When Lincoln wants to watch the finale of his favorite show, he has to beat each sister to get to the couch first.
Synopsis[]
Lincoln is excited to watch the season finale of his favorite show, ARGGH!. However, he explains to the viewers about how his ten sisters always fight over the TV remote, but he has a plan and uses a walkie-talkie to contact his best friend Clyde. The two decide that it is best to watch the show separately because Clyde will obsess over Lori if he comes over to Lincoln's house. Clyde tells Lincoln that it's almost 8 o'clock. As Lincoln's plan is put into action, the twins Lana and Lola come out of their room chanting "Cartoons!" Lincoln brings a tea party set for Lola and two frogs for Lana.
Lincoln sees Luan about to walk down the stairs. He tells her to get her camera because the twins are fighting, and Luan happily does so, as Lincoln holds Lily up, and gives Lisa milk, salt, sugar, flour, and eggs to keep her from watching television. He gives Lynn her football and fills it with helium, much to her amusement. He sees Leni, and lies to her about a zit on her nose. A happy Luna appears playing her guitar, and Lincoln sends her to her room with a glowing flashlight that creates a light show.
Lori looks for her phone, but Lincoln reveals that he has it and texts her boyfriend Bobby to call her. When he gives her phone to her, she prepares to berate him for stealing it, but Bobby calls, and she goes into her room to talk to him. Lily falls asleep in Lincoln's arms and he lays her on the laundry. He runs downstairs and sits on the couch, only to see Lucy next to him. Lucy says that she wants to watch the season premiere of her favorite show The Vampires of Melancholia. Lincoln cons Lucy by persuading her to use a black-and-white TV. However, because the plug cords are in bad condition, the power goes out as he plugs in the television. Everyone panics and Lori asks what happened. The girls blame Lincoln for the power outage even though he didn't mean it.
Luan stops the argument by making a pun. Lisa gives her a cookie, allegedly as a compliment, and Luan starts to glow. Lori scolds Lisa for turning Luan into a test subject while Leni agrees because she had a different predicament. Lisa explains that she fused the ingredients she received earlier with DNA from a jellyfish to create "Gloweos." The group huddles around Luan.
Lincoln vows to protect his sisters while the power is out.
Lori says that she is in charge since her parents are out, and demands a head count. Lincoln incorrectly counts all eleven of the kids. Lucy appears behind them, scaring Lincoln and informing him that he forgot to count her. Lincoln asks if he can turn the circuit breaker on. Lori then says she'll do it because she is in charge. She then asks where it is. Lincoln tells her that it is in the basement. After seeing how dark the basement it is, Lori asks why she must go down there. Her siblings angrily remind her that she is in charge like she said so. Lori tells Luan to lead the way. Unfortunately, Luan's glow wears off. Lori tells Lisa to give Luan another one of her cookies, but the intelligent child says she only made the one she gave Luan as a prototype. After hearing some wood creaking, Lori gets scared and when Lucy spooks Lynn, an argument between the girls except the twins turns up. The twins begin to cry, thinking there is a ghost in the basement, and Lincoln calms them down after he shouts at the other girls to be quiet. He states that he will protect them all and calls Clyde for assistance. Clyde kicks the door open and walks to the basement. However, he malfunctions like a robot after seeing Lori and moves out of the house, making robot sounds.
Lincoln uses Luan's camera with its night vision setting on to see what is in the basement. He is forced to bring his ten sisters downstairs with him. Once in the basement, the sisters talk about their various fears of the dark. Lori hears moaning and Lincoln explains that it is just the pipes settling. Leni hears scratching, but it is just Cliff scratching on his scratching post. Lynn smells something, but it is revealed to be Lily with a full diaper.
The Loud children hear a figure chanting Lincoln's name. They all panic as Lincoln attacks what appears to be a ghost. The lights are turned back on by Lori, it turns out that the "figure" was their laundry. The voice was just Clyde calling Lincoln on his walkie-talkie. Lori says that the first one to reach the TV is "couch commando". Lincoln successfully beats his sisters to the couch, but the final episode of his show ends immediately as he sits down, much to Lincoln's distress.
Lucy frightens her siblings.
His sisters watch from the staircase and feel sorry for their brother. Lori hands him a bag of popcorn and shows him sympathy, while Luan points out that he lived it (meaning Lincoln recorded the event), and the kids watch the video Lincoln recorded in the basement. Lincoln says that while he may have missed his show, it does not matter, as he is with all of his sisters. Suddenly, Lucy points out that they forgot about her, much to the terror of her siblings since she appeared right next to them.
‣Dirty Deedz - Nicolas Nolan, Bart Hendrickson, Russell Emanuel, and Dolphin Taylor [Title card and opening] ‣Crime Doesn't Pay - Jack Beaver [Hunter Spector saying he will go down into the basement] ‣Dirty Deedz - Nicolas Nolan, Bart Hendrickson, Russell Emanuel, and Dolphin Taylor ["Sunday night at 8 PM!"] ‣ ? ["The greatest show ever!"] ‣Early Days - Doug Rockwell [Lincoln talking to the audience] ‣ ? [Lincoln talking to Clyde] ‣ ? [Clyde looking at a poster of Lori] ‣ ? ["Operation Distract My Sisters So That I Can Get to the TV First and Watch the Special Live Season Finale of ARGGH and Think of Shorter Name For This Operation"] ‣Pop Punk - Doug Rockwell [Lincoln going through the hallway to distract his sisters] ‣Early Days - Doug Rockwell ["Like I said, I might not be the fastest, and I might not be the strongest, but to get all of my sisters out of the way, it pays to have a plan"] ‣ ? ["NOOOOOO!"] ‣ ? [Lincoln scrubs his tongue in disgust] ‣ ? [Power goes out] ‣Euphoria - Raphael Lake, Aaron Levy [Flashback to what Lisa did to Leni] ‣ ? [Lori looks in the basement] ‣ ? [Something in the basement] ‣ ? [Lola and Lana screaming] ‣ ? [Lincoln hugging Lola and Lana] ‣Victory Quest - John Powell ["I will protect all of you"] ‣Dirty Deedz - Nicolas Nolan, Bart Hendrickson, Russell Emanuel, and Dolphin Taylor [Lincoln calls Clyde] ‣ ? [Clyde sees Lori] ‣Crime Doesn’t Pay - Jack Beaver [Lincoln going into the basement] ‣ ? ["But fear not, with my official ARGGH! branded night vision goggles, I can see in the dark"] ‣ ? ["Very well. I'll lead the way"] ‣Nanny’s Revenge - James Dooley ["You may want to stay close. There's no telling what could be lurking down here in the dark"] ‣Where Danger Lurks - Ronald Hanmer [Lincoln thinks he sees a ghost] ‣Dirty Deedz - Nicolas Nolan, Bart Hendrickson, Russell Emanuel, and Dolphin Taylor [Lincoln thinking he's saving his sisters] ‣Olympic Triumph A - Brian Brasher, Cody Westheimer [Lincoln trying to get to the TV first.] ‣Dirty Deedz - Nicolas Nolan, Bart Hendrickson, Russell Emanuel, and Dolphin Taylor [End of ARGGH!] ‣Early Days - Doug Rockwell [Lincoln saying it's about being there together]
Description from The Loud House Working Bible: When Lincoln wants to watch the finale of his most favorite show – he needs to make sure he gets to the couch first! He cleverly gets each sister out of the way … but when the lights go out there may be NO TV to enjoy and Lincoln will be left in the dark.
This episode debuted on July 11, 2015 at San Diego Comic-Con. It was also previewed at TV Fest 2016.
After the Comic-Con showing, the last two minutes were uploaded onto YouTube.
Since this is the first episode produced, the animation is different than that of the rest of the series (the same animation as the pilot short), such as Lisa's sweater being a dark green instead of chartreuse, Lucy's hairline being raised up a little, Lola's dress being more of a shade of magenta/fuchsia than usual, Clyde's skin color being browner than usual, Leni's dress being a slightly more desaturated shade than usual, and Lori's shoes being a lighter shade of blue than usual. This is probably due to Chris Savino's storyboarding of the episode, however it changes about halfway through the episode with the animation style resembling the one seen in the next episode and the backgrounds are also abnormal, most notably the upstairs scenes.
This is the first episode in which Grant Palmer voices Lincoln, this is due to his predecessor already hitting puberty by the time this episode was produced, so he couldn't reprise his role, and thus he had to be replaced.
Coincidentally, he was born a year after him
Lexi Janicek, who portrays Lisa in live-action, considers Lisa's line, "You say tomato, I say Solanum Lycopersicum." to be one of her favorite lines from the series.[1]
Innuendo: Lori orders everybody to back away from a glowing Luan, believing the glowing is from radiation.
International edits[]
In the Latin American Spanish dub, Gloweos are named "Brillotita" (brillo-galletita).
References[]
Left in the Dark - The title of this episode means to not be informed of something usually because of carelessness.
The title also shares its name with the 1984 song by Barbra Streisand.
However, this might be intentional and not be an error as Jessica DiCicco voices both characters so, it may have just coincidentally ended up sounding like Lynn since Lucy exclaimed it with urgency so Lincoln wouldn't leave.
"HEY, OUR ARMS ARE DISLOCATED!!!"
When the twins scream about a ghost being in the basement, Lana's right arm and Lola's left arm are dislocated.
When Lincoln sees the "ghost" in the dark, he is holding a camera, but when he and his sisters scream, the camera is gone.
Lincoln's incorrectly drawn buckteeth.
When Lincoln jumps in the bucket of laundry, he has buckteeth rather than his chipped tooth.
When Lincoln jumps to the couch to grab the remote, his nose is badly drawn.
In YTV airings, Lori's line, "Lincoln, are you okay?", is misspelled in closed-captioning as "Lindsay, are you okay?".
After Hunter Spector says "Join Me! Hunter Spector.", The text appeared on the screen that says "SPECTRE HUNTER." "Spector Hunter" was misspelled as "SPECTRE Hunter."
When holding Lily in the basement, Luna's shirt incorrectly has sleeves.
When Lincoln calls Clyde on his walkie-talkie, Clyde's face is different. But in one scene, it shows that Clyde's face wasn't different when he comes inside Lincoln's house for duty.
