Lincoln Babysits

"Lincoln Babysits" is the first half of the ninth episode in the first season of Lincoln Loud.

Summary
Lincoln thinks babysitting is the easiest job in the world, until Lana volunteers him to babysit Winston and Skippy Fieldman.

Plot
Lincoln is babysitting Lily and Lana, who keeps making Lily laugh as Lincoln is trying to feed her. Lincoln snaps at his sister to stop, which makes Lana accuse him of being a mean babysitter.

Lincoln then tells her about his past terrible babysitters: Mrs. Gutter (who practiced her golf swing in the kitchen), Ms. Schmegeggi (a clumsy moose), and then Mrs. Featherfoffer (who watched soap operas all day and made him go to bed early for making noise in his play).

--Lincoln Babysits--

Lincoln is seen walking Lily in her stroller when they bump into Lana coming home from preschool, covered in paint. Lana explains that they did finger painting in school before showing Lincoln her painting. Lincoln says the painting looks neat, but then asks her how she got paint all over her. Lana blames Winston and Skippy, and the three end up walking past their house where a screaming babysitter flees the premises.

The twins then spot Lana, much to her displeasure and then Mrs. Fieldman comes out, wondering where the babysitter went. She is shown to be clearly oblivious or downplaying the twins' rambunctious nature.

Lana volunteers Lincoln to look after the twins while Mrs. Fieldman visits a friend, and Lincoln agrees, thinking it won't be a problem. However, when he tells his friends at the Sugar Bowl about it, they all recoil in horror.

Luan tells Lincoln that her older sister babysat for the twins once and is still having nightmares. She suggests that Lincoln lay down the law and make sure the kids know that he is the boss, and the others agree.

When Lincoln returns to the Fieldman household, Mrs. Fieldman tells him that the boys should be down for a nap soon before leaving. However, the boys would rather play and create a huge mess in the house, knocking over a suit of armor and drawing on the walls. Lincoln is cleaning up when Lana calls, suggesting that he play a game with the boys so they calm down.

Lincoln tries to follow her advice by suggesting a card game, but the boys would rather play more energetic games such as Cowboys and Robbers and Hide and Go Seek. Lincoln finally agrees to play the latter, but when he goes looking for the boys, he notices an open window and panics, believing the boys have left the house to create chaos elsewhere.

Lincoln fantasizes the boys setting free all the wild animals in the zoo and the Royal Woods population is in a state of panic, as they run away from an angry elephant and an angry lion, as well as an angry rhinoceros. Luan and Leni, as they try hiding in a tree from an angry bear, blame Lincoln for not keeping the twins in control.

Just then, Lana calls again to check up on him and Lincoln notices the boys hiding behind the curtain. He then makes up a story about a swamp monster that might get them, and Lana asks "The what?"

The twins are frightened about the "swamp thing" being outside, so they run to him. Lincoln continues to tell them more about the scary swamp monster and just then, Mrs. Fieldman returns. The twins, now enamored of Lincoln, offer to help clean up, and beg to let Lincoln be their official babysitter.

When Lincoln returns home, Lana grills him about his experience and is shocked to find out that not only did the Fieldmans behave for him, but now when he comes over to babysit, they want Lana to come along, too.

Major

 * Lincoln Loud
 * Winston and Skippy Fieldman
 * Mrs. Fieldman
 * Lana Loud

Minor

 * Lily Loud
 * Lynn Loud
 * Luan Sullivan
 * Cindy Sullivan (debut)
 * Clyde McBride
 * Leni Silverstone
 * Mrs. Gutter (debut)
 * Ms. Schmegeggi (debut)
 * Cheryl Featherfoffer (debut)

Cameo

 * Liam Powers
 * Fieldman Cat (debut)
 * Fieldman Cat (Number 2) (debut)
 * Unknown Male Adult (Number 3)
 * Unknown Female Adult (Number 4)
 * Photographer
 * Kindergarten Teacher
 * Lisa's unknown relative
 * Rita Loud

Trivia

 * This is the very first episode when Winston and Skippy Fieldman have a major role in the series.
 * The monster that Lincoln describes to the Fieldmans is featured on a movie poster for "Swamp Monster II" in "On the Clyde Scale".

Episode connections

 * Lincoln babysits in this episode, and he mentions being a babysitter in "Crushed".

Errors

 * Lincoln babysits for the Fieldman twins, despite only being eleven years old. Leaving an eleven-year-old to babysit is illegal in most places in real life.


 * After the Fieldman twins fight over the lollipop, Winston first has the lollipop stuck on his head, then in the next shot, it's Skippy who has the lollipop stuck on his head.
 * When Skippy jumps off the couch his scarf changes to Winston’s scarf, then when Skippy is on the floor the red scarf turns back to his blue scarf.

DVD:

 * Lincoln's Baby
 * Lincoln Loud: The Complete Series One

VHS:

 * Lincoln's Baby