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 male parents; Howard and Harold McBride. He has also mentioned having a grandmother and a cat.

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, he has a passion for comic books, video games and science fiction movies.

Although he does not seem like it, Clyde is quite intelligent. He knows about table manners as seen in "A Tale of Two Tables" and knows how to take care of babies. According to his parents, he cannot consume nuts, meals with too much sugar, meals with gluten, or orange juice.

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 a dark-skinned boy who wears circular glasses with thick black rims and blue-tinted lenses. He is normally seen wearing black pants and a green-and-blue striped shirt with a white collar. He has freckles and black hair styled into an afro.

Throughout the series, his normal outfit has changed depending on the situation he's currently in. For more information, go here.

Howard and Harold
Clyde loves his parents, despite the two being the same sex. They seem to be too overprotective towards Clyde, like in "Overnight Success" where they equipped him with all the stuff he would need for his sleepover, including his white noise machine, humidifier, dehumidifier and his allergy medications. They also give him a photo of them because they wouldn't talk to him that night.

Howard and Harold are also very attentive towards Clyde and always are helping him, as shown in "Attention Deficit".

Loud Family
Clyde has a nice relationship with all the Loud family siblings. He is the only boy of Lincoln's classroom that tolerates his sister's antics. Because Clyde is an only child he feels a little alone, that's why he enjoys to be with them and usually spends his time with them.

Lincoln
Clyde is Lincoln's best friend and wingman and both have a good relationship. Clyde is very loyal to him and when Lincoln gets a plan, he is always prepared to help him. They usually hang out in other places or just spend time with Lincoln's sisters. The only thing that annoys Lincoln from him is his obsession with his sister Lori. Because of this he calls Lincoln his brother-in-law (Polish version).

In "Changing the Baby", Clyde feels sad after thinking Lincoln has replaced him with Lily, but at the end Lincoln says him that he won't be replaced because he is his best friend. He also came with him to SMOOCH concert in "For Bros About to Rock".

Lori
Lori dislikes Clyde because of his obsession with her. Whenever he is around her, he involuntarily acts like a robot ("Does not compute! Circuit overload!") and bleeds from his nose.

In "Butterfly Effect", Lori dates Clyde after breaking up with Bobby. At the end of the episode, they can be seen riding a bike together, apparently having gotten married. This is used as a gag, happening only in what appears to be Lincoln's imagination, and is not mentioned in further episodes.

In "Two Boys and a Baby", Clyde tells Lily a story in which he is a knight who ends up living happily with "Princess Lori".

Leni
Clyde and Leni's friendship seems to be pretty good. In "Overnight Success", she asks for his help on a new facial cream she needs to test on before trying it. She also seems to enjoy his company at the sleepover.

In "Along Came a Sister", Clyde recalls one time on Halloween when Leni mistook his spider costume for a real spider and sprayed him with bug spray. Of course, this was just her arachnophobia getting the better of her.

Lily
Clyde and Lily seem to get along pretty well at times. Just like Lincoln and his sisters, he can't resist the baby of the family.

In "Changing the Baby", Clyde fears that Lily will replace him as Lincoln's new best friend and tries to win Lincoln back by dressing up as a baby. When he realizes how cute Lily is, Clyde admits that he can't stay mad at her and decides to spend some time with her.

In "Two Boys and a Baby", Clyde helps Lincoln babysit Lily, thinking it would be an easy task only to find out that it's much more difficult than intended. Lily at one point tears off strands of Clyde's hair while she throws a tantrum.

Bobby
Due to his obsession with Lori, Clyde despises Bobby (Lori's boyfriend). In "Two Boys and a Baby", Clyde's above-mentioned story ends with Bobby getting eaten by a monster. In "Save the Date" he repeatedly tries to humiliate Bobby while he was on his date with Lori, but to no avail. It's still unknown if Bobby feels the same towards Clyde.

Trivia

 * A running gag is that Clyde will mention his crush on Lori at random.
 * In "A Tale of Two Tables", is revealed that Clyde has a knowledge about good table manners and also he helps his parents do the taxes. It is also revealed that Clyde has been at the grown-up table his whole life.
 * In "Overnight Success", he proved to be a very good hackysack player.
 * Clyde is an only child.
 * He is similar to Milhouse Van Houten from The Simpsons and Irwin from The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, as all of them are nerdy best friends of the main characters and have crushes on female characters that don't seem to be going anywhere.
 * He has a therapist called Dr. Lopez, as mentioned in "Two Boys and a Baby".
 * Clyde's name in the Polish dub of the series is Cezary, with the nickname "Czarek."