"Grub Snub" is the twenty-seventh episode (twenty-eighth in production order) of the fifth season, and the two-hundred-twenty-sixth episode of The Loud House.
Plot[]
When Leni and her friends start hanging out at Gus's, Lincoln and the gang start a turf war for control.
Synopsis[]
Gus' Games and Grub is known by Lincoln and his friends as their "home away from home", as they are treated with respect by Gus, the owner of the place. After being given several amenities from Gus, the gang is about to eat a pizza with spaghetti on top. However, just before the gang is about to eat their spaghetti pizza, Leni and her friends; Fiona, Miguel, Jackie and Mandee, arrive. They spot Lincoln and his friends sitting at a booth and decide to join them, eating their spaghetti pizza. When asked why they're here, Jackie reveals that Dim Yum, the dim sum restaurant at the mall, is closed, and needed a new place to hang out. After they eat, the teens proceed to play the games, and Miguel ends up winning enough tickets to buy a Rip Hardcore waffle iron (something Clyde has been vying to win for years). When Lincoln asks Gus for some garlic knots, Gus reveals that he just gave his last batch to Leni and her friends.
Later, the teens decide to leave, and when Lincoln wishes them a good time at Dim Yum tomorrow, Fiona reveals that Dim Yum actually shut down, and have decided to make Gus' their new hangout. Unable to let this happen, Lincoln tries to reason with the teens into finding a new hangout, but Leni reveals that Gus' is the only place that all of her friends can enjoy. With his plan unsuccessful, Lincoln tells his friends during school lunchtime that they must plan to "take back" Gus' from Leni and her friends.
Later, the gang attempts to drive Leni and her friends away from Gus' by trying to make the situation hard for them. First, they try to block off all of the arcade machines with police tape, but Leni and friends believe that it's VIP tape made exclusively for them. Second, Clyde tries to send Leni and her friends away by dressing up as a waiter and telling them that they don't have any more food, but Gus arrives and gives them a pizza he made for the Royal Woods Men's Choir, saying that the group had a last-minute singing emergency. Lastly, Lincoln suggests putting pebbled ice, Leni's least-favorite ice, into her drink. After Liam chucks the ice into Leni's drink, Leni complains about how uncomfortable she is because of the pebbled ice in her mouth. Gus, alarmed by Leni's complaining, brings out a massage chair to make her feel better. Flabbergasted and fed up with Leni's gang's luck, Lincoln decides to storm up to them, and tell her off, saying that Gus' is his friends' hangout, and suggests that they battle it out, where the loser is banned forever.
Later, the two groups are about to start the Gus' Game-a-thon, where whoever gets the most points in a series of challenges will be the winner.
- Round One: The first challenge has Lincoln and Leni trying to eat the most spicy wings. Although the wings burn their mouths, Lincoln wins when Leni is unable to eat anymore. (1-0)
- Round Two: The second challenge has Clyde and Miguel playing a plane racing game. Miguel struggles, as he has a fear of heights, but with a little motivation from Leni, he succeeds in beating Clyde. (1-1)
- Round Three: The third challenge has Liam and Mandee trying to get a prize from the claw machine. Mandee fails to get a prize, but Liam succeeds. (2-1)
- Round Four: The fourth challenge has Rusty and Jackie trying to make a pizza first. Jackie wins, as Rusty's dough gets stuck to the ceiling. (2-2)
- Round Five: The fifth challenge has Stella and Fiona playing skee-ball. Fiona scores 500 points, but Stella scores 99,999 points. (3-2)
- Round Six: The sixth challenge has Zach and Miguel playing Smack-a-Troll. Zach is unable to hit any trolls, but Miguel effortlessly hits every one, giving him a perfect score. (3-3)
For the seventh and final challenge, the two teams compete on the Dance Battle machine. As the two teams play the game, Gus discovers that the machine is heating up and tries to warn the kids for their safety. However, the kids are so focused on winning, that they all start to play the game, before getting to a giant fight, where their recklessness wrecks everything in their path. As the gang collapses on the booth they usually sit at, they discover that their fighting has destroyed everything and seriously injured Gus. This causes Lincoln to admit that both of them are the losers.
As the two groups now hang out outside the building depressed, Lincoln apologizes for making such a big deal about Leni and her friends hanging out at Gus', and Leni apologizes for just barging into Gus' without his knowledge, as the place was his. As the two question where they could hang out now, a crutch-toting and angry Gus arrives and says that he knows how they can still hang out at his place. Later, the two groups are hard at work at restoring the place to its former glory, and once they get everything cleaned up, Lincoln reveals that they modified their booth into having extended seats so that all of them can hang out. As Gus thanks the gang for restoring his place, the seats Lincoln and Leni are sitting on suddenly spring them into a ceiling fan, where they are flung outside the building.
Cast[]
- Asher Bishop as Lincoln
- Liliana Mumy as Leni
- Jessica DiCicco as Zach
- Lara Jill Miller as Liam
- Andre Robinson as Clyde
- Diego Alexander as Rusty
- Haley Tju as Stella
- Hiromi Dames as Jackie
- Ariel Fournier as Mandee
- Alex Ryan as Fiona
- Tonatiuh Elizarraraz as Miguel
- Paul Scheer as Gus
Emma, Errol, Richie, Trent, Lincoln's Classmates and Chandler have no lines in this episode.
Moral/Lesson[]
- You should always share.
Trivia[]
- The premise of the episode is similar to "Space Invader" and "Friendzy", where one of Lincoln's older sisters hogs his personal area, so he tries to get rid of said sister.
- Clouded fight between Lincoln and Leni's friends that devastated the arcade and lead them to get banned is similar to how it happened in "Cereal Offender".
- Liam shows off his pitching ability from "Cow Pie Kid" by hurling the pebbled ice into Leni's drink with pinpoint accuracy.
- This is the first episode to reveal Gus, the owner of Gus' Games and Grub.
- Gus' voice was first heard in the Listen Out Loud episode "Lincoln & Clyde Review Gus' Games & Grub". The YouTube version of the podcast has a still image of him that appears whenever he speaks, which is his first depiction. In this episode, Paul Scheer reprises his role from the podcast as Gus.