Review: The Loud House “Fam Scam; Farm to Unstable”

Overview

“Fam Scam”

Embarrassed by her family, Lola pretends to be a McBride to impress her new sophisticated celebrity pageant friend…


“Farm to Unstable”

After realizing farm work with Liam is harder than they thought, Lincoln and the gang look for shortcuts…


Our Take

For the first episode, much of the humor felt like a by-the-numbers sitcom premise of the normal person lying through their teeth about where they come from when they meet an actual celebrity for the sake of making themselves look cool. And to some extent, That’s sort of what happens during the proceedings of the episode. Lola enlists Clyde’s help and predictably, much of the humor relies on how long Lola can keep up with her charade to impress her new friend…

As for the latter episode, for the first time in a while, we get an episode that’s sort of focused on Lincoln’s circle of friends when Liam decides to help take care of his friend’s farm animals due to the overwhelming nature of the school and looking out for the farm since most of his parents are pre-occupied with their own stuff and end up getting the sleazy salesman Flip involved to some capacity which, to put it mildly, was not without consequences…

Overall, both episodes were fun in different ways while the pacing for both was done in such a way that nothing drags or overstays its welcome. Lola’s plot had the predictable story-beats you’d expect from a sitcom-like scenario, while the other episode mostly relied on Lincoln’s friends learning the importance of hard work as they struggled to find “outside the box” solutions that didn’t involve taking shortcuts to achieve specific goals.