The Sweet Spot

The Loud House"The Sweet Spot"
Season 1
Number 7
Episode information
Production code	104a
Written by	Kevin Sullivan
Storyboards by	Kyle Marshall
Directed by	Chris Savino
Original air date	May 6, 2016

"The Sweet Spot" is the seventh episode of Season 1 of The Loud House.

Plot

Lincoln schemes to have the best seat in the car for a family road trip.

Synopsis

It's the night before the family road trip in the family van, also known as "Vanzilla." Lincoln explains that he's preparing to stake the night out on the "Sweet Spot," the only good seat in the car, as it protects him from the various inconveniences of the van, and the annoyances of his sisters. After he sneaks out and gets comfortable on the seat, he talks to Clyde over his walkie-talkie, and he asks who will be sitting next to him. After some thinking, Lincoln decides that Leni can sit next to him, since she is usually dazed out for the entire trip.

After convincing Leni to sit next to him, Lincoln goes back into the van, only for Clyde to point out the oversight of who will sit behind him. Following some more thinking, Lincoln convinces Lisa to sit behind him, but only if she doesn't have to sit next to Luna. After speaking to Luna, she agrees to sit up front, so long as she isn't next to Lori. This leads to a chain of deals and agreements between Lincoln and his other sisters, as to who gets to sit next to who.

After finally finalizing the secret van seating chart under his mattress, Lincoln goes back to the Sweet Spot to get some sleep, and ignores Clyde's next question. However, by this time, the girls have gotten suspicious of Lincoln's intent, and after discovering his seating chart, they confront him about it. Lisa calculates that Lincoln has deduced which seat is the best seat in the van, and has angled his sisters in the positions most favorable to him, much to Lincoln's outrage. Now that they all know about the Sweet Spot, they demand that they get to sit in it. A melee ensues between them in the car, waking up the entire neighborhood in the process, including Rita, who tells her kids to get back to bed, and not to go in the van until 7:00 AM.

The Loud kids go back to their rooms, waiting impatiently for the clock to strike 7:00. When the time comes, Lincoln and his sisters begin a mad dash to the van, and have an even more violent and destructive brawl. By the time their parents call it to a halt, the van has been completely destroyed. As Lynn Sr. laments the loss of the van that once belonged to his father and grandfather, Rita orders the kids to go back inside and tells them that the trip is cancelled and that they're spending the weekend together on the couch until they learn to get along, much to everyone's chagrin.

With Lincoln's Sweet Spot plan ending in a total bust, he states that in a big family like his, you can't control every little thing. That said, he knows of another "Sweet Spot" on the couch. He then races out of his bedroom to the living room for it (and probably his sisters as well).

Cast

• Grant Palmer 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
• Caleel Harris as Clyde
• Jill Talley as Rita
• Brian Stepanek as Lynn Sr.

Moral/Lesson

• You can't control every little thing.
• You are not entitled to a specific seat in the car. You need to be considerate towards the rest of your family, and sometimes that means making sacrifices.

Trivia

• This episode, along with its sister episode, was released on Nick.com and other digital platforms on April 1, 2016, ahead of its television premiere.
  • During that time, the video file had the episodes switched. This would play after "A Tale of Two Tables."
• While Lily does not appear in this episode, she is heard in a flashback. She is also the only sibling who doesn't fight for the Sweet Spot, thus making her the only one to not get grounded at the end.
• Part of the girls' argument over the Sweet Spot is reworked dialogue from the comic Lincoln Loud's ABCs of Getting the Last Slice.
• Lynn Sr.'s eyes are shown in a rear-view mirror in a flashback, thus making the first time showing his eyes.
• The title card of this episode is the first one that does not have just a solid color for a background, and in which the title itself features a drop shadow.
  • This is also the first episode where a silhouette of Lincoln is used instead of his physical appearance on the title card.
• The end fight scene is reused for the opening of "Fed Up."
• This episode reveals that Lincoln dislikes sitting next to Lily (because she throws things at him), Luan (because of her pranks), or Lynn (because she plays rough games) in Vanzilla. Likewise, he dislikes sitting in front of Lana (because she has a peashooter) or Lori (because she gets carsick).
  • In addition to this, Lincoln likes sitting next to Leni because she gets dizzy during car rides and won't bother him.
• It's revealed that Lynn Sr. had Vanzilla handed down to him from his father, who got it from his father as well.
  • This was later confirmed in "Vantastic Voyage".
• It's revealed that Luna's singing gives Lisa tinnitus.
• Leni is uncharacteristically aggressive in this episode.
• Ironies:
  • Lincoln plans everything out to make sure he got the sweet spot but because Lincoln's sisters end up finding out his plan and Rita calling off the road trip due to the kids fighting, no one got the seat.
  • Not too long after, Lincoln states his plans failed and that he can't control every little thing that happens in his family, he immediately comes up with another plan to get the best spot on the couch and races downstairs. Lincoln basically proved himself did not learn his lesson.
• Innuendoes:
  • Whenever Clyde asks which sister will sit next to or behind Lincoln, the scene cuts to an outside shot of Vanzilla with Lincoln inside angrily yelling. Since Lincoln's voice was muffled, he might have been swearing.
  • Lori takes a picture of her vomit.