Lincoln is excited to stay up late with his best friend Clyde to watch the RIP Hardcore Midnight Marathon, but his plans are ruined when his dad institutes an early curfew. They come up with the idea to use the Loud sisters to get Dad out of the house to celebrate his half-birthday, but just as they think their plan worked, Lisa's robot Todd malfunctions and Lincoln must decide what being a good man is really about.
Synopsis[]
Act I[]
Today is the day of the Rip Hardcore Midnight Marathon, and Lincoln and Clyde intend to stay up to watch it so they can obtain their Macho Man badges. Lincoln explains that in a house of eleven kids, he has reserved the couch for himself. As he enters the kitchen to prepare the midnight snacks, he finds Lynn Sr. snoring on the kitchen floor, and explains that tomorrow is also Lynn Sr.'s half-birthday. Lynn Sr. explains that last night, he was up cooking some late-night chocolate cake for his half-birthday when Lucy showed up out of nowhere and scared him so much he got knocked unconscious. He believes that he was only scared because it was the middle of the night, and is confident he is not scared by her during the daytime anymore, but Lucy suddenly appears and scares him again. She mentions that she has been up for 58 hours trying to finish the Morticians Club's three-day fright challenge, causing Lynn Sr. to call a family meeting.
During the meeting, Lynn Sr. announces that since Lucy has been up for three days straight and scared him last night, he is going to exact a new rule in the house: everyone is to be in bed by midnight, no exceptions. As Lynn Sr. heads off to repair Vanzilla, Lincoln comes up with an idea to still watch the Rip Hardcore marathon.
Act II[]
In Lisa and Lily's room, Lincoln gathers the sisters and explains his plan: the sisters will take Lynn Sr. to Jean Juan's French Mex Buffet for his half-birthday celebration, while he stays behind and watches the marathon. Lori reminds him that the sisters all have their own things, so for them to help him, he has to help them. To help the sisters, Lincoln calls in Clyde for backup, and they all learn of what the sisters need help with:
Lori has to write a romantic anniversary text to Bobby, but her first draft is awful.
Leni has to tell the truth more consistently to bypass a lie detector installed at her workplace, but she finds Lincoln annoying to tell the truth to.
Luna is working on a song, and needs a cowbell player.
Luan needs a snappy joke to close her comedy act, and has fifty possibilities to test.
Lynn is working on a motivational speech for her hockey team.
Lucy needs to stay awake to complete the challenge, but with five hours left to finish, she is already feeling drowsy.
Lana needs to get her guinea pig to make a 50-centimeter leap.
Lola needs her many pageant wigs brushed.
Lisa wants to rename her robot, Todd, for a robotics competition as another contestant already has his own robot named Todd, and happens to have a massive list of names she does not like.
With time running out quickly and Lynn Sr. unable to repair Vanzilla, Lincoln has Luan test her comedy material on Leni to get truthful reactions on the best joke, Lucy play cowbell for Luna's song to stay awake, Lynn motivate Lana's guinea pig to make the record, and Clyde come up with a romantic text for Lori to send Bobby, all of which prove to be very effective. Meanwhile, Lincoln and Lola work together to brush her many wigs. Lola points out that Lynn Sr. will notice if Lincoln isn't present for his half-birthday celebration, so Lincoln decides to disguise Todd as himself.
Act III[]
That night, the sisters, Rita, and Lynn Sr. are at Jean Juan's with Todd disguised as Lincoln, while Lincoln and Clyde watch the Midnight Marathon. However, a waiter accidentally spills water on Todd, causing the robot to short-circuit, catch fire, and ruin the deception. The sisters confess their deception, and Lynn Sr. admits the reason why he celebrates his half-birthday: in his youth, he shared his birthday with another kid named Jake Strong, who was so popular the kids would attend his birthday parties instead of Lynn Sr.'s, so his mother decided to celebrate his half-birthday instead. Lincoln, who has been watching through Todd's optic sensors, is so touched by Lynn Sr.'s speech he doesn't type in the code to obtain his Macho Man badge, realizing how selfish he has been.
The rest of the family returns home to find out that Lincoln and Clyde have been working on a surprise half-birthday party. Luna takes the opportunity to play the song she and Lucy have been working on: a celebration of Lynn Sr.'s half-birthday. They also show him their half-birthday present: a repaired Vanzilla, fixed by Lana with Leni providing decoration. Driven to tears by the kids' dedication, Lynn Sr. embraces them and the repaired Vanzilla.
Clyde wants to become a badge maker for the Federal Bureau of Investigation when he grows up.
Lucy can stay awake for more than fifty-eight hours straight, but she starts to get tired if she stays awake for at least sixty-seven hours in a row.
Both of the twins have been responsible for the institution of house rules in the past.
After Lola exploited the condition that only one bowl of ice cream was allowed by eating out of a gigantic bowl filled with ice cream like a bathtub, this rule was restricted to only normal-sized bowls of ice cream, with the maximum amount allowed being one per kid.
After Lana brought home a snake from the sewer and a cow from an unknown location, bringing stray animals into the house was prohibited.
Leni finds Lincoln to be extremely annoying.
Lynn Sr. is not a very skilled mechanic.
Todd's artificial intelligence will usually override conversational tones.
Rita's birthday occurs a few weeks before Lynn Sr.'s half-birthday.
Since Lynn Sr. is a Libra, this implies that Rita's birthday occurs sometime in March, meaning that she is either a Pisces or an Aries.
The scene where Lincoln asks Leni if he is her favorite brother is similar to a scene in the Loud House episode "House of Lies" where Leni asks Lincoln if he likes her new haircut. The main difference between the two scenes is the fact that the characters' roles are switched.
Clyde's voice is noticeably much deeper than in A Loud House Christmas, sounding more like a teenager than a pre-teen. This is due to Jahzir Bruno hitting puberty during the gap between this show and the film.
When Lincoln is walking down the halls, archive audio of Morgan McGill yelling, "Hey, Stinkin'!" from A Loud House Christmas can be heard in the background.
The names of the main cast members are among Lisa's massive list of names she dislikes.
Another one of the names on the list is Lucy.
The Loud sisters' dilemmas that they needed help with:
Lori: She needed to write the most romantic text to Bobby for their anniversary.
Leni: She needed to practice telling the truth for a lie detector test.
Luna: She needed a cowbell player.
Luan: She needed to know if her closing jokes and puns were funny.
Lynn: She needed to give an inspirational speech for her hockey team.
Lucy: She needed to stay awake in order to pass the Morticians Club's challenge of staying awake for three nights straight.
Lana: She needed to get her guinea pig to perform a 50-cm leap before a witness who could verify it.
Lola: She needed to have all of her pageant wigs brushed.
Lisa: She needed to enter Todd into the robotics competition under a different name.
Lily is the only sister who did not have a known dilemma.
The pairings that Lincoln used to solve his sisters' problems:
Leni with Luan
Luna with Lucy
Lynn with Lana
While Lori, Lola, and Lisa were not paired up with another sister, Lincoln and Clyde assisted them all on their own.
Lily, due to not having a dilemma, was also not paired up with another sister.
This is the first series premiere episode in the franchise to feature a song.
This episode features a callback to the Loud House episode "Pipe Dreams" by acknowledging that Lincoln always neglects to lift the toilet seat.
This is the only episode to credit the writer with "Written for television by" instead of "Written by".
Innuendo: After Lincoln tells the viewers about always putting the toilet seat down after relieving himself, Lisa yells his name as a splash is heard, implying that Lisa fell in the toilet.
Irony:
Lynn Sr. claims that Lucy only scared him because it happened in the middle of the night and she doesn't scare him during the daytime anymore, only to immediately be startled by her sudden presence in the kitchen during the daytime.
Lynn Sr.'s methods of getting his children to focus are not very successful, while his wife manages to quiet them down very easily.
Despite living among twelve people, Rita's birthday was completely forgotten by her entire immediate family.
References[]
The Macho Man with the Plan - The title of this episode is a reference to "the man with the plan," a phrase commonly attributed to Lincoln.
Edgar Allan Poe - A poster of this gothic poet can be seen in Lynn and Lucy's room.
While Lynn Sr. is lying asleep on the kitchen floor, many food products can be seen inside and outside of the refrigerator:
Hillandale Farms - A carton of eggs from this brand is visible on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator door.
Brenner - Three tubs of this brand of cottage cheese are visible on the second refrigerator door shelf from the bottom.
Farmer John - Two boxes of maple sausage from this brand are visible on a shelf on the left refrigerator door when Lynn Sr. closes it during the flashback of Lucy scaring him in the middle of the night.
In the flashback where Lincoln and Clyde watch Rip Hardcore on TV, there are a few DVDs that can be visible in the TV table cabinets:
When Lincoln is walking down the halls, Lynn's line, "Hey, Stinkin'!", is subtitled in the closed captions as "Hey, stinkhead!"
After Luan squirts Lincoln in the face with her gag flower, his face is all wet. However, when Luan looks down at their father, Lincoln's face is completely dry.
When Lincoln tries to alert Clyde about the Code Red situation, he stares down at his walkie-talkie. However, when Clyde opens the door to Lisa and Lily's room, Lincoln is staring up at the ceiling.
Videos[]
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