"Homespun" (also rendered as "Home-Spun") is the fifty-second episode, as well as the Season 1 finale of The Loud House.
Plot[]
The children complain about their house, but they start to feel differently after a tornado threatens to destroy it.
Synopsis[]
As Lincoln takes out the garbage, he hears Lori screaming from upstairs. It turns out that the doorknob to the bathroom door broke off, and now Lori is trapped inside. Lori tries to break out, but slips on a puddle, and causes the shower pole to plummet onto her head. Upset at all the misfortune she's receiving, Lori yells out that the house is literally falling apart. Lincoln points out that Lori's right, and explains that between them, the rest of the sisters, all their pets, and their parents (who insist on fixing everything themselves), their house is a complete disaster.
Lincoln proves his point when he explains that the house suffers from things like faulty water pressure, creaky floorboards, rotting wood, a clunky furnace, crummy TV signals, the numerous times that doorknobs and door handles have broken off from stuff, and the malfunctioning mailbox, which falls on Lincoln's foot. When Lincoln complains that there wasn't even a breeze strong enough to knock the mailbox off its post, Lisa proves him wrong when she explains (through some meteorological instruments) that wind speeds are increasing significantly, which indicates that a big storm is coming--possibly a tornado. Lincoln's skeptical at first, but then he and the rest of their sisters (along with their parents) discover that Lisa's right when a meteorologist announces that a tornado watch has just been issued for the Royal Woods-area. Mr. and Mrs. Loud tell the kids to wait in the basement while they go to secure the TV antenna.
While waiting in the basement, the kids are scared, but Lisa assures her siblings that just because there's a tornado watch, that doesn't mean an actual tornado is going to happen--she also adds that most housing structures can withstand wind speeds of at least eighty miles an hour (though Luan makes a joking statement that contradicts Lisa's last statement). Pretty soon, the kids begin remarking all the times when the house began falling apart. Those include:
- The first time Bobby came over after he and Lori first started dating, and began experiencing all the flaws of the house.
- The house walls being so thin, the whole house can hear whenever other people are talking.
- Water leaking from the walls, because someone flushed the toilet.
When Lisa gets new information that wind speeds have greatly decreased, the kids are relieved, yet go into another series of flashbacks that explains all the good times they had living in their house which include:
- The basement being flooded when the last big storm hit them, and the dumped out water resulting in their own personal swimming hole.
- Possums chewing up their wiring, cutting off all Internet access, and TV signals, though they entertain themselves by acting like pioneers, after reading a series of books owned by their father.
- The air conditioner malfunctioning, resulting in the living room freezing over, and the kids turning it into their personal winter wonderland.
- Slanting floors, which allows items to slide from one room to another, without anyone having to get up to grab them.
- A hole in the bathroom floor, allowing Lynn (or anyone else) to get more toilet paper from the first floor (courtesy of someone else).
- The broken doorbell, resulting in the kids getting free pizza.
- The kids repainting the house as a gift for their parents' wedding anniversary. When it turns out disastrous, they respectfully repaint it back to normal. When they finished, they put their handprints (all in their respective theme colors) on the side of the house.
As the kids laugh at all the good times, Lisa's equipment begins acting up again. Lisa examines the information that's provided, stating that the wind speed has greatly increased again, but now it's to the point that the tornado watch is about to become a tornado warning. The tornado strikes down, causing the thunder to begin roaring uncontrollably and the electricity to begin flickering. As the kids huddle in fear, they admit they were too harsh on the house and take back everything bad they said about it. As the kids shiver in fear at the impending doom, the storm suddenly ceases. When Lisa says it's clear, they all exit the basement to check on how the house looks.
Outside, the kids and parents look at their house with concern and a passing bicyclist comments that their house looks pretty beat up. The house turns out to be just the same and Lincoln tells the bicyclist that's the way the house always is, and they like it just the way it is. The family are about to head back inside, but the doorknob to the front door breaks off, resulting in everybody saying "Dang it".
Cast[]
- Collin Dean as Lincoln
- Catherine Taber as Lori
- Liliana Mumy as Leni
- Nika Futterman as Luna
- Cristina Pucelli as Luan
- Jessica DiCicco as Lynn / Lucy
- Grey Griffin as Lana / Lola / Lily
- Lara Jill Miller as Lisa
- Jill Talley as Rita
- Brian Stepanek as Lynn Sr. / Pizza Guy
- Carlos PenaVega as Bobby
- John DiMaggio as Patchy Drizzle / Cyclist
Moral/Lesson[]
- Home is where the heart is, and it's better just the way it is.
Trivia[]
- This is the last episode produced for Season 1, but was aired midway through the season.
- This is another one of the few times where the rest of the Loud siblings actually finds one of Luan's jokes/puns to be funny.
- Lincoln is sitting at the adult table again in Luna's flashback, which he tried to get to in "A Tale of Two Tables".
- Luan, Lana, and Lisa are the only siblings not to share any flashbacks about the house.
- Technically, however, Luan did share a flashback through Lily's babbling.
- It is revealed that Luan has the ability to translate Lily's babbling.
- It is revealed that Lori's earrings were a gift from Bobby.
- For the first time since the beginning of the series, at the end of the episode, the airplane tree and the Frisbee and boomerang on top of the roof are not there, although these toys would be present again in the same places.
- It's been confirmed that a flashback of Clyde's backstory was cut from this episode.
- Patchy Drizzle made his first aired appearance in this episode, but "Snow Bored" was his actual debut in production order.
- The only "damages" the house apparently suffered during the tornado was a semi-broken window upstairs and the gutter hanging at the bottom.
- The color of the hand prints each Loud sibling places on the house all match the colors they appear in the show's theme song.