Stella and the Liamsaurous

"Stella and the Liamsaurous" is the second half of the third episode in the third season of Lincoln Loud.

Summary
Stella is at first thrilled that Liam is her partner on a school project, but then wonders whether he's going to let her help at all.

Plot
Liam films Lincoln doing the introduction. He keeps correcting him and eventually replaces him. He replaces him again on the title card.

Stella and Liam are assigned to work on a project together (the same assignment as in "Lincoln Goes Gerber"). They decide to build a model dinosaur. Leni and Clyde tell Stella that it will be easy, since Liam does almost all of the work himself.

Stella constantly wants to help with the project, but Liam doesn't let her because he keeps thinking she'll ruin it and get them both a bad grade. He tries to avoid her so she doesn't interfere with his work. Meanwhile, Clyde keeps trying to avoid Leni because he doesn't want to work on their project.

One day, Stella visits Liam and tells him she'll work on the dinosaur's head. However, he doesn't trust her to do a good job and stays up all night to make his own version anyways. The next day Stella visits him and shows him her work, but he is dissatisfied with it and says he won't use it. Stella said they both look the same and it's their project (not just his), but Liam doesn't listen.

Liam brings his dinosaur to school, but he and Stella fight over it and it falls in the mud. He tells Leni about what happened, but she laughs and even admits that she would have pushed him in the mud, not just let him fall. Liam doesn't understand, but Leni explains that Stella is right about him being a "report hog". For example, a year earlier he and Leni were doing a project about France - he played Napoleon and made her play France, not even giving her any lines (she just lay on the floor under his boot). Even when they were little, he would fix other kids' finger paintings. She then asks him how he would like it if Stella treated him the way he treated her. Liam imagined that he is working on the project but then Stella came in telling him to go home because he doesn't want him to fiddle with her "precious" A+ and don't trust him.

Liam understands and apologizes to Stella for not letting her help. He admits he would also feel bad if nobody trusted him working on a report. She tells him that she'll fix it as long as he trusts her. Though Liam is reluctant at first, he smiles and lets her take care of the situation. When the time comes to present their project, Stella asks Mrs. Johnson to take the class outside. There, she shows their new project - a fossil dig, made out of the model dinosaur's bones in the mud they fell into earlier. She explains that paleontologists dig up sites like this, and tells Liam to show the class the proper way to do it. While he does that, Leni tells Clyde that after school they'll finally finish their project. Clyde tells her that he'll meet her at her house, but Leni has had enough of his stalling and proceeds to handcuff him to herself so he won't run away anymore.

Major

 * Liam Powers
 * Stella Zhau
 * Agnes Johnson

Minor

 * Clyde McBride
 * Luna Loud
 * Leni Silverstone
 * Ronnie Anne Santiago
 * Mrs. Zhau

Cameo

 * Zach Gurdle
 * Lincoln Loud
 * Rusty Spokes
 * Molly Pappas
 * Archie
 * 3rd Grade Male (Number 3)
 * Chloe
 * Eric
 * Ferdinand
 * 3rd Grade Female (Number 2)
 * Paige
 * 3rd Grade Male
 * Sid Chang

Episode connections

 * The project Stell a and Liam are working on is assigned at the same time as Lincoln and Luna's project from the first half of the episode. Viewers can even see their project shown right before Liam and Stella's near the end of this episode.
 * This whole episode, like Lincoln's Baby/Lana's Baby, has both segments taking place at the same time but with different point of views.
 * Stella and Liam's dinosaur project is seen again in "Luna's Classy Classics Club".
 * Liam mentions to cue the title, similar to Lincoln mentioning to move over to the title card in The Last of Dream Boat, and Ronnie Anne mentioning that as well in Ronnie Anne's Slumber Party.

Cultural references

 * The first dinosaur head Stella makes from clay resembles the children's TV character Barney.

Production notes

 * This is the first episode to use Liam Underwater as a title card. It comes right after the introduction, in which Liam dresses as Lincoln, and only differs from the Lincoln Underwater card by replacing Lincoln with Liam.

Home video
DVD:
 * Lincoln Loud: The Complete Series 4
 * Nerves of Steal (DVD)