"One Flu Over the Loud House" is the fiftieth episode of the first season of The Loud House.
Plot[]
When a common cold spreads through the Loud house, Lincoln believes his sisters have turned into zombies.
Synopsis[]
Lincoln wakes up late on a Saturday morning, and is surprised to hear nothing at all. He walks out of his room to find that the upstairs hallway is a wreck. He sees Lana and Lola come out of their room looking sick, and he tries to back away, only to find a sick Lori and Lynn. He continues to back away, only to be pulled into Lisa's room. He finds Leni, Luna, Luan, Lucy, and Lisa, who take his temperature to make sure he isn't sick.
When they know he isn't sick, they explain what happened. Lori got the flu and sneezed on Lynn's basketball, causing her to get infected. Lynn went and drank orange juice from the carton so when Lana drank the juice, she got infected due to the germs Lynn had previously released into the carton. Lana coughed on Lola, causing her to get infected, and the rest were taking shelter in Lisa's room to avoid the disease.
Lincoln calls Clyde and tells him the flu is invading the house. Clyde mourns when he hears Lori got the flu. Lincoln lets Clyde know six of them are fine, only for Luan to sneeze. When Lincoln and the others assume her to be infected, Luan tries quipping she's "snot." Mere seconds later, she indeed becomes a "zombie" and is thrown out of the room by the other survivors.
Lincoln says they need to leave the house, but Leni says that they should help their family. Everyone sides with Lincoln and grabs a gun filled with chicken soup, except for Leni who believes that they should take care of the ones who have the flu. They break out of the room and begin warding off the zombies. Unfortunately for Luna, Luan and Lola corner and sneeze on her, getting her infected. They rest act like zombies as camouflage and make it downstairs, knowing Luna got infected and thinking Lucy also got infected. They try to leave through the front door, but the pets are outside and infected. They try the back door, but find more infected siblings. They head to Mom and Dad's room and find them infected, but they also find that Lucy wasn't infected.
Lincoln tries contacting Clyde, but his walkie-talkie is dead. They sneak into Lisa's room for batteries and see Lily is infected too. Lily sends a snot bubble at them, but it misses and it goes out the window. They recharge the walkie-talkie and make it to the kitchen. When Lincoln attempts to open the door, the snot bubble flies in through an open window and infects Lucy for real, who then infects both the doorknob and Lisa.
Now down to Lincoln and Leni, the latter offers to stay behind and help the others, allowing Lincoln to escape. Just as Lincoln is about to make a break for it though, he notices Luna about to sneeze on Leni. Thus, Lincoln jumps in front of her and gets himself infected. Leni goes over to Lincoln asking why he did what he did, who replies that Leni deserved to be healthy more than he did, only to end up sneezing on her. With that, the entire Loud family has been infected with the flu, rendering the escape mission all for nothing.
As a silver lining, Clyde has decided to do his part in helping the family recover, noting that while the Louds are infected, they're still human. Wearing a hazmat suit, Clyde brings his food into the living room, which the Louds quickly devour, and ends the episode on an poorly timed joke about it being "to die for".
Cast[]
- Collin Dean as Lincoln
- Catherine Taber as Lori (expressions; uncredited)
- Liliana Mumy as Leni
- Nika Futterman as Luna
- Cristina Pucelli as Luan
- Jessica DiCicco as Lynn (expressions; uncredited) / Lucy
- Grey Griffin as Lana / Lola / Lily
- Lara Jill Miller as Lisa
- Caleel Harris as Clyde
- Jill Talley as Rita
- Brian Stepanek as Lynn Sr. (expressions; uncredited)
Lori, Lynn and Lynn Sr. have no lines in this episode, although they can be heard moaning and (in Lori and Lynn's case) sneezing.
Trivia[]
- This episode was banned from reruns in 2020 due to its themes mirroring the COVID-19 pandemic. This also caused its sister episode to be banned as well.
- However, these episodes still air on Nicktoons CEE, Nickelodeon Southeast Asia, Nickelodeon Iberia (Portugal and Spain), and Nickelodeon Austria; are available for viewing on Paramount+; and are always available on the DVD releases.
- In addition, the episode premiered in Sri Lanka on September 2, 2020 and in Japan on April 28, 2021, during the pandemic.
- This episode is omitted from Nickelodeon On-Demand on DirecTV for unknown reasons.
- This premiered as a part of Nickelodeon's Halloween episodes.
- The use of the Loud sisters as flu zombies clearly matches with the Halloween theme.
- This and its sister episode are the only Season 1 episodes to not be part of a premiere week.
- Rita's face is shown once again, although only her mouth and nose are shown. Lynn Sr.'s full body is shown in silhouette, and his eyes are also shown when he's infected.
- Before "11 Louds a Leapin'", Lynn Sr.'s full head was shown, but his face was covered by a tissue.
- Also, Rita grew eight bangs instead of six that covers her eyes like Lucy's, her lipstick is not shown, and her left earring is barely visible.