This episode is available on the "Season One" DVD.
Trivia[]
This is the first holiday-themed episode of The Really Loud House.
The closing credits of the episode show home video recordings of younger versions of the actors who portray the Loud kids (with the exception of Emily Ford) inside a card that reads, "Dedicated to mothers everywhere".
This episode reveals the following:
Rita likes breakfast fajitas.
Rita started reading the book The Other Side of the Mountain Top when Lori was three years old, and she did not finish it until the events of this episode.
Clyde owns a view finder and a megaphone.
Lori and Leni once dressed as Siamese cats for Halloween and trick-or-treated together.
Luan and Lucy can both tap dance.
Lisa entered the ZapMaster 3000, her invention from "The Chore Thing", into a science fair, and she got second place for it.
Rita's favorite kind of cake is strawberry.
Ironically, this episode also reveals that she is allergic to strawberries.
Luna considers Rita to be her source of inspiration for developing a singing voice.
Each Loud's contribution to the Mother's Day redo:
Lori, Leni and Luna: A theatrical retrospective of Rita's life.
Luan and Lucy: A tap dance performance.
Lynn: A workout.
Lana: Swatting the fly that has been bugging her and Rita for weeks.
Lola: Reorganizing Rita's closet.
Lisa: Baking her mother's favorite cake.
Lynn Sr.: Seeing if he could recommend a spa day for Rita.
Lily is the only Loud who was involved in multiple contributions to the Mother's Day redo, having assisted Lisa in baking the cake and being an extra dancer for Luan and Lucy's tap dance.
Lincoln is the only Loud who did not contribute to the Mother's Day redo, as he helped Clyde to film a documentary about the operation.
The sound effect used for Lisa squirting the lime juice onto the breakfast fajitas is the same sound effect used for the Sharkodile-tranquilizing spray from A Loud House Christmas.
Leni's claim that she looks more like Rita than Lori may be an allusion to the fact that her hair is the same shade of blonde as Rita's in the animated series, while Lori has brighter blonde hair.
Innuendo:
Lincoln made Clyde abruptly stop recording after Lynn Sr. accidentally flung the breakfast fajitas onto Rita, indicating that the parts they did not record were suggestively painful.
Lincoln tries to make Clyde zoom in on a "vein" on Rita's forehead, only for Lana to reveal it to actually be the fly she has been trying to swat for weeks.
Lucy threatens to make demons immobilize Luan's legs, which is enough to make her say, "Okay, let's not overreact."
The burns that Rita got on her hands from touching the oven rack are red enough to resemble blood.
Lincoln makes Clyde zoom in on Rita's old nursing bras.
Irony:
The Loud siblings decided to redo their Mother's Day celebration as a result of accidentally burning Rita with steaming-hot breakfast fajitas. While Rita was helping Lisa and Lily to make her favorite cake, she ended up getting burned in the process twice; the first time because she touched the oven rack with her bare hands, not knowing that Lisa and Lily had already preheated the oven, and the second time because she neglected to put on oven mitts before removing the burning cake from the oven.
Lori, Leni and Luna were indecisive about which one of them should play their mother in their theatrical retrospective of Rita's life. After Rita told them to surprise her about which one of them would play her, they all ended up playing her, albeit different aspects of her personality.
Rita did not notice the fly paper in the doorway when she retreated to her room and only became aware of it after she tried to give the twins constructive criticism for methods of slowing her down.
Rita told Lola that she could still fit into her old tracksuit, which later turned out to be too tight for her to wear comfortably.
Despite Lana offering to swat the fly that had been bugging her and Rita for weeks, Rita ended up killing it herself by closing her book on it.
This also frustrated Lana to the point that she declared she needed to give Rita a new gift, despite her goal having already been accomplished.
Out of all the footage that Lincoln and Clyde recorded on-screen, the only footage they used in their documentary was of the breakfast fajita failure that inspired the redo.
References[]
What's a Mother to Redo - The title of this episode is a pun of the phrase, "what's a mother to do", which describes a dire situation.
Rita's novel, The Other Side of the Mountain Top, is likely a reference to either the 2001 Jacqueline Woodson children's book The Other Side or the 1975 drama romance film The Other Side of the Mountain.
Product placement[]
Videos[]
The Really Loud House Promo - June 1, 2023 (Nickelodeon U.S.)
The Really Loud House + Erin & Aaron Promo - June 1, 2023 (Nickelodeon U.S.)
