User blog:Dragonzako/Thoughts on Clyde McBride

Welcome to the My Thoughts on Supporting Characters series. Here is Episode 1: Thoughts on Clyde McBride. Let’s get into it.

Clyde is a character I hate a lot, I consider him the worst character of the entire show. Why? He has crush on Lori that makes him obsessive and creepy around her with his constant annoying robot noises, nosebleeds etc., he also is a jerk to Bobby (Lori’s  boyfriend) and tries to break the couple up in some episodes, he’s also Linc’s shadow and is very dull and annoying. Character development? He doesn’t have any except for pointless episodes most of time he’s shoehorned in. A waste of potential. There were 3 times they could have improved this character in terms of character development.

Overnight Success, in this episode Clyde feels lonely and never knew what if felt to have siblings so they could have had a small arc where he bonded with the sisters to the point he felt like a “honorary sibling to them” so he earned that title instead of being given one. Then he would join their adventures as he is now more closer to all of them. They had this set up perfectly and could have done it.

Baby Steps, at the end of this episode Clyde could have had an adopted baby sister and in another episode he has to learn how to take care of her, but chooses to do it without Linc as he always depended on Linc for everything so he learns to be dependent and he could become more responsible and mature because of this.

Change of Heart, have Clyde stop obsessing over Lori and respects the fact she has a boyfriend and also apologizes for being creepy towards her and  for being a jerk to Bobby and this would show maturity as he realizes this on his own what he’s been doing is creepy and is a jerk move.

Two episodes I found him good are in Overnight Success and Flu Over the Loud House. In Overnight Success he was kind of likeable since Lincoln was just being a jerk to him and his sisters for no good reason. In the Flu episode despite a stupid unfunny joke of Lori crush, he did help the family at the end so kudos to him. In other episodes he’s either creepy, annoying, a jerk or dull.