Joyce Crandall is the main antagonist of The Loud House episode "Save Royal Woods!". She is the (now former) Michigan State Under Secretary of Water Leisure who wants to flood Royal Woods to create a sixth great lake in order to receive a promotion.
Appearance[]
Joyce is shown to be an average size woman with light brown hair and pale skin. Her attire includes a purple business dress suit, gold earrings and necklace and purple heels.
Personality[]
In her first appearance, Joyce is shown to be eccentric and vivacious Woman who also wanted to help boost tourism for the city but in reality, she is shown to be a bit sadistic and heartless as she plans to destroy Royal Woods by destroying the dam and flooded the city. When her team quits while remembering their own towns, she decides to destroy the dam herself, despite everyone in town being right in front of it, which would most likely result in huge casualties and injuries. However, she is shown to have a soft spot for her mother as she wanted to name the lake after her mother.
Biography[]
She made her first appearance when Mayor Davis called a meeting where after her introduction (with minor clapping) she explains that she came up with a plan to boost tourism for the city by creating a sixth lake for Michigan, which she will get her promoted to Over Secretary of Water Leisure and name it after her mother (since she didn't get her a gift). While amazing at first, Lincoln then pointed out that the sign for the Burpin' Burger is seen in the background of the new lake, As Joyce revealed that Royal Woods would be the new home for the lake, which will result in everyone being forced to move away and lose their homes and businesses, which she added that they will be paid to move away and a one-time discount for skiing on the lake when its done.
After she sings about how Royal Woods in the only town in Michigan that is not popular as other towns in the state are, she announced that the demolition will begin in a few days, and even added that years from now, people will laugh about the idea, which she started to as she notices no one else is and left instead.
Later, as she is driving her car while telling her car toy dolphin Donna that once her plan come true, then not only will the governor approve her idea but her dream of being Over Secretary of Water Leisure will come true, she is stopped by Mayor Davis and Lincoln as she learns that the town as created the world largest Flippee, which will earn them a lot of tourism, meaning her plan to flood the town will not happen. Just then the giant Flippee began to act up as Flip revealed that instead of using syrup, he used expired gasoline, which combine with cold, resulted in the Giant Flippee to explode and cover some of the citizens in Flippee, followed by the cup crashing into Joyce's car, which made her angry and tells the town that the demolition crew will be here at 9:00 a.m. tomorrow (originally 10 until the cup broke her dolphin toy)
The next day Joyce arrived in town with a Bulldozer as she plans to destroy the dam, only to be stopped by Lincoln as he and the others came up with a last-ditch plan; reenacted a fake historic event that would make it look like Royal Woods does have history. After a musical number about the town and how King George III named the town, Joyce actually took the bait and believed the town does have history and decide to cancel the flooding, only to learn the truth as the crown that King George left was fake (it was actually one of Lola's Pageant Crowns) and plans to destroy the dam and flood the city.
As she and the demolition crew prepared to destroy the dam and flood Royal Woods, Lincoln and the other citizens sang a song about how Royal Woods is their home and how they experience the town in their lives, but Joyce didn't buy it and plans to continue the demolition regardless, until the crew decide not to do it as told her to find another way to get her promotion. Now angrier then before, Joyce decided to destroy the dam herself and flood the town while the citizens are still around, only to learn that Katherine Mulligan has been recording the whole thing on live television in HD, which caused Joyce try to pretend that she wasn't going to do it for real but gets a call from the Over Secretary of Water Leisure (her boss) and learned she's been fired for trying to flood the town, which resulted in her screaming and refusing to take Todd's pitting.
As the town all cheered for Lincoln saving the town and about to a reprise of the song, Joyce stopped them as she doesn't want to hear them sing and left off-screen, which had the town continue to finish the reprise.
Trivia[]
- If Joyce had succeeded in destroying the dam, while everyone was standing in front of it, all of them would have been seriously injured or killed by the flooding water, including herself. This means if Joyce had survived her attempted flooding, she would've lost her job anyway, and would most likely been arrested for her actions. She would've also caused an huge environmental hazard since Lisa mentioned that Royal Woods is positioned on top of deposits of copper, nickel, iron, platinum, and petroleum, meaning the water would be contaminated by those minerals and kill lots of marine life.
- This also would have made "Lake Gladys" completely unsuited for swimming or any other water activities due to how polluted the water would be from the minerals Lisa mentioned. This means Joyce's plan was doomed to failure right from the beginning.
