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Late to the Party: My opinion on “Rita her rights,” The Loud House

After taking a week off to relax, I’m coming back and reviewing “Rita her rights.” Now I’ve been thinking I should probably start doing this if i have episodes I don’t have clear thoughts on, I should try to do something like a pro and con moment on my opinion/final thought part of the review, to kinda give my points on how I really more or less felt about the episode. And to be honest “Rita her rights,” is one of those episodes, I can’t call it bad, but man was it something to watch, I’ll go more into what I mean when I get into the summary, so what was my opinion when I heard the summary, honestly it’s kinda funny there was a summary floating around that said Rita got arrested for a museum robbery and the kids try clearing her name, that would’ve been really messed up but also funny to watch, unfortunately that wasn’t the case for the episode, instead we got an episode where Rita wanted a break from the family, which does happen when she has to do community service, but it ends up blowing up in her face near the end. It’s not terrible, but I wouldn’t say it’s Rita’s finest moment, but enough chatter, let’s head into the episode

The episode starts with Rita waking up and hello...damn Rita looks really good without the makeup on, like I want more of that instead of Rita with makeup, which I dunno I was always bothered by shows that have characters with makeup if they don’t have lips on the character, like you know what I mean? let’s say Star vs the forces of evil, the sleepover episode, you know Star doesn’t have lips it’s not on the character, but the episode starts with Star and the others putting on makeup and geez does Star with lips freak me out

I know we all have lips, that’s not the problem, it’s more the problem when the character’s look really weird with lipstick on because they’re adding lips to their model that didn’t originally have lips or wasn’t intended to have lips, I don’t have a problem when a show has lips, heck I’m alright, but if the characters doesn’t have lips, don’t put make up on them it just looks weird, at least in my book, but I know someone’s gonna say, “she looks beautiful with makeup, stop hating.” not hating, If she likes wearing makeup, she should keep going, she looks great either way, but back to the review. Rita wakes up and looks at her lamp of post-it notes, reading off and sticking each note onto her as reminder of what she has to do today, which...I well talk about later,, but I wanna know Lynn Sr. what’s he got going for today? Nothing? ok. We get a small montage of her feeding the animals, preparing breakfast for the kids, and getting the newspaper

that’s insanely good Rita, nice catch. Lynn Sr. suddenly appears asking his wife to proof read the menu he has to make this week, which *ahem* I gotta ask, what’s the point of having him here? Seriously I wanna bring this up now, but I just...anyway She tells him Menu doesn’t have a “y” in it, which he questions since it’s a french word which he’s right, but still, no Menu doesn’t have a fucking “Y” in it, after Lynn knocks down a hairbrush, Lana comes in and

what the fuck! like seriously, why? why, oh why, a-after that gross scene I’m not even gonna...We have a thing with Rita rolling on Lynn Jr. skate, Lisa blowing up a couch using flea powder, Lola complaining about something bunching up, and Lori and Leni fighting....wait seriously Lisa blows up the couch with flea powder, fuck what was in that...anyway Lori and Leni are fighting about hair spray which Rita uses on herself, which turns out to not be hair spray but instead

hair dye, hey she still rocks the green hair, so she drops off Lori, Leni, Luna and Luan at their high school, thus finally answering a question fans have had for a while, which I heard of a few times, does Luan go to high school or Middle school? Well here’s your answer, she’s in High school, she drops Lynn off at her middle school, and the younger Louds off at the Elementary school...which now that I think about it, wouldn’t Lincoln be in Middle school, he’s eleven right? Maybe he’s on the tail end of his 5th grade year, anyway she parks in front of the school bus parking space and comes out only to see an officer writing a ticket, the officer remarks that Rita has about 50 parking violations when Rita checks the glove compartment

yep, she’s a very bad driver, well in her defense she’s driving around 11 kids and sometimes she forgets to pay attention to the signs...I mean you have 11 kids, can’t blame you if you forget to watch out for a sign every now and then, especially if you’re in a hurry, just make sure you don’t forget to stop at a stop sign ok? She tries getting out of the ticket by offering to buy a police calendar only to find out she owes $2,000 in parking tickets...oh god I know I’d be screwed if I ever had a fine from the police, Rita exclaims she can’t pay that amount, which I mean she has 11 kids, you think she has $2,000 laying around? The officer explains that there is another option..Community service, but unlike the community service the loud kids got in “future tense,” Rita gets to pick up trash in a rather peaceful park makes you question how is there trash there if everyone seems to be relaxing instead of causing trouble. After getting all the trash, Rita decides she has time to relax which she does so and even befriends a squirrel unfortunately for her she gets caught and has to pick up the now overflowing amount of....actually no, she relaxes the community service time away, which is odd this show usually tries to be realistic with it’s approach on things, community service is not this fucking relaxing, well Rita is sadden by the fact her community service is over, a sentence you thought you’d never hear, when she comes up with a plan to get more community service..oh boy this won’t end will

She ends up crashing into a fire hydrant, where the officer is about to write the ticket but instead Rita takes the community service....didn’t know we had a chose on changing tickets, so the next day somehow Rita’s hair changes back to her blonde color and she calls down the kids, they find out she still has to do community service and complains that they need her to do things for them, she counters that they could do their stuff for themselves and their dad could help them out which we get Lynn appearing for a second and Rita rushes out...seriously what’s the point of Lynn Sr. in this episode? She has another relaxing day and decides she’s ready to come home when she sees this mess

o-ok I’m gonna take a guess that’s mud Lana’s rubbing against the wall cause if that’s something else...I’m gonna be sick, Lori and Leni are fighting, I gotta admit we know Leni’s the sweetest but man does she fight with Lori a lot I swear it’s strange

and well Luna’s helping Lucy with a coffin and they slipped and broke the rail on the stairway, Lynn’s wrestling with Lincoln, Lola just jumped off the ramp, and holy shit Luan’s cutting Lily in half, what she couldn’t get Luna to help? dang Luan can’t ever find good assistants let’s just hope she doesn’t end up hurting Lily..nah I think she’s fine..wait where’s Lisa, my guess she burnt something in the kitchen or that could’ve been their dad. And actually it turns out it was their dad burning something in the kitchen cause as Rita drives away from the house it’s revealed via the rearview mirror that Lisa blew off the house’s roof again..man I’m used to this by now, that’s pretty surprising. So Rita tries to get another ticket by taking up two parking spots, the monster! Even the people surrounding her complain about her taking up two parking spots, but when Rita decides she can’t stay there all night she decides to get a ticket by doing something else...

Loitering, can I say something real quick, I love Rita in sunglasses, it just looks so nice, she gets the ticket and we get a montage of Rita relaxing while doing community service, which is still unbelievable, while also doing things to get more community service such as not cleaning up after Charles...don’t worry I won’t show the picture, but why show dog poop..like come on I don’t wanna see that whether it’s a kid’s show or an adult show...Rita breaking a mailbox with the van, and finally Rita breaking a Radio in the middle of the street...which yeah it’s a law in their town, but I would’ve thought she would’ve had jail time with the mail box thing, like seriously breaking someone’s mail box is really serious, but since it’s a kid’s show I guess they’re showing kids what laws aren’t the worse ones to break, imagine if Rita got away with Murder by doing community service? We get the next scene of Rita and the squirrel enjoying themselves as she explains she’s finally going to stop this charade and go back to her family, after a cute interaction with the squirrel she finally makes it back to her house only to see

another chaotic scene, with Lana running away from Lori because she has to take a flea bath, guess Lana got fleas Lisa was talking about earlier, wasn’t really surprising but yeah *sighs* that bit, but instead of running away Rita say’s it’s fine and is ready to help when she gets a visit from the police...Fuck make a run for it Rita!! You know it’s serious when Lisa asks who called the po po, it’s also sad when you have to fear the police, but I’m not opening that can of worms.The officer explains Rita’s done 12 violations within a week,and thanks to Rita breaking out the rule book on the officer, she has to do jail time now, Lynn Sr. comes back in the picture explaining she shouldn’t put anyone in jail just for a few parking tickets, the officer retorting that it was much more then parking tickets, listing off all the things we saw in the montage and more, meaning she did get away with murder! After the officer leaves, Rita explains she just wanted a break, Lynn Sr tells her she could’ve just said something, which is true, but you know..you could’ve done some stuff..you know? help around the house, instead of being here when the plot needs...actually the plot didn’t even need you, but anyway Rita knows she can’t run away so she accepts the fact she’s going to jail, but says she’ll do whatever she can to be there for them even behind bars...what a mother

The next scene starts with the louds talking to Rita who’s behind those glass windows with a phone next to her, each Loud tries getting their time with Rita, such as Lincoln asking for help on his homework, Luan telling her a prison joke (probably the only one I’ve ever heard that didn’t involve the soap), Lynn assaulting a guard, I know who’s gonna go behind bars next, and the most important note, Lisa talking about the water bill honestly that probably is the most important thing they’ve brought up, but then again Lisa could’ve talked to her father about who uses the water the most. The louds end up making a lot of noise causing the officer to ask them to quiet down, she then let’s Rita go...huh I wish it was that easy to get out of jail, the officer now understands why Rita wanted a break, and before she disappears, she whispers to Rita that if she ever needs a break meet her in the tow zone.

After the family gets reunited with the exception of Lisa whose bringing the old nail file in the cake bit..which I love that joke, anyway we see another scene with Rita waking up, this time with Makeup on, shocking. Rita freaks out at the revelation that’s it’s already Nine, heck I wish I could wake up at nine nowadays, but relaxes when she sees another sticky note from Lynn Sr. The note explains that everything is taking care of and that she can relax, and that they’ll try to do it more often...although this wouldn’t have been a problem if you were around more...anyway the episode ends with Rita waving to the squirrel saying she’ll meet up with the little guy for breakfast. Thus ending “Rita her rights,” and ugh

My opinions/final thoughts

so yeah...I didn’t like the episode too much, it’s not Rita’s worse episode, but it’s not her best which is a shame because I think she’s so much better then Lynn Sr. who I didn’t like much in this episode. I’ll explain why, he doesn’t have a purpose, he’s there mainly when the plot asks for him, but he’s neither the problem nor the solution, he’s just there, what I mean is he’s their father right? But for most of the episode he’s just either absent or there but not helping Rita, this episode makes it feel like Rita’s all by herself when it’s not the case, but Lynn just doesn’t act like a team player, now if the episode gave us a reason to why Lynn wasn’t helping then we can forgive it, but no..nothing really, sure you can say it’s implied that he’s trying to make the menu for the restaurant, but that’s only brought up once and isn’t referenced again even when we see him he’s not talking about that at all, they could’ve easily made something up with that, maybe have him too focused on that and not helping because of it, but they didn’t and it comes off as a bit lazy, we know Lynn is there and available and heck we know he helps around, but we just don’t get a reason to why he’s not doing much helping. The other problem is the fact Rita decides to do more community service just to get out of helping the kids, no offense but literally you have a voice a reason from time to time Rita you gotta be the adult sometimes, then again even the adults are just kids, you can’t account for everything in life, still I feel like Rita could’ve handle trying to take a break, maybe actually talk to the kids, have Lori be in charge, or get Lynn to do something!

so let me kinda go into the pros and cons, this is the new section to kinda give a check list of what the episode has to offer and to give somethings I thought can be appreciated from this episode, as well as some problems and a little bit of nitpicks

Pros: Rita looks great, it’s a simple plot but could be better not awful though, some great jokes such as the flea name Brad and Lisa with the cake, Rita and the squirrel are just adorable

Cons: Lynn Sr. was pointless in the episode, a lot more gross humor that I didn’t need to see (such as Lana vomiting and Charles pooping), Rita gets away with too much stuff before going to jail, She got out of jail so easily, and really the episode just felt a bit too simple

It’s not an awful episode, but I kinda wish we had a great Rita episode you know? Something to kinda make us really like Rita, sure I get sometimes the parents do act silly I won’t argue there, but they’re still the adults, you gotta make them at least responsible or at least make Rita the voice of reason cause half the time she seems like she’s really awful, especially if you include the part from “Out of luck” where she mention they sold all of Lincoln’s furniture, this episode could’ve been a bit better, like maybe have Rita trying to act like a mother only for the police to arrest her for the tickets and give some scenes with the kids without Rita, struggling a bit, I’m not saying go all dark, you can still do something silly like Jail being exaggerated instead of the community service, then again, I don’t think anyone wants to see jail, only Spongebob should do that, anyway is the episode the worst one, nah, can I recommend it? I say you’ll be better off waiting for another one, maybe watch “A Novel Idea,” it’s not a Rita episode, but it gives you a reason to like Rita a bit more, even if other appearances haven’t been so kind to the loud mother, we can only hope we get something please? Thank you guys for reading once again

Author’s Note:

Or you can just say P.S. either one is fine, Rita her Rights came out April 6, 2018, that week late I was talking about? how about I’m a year late to posting this review, and officially, this well be my last one...at least for this series, I’ll do a follow up post for this note after I post this review, so be on the look out for that, but this review...god this one, I didn’t poof read any of this, I hadn’t in months, I just left it on the shelf, and now, I’m letting it out into the world with all it’s flaws, I’m finishing this series up on a low note, but that doesn’t mean I’m done with this, you’ll see what I mean if you do stick around, otherwise, yeah, I’m still alive somehow...

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