King of the Contest (Multiverse and Friends)

King of the Contest is the 3rd episode of the seventeenth season of Multiverse and Friends. This is the first episode to be written by Dorn Aduls's cousin Lory Aduls.

Plot
The crew saw on TV an advertisement for a contest for major roles in an upcoming film about an insane adventure of a boy. As a result, some members of the crew joined the contest.

Why It's The King Of Awful Contests

 * 1) Almost all the characters in this episode are horrible jerks.
 * 2) *Luz and Amity are at their absolute worst, as they attempted to kidnap and hide two actresses to steal their roles, which is straight-up evil and selfish. The worst part is that this episode started Luz and Amity's second flanderization, as they became selfish and started to do various malicious stuff for their own benefit.
 * 3) *King is no better either, as he pretentiously claims he's a great actor despite his failed efforts and threatened whoever criticizes him, which shows he can't handle criticism. Speaking of which, this gave early signs of King's second flanderization.
 * 4) *Most of the Loud sisters (except Luan and Leni) are bland and one-dimensional in this episode, and outright moronic, as they blindly believe Luz and Amity's lies even though it was blatantly obvious that they were lying to distract them.
 * 5) *Eda is also unlikeable, as she was incredibly lazy and refused to check what Luz and Amity were doing.
 * 6) *Lilith is no better either, as she encouraged the Loud sisters to be moronic in the entire episode.
 * 7) The episode is straight up a rip-off of The Loud House's episode Kings of the Con, which is no better but worsens most of the flaws present in that episode.
 * 8) The episode is also inconsistent in terms of who wants you to root for. At first, the episode wants you to root for Luz and Amity (which fails miserably due to their awful plan), but later it wants you to root for the Loud sisters, which also doesn't work due to them being very moronic. And then the show finally wants you to root for Luan and Leni.
 * 9) *Ironically enough, the episode portrays Luz and Amity being in the right, while it portrays the judges, Luan and Leni in the wrong.
 * 10) This episode was a sour way to start Lory Aduls's career, as she always wanted to work with her cousin Dorn.
 * 11) The humor is outright awful.
 * 12) *The jokes are mean-spirited to Luan and Leni, who knew of Luz and Amity's plan but were constantly tortured throughout the entire episode.
 * 13) *Other jokes consist of the Loud sisters being very stupid and idiotic, which doesn't work because some of them are supposed to be intelligent, especially Lisa, who is supposed to be the most intelligent Loud sister in the family. The most ironic thing is that they made Leni intelligent in this episode, who would've worked better with said jokes.
 * 14) *Even the jokes that aren't mean-spirited or aren't about the Loud sisters being idiotic are unfunny, mostly relying on domestic abuse jokes.
 * 15) This episode is also known for being unfair and mean-spirited towards Luan and Leni, who pretty much knew Luz and Amity's plan and tried to stop, but they were constantly tortured by the other Loud sisters and were excluded by them.
 * 16) Lackluster writing, filled with contradictions from the previous episodes. A notable example is when in one episode, Luz claimed she would never do any selfish move, but that was broken in this episode.
 * 17) Inconsistent pacing. The first half is very sluggish and slow, but in the second half, it becomes way too fast to the point it doesn't give the audience enough time to breathe.
 * 18) Many people claim that this episode started the second downfall of the show, and while technically it's not true, it's not hard to see why they say that, due to the flanderized characters and lackluster writing. But it did start a small decline in quality that isn't very noticeable.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Luan and Leni are likable because they knew Luz and Amity's plan and wanted to expose them. They also called out Eda for her irresponsibility.
 * 2) *Speaking of Leni, it's one of the few episodes where she is intelligent.
 * 3) *The judges are also likable, as they didn't unfairly treat Luan and Leni like garbage and listened to them.
 * 4) Good ending: Luan and Leni called out various people, especially Luz and Amity, for their awful behavior in front of everyone, including the judges. As a response, the judges kicked out everyone in the crew except Luan and Leni, who got major roles in the upcoming film.

Reception
King of the Contest garnered extremely negative reviews from critics. It was criticized for the plot, the OOC characters, the inconsistency, and the mean-spiritedness toward Luan and Leni. It's widely regarded as one of the worst episodes of the entire show. It has a 3.9/10 on IMDb, making it one of the lowest-rated episodes in the entire show.