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"Greece is the Word" was frankly a dud.
The Louds are in Athens, Greece, where they visit the Parthenon. Lincoln finds a Spartan helmet that sends him to Ancient Greece in 450 B.C., where, with the aid of a boy named Clydius, he has to find his way back to Athens, facing danger along the way.
Hearing about this episode made it very clear that this arc would fall flat at the end, but not how badly. The Louds are once again displaying rambunctious behavior at a foreign site, acting like the stereotype of American tourists behaving badly. Is this what the show intends to die on? Disrespecting a foreign landmark? We don't get to see much of that, but what we do get is definitely not better. For one thing, there's apparently time travel involved again. I've had more than enough of that.
Of course, they had to insist on shoehorning a Greek version of Clyde there. Whatever one thinks of that, a doppelganger of one of Lincoln's friends is ridiculous. Try someone new, like a girl, for once (with my recommendation of Diamond White as VA). They don't even try to make his name sound Greek—Clydius? Even a philistine can tell the difference between Greek and Latin names. Clearly, no one bothered to get even such basic stuff right (for one thing, the Parthenon was a temple, not a market). It's such a symbol of the show's decline that they miss perfectly serviceable approaches to stories, and yet the ones they do pick fail in the execution. They could have spent their time exploring modern Athens, maybe with a foreign resident or migrant.
I guess that's the inevitability of arcs for this show. I give this episode a 3/10.
