Clarence Wendle is the titular character of Clarence. He is an optimistic boy who loves to do whatever he can to make the world a better place. He is voiced by Spencer Rothbell.
Personality
Clarence is the main character of Clarence. Clarence's distinct perspective can transform any circumstance, however mundane, into the best day ever! His beliefs, outlook and experiences are all uniquely his own. Clarence leads with his heart, reacting to life with unfailing excitement and enthusiasm. He values his friends more than gold. In Pretty Great Day with a Girl, he is shown to be friends with everybody in Aberdale except Victor. Clarence loves everything because to Clarence, everything is amazing. He is most definitely the emotional third of this trio of friends. Despite all this, he's not very bright. It has been shown multiple times that his optimism also transforms him to a dimwit. In Average Jeff, it shown that he scored no only high crayon, he's the lowest, implying that his stupidity lead him up to this, however due to his habits and his describe stupidity.
Appearance
Clarence is a very chubby kid with thick arms, blond hair, two front teeth, and pink skin (Except on the shoulder and the torso is bright yellowish-apricot, where his clothes mainly covers them). He also wears a neon green T-shirt with purple sleeves, light blue shorts, and dark blue boots.
Episodes
Clarence has been in all episodes, including shorts (Excluding Have a Ball), so far due to his title character for the most main appearances.
Comics/Books
As the same with episodes, he also appears in comics and books based on his name title.
Shorts
Crossover
- Say Uncle (Steven Universe/Uncle Grandpa) (mentioned)
- The Grampies (Uncle Grandpa) (full appearance)
- The Boredom (Gumball) (cameo)
Relationships
- Sumo - Sumo is Clarence's best friend. The two of them enjoy doing lots of cool and fun stuff together. Sumo can also be a bad influence on him sometimes and he will constantly get them into some trouble, but when Sumo and Clarence work together, they are able to pull themselves out of any sticky situation that they may fall into.
- Jeff - Jeff is Clarence's second best friend. They both like to have fun together. Although Jeff may sometimes be nervous and hesitant to what Clarence is doing, he eventually gets used to what he's doing and starts to enjoy it and Clarence is always good at showing him how.
- Belson - Belson is very mean to Clarence and often times makes fun of him and bullies him. Clarence is never offended by what he does and might possibly even be completely oblivious to it. Clarence thinks of Belson as a friend and he is always being nice to him no matter what Belson may do to him.
- Mary - Mary is Clarence's mom and they love each other.
- Chad - Chad is Mary's boyfriend and one of Clarence's friends. Clarence looks up to him.
Gallery
The gallery for Clarence can be found here
Links to Other Galleries
Trivia
- It was confirmed by Skyler Page that Clarence is supposed to be a cartoon version of himself when he was a child. However, it is likely false due to characters, such as Jeff and Belson, being based off of staff members and Skyler barely working on the show before he was fired.
- He has 1 buddy star as seen in "Clarence's Millions" after Ms. Baker took his second one.
- According to Clarence, everything is amazing like a baby dolphin, as heard in "Zoo".
- Clarence is the only character in the series to appear in all shorts & episodes, with the exception of Have a Ball.
- It is unknown why Clarence has only two front teeth while more is in the bottom, this was notable in "The Forgotten".
- However in Have a Ball, is his first that he did not appear in.
- He's been sent to detention about 3 times, first since "Detention".
- "Average Jeff" and "Bird Boy Man" are the only episodes where he is a minor character.
- Multiple times throughout the series, his eyes are shown being much smaller than they naturally are.
- Clarence's name appears in the "Steven Universe/Uncle Grandpa crossover", "Say Uncle".
- However, he alongside with Jeff, Sumo, and Belson would later made their only crossover (cameo) appearance in Uncle Grandpa's short "Grampies", as Belson is the only Clarence character outside that group who was able to talk.
- Also according to the podcast made by Pan-Pizza (a.k.a RebelTaxi) who the Spencer Rothbell had explained that another Cartoon Network show, Uncle Grandpa was originally planned for a crossover episode where he played as the twister (or a tornado that encounters Aberdale, however was shelved either due to the series cancellation hence the former being cancelled less than a year.[1]
- He was mentioned again in a Steven Universe episode "Onion Friend", only by having a similar appearance of a young version of Yellowtail (who married Vildilia) from the same show. Though much like Yellowtail and Onion, they both has the similar shaped head of Clarence.
- In "Patients", Clarence's last name is Wendle.
- Although in the end of the fourth comic, his last name was spelt as "Wendell".
- He was originally voiced by Skyler Page, who was fired in 2014 for alleged sexual assault.
- The tanlines on Clarence is very similar to "Greg" from "Steven Universe."
- And at times it would show it pink, its possibly an color error.
- In Birthday, it assumed that he was born with it as he showed them his baby pictures, however in real life, a person is not born with tan lines, therefore this is inaccurated
- In the same episode, his favorite color is brown.
- In "Jeff's Secret", he revealed to have a rash on his back which shapes like the state of Texas, however this was not always seen in all between previous and forward episodes were he usually shirtless, this usually a coincidence.