have been done to avoid censorship, but in the latter episodes Sam is mentioned with her original name.
Throughout the episode, Sam is missing her eyeshadow.
Possible: Rita said that there were 65 kids leaving the house. However, there were actually 86 kids leaving the house because 3 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 + 10 + 11 + 12 + 15 = 86. However, she could have been estimating.
Plot hole: Even though Clyde danced with her in “Dance Dance Resolution”, he doesn't seem to know Haiku is in this episode.
Videos[]
Luna & Sam’s Love Story! ❤️ The Loud House - -KnowYourNick