"Ruthless People" is the twenty-fourth episode of the third season, and the one-hundred-twenty-fifth episode of The Loud House.
Plot[]
When the house is infested with termites, half the family stay with Pop-Pop and the others stay with Aunt Ruth.
Synopsis[]
The siblings are playing football on the second floor. As Lynn runs past her siblings, she suddenly crashes right through Lincoln's bedroom wall. While observing the damage, Rita and Lynn Sr. discover termites roaming around in the walls, and declare that they have to stay somewhere else while the house gets fumigated. When the idea of staying at a hotel together gets shot down due to the large amount of family members, they say that they should split up. One half of the family stay with Pop-Pop, while the other half stay with Aunt Ruth. Almost immediately, the siblings call dibs on Pop-Pop, but Rita calls no dibs, and decide to draw names from a hat. After the drawings, the results are in: Leni, Luan, Lucy, Lana, Lisa, Lily, and Rita go to Pop-Pop's, while Lincoln, Lori, Luna, Lynn, Lola, and Lynn Sr. go to Aunt Ruth's.
While fixing up his damaged wall, Lincoln tells the viewers that he has a plan to go to Pop-Pop's regardless. He goes to Lana, who's hosting a party for a group of termites she saved, and convinces her to switch over when talking about all the gross things she'll miss out on. While packing, Lola discovers what's in Lincoln's suitcase, and tattles him out to the other members on his side. As Lori, Luna, Lynn, Lola, and Lynn Sr. complain, Lincoln says that they too can come to Pop-Pop's if they can convince the others to switch. Taking his words, Lori, Luna, Lynn, Lola, and Lynn Sr. manage to convince the opposing side to switch. After Leni, Luan, Lucy, Lana, Lisa, Lily, and Rita are dropped off at Aunt Ruth's, Lincoln, Lori, Luna, Lynn, Lola, and Lynn Sr. quickly rush over to Sunset Canyon.
Upon arriving to Sunset Canyon, problems already arise. The pool is closed due a pool noodle jamming the filter, the shuffleboard court is closed when a flock of geese attacked one of the elders (and is now labeled as a crime scene), Scoots steals all of the pudding, their dinner is a mysterious mush, Lynn Sr. can't add salt to his meal, they have to go to bed at 6:00 PM, no drinks before bed, and the AC is broken. The family calls up the others in hopes that their misery would make them feel better, but to their disappointment, the ones staying with Aunt Ruth are actually having a great time, since Aunt Ruth took them to a lake house.
They still got the short end of the stick.
Unable to take it anymore, and out of jealousy, Lynn Sr. and the siblings call up the others so they can switch places by making promises. They all agree, and both halves of the family switch places. As Lynn Sr.'s group begin to celebrate that they now have somewhere more tolerable to stay, Lynn decides to practice football, but upon crashing into the wall, it is revealed that the lake house has termites as well. While observing the damage, Lincoln discovers a miniature disco ball present, meaning that Lana brought them along with her just to spare them from being killed during their house's fumigation. Realizing they can't stay at the lake house, the family is forced to stay at Aunt Ruth's house. The family decides to call up the others, hoping that their misery would make them feel better. Unfortunately, they are disappointed to learn that the retirement home has rented out a cruise ship, making Lincoln, Lori, Luna, Lynn, Lola, and Lynn Sr. furious yet again that they still got the short end of the stick.
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 / Scoots
- Lara Jill Miller as Lisa
- Brian Stepanek as Lynn Sr.
- Jill Talley as Rita
- Phil LaMarr as Orderly
- Fred Willard as Pop-Pop
Lily, Ruth, and Seymour have no lines in this episode.
Moral/Lesson[]
- Bad things happening to you doesn’t make you unlucky, you just had a bad day and still have good luck.
Trivia[]
- According to the episode's storyboard artist, Sarah Johnson, she designed the title card, while Amanda Rynda colored it in.
- This episode's title card has the exact same color scheme as the one for "Lock 'n' Loud".
- Despite Ruth appearing in the episode, as well as the title mentioning her name, she does not speak in this episode.
- According to Pop-Pop, salt is prohibited from Sunset Canyon because of a high blood pressure epidemic that occurred in 2013.
- Ruth's house number is revealed to be 1521.
- Lisa and Lily are the only roommates to be in the same group.
- Lola is the only younger sibling who is part of Lynn Sr.'s group.
- This episode reveals that Lori got botulism from expired yogurt when she last visited Aunt Ruth.