Review: The Loud House “Flip This Flip; Haunted House Call”

Overview

“Flip This Flip”

The Loud kids help Flip clean up his image to impress his middle school crush.

“Haunted House Call”

When Lucy and her circle of goth friends called “The Mortician’s Club” can’t afford tickets to Casket Con, they decide to start a business to raise money.


Our Take

For the first episode, it becomes more of a callback of sorts tying into Flip’s past, especially from the episode “A Flipmas Carol” where you learn through that in Flip’s past, Flip fell victim to unrequited love, and now expresses interest in reconnecting with an old crush from his past named Tammy Gobblesworth. With the help of Lincoln and most of his sisters, he has a long way to go to impress her given how grandiose she presents herself which leads to an unexpected, yet weirdly wholesome twist.

As for 2nd one, much of the humor was very Lucy-focused, though it mostly stems from a service that starts off almost Ghostbusters-like in terms of how they handle Ghosts but of course does it’s best to set itself apart in the unique and bizarre ways the ghosts are dispatched through fulfilling their unfinished business’s to help them properly cross over. Of course, as the plot progresses, Lucy’s circle of friends begin to let their greed get the better of them in wanting to go to a particular con, but they eventually learn what’s important…

Overall, both episodes were quite passable even if the proceedings felt wacky in places. The first half was the closest thing to actual continuity within this show’s universe in regards to Flip’s past with how far back he and his crush went, and it was also interesting what kind of significant role The Louds played in giving him the desired makeover which became a big gamble on Flip’s end, but I give him points for at least rolling the proverbial dice. As for the 2nd half, It further establishes the existence of ghosts and otherworldly spirits within the Loud Universe while having a Lucy-focused story built around the situation she and her circle of friends got themselves into which in some ways was a double-edged sword. But at the end of the day, the problem sort of works itself out.