The Loud kids were getting ready for school, and due to their parents being away, Lincoln was making breakfast for himself and his sisters, all of which save for Luan came down and sat down at the table.
"Wait a minute you guys, where's Luan?" Lincoln asked.
"She's still bummed out dudes." Luna said. "Even though I managed to get through to her, she's still letting this whole online bully thing bug her."
"Psychologically that makes sense. She admitted her problem but now she still has to cope with it." Lisa explained.
"And that's why we're gonna help her get her confidence back. And help her deal with this bully." Lincoln said. "Let's just not overdo it, ok?"
The other Loud sisters nodded in agreement.
"You know I can't keep that promise." Lola said.
Then, Luan walked into the kitchen, still sad about last night. She sat down without saying a word, looking down at her breakfast.
"Hey Luan, what's up? Or should I say, why are you looking a little down?" Lynn joked while she shouldered her, trying to lift her spirit. But Luan didn't respond.
"Anything you need to get of your plate?" Lana joked, joining in. But Luan still didn't react.
"Ooh ooh! You need to get off your plate and talk to us!" Leni said, attempting to make a joke, but the other siblings save for Luan just shook their heads in disagreement.
"Will you just shut up!?" Luan snapped at Leni, much to everyone's surprise as they all knew Luan would never turn away a joke, even a bad one, and would usually respond with a joke of her own, even if it would be a bad pun.
"Totes rude." Leni responded, somewhat unoffended.
At Royal Woods High School, Luna was having a conversation with her band mates next to her locker, including her crush Sam.
"And now my little sis all bummed out because of this online bully that's been picking on her. I was hoping you could help her out." Luna explained to Sam.
"That's so sad. Online bullies are the worst!" Sam said. "Of course I'll help! Where did you say your sister was doing standup at?"
In another part of the same high school, Lori was texting Bobby about Luan's cyberbully problem while Leni just talked to a bunch of her classmates.
Meanwhile at Royal Woods Elementary School, Lincoln was talking with Clyde McBride and a few of his friends Liam, Zach and Rusty Spokes, the four of them having lunch.
"Wait, this guy said what?" Clyde gasped. "If you ask me, your sister should consult with Dr. Lopez. She helped me solve my problems, perhaps she can help your sister with hers." Then Clyde thought for a moment. "Then again, Dr. Lopez seems to specialize in relationship problems. I wouldn't be so sure if she also deals with bully problems, since I've never had any."
"Thanks, Clyde. I'll get back to you on that." Lincoln told him.
"How can you be sure it's a guy? If it's on the internet, it could be anyone!" Liam mentioned.
"Does it matter? Cyberbullying, regular bullying, what's the difference?" Zach said.
"With cyberbullying the bully can get in your head, do mental damage if not physical!" Rusty added.
"Yeah yeah so will you help me?" Lincoln asked them.
"Of course! I'm always there for you, Lincoln." Clyde agreed as the other 3 nodded in agreement. "But I would prefer it if it was Lori who had this problem." Clyde's friends just looked at him indifferently for this comment.
"Hey, are you guys talking about Lincoln's older sister Luan?" A random brunette girl asked.
"Yeah, why?" Clyde said.
"She's not that funny." The brunette girl said.
"AHA!" Someone yelled. It was Lola Loud, who stormed into the cafeteria and tackled the brunette girl to the ground. "You're the one picking on my older sister! Well guess what! You're the one who-" the rest of Lola's words were so dirty that everyone else's gasped.
"What? Why would I even say that stuff? I just don't think she's all that funny! That doesn't mean I would trash talk like that!" The brunette girl pulled herself up.
"Lola! I thought I told you not to overdo it and do anything extreme!" Lincoln said.
"Hey, I said I wasn't gonna keep that promise!" Lola said, then someone grabs her by the arm. "Hey! Let me go you big mean-" she saw that it was Principal Huggins. "Oh, sorry, I'm coming! Be gentle!" Lola said, Huggins dragging her to the principal's office for tackling a student and cursing her out.
Later that day at Lynn's soccer practice, Lynn explained the whole situation to Margo and the rest of her team.
"I need your guys' help to make my sister number one again." Lynn finished explaining. "And to deal with this guy who's a big pile of number two!" Lynn fumed, making another poop reference.
"Well, I don't see why we would go to a comedy club, but it sounds serious, so we're in!" Margo said, the rest of the team agreed.
"And while you're at it help me find out who this cyberbully is!" Lynn added.
Later that day back at the Loud House, another sibling meeting was called, all the Loud kids gathered in Lori and Leni's room, except Luan, who was in her room, not wanting to be disturbed.
"Good news, siblings. I've been doing research on this problem and I have managed to pinpoint the location of Luan's cyberbully based on the I.P. address of the horrible comments on that club's website." Lisa announced.
"You got the address on where the bully pees?" Leni asked.
"No dude, you got it all wrong." Luna corrected her. "Bummer, Luan would definitely have cracked a joke about that, even if we'd all groan."
"Her bad puns do annoy us to death." Lucy added.
"What's the address? Spit it out!" Lola fumed, feeling for Luan as Lana tried to calm her down by grabbing her shoulder.
"Spit what out? Is she chewing gum?" Leni said. "Totes gross."
The other siblings just ignored her. "I have concluded that Luan's cyberbully lives right here in Royal Woods, which supports the most plausible fact that they were in fact watching Luan's comedic act. "But more specifically I've pinpointed where they live."
"Good! Let's go find them and give them what for!" Lynn fumed, but Lincoln stopped her.
"Lynn, calm down! Remember, we can't stoop to their level, or we're no better than they are."
Lily babbled something to the other Loud kids that only they could seem to make out.
"What's that, Lily? We should just proceed with Lincoln's plan?" Lana said, and Lily nodded.
"This plan of yours better work, Lincoln." Lori said. "Sometimes you literally never think things through to the end."
"Yeah yeah I know I've screwed up before, but I do have a plan in case encouraging Luan doesn't work."
"Oh, speaking of which, I should go talk to her!" Luna stepped out of the room and knocked on Luan's door.
"It's open." Luan said, allowing Luna to walk in. She saw Luan on her bed, lying down quietly.
"You feeling better, sis?" Luna asked.
"I guess." Luan responded, feeling rather defeated, not able to stop letting her cyberbully's words get to her. She had been having a hard time ignoring them.
"Good. I was wondering, maybe you'd like to perform at that club again?" Luna asked, but Luan just rolled herself over.
"What's the point? My routine is not that funny." Luan sighed.
"Dude! It was one person! Get them out of your head!" Luna explained, raising her voice. "Don't let one person's opinion affect yours, dude. They may not have thought you were funny, but pretty much everyone else did! And so what if they said mean things? Don't let them keep bothering you!"
Luan rolled over again. "Are you sure?"
"Sure am, dude." Luna nodded. "A lot of people say mean things about me and Sam, mostly just stuff about the two of us being gay. But I don't let that bother me! So why should stuff about you not being funny bother you?"
"But what they said-"
"Forget what they said! It doesn't matter how dirty it was! You only let the good stuff affect you, and you push the bad stuff away! Also, it's important that you yourself think you're good at this funny business stuff." Luna explained. "This is your chance to make yourself great again! Heck, you already were! You knew that! You just need to find yourself again! Don't just do it for me, don't just do it for your family and friends, but do it for yourself!"
Luan stood up. "Ok, I'll do it!"
Luna smiled, feeling proud to see her little sister confident again.
The other Loud siblings had their ears pressed again the door, all of them were smiling too.
"Well Lincoln, it seems your plan is working thus far." Lisa said.
"Of course! By tomorrow night, things will be better!" Lincoln said.
"Let's hope so, for her sake." Lori said.