History WesternAnimation / Clarence

* DerangedAnimation: The hallucination sequences of "Tuckered Boys" directed by the BamanPiderman creators.

* PutOnABus: Sumo switches schools in Season 3. Subverted in that he's still a regular character, continuing to hang out with the others.

* RichBitch: Both of Breehn's parents, who spend the entire episode of 'The Dinner Party' showing off their house, condenscendingly shut down Mary when she tries to start a conversation, and are more worried about the damage done to their house than the fact that several children could've been hurt, ''one of them being their own son''.

* PutOnABus: Sumo will be switching schools in the upcoming Season 3.

* SpecialEditionTitle: The title sequence to "Goldfish Follies" is in [[DeliberatelyMonochrome sepia tone]], and the theme song is in the style of big-band music.

* StoryArc: Spencer Rothbell [[https://twitter.com/srothbell/status/826177919592435712 has confirmed]] that Season 3 will have one.

* SpecialGuest: NPR's Terry Gross as Deborah Copper, local radio interviewer.

* DistaffCounterpart: In "Dullance" Clarence meets a middle school girl who inexplicably looks like him in a debutante outfit.

* EpicFail: In "Jeff's New Toy" Clarence only has to play with Jeff's toy for a few seconds before he breaks it, and he tries to repair it using a stapler, masking tape and toothpaste, with disastrous results.
* EvenTheRatsWontTouchIt: In "Jeff Wins" a flashback to one of Jeff's cooking contest freak-outs shows him tossing his entry to the pigs, who then throw it back.

** In "Clarence's Stormy Sleepover" Belson puts glue on Mr. Reese's binoculars and they stick to his eyes. Later Sumo rips them off of him, and not only does it look painful but he has to get his head wrapped.
** In "The Boxcurse Children" when Clarence, Jeff, and Sumo are returning the cursed items where they found them, it's shown that Clarence has to wear an eyepatch because the curse gave him pinkeye. At the end of the episode, it gets worse.

* FallGuy: In "The Interrogation" Mr. Reese eventually blames Belson for the graffiti on his car, partly because he wants to get the investigation over with and partly because he just doesn't like Belson.

* FreezeFrameBonus: In "Lil Buddy" when Clarence is digging a hole you can spot silhouettes of [[WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall Wirt and Greg]] in the background.

** In the second episode. Clarence and Amy are looking up pictures of an erratic, and Clarence being the {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, is fascinated by it. His reaction is much further than a TV-PG rating should allow. [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything Not to mention that he soon says he has to pee from it.]] Along with what erratic is one tongue slip away from.

** In "Attack the Block Party" two teens Clarence befriends are all but outright stated to be stoners.
** In "Company Man" Clarence builds a small model city out of mailroom supplies and decides to call it "Brown Town."

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From former ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' storyboard artist and recent [=CalArts=] grad Skyler Page comes this Creator/CartoonNetwork original about the SliceOfLife antics of a bunch of elementary school-aged kids from the suburbs of Aberdale, focusing mainly on the chubby, perpetually optimistic and endearingly awkward Clarence, and often involving his two best friends, neurotic goody-goody Jeff and mischief-maker Sumo.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: In "Neighborhood Grill", Clarence runs off from his parents in a restaurant and innocently stops and sits with a creepy, 70-year-old man (his teacher's weird date) who quickly writes down everything Clarence is saying in his notes. The man says that he is also named Clarence (a tactic of pedophiles is to claim that they have the same name as a child to gain the child's trust/interest). After talking, the man takes Clarence's hand and walks him to the bathroom without the knowledge of Clarence's parents.

* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', as both shows try to be as grounded in reality as possible.

* EyeScream: A particularly painful-looking example at the end of "The Tails of Mardrynia", when the bugs from Clarence's animal world take up residence in Belson's left eyelid/eye socket.
** In "Clarence's Stormy Sleepover" Belson puts glue Mr. Reese's binoculars to his eyes. Later Sumo rips them off of him, and not only does it look painful but he has to get his head wrapped.

* GoodCopBadCop: Mr. Reese and Clarence in "Interrogation".

* GrossUpCloseUp: Clarence's dirty hands in "Fun Dungeon Face Off", as seen from Jeff's point of view.

* SurpriseCreepy: "Rise and Shine" has Clarence encounter a ''mountain lion'' in his backyard.

* DenserAndWackier: The show has become a lot more surreal than when it originally started.

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* CreatorBreakdown: A particularly major one for creator and voice actor Skyler Page, driven by bipolar disorder and including increasingly bizarre and erratic behavior culminating in sexually harassing female co-workers, led to his being fired from the production. He was replaced by actor Spencer Rothbell in the roles of Clarence and Blaide.

[[caption-width-right:278: The kings of the world.[[note]]From left to right: [[{{Keet}} Clarence]], [[SuperOCD Jeff]], and [[GeniusDitz Sumo]].]]

The series marks an interesting change of pace for the network. In contrast to the wild, surreal shows Cartoon Network has in its post-CN Real/"New Thursdays" days (''WesternAnimation/UncleGrandpa'', ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'', ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'', ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'', and of course ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime''), ''Clarence'' is more down-to-Earth, culling humor from real-world situations, mostly those associated with the little things experienced in childhood (mostly school-related) and only delves into surreality because the protagonist is a child with an overactive imagination and a bizarre perspective on the world. Think of this series as a throwback to those mid-to-late 1990s kids' cartoons that showed kids going to school and having more realistic adventures, often learning a life lesson in the process [[note]](i.e., ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'', ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'', ''WesternAnimation/PepperAnn'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Detention}}'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'', etc)[[/note]].

The series marks an interesting change of pace for the network. In contrast to the wild, surreal shows Cartoon Network has in its post-CN Real/"New Thursdays" days (''WesternAnimation/UncleGrandpa'', ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'', ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'', ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'', and of course ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime''), ''Clarence'' is more down-to-Earth, culling humor from real-world situations, mostly those associated with the little things experienced in childhood (mostly school-related) and only delves into surreality because the protagonist is a child with an overactive imagination and a bizarre perspective on the world. Think of this series as a throwback to those mid-to-late 1990s kids' cartoons [[note]] created partly in response to the FCC wanting more educational shows for children, though ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' were cable shows and only did the "kids in school" angle as a creative choice, not because of ExecutiveMeddling[[/note]]that showed kids going to school and having more realistic adventures, often learning a life lesson in the process [[note]](i.e., ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'', ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'', ''WesternAnimation/PepperAnn'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Detention}}'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'', etc)[[/note]].