"Tripped!" (originally titled "Road Tripped") is the first episode of the third season, the one-hundred-second episode, and the fourth full-length episode, as well as the Season 3 premiere of The Loud House.
During a road trip to their vacation destination, everything that can go wrong for the family does.
Synopsis
Act I
The family is counting all of the money they got in a water jug, and realize that they have enough to go on vacation. Lincoln explains to the viewers that he and his family have been saving up a lot of money as they can so they can go on a real vacation (evident by their different contributions). He also reveals that their vacation destination is the Weeping Willow Resort & Lodge, located at Lake Michigan.
After packing up all of their possessions, the family heads off. While driving, a cherry farmer drives up behind them, and Lynn tells her father not to let the farmer pass them up. However, the farmer ends up passing them anyway, and Lynn Sr., thinking he's showing off, decides to drive faster than him down a hill. Unfortunately, as Lisa predicted from the various conditions, they end up crashing the van into a ditch. Luckily, Lana fixes the van up in no time. As they continue onward, Leni complains that it's too hot, and the AC won't turn on. At the same time, Lori, eating low-cal bean chips, lets out an intense fart, and the gas begins seeping throughout the van, prompting the family to roll down the windows. With the wind pushing against them, Lynn Sr. crashes the van into a line of port-a-potties. To make matters worse, the door falls off, and Lana doesn't have the proper equipment to put it back on. However, she decides to use Lucy's coffin as a backup door, and the family continues on with the trip.
The family decides that it's lunchtime, and begin eating egg salad sandwiches Leni had made. After eating them, the family suddenly gets nauseous, and Leni reveals that the sandwiches were weeks old, since she planned ahead. Realizing they ate spoiled food, the family quickly head to the nearest rest stop to vomit. After throwing up their lunches, the family continues on, but not before running into the cherry farmer, who just got a flat tire. The family decides to help him out, but Lynn Sr. unknowingly hits and releases the emergency brake, causing Vanzilla to roll backwards, and onto a car carrier. The cherry farmer says he needs help unloading his crates of cherries, because the spare tire is underneath all of them. After unloading all of the crates, Lana grabs the spare tire, and attaches it to the car. After thanking the family by repaying them with a crate of cherries, the cherry farmer heads off, and the family realizes too late that the van is on a car carrier, prompting them to chase after it. Lincoln, realizing that things are going downhill fast, tells the viewers "Well, there goes our vacation."
Act II
With their mode of transportation gone, the family is left to hang out at the rest stop. To make matters worse, they couldn't afford a bus trip, since Lynn Sr.'s wallet, and Rita's purse are still in Vanzilla. As luck would have it, a nearby cafe is holding an open mic contest, and the grand prize is cash. The family sings a song talking out their current situation, which receive overwhelming applause from the audience. Now having the funds to afford a bus ride, the family attempts to leave, but not before grabbing Luna, who's still entertaining the audience in the cafe. However, when doing so, their bus leaves, and another bus drives up after the driver has to use the restroom. Upon boarding the bus, the driver arrives back, and begins driving.
The family is confused that the bus is so empty, and the presence of a man who looks like a prisoner. Realizing they're on a prison bus, the family tells the driver to stop the bus so they can jump off. They do so, and the prisoner, having escaped thanks to Leni taking his handcuffs off, hides behind some bushes. The family attempts to hitch a ride from a passing car, but because they're a big family, no one would pick them up. Lana, needing to use the bathroom, does her business behind some bushes, and to her discovery, finds a run down crop duster. After repairing it, the family jumps in, while Rita pilots it. As they fly, the family discovers the car carrier Vanzilla is on, and proceed to chase after it. The car carrier driver, seeing the plane behind him, attempts to escape, since he thinks it's the police, since he's speeding on a road where the speed limit is enforced by aircraft. The driver attempts to evade them by driving through the field, and in the process, the van loses some luggage, and its top half. The family successfully stop him by dumping fertilizer in front of him. As the family attempts to get Vanzilla down, the prisoner arrives and steals the plane.
Finally arriving to Weeping Willows, the family attempts to check in, but the concierge tells them that because they didn't make the 8:00 deadline, the room that was reserved for them was given away. Lynn Sr. is confused since his watch says it's exactly 8:00, but the concierge tells them it's actually 8:35. It turns out that when the luggage from the van was flying off, Lynn Sr. attempted to get his suitcase full of puzzles, but in the process, damaged his watch. Much to the family's dismay, all the other rooms are full. Just when all hope seems lost, the cherry farmer arrives, and introduces himself as Jerry Kling, the Cherry King. He says that because the family fixed his tire, he made it to Weeping Willows before the 8:00 deadline, and successfully reserved the entire top floor, thanks to his celebrity status. As thanks for helping him out, Jerry decides to let the family rest in the rooms he reserved, much to the family's happiness.
The next day, the family finally has fun at Weeping Willows with horseback rides, swimming in the lake, and relaxing. Meanwhile, as the prisoner escapes on the crop duster, the crop duster runs out of fuel, and the prisoner ends up falling into a prison down below, where he gets locked up.
‣Happy Forest - Werner Tautz and The Heinz Kelssing Orchresta [When Lana and Lola are selling lemonade] ‣Tandem Hoilday - Heinz Kelssing [Plays when Lincoln delivers newspapers]
Accidental release
Like "Future Tense" and "Head Poet's Anxiety", this episode was released onto Amazon's website before its intended release date. Like the former, the episode was released on the episode's original release date of May 4, 2018.
This is the first half-hour episode of the series where the Latin American dub cast is accredited (only Lynn Sr., Lana, Lynn and Lincoln's names were shown while the rest of the voices were enlisted in additional voices).
Kevin Sullivan had confirmed that during production, the title was changed. It was later revealed that the title was changed from "Road Tripped" to "Tripped!".
Since this is the case, the title sounds very similar to the previous full-length episode, "Tricked!".
This is the first episode to include the entire Loud Family on the title card (Lincoln, all ten sisters, and the parents).
This episode reveals that Pop-Pop used to fly jets in the military, according to Rita.
This is the second time the Loud family's last name gets mispronounced. This time, it was pronounced as "Load".
Clearly Leni doesn't know how to ride a horse right.
This is one of the few episodes that rarely takes place at the Loud House.
Jancey Yates from "Future Tense" has a cameo at the beginning, getting fashion advice from Leni.
This episode reveals that Lynn Sr. always carries his cowbell with him, maybe more so than his wallet.
It's also revealed he cooks using Cherry King brand cherries.
The "CRASH!!" onomatopoeia when Vanzilla crashes into a ditch is reused from "Snow Bored".
Coincidentally, Sammie Crowley and Whitney Wetta wrote that episode.
One of the food trucks was named "Gene's Food Truck", which could be referencing background designer Gene Goldstein.
It may have been a complete coincidence, but when the episode first aired on television it ended at 8:00 PM, this was the same deadline for Weeping Willows.
This is the first episode produced in 2018.
On the title card, two of the objects flying off are a hi-hat and a kettlebell, which foreshadows the fact that the family loses those possessions in the episode.
The first episode in which Lincoln is not the leader of the Loud Family. But Lynn Sr. takes over the role from this episode to present.
There are several instances where title card music can be heard throughout the episode:
When Lana and Lola were selling lemonade - "Read Aloud"
Lori, Leni, Luan, Lynn, Lana, Lola, and Lisa - Back-up singers
Luna and Lucy - Guitars
Lily - Cowbell
Lynn Sr. - Lead singer
Rita - Piano
The family's contributions to afford a vacation trip:
Lincoln - Deliver newspapers
Lori and Lynn Sr. - Run a taco food truck
Leni - Give off fashion advice
Luna - Play music
Luan - Run Funny Business, Inc.
Lynn - Shovel snow around the neighborhood
Lucy - Hold a funeral service for the kindergarten class' pet goldfish
Lana and Lola - Sell lemonade
Lisa and Lily - Breakdance (Lisa) to music (provided by Lily)
Rita - Work overtime at the dental office
Interesting flavors...
The various flavors of fudge at Weeping Willow:
Invisible
Blue
IDK
Spots
Taco
Earth
Soap
Fish
Vanilla
Black Lodge
Innuendo:
When Lynn Sr. accidentally knocks over a line of port-a-potties, he asks his family if they're okay, and a man who was in one of the port-a-potties cries out "I've been better!", which implies that the man is now covered with the port-a-pottie's bio-hazardous material.
The tattoo of the prisoner Lana colored over was a naked lady, as the parts she drew over covered her private areas (breasts, genitals).
Lori's chronic flatulence problem is referred to as "crop dusting", which is an informal term for passing gas in a confined space. On top of that, the duster's canister is used to stop the trucker by gassing the windshield, which was painted by Lana with a portrait of her struggling to not fart (that also serves as the episode's final joke, as a remnant of the gas escapes from the tank).
References
Road Tripped - The original title of this episode is a parody of "road trip".
Vacation (The Go-Go’s Song) - When Luna says “vacation, all I ever wanted", she is making a reference to the 1982 song by The Go-Go’s.
National Lampoon's Vacation - The premise of this episode is similar to this 1983 film, as both involve a family going on a road trip, but hit many obstacles on the way.
Milo Murphy's Law - The premise of this episode is also similar to the episode "Family Vacation".
Baby Got Back - One of the food trucks was named "Buns Hun!", which could be a reference to this song's lyric "My anaconda don't want none unless you've got buns, hon".
McDonald's - When the family first heads off, there's a restaurant sign that has a logo that looks like the McDonald's logo, but upside down.
This is the second time that logo appears in the show, with the first being in "No Such Luck".
Guess it's true that Studio Ghibli can be very inspirational.
Bad to the Bone - "Road Trippin' Blues" has a similar resemblance and sound to the 1982 song by George Thorogood and the Destroyers.
Porco Rosso - The scene where Rita tries to control the plane is a take on of one the most famous scenes from this 1992 animated film by Studio Ghibli. This was confirmed by Miguel Puga, as he had used that scene for inspiration. [4]
Microsoft Windows - Four of the buttons in the crop duster are colored after this computer company's logo.
Parable of the Good Samaritan - When discussing how someone is bound to give them a ride to Weeping Willows, Lynn Sr. mentions the Good Samaritan. The Good Samaritan was a story told by Jesus where a Samaritan helped a Jewish traveler despite the two generally despising each other.
Peanuts - Leni's fashion booth is designed exactly like Lucy's psychiatry booth.
Twin Peaks - One of the flavors of fudge shown at the Weeping Willow is "Black Lodge", referencing an alternate-dimension locale in this supernatural mystery series.
Errors
When the patient sprays Rita with the water jet, Rita's lipstick gets washed off, but when she explains that she has been working overtime, her lipstick reappears back on her face.
When Leni is complaining that it's too hot, she only has two pairs of eyelashes.
In the Latin American dub, when Lori says "Ah.", it gets silent.
Possible: When the family got sick after eating the spoiled egg salad sandwiches, Leni, Lily, Lynn Sr., and Rita didn't get nauseous until they got to the gas stop. It's possible that their stomachs didn't react at the same time as the others.
Lynn Sr. didn't say "Ding dang darn it!" in the flashback of his watch breaking.
Running Gags
The family doing a conga line when they talk about their vacation.
Things going wrong for the family.
Rita forgetting to grab Lily.
Whenever someone fixes Vanzilla after it gets damaged, the one who fixed it would give off a long spiel on how they did it, leading to the rest of the family to jump in the van, and the one who fixed the van would respond "Don't ask if you don't really want to know."
Lori refusing to admit she farted.
Lynn persuading Lynn Sr. to drive faster than the Cherry Farmer.
