'The Casagrandes' Writer Reveals How Sid's Sibling Was Nearly a Male Character

The Casagrandes, Nickelodeon's highly-anticipated animated The Loud House spin-off which follows Lincoln Loud's friend Ronnie Anne and her chaotic multi-generational family in Great Lakes City, premiered on Monday, October 14, and to celebrate, Sammie Crowley, a writer on The Loud House, shared with fans on Twitter a fun fact about one of her proudest moments from developing the show!

In the Twitter thread, Crowley revealed that when The Casagrandes was being developed, they knew that Sid Chang - Ronnie Anne’s new friend - needed a little sister. However, producers thought that Sid needed an older brother instead. As the series already had more male than female characters, Crowley gave an impassioned speech to the show's co-executive producer on why adding an extra male character would be wrong - and thankfully producers listened, with writers being able to keep the secondary character a girl named Adelaide (pictured below)!

Check out the thread below, and make sure to catch The Casagrandes on Nickelodeon!:

"To celebrate the premiere of #TheCasagrandes today I wanted to share with you guys a fun fact and one of my proudest moments from developing the show. After the Loud House writers had finished developing Sid, we immediately knew we wanted her to have a little sister [THREAD]

Adelaide popped for us right away -some characters do that. We were so excited about her and then we got some terrible news. There was push back - we needed more boy characters. A better “boy entry point” for the series. Age Adelaide up and make her a boy.

Now if you know me, you know this is one of my biggest pet peeves. I grew up on a steady diet of male characters - many I related to deeply. Even now, I see myself more in male characters. Girls are forced to relate to male characters because male is default. I’ve had enough.

I marched to our co-EP and gave an impassioned speech on why this was bogus - carefully reminding him that we already had more male than female characters - a thing that is true of almost EVERY show. To make a long story short (too late) with some major help from the universe...

We were able to keep Adelaide just as she was. All that fight to keep a secondary character a girl. To me - those are the fights worth having. Happy Casangrandes day guys!! This is a show a LOT of people shaped and are very very proud of ❤️"

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H/T: Anime Superhero Forum /@SweetShop209; Additional sources: IMDb, The Loud House Encyclopedia.

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