Dinner's ready! Come and get it!"
As it was nighttime all of the bedroom doors upstairs immediately opened as all 10 of the siblings quickly rush out of their rooms, and excitedly head downstairs, but as they head down the stairs, everything suddenly freezes before Lincoln appears, holding a remote. "Yeah, this never happens." He told himself as he heads down the stairs to look inside the kitchen where their Dad is at cooking dinner, frozen in place as well.
"Dad cooks all our dinners, and he's not a bad cook, but his repertory is kind of limited." He began to head back up the stairs, reaching the top as he takes a quick peek up Leni's dress, along with Luna and Luan's skirts to see their colored undies before making it to the top as he heads right and enters his room, pulling down a calendar.
After pulling it down he then lists off the dishes mentioned which appear on the calendar and head to their separation date. "You've got Salisbury Steak Sundays, Meatball Mondays, Turkey Loaf Tuesdays, Wienerschnitzel Wednesdays, Goulash Thursdays, Fish Fry Fridays, and Succotash Saturdays." The seven named dishes cover every week on the calendar as Lincoln continues.
"Then it all repeats, week, after week, after week." He said while making the dishes on the calendar appear on the rest of the other weeks in the month before putting away the calendar. "Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go choke down some..."
Back to the presence
"Wienerschnitzel." Lynn Sr. said as a rather sloppily made dish is placed on the dining table, making Lincoln and the others give a displeased look to the dinner placed in front of all of them. "Not to brag, but this tastes exactly like last Wednesday's, and I've got this recipe dialed in!"
While Lynn Sr. finished he headed back into the kitchen, but as he did, Lincoln pulls out a coin attached to a string and begins swinging it side to side in front of his face, which Leni and Luna who sat on both sides of him at the end of the table followed the coin, curious of what he's doing before Lola notices too and asks.
"What are you doing?"
Lincoln answers. "Self-hypnosis. Maybe it can make us believe the Wienerschnitzel tastes like ice cream." Lola perks up to that idea before trying to steal Lincoln's coin. "Oh, I want ice cream! Move!" Lincoln along with Luna and Luan began to struggle to get his coin back.
"Come up with your own coping mechanism dude!" Luna told her as they continue to fight Lola for the coin, before they accidentally knock the Wienerschnitzel off the table, as while it begins hurling towards the floor, Lynn Sr. notices it falling and dives towards it to catch it saying. "No! No, no, no, no, no!" They all look at him, as he just saved the Wienerschnitzel in time. "Whew! That was close. I almost had to order us pizza. Haha."
He said as he leaves, causing them all to sit back down before Lincoln along with Leni and Luna suddenly had a realization as they looked at one another and began to smile, getting an idea.
Later
In the bathroom, the three's sisters were getting ready for bed as while they were Lola asked. "Lana, what dress do you think will be perfect for dinner tomorrow?" She looked and noticed that her twin was nowhere to be seen, before looking at Lisa as she asked.
"Lisa, what do you-?"
Her little Sister groans and asks her. "Does it really matter, on what you want to wear for tomorrow's Goulash?" As if on cue Lincoln says. "No it doesn't matter, 'cause we're not having goulash tomorrow." After telling them with Leni and Luna at his sides the others look over at them as Lori tells him. "Yes, we are, Lincoln. We have it every Thursday, and there's literally nothing we can do about it."
"She's right. It's all in my poem." Lucy told them as she takes out her poem and reads it. "Dinner. The same seven meals. How do you cope? The only plan is to give up hope. Dinner." The others there began to agree with her. "So true." "Say it, sister!" "Wise words."
Luna then tells them. "Fine. I guess no one wants...Pizza." Upon hearing this they all gasped as Lana pops out of the back of the toilet in scuba gear as she asked with a smile. "Did someone say, pizza?" After she asked curiously Lincoln began to explain to them.
"When the schnitzel fell off the table, Dad said he almost had to order pizza. So, if we sabotage tomorrow's dinner, that's what we'll get. Now, huddle up." He tells them as Lana hops out of the toilet which disgusts them as Leni tells her. "Ew! Lana, why don't you rinse off first?"
Morning
In front of Casa Loud, Lynn Sr. exits Vanzilla after comes home from the supermarket with groceries, while heading inside he began singing what he had bought from the groceries. "I just came back from the grocery store, gonna get my goulash on, Noodles, tomatoes, meat galore, gonna get my goulash-"
"Hey, Dad! There's something I've always wondered about. Why do you make goulash on Thursdays?" When Lincoln asked after appearing from one of the rooms, Sr. laughs and begins telling him with a smile. "Oh, son. It's a funny story. Thursdays are a bit of a conundrum. Not many foods start with, TH."
While he's not looking, Lisa uses a drone to grab the meat of the Goulash as Lana uses her fishing rod to snatch the noodles as Sr. continues. "There's Thai food, but coconut milk really does a number on the old Lynn-testines, if you know what I'm saying." Just then Lynn swoops in and grabs the tomatoes before Luna cuts a hole in the bag to drop an onion and put it in Lily's diaper who began to waddle away with it.
"And three-bean salad; well, that's just three times as bad, right? Now there is a Greek dish called Thessalonikian sheep dip, but your mother finds it a little gamey."
As he continues, Lincoln sees that Leni, Luna and the others have finished their parts, making him smile as he said to Lynn Sr. "You're right. That is a funny story. Gotta go!" He then leaves as Sr. tries to stop him. "But, son, I didn't tell you about threatened-species stir fry yet! It's very rare! Get it?" He asked as inside the breadbox, a fake bread camera is filming Lynn Sr.'s actions as the 11 check it out on a laptop in Lori and Leni's room.
"Good work, team! If my calculations are correct, Dad should be ordering pizza in...T minus 15 seconds." Lincoln told them as they watch, seeing Lynn Sr. check his groceries only to find an orange inside, confusing him. "An orange? Where's all my goulash stuff? I know I bought it, 'cause I was singing about it! Dang it!" He sighs. "I guess I'll have to..."
Lincoln begins to count down as the 11 of them began to smile. "Three, two, one." Sr. suddenly perks up with a smile. "Go back to the store!" Hearing this they all looked disappointed at the screen Sisters. "Aww..." They all said before Lisa said in anger. "I knew I should've chloroformed him. Unconscious people can't make goulash." Lana then holds up the rivets to the car's steering wheel giving a grin.
"Don't worry. Dad's not going anywhere."
As Sr. enters Vanzilla he then turns the steering wheel which comes off, shocking him a bit as he said to himself. "Well, my horoscope did say Libras should expect the unexpected today." He then goes back inside the house as the 11 come back down the stairs as Lynn Sr. tells them. "Bad news, kids. I gotta put the kibosh on tonight's goulash."
"Aw..."
They all said faking their disappointment. "What a shame," Luan told him as Lynn and Lori do the same as well. "Too bad." "I need to take a moment." Before continuing he tells them. "But fortunately, your old dad's got a backup plan." Lola smiles.
"I'll get the phone, Daddy!" She said before they were all told. "I'm...Making tomorrow's dinner tonight! Frank and beans Friday on Thursday. In your face, horoscope!" He then leaves to the kitchen causing Lisa to give an annoyed look. "I'll get the chloroform."
Meanwhile
Lynn Sr. who was preparing Friday's dinner began to get the beans out of the pantry as he sings to himself again. "Franks and beans, doo-doo-doo, franks, yeah, yeah, and beans and beans, and beans, and beans beans beans." While he sings Lincoln pops his head into the headphones he has with him as he tells the others. "Big Cheese to Toppings. Target is in position. Move out." Luan then grabs Lincoln's speaker.
"Be careful, guys. There's not mushroom for error." She said before laughing before Lincoln tells her. "Luan, this line is not for jokes!" She nods giving a serious expression as when they began, Lynn was first to start as she tosses her boomerang into the kitchen and snatches a can of beans before Lana gets Hops to grab another can with his tongue.
Lisa then pulls in the last one, and also her dad's belt with a magnet, making Lynn Sr.'s pants fall down, as when Sr. noticed the cans of baked beans missing he said shocked. "My baked beans! What is happening? I guess there's only one thing to do." Lincoln then is about to call the pizza place on speed dial as Luna and Leni smiled.
"Make franks and lima beans!"
They stopped and began to groan along with the others at their dad's determination, as Lynn Sr. began to check the drawers for the can opener but couldn't find it. "Where the heck is our can opener?" He asked himself as Luan sneaks it out quietly while Lynn Sr. resorts to opening cans with Geo's teeth like a can opener.
"Ah, thank you, Geo. Nothing like a little Lynn-Genuity." This made Luan shake her fist in rage before leaving, while Lynn Sr. looks for the knives. "Where are the dang knives?" He asked before holding up packets of wieners. "I've got 20 hot dogs to slice!"
Lori sneaks the knives away, as Lynn Sr. resorts to slicing the franks with ice skates, which made Leni secretly give his performance a perfect 10, which Lori smacks the scorecard out of her hands, as when Lynn Sr. was about to put the chopped franks into the pot, he finds some unexpected guests.
"Ah! Pot raccoons!" He screamed as he soon puts the franks in a casserole dish. "No problem. We'll do a casserole." He tries to open the oven, but the handle gets stuck and breaks off, revealing Luna holding a bottle of glue, showing that was her doing as Lincoln and Leni give her a thumbs up before Sr. puts the ingredients in a coffee pot. "I'll just heat 'er up in the old coffee pot. That's using the old bean."
Just as he turns the coffee pot on, Lola tugs on the power line with her princess car hooked to it outside and shuts off the power to the house, hearing her Father say from inside the house. "Dang it." Lincoln and the others begin to meet up in the living room smiling. "I'm proud of you guys. It was touch-and-go for a while, but we all hung in there, and-" He is then cut off by Lynn Sr.
"Dinner's served!" He began singing again. "Franks, Franks, and beans, they're lima-Franks and beans." This left the 11 flabbergasted as they all said. "WHAT?!" They then entered the other room as Lynn Sr. tells them. "It's not exactly hot, but I'd rather eat cold beans than a plate of failure."
As a last-ditch effort, Lily tosses her rattle right on the floor, making Lynn Sr. trip over it and drop the dish which the raccoons quickly devour, now defeated, Lynn Sr. asked while holding out his hand. "Someone get me the phone..."
Minutes later
The kids were sitting at the table with a smile as they placed three boxes of pizza on the table. "Yes! Pizza!" Lincoln said as he takes a bite along with Leni and Luna as they and the others cheered in excitement, as Lucy began improving her poem. "Dinner. Goulash again? That's a nope. A bite of pizza; it tastes like hope. Dinner." She sheds a pizza slice shaped teardrop of happiness on the paper.
Later
After dinner, Lincoln was relaxing in his room as he said to himself with a smile. "Wow. What a night. Maybe next week we can get Dad to order Chinese." out in the hallway and angry Lynn Sr. shouts. "WHY IS THERE MEAT IN MY SHOES?!" Hearing this, Lincoln began to frown knowing they've been caught.
"Dang it."
In the hallway, the meat covered slippers are seen full of meat as the parents are unhappy with their kids. "Does anyone have anything to say?" Rita asked as Luna began whispering to her Daughter with her Son listening. "Leni, why would you hide the meat in the slippers Dad wears every night?"
"Because his pockets were full," Leni told them as they looked more shocked as Sr. pulls out uncooked pasta from his pockets. "What is this? Pasta? Someone, please explain why I'm wearing my goulash!" When he asked the three looked at one another and the others before looking upset as Lincoln admitted to them. "We did it, Dad. We sabotaged dinner so you'd order us pizza."
This caused the two to gasp in shock at the news as Luna told them. "We're really sorry dudes. But eating the same dinners over and over again was driving us crazy." Unamused Rita told them. "You guys have no idea how hard it is to cook seven nutritious meals a week for 13 different people on a budget. I'd say your dad does a pretty great job."
"Aw, that means a lot, honey." Lynn Sr. said thankfully as Rita continued. "You'll understand someday when you have to cook for yourselves." This gave Lincoln an idea and said. "Cook for yourselves? That's it! Let us make dinner tomorrow night. We have tons of ideas. Dad will get a break, we'll make something delicious and show you it's not that hard to mix up the meal."
Lynn Sr. and Rita take it in for a second before Sr. said with a smile while shrugging. "Fine by me." As they leave, it's revealed Leni hid the vegetables in his robe as she grabs an onion from it smiling. "Ooh! We could probably use this onion."
Next Night
As it was now nighttime the next day the 1 were getting ready to make dinner as Lincoln takes out some bread and cheese. "Remember, guys, this is about more than just tonight's dinner. These grilled cheeses really have to change hearts and minds." Luna and Leni smiled as they're going to help him make it before Lola interrupted.
"Grilled cheese? I wanna make a cake!" She told them as Lori tells her. "I can't eat cake for dinner. I'll literally break out!" She told them as Luna explains "Guys let's just make some grilled cheese! We could probably have some tomato soup on the side with it dudes." Leni gasps with a smile and tells her Mother. "Oh, that's totes good! We can even have goulash with them too!"
After telling them, Lori explains to her. "Leni, we did all this so we wouldn't have to eat goulash." Leni then gives a worried looked as she tells her. "And now I miss it." Lisa then tells them. "Might I suggest something more sophisticated? Perhaps a vichyssoise?" Lynn makes a buzzer sound before telling her. "We need body fuel. I'll blend us up some protein shakes."
"Your brain's been blended if you think I'm drinking that barf."
Lana becomes excited about this and asked. "Wait! We can drink barf?" They then all began to start arguing over what to make as while they did Lincoln tells them with Leni and Luna on his side. "Grilled cheese beats all!"
"Protein shake!" "Cake!" Before this argument escalates, Lori began to bang a pan and spoon together to get their attention causing them to stop as she tells them. "Guys, guys, stop! We'll do a potluck. Everyone will make their own dish." The three smiled. "Great idea. Then we'll have nothing to fight about." Luna told her as they began.
Later
Inside of the kitchen, the 11 all began making a mess in the kitchen as Lucy and Lana began fighting over an egg. "It's mine! I need it for my scrambled eggs!" Lucy tells her. "Well, I need it for my deviled eggs." Their force causes the egg to break and the yolk to land on Lily's head as Luan went up to her with a smile.
"Mind if I poach that?"
She asked before laughing as she scoops the yolk up in a bowl. "Get it?" Lily then laughs at the joke, along with Leni, Luna, Lincoln as Luan goes over to the counter before the blender spews Lynn's protein shake all over her face, causing her to trip onto Lincoln with his grilled cheese as Lori then trips over them, slips on the fridge, and gets buried by its contents.
"Literally?" She weakly said as Leni tries using the microwave to make the tomato soup, but it short-circuits and sets off the smoke detector as Luna grabs a cloth to blow the smoke away from it, but the cloth was holding up the pot with Lisa's vichyssoise which spills over. "MY VICHYSSOISE!"
She shouts as Luna fails to blow the smoke away before Lynn smacks the detector away with her lacrosse net, but the detector crashes into Lola's cake, causing her to gasp with a face full of frosting as she angrily shouts. "MY CAKE!" She then began to attack Lynn and Luna with Leni and Lincoln trying to break up the fight as the fight cloud carries over to the rest of the kids in the kitchen, while, Lynn Sr. and Rita are in the dining room waiting.
"Guys? Everything okay in there?" When Sr. asked the kids all stopped fighting and calmly say that everything's fine with Leni and Lana saying. "Like, awesome!"
"Super!"
Lynn Sr. then says. "Good! Your mom and I are getting hungry for dinner! Hope you're almost ready to fork it over!" Lori then tells Lincoln and the others. "You guys, we've got nothing!" Lincoln raises a finger. "Failure is not an option! We have to serve something, or we'll be eating the same seven dinners forever!" When he finished both Leni, Luna along with Lori, Luan, and the others nodded in agreement giving a stern look as they began to finish dinner.
Later
"Wow. You made, uh..." Lynn Sr. is about to ask while looking at the dish which is a bizarre mixture of different foods Lincoln, Lori, Leni, Luna, Luan, Lynn, Lucy, Lana, Lola, Lisa, Lily made as it was combined into one at the last minute as they each began telling the two what it was. "Potatoes." "Quinoa." "Turkey." "Chicken." "Meatloaf." "Bologna." "Frosting." "Cereal." "Goulash." "Barf."
Rita and Lynn Sr. look unsure of the meal before Lincoln says. "Well, bon appétit!" They then all nervously took a spoonful of the stuff and take a bite out of it, which Rita gags from, obviously not liking it as she tries not to upset the 11. "Mmm, it's, uh..." She gags again before she along with her husband, and the kids all spit it out and point out how truly awful it tastes. "I can't get it off my tongue!" Lori told them.
"Mom, Dad, we're sorry. You were right. Cooking for this many people is a nightmare. We'll never complain about your food again." Leni, Luna and the rest of the others all agreed. "We promise." "We didn't mean it." "I'm not keeping that promise."
Lola said as she smiles innocently before Lynn asks. "Now that we totally learned our lesson, can we order pizza?" The others became existed and shouted. "Pizza!" Lana then shouts the type she wants. "Indian!"
"Sorry, kids. Our food budget for this week is shot."
Rita told them as Lana asked sadly and worriedly. "So we're not having any dinner?" Lynn Sr. then tells them. "Nonsense! Necessity is the mother of Lynn-vention! To the kitchen!" They all enter the dirty kitchen, seeing the mess that's all over. "So, what have we got?" Sr. asked as the 11 check to see what's left. "I found a jar of olives!"
"This spoon still has a little mustard on it."
"And I've got some chopped up sports bars." Lincoln, Lori, and Lynn said each with Luna from behind telling them with a smile. "And I've got some jams!" Luan, believing her Sister means real jams asks. "Ooh! Where?" Luna holds up her guitar, showing what she meant. "Oh. Those kinds of jams."
Luna then starts playing while Lynn Sr. starts cooking. "Olives." He asked being handed the olives. "Pepper." He is then handed the pepper. "Baking pan." one of the 11 hand only half of it. "Other half of baking pan." Sr. is handed the other half. "Tape. Stat, man! Stat!" Lily hands him the tape, as Luna keeps jamming, as Luan wipes Lynn Sr.'s brow.
"What are you making?"
Leni asked curiously as Lynn Sr. tells her and the others. "I'm not really sure, but let's call it...Casa Loud Casserole!" He then holds up the casserole containing the olives, pepper, sports bars, mustard, and anything else in it, causing Leni to smile and tell Lincoln and Luna. "Ooh! I have the perfect outfit for that!"
Later
After dinner, everyone is stuffed and satisfied as Leni is wearing a red dress for the dinner, while she was Rita then said. "Honey, that was delicious." The others each agreed, saying. "Amazing!"
"So good!"
Lynn Sr. smiled and said. "Thank you. I think you kids were right. It's time I started mixing up the menu." This made them become excited and say happily. "Really?!" Lynn Sr. nods. "Yep. In fact, I'm going to the store right now to get some new Lynn-gredients." He heads to the car and the kids cheer to finally having some new dinners, but the car crashes which is heard outside.
"Oops. Heh, heh. Forgot to put the brake pads back on." Lana told everyone as she begins to smiles nervously.
