Animated Atrocities 144 || "One of the Boys" [The Loud House]

I think it's time to go back to basics now before we get into anything about the review I will say I love the Lotte house I think that it's the best cartoon currently airing on Nickelodeon at the moment there's an a certain amount of charm that was put into the series in almost every episode it feels a lot like a throwback to 90's cartoons with simple plots characters that are easy to relate to episodes about mundane situations blown comically out of proportion all with that beautiful comic strip art style which is something that seems to be taking long the ducktales reboot is any consideration and in my opinion that's not a bad thing at all however I don't want to get too into detail about the show overall because I'm planning on reviewing another latter house episode at some point in the future as an admirable animation not next time but relatively soon this review is going to be on one of the boys my least favorite episode of the lad house and the admirable will be on my favorite episode at the current time which right now is a toddler's tale and by some freaky coincidence there are actually sister episodes and don't you hate it when that happens like in spongebob Season eight I need to get through are you happy now before I can watch planet of the jellyfish and that's just cruel but I will be talking more about the LAT house overall in that review this episode comes first in the pairing so it's the episode I'm going to be talking about first just keep in mind that this is simply a bad episode of a very good cartoon it's inevitable as I've said before most shows are going to had at least one stinker in their run and it's been a very very long time since I've done something like this review a dead episode it's actually kind of nostalgia at this point funny enough the last time I've done this was with DW is very bad mood over a year ago and that review was different it's been a while since I've done this kind of review with the typical formula what a lot house is a new show there are already a lot of episodes that people aren't too keen on you've probably heard the names going around episodes like the green house the butterfly effect scum cell away study muffin alright there are a lot of episodes that people have a certain beef with this is because the fan base of the show is massive surprisingly so for how young it is and when a fan base of anything gets sizable it can give you the effects of feeling like every single episode is controversial when that can't really be further from the truth no one likes everything and if my last two trustee review is any inclination there will be someone who will see a problem anything there are plenty of episodes where I don't agree with the quote-unquote controversy I think that the butterfly effect is hilarious for instance it's one my favorite episodes of season one and I think that April Fool's rules finally gives Luanne some sorely needed screen time and she works great as an antagonist but of course there are quite a few episodes that I don't like there's nothing as horrible as the Splinter or even Arnold betrays Iggy but many episodes do have problems that hinder the enjoyment of that particular episode usually it's a pretty straightforward problem for example the green house is built on a forced and stupid premise in that episode Lincoln is tasked with lowering his family's carbon footprint however the entire situation is beyond his control the teacher is grading everyone the same with the same standards without considering the size of the individual families or other extenuating circumstances Cline is able to get a good grade because his father's have solar panels and this is clearly stated in the episode the episode goes out of its way to clearly show me that this is beyond Lincoln's control Claude gets a good grade even though he didn't do anything and he didn't have to do anything or make any adjustments to his life and he was able to pass Lincoln on the other hand has ten sisters something he can't control and isn't big him into consideration it all comes across as unfair and stupid brawl in the family is another episode of the straightforward problem and then episode Lenny and Lauri are fighting and Lincoln keeps hitting me explain the rules of this sibling quarrel even though he lives in the same house and shouldn't know what's going on his younger sisters are explaining how things work in his own house in that episode one of the boys however is a bit more complicated which is why this episode gets to be the review and not say study muffin where everyone in the family seems to be fawning over Lincoln's tutor with romance in their eyes even the baby if you want the straightforward reason I'm reviewing this episode one of the boys reminds me of what I was afraid the series could have been when the series was first marketed and how trite that could have been if you never heard of the loud house before which is unlikely at this point the show is about the loud family and focuses on Lincoln Loudon how he survives in a huge family as the only boy among ten sisters I was skeptical of this but then again I'm skeptical of everything but shows and movies that tend to mark themselves this way have a long and complicated history and I'm going to try to word myself very carefully on this one because it's become a real hot-button issue in the past couple of years this could and probably should be its own video but a few things come up when talking about media that uses a certain identity as a selling point most commonly it's some marketing gimmick it take people sex gender race or whatever and turn it into a commodity to be bought and sold works like this usually only take a surface level of understanding about the issues or the people that they tend to portray and talk about and they mark the hell out of this basically for social brownie points unsurfaced this can lead to stereotyping and unfortunate implications one of the most common forms of this is this girl can do it just like the boys which is packed with the implications that most girls don't or won't do it just like the boys in the world of animation Powerpuff Girls 2016 will always be the king or queen of this I guess hey Charlotte packages and markets girl power and yet only a certain kind of girl power is acceptable according to them the girls can't do as much fighting miss bellum needs to be removed and a bunch of other things they've done without really thinking about the implications all too often they give us the most common mistake treating someone's identity as their only character Trey's remember back in the 90s where shows would only have one female character and their entire personality would be girl talking about fashion and shopping and ponies or whatever you could boil down all of their dialogue into I'm a girl believe it or not that never actually truly died it just morphed into characters like jailbreak from the emoji movie she's an extreme example of this to be sure but it's just a louder more abrasive example of the stereotypes that have happened before instead of all of her dialogue boiling down to merely stating I'm a girl all of her dialogue can be boiled down into shouting I'm a girl but in the end it doesn't address the main points of actually going through the trouble of writing a character past their identity not to mention these kind of shows would have a cynical view of everyone no matter their gender shows like the same that a female audience would often reduce the males in the show to disgusting idiot slobs abusive jocks or personality less objects of affection one of the main reasons that I absolutely hated the show committed seriously I don't know how angry I got in that review but it was more tedious than I let on the loud house specifically blew me away because it broke apart all of my preconceived notions it actually took the unique approach and wrote each of the characters as characters beyond their identity even with Lincoln who I was most worried about would have been so easy to just write him as the boy in a house full of girls but they don't well he does like comics and video games and other typical boy stuff I've never really seen him written as just the boy accepted in this episode aptly titled one of the boys this was an episode that got many people interested ahead of time it was a gender swap episode where a Lincoln would find himself in a world where he had ten brothers and stepsisters I don't know if it's technically considered as special because it has a unique concept and it goes to a place the show usually doesn't but at the same time it's a typical 11 minute episode and actually when you get down to it this is a problem a major problem of the episode when you get down to the nuts and bolts this episode has a major pacing problem and it feels rushed as hell it should have been 22 minutes I think that even people who liked this episode could agree that it should have been 22 minutes in fact haven't said in my head I remember it as being a full half-hour episode today there's only been one full 22 minute episode of loud house and that was their Christmas special and there was no season 1 episodes of that length so maybe at the time they weren't allowed maybe it's something they didn't get to earn and yet I don't want to say that this could have been the only solution because the show is exceptionally good at conveying a lot of information very quickly that's what makes a lot of it will work the loud house pilot for example gives us a good idea of all eleven loud house siblings in a span of just three minutes as someone who has an issue with brevity that sounds insane to me but even with that in mind this episode just has too much going on first we need to establish Lincoln having issues with having sisters then we need to establish Lisa getting Lincoln into an alternate reality then we need to establish the personalities of all ten new loud house siblings then we need to have Lincoln loving having brothers and we need to have Lincoln hating having brothers then we need to have him try and get home with all the obstacles that he faces in that scenario the biggest problem with the pacing is linking going from loving having brothers to hating having brothers there's barely any transition and it's jarring like in one scene everything is fine and then in the next thing everything is wrong okay people I'm accepting ideas on how we should spend the day o go to Dairyland okay how about Gus's games and grub how about I know some place we all like and we're given basically ten new characters entirely I get that at the end it's revealed to all be a dream and dreams often take dark turns like that but when the entire episode falls along the dream and it isn't specifically an episode exploring a dream world you have to put the plot first or it'll take the audience out of the experience not to mention that getting the personalities of each of the brothers could have been cut out of the episode altogether or at least fused with the next two parts because this brings us to the biggest problem the episode all of Lincoln's brothers are the same character they're all more or less Lin and this isn't just a problem this is eight I like the show specifically because it doesn't do this kind of problem I'm not saying that this episode tarnishes my opinion of the show overall nothing beats the real thing but it's definitely a come on really you're better than this kind of moments each of the loud sisters has a diverse range of personalities Lola is a pageant princess Lennie is into fashion and shopping at the other end of the scale Lana and Lynn are both tomboys but in completely different ways and most of the loud sisters fall somewhere in the middle with traits that have little to no relation with their gender the main point is that none of the loud sisters really share any main traits at least nothing that affects their overall personality however every single one of the loud brothers are gross messy hecklers athletic and bullies evens their family and they have no actual compassion for the relatives the female version of Luna is one of my favorite characters but the male version of Luna is oh what's your damage bro you woke me up look the bathroom is disgusting you're right bro we can't live like this let's go clean it we'll start with the toy [Music] I don't even know what yeah sure there's boyish roughhousing but giving Lincoln a swirly in his own house when you're his brother what the hell this episode is just rife with unfortunate implications and yeah I guess that kind of comes with the territory of doing this type of plot in general but when the female counterpart is nice and the male counterpart of the exact same character is an well what are you saying but the difference is the difference it makes it seem like these guys are all specifically because they're guys especially when even the male Lily the baby gets in on the heckling Lenny is supposed to be incredibly nice and have a heart of gold that is her defining personality it has nothing to do with her gender but here her male counterpart is laughing because Lincoln got a swirly am I thinking about this too much maybe but it's hard not to when you watch the show because it avoids this in every other episode you know on another level it's like a sponge out of a sowed that goes out of its way to not be funny it's like a samurai jack episode that goes out of its way to not have any action whatsoever it's an episode that doesn't just have an absence of the show's usual strengths it goes completely against the strengths of the show overall and the female versions of the Louds don't get out of this episode scot-free either they're all turned into stereotypes - Lincoln gets scolded for eating peanut butter with his hands and associates that with the problem with having sisters yet Lana or Lynne probably wouldn't have a problem with that at all and because they wouldn't have a problem with it and I know that they wouldn't have a problem with it it just puts a whole pin in this Lincoln as having a problem because he has sisters and our brothers thing all of Lincoln's sisters don't want to go to the amusement park even though we had another episode where a half of them were trying to convince Lincoln to go its thickness when barked and then all the sisters one of them goes to the mall even though like a half of them probably would have something better to do and just as in the side that borrowing clothes without asking thing girls do that to almost the point where it's more of a female stereotype than a male stereotype this is the issue you get when as a writer you care more about a character's gender or really any part of their identity before you care about their character overall do you know why Kim Possible is an obnoxious because she's written as a character before she's written as a girl do you know how I Todd is noxious because he's written as a character before he's written as a sexual you know the lab brothers are noxious because they're written as their gender before they're written as their characters but this episode exists to show a Lincoln's life would be dimming with brothers and that kind of stuff comes to the territory if they avoided this and what the character is the same way than this episode would be a hundred percent pointless right Oh honestly this episode is actually already kinda pointless it takes a lot from Space Invader in that episode Lin moves into Lincoln's room and he needs to deal with sharing a room and constantly dealing with through more gross habits in our inclination towards the physical the problem here is not that the characters are different at all from their female counterparts it's that they're all the same in this episode Lincoln doesn't have ten brothers he has ten Lin's I get that it would take more efforts to make them different in different ways but that's not an excuse you pick this plots this plot comes with certain obstacles if you want to take on this flight you need to overcome those obstacles and you know what the sad part is if these characters the lod brothers had absolutely no changes in their personality it would actually make for a more interesting episode than what we got sure some of the characters lives would be exactly the same if they were born boys like the aforementioned Lynne or Lana but then you have Lola being a pageant princess isn't exactly socially accepted as a boy and getting an insight to her male counterparts life would be interesting it's tempting to say that a character isn't defined by their gender but the proper way to phrase it is how much the character lets their gender or any other part of their identity define them is a part of their character let me put it this way it doesn't matter if Lola's male counterpart is still a pageant princess or not but actually learning which choice this character would make teaches us more about them overall if it's still the same basic Lola either way knowing that she would bend to social expectations to avoid going for her passion or she would go against social expectations for that passion or even taking the third option and finding a way to follow these passions within social expectations either way it's interesting but instead in this episode we get the least interesting thing someone boiled down to stereotypes that don't even belong to them and that just drives me up a wall more than anything not just that the episode is bland and boring but that it had potential that it didn't want to use and you can't argue that the show wouldn't go there or it was afraid of controversy either if there was any show that would do something like that it would be the loud house and that boils down to the main problem this episode sands off the interesting possibilities and when it's not annoying it's bland stereotypes by definition are something that have been beaten into the ground we've seen this over and over and over again even on the loud house I've seen Lynn act this way in so many other episodes I mean sure the designs the loud house brothers are interesting and it's cool to see what they'd look like his boys but that's not enough to build an episode around when it comes to dud episodes I wouldn't call this the worst episode ever I mean there is no way you're gonna beat it's a wishful life ever but on a list of the worst episodes of good cartoons I place it maybe around five or six maybe seven because I wouldn't place it at the very bottom or top of the list like ten or nine because well the latter house is special it has well-defined characters each with their unique personalities we're a show that has a female heavy cast it goes out of its way to avoid stereotypes and treats its characters as characters it's why the show is so great and refreshing and it has the potential to pave the way for even better shows in the future when you want to learn how to avoid writing stereotypes the loud house is the place you start learning but an episode like this I just hope that it serves as a temporary bump in the road I i'm not against a scene the loud brothers again just next time give them some goddamn personalities house

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Length: 17min 11sec (1031 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 09 2017