Clyde McBride is the tritagonist in The Loud House.
Biography[]
Clyde is an only child and Lincoln's best friend. He has two dads, Howard and Harold, who tend to his every whim, and are always there for him. He and his dads own a vicious cat named Cleopawtra, and a friendly kitten, Nepurrtiti. Clyde has also mentioned having a grandmother, and he is shown to have a goldfish in "Purrfect Gig". He and his dads live in a fancy single-story house.
According to an Instagram post from the production crew, Clyde is Howard and Harold's adoptive child. This was later proven in "Baby Steps".
Appearance[]
Clyde wears circular glasses with thick black rims and blue-tinted lenses. He has freckles and black hair styled into an Afro. Just like Lucy, his hair always has a bright outline (although he is white and Lucy's is blue). He is normally seen wearing black pants, and a yellow-and-blue striped shirt with a white-collar. He wears black tennis shoes with three white stripes, and white laces on each.
Personality[]
Clyde is awkward, caring, nerdy, sweet, and supportive at the same time. Lincoln can always count on Clyde to help him with a plan. Like Lincoln, Clyde has a passion for comic books, video games, and science fiction movies. He is also a cat lover and owns two cats that he loves very much, even though his oldest cat Cleopawtra always misbehaves.
Clyde is quite intelligent beyond his years. He knows how to do taxes and about table manners as seen in "A Tale of Two Tables" and knows how to take care of babies because he learned about it from magazines in Dr. Lopez's waiting room. Besides, he seems mildly rich through his parents, given his nice house and lifestyle as shown in "Attention Deficit" and "Roughin' It". He is socially inept, but ultimately a very friendly and kind person. Clyde is patient and enjoys the company of all of Lincoln's sisters since he gets lonely with being an only child.
Clyde is very neurotic, cowardly, cautious, and worrisome. He has asthma, which requires him and his dads to carry an inhaler everywhere. According to his parents, he cannot consume meals with too much sugar or orange juice with pulp. Clyde is allergic to certain kinds of nuts, but not peanuts, however, as shown in "Snow Way Down", his dads are afraid he might later develop a peanut allergy. He is also sensitive to gluten (possibly non-celiac gluten sensitivity). "Dance, Dance Resolution" shows that he suffers from acrophobia, a fear of heights, and can show severe signs of altitude sickness because of it. Clyde often panics and overreacts; when he does, he hyperventilates into a paper bag that he carries with him at all times.
Clyde is a huge fan of Blarney, the show's version of Barney the Dinosaur as seen in "The Price of Admission". He knows all of Blarney's songs by heart. He also owns many stuffed animals that keep him company. Clyde has his laptop and a white noise machine in his room. "April Fools Rules" shows that he has a baseball trophy, possibly passed down from Harold (who used to be a baseball player). He also possesses both a humidifier and a de humidifier as shown in "Overnight Success" and "Pasture Bedtime".
A running gag on the show's first two seasons is Clyde's unhealthy and obsessive crush on Lori. Seeing, hearing, or even thinking about her causes him to freak out, bleeding profusely through his nose, and act like a malfunctioning robot in some cases. He occasionally faints as well. In his closet, Clyde has a shrine filled with candid pictures of Lori and treasures things she gives him or has touched or he has stolen from her. Clyde also sends Lori gifts, as seen in "Change of Heart", but Lori stores Clyde's gifts in a box. Sometimes, Clyde tries to sabotage Lori and Bobby's dates, but always fails and ends up making their love stronger. In the third season, this gag comes up a lot less frequently. Clyde may have finally managed to keep his excessive behaviors around Lori under control thanks to Leni's lessons. Despite this, Clyde still feels something for Lori, only that he does not prove it and does it now in a less obsessive way than in the past. After the third season, Clyde's crush on Lori seems to have disappeared definitively, as he has since had crushes on Stella in her introductory episode, and on Emma and later Chloe in "Brave the Last Dance". Meanwhile, Clyde and Lori seem to have become good brotherly friends, as shown in some later episodes and also in two official comic books "Loud and Proud" and "The Struggle is Real".
Trivia[]
- Clyde is allergic to gluten, but he can be seen eating things with gluten in a few episodes.
- According to the official The Loud House Instagram's segment "Ask Lincoln Loud", Lincoln and Clyde met by running into each other, dressed as Ace Savvy and One-Eyed Jack, respectively.
- This was then confirmed and incorporated into "Deal Me Out".
- Clyde has dressed similar to all the members of the Loud family: he used Lincoln's shirt in "Brawl in the Family", he used a diaper to be like Lily in "Changing the Baby", and he dressed up like the rest of the Loud family in "The Whole Picture".
- Whenever Clyde is shown from the front, the lenses of his glasses are the same size. When he is shown from the side, however, one appears to be larger than the other.
- Clyde has broken the fourth wall and talked to the viewers in two episodes: "Changing the Baby" and "One Flu Over the Loud House".
- "The Loudest Yard", "L is for Love", "Fool Me Twice", and "The Spies Who Loved Me" are the only episodes where he appears without any dialogue.
- In "A Tale of Two Tables", it is revealed that Clyde knows much about table manners and likes helping his parents do the taxes. It is also revealed that Clyde has been at the grown-up table for his entire life because his dads don't have a kids' table.
- As seen in the promotional short "Dinner Party", Clyde would probably sit between Lincoln and Lori at the Louds' feast table every Thanksgiving.
- In "Overnight Success", Clyde proves to be a very good hackysack player.
- In "Snow Way Down", it's revealed that Clyde is not allergic to peanuts, but that his dads are concerned that he will develop a peanut allergy in the future.
- In "Cheater by the Dozen", it is revealed that Clyde gets nauseous from the shaky cam.
- In "Out of the Picture", he stated, "I have nine years of therapy under my belt" to Coach Pacowski, indicating he began therapy when he was 2 years old.
- It has never been revealed who Clyde's biological parents are, or why they gave him up for adoption. It is also unknown if Clyde ever knew his biological parents, or if his adoptive fathers knew them.
- It is revealed in "Change of Heart" that, despite having a crush on Lori, he hates the way he acts around her since he can't control himself when she's nearby.
- It is revealed in "Tricked!" that Clyde's nose bleeds when he's scared.
- It is revealed in "What Wood Lincoln Do?" that he can't blow up balloons because he loses consciousness whenever he tries.
- As revealed in "Absent Minded" that Clyde has a perfect school attendance.
- In "Antiqued Off", it's revealed that he has a love for antiques, and also that he doesn't like magic shows (and only goes to them because Lincoln likes them).
- Clyde is the second person to change voice actors due to his/her voice actor hitting puberty, the first being Lincoln.
- He will make a guest star appearance in Tino Tonitini and The Snow Queen.
- In the Zootopia/Sing movies, he appears as a beaver.
- In the Winnie the Pooh/Loud House crossovers, he will only have one father (who would be Harold McBride, sensibly due to both characters being Black) to avoid controversies against LGBT material (as opposed to having two fathers in the real show).
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