Clarence

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## Chronology

***Clarence*** is an American animated television series created by Skyler Page for Cartoon Network. The series revolves around the title character and his two best friends, Jeff and Sumo. The creator of the series, Skyler Page, a former storyboard artist for *Adventure Time* and revisionist for *Secret Mountain Fort Awesome*, developed the series at Cartoon Network Studios as part of their shorts development program in 2012.

The pilot aired after the 2014 *Hall of Game Awards* show on February 17, 2014. The series officially premiered on April 14, 2014, and was seen by approximately 2.3 million viewers, outperforming shows in its same demographic in the time slot. The series' pilot was nominated for a Creative Arts Emmy Award. The series completed its four-year-run on June 24, 2018, after 3 seasons and 130 episodes.

## Synopsis

The series focuses on the daily life of Clarence Wendle, a fun-loving and spirited 10-year-old boy, and his best friends: Jeff, who is the more intellectual type, and Sumo, who often uses drastic measures when solving problems.

Clarence lives with his divorced mother Mary and her boyfriend Chad in the fictional town of Aberdale. Each episode focuses on the daily-life situations and problems that Clarence and his friends encounter, and their everyday adventures and life experiences as kids.

Other characters include students and faculty at Aberdale Elementary, Clarence's school. Certain episodes focus on the life of supporting characters, like the citizens of Aberdale and Clarence's classmates.

## Episodes

*Main article: Clarence Episode Guide''*

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## Characters

### Main Characters

* **Clarence Wendle** (voiced by Skyler Page (episodes 1–32 and 35–36) and Spencer Rothbell (episodes 33–34 and 37–130)) – An overweight, extroverted, optimistic, and wide-eyed 10-year-old boy who wants to bring out the best in everything and everyone. In the pilot episode, he was the "new kid" in Aberdale and could not wait to make friends. He more often than not listens to and follows his heart, reacting toward life with unfailing excitement and enthusiasm. A "nice guy" at heart, Clarence aspires to help people, especially his fellow kids, have fun and live freely, often by using unorthodox methods to do so. He can, however, occasionally let his imagination get the better of him, and has a bad habit of meddling into people's personal lives, unintentionally making their troubles worse. Clarence has a wide range of interests and hobbies, and despite sometimes coming off as a goofball, he more often than not displays an underlying intelligence.
* **Jeff Randell** (voiced by Sean Giambrone) – Clarence's best friend who is intelligent, levelheaded, and morally inclined of the trio and tries his best to prevent Clarence from going down a bad road. Jeff's most well-known trait is that he has a cube-shaped head which represents his "square" personality. He is an avid fan of game shows and enjoys playing along with them.
* **Ryan Sumouski** (voiced by Tom Kenny) – Clarence's best friend, who is fearless, unpredictable, and often takes drastic and crude measures when trying to solve problems. Despite this often being a drawback, Sumo is loyal to Jeff and Clarence and available when they need support. He and Jeff tend to quarrel with each other due to their opposing personalities, but Clarence acts as the glue that holds the boys' friendships together. In the third season, Sumo was transferred to the new school called West Aberdale.

### Supporting Characters

* **Mary Wendle** (voiced by Katie Crown) – Clarence's mother who is always there to support her son no matter the difficulty. She lives with her boyfriend Chad and her son Clarence. It is revealed In "Hurricane Dilliss" she has an overbearing mother (now deceased) which makes her very annoyed by her taking over her life, and that she has been seeing a therapist for 15 years. She is 37 years old.
* **Chad** (voiced by Eric Edelstein) – Mary's boyfriend who works at various odd-jobs and acts as Clarence's father figure (Although Clarence mostly calls him Chad). Also has a fondness for guitar playing and rock music. He is 36 years old.
* **Ms. Baker** (voiced by Katie Crown) – The children's 5th grade teacher at Aberdale Elementary School who is shown to be helpful and caring, yet easily overwhelmed.
* **Belson Noles** (voiced by Roger Craig Smith) – The resident bully, who is more likely to use insults, quips, or pranks rather than use physical violence. Selfish, inconsiderate, spoiled, obese, lazy, a show-off, no respect to his teachers or mother and very superficial, Belson is very unpopular among his peers because of this, yet Clarence is the only one that likes him, though the same can't be said for him. Belson is also prone to envy, as he is aggravated by the fact that Clarence is the "popular kid" at Aberdale Elementary School and has occasionally tried to ruin his reputation. He is also named after Nelson Boles, who helped create the series. He likely takes after his father, who appears in "Company Man" because they both show a desire for complete control over others (the father over his employees, to Belson over the kids).
* **Breehn** (voiced by Joshua Rush) – One of the intelligent kids in class who is more of Jeff's friend than Clarence's, and keeps himself well grounded at all times. However, in later episodes he warms up to Clarence and joins him on some of his misadventures. He becomes a better friend of Clarence, and lets loose when with him.
* **Chelsea Keezheekoni** (voiced by Grace Kaufman) – A plucky and outspoken girl who insists that she is superior to any boy, mainly Sumo. She and Sumo have shared a kiss in Clarence, Jeff and Sumo's treehouse in "Too Gross For Comfort".
* **Percy Dahmer** (voiced by Roger Craig Smith) – A short, wimpy boy who speaks in a weak voice and is friends with Clarence and Belson. He lacks fingers. Like Clarence, he tends to let his imagination get the better of him.
* **Joshua** (voiced by Brent Popolizio) – A grumpy 26-year-old who doesn't like children, especially Sumo, and later Clarence. He is shown to be very accident prone and constantly gets severe injuries during every one of his appearances, usually accidently caused by Clarence's hijinks.

### Minor Characters

* **Nathan** (voiced by Skyler Page (2014–15) and Damien Hass (2015–18)) – One of Belson's friends. He's a big guy who is considered dim-witted. He becomes friends with Clarence as well, often participating in his escapades.
* **Dustin Conway** (voiced by Roger Craig Smith) – Another one of Clarence's classmates and Belson's friends, who is a karate aficionado. He later becomes friends with Clarence.
* **Guyler** (voiced by Spencer Rothbell) – A blond-haired boy with a long neck and a big nose. Although generally silent, he does make occasional grunts. He is friends with Clarence, and joins him on his escapades. At first a minor character, he becomes more prominent in later episodes; specifically in "A Nightmare on Aberdale Street: Balance's Revenge".
* **Regis Gilben** – A silent and motionless boy who communicates with an eerie wind sound instead of a voice. Everyone can seemingly understand this; also, somehow he is ghost-like and can touch without moving.
* **Kimby** (voiced by Isabella Niems) – A shy, girly, insecure and lovely girl, who loves cute things and enjoys stuff about boys (like magazines, or movies). She is friends with Courtlin and Malessica.
* **Malessica** (voiced by Ivy Bishop) – A smart, shy girl, who is also intellectual, just like Jeff. She used to be in love with Jeff.
* **Courtlin** (voiced by Tayler Buck) – A rude girl who is not afraid to express herself and give her opinion when she doesn't like something or feels uncomfortable. However, she also has her girly side, like her friends.
* **Ashley** (voiced by Anastasia James) – A girl who loves art, but also has her adventurous side. She used to like Clarence.

## Trivia

* The show is rated TV-PG.
* The crew of Clarence, says the show is heavily based off of their childhoods and cartoons from the 90s (Hey Arnold, Recess, Ed Edd n' Eddy, Doug, etc).
	+ This is one the only 2 CN originals to make references based on how it was before the 2000's, first being *Regular Show*, which references to things in the 1980's and 1990's.
* Clarence's name appears in the "Steven Universe/Uncle Grandpa crossover", "Say Uncle".
* Clarence, Sumo (who is depicted with eyelashes), Jeff, and Belson (only one with a speaking role), alongside with characters from other Cartoon Network shows (*Adventure Time*, *Steven Universe*, *Regular Show*,*The Amazing World of Gumball*, *Samurai Jack*, *The Powerpuff Girls (2016)*, *The Grim Adventures of Billy And Mandy*, *Johnny Bravo*, *Dexter's Laboratory*, *Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends* and *Ben 10: Omniverse*) made an official cameo crossover appearance in *Uncle Grandpa* short " The Grampies".
* Clarence And Mary made a brief crossover appearance, alongside with *Regular Show* and *Uncle Grandpa* in a Gumball Episode "The Boredom".
	+ Same said for once again in a Uncle Grandpa episode, "Cartoon Factory", but only made Clarence purple and has black hair and was named as "Clifton", alongside, other CN shows, such as *Regular Show (Rigby and Benson), Adventure Time (Jake (but has the Scooby-Doo appearance) & Finn), Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends (Bloo), The Powerpuff Girls (Bubbles), and The Amazing World of Gumball (Darwin)* also made their cameo appearance.
* Also according to the podcast made by Pan-Pizza, who the showrunner Spencer Rothbell had explained that another Cartoon Network show, *Uncle Grandpa* was originally going to be in a planned crossover episode where he played as the tornado that twists though Aberdale, however the idea was scrapped due to the unfunny nature of the episode because of the actual disasters caused by tornadoes (it was supposed to be a parody of disaster films such as Twister, Deep Impact and Volcano, where it would have been treated seriously until the end, which is where Uncle Grandpa would have appeared).
	+ Ironically one episode that depicted a potential disaster, was sucessfully greenlit and made its way onto television. The episode's ending depicted a plane (that was taken over by Chad) that resembled a plane about to crash. The plane's pose itself resembles of United Airlines Flight 175 as it crashed into the South Tower of the former World Trade Center in the 9/11 attacks. The episode itself would also become uncomfortable to Latin American viewers following the tragedy of LaMia Flight 2933 at the end of November 2016 (the actual disaster did not involve a hijacking). The episode was banned in the United States with very minimal reruns following the tragedy.
* There was also originally going to be a episode where Clarence dies by falling from the tree and becomes a ghost to jokingly haunts everyone in Aberdale, was also rejected, because he describes as a dumb idea and it eventually never was made.
* In Kenya, this show, alongside with Steven Universe, Hey Arnold, The Legend of Korra, Gravity Falls, The Loud House, Star vs. The Forces of Evil, and Adventure Time were banned due to LGBT themes and other reasons.