When Lucy and the Mortician's Club bring a cursed wheel of cheese into the house Lincoln and Clyde must race to save everyone from their worst nightmares!
This episode is available on the "Season One" DVD.
Trivia[]
The premise of this episode is similar to that of the Loud House episode "Dream a Lily Dream", as both involve Lincoln teaming up with someone to to cure a person's nightmares by invading their dreams at the risk of being trapped in their dream forever if they fail. One difference is that in "Dream a Lily Dream", Lincoln was used as a soldier recruited by Lisa, who came up with the initial idea to invade Lily's dreams in order to defeat her nightmares, while in this episode, he formulated the idea to enter everybody's dreams by himself.
Coincidentally, the characters in the dreams are also able to manifest nonexistent things into reality in both episodes.
This episode reveals the following:
Neither of the twins like to eat broccoli.
Lisa has a lab rat named Mr. Nibbles, which she frequently abuses.
Lori has held a show-and-tell at all of her sleepovers, and Lincoln has deemed it to never work.
Boris' grandfather immigrated to the United States from a village called Drakovia with a wheel of cheese made by a widowed cheesemaker named Heinrich von Fondue, whose wife was murdered by a cow.
Clyde's pumpkin spice cheesecake recipe consists of the following:
Four sticks of butter
One cup of sugar
One egg
Cream cheese
One can of pumpkin mix
A touch of spice
The cheese from Heinrich von Fondue (added for the cake he made in this episode)
Haiku does not know how a foghorn works.
Lincoln likes ranch on his broccoli.
Lisa always fears becoming a test subject.
Luna's darkest fear is becoming a jingle writer.
Lisa's favorite food is cheese puffs.
Leni does not have any serious dark fears, as she had a light-hearted dream in this episode and does not know how nightmares work.
This marks the first live-action appearance of Haiku, Boris and Dante. However, Bertrand, Morpheus and Persephone are absent due to the former two being at their callback for the musical number "Guys and Dolls", while the latter was at Kumon.
The mention of Bertrand being part of the club further reveals that this episode takes place after the Loud House episode "The Loathe Boat", as he went to live with his aunt, Madeline, in Royal Woods after the events of that episode.
The Loud family's nightmares, and how Lincoln and Clyde resolved them:
Lana and Lola: A giant head of broccoli stalking them; Lincoln and Clyde squirted ranch on the broccoli, which made the twins enjoy it.
Lisa: Being trapped in a giant maze; Lincoln convinced Lisa to be sympathetic to Mr. Nibbles, who was the scientist in the nightmare, and he rewarded her with cheese puffs.
Luna: Losing her career as a rock star in favor of becoming a jingle writer; Clyde convinced her to sell her career as a jingle writer and show her true colors, and her speakers broke through the TV glass.
Lynn: Getting her feet encased in cinder blocks just as she is about to win a basketball game; Lincoln convinced her to make a two-point shot despite her inability to run.
Luan: Starring in a sitcom with Mr. Coconuts, who left the series; Lincoln and Clyde created some gags to generate audience laughs and make her walk out of the scene.
Lynn Sr.: Lily becoming a giant (and fearing the inevitability of the kids growing up and leaving him); Lincoln convinced him that he was not too old by putting on his old jacket in front of Lynn Sr., and Lucy brought Lily into the dream to give him the same message.
The concept of a nightmare involving a giant Lily is possibly a callback to the Loud House episode "Butterfly Effect", where the same thing happened in Lincoln's fantasy.
Leni, Lily and Rita are the only Louds not to have nightmare due to Leni not having any serious dark fears and therefore only having a good dream, while Lily and Rita never ate the cake. Clyde broke Leni out of her dream by convincing her to wake up and eat some of his cheesecake.
In Leni's dream, there's a background song, Len - Steal My Sunshine that plays.
Lincoln and Clyde only worked together in the nightmares that involved multiple people.
Innuendo: Lisa warns Lincoln to watch his step as he exits the maze, since she defecated in one of the corners.
Foreshadowing: The premises of all of the Loud family's nightmares were alluded to before they left the house.
References[]
Sweet Dreams Are Made of Cheese - The title of this episode is a reference to the 1983 Eurythmics song "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)".
Choices: Stories You Play - Boris mentions that his great-grandfather immigrated from a village called Drakovia, which is also the name of a fictional European country from this franchise.
Superman - Lincoln mentions this DC superhero's backstory when he convinces Clyde to eat the cheese.
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors - The concept of Lincoln and Clyde entering the Loud family's dreams is similar to this 1987 slasher film, where the characters entered each other's dreams.
The Shining - When Lincoln and Clyde encounter Lana and Lola in their nightmare, the twins are dressed like Alexa and Alexie Grady from this 1980 psychological horror film. The twins saying the line, "He's coming to get us, Lincoln." in unison is also a parody of the Grady twins' line, "Come play with us, Danny."
The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy - When Lucy and the other members of the Mortician Club preformed acapella-like proprocess before sending Lincoln and Clyde to the dream world, it nearly similar to the scene from "The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy" episode "Attack of the Clowns" where Grim did the same thing to bring a Paper-Mache clown head to life to help Billy and his fear of clowns.
Ghostbusters - When Lincoln, Clyde and Lana use the ranch dressing to cover the giant head of broccoli, Lincoln mentions to cross the streams, which is a reference to a scene in this 1984 film when the Ghostbusters had to cross the streams of the Proton Packs into order to defeat Gozer the Gozerian.
Product placement[]
Cheetos - Mr. Nibbles gives Lisa some cheese puffs from this brand of corn-based snacks.
Videos[]
The Really Loud House Promo - June 22, 2023 (Nickelodeon U.S.) -Width Error-
The Really Loud House - Lincoln's Sisters Are TRAPPED In Their Nightmares! 💭 - Full Scene
Lucy Loud Performs a TERRIFYING Cheese Ritual 🧀 - The Really Loud House - Nickelodeon UK
Clyde’s FAMOUS pumpkin spice cheesecake 🧀 - The Really Loud House -shorts
