"Funny Business" is the forty-seventh episode of the first season of The Loud House.
Plot[]
Lincoln begins to hog the spotlight when he becomes Luan's clown assistant.
Synopsis[]
The story begins with Lincoln ready to read a comic book under a tree, when Luan appears. She's about to fall from her unicycle, so she cries for help. Lincoln rushes to catch her, but she falls down. Lincoln helps her by collecting her party toys and props from ground. She offers to make him her clown assistant, because the other sisters she contracted ruined each of the birthday parties she performed for. Lincoln declines at first, but when Luan tells him that the clown and her assistant receive free pieces of birthday cake, he eagerly accepts the job.
At the next birthday party, where he assists, Lincoln accidentally slips on a can of whipped cream and falls on the presents, which the kids see as hilarious. Flattered with the laughs and applause, Lincoln begins to hoard the show by making pratfalls to make the children laugh while overshadowing Luan, who becomes extremely jealous of him.
One day, Funny Business Inc. receives a call from a mother of the neighborhood to contract Luan as a clown in her daughter's birthday party, but Lincoln takes her place believing it's gonna be easy, as with the previous parties, and ignoring Luan's advice that being a clown is about more than just "falling on his butt." When he arrives at the party, he's very surprised to see that all the kids are emo tweens, and the birthday girl, Maggie, is not 4 or 5, but 13 years old. He then begins to do his act, but the emo kids boo him, and don't find him funny at all. Humiliated, Lincoln calls Luan for help, but she refuses at first, due to his selfish and arrogant attitude towards her. He apologizes and admits that she's the expert and he isn't, and that if she doesn't come, her clown business will have a bad reputation, and she finally agrees to help him.
Luan finally comes to assist Lincoln, and after looking at the audience, she gets an idea. She and Lincoln perform a mime play, which all the emo kids enjoy and clap to. On their way home, Lincoln thanks Luan for her aid, and apologizes to her for his misbehaving. She forgives him, remembers when she got her first laugh, apologizes as well for being too harsh on him, and asks him if he will continue being her assistant, which he agrees to. In the end, they both enjoy a moment of laughing together after they do a couple of pratfalls on some whoopie cushions.
Cast[]
- Collin Dean as Lincoln
- Liliana Mumy as Leni (expressions)
- Cristina Pucelli as Luan
- Jessica DiCicco as Lynn (expressions) / Audience Kid
- Grey Griffin as Lana (expressions) / Maggie's Mom
- Lara Jill Miller as Lisa
- Kari Wahlgren as Maggie / Unnamed Woman / Kids
- Kimberly Brooks as Tween #1 / Kids
- Charlie Schlatter as Maggie's Dad / Tween #2
- April Stewart as Bratty Kid's Mom
Lucy has no lines in this episode. Leni, Lynn and Lana also have no lines in this episode but are listed in the credits because they can be heard cheering (Leni) and laughing (Lynn and Lana).
Moral/Lesson[]
- You shouldn't hog someone's spotlight because it's their job.
Trivia[]
- This marks Lana's first appearance without Lola.
- This is one of Cristina Pucelli's favorite episodes.
- This and "Toads and Tiaras" are the only Season 1 episodes in which Lori is absent.
- It is revealed that Luan has a pet rabbit named Gary.