Review: The Loud House “Weather or Not”

OVERVIEW (SPOILERS)

Convenience store owner Flip learns his rat friend Nacho can predict the weather!

OUR TAKE

Our stretch of episodes covering this latest batch of The Loud House comes to a close with yet another episode not about the titular Loud Family themselves, but a convenience store owner and his rat friend. Flip and Nacho had actually appeared briefly in a prior episode we’ve looked at recently, the one about Lincoln lying about doing his own stunts, though they only got a couple lines and were dressed as villains used specifically for small scenes, so honestly their existence kinda didn’t register with me at the time and they quickly faded from my memory. Now they get their own episode to themselves and…well, it’s kinda hard to retain this in my memory for very long either, so I guess I better write this down pretty quick. It’s another lesson about not letting fame get the better of you and remembering who your friends are even when one of you gets famous, which is actually what I was kinda hoping the lying about stunts episode would also be about, oddly enough. Better late than never, and about two totally different characters, and focusing on completely separate skill sets, but we got there in the end, so I’m counting it.

Also, I suppose having a sapient rat character isn’t too much of a leap for this show, considering we’ve seen them make use of robots, ghosts, and talking babies, but it’s still a bit of a surprise. Alas, whether we like it or not, this is the last of the regular episodes we’ve got to look at before tomorrow’s movie. We’ve covered stories about lying, stories about using performance enhancing magic, the dangers of hunting literature-inspired sea life, learning to live close to but also away from home, and borrowing money from your nearly youngest sibling. With all of that in mind, I think it’s safe to say why The Loud House has managed to endure multiple cast changes, several spin-offs, and its creator being booted early on for sexual harassment. It’s a show with characters that are easy to connect to, stories that reach over vast swath of topics, and is willing to grow and change with its audience…to a small extent, at least.