The Loud House (franchise)

The Loud House is an American sitcomedy multimedia franchise, owned by Nickelodeon, following the chaotic everyday life of large families, in particular that of the eponymous Loud family. Created by Chris Savino, based on his own childhood growing up in a large family, with animation largely influenced by newspaper comic strips, the original animated series has been broadcast for seven seasons since May 2, 2016, along with a renewal for a eighth season, with a spin-off series The Casagrandes, airing from October 14, 2019 to September 30, 2022, and the live-action television series The Really Loud House, which premiered November 3, 2022. The franchise expanded to film with The Loud House Movie on August 20, 2021, followed by A Loud House Christmas on November 26, 2021, A Really Haunted Loud House on September 28, 2023, The Casagrandes Movie on March 22, 2024, and No Time to Spy on June 21, 2024.

The franchise primarily focuses on Lincoln Loud, the only boy and the middle child in a family of eleven children (with ten sisters of distinctive personalities) residing in the fictional town of Royal Woods, Michigan, who occasionally breaks the fourth wall to explain to the viewers the chaotic conditions and sibling relationships of the household, and continually devises plans to make his life in the Loud House better. Since its debut, the franchise has gained high ratings, with the original series becoming the top-rated children's animated series on American television within its first month on the air, further receiving considerable media attention and nominations at both the 28th and the 29th GLAAD Media Awards for its inclusion of Howard and Harold McBride, two supporting characters who are an interracial gay married couple. In May 2017, the characters of Lincoln Loud and Clyde McBride were featured on the front cover of Variety as an example of diverse characters in children's television.

Creation
Chris Savino conceived of the idea for The Loud House based on his own experiences growing up in a large family. Early in development, the Loud family was going to be composed of rabbits, but this was terminated when an executive, Jenna Boyd, asked Savino to make them human. The idea of the Loud family being rabbits became used as Lincoln's dream in the Season 3 episode "White Hare". He pitched the idea to Nickelodeon in 2013 as a $2 1/2$-minute short for their annual Animated Shorts Program.

Main characters
The main characters of the franchise are the members of the Loud household, which consists of parents Rita and Lynn Loud Sr., their one son Lincoln and ten daughters Lori, Leni, Luna, Luan, Lynn Jr., Lucy, Lana, Lola, Lisa, and Lily. According to Chris Savino, the family lives in the fictional town of Royal Woods, Michigan.

No Time to Spy: A Loud House Movie (2024)
The third animated film in the franchise, was first unveiled on April 26, 2024 on Nickelodeon’s Instagram page. It is scheduled to release on Nickelodeon and Paramount+ on June 21, 2024 as an original film.

Graphic novels
The Loud House has spawned a graphic novel series by publisher Papercutz. The graphic novels are by either crew members or other incoming artists, and dive into the world of the show and the characters within. They are usually anthology comics, however, others are arranged on certain themes, while others have overarching storylines.

Chapter book series
The Loud House has produced a series of chapter books with original stories, initially published by Random House before switching to Scholastic: Who Ghost There? and Arcade or Bust! in 2018, Campaign Chaos! in 2019, The Ultimate Party in 2020, and No Bus, No Fuss in 2021.

The Loud House: Ultimate Treehouse (2018)
A mobile game based on the series called The Loud House: Ultimate Treehouse was released on September 20, 2018, for iOS and Android.

The Loud House: Outta Control (2020)
The Loud House: Outta Control was released on Apple Arcade on February 14, 2020. In the game, the siblings try to get through to their goals without running into each other.

Nickelodeon Kart Racers 2: Grand Prix (2020)
Lincoln, Lucy, and Clyde appear as playable characters, with the rest of Lincoln's sisters appearing as unlockable pit crew characters, in the 2020 racing video game Nickelodeon Kart Racers 2: Grand Prix. Lincoln, Lucy and Clyde are confirmed to return in the 2022 sequel Nickelodeon Kart Racers 3: Slime Speedway, with Bentley Griffin, Jessica DiCicco, and Jahzir Bruno reprising their roles and now new characters with Luna Loud and Lana Loud with Nika Futterman, and Micah Aliling, from the show.

Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl (2021)
Lincoln and Lucy are also playable in the 2021 title Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl; a patch to the game added voice acting with their roles being reprised by Bentley Griffin and Jessica DiCicco.

Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2 (2023)
Lucy returns as a playable character with Jessica DiCicco reprising her role. Lincoln appears in the game now as a background character in the Loud Castle stage.