The ENTIRE Story of Clarence in 43 Minutes!

I love Sumo's dad. He's like a chilled down version of Trevor

Can we talk about how good of a father figure his Mom’s Boyfriend was? He played with him, taught him lessons, and went through a massive storm just to find him. Man is a homie.

Clarence definitely portrayed certain aspects of childhood that I related to deeply. And I do admire how it doesn’t shy away from the gross aspects as well. It wasn’t too stylized and polished - and I love it for how grounded it was in reality.

The most realistic part of this show is that the boys only find out each other's full names only 15 episodes later (At least a month in the show's timeline) by complete accident.

they literally filled every pothole that they introduced and kept a running story with multiple storylines. This show was amazing.

The last episode was really sweet It shows the even if your friend gets friends other than you that doesn't mean they left you, you are still their "friend".

I am 41 and I absolutely adored Clarence. Such a sweet and hilarious cartoon. Reminds me of my first school I ever attended. Everyone was friends. I had a sleepover in the 4th grade with 17 girls! When I changed schools I barely had any friends. It was nice to watch Clarence and reminisce.💚💚💚

Sumo's dad is severely underrated, he deserves the appreciation for handling a whole family

It is insane how I never noticed that Clarence had a stepdad and Jeff had two mothers because of how well they were portrayed... You know, as normal folk. That's something a lot of media, not even cartoons specifically, can learn from

Sumo just casually bolting into a party uninvited and having unspoken rizz is the most classic Sumo moment ever

can we give this man props, he watched and examined every episode of this show and made a 40 minute video out of it

For such a charming show, Clarence had a very dark overarching subplot that I don’t see many people taking about. The subplot in question is one involving Josh (the curly-haired, hook-armed, bad-tempered teen boy). After he loses his job in “Lost in the Supermarket” all thanks to Sumo and Clarence, the next time we see him, he has a new job as a park ranger in “Nature Clarence”, then next time he has a new job somewhere else and so on. Each time Sumo and Clarence encounter Josh, he loses a body part after a series of antics (losing a chunk of his hair, his ear getting chewed off by a goat, losing his right eye) and each time we see him, he has gained weight. He gains so much weight and grows his hair out, even getting a mustache, that he becomes completely unrecognizable when compared to the first time we ever saw him back in season 1. My theory here is that Josh is slowly losing a battle with depression, and no one realises it. In that one episode about that dog Chimney, I seem to recall him being high off shrooms or something, and I think that was his way of fighting that depression, idk. This is where it gets weird: There’s another episode where Clarence and the gang wind up at a teen house party, and at some point during this episode, I remember them running through the woods or something like that. In the background, we can see Josh and a group of other unidentified young people in a circle, sporting these long robes/cloaks. They seemed to be in the middle of performing some sort of occult ritual or something. My theory is that Josh got so depressed that a cult preyed on his vulnerability and indoctrinated him into their fold. Either that or HE started that cult, relying on supernatural means to deliver him from his aguish. Or maybe he grew resentful towards the world because it was never kind to him, and this cult is a form of retaliation or something, a way to reclaim his power. The scene is so fast, barely a frame, that if you blink you’ll miss it, but I think the stark juxtaposition of the popular kids at the house party and the ‘loser’ weirdos in a cult in the woods at night was the writers’ way of solidifying Josh’s downfall for us. Or maybe, because this is a slice of life show and everyone constantly has their own thing going on, that’s just what Josh has going on in his life. He started a cult and there’s no further explanation needed lol. I’ve looked high and low and even combed through the wiki but I can’t find any references by anyone to that half-scene or this entire subplot. Which has led me to believe that maybe I’m reading too much into it haha. My memory is a bit iffy so i may have gotten a few things wrong here, but if ANYONE knows what I’m talking about, please reveal yourself to me because this has been driving me crazy for the past six years now. I need someone, anyone, to scratch this itch.

I love how this show doesn’t portray kids in gigantic houses and everything, like lots of shows do. It’s just ordinary kids, having fun. Plus, this show is literally so funny 😭

Clarence is a raw interpretation of what it's like to be a kid. It's random, it's silly, it's imaginative.

when me and my brother were about 9 or 10 or so, we used to watch this with our dad, who liked it. our dad has recently passed in September. I'm gonna try to warch as much as this show as I can, i feel like that would make him happy

About 2 years ago, this was my comfort zone show when I was sad, I heard a lot of people didn't like it over the years, but its super charming!

Jeff's character developement went from COMPLETELY germaphobe to sitting on a filthy couch found outside with NO problem and I love that. Haha.

As a kid the episode where Clarence was “rebellious” actually made me emotional. It really resonated with me and felt very real to how I felt at that age.

The scene where Chad falls through the floor and everyone is screaming, and Sumo's dad is just laughing cemented him as my favorite character. That'd be me haha.

Clarence was my child hood. Watching this was a huge nostalgia trip.