Loud Kiddington

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Loud Kiddington
Loud Kiddington in his character jingle.
First appearance	Regular on Histeria! since the series premiere "Inventors Hall of Fame" (Sep. 14, 1998).
Created by	Tom Ruegger
Voiced by	Cody Ruegger
Background Information
Aliases	Loudmouth; Pheidippides; Mozart; Lincoln Borglum
Pets	Fetch the Dog
Friends	Father Time, Big Fat Baby, World's Oldest Woman, Froggo, Charity Bazaar (unofficial girlfriend), Aka Pella, Lucky Bob, Cho-Cho, Toast, Pepper Mills, Pule Houser, Susanna Susquahanna, Miss Information, Nostradamus, Bill Straitman, Chit Chatterson, Mr. Smartypants, Lydia Karaoke, Sammy Melman, Leonardo da Vinci, the Super Writers, the Freedom League
Rivals	Edgar Allan Poe and his cronies, Adolf Hitler and the Nazis
Catch phrases	"What a grouch!!" "See it, see it.../DON'T SEE IT!! DON'T SEE IT!!"

Loud Kiddington is a fictional character featured on the Warner Bros. animated series Histeria! He is a young boy noted for the extremely loud volume in which he talks, as his name suggests.

Loud was the most recurring of the child characters seen on the show, to the point that he is one of two main characters to have an episode with his name in the title (Big Fat Baby being the other one). In that particular episode, "Loud Kiddington's Ancient History", he plays a parody of the typical used car salesman seen in television commercials (specifically Cal Worthington), accompanied by his talking dog, Fetch. Fetch is identical in appearance to Hunter from Road Rovers (possibly, they are of the same breed) and loves to chase after his tennis ball (or any other round object). He refuses to eat anything that one would find anything disgusting, as shown in the aforementioned episode. Throughout that episode, Loud advertises for the wheel, possible modes of transportation for Hannibal, and vacationing in Pompei, all the while claiming that if he doesn't make a good deal to the customers, Fetch will eat something disgusting (needless to say, the dog is not amused).

As a running gag, Loud is sometimes shown keeping watch of something, whilst almost silently muttering "I see it..." repeatedly. When he loses sight of what he's watching, he immediately switches into continuously shouting "DON'T SEE IT!!" This gag first appeared in the episode "Attack of the Vikings", where he is shown playing lookout for a pack of Vikings; specifically, he is shown watching to make sure that land is always visible, so the crew doesn't get lost. The one time he did get them lost, Eric the Red discovered Greenland. This gag was also used for the Lady Godiva sketch. And as the role of the Lady was being played by the World's Oldest Woman, Loud most certainly did not want to "see it".

Another of Loud's running gags is when he demonstrates the advent of an exceedingly loud-sounding invention or event (such as the creation of dynamite or the breaking of the sound barrier) in the only way he knows how. In these sketches, the viewer is "advised" to turn the TV volume up to its highest setting (which the viewer shouldn't really do) for maximum effect.

Loud is also the most frequent member of the Histeria! Kid Chorus, shown singing many songs that came up in the show's run, including the theme song. Usually, his fellow chorus members include Charity Bazaar (with whom he usually falls in love in fanfiction), Froggo, and Aka Pella.

On occasion, Loud has appeared as a sidekick to a superhero-like figure. The first of these is as the sidekick to Leonardo da Vinci's alter-ego, Renaissance Man; in this role, Loud is dressed as Robin. He was later featured as a member of the Freedom League, as a caricature of a young Harry S. Truman wearing a classic-era Superboy-like outfit. Loud also serves as an apprentice to the Super Writers, led by Ernest Hemingway, alerting and helping them when Edgar Allan Poe and his cronies are vandalizing literature in the Library of Congress.

One sketch in the episode "The Teddy Roosevelt Show" features Loud playing the role of Lincoln Borglum, son of Gutzon Borglum, who is played by Elmer Fudd. It should be made clear that Elmer is only portraying a man who is the father of the person whom Loud is portraying, and therefore the idea that Elmer is Loud's father is not canon. This is especially evident in the fact that Loud does not share Elmer's speech impediment (in fact, the only trait of Elmer's that Loud does show is Elmer's chuckle, which he delivers at the end of the sketch).

Loud was voiced by Cody Ruegger, the youngest son of Histeria! creator Tom Ruegger. In fact, Tom has stated that Loud's personality is based off of Cody, because he "has the tendency to be the loudest kid on Earth".^[1]

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