Review: The Loud House “A Dish Come True; Beg, Borrow, and Steele”

OVERVIEW (SPOILERS)

Lincoln competes with some of his siblings to get a dish named after them at the family’s restaurant. Later, Lincoln enters into a contract with Lola in order to get enough blind boxes to get a rare figurine, but then finds himself stuck paying her back.

OUR TAKE

Oh good, it looks like they’ll ALL be double episodes, that’s GREAAAAAAAAT. Well, to contrast from yesterday, the two episodes we’re looking at today actually are both about Lincoln, the ostensible main character, doing rather typical boy main character stuff. Want your name on the menu and the only way to do that is be Employee of the Month? Then I guess you gotta sabotage your dad’s best employees, and later your siblings. Want a special rare figure from a random pack? Then I guess you gotta borrow money from your younger sister and then pay her back until you die or something. I get the sense that this is the more typical sort of plot for an episode of The Loud House as opposed to yesterday where it focused on the baby and one of the non family characters. Although apparently the baby is narrowly beating the rest of the girl siblings in terms of episode appearances so…shit, maybe she’s getting the next spin-off. They’ve got that Rugrats reboot going on right now so bring on the retro crossovers! This is one of Nickelodeon’s only hit shows left, so they honestly might as well try anything at this point.

But yeah, this couple of episodes honestly seem like more of a litmus test for whether you’re going to like this show or not and I gotta be frank, I’m leaning towards not. And it’s not even that I’m necessarily less inclined to watch programs that are meant to be for a younger demographic, as my watch history will tell you. No, it just seems like these plots are incredibly basic and feel like…well, what a show on its seventh season would be resorting to when they’ve cracked the equation for what it takes to keep just enough of their fans around to keep going at the bare minimum of effort. So, uh, yeah, that’s two more down, see you tomorrow for another pair, and apparently we’ll be starting the eighth season pretty soon too.