Review: The Loud House “Director’s Rut; Friday Night Fights”

Overview

“Director’s Rut”
Luan turns to Mr. Coconuts for help after she struggles to direct her school’s play…



“Friday Night Fights”
Lisa joins Lynn’s football team as the analytics coach to prove that math will always beat out heart…


Our Take

Luan after being chosen to direct a school play of her creation struggles to have creative control due to the cast adding their own thing and not sticking to her vision which progressively gets on her nerves and as a consequence, she subconsciously lets her Puppet friend Mr. Coconuts call the shots which almost makes things problematic but at the end of the day Luan learns a meaningful message about openly and directly voicing your concerns on a friendly level rather than aggressively speaking through a puppet about what bothers you.

The second episode almost feels eerily similar to a previous Lisa-focused episode but it’s a different situation where Lisa tries to call the shots in a scenario she might excel in terms of using her 180 IQ logic and statistics to help Lynn’s all-girl Football team achieve victory. And while some of her changes come across as logical and mentally sound, It’s almost as if the writers are unable to help her progress as a character since she’s only applying these tactics on kids and assumes they’ll be molded into cogs in her well-oiled machine and not as well-adjusted individuals. But of course, she thankfully realizes what’s crucial the most in terms of a winning team.

As a whole, both episodes were passable even if the 2nd one felt a bit predictable and repetitive at times. The Luan episode mostly works as a character study on what not to do when you’re in charge of a project and have creative people on board that want to apply their own ideas. As for the other episode, I know I might be overthinking this for a kid’s cartoon but I don’t understand why the writers keep doing this to Lisa. She’s a genius-level child and nobody wants to put her in a school that would actually accommodate her advanced intellect. Nobody is born that logical and even the smartest people are capable of fucking-up, but I’m hoping in the future that the writers acknowledge this in different ways instead of just putting Lisa in charge of something and failing because her tactics “lack a human element” because apparently, they don’t apply to kids.