Clyde McBride

**Clyde McBride** is a medium black diesel character who works for the Dream Fleet Rail Co. He has a twin called Lisa Loud.

## Personality

Clyde is awkward, caring, nerdy, 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, even though his oldest cat Cleopawtra always misbehaves.

Clyde is quite intelligent beyond his years. He knows how to do taxes and about table manners and knows how to take care of babies because he learned about it from magazines in Dr. Lopez's waiting room. Besides, he seems mildly rich through his parents, given his nice house and lifestyle. 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 since he gets lonely with being an only child.

Clyde is very neurotic, cowardly, cautious, and worrisome. 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 certain kinds of nuts, but not peanuts, however, his dads are afraid he might later develop a peanut allergy. He is also sensitive to gluten (possibly non-celiac gluten sensitivity). He is acrophobic, and can show severe signs of altitude sickness because of it. Clyde often panics and overreacts; 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 many stuffed animals that keep him company. Clyde has his laptop and a white noise machine in his room. He has a baseball trophy, possibly passed down from Harold (who used to be a baseball player). He also possesses both a humidifier and a *de*-humidifier.

A running gag in the show's first three seasons was Clyde's former unhealthy and obsessive crush on Lori. Seeing, hearing, or even thinking about her caused him to freak out, bleed profusely through his nose, and act like a malfunctioning robot in some cases. He occasionally fainted as well. In his closet, Clyde had a shrine filled with candid pictures of Lori and treasures things she gave him or touched or he stole from her. Clyde also sent Lori gifts, but Lori stored Clyde's gifts in a box. Sometimes, Clyde tried to sabotage Lori and Bobby's dates, but always failed and ended up making their love stronger. In the third season, this gag came up a lot less frequently, ultimately ending after "Absent Minded". Clyde may have finally managed to keep his excessive behaviors around Lori under control thanks to Leni's lessons. Despite this, Clyde still feels something for Lori, only that he does not prove it and does it now in a less obsessive way than in the past. After the third season, Clyde's crush on Lori seems to have disappeared definitively, as he has since had crushes on Stella in her introductory episode, and on Emma and later Chloe in "Brave the Last Dance". Meanwhile, Clyde and Lori seem to have become good platonic friends.

## Technical Details

### Basis

Clyde is based on a human. They are a species of highly intelligent primates. They are the only extant members of the subtribe Hominina and—together with chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans—are part of the family Hominidae (the great apes, or hominids). Humans are terrestrial animals, characterized by their erect posture and bipedal locomotion; high manual dexterity and heavy tool use compared to other animals; open-ended and complex language use compared to other animal communications; larger, more complex brains than other primates; and highly advanced and organized societies.

Clyde's basis
### Livery

Clyde 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 footsie pajamas.

### Appearances

* Main Series
* Shorts
* Other Media

#### *Clash of the Couples*

* **Season 1 (pilot series)** - Melodine's Headliner (cameo)
* **Season 1** - TBA

'**Music Videos**

* **Season 1** - *To be added*

#### *Cartoonian Shoots*

* **Volume 2** - Passenger Train from Cliffstone to Kahlville (cameo)

#### *Meet the Cartoonians*

* **Volume 1** - Unikitty and the Chef Club Shopkins (cameo)
* **Volume 2** - Tower Power! (cameo)

#### Trailers & Teasers

* 2022 - "On Track for Celebration!" Teaser (cameo)

## Trivia

* Clyde is allergic to gluten, but he can be seen eating things with gluten in a few episodes.
* According to the official *The Loud House* Instagram's segment "Ask Lincoln Loud", Lincoln and Clyde met by running into each other, dressed as Ace Savvy and One-Eyed Jack, respectively.
	+ This was then confirmed and incorporated into "Deal Me Out".
* Clyde has dressed similar to all the members of the Loud family: he used Lincoln's shirt in "Brawl in the Family", he used a diaper to be like Lily in "Changin the Baby", and he dressed up like the rest of the Loud family in "The Whole Picture".
* Whenever Clyde is shown from the front, the lenses of his glasses 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 twice.
* Early in the show's development, when the Loud family was composed of anthropomorphic rabbits, Clyde was a beaver.
	+ This was later incorporated into "White Hare", in which the beaver is named Danny.
* 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 *What's Your Loud House Hairdo?* game, Clyde's hairstyle is called "Crispy Curls".
* Clyde's ideal superpower is to not get a nosebleed every time Lori walks near to him.
* "The Loudest Yard", "L Is for Love", "Fool Me Twice", and "The Spies Who Loved Me" are the only episodes where he appears without any dialogue.
* Clyde knows a lot about table manners and likes helping his parents do the taxes.
* Clyde has been at the grown-up table for his entire life because his dads do not have a kids' table.
* As seen in the promotional short "Dinner Party", Clyde would probably sit between Lincoln and Lori at the Louds' feast table every Thanksgiving.
* Clyde is a very good hackysack player.
* Clyde is not allergic to peanuts, but his dads are concerned that he will develop a peanut allergy in the future.
* Clyde gets nauseous from shaky cameras.
* 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.
	+ In "ARGGH! You for Real?", Clyde mentions being born one month prematurely.
	+ In "Out of the Picture", Clyde tells Coach Pacowski that he has had nine years of therapy with Dr. Lopez. If Clyde followed Dr. Lopez's therapy for a long time, who was also Howard's therapist, this means that he probably was adopted when he was a very small baby (about 2 years old, or younger if Clyde began therapy after his adoption).
	+ His adoptive parents have been together for 20 years. This implies that Clyde probably was adopted 8 years after the start of their official relationship.
* The official Instagram page for *The Loud House* occasionally misspells Clyde's surname as "Clyde Mc*Bryde*" in their hashtags.
* When he had a crush on Lori, he hated the way he acted around her since he couldn't control himself when she was nearby.
* Clyde's nose bleeds when he's scared.
* He cannot blow up balloons because he loses consciousness whenever he tries.
* Clyde has a perfect school attendance.
* He has a love for antiques.
* He doesn't like magic shows (and only goes to them because Lincoln likes them).
* Clyde is the second character to change voice actors/actresses due to their voice actor hitting puberty, with the first being Lincoln.
* According to Living Loud: Surprise Party, he is allergic to dogs, hamsters, canaries, and bats. However, this information is dubious because the game also states that he is allergic to cats, which he is not, as evidenced by him owning two cats. Additionally, Clyde interacted with Charles in "Game Boys" and Walt in "Chore and Peace" and didn't have any allergy symptoms.
	+ This game also suggests that he's scared of climbing through air vents.
* Clyde feels nauseated when he lies.
	+ Chamomile tea alleviates this nausea.
* He started wearing striped shirts sometime after meeting Lincoln and Lincoln convinced him to buy his first one.
* He wants to own a restaurant when he grows up.
* "Absent Minded" is the final episode to feature his former crush on Lori.
* According to *Lincoln & Ronnie Anne's VLOG*, he always picks "rock" during Rock, Paper, Scissors, due in part to the fact that his dads don't allow him to use scissors, even in an imaginary game.
* He is shown to be quite a good cook. In "One Flu over the Loud House", he makes the sick Louds a meal, in "Brave the Last Dance", he fixes up a cake, in "Flying Solo", he bakes to blow off steam, in *The Loud House Movie* he makes cinnamon rolls, and one installment of the vlog reveals that he knows how to dice, saute, and flambe.
* Lincoln always chooses him as his study partner.
* He was exposed to chickenpox for the first time in "Two Boys and a Baby", but it's unknown if he actually caught it.
* Clyde is also the most recent to win a perfect attendance award in 30 years, right after Principal Huggins.
* He once dressed up as Santa Claus for Halloween, and most people disliked it.
* Once he was very disappointed, so he put his focus on Lori.
* When there was a blood drive at school, Clyde did not have enough blood to donate because he ran into Lori and had a nosebleed.
* He once stayed after school to clap erasers.
* He once traded his fathers' quiche for Rusty's leftover pizza and ended up experiencing gastrointestinal problems (implied by a drawing of a toilet).
* One day, he ran into Mollie in the hallway and felt guilty for the rest of the day.
* He once got an A+ on a math test.
* One time, he forgot to wear socks, but he liked the experience, save for the blisters on his Achilles tendons.
* At the end of "Absent Minded", he writes that he was feeling itchy and felt so concerned, he figured he needed to get Nurse Patti to inspect him the next day.
* He takes yoga classes, and he may sleepwalk if he eats certain foods.
* He and Lincoln have come up with 2,000 codes.
* He is allergic to geese, and his dads refer to the sneeze he makes when his allergies are severe as his "distress sneeze".
* He and Lincoln have a very complicated secret handshake, which involves fist bumping, crushing juice boxes on their own heads, and wearing tutus.
* Like Lincoln, his favorite food was Lynn Sr.'s mac and cheese bites until Gayle McBride moved into Royal Woods and started cooking her recipes for him. To be exact, his favorite food since Gayle moved to Sunset Canyon Retirement Home is now beef bourguignon.
* He claims to have bad depth perception, though that may have been because he was wearing an eye patch at the time. He's also allergic to certain cleaning products, and he enjoys reading anything, even the terms and conditions on video games.
* His dads always know when he needs to take a nap.
* He is afraid of going to the dentist, to the point where he even scratched Harold when the latter tried to take him there. He is also apparently more energetic than both his dads, as when they tried to tire him out, it tired them out instead.
* Clyde is one of the few *Loud House* characters to be played by the same actor in animated and live-action media, the others being Brian Stepanek as Lynn Sr., Catherine Taber as Katherine Mulligan, and Jeff Bennett as Mick Swagger. However, he is the only one whose actor first played them in live-action before becoming their official voice actor.
* He believes in aliens, leprechauns, and the old myth that one needs to wait an hour after eating before swimming.
* He once went to Dairyland with Rusty because Lincoln was grounded.
* His favorite movie is *King of the Rings*.
* He doesn't know what "going viral" means, thinking it means to catch a virus.
* For most of his life, his fathers have banned him from eating pickles due to a man having fatally choked on one in the 19th century.