Thread:AndrewBrauer/@comment-34904882-20170919213052/@comment-24281967-20170921232840

I'm not gonna make any new friends with this but... I found No Laughing Matter disappointing this was my most anticipated episode of the week and yet I was let down and found this segment forgettable and utterly boring. For one, the first minute of this episode makes Luan pretty unlikable since her pranks come off more annoying than funny, and even some of them aren't even considered pranks how is Lincoln getting punched by a boxing glove suppose to be a prank if anything it just makes Luan look like a jerk! Then the siblings while hanging out in the living room, vent about how annoying Luan's pranks are and to no one's surprise, Luan overheard the whole thing and is now just going to give up on comedy for good. Here's my main issue with the episode, it expects us to feel sorry for Luan just because her siblings were annoyed with her pranks which they have every right to be annoyed with her, it's like this is her first time getting an honest opinion on her comedy, and so now she just straight up gives up on her passion just because her siblings were sick of her puns and everything else she does. This makes Luan look very weak especially for someone who's been doing comedy ever since she was a little kid, plus we've had two April Fools episodes where her family was aggravated with her jokes yet she brushes all that off and moves on. After that the episode plays out exactly how you expect it will, the siblings will try and get Luan back into doing comedy. Another problem with this episode and all of the new episodes this week are that they're very predictable, safe and not all that unique when it comes to the stories told and No Laughing Matter is the biggest example of this. Made even worse is that the comedy in this episode is about as funny as a funeral, the only joke I kinda liked was Lisa's time machine comment about how the siblings would end up in front of their butts or something like that, it was a little odd but I found the moment amusing. There's also some really cringworthy moments here, from the spit take thing the siblings were doing to convince Luan to do comedy was painful to watch, or Lincoln trying to be a stand-up comedian in the climax that I get was intentionally suppose to be uncomfortable but that doesn't mean that it was enjoyable to watch because it wasn't. So now Luan decides to go back to doing comedy since she got people laughing at her again, it's as easy as that isn't it, even though she's doing all of the exact same things she was doing at the very beginning of the episode so really Luan didn't learn a thing at all or attempted to improve on her comedy so people will actually think that she's funny! I mean Luan will try and hold back on her comedy a little but it feels similar to what happened with Lynn at the very end of Lynn-er Takes All, as the moment of Luan developing is only barely here. Instead the moral of the episode seems to be that you shouldn't criticize someone's work in a negative way because then you somehow end up looking like the bad guy in all this, coming from someone who does frequently critique TV shows and movies I found this message annoying to me as now I'm somehow a bad guy for being honest with a piece of entertainment where I say I didn't like what I saw and that's just not right at all, ugh! Really the only thing I liked in this episode was the ending which was nice, plus Leni hugging Luan was easily the highlight of the episode to me, still this was one of the most disappointing episodes of season 2 although Change of Heart still holds the title for most disappointing episode of all time in The Loud House. It's not the worst episode of the season but I still found this mediocre, and it's shocking that I consider an April Fools episode this season excellent while the more personal episode of Luan comes off worse, but hey that's just my honest opinion even if it does make me look bad oh well.

5/10