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| Directed by: | Kyle Marshall |
| Written by: | Jeff Sayers Sheela Shrinivas |
| Release date: | November 12, 2018 |
| Running time: | 22 minutes |
| Rating: | TV-Y7 |
| Available on: | Apple TV Amazon Video Google Play Paramount+ DVD |
"The Loudest Thanksgiving" (originally titled "Fowl Play") is a special half-hour Tha nksgiving episode of the Nickelodeon animated series The Loud House, produced as the twenty-first episode of the show's third season.
Synopsis[]
At Flip's Food & Fuel, Flip decides to tell the viewers the story of when the Loud family and Casagrande family met for the first time so they can spend Thanksgiving together.
On the day before Thanksgiving, Lori and Bobby call each other up to tell each other about what their respective families are doing for the occasion, which happens to be the first time the Santiagos have spent the holiday with the Casagrandes in half a decade. They proceed to show each other what their respective families do when Thanksgiving arrives:
- LJ is wearing a pair of baggy pants so she can pee at any time so she won't miss out on eating or watching the game.
- Lynn Sr. is cooking the food (including a turkgoosen, like turkducken but without the chicken or the duck), while Lana and Lola, wearing security gear, watch over the kitchen to make sure the food stays safe.
- Lisa has invented a robot that constantly squirts gravy onto people.
- Lincoln tries to come with a way to stay awake to eat dessert as he keeps falling asleep after dinner.
Rosa is cooking the food and wants to make sure no one eats it until dinner. Frida is working on her yearly Thanksgiving painting. Hector tries to come up with a song on his guitar. Ronnie Anne and CJ are trying to make enough canned food donations.
After showing each other what their respective families are doing, Lori and Bobby feel a little sad about this being their first Thanksgiving apart and openly express a desire to possibly spend Thanksgiving with each other. However, Lincoln overhears Lori saying she might go visit Bobby for Thanksgiving, and Bobby's grandfather Hector overhears Bobby saying the same thing to Lori. When Lincoln tells his parents and other sisters what he heard Lori saying, they fear that Lori may never spend another holiday with them, and meanwhile, the Casagrandes fear the same thing upon learning that Bobby wants to spend Thanksgiving with his girlfriend. The two families decide to try and make Lori and Bobby believe that if they ever leave, life at their houses won't be the same.
At the Loud House, the family attempts to appease Lori in any way she can, such as giving her any piece of food, regardless if it's meant for dinner, have her rehearse her role in their annual Thanksgiving act, and showing her her hand turkey. At the Casagrande Apartment, the family attempts to do the same to Bobby by giving him the food prepared for dinner, having him be in Frida's painting, and making him help in creating the paper chain decoration. After which, their families both try to guilt them into staying with them, with Lucy citing a sad poem, while Hector gossips Bobby with a story about a boy leaving his family for Thanksgiving. Eventually, Lori and Bobby become suspicious of their families' attitudes, and demand them why they're acting like this. The families admit that they don't want them to leave for the holidays out of fear that they'll never get to spend time with them ever again.
Lori and Bobby call each other up again, explaining their current predicament. Bobby then suggests to Lori that maybe they should have their families get together, at which point both of their families (who were eavesdropping on the conversation) barge in to say which one of them should host. Since the families can't come to an agreement, Lori flips a coin, with Bobby calling heads for the Casagrandes; it lands on tails, meaning the Louds get to host. The Louds, however, figure that they should make sure this Thanksgiving dinner is the best ever, so that Lori and Bobby will want to spend all future Thanksgivings with them. Ronnie Anne and the Casagrandes, meanwhile, figure that they should show Lori and Bobby why Thanksgiving with them would be better.
On Thanksgiving day, after the Santiagos and Casagrandes arrive at the Loud house, competition quickly begins between the families when Rosa brings a truck full of food from the Casagrande Mercado, in an attempt to overshadow Lynn Sr.'s cooking. The Louds then perform their annual courtroom sketch, in which Lori plays a judge who pardons a turkey played by Lily. Not to be outdone by the Louds, Frida and Carlota introduce their Thanksgiving act, in which the Santiagos and Casagrandes all do a "turkey dance" to Hector's guitar playing, with Lori quickly joining in. Then, when it's time for dinner, the families' bickering gets worse, with Lynn Sr. and Rosa putting too much food on Lori and Bobby's plates, and then Rita and Hector both trying to make a toast at once. The argument soon turns into a major food fight between the families, until Rita eventually calls a stop to it, saying they should just ask Lori and Bobby where they would rather spend Thanksgiving. However, it turns out that the young couple has disappeared.
Flip concludes the story by saying that Lori and Bobby ran off to spend Thanksgiving at his store (which is where the episode is now). Lori and Bobby apologize when they realize that their families are not fit for each other, and at that moment, the Louds and Casagrandes arrive, and question why the two straight up abandoned them. Just as Lynn Sr. and Rosa get into another argument over what they should eat, Lori and Bobby, having had enough of their families' behavior, tell them that their constant bickering is what led them to leave them in the first place, and thinking that they two families can't get along, Lori and Bobby proclaim that they are going to spend Thanksgiving just by themselves from now on. The Louds and Casagrandes feel guilty about driving the young lovers away, and they each decide maybe they should just let them spend Thanksgiving with the other family. Flip, however, gives them a better solution - the Louds and Casagrandes could simply alternate hosting duties every year. The Louds and Casagrandes agree to that idea and finally make amends, and after Lynn Jr. asks what they're going to do about this Thanksgiving, they decide to have their Thanksgiving dinner together right there at Flip's station. The special closes on the Luna and Hector performing a duet to celebrate the newfound friendship between their respective families, bringing Flip to tears.
Notes[]
- In 2019, The Loud House won the Imagen Award for Best Children's Programming. According to Jeff Sayers, the series won the award for positively portraying a Latino family in this episode.
Cast[]
| Voice actor/actress | Character(s) |
|---|---|
| Tex Hammond | Lincoln Loud |
| Catherine Taber | Lori Loud |
| Liliana Mumy | Leni Loud |
| Nika Futterman | Luna Loud |
| Christina Pucelli | Luan Loud |
| Jessica DiCiccio | Lynn Loud Lucy Loud |
| Grey DeLisle | Lana Loud Lola Loud Lily Loud |
| Lara Jill Miller | Lisa Loud |
| Brian Stepanek | Lynn Loud Sr. |
| Jill Talley | Rita Loud |
| Brenna Yde | Ronnie Anne Santiago |
| Carlos PenaVega | Bobby Santiago |
| Sumalee Montano | Maria Santiago |
| Ruben Garfias | Hector Casagrande |
| Sonia Manzano | Rosa Casagrande |
| Carlos Alazraqui | Carlos Casagrande Sergio |
| Roxana Ortega | Frida Casagrande Carlitos Casagrande |
| Alexa PenaVega | Carlota Casagrande |
| Jared Kozak | CJ Casagrande |
| Alex Cazarez | Carlino Casagrande |
| John DiMaggio | Flip Phillipini |
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