Ch 8: Dear Loud
Based off the episode: Dear Ed
Outside the Loud House, Lisa, Lana, and Lincoln are all looking for hidden treasure. Lisa was using a metal detector.
"So Lisa, what exactly is this treasure we're looking for?" Lincoln asked.
"I'm not sure." Lisa answered. "But our elderly relative Pop Pop had informed me about something he buried around here for his time capsule."
"Oh boy. Pop Pop always gives us cool stuff." Lana said.
Just then, Lisa's detector started beeping. "My detector has detected something!" Lisa took a stick and drew an X on the ground. "I've marked the exact position of where to excavate."
"Excavate?" Lana repeated.
"She wants you to dig, Lana." Lincoln explained.
"Ok." Lana started digging with her hands rapidly.
"What an animal." Lisa said.
Lana dug a hole that was deep enough for her to spot the treasure. "I see something shiny, guys."
"Well, What is it?" Lincoln wondered.
Lana took up the item. It was a gold denture. "Dentures? That's the big treasure?"
Lisa inspected it. "I believe these are gold painted dentures. This is not worth anything."
Just then, Lisa's friend, Darcy Homandollar walked over holding Mr. Coconuts.
"Hi Lisa and Lisa's siblings." She greeted them.
"Greetings Darcy." Lisa said.
"What are you doing with Mr. Coconuts?" Lincoln asked.
"Your sister Luan got into an argument with him." Darcy explained. "He said Luan should pass him on to someone else."
"Luan does realize he is a toy dummy right?" Lisa said.
"He was more than that to her. He was her friend." Lincoln said. "I'm gonna go see if she's ok."
Lincoln left. Darcy noticed Lisa with the dentures. "Nice dentures."
"Want them?" Lisa asked.
Inside, Lincoln walked upstairs and met with Leni.
"Hey Lincoln, something's wrong with Luan." She said worriedly. "She wouldn't tell me any jokes." She gasped. "Did she give up comedy again?"
"No. Luan recently broke up with Mr. Coconuts." Lincoln stated.
"That's awful."
Lincoln thought of something. "Wait Leni, I've got a plan."
In Luna and Luan's room, a depressed Luan is sitting on her bean bag chair drawing art of Mr. Coconuts. Leni knocks on the door.
"Come in." She said depressed.
Leni came in. "Hi Luan, can I chat with you?"
"Sure, I guess I need someone to talk to." Luan said.
Leni sat on Luan's bed.
"Do you want to make a pie?" Luan asked.
"Oh, no thanks. Luan, you must feel lonely without Mr. Coconuts." Leni said with concern. "You guys got along so well."
Hearing this made Luan more depressed. "I'm f-fine without him."
"You should totes get a new friend at the friend store." Leni said.
"Friend store?"
Leni dragged her sister out of the room. In the attic, Lincoln found a chest which had some old toy dummies. Lucy was there helping Lincoln with his plan. She got some of her own toys.
"Thanks for the help Lucy."
"Don't mention it. Me and Luan both have a need to interact with inanimate objects. It's quite normal. Sometimes it helps us with a lack of confidence or social phobias."
Luan and Leni were walking up the ladder into the attic.
"The friend store's up here." Leni informed.
"Leni, this is the attic." Luan mentioned.
Leni came into the attic with Luan. "Luan's here, Lincoln."
"Hey Luan, you look like you need a new friend." Lincoln said. "At Lincoln and Lucy's friend store, your new friend is carefully chosen by our master matchmaker, Lucy."
"If you can set me up with a new buddy who I'll be happy with, I'll bake you guys a pie." Luan said.
"Deal!" Lincoln said.
"Luan, after thinking it through I've found your ideal match." Lucy takes out a pale toy dummy with black hair and dressed in a hoodie. "Lars, meet Luan. Luan, meet Lars."
Luan saw the dummy was missing an eye which creeped her out.
"Whoops. I forgot he was missing an eye." Lucy said. She puts an eyepatch on him. "There we go."
Luan decided to greet the dummy now. She held him. "Hey Lars."
"Hey Luan, I like your ponytail." Lars said, being controlled by Luan. She gave him a deep voice since he was goth.
"I like your hair." Luan said.
"Well, what do you know?" Lincoln said. "Looks like you two will get along just great. You two should get better acquainted."
"Ok." Luan said. "I can't wait to tell you some jokes."
Luan walked down with her new dummy.
"You know, he looks kinda cute with that eyepatch on." Leni commented.
Meanwhile, Darcy was at her house having tea with Mr. Coconuts. Darcy sat at one end of the table and Mr. Coconuts at the other end. There was complete silence until-
"Pardon? Did you say something?" Darcy asked.
Mr. Coconuts was just sitting there. This was awkward. Darcy looked around nervously before going back to drinking her tea.
At the Loud House, Luan was going to play badminton with Lars.
"What do you get when you cross a duck with a firecracker? A fire QUACKer!" Luan laughed. Lars/Luan groaned.
"You've got some big beaver teeth." Lars/Luan said.
"My teeth aren't that big." Luan said sensitively.
Lincoln, Leni, and Lucy came to watch Luan play badminton with Lars.
"Oh, hey guys."
"Hey Luan." Lincoln said. "We came to watch you play a round of badminton with your new pal. Also, we'd like a blueberry-"
"Blackberry." Lucy said.
"Black blueberry pie." Lincoln said.
"With cherries." Leni added.
Lincoln, Lucy, and Leni sat down in their chairs. Luan put Lars on the other side of the net as he was holding his racquet.
"This should be fun. Mr. Coconuts and I love this game." Luan served the badminton over the net. Lars managed to hit it back to Luan. Although, he hit it a little too hard and knocked her down.
"Ooh." Leni winced. "That's gotta leave a mark."
"Luan, are you ok?" Lincoln asked.
Luan had a bump on her head. "Ow. Look what Lars did. I don't like him. He didn't laugh at my jokes and he's too goth for me."
"I guess we should find you another friend." Lucy suggested.
"I have a childhood puppet that Luan might like." Leni mentioned.
"Great Leni. And then we can have that pie." Lincoln said.
"Follow me." Leni said.
Leni led her siblings to her room.
"Alright, let me look under my bed." Leni said.
Leni looked under the bed, tossing out various items such as shoes, boxes, a puppet, and old magazines. She then found what she was looking for. It was a doll with red hair and a dress.
"Here it is. My mannequin puppet."
"Leni, that's a doll." Lucy corrected.
"I'd still use her as a puppet though."
Lincoln noticed a real puppet that Leni tossed out. "Wait, what about that one?"
Lincoln picked it up. It was a Dalmatian dog puppet with a collar and bow.
"Oh, that's Sally." Leni said.
"What do you think, Luan?" Lincoln asked.
"She's cute, but she looks a little too classy for me."
"Don't judge her before you get to know her. A dog is woman's best friend after all." He handed the puppet to Luan. "After a man that is. You'll get along just fine."
"And be careful, she's a bit of a biter." Leni said.
"Ok, you two need some quality time alone." Lincoln said. "We'll be outside."
Lincoln, Leni, and Lucy went out of the room. Lincoln closed the door.
"I wonder how this is going to go." Lucy said.
Suddenly, they heard Luan screaming.
"Sounds like they're having fun." Leni said.
They opened the door and saw Luan on the ground and the dog puppet biting and tugging on her ponytail. (She was being controlled by Luan, of course)
"Ah! Down girl, down! She's mad I tell you, mad!"
"I don't understand this." Lincoln said.
"Luan needs to pick her own friend." Lucy explained.
"Of course. She needs someone she'll be interested in. I know just what to do."
Soon, Lincoln, Lucy, and Leni had set up a little get together party for Luan where she could make a new friend. Lucy led Luan to the basement where the get together was happening. Luan saw their sign.
"Here we are Luan." Lucy said.
"Friends for life get together?" Luan read.
"Yep. It sounds like the festivities have already begun." Lucy said as she could hear rock music playing. She went downstairs and the music was pretty loud. Lincoln was wearing a party hat and tie and Leni was wearing a party hat and bow tie.
"Lincoln!" Lucy yelled. "The music's too loud! Turn it down!"
"What? Oh." Lincoln went to turn the music down on the radio.
"I could've sworn that was Luna playing the guitar." Lucy said.
Luan came down nervously.
"Welcome to the Par-tay, Luan!" Lincoln said. "Relax sis, this shindig is all for you. Go have some fun. Check out those cool friends." Lincoln pointed to a group of toy dummies and puppets in the back. Some of them are sitting on a couch.
"Why are they all staring at me? Do I have something in my teeth?" Luan said.
"Maybe it's the size of your teeth." Lincoln mentioned. "Just follow Leni and Lucy. They'll liven up this party."
Lincoln went over to them. "Quit standing around. Go and dance. Break the ice."
"But we need the ice for the punch." Leni said, pointing at the punch bowl.
Lincoln slapped his forehead. "Just go dance with someone."
Leni went over to find a friend.
Lincoln pushed Lucy over. "Go on Lucy."
"I don't wanna."
"Do it for Luan."
Leni was dancing with a blonde dummy wearing a robe. "You have beautiful hair." The hair fell off. "Oh. It's a wig. Sorry." She put it back on him.
"You go, Leni." Lincoln encouraged. He looked at Luan. "Leni just made a new friend."
"I miss Mr. Coconuts." Luan said with tears in her eyes.
Lucy was dancing with a pig dummy. "Sigh. Dancing with a pig. Boy, have I reached an all-time low."
Luan walked past her sisters who were dancing with their "friends" and went over to find one herself. She walked up to a boy dummy with a baseball cap.
"Hi. W-Would you like to d-dance with me?" She asked, sweating nervously.
In Luan's mind, the dummy said "Nah, I'm good."
"Oh. Okay."
In Luan's mind, a lady puppet greeted her. "Hi Luan."
"Oh, who are you?"
In Luan's mind, the puppet said "Wanna dance?"
"Dance? But you're not-"
In Luan's mind, the dummy wearing the baseball cap said "Don't you like me Luan?"
"Yes, I like you too." She said nervously.
Luan's vision began to waver as she saw all the dummies and puppets started talking to her. Luan was getting more stressed. "Too many friends!"
She made a run for it upstairs but Lincoln stopped her.
"Hey there Luan, come on. Relax." He dragged her into a beanbag. "Don't be a party pooper. This party's just getting started."
Just then, the rest of the siblings came down and so did Lisa's friend Darcy, who was invited when Lisa told her about the get together.
"It's party time!" Luna yelled as she came with her guitar. "Time to rock out!
"Cool party. Check out the snacks." Lynn said.
"Party! Party!" The twins chanted.
"This music is literally lit." Lori said, carrying Lily.
"Poo poo." Lily said.
"I hope there's chocolate." Lisa said.
"Someone show me to the dance floor." Darcy said, carrying Mr. Coconuts.
Most of the siblings were dancing.
"Time to bust a move." Darcy threw Mr. Coconuts next to Luan. Luan saw him.
"Mr. Coconuts?"
Luna was playing her guitar.
"Luna, we've already got music." Lincoln mentioned.
"But I make the loudest music." Luna played her guitar loudly with her amp, blasting Lincoln into Leni.
"You wanna dance, Linky?" Leni grabbed Lincoln by the arms and spun him around. She let go, causing him to crash into a wall. Luan was holding Mr. Coconuts as the two were silent. Lily, Lisa, Darcy, Lola, Lana, Lynn, Luna, and Lori formed a conga line.
"All aboard the conga line express." Lana said.
Mr. Coconuts decided to say something as Luan controlled him. "Luan, I've missed you. I'm sorry about that argument we had."
"I'm sorry too, Mr Coconuts." Luan said. "Let's be friends again!"
"This party is getting out of control." Lincoln said to Lucy.
"Ooh! Let me in on that conga line!" Leni said.
Leni ran over, but tripped over a lamp causing her to bump into Lincoln and Lucy and they all lost their balance and crashed into the conga line. Everyone (except Luan) fell down.
"Ow! I think that's enough partying for one day." Lori said. "I broke a nail."
"Sigh." Lucy said. "I think my spirits are literally crushed."
The other siblings talked amongst themselves saying they had other things to do now except for Lincoln, Leni, and Luan. The others left. Lincoln was left behind and saw Luan with Mr. Coconuts.
"Luan, you got your friend back." Lincoln said.
"Yeah, Thanks Lincoln. I owe you that pie."
"Yes!" Lincoln said.
Just then, they heard disco music and saw Darcy was wearing shades and dancing as Leni was doing the worm dance.
"Everybody's doing it! Bouncy bouncy bouncy. Oohwie! Oohwie! Oohwie! Oohwie!"
"Excuse me Lincoln, this is me and Mr. Coconut's song." Luan said and went to join the dancers.
Lincoln was in a happy mood and decided to join too. "Well, time to show off. Let's mambo!"
Lincoln, Luan, Darcy, and Leni were all dancing to the music. But Leni, being a klutz, knocked the others down while she was dancing.
"In syncopated style."
"Dang it, Leni!" Lincoln yelled.