History YMMV / Clarence

** Another example for "A Nightmare on Aberdale Street: Balance's Revenge": [[spoiler:A lot would thought that Balance was gonna to return back to get his revenge against Clarence and Belson by showing up, face to face, Apparently, the plot only involves Clarence facing against Balance, only during a dream, while Belson was absent throughout the episode.]]

* StrawmanHasAPoint: In ''Puddle Eyes'' Jeff points out how unfair the "vision bee" is for people who can't see well, which is only made worse when we find out that he's one of said people.
** The same with ''Average Jeff''. The entire episode has the class separated into two separate classes based on test scores, Quills and Crayons. It comes across as intelligence based segregation and Jeff is pretty disgusted at it (then again he wanted to be in the smart class for selfish reasons so it may be a moot point). Indeed, the segregated classes are disbanded at the end of the episode, although for allegations of gender bias.

* FandomRivalry: Well almost similar to other shows [[note]] such as ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'', ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', and ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', who in particular, shares the same hatred towards ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo!'' [[/note]],[[WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo Almost goes without saying, really.]] The rivalry between ''Clarence'' and ''Teen Titans Go!'' only became even more heated when the former was quietly cancelled in 2017, leading to the ''Clarence'' fandom to accuse Cartoon Network (especially with Christina Miller being the sole responsible) by [[AdoredByTheNetwork their favoritism of]] ''TTG!'' getting ''Clarence'' cancelled sooner than it should have.

** In both ways, fans either think that Clarence is an [[UglyCute adorable]] and funny {{Cloudcuckoolander}} while detractors find his actions not funny at all and grew tired of his over-exaggerated KarmaHoudini status as whenever he gets involve into trouble, he'll often tend to get away scot-free without facing any consequences or sort of punishment, regardless if he's aware of his surroundings, it's to the point that some wished that something bad happens to Clarence, that to the point that he should suffer badly, just to get even with his actions, while some wished that he wasn't mandatorily crammed in every episode ([[DayInTheLimelight especially when having episodes involving with other characters.]]) On the other hand, he often gets a lot of flak than the rest of the characters in the show, mainly due to his character design and personality that many may find him too unappealing and its to the point where he became the subject of being {{flanderiz|ation}}ed [[TookALevelInDumbass as a mindless troublemaker who sometimes puts others in harm's way.]] The episode "Dare Day" is a close example to this, where he and Sumo [[UptoEleven almost killed each other over a bunch of dares.]]

* TheScrappy: Mostly Clarence is the victim of this, as many fans from this and other shows had either heavily disliked and hated the character due to his over exaggerating stupidity and his KarmaHoudini status would qualify, it justifies having many who rather choose others over him.
** Jeff is a prime example of this trope, in "Average Jeff", after when the test results came to the class, he was assigned to the Crayon group, but he wanted to be in Quill group and be better than Clarence and Sumo, and him acting immature and utterly selfish had fans fed up with it, it also justifies in "The Big Petey Pizza Problem", where [[{{CrossesTheLineTwice}} it had put him further into the Scrappy teritory]], as he almost tried killed Gilben over everyone else not being at his party despite of both having the same birthday and despite of kids choosing the former over the latter, who comes of as a self centered jerkass.
** And then you got Belson, another contender, who in-universe, is solemnly disliked by a few classmates, due to being a all around

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** While some fans felt disappointed for Bella, who appeared in Mystery Girl, [[{{ChuckCunninghanSyndrome}} has not been seen since after her debut.]]

** "Sumo Goes West [[spoiler: Despite of all of the construction happening around where Sumo's house is at, [[note]] where it would've had affected his family to being forced to move [[/note]], but after that episode, the construction site did not appear afterwards.]]

** In "Jeffery Wendle", Jeff accidentally spilled milk who tried to wipe it up, but Mary insisted on doing, except she rinses back to the cup, having to had all of the dirty stuff from the ground, causing Jeff to drink as if he had no choice. Mary mentioned that Clarence usually does it all the time.

* OvershadowedByControversy: While [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] in that the show continues to be popular, mentioning this show anywhere online will inevitably have at least one person bringing up creator Skyler Page's breakdown/firing.

* SeasonalRot: Mostly the second half of Season 1, to where it had divided the fanbase to where many find some the episodes of the second half notably slow-paced, focused too much on a emphasis on being unrealistic, imaginative, and rather subpar, to where one of the main characters became [[{{Flanderization}} more flanderized]] with Clarence went from a naive well intention person that focus on helping others into becoming excessively more incompetent than at least before, with Sumo went from a [[{{TheComicallySerious}} rather streetwise kid with standards to set]], to being no more than a accomplice to Clarence, while Jeff went from a rather stable moral person into a over-the-top selfish jerkass, and had some episode becomming rather bizarre and far uninterestable.
** Somewhat rectified by Season 2 and 3, as most of the episodes in it so far have been more grounded than the second half of Season One, although for some episodes.

** Chances are if will be Clarence/Amy vs Clarence/Kimby, since Amy and Kimby, from all indications, are the foremost female characters besides Clarence's mom Mary, although the former is a one-time character and the latter has only interacted with Clarence once so far.
** And after ''Clarence gets a Girlfriend'' there's Clarence/Ashley (who, like Amy, is an episodic character so far) and [[HoYay Clarence/Jeff.]]

* TooGoodToLast: While for it to be, not as popular as to all other CN shows, however it did manage to have dedicated fanbase, but the sad part is that the series is ending, to make matters worse, the series had only three seasons, which is actually short for a CN show, which normally gets minimum of 4 seasons.

** The same with ''Average Jeff''. The entire episode has the class separated into two separate classes based on test scores, Quills and Crayons. It comes across as intelligence based segregation and Jeff is pretty disgusted at it (then again he wanted to be in the smart class for selfish reasons so it may be a moot point). Indeed, the segregated classes are disbanded at the end of the episode, although for allegations of gender bias.

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* EpilepticTrees: [[WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall Wirt and Greg]]'s cameo, as well as [[spoiler:their own series featuring the Aberdale skyline in "Into the Unknown"]] has fueled a lot of speculation as to weather they're living there, and if so, calls the mundane nature of the show into question.

** While some fans felt disappointed for Bella, who appeared in Mystery Girl, who has not been seen since after her debut, as her relationship with her friend Clarence would have added more personality for Bella to intervene with.
** Belson’s Dad, who was arrested in "Company Man", then left out of jail in "Big Game",as he did not sit too long to even interact much with his son or his wife absolutely.

** In "Merry Moochmas, [[spoiler: Most of Clarence's friends didn't get much screentime on their side, but rather wasted on Belson and his cousin.]]
** "Sumo Goes West [[spoiler: Despite of all of the construction, happening around where Sumo's house is at, but after that episode, the construction site did not appear afterwards.]]
** In "Rock Show" [[spoiler:Clarence's father Damien finally shows up, only to have about a minute of screentime.]]

* TooGoodToLast: Despite of the show, not as popular as to all other CN shows, however it did manage to have dedicated fanbase, but the sad part is that the series is ending, to make matters worse, the series had only three seasons, which is actually short for a CN show, which normally gets minimum of 4 seasons.
* ToughActToFollow: While having the show not being a successor or predecessor, would fall as a victim of this, as the series progresses by the quality of each episode within the season overall, has a hard time trying to match up to all of the popular CN shows [[note]] That being, WesternAnimation/RegularShow, WesternAnimation/AdventureTime, WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse, And WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball[[/note]], in terms of gathering attention from the network and from more of the fans itself.

** While the same for Jeff and Belson, who either has both side by fans, as they may come off as self-centered jerkasses, but at least at times they understood them well not to go into doing trouble, making them at least a OnlySaneMan who had deal with Clarence and Sumo, [[{{TookALevelInDumbass}} as they comes off as excessively stupid and carelessly reckless]], [[{{Flanderization}} becoming moreover of troublemaker]] that goes upon with their KarmaHoudini status as they cause a amount of trouble just to make anyone the victim of it while both would not receive any type of punishment. Its to the point where some wanted both to suffer for all the hell they had caused.
* SeasonalRot: Mostly the second half of Season 1, to where it had divided the fanbase to where many find some the episodes of the second half notably slow-paced, focused too much on a emphasis on being unrealistic, imaginative, and rather subpar, to where one of the main characters became [[{{Flanderization}} more flanderized]] with Clarence went from a naive well intention person that focus on helping others into becoming excessively more incompetent than at least before, with Sumo went from a [[{{TheComicallySerious}} rather streetwise kid with standards to set]], to being no more than a accomplice to Clarence, while Jeff went from a rather stable moral person into a over-the-top selfish jerkass, and had some episode becomming rather bizarre and far uninterestable, although the series was meant to look as it focuses on a kid with an overactive imagination and a bizarre way of looking at the world.
** Somewhat rectified by Season Two and Three, as most of the episodes in it so far have been more grounded than the second half of Season One, although for some episodes.

** While some fans felt disappointed for Bella, who appeared in Mystery Girl, who has not been seen since after the said episode, as her relationship with her friend Clarence would have added more personality for Bella to intervene with.
** Belson’s Dad, who left out of jail, ever since "Company Man", he did not sit too long to even interact much with his son or his wife absolutely.

** Sumo after we see what his home life is like in "Dream Boat". It's obvious that his dad legitimately cares about him to some extent but his family is so big that the man doesn't have much time to focus on him. That's not even getting into the fact that everyone in that family lives in a trailer near the town dump.

** In "Big Game", we get a short glimpse of Belson’s dad, [[spoiler: who winds up leaving his son to Clarence and Chad while he takes off, scot free.]]
** Another example for "A Nightmare on Aberdale Street: Balance's Revenge": A lot would thought that Balance was gonna to return to get his revenge against Clarence by showing up, face to face, [[spoiler:Apparently, the plot only involves Clarence facing against Balance, only during a dream]]

** Sumo also counts as this.

** In both ways, Fans either think that Clarence is an [[UglyCute adorable]] and funny {{Cloudcuckoolander}} while detractors find his actions not funny at all and grew tired of his over-exaggerated KarmaHoudini status as whenever he gets involve into trouble, he'll often tend to get away scot-free without facing any consequences or sort of punishment, regardless if he's aware of his surroundings, it's to the point that some wished that something bad happens to Clarence, that to the point that he should suffer badly, just to get even with his actions, while some wished that he wasn't mandatorily crammed in every episode ([[DayInTheLimelight especially when having episodes involving with other characters.]]) On the other hand, he often gets a lot of flak than the rest of the characters in the show, mainly due to his character design and personality that many may find him too unappealing and its to the point where he became the subject of being [[{{Flanderization}} flanderized]] [[{{TookALevelInDumbass}} as a mindless troublermaker that sometimes put not just others but themselves in harm's way.]] The episode "Dare Day" is a close example to this, where both almost killed each other over a bunch of dares [[{{UptoEleven}} that comes off as dangerous.]]

** Belson's fans find him funny for being the ComicallySerious and believe that he is a harmless JerkassWoobie and ButtMonkey. His detractors hate him for being an over-exaggerated rich {{Spoiled Brat}} asshole and added with FauxAffablyEvil who deserves his ButtMonkey status and those who see him as the ''Clarence'' version of [[WesternAnimation/SouthPark Eric Cartman]] but not funny or favorable.
** While a little with Joshua, who as fans more than detractors, that he may be not as bad or good, but had to fell bad on his life, as the series had gave his ButtMonkey status [[note]] Even Belson never suffered that much of the treatment he gets. [[/note]], which it went from slight LaserGuidedKarma early on, to ended up being a victim of CosmicPlaything and KafkaKomedy, with nearly every entity the series is out to kill him especially when with dealing with random bad luck on his job postition as well as with Sumo and Clarence, who gave him hell and the sole reason of making him far miserable and having parts of his body injuried.
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment/{{Clarence}} It has it's own page]]

*** Sumo is usually compared to Amethyst because of their similar personalities and having a [[spoiler: relatively DarkandTroubledPast (Amethyst is a by-product of intergalataic war and Sumo has troubles living in a big family]].
** And then there's WesternAnimation/WeBareBears, with the antagonist character, Nom Nom, who by fans compared him with Belson, due to both having almost close similarities, such as both are rich, comes of as a selfish jerkasses, who despises the main character (Grizz and Clarence for example), both are short, and realistically don't have any friends.[[note]] Although Belson has Nathan, Dustin, and Percy, but however they not always hung out with him that much ever since Season 1 [[/note]]
** Also you got WesternAnimation/HarveyBeaks, due to both series having to focus on slice-of-life, and having the main characters as kids.

** The Geeses in "Goose Chase" had justified in the ending [[spoiler:with the geeses darting towards Clarence while literally attacking him off-screen]]

** Jeff is a prime example of this trope, in "Average Jeff", after when the test results came to the class, he was assigned to the Crayon group, but he wanted to be in Quill group and be better than Clarence and Sumo, and him acting immature and utterly selfish had fans fed up with it, it also justifies in "The Big Petey Pizza Problem", where [[{{CrossesTheLineTwice}} it had put him further into the ScrappyTeritory]], as he almost killed Gilben over everyone else not being at his party despite of both having the same birthday and despite of kids choosing the former over the latter who comes of as a self centered jerkass.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Most of the [[RecurringExtra classmates]]. They are all way too recognizable in background roles, and several of them only get the spotlight once or twice a season. Heck, there are a couple of kids or adults who haven't gotten any spotlight or development in the series yet. Also, Amy Gillis, a good-natured character who actually bonded with Clarence, who was just written out after her only appearance.

** In "Big Game", we get a short glimpse of Belson’s dad, [[spoiler: who winds up sending his son to Clarence and Chad while he takes off.]]
** TooGoodToLast: Despite of the show, not as popular as to all other CN shows, however it did manage to have dedicated fanbase, but the sad part is that the series is ending, to make matters worse, the series had only three seasons, which is actually short for a CN show, which normally gets minimum of 4 seasons.
* ToughActToFollow: While having the show not being a successor or predecessor, would fall as a victim of this, as the series progresses by season overall, has a hard time trying to match up to all of the popular CN shows [[note]] That being, WesternAnimation/RegularShow, WesternAnimation/AdventureTime, WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse, And WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball[[/note]], in terms of gathering attention from the network and from more of the fans itself.

* LauncherOfAThousandShips: Jeff can often been seen paired with Clarence, Sumo, Kimby, Amy, Malessica, Chelsea, Breehn, Belson, Cynthia (Belson's ''mom''), Ms. Baker and even Copernicus (his hallucination from "Tuckered Boys").

* BrokenBase:
** The show itself is this for Cartoon Network, with there so far being a total of three camps: One camp thinks that it's a decent show with funny plots and lovable (or at the very least, likable) characters, another camp thinks that the show [[SoOkayItsAverage isn't bad but still pretty forgettable]], and finally, as always, you got those that disregard the show as being either bland, annoying, gross, unappealing and mean-spirited, or all five.
** Or just whether the episodes of the first or the second half of season 1, was either better or worse on both sides.
** The episode "Straight Illin" was seen as either funny or [[{{NauseaFuel}} too gross]], dark and having a bad ending.
** Another example is "Lil Buddy", who has the fandom narrowly divided between those who liked the episode for seeing a whole new Clarence and portraying how kids would act if things like that happened to Clarence, while others say it was way out of bounds and just sickening.
** While for "Where The Wild Chads Are", had many who criticized the episode for having Clarence, who comes as a [[{{Jerkass}} Complete mean jerkass]] for [[{{TookALevelInDumbass}} ''Literally dumping money and all the eqiupment that they bought along to camp'', down the river]] and having to create a lame sob story to Chad about [[{{BlatantLies}} ''someone'' who stole their stuff]], all for what? Just to make Chad to be more like what he described from one of his so-called action stories, This extremely had many attracted many of those who hates Clarence in every level, which places him as TheScrappy Territory.
** Some thought Sumo was being selfish and unreasonable in "The Break Up" and Jeff had every reason to drop him as a friend.
** Some fans complain whether the show should stay realistic or keeping having weird episodes. [[TakeAThirdOption Of course]], you still have others who love both of kinds of episodes nonetheless.
** Joshua's ChewToy status is either one of the funniest [[{{UptoEleven}} RunningGags]] in the show or too mean-spirited and brings the quality of the episodes down.

** Choose any background kid, all of them are qualified.

* FanonDiscontinuity: Subverted, Just much with any episode from the second half of first season, had a few fan pretended that none of it were canon due to series characterization has slightly fallen into DorkAge until after it ended.

* RootingForTheEmpire: While a few (to those who dislike/hate Clarence or Sumo) would root for Joshua as they may feel sorry about him going through as the series abuses him with MutilationConga and CosmicPlaything and with Sumo and Clarence being the main cause of his problems, some had wished that he will get his revenge against both.
** While the same for Jeff and Belson, who either has both side by fans, as they may come off as self-centered jerkasses, but at least at times they understood them well not to go into doing trouble, making them at least a OnlySaneMan who had dealt with Clarence and Sumo, [[{{TookALevelInDumbass}} who comes off as excessively stupid and carelessly reckless]], [[{{Flanderization}} with their over exaggerated]] KarmaHoudini status as they cause a likely amount of trouble just to make anyone the victim of it while both would not receive any type of punishment to justify it. Its to the point where some wanted both to suffer for all the hell they had caused.
* SeasonalRot: Mostly the second half of Season 1, to where it had divided the fanbase to where many find some the episodes of the second half notably slow-paced, focused too much on a emphasis on being unrealistic, imaginative, and rather subpar, to where one of the main characters became [[{{Flanderization}} more flanderized]] with Clarence went from a naive well intention person that focus on helping others into becoming excessively more stupid than at least before, with Sumo went from a [[{{TheComicallySerious}} rather streetwise kid with standards to set]], to becoming overexaggerated of being far out wild, while Jeff went from a rather stable moral person into a over the top selfish jerkass, and had some episode becomming rather bizarre and far uninterestable, although the series was meant to look as it focuses on a kid with an overactive imagination and a bizarre way of looking at the world.

* AcceptableTargets: Mostly for those who grew up in the 90's. That's all.

* ToughActToFollow:

** In both ways, Fans either think that Clarence is an [[UglyCute adorable]] and funny {{Cloudcuckoolander}} while detractors find his actions not funny at all and some grew tired of his over-exaggerated KarmaHoudini status as whenever he gets involve into trouble, he'll often tend to get away scot-free without facing any consequences or sort of punishment, regardless if he's aware of his surroundings, it's to the point that some wished that he should suffer very badly, just to get even with his actions, while some wished that he wasn't mandatorily crammed in every episode ([[DayInTheLimelight especially when having episodes involving with other characters.]]) On the other hand, he often gets a lot of flak than the rest of the characters in the show, mainly due to his character design and personality that many may find him as unappealing to justify it and its to the point where he became the subject of being [[{{Flanderization}} flanderized]] [[{{TookALevelInDumbass}} as a mindless troublermaker that sometimes put not just others but themselves in harm's way.]] The episode "Dare Day" is a close example to this, where both almost killed each other over a bunch of dares [[{{UptoEleven}} that comes off as dangerous.]]

** Choose any background kid, all of them qualified.