Clyde McBride

Clyde McBride is one of the main characters of the Nickelodeon series  and is Lincoln Loud's best friend and former classmate. He is a nerdy, intelligent African-American boy who is the adopted only child of same-gender couple, Howard and Harold McBride.

Why He's A Good Friend

 * 1) He is a great and much better friend to Lincoln than Rusty, Liam, and Zach are in most episodes and is really supportive.
 * 2) He not only supports Lincoln but also Loud sisters and even tolerate their antics in most episodes.
 * 3) *For example, In "One Flu Over the Loud House", Clyde cares for the Loud family after they all catch the flu.
 * 4) *In Living Loud: Surprise Party, Clyde helps the Louds and the Santiago siblings prepare for Lori's birthday party.
 * 5) Some of his Lori moments can be hilarious at times because the way how Clyde act's when Lori appeared.
 * 6) Clyde is awkward, caring, and nerdy, but sweet and supportive at the same time.
 * 7) He has perfect attendance at school since kindergarten.
 * 8) Lincoln can always count on Clyde to help him with a plan since they have great friendship.
 * 9) He is a happy kid who lives with two dads, serving as a good example that a child raised by gay parents can be happy.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) His nosebleeds when he sees Lori can be freaky and highly disturbing to see at times.
 * 2) His crush on Lori can be creepy because of big age gap between them as he is only 11 whilst she is 17 (later 18), eventually though his nose bleeds did go away.
 * 3) While it is nice to see him getting more focus in the show's fifth season, however, he has been getting so much episodes to the point where sisters like Rita, Leni, Luan, Lucy (formerly), Lola (formerly) and Lily not getting their own episodes or one more to three, Lynn Sr. not getting an episode to himself, have had only one episode to themselves, sisters not having one more episode, sisters not having more than two episodes, etc. The same is with Lincoln, Liam, Rusty, Zach, and Stella. This caused some fans to get sick of Clyde getting too much episodes. Many of the episodes about Clyde are about him and his friends in middle school.
 * 4) *In addition, depending on your view, Clyde and his friends have been getting way too many episodes in Season 5 as opposed to them being some in the first four seasons. Most of the time, the episodes are about Clyde and his friends are in middle school and we're no longer classmates with Lincoln because Principal Ramirez doesn't work out for Lincoln to attend Mrs. Salter's class with his friends because all of the seats were full in there.. This caused many fans and users from The Loud House Wiki (like Snkcole8630, the now inactive Mattia Movies, and Gamer372Revind) to get sick, tired, and annoyed of them getting too many episodes, wanting their favorite characters to get their own episodes and a second/third one. Most of the episodes are about him and his friends in middle school.

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".
 * Early in the show's development, when the Loud family was composed of anthropomorphic rabbits, Clyde was a beaver.
 * As of season 5, he is no longer classmates with Lincoln due to Principal Ramirez doesn't work out for Lincoln to attend Mrs. Salter's class with his friends because all of the seats were full in there.