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 has also mentioned having a grandmother and a vicious cat named Cleopawtra. Clyde lives 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.

Early in the show's development, when the Loud family was composed of anthropomorphic rabbits, Clyde was a beaver.

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 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. As seen in the promotional short "Dinner Party," Clyde would probably sit between Lincoln and Lori at the Louds' feast table every Thanksgiving.

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. 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. 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 a dark-skinned 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 has been seen without his glasses in "The Waiting Game", "Roughin' It", and "A Fair to Remember". Similarly to Lisa, his actual eyes are very small with bags around them.

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.

Girl Clyde
At the end of the segment "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 segment "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.

Howard and Harold
Clyde loves his parents. They are much too overprotective of Clyde, since he is their only child. They tuck him in every night, are very attentive towards him, and always help him with school projects. As seen in "Roughin' It", they will not let Clyde out of their supervision unless he is at school or with Lincoln.

Clyde is not embarrassed of his dads' helicopter-parent tendencies. He seems to like it, even when they treat him like a baby (for example, Howard always spoon-feeds Clyde his food at dinner). It is revealed in "Lincoln Loud: Girl Guru" that Clyde hugs his dads very often, despite how it might seem unmanly to people like Lincoln.

Loud Family
Clyde has a nice relationship with all the Loud family siblings. He is the only boy in Royal Woods that tolerates Lincoln's sisters' antics. Because Clyde is an only child, he feels a little alone. This is why he usually spends his time with the Louds and is considered an honorary member of the family.

Lincoln
Clyde is Lincoln's best friend, so both of the boys are very close with each other. Clyde is endlessly loyal to Lincoln. The only thing about Clyde that annoys Lincoln is his obsession with Lori, but this never gets in the way of their friendship. Because of their closeness, Clyde has called Lincoln his brother-in-law (in the Polish dub).

Clyde accompanies Lincoln to the SMOOCH concert in "For Bros About to Rock". In "The Waiting Game", Lincoln and Clyde dance the tango together three times. They also hold hands twice. As seen in "Left in the Dark" and "Cover Girls", Lincoln and Clyde love to watch television together.

Aside from each other, Lincoln and Clyde do not have any real friends. Because of this, both Lincoln and Clyde are quick to get jealous when they see each other hanging out with other people. In "Changing the Baby", Clyde spies on Lincoln and thinks he is replacing him with Lily. This makes him sad and prompts him to dress up as a baby in an attempt to win Lincoln back. In the end, Lincoln tells Clyde that he will never replace him and that they are friends forever. In "Overnight Success", Lincoln and Clyde plan a sleepover. Lincoln gets mad when Clyde wants to spend time with his sisters and cancels their slumber party in an outburst. Later on, Lincoln realizes that Clyde is the only person in town who is not scared of the Loud House, so they make up and watch a movie with the entire family.

In "Two Boys and a Baby", Lincoln's whole life flashes before Clyde ' s eyes, showing that Clyde knows his best friend so well that he has practically lived the same life. Clyde has a tendency to unnecessarily hug Lincoln when he assumes the worst (for example, in "Making the Case").

According to the production crew and the Cartoon Creator game, Lincoln and Clyde's friendship name is Clincoln McCloud.

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 "Left in the Dark", Lincoln and Clyde decide that it is best to watch the show separately, because Clyde will obsess over Lori if he comes over. Later, Clyde asks Lincoln if his sister will be intrested in dating younger men (obviously referring to himself) which Lori overhears and answers directly to him "never gonna happen."

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". In "Heavy Meddle", Clyde mentions that Lori gives great advice, such as when she told him to "never be himself" which he doesn't seem to mind.

In "A Fair to Remember", Lori tries to make Bobby jealous by spending the day with Clyde. Since he is unable to function around her, he is unconscious for the entire time. Lori ends up having to carry him around like a doll. She reunites with Bobby later on and thanks Clyde by sending him a gift box full of photos from their day out.

In "One Flu Over the Loud House", Clyde cries hysterically after learning that Lori has come down with the flu. He then makes it his mission to bring some of his dads' good food to the sick Louds.

Clyde and Lori's couple name is either "Clori" or "Llyde", according to Clyde himself in "Chore and Peace".

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.

Luan
Clyde seems to enjoy Luan's jokes and sense of humor, unlike her siblings, judging by his comments in "Overnight Success" and "Lincoln Loud: Girl Guru". As seen in "April Fools Rules", Luan has severely pranked Clyde in the past. Once, he was walking to the Loud House on April Fools' Day when he fell into one of Luan's prank traps. It sprayed him with water and covered him in hay. Then, Luan let a flock of angry crows attack him.

Lynn
In "Overnight Success", when Lynn offers Clyde to play with her in a simple game of hackysack, he enthusiastically accepts it.

Lucy
Lucy and Clyde have a good relationship. As seen in "A Fair to Remember", Lucy often brings messages from Lori to Clyde (in order to keep him from seeing Lori and freaking out). Despite their friendship, Clyde inadvertently helps expose Lucy as the culprit who clogged the bathroom toilet in "Sleuth or Consequences".

Lisa
Lisa seems to get along well with Clyde most of the time. She treats him similarly to how she treats her sisters. Lisa has used Clyde as a test subject and called him a fool in the past, but seems to like him nonetheless. Clyde doesn't mind being used as part of her experiments.

Lily
Clyde and Lily get along very well. Just like Lincoln and his sisters, Clyde 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 her boyfriend Bobby. In "Two Boys and a Baby", Clyde's above-mentioned story ends with Bobby getting eaten by a monster, and in "Attention Deficit", Clyde mentions that on his volcano project, Bobby is inside the volcano boiling in hot lava. In "Save the Date", he repeatedly tries to humiliate Bobby to no avail.

Bobby does not feel the same way towards Clyde, as seen in "For Bros About to Rock" and "A Fair to Remember". In these episodes, Bobby acts kindly around him and also calls him "bro". At the end of the latter episode, Clyde performs a friendly handshake with Bobby and does not act angrily around him (perhaps because he already fulfilled his dream of going on a date with Lori). This means that they could be on good terms.

Haiku
In "Dance, Dance Resolution", Clyde covers for Lincoln by dancing with one of his four dates: Haiku, a friend of Lucy. Clyde admits to Haiku that he is smitten with "an older woman," Lori. Haiku explains to him that she is also hoping to enter an impossible relationship with a 200-year-old vampire boy. They smile and have a conversation about unrequited love. Haiku tells Lincoln later in the episode that she enjoys Clyde, because they "share the same pain". She and Clyde share a slow dance together at the end, all while looking at photos of their respective crushes.

Cleopawtra
Clyde apparently sees his beloved pet cat Cleopawtra as a sibling. She is easily angered and can get dangerous around Clyde, which is why he has a time-out crate for her.

Trivia

 * Clyde has the following catchphrases:
 * "Cadet Clyde, reporting for duty!"
 * "L-L-L-Lori?"
 * "Abort! Abort!"
 * 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.
 * Clyde has broken the fourth wall and talked to the viewers in two episodes: "Changing the Baby" and "One Flu Over the Loud House".
 * 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'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."
 * 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.
 * 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 it's unknown if he does not have a mom or either of his dads are divorced.
 * 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.
 * Clyde, along with Lynn Loud Sr. and his caucasian father Howard, are some of the few characters who seem to enjoy Luan's joke and puns.
 * Clyde is the first character not related to the Loud family to get a segment centered entirely around him.