Schooled! (The Loud House)

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Schooled!
"Welcome to Canada, You're in Canada" Except that this is NOT what Canada truly is!
Series: The Loud House Part of Season: 5 Episode Number: 1 Air Date: September 11, 2020 (USA) November 2, 2020 (UK) Writer: Whitney Wetta Byron Dockins Katie Mattila Jeff Sayers Director: Kyle Marshall Jessica Borutski Previous episode: "The Loud House Movie" (chronologically) "Coupe Dreams" (Season 4) Next episode: "The Boss Maybe"

"Schooled!" is the first episode of Season 5 and the first hour-length one of The Loud House.

Plot

When Lincoln starts middle school, he gets separated from his group of friends and tries to switch classes in order to be with them, which accidentally gets him sent to Canada instead. At the same time, Lori has trouble finding a suitable dorm floor at Fairway University, while Mom and Dad need to get Lily potty trained before she can attend Baby Bunker Preschool.

‎Why This Episode Got Moved To Mr. Bolhofner's Class & Received Several Citations From Lynn Jr.

1. The entire episode is unnecessarily mean-spirited and completely unfair towards Lincoln since he has to be forced to move to Mr. Bolhofner’s run-down classroom (which is a trailer 1 mile away from the school) because he didn’t sign the application form, he gets picked on, and harassed by Chandler and Lynn (Jr.), he gets talked down to by Mr. Bolhofner, and he is forced to go to a middle school in Canada after finally having enough of the unnecessary torment he has been given.
   • Lincoln going to Canada as a plot isn't necessarily a bad idea, it's a great one. But the way it is handled was added to let the story progress, on making Lincoln suffer even more. This idea could have been saved for another episode. This is the moment where The Loud House has completely "jumped the shark". The episode also had an opportunity to be an episode about the whole Loud siblings' first day of school, as most fans and critics (and non-fans) wanted it to be.
2. Missed opportunities: They never show Lori graduating from high school and the Loud family's goodbye scene only lasted 30 seconds, which makes the goodbye sequence feel forced for how short-lived it is. In addition, they don't even show Lincoln, his friends, and the elementary school students who graduate elementary school. They could have done a Season 4 one-hour finale where Lincoln and his friends graduate elementary school and Lori graduates high school, but no, the writers didn't. Because of that, it can be weird to show Lincoln and Lori in their new schools as there was never a sendoff episode where they graduate from their respective schools and said "Goodbye" to their teachers, which should've been heartwarming, as people had wanted.
   • Also, when Lincoln moves to the new school, Cristina (Lincoln's girlfriend who showed up in "Making the Case" and "For Bros About to Rock" from season 1) is nowhere to be seen.
3. The second song of the episode, Welcome to Canada (like the Canadian stereotyping itself) comes off as cringe-worthy, but also just as bad as the Canadian stereotyping in general. It is catchy, though.
4. Like most of the episodes for this show, this episode has a lot of wasted potential in it, which in this case, it did utilize a middle school, Canadian, and college settings for heaps of comedic gags while at the same time to show what is it like to be in either of these settings in a positive way and chances to bring back the slice of life vibes, but those three are ruined since this episode only relies on stale Canadian stereotypes in a negative way which drags on for way too long, while the rest of these episodes only rely on the torture scenarios on Lori Loud and Lincoln Loud.
5. This episode started Leni's flanderization as she lost all forms of IQ in general, she doesn't even know what to wear, even though she is the fashion girl and would know what to wear by now, and even has a job at Reingeer's at Royal Woods Mall.
   • Also, she shows herself to be so ridiculously stupid in this episode to the point of confusing the high school with preschool, even though she got a job in season 3, and would know by now what is the difference between the two in general.
   • Furthermore, her subplot of going to preschool adds absolutely nothing to do with the story aside from being another failed attempt at comedic humor, and to make Leni stupid. Leni of course is the airhead of the show, but she is not that stupid. She never makes dumb mistakes to the point she can't tell the difference between preschool and high school. But this was done so because the writers of the show don't really respect the intelligence of the audience. She is 17 years old now, and this episode treats her like she can't do things on her own, and that she has lost all forms of IQ in her (as said earlier). This is not a funny moment from Leni, and this episode just destroyed almost every likability Leni once had ever since until receiving her driver's licence in "Driver's Dread".
6. Mr. Bolhofner and Chandler both bully Lincoln in his class.
   • Speaking of which, Chandler bullying Lincoln heavily for no good reason contradicts the episode "Jeers for Fears" since, in that episode, it was said that Lincoln and Chandler became friends which each other. But here in this episode, they went back to being arch enemies to each other as if Chandler hasn't learned anything or if he completely forgot what he learned, which shows the writers of the show no longer care about character development or continuity in general at this point.
   • Mr. Bolhofner's behavior here is also more awful. The way he behaves in this episode contradicts how he acted in "Middle Men". In "Middle Men", he was the usual strict but fair teacher you usually see with other cartoon characters that are the strict teacher, but in this episode, he suddenly became a total slob of a rude teacher who talks down to children and throws his anger out on Lincoln for a currently unexplained reason. As such, what on earth happened between "Middle Men" and this episode that made him like this?
7. Lynn Jr. abuses her role as the monitor in the hall and pushes Lincoln, Rusty, and Zach into the closet just because the former was running in the hallway. In addition to Lynn, her subplot not only is needlessly crass and had no story other than just her being a jerk but is completely pointless to the plot.
   • What doesn't help is that Lynn taking advantage of her position as Hall Monitor makes her a hypocrite. In the episode "Middle Men", she was worried about Lincoln and Clyde, and if the two could be bullied on the first day of school, but here, she does the same with Lincoln for no apparent reason other than she is the hall monitor.
   • She also gave the principal a fine by the end of the special, and she also did nothing to deserve that fine.
8. There is a line from one of Lincoln’s friends, Stella, telling him “Why don’t you ask them if you are allergic to Canada?”, which makes it sound like the characters are racist towards Canadians.
9. Several plot holes:
   • How did none of the college staff know about the fact there was an alligator or crocodile in the last dorm of the episode?
   • Leni is shown to have not left for school yet because she was unable to figure out which clothes to wear, so it is unknown how Rita and Lynn Sr. were not aware of her presence when they were having fun around the house, let alone how Leni was not able to hear her parents having fun.
   • Also, the special never shows if Leni went home or not, giving the impression that she was stuck there.
   • In the subplot of Lily, Rita, and Lynn Sr., they get stuck out because of Lily, but the front door was open while they were behind her.
   • How do the Louds manage to get into the house, even though Lily locked them out?
   • Lynn Sr. and Rita have already taken care of ten children, so how it is difficult for them to potty train, Lily? (although Lisa has been potty-trained herself).
   • Lynn and Lincoln, who are middle-schoolers, share the same bus as their high school and elementary school siblings.
   • How did the moose come from Canada to Royal Woods?
   • How did none of the staff at Royal Woods even bother taking care of the problems Lori has had with the four dorms she has chosen?
10. Also, this entire point of transferring Lincoln to another school in Canada doesn't make sense. Wouldn't it be easier to transfer him to another school or another classroom?
11. The Canadian stereotypes are portrayed in a one-dimensional and exaggerated way, and the portrayal is also can come off as really insulting and disrespectful against Canadians and the Canadian culture in general. Not even South Park, which airs on Nickelodeon’s sister network, Comedy Central, was that stereotypical in their description of Canadians, and at least it was fun there.
    • Ironically, Kyle Marshall is a Canadian crew member of the show. Wouldn’t he know better about Canada jokes?
12. The reason for Lincoln's ban is very stupid: They only banned him just because he didn't want maple syrup on pancakes. The writers probably thought that joke was a lot funnier than it was.
13. Lori's subplot is also no better, as she is continuously tortured for having to change the floor in every dorm every time.
    • Also, all four of these floors don't make any sense. For example: Why would a "quiet floor" exist unless it was a library? Granted, The Loud House is a cartoon, but you can't ignore logic like that.
    • At one part, while Lori was saying "Eee!" while watching her TV show, the quiet people peep up which Causes Lori to scream and leap off her bed!
    • Because she is continuously tortured, she has gone through the same terrible treatment Lincoln had. Everyone is shushing her on the first floor because the first floor has ear-sensitive people, there is a room full of sand, there is a room where everyone is playing golf indoors, and the last pick for a floor is a gold hazard because there's an alligator.
14. In general, the episode itself constantly and continuously relies on really stupid and unfunny jokes to get people to laugh at every joke there is, especially considering the fact the episode later goes to the point of going through a checklist of every single Canadian joke imaginable.
15. This episode has proved to critics and fans of the show that the writers behind it have become more incompetent when it comes to writing foreign characters into the series.
    • This incompetence is ironic considering that they wrote in a character who is a Brazilian exchange student into the series in an episode of season four (that episode is "Exchange of Heart" if anyone wants to know, and his name was Tiago), and at least they made that character (Tiago) feel less like an inaccurate and failing joke machine, and more like a real person.
    • Hell, the show went out of its way to include a family of characters with Mexican heritage (who are The Casagrandes). They have also gotten their spin-off series. Although they are very stereotypical, their culture is usually not as over-the-top as the Canadians
      • If the show can portray these characters of different nationalities correctly, then the same cannot be said with how Canadians are portrayed in this episode or the show in general.
16. Lincoln's friends' subplot is no better, as they struggle without Lincoln, yet they could easily do the stuff without him because Principal Ramirez doesn't work out for him to be assigned to Mrs. Salter's class which it doesn't fit in their, and have him to attend Mr. Bolhofner's class instead.
17. The animation is dull, uncanny, and restricted, as typical for most seasons 4 and 5 episodes.
18. Overall, this episode pretty much caused the show to jump the shark since it suffered through really bad execution due to the amount of horrible Canadian stereotyping and overly stupid and unfunny jokes, and it also started Season 5 on a mean-spirited and abysmal note.

Qualities That Should Go To Mrs. Salter's Class Instead

1. The idea of making the characters aging up one year was a good idea.
   • Also, it was a good idea to have the characters move up a grade and age up a year as opposed to cartoons when they move up a grade, the characters would rarely age up a year.
2. The first six and a half minutes of the episode were pretty good.
   • The song Lincoln sings when getting off the bus at the start, "We Got This" is pretty decent.
   • Eh, Girl is catchy too.
   • While cringe-worthy and bad, the "Welcome to Canada" song is catchy.
3. Although not needed for this story, it surprisingly has a good message about adjusting to change can be a difficult challenge, but you have to try to make the best of it as you can.
4. The scene where Leni shows the photos to Lily, and she decides to go to preschool was cute.
   • The scene where Lori comforted Lincoln was heartwarming as well.
   • While short and rushed, the scene where Lori leaves for college is pretty heartwarming.
5. Lincoln's friends at least help Lincoln get out of the Canadian school.
6. At least Lily is finally potty-trained which gets rid of her infamous dirty diaper gag. Her subplot is also the best and most tolerable part of the special. But is also the only good one.
   • Dr. Shuttleworth comes back to the show after season 2's "Potty Mouth" at last once again.
7. Chandler does get what he deserves at the end. But the same cannot be said for Lynn.
8. Lynn Sr. latching himself to Lori's car begging her not to go and a bathrobe-clad Leni chasing the car due to wanting Lori's opinion on what to wear were the only good jokes in this episode.
9. The episode has interesting concepts about Lincoln starting middle school, Lori going to college, and Lincoln going to Canada, even if it was badly executed, and an interesting concept about Lily going to preschool which is well-executed.
10. Surprisingly good ending: Lincoln goes back to Royal Woods Middle School, Lori finds a dorm floor at college, and Lily goes to preschool and enjoys it, with Leni staying on it, bouncing. Lincoln asks his friends what kind of food they wanted to trade, and they do it, and they hug. Later, Lincoln goes to Mr. Bolhofner's class, where the teacher turns down the temperature and everyone is happy. Chandler then gets what he deserves in the end, as mentioned above.
11. Decent animation and good voice acting as usual.
12. Despite being the most infamous episode, everyone still feels bad for Lincoln getting bullied and he needs sympathy.

Reception

"Schooled!" received a 4.5/10 on IMDb, as it has gotten polarizing reception from viewers, with many angry ones going as far as they could to bomb it with 1-star votes. Many did enjoy the episode (like the more vehement side of the fanbase), but others, including critics, called it one of the worst episodes of the show, such as Yoshi Player, who had also reviewed the first four seasons of The Loud House, called it the worst of the entire series, to the point where he would quit watching and never talk about it again (aside from mentioning it and reviewing The Loud House Movie as a part of his Animation Explosion series). DeviantArt critic HenryBean also called it the worst episode of the series, and also his least favorite cartoon episode. As a result, many fans would go as far as they can to stop watching the series altogether as well.

Trivia

• According to Ari Castleton, Daggett, and Norbert from The Angry Beavers were to appear during "Welcome to Canada". However, Nickelodeon requested him to not use the characters for unknown reasons and instead had them replaced with normal beavers.^{[citation needed]}
• The episode did air in Canada seven days after the US release but somehow has not garnered any form of controversy for its negative depiction of the Canadian culture, despite the series itself being animated in Canada.
• The title is an expression that means to lose or fail.
• As of this episode onward:
  • The title cards have a new design with the three lower boxes being themed around the episode and it now also does make them look unique from each other.
  • Lincoln is now in middle school.
  • Lori has moved out from Royal Woods to attend college and is a freshman at Fairway University. She is now visiting home when the university closes every weekend, during the holiday break, and even on summer vacation, and is no longer the oldest in the house.
  • Leni is now the new oldest in the house since her ex-roommate Lori is moving out to attend college. She is also in 12th grade now.
  • Luna is now in an unknown grade (most likely 11th grade and a lot of people believe that).
  • Luan is now in 10th grade (she is now the character who has moved up the grades the most).
  • Lynn is now in an unknown grade which is most likely 8th grade. She also is no longer the only Loud sibling to attend Royal Woods Middle School and is no longer the only Loud sibling to attend school without any of her siblings alongside Lily (she attended it with Luan up until "Fandom Pains" and was from "Rita Her Rights" to "Coupe Dreams") since Lincoln now attends it, and Lori is also the only Loud sibling besides Lily to attend it since she is now in college with none of her siblings.
  • Lucy is indeed now in 4th grade.
  • Lana and Lola are indeed now in 2nd grade. They would also later become 7 years old as of "Strife of the Party".
  • Lisa is now in 1st grade, and she no longer takes naps since she is in first grade now.
  • Lily is now potty trained and also is now in preschool. She also now speaks full sentences and no longer wears diapers. She now wears a white shirt with lavender pants and her eyebrows also appear to be longer and also her hair appears to be longer and thinner too. It also ends her dirty diaper running gags (though she says "Poo-Poo!" in "Dream a Lily Dream" and stuff outside of the show).
  • Clyde, Zach, Rusty, Stella, and Liam are also now in middle school, but in a different class than Lincoln because all the seats in Mrs. Salter's class were full, and the checkmark on Lincoln's form to get into said class was actually a Flippee stain shaped like one.
• This episode marks Bobby Santiago's first appearance in The Loud House since "Don't You Fore-Get About Me, and his first physical appearance in the show since "Lucha Fever with the Casagrandes". It is also his first appearance since The Casagrandes New Roomie.
• The title card three themed lower boxes are the following:
  • A quilt with red and black squares on it.
  • Wood in the second box.
  • The place where Lincoln goes to Canada (ground with two trees and the sky).
• This is also the first episode to have an object in the red box, as a lot of later episodes do the same.
• While Lori does also indeed stay on the Water Floor in this episode, however, as of "Ghosted!", she is now on a different floor. It is also indeed most likely because a "normal" floor was finally available for her to move on to.

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