Clyde McBride

Clyde McBride is a main character 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. He and his dads live in a fancy single-story house located across the street from the Loud House.

According to an Instagram post from the production crew, Clyde is Howard and Harold's adoptive child.

Personality
Clyde is awkward and nerdy, but 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, despite how his oldest cat Cleopawtra always misbehaves.

Although he does not seem like it, Clyde is quite intelligent. 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. In addition, 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.

Clyde has many fears, allergies, and health issues. 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 all kinds of nuts, especially peanuts, and has some form of gluten intolerance (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 sometimes experiences panic attacks; 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 a bunch of stuffed animals that keep him company. Clyde has his own 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).

A running gag on the show is Clyde's crush on Lori, which borders on obsession. Seeing, hearing, or even smelling her causes him to freak out, bleed profusely through his nose, and act like a malfunctioning robot in some cases. He occasionally faints as well. Clyde has candid pictures of Lori and treasures things she gives him or has touched.

Nick Description
"Clyde is Lincoln's best friend and wingman. As an only child, Clyde is jealous of Lincoln's full house and is always willing to play his part in a crazy scheme. He has a big crush on Lori and can't act normal when she's around. Clyde spends so much time at the Loud House; he's almost an honorary sibling!"

Appearance
Clyde is an adorable dark-skinned African-American boy who 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 his 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.

Clyde's sleepwear consists of a blue nightshirt with a white collar, and a pair of matching pants. Howard has mentioned that Clyde also owns feetsie pajamas.

Glasses
Clyde wears glasses. They look nearly identical to Lisa's in design and color scheme. However, Clyde's glasses are somewhat more oval-shaped and less thick. The color of the lenses is a lighter shade of blue than Lisa's.

Clyde very rarely removes his glasses. He has been seen without them in "The Waiting Game", "Roughin' It", "A Fair to Remember", and "Kick the Bucket List". His actual eyes are very small pupils with bags around them. The title card of "Baby Steps", which features Lincoln and Clyde as babies, implies that Clyde has needed his glasses since he was a baby.

Girl Clyde
At the end of the episode "One of the Boys", Lincoln is sent to a second alternate universe in which every character's gender is swapped. A female version of Clyde is seen in a photo, alongside Lincoln's female version, Linka.

Girl Clyde has long hair with a blue ribbon in it. She wears a yellow short-sleeved dress with a single, horizontal, white stripe on the middle. She also has glasses identical to Clyde's and purple hoop earrings similar to Leni's red ones. It can be inferred that Girl Clyde has a crush on Loki Loud, the male version of Lori, and has two moms (female versions of Howard and Harold).

This version of Clyde eventually ceases to exist, as it's revealed the entire ordeal is just Lincoln's dream.

One-Eyed Jack
Clyde is a fan of the Ace Savvy comic books, just like Lincoln. Lincoln and Clyde have cosplayed as Ace Savvy and his sidekick, One-Eyed Jack, respectively. In the episode "Sleuth or Consequences", the boys dress up as them for a comic convention that they ultimately never attend.

In the comic Deuces Wild! and the corresponding short, Lincoln and Clyde pretend to fight a giant gas monster as Ace and Jack. They are joined by the sisters' superhero alter-egos at the end of the comic.

Shorts

 * "The Loud House (pilot)"
 * "Slice of Life"

Season 1

 * "Driving Miss Hazy"
 * "No Guts, No Glori"
 * "Project Loud House"
 * "In Tents Debate"
 * "Sound of Silence"
 * "Picture Perfect"
 * "Undie Pressure"
 * "Linc or Swim"
 * "It's a Loud, Loud, Loud, Loud, House"
 * "Toads and Tiaras"
 * "Out on a Limo"
 * "House Music"
 * "A Novel Idea"
 * "Cereal Offender"
 * "Raw Deal"
 * "A Tattler's Tale"
 * "Funny Business"
 * "Snow Bored"
 * "Homespun"

Season 2

 * "The Old and the Restless"


 * "Back in Black"
 * "Vantastic Voyage"
 * "No Such Luck"
 * "Frog Wild"
 * "Party Down"
 * "Fed Up"
 * "Pets Peeved" (mentioned)
 * "Potty Mouth"
 * "The Loudest Mission: Relative Chaos"
 * "Fool's Paradise"

Trivia

 * Clyde is one of the few characters with a signature sound effect: mechanical beeping and whirring is heard whenever he acts like a robot. It is usually followed by a robotic winding-down sound.
 * According to the official The Loud House Instagram's segment "Ask Lincoln Loud", Clyde and Lincoln met by running into each other both dressed as Ace Savvy and One-Eyed Jack respectively.
 * Whenever Clyde is shown from the front, the lenses of his glasses of 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".
 * Early in the show's development, when the Loud family was composed of anthropomorphic rabbits, Clyde was a beaver.
 * Many of Clyde's international voice actors are female.
 * Symbols frequently appear in Clyde's glasses to express his emotions. For example, his eyes are replaced by swirls when he is nauseous and by hearts when he is lovestruck.
 * According to the Loud House Hairdo game, Clyde's hairstyle is called "Crispy Curls."
 * Clyde's voice actor, Caleel Harris, also voices Franklin in the 2014 Peanuts TV series. Creator Chris Savino took inspiration from Peanuts while creating The Loud House.
 * Clyde is the only main character not related to the Loud family, although his official descriptions almost always call him the "honorary sibling."
 * He is also the first character not related to the Louds to get an episode centered entirely around him.
 * Clyde's ideal superpower is to not get a nosebleed every time Lori walks near to him.
 * Clyde's frequent nosebleeds are a nod to the anime trope when a character will get excited around their crush.
 * Clyde's name in the Polish dub of the series is Cezary, with the nickname "Czarek."
 * Clyde's Russian dubber, Larisa Brokhman, also voices Lucy, Lana, and Lisa.
 * 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.
 * 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 "The Price of Admission", Clyde sings one of Blarney's songs with the lyric "a fib to mom and dad, well, that's just twice as bad." This is strange because Clyde does not have a mom.
 * In "One Flu Over the Loud House", it is shown that Clyde's peanut allergy does not stop him from mixing peanuts into food that he prepares for other characters. From this, it can be assumed that it is not a life-threatening allergy, and that his parents can eat peanuts since they have them in their kitchen.
 * Clyde, along with Lynn Sr. and Howard, is one of the few characters who seem to enjoy Luan's joke and puns.
 * Although, he did groan once at Luan's puns in "Kick the Bucket List".
 * Clyde is similar to  character, Milhouse Van Houten.
 * 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.
 * Also, Clyde McBride is not his birth name since he was adopted.
 * "Pets Peeved" is the first and currently only episode where Clyde is mentioned but is not physically seen.
 * The official Instagram page for The Loud House occasionally misspells Clyde's surname as "Clyde McBryde" in their hashtags, such as on this video and this image.