Lincoln encourages Clyde to showcase his amazing skills as a drummer, but pushes him too far. Luan meets her comedy idol while performing a comedy gig at Sunset Canyon. And Luna helps Leni ace her history test by utilizing her love of fashion.
Synopsis[]
Act I[]
At the Royal Woods Pavilion Outdoor Market, Clyde is watching a drumming group known as the Bucket Bashers. Lincoln explains to the audience that he is aware of Clyde's secret love for drumming and asks Clyde if he wants to join. While Clyde claims he would never dream of joining, Lincoln believes Clyde is just hiding his desire to join.
Meanwhile at the Loud House, Lynn Sr. is cooking dinner, singing a cooking ditty that he believes will be a great song for his solo album. Just then, Leni and Luan show up. Leni explains that she has received extra credit after assisting her history teacher, Mr. Rickshaw, at his gold-panning exhibit and is set to obtain her first A after acing her oral report, while Luan is scheduled to perform the opening act and trash clean-up for her comedy idol, Joan Shivers, who is set to appear at Sunset Canyon. Lynn Sr. is supportive of his daughters' news.
In Lincoln's room, Clyde discovers Lincoln has become his self-appointed "Manager with the Planager" and has booked a gig with the Bucket Bashers. Before he can join, Lincoln has also started Clyde with some smaller venues. Lynn Sr. also shows up in an attempt to get Lincoln as the Doo Dads' manager, but Lincoln shuts down his attempt.
Act II[]
Clyde's first drumming act under Lincoln's management is drumming for Luan's comedy act. Lynn Sr. arrives to see Luan's comedy act while trying another attempt to get Lincoln as the Doo Dads' manager, but Lincoln shuts him down again. Luan begins her comedy routine, and Clyde aces his drumming act, which mostly consists of rimshots to her jokes. Once her act is over, Lincoln hurries Clyde to the next act he's booked as Joan Shivers takes the stage.
At the Loud House, Luna has heard of Leni's potential A and offers to help. However, before she can study, Leni delays studying in favor of donning a studying outfit. Because Leni's report is on Calvin Coolidge's administration, Luna attempts to help by performing a rap number about Coolidge's presidency with Clyde as backup on drums, but Leni tries to leave to don her "smart girl who performs" outfit.
At Sunset Canyon, Joan Shivers finishes her routine, and Luan catches up with her in a waiting room in an attempt to obtain an autograph. However, Shivers proves to be critical of Luan's comedy, advising her to lose Mr. Coconuts and quit comedy altogether. This causes Luan to angrily storm out of the room.
Back at the Loud House, Leni proves unable to remember the details about Luna's Coolidge rap number, insisting she is unable to sing a song and suddenly be smart before leaving. Meanwhile, Lynn Sr. tries to convince Luan not to quit comedy, but she tells him she can't just keep doing something she is not good at. Lincoln receives a phone call and informs Clyde his gig with the Bucket Bashers has been moved up to the next day, but Clyde is not prepared and quits. Lynn Sr. insists on playing a track from his Doo Dads album, but Lincoln simply heads upstairs.
Act III[]
Back in Lincoln's room, Lincoln tries to convince Clyde to keep the gig, even explaining one of the Bucket Bashers literally kicked the bucket and broke his toe and arm in the process, but Clyde explains he is scared and calls out Lincoln for being selfish before leaving. This then leads to a moody song where Luna, Luan, Leni, and Clyde lament their troubles.
Luna enters Leni's room and discovers that Leni actually can remember history facts if she dresses up in the styles of certain historical figures. Luna encourages Leni to use fashion to remember history, which leads to Leni acing her oral presentation while wearing Coolidge's trousers. Using his own puppet, Lynn Sr. encourages Luan to follow her heart to improve her comedy, leading to her performing another comedy act that gets Shivers' approval.
Luna uses music to help her remember things that she needs to know for school.
Lynn Sr. tucks Luan into bed every night.
Luan's closing joke, "Have a great night! And if you're driving home, please take a car." is one of her ideas from "The Macho Man with the Plan".
Luna using Leni's sense of fashion to help her get her way is similar to how Ronnie Anne does the same thing with Carlota in the Casagrandes episode "Long Shot".
Innuendo:
Lincoln turns down his initial suggestion to Clyde to imagine that all of the seniors are in their undergarments.
Joan Shivers' closing joke is themed around sudden death, and after she recites it, she says, "That's my time. I hope it's not yours." This is an allusion to elderly people dying of natural causes.
When Lincoln says that one of the members of the Bucket Bashers kicked the bucket, Clyde thinks that he means it in the euphemistic sense.
Irony:
Luan was open to receiving Joan Shivers' constructive criticism after hearing that she could make some improvements, but it turned out that Shivers wanted her to end her comedic career altogether.
Luna thought that her rap about Calvin Coolidge would help Leni remember everything important about him, but she only mixed up elements from the rap and thought those would be true.
Leni even ended up forgetting all of her knowledge about Coolidge after she got the perfect score on her oral report.
After his successful performance at Sunset Canyon, Clyde decided to abandon his gig with the Bucket Bashers after hearing that it was moved to a time within arm's reach.
References[]
The Manager with the Planager - The title of this episode is a pun of the expression "the man with the plan", a phrase commonly attributed to Lincoln.
When the Saints Go Marching In - Lynn Sr.'s cooking ditty at the start of the episode is sung to the tune of this famous song.
Joan Rivers - Joan Shivers is a play on this late comedienne.
The fact that the character's retirement home tour is called "Not Dead Yet" is likely a reference to Rivers' death in 2014.
Frank Sinatra - One of The Doo Dads' albums is called "Dooby Dooby Doo Dads", referencing this singer's 1966 song "Strangers in the Night".
Calvin Coolidge - Leni's oral report is focused on this former President of the United States.
Hamilton - Luna's rap number about Calvin Coolidge has a similar lyrical structure to this 2015 musical's opening number, "Alexander Hamilton".
Lincoln also suggests he meet with Luna to workshop a potential musical after the song ends, further alluding to Hamilton.
Warren G. Harding - During her Calvin Coolidge rap number, Luna mentions the passing of this former President of the United States, whom Coolidge served as vice president to.
Herbert Hoover - Luna closes her Calvin Coolidge rap number by mentioning this former President of the United States as Coolidge's immediate successor in the role.
Queen - At several points during the song "So Long", Luna, Leni, Luan, and Clyde are positioned similarly to the iconic cover of this popular band's album, Queen II.
Amelia Earhart - While lamenting about how her methods of getting by in school easily don't work, Leni mentions this aviator and her initial flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1932.
Rosa Parks - She also mentions this American activist and how she refused to give up hear seat and sparked the Montgomery bus boycott.
Shut the box - This dice game is on the bottom of the stack.
Errors[]
Possible: Leni mentions that Amelia Earhart first flew over the Atlantic Ocean in 1937, when this actually happened in 1932; 1937 is the year when she mysteriously disappeared while flying around the Earth along the equator. However, this can be excused due to Leni's ditziness.
One of the lyrics in Luna's rap about Calvin Coolidge is, "I've got a bunch of stuff to legislate". In the United States government, the legislative branch is occupied by Congress; the president occupies the executive branch.
Plot hole: The A that Leni made on her oral report is mentioned in the epilogue. Clyde's gig with the Bucket Bashers also happens in the epilogue, and Lincoln had stated earlier in the episode that it was moved to the day immediately after Luan first performed at Joan Shivers' "Not Dead Yet" tour, which took place over the weekend. Leni mentioned that she had to give her oral report on a Wednesday earlier in the episode, so she should not have gotten the A yet.
Videos[]
The Really Loud House Promo - January 12, 2023 (Nickelodeon U.S.)
The Really Loud House + Fairly Oddparents Fairly Odder Promo - January 12, 2023 (Nickelodeon U.S.)
Luan Loud Tells Jokes w- Lincoln & Clyde's Help! - The Really Loud House Full Scene - Nickelodeon
Lynn Sr. Being THE MOST Supportive Dad - The Really Loud House - Really Mini Episode -Nickelodeon UK-2
