The Loud House is an American animated television series and media franchise created by Chris Savino. It is produced by Nickelodeon Animation Studio and animated at Jam Filled Entertainment in Canada. It is the parent show of The Casagrandes and The Really Loud House. The series is inspired by Savino's own "chaotic life growing up in a huge household," and follows a boy named Lincoln, who lives at home with his ten sisters, Lori, Leni, Luna, Luan, Lynn, Lucy, Lana, Lola, Lisa, and Lily.
Eight seasons of the show have been greenlit, with the first six confirmed to contain 26 episodes each. The seventh was confirmed to have 20 episodes. The series premiered on May 2, 2016, and started its seventh season on May 17, 2023. The eighth season was revealed by YTV's schedule revealing the first titles on May 21, 2024.
The name of the series is a pun on the phrase "loud house," which means a very noisy house, and also a reference to the Loud family's constant mess. This is the first cartoon created and directed by Savino himself, as in the other cartoons he worked on, he was only the producer, or storyboard artist. However, on October 19, 2017, Chris Savino was fired for sexual misconduct allegations.
A feature film based on the series was announced on January 16, 2021 and released on Netflix on August 20 the same year, while a live action movie based on the series was announced on August 18, 2021 and released on Nickelodeon on November 26 the same year. Another feature film was announced on April 28, 2024 and was released on both Nickelodeon and Paramount+ on June 21 the same year.
As the only brother in the house with five older sisters, five younger sisters and one bathroom, life in the Loud house can get pretty crazy. From unwanted makeovers to exploding science experiments to getting the perfect seat for the family road trip, there's no problem too large--or bedroom too small-- for Lincoln! And despite all of the headaches, he wouldn't have it any other way.
Lincoln's secret to surviving in the Loud House? Always have a plan. And with a little help from his best friend Clyde, Lincoln can handle anything his sisters throw at him.
Lincoln Loud — At 12 years old (11 prior to Season 6), Lincoln is the only son and middle child of the Loud family; he is an avid reader of comic books and frequently speaks to the viewers about other things and on how he gets around the often-chaotic conditions and sibling relationships of the household by finding creative solutions to his problems.
Lori Loud — At 18 years old (17 prior to Season 5), Lori is the eldest of the Loud children. She is depicted as bossy, sarcastic, and condescending towards her siblings. Despite this, she cares deeply about her brother and sisters. She often talks on her smartphone and uses it to talk to her boyfriend Bobby.
Leni Loud — At 17 years old (16 prior to Season 5), she is the second oldest of the Loud children; Leni is depicted as a "dumb blonde", who is friendly and girly, but is naive and lacks intelligence and awareness. She shows talents in fashion designing.
Luna Loud — At 16 years old (15 prior to Season 5), she is the third oldest child of the Loud family; Luna is a free-spirited musician interested in rock-and-roll music, and she owns and plays an electric guitar and other instruments.
Luan Loud — At 15 years old (14 prior to Season 5), she is fourth oldest of the Loud children; Luan is fond of practical jokes and comedy. She wears braces, has squirt-flowers on her shirt and shoes, and owns a ventriloquist dummy named Mr. Coconuts.
Lynn Loud — At 14 years old (13 prior to Season 5), she is the fifth oldest of the Loud children; Lynn is very energetic and competitive and often engages in sports and other physical activities.
Lucy Loud — At 9 years old (8 prior to Season 7), she's the fifth youngest of the Loud children; Lucy is a cynical, deadpan and sarcastic gothic girl, who dresses in black and has an interest in poetry and gothic fiction. She has very pale skin and long black hair that always conceals her eyes. Lucy also has an uncanny ability to suddenly appear in places, which often frightens her siblings.
Lana Loud — At 7 years old (6 prior to Season 5), she is Lola's identical twin sister (older by 2 minutes)[2] and fourth youngest of the Loud Family. In contrast to her twin, Lana is a fun-loving tomboy who loves to get her hands dirty. She is also a skilled mechanic and plumber.
Lola Loud — At 7 years old (6 prior to Season 5), she is Lana's twin sister and the third youngest of the children. In contrast to her twin, Lola is a beauty-obsessed girly girl who regularly competes in pageants and dislikes filthy stuff. She dresses in pink princess attire and is the tattletale of the family.
Lisa Loud — At 5 years old (4 prior to Season 5), she is the second youngest of the Loud children; Lisa is a child prodigy, who has graduated college with a PhD and often engages in complex equations and scientific experiments. She wears large glasses and speaks with a lateral lisp.
Lily Loud — At 2 years old (15 months prior to Season 5), the youngest child of the Loud family; Lily is a playful toddler, who when she was younger, used to defecate in her diaper and leave a foul stench, much to the disgust of her older siblings. She can walk independently and can be carried by one of her siblings for longer distances.
Clyde McBride — At 12 years old (11 prior to Season 5), he is Lincoln's best friend, who serves as a wingman to him in his exploits. He is an only child and spends almost all of his time with Lincoln. He used to have an unrequited crush on Lori until after "Absent Minded".
Production[]
Chris Savino based The Loud House on his own experiences growing up in a large family. He pitched the idea to Nickelodeon in 2013 as a 2½-minute short for their annual Animated Shorts Program. The pitch was approved for pilot development on January 30, 2014.[3] In June 2014, Nickelodeon announced that The Loud House had been picked up for a season of 13 episodes. The episode order was later increased to 26.
Early into the show's development, Savino saw other existing cartoons as mean-spirited just for the sake of it, and he believed that audiences would want something different, so he decided to drive the series in the opposite direction in order to satisfy those audiences.[4]
Early in development, the Loud family was originally going to be a family of rabbits, and instead of 11 children, there were going to be 26, a reference to the fact that rabbits can reproduce so quickly. An employee at Nickelodeon suggested to Savino that it would be best if the characters were humans. At first, Savino disliked the idea, but the more he thought about it, the more he realized that the characters being human was a much better decision, as it felt more realistic and relatable, so he changed the characters from rabbits to humans, and also lowered the number of children from 26 to 11 in order to make things less complicated. This abandoned concept was eventually explored in the Season 3 episode, "White Hare."
Before Leni became the character she is now, she was originally going to be an overweight 8-year-old who "didn't know her own strength." The decision to change Leni into who she is now is currently unknown, but one popular theory is that it was to make her fit in with the other characters, design wise.
Before it was decided that Lincoln would be the middle child, he was initially going to be placed in either with his older sisters or younger sisters. Eventually, it was decided that Lincoln would be best suited perfectly in the middle, as it made sense thematically.
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The fact that he's [Lincoln] in the middle is not necessarily an accident. For a while, he was the seventh. For a while, he was a bit older and he had more sisters underneath him and somewhere in the storytelling, we realized that him being kind of, literally the fulcrum of the family [...] all kind of came into play.
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—Chris Savino, Nick Animation Podcast
Jam Filled Entertainment, a Canadian-based animation studio located in Ottawa (now owned by Boat Rocker Media), animates the whole series digitally with Toon Boom Harmony software.
Animation notes[]
The show's animation style has been inspired by various newspaper comics:
The backgrounds are more crudely styled than those of the characters, and the detailing of paper can be seen. The episode title cards are also in the style of such.
Certain things in the background don't move at all when they should, such as the flag at Royal Woods Elementary School.
Occasionally, some characters are drawn with their eyebrows floating above their eyes, or partially detached from their head.
Most characters have white eyes with black pupils instead of colored eyes, some have dot eyes. In addition, when a character's eyes are closed, the lids are usually shadowed in a darker color than their skin, the exception is if they wear eyeshadow (such as Lori or Luna), or if they have dot eyes (though in the case of dot-eyed characters that wear glasses, their eyelids are usually shown to be a darker color than the lenses of their glasses). However, in very few cases, eye colors are shown (ex. Lola[5], Lincoln[6], Maybelle[7]). Currently, the only characters to have their eye colors consistently shown are two of Leni's friends from "Sound of Silence".
Characters only have four fingers on each hand and four toes on each foot.
According to Chris Savino, the more feminine a female character is, the higher number of eyelashes they'll have. Because Leni, Lola and Lily are the most feminine members of the Loud family, they're the only ones with three pairs of eyelashes instead of two.[note 1]
In Season 1, Rita and Lynn Sr.'s faces were never completely shown,[note 2] and they were usually seen from the chin down. This was not done with the other adults. In 11 Louds a Leapin', the parents' faces were revealed for the first time, and they were shown openly ever since. According to Chris Savino on Instagram, the decision to conceal their faces during Season 1 was because he wanted to visually empower the Loud kids to solve problems on their own.
Earlier in the show, the series originally had a "Down to earth" concept until later in the series where supernatural/super phenomenal events occur.
Reception[]
The Loud House became the number-one children's animated series on television within its first month on the air. Throughout May 2016, it received an average of 68% more viewers in its target audience of children aged 6–12 than broadcasts on Nickelodeon in May of the previous year. It became the network's highest-rated program (as of June 2016) after SpongeBob SquarePants, holding an average Nielsen rating of 4.9 among the 2–11 demographic at the time.
The Los Angeles Times cited The Loud House as a major factor in maintaining Nickelodeon's position as the highest-rated children's network in summer 2016. During the show's fourth week of premieres, Cyma Zarghami announced that it was continuing to draw more viewers than any other program on the channel.
The show's highest-rated episode, with 2.28 million viewers upon its premiere, is "Two Boys and a Baby." This was the first episode to air after it was announced that Howard and Harold McBride would be debuting on the program. The first episode of The Loud House shown in prime time, "11 Louds a Leapin'," was the seventh most-viewed telecast across all U.S. households on Friday, November 25, 2016.
Censorship[]
As the show prominently features characters in same-sex relationships (e.g. Clyde's fathers Howard and Harold, Luna and her girlfriend Sam), several episodes featuring them were either censored or banned in countries where homosexuality is seen as taboo (such as Poland, Russia, Turkiye, Indonesia and Malaysia). It also caused the entire show to be banned in Kenya in 2017.[8]
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Kenya’s film and classification board (KFCB) has called for the suspension of several US-produced children’s programs running on channels provided by TV company MultiChoice. The board said the cartoons featured “disturbing content glorifying homosexual behavior” which was not suitable for children.
The animation programs are The Loud House, The Legend of Korra, and Hey Arnold, which run on the Nickelodeon channel, and Clarence, Steven Universe, and Adventure Time which air on Cartoon Network. ... It’s wasn’t immediately clear if the supposedly offending Nickelodeon episodes ever aired in Kenya. Viacom Africa, which licenses the Nickelodeon shows said last July it would not be airing such shows in South Africa and the rest of sub Saharan Africa.
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—Abdi Latif Dahir, Quartz Africa
These episodes were also banned in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, as well as on Nicktoons in Germany since December 25th, 2021 as a consequence of Nickelodeon's Central and Eastern European feed merging with its former Nordic and German feeds on the aforementioned date, as well as in South Africa as a consequence of airing on a common African feed, despite those countries having very liberal attitudes to LGBT+ causes.
Additionally, the Arabic and Sinhala dubs gave Howard a female voice actor and addressed him as Clyde's mother, while Clyde addresses Howard as his uncle and Harold as his only father in the Korean dub. Luna's girlfriend Sam was also given a male voice actor and addressed as Luna's boyfriend in the Arabic dub and the Korean dub in season 2.
Voice Cast[]
NOTE: This list only shows the main characters. For a complete cast list, see Cast.
Being on the air for eight years, The Loud House is the longest-running Nickelodeon series from the 2010s decade, the oldest and only Nicktoon from that decade still in production today, and the fourth-longest-running Nicktoon of all time, only behind Rugrats, The Fairly OddParents, and SpongeBob SquarePants.
It is the surname of the family who resides there.
For the creation of the show, Savino took some art concepts from different comic strips like Peanuts and Dennis the Menace. He also based it on other shows he worked on, such as Rocko's Modern Life, Hey Arnold!, and Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil.
According to Chris Savino, it takes approximately 10 months to make a single episode.
↑Lana is also depicted as having three pairs of eyelashes, despite having a tomboy personality, though this is most likely because it's a characteristic she shares with Lola, her twin sister.
↑Braly, Matt (August 22, 2020). I'm Matt Braly, creator and executive producer of Amphibia - Ask me anything!!!(English) (Post). Reddit. u/Matt_Braly. Archived from the original on 2021-10-21. Retrieved on 2022-03-14. “3. The pilot really deserves its own discussion but the only thing I miss is how grimey and mystical that version of Amphibia seemed. In development, I got explicit notes that the studio was no longer interested in adventure or magic so we tried to tilt away from that stuff a bit. Or at least...saved it for later :)”