Before the story, let me share my thoughts about the episode "Brawl in the Family". As much as everyone else, I don't like it. But I don't consider it as the worst The Loud House episode ("Come Sale Away" still occupies that distinction.). It still has neat parts, like the sister fight protocol looking a lot like Homeland Security and the sibling interactions are fine. But the rest is just grating. Here's why:

1.) The sisters all act like children when it comes to dealing with their problems. It happen in many episodes. But in here, they deal with such a petty problem with the mindset of a 4-year-old who accidentally broke her crayon. No wonder an 11-year-old has to balance things out, if even the elder ones are incompetent.

2.) The concept of dealing your problems by not addressing the problem again is just plain inexcusable. Everyone will have their differences. And the best way to deal with them is by compromise. Or else, you will just make the problem a lot worse. The sisters could have just talk this out civilly. That is what you call being "mature". But no, they have to take every insult like a Shakespearean tragedy.

3.) Lincoln here is not the Lincoln I know and admired. Sure, he has the best of intentions of trying to solve his sisters' problems in a way an 11-year-old does. But he does it in the stupidest way possible. How do you explain barging into your sisters' room and reminding them of their previous problems? Just stupid. And he saving the day by not letting him handle the problem like most people would? No.

4.) I understand the part of having to let two people deal themselves with a problem they have with each other. I get that. What I do not understand is why are none of the sisters act caring or concerned of the moral implications of their constant feuds. Yes, they are the Loud siblings. But I expect more than just cookie-cutter traits. It is as if the writers forgot why the audience loves them.

I am sure the episode has its fans. Chris Savino never regretted making the episode. I respect him for his effort, so do the rest of the crew. But I cannot help just wanting to fix the problems of the episode.

With that, here is a three-part followup to it. Hope you enjoy!


Back from where things left off from "Brawl in the Family", as the Loud sisters resume their quarrel at each other, Lincoln cowers in his parents' room to stay out of the carnage. It is a brutal war out there for the Louds to instigate a squabble out of petty disagreements with each other. But who can blame them? It was Lincoln who relapsed their madness back to volcanic eruption levels. It might as well been raised to catastrophic levels and dubbed as the "Michael Bay Armageddon/Transformers explosion-athon" level.

"Why did they get back fighting?! And why now when I need to weeze?!" Mr. Loud whines as he tries to hold his bladder.

"Lincoln, what's going on? What got them back fighting?" Mrs. Loud asks.

But Lincoln is secluding himself under the side table drawer beside the beds. As he crouches and sweats profusely, it is clear that he has something to do with ongoing feud.

"Lincoln, I'm asking you," Mrs. Loud persuades acutely.

"The motivation to provide you the answer has got me nowhere to answer you, mom," Lincoln nervously replies, just as Lily leaps to his face and beats him with her rattle. "Hey Lily, stop!"

But Lily grouchily rebuffs his demands and keeps beating Lincoln's face.

"Okay, sister fight protocol has gotten out of control. Time to initiate Order 11," Mrs. Loud suggests.

"Oh no! Order 11! Wait, order 11?" Lynn Sr. wonders, "What's for Order 11?" For Lynn Sr.'s sake, Order 11 grants the parents full authority for immediate disciplinary action, whenever the circumstance escalated beyond volcanic eruption. Only Mr. and Mrs. Loud are granted authority of this initiative. (And if they themselves fall into that escalation, then it is for their own discrete matter to resolve it, and not the Loud children; thus making them only credible people to be given the authority.)

At that initiation, Rita Loud grabs a helmet and an air horn, and goes out to the carnage.

The sisters' fight cloud expands further, risking the objects and the furniture around them. Because of that, Mrs. Loud blows the air horn thrice, which (according to the protocol) means, someone can communicate to them straightly and they have to listen, regardless if they are under commotion or not. However, Mr. and Mrs. Loud took possession of the air horn since they assumed that the sisters will abuse its purpose during protocol.

By three blows, Mrs. Loud declares, "Okay girls, one second if you're not gonna stop, I will send Aunt Ruth here to the house. And you wouldn't like it when she takes control here."

With that warning, the Loud sisters halt their quarreling and direct their attention to their mom.

"Good. Now off to the living room for timeout!" the Loud matriarch coaxes the children, which they do, in accordance to the protocol, "That includes you Lincoln!"

As they settle in the living room, the siblings restrain their anger on each other with glares and grunts. Lincoln, meanwhile, is cowering at the rightmost corner of the couch. He is seated right beside Lynn, who hisses at him out of vexation. Hissing is one thing, but at least it is not that violent.

"I couldn't even lay my eyes on you, U-insane Dolt!" Lisa bellows to Lynn.

"At least I have two eyes, four eyes!" Lynn returns her insult.

"Oh come on! I could have used that pun, you thief on the pun!" Luan chastises.

"One more pun and I'll smack you in the face!" Luna angrily reacts.

"You wouldn't even smack a fly!" Lola mocks.

"You wouldn't even smack a face!" Lana responds otherwise.

However, Lola slaps Lana's face in retaliation. "Beat that!" she replies.

"What unfortunate souls," Lucy utters.

"Hey! My sole ain't unfortunate," Leni retorts.

"That's for you, coming from the mouth of a bipedal being," Lisa replies.

"Hey! I'm not a bicycle!" Leni blasts at Lisa's insult.

Then, it turns to an all-out shouting match among the sisters.

"Okay guys, this is getting out of hand. Will you stop?" Lincoln pleads.

"Shut up Lincoln!" the Loud sisters berate at him, "You're the one behind this!"

But Lincoln can only mutter stutters, realizing that he actually caused for their bickering to relapse. If he did not address some stark truths about his sisters, none of this would have happened. Because of that, the girls beat him up, causing another fight cloud ruckus in the living room.

Hearing the commotion, Mr. and Mrs. Loud slide to the living room, hearing of the commotion relapsed.

Frustrated, Mrs. Loud decides to take action, "Okay honey, we have no other choice. Send in a therapist."

"Wait, we have a family therapist? I thought we fired him for making Lily cry," Mr. Loud raises him concern.

"Then call for a new one. We need to have the kids go through a team building session."

"I see what you have in mind. Shall do." And with that Mr. Loud dials for an immediate therapist or a self-help guru.

After moments of waiting, the therapist knocks on the door, revealing it to be a man in his 50's with hipster glasses, a shaved beard, shaved sides, a long coat, a cardigan and nerdy polo (imagine a cooler Chris Savino). He is of calm of sorts, as Mr. Loud answers the door.

"Loud residence?" the therapist asks."Ahh, you must be the therapist," Mr. Loud replies.

"Well, more on child self-help counsellor," the therapist (or counsellor) clarifies, "I'm Dr. Renzetti."

"Lynn Sr. Come on in. The kids are just getting warmed up," Lynn Sr. says as he welcomes the counselor to the house. They enter the living room to see the kids (excluding Lincoln) squabbling to each other and Mrs. Loud trying to stop them.

"So, this is the family?" the counselor wonders."Right where you are," Mr. Loud answers, "You can see why were called the Louds."

At this sight, Lynn Sr. blows the air horn continually, signaling for the Loud children to stop their quarrel and pay attention to their father.

"Okay kids, since sister fight protocol has breached its limits, I and your mother have decided to take matters in our own hands," Mr. Loud pronounces to them, "Meet Dr. Renzetti. He will be handling your teambuilding/therapy sessions for this afternoon."

But the Loud sisters whine about this.

Then Mrs. Loud comes to his defense, "Oh, yes kids. Not unless you resolve this fighting, you will go through therapy, whether you like it or not. Understood?"

And with that, and thanks to the maternal authority of their mother, the kids reluctantly agree with her.

"Good. Now, off to the yard. But first, I want all phones in the bucket. You can only get, once you go through all sessions." The kids then do what their mother told them, except for one.

"But mom, I need to literally contact Bobby every 30 minutes," Lori insists.

"Lori, all phones. That's what you should agree," her mom persuades, which she do kids then head to the yard, where they still bear grudges on each other, seen from their deathly glares on their faces. Lincoln, on the other hand, is intimidated by their presences as he reflected that he still bears the worst case of relapsing the quarrels.


I. RELEASE OF EMOTIONS

"This is bogus! We can resolve this fight ourselves, if only Lucy stops being a killjoy!" Lynn berates.

"Says the sister who thinks of contests like wrestling matches," Lucy retorts.

"Take that back, Ms. Moody!" Lynn grunts.

Abruptly, the child counselor steps in front of the children and initiates the program. "Hello guys. I hope you're chill as of the moment. I can really see those delights of excitement in your faces." But he sees them frowning to him, except for the wimpy brother. "I realize on what you're feeling right now. But don't worry. We'll get through this together. What'd you say?"

And despite his sheer enthusiasm, the counselor cannot lift the spirits of the Loud children. Still he continues. "Okay, now I want each one to look for a spot. Go!"

With that, the Loud siblings begrudgingly go find for a spot in the yard, as instructed. Everybody seems to follow, except for Lana and Lola who are fighting for the spot beside the fence.

"Hey, you mud gobbler, this is my spot!" Lola coaxes.

"But I find it first, you princess puker!" Lana mocks back.

"Well, at least I don't have a lizard for a pet!"

"Well, at least I'm not whiny like you!"

"Easy for you to say, sick old puppy!"

"At least puppies need their spot. So this is my spot!"

Dr. Renzetti approaches the twins and tries to pacify them, "Girls, girls, calm down. Take it easy. What's seems to be the problem?"

"Lana stole this spot from me!" Lola complains.

"Na-uh! I was the one here first! She stole this spot from me!" Lana opposes.

"Did not!"

"Did too!"

"Did not!"

"Okay, okay, let's resolve this, shall we?" Dr. Renzetti persuades, "Nobody takes this spot. You in the pink dress, take the spot near the hose. And you with the hat, occupy one near the sidewalk."

With that, the twins begrudgingly proceed to their places.

"Okay, now that we are in our places, let's do them some exercises. I want you all to breathe all to take a deep breath. Let's go," the counselor instructs, which the siblings do, "Breathe in. Breathe out. Breathe in. Breathe out. Now do it yourselves. Breathe in. Breathe out. Breathe in. Breathe out." He finally lets the siblings do the breathing exercises themselves. "Keep on doing it, children. Keep breathing."

Eventually, the Loud siblings are able to soothe themselves through this constant routine of breathing. Dr. Renzetti then proceeds to the next set of instructions.

"Okay children, why don't we slowly release our emotions?" Dr. Renzetti instructs, "Through your breathing. Through your breathing. Why don't you release them. Release them in a way you wanna let go off them. Those frustrations, worries and anger, release them. Stretch. Move."

The siblings follow what their instructor had ordered them, giving way for them to do stretches and growling. But suddenly, just to ruin a\n almost calm therapeutic session, Lynn accidentally punches Lucy.

"What's your problem?!" Lucy angrily vents.

"What? Sorry. I was just releasing my emotions, you know," Lynn sarcastically implies.

And thinking her sister is mocking her, Lucy returns Lynn with a straight fist, but Lynn dodges, causing to accidentally hit Leni, who fell over Lana, who pushed Lori by the legs. And all the more, it sends domino effect where the siblings cause a mishap to each other.

Because of this, Lori bursts out in anger, "Okay, maybe the doctor is right. This is literally the best way. Let go off our feelings." And with that, she instigates another quarrel that result the sisters to forming a fight cloud.

"Oh no, not again!" Lincoln utters as he tries to back away from the quarrel, "Okay sisters, calm down. We got one session successful. You cannot blow this!"

But he eventually gets dragged by Luna to the quarrel cloud.

"Okay girls, calm down…" Dr., Renzetti tries to pacify them, to no avail.

Overlooking from their bedroom window, the Loud parents are able to witness the siblings' failure in the first session of therapy/team-building.

"I can't believe what I'm seeing," Mrs. Loud reacts in hopelessness.

"Me too, hon. But let's have faith in them. Maybe sooner that squabble will die down," Mr. Loud assures.

"Maybe you're right. It is just first session," Mrs. Loud replies, "I mean what could get worst for them there?"

Next part will be intense.