#I love Fatbeard he’s such a bitch in it

[methinmycoffee]

Clyde Donovan!

Now that I have your attention, Clyde Donovan. Let’s talk about him for a minute. I am a little bit afraid for the future of his character, mostly because of what happened to him in season 26.

But first: Clyde’s evolution

He started as, to put it lightly, just a fucking idiot. He continues to be really dumb, but he was so dumb back then. He has like one line in the movie, and it’s only one word, and it’s the infamous “5 times 2” line. “Twelve?” Fucking moron. I love him.

He sort of became a crybaby after that, which might have been annoying, except I think he pulls it off. Around the same time, he started to have (pardon my language) unexplainable rizz.

Anyway, he sort of sat in that silly, crybaby, idiot, ladies man, spot for a long time. His mom died, but that episode didn’t do anything for his development at all, so he was sort of just done developing. That’s fine, I think the spot they had him in was fine, he’s a great character and still has potential the way he is.

Enter: Season 26

It’s almost like the people behind South Park were unsatisfied with the characters whose names had been dragged through the mud before. They couldn’t live with just the blood of Stan, Kyle, Cartman, Jimmy, To(l)k(i)en, Randy, Gerald and Garrison. They needed more, so they looked to Clyde.

His first appearance was okay, because he was just a moron again. Cupid Ye (S26 E1), where he was one of the first people to ask Kyle if he ran Hollywood.

In Deep Learning (S26 E4), he was the one who introduced Stan to ChatGPT. He dislikes Bebe, or at least how much she texts him. He’s a little bit bitter and old, because of how he resents his girlfriend. This is bad, but he still has some of the elements of Clyde that I love love love. I like how he’s still afraid of Bebe finding out, almost like he’s scared if her. Him trying to be smooth is also very funny. Still though, there’s elements of him that aren’t as awesome in that episode.

Then comes DikinBaus Hotdogs (S26 E5). He’s sort of an annoying, unambitious, Gen-Z stereotype. He only has a couple lines, but in the scene he’s in he’s just sitting on his phone, talking about how he doesn’t want to work and stuff. This is bad, because it marks a weird shift in Clyde that only took a couple episodes to happen. This also sort of marks another weird shift in the attitude of the show where they hate Gen-Z. I’m worried Clyde might sort of become a talking point for that, which sucks because he’s such a silly little guy.

Also he’s not a member of Gen-Z. He was either 8 in 1997, which would make him a Millennial, or he’s 10 in 2023, which would make him Gen Alpha. That honestly just makes the whole thing even stupider.

Final thoughts:

I’m nervous about him, and if they will turn him in to a main character for the show, sidelining one (or more) of the main four in the process, just to suck. It’s happened before, and it would really tarnish his “legacy”.

Anyway, Happy Mother’s Day!

#south park #clyde donovan #this is a long ass post #way longer than I thought it would be #I fucking love Clyde #I love him in every episode he’s in #I love Reverse Cowgirl it’s so silly #I love Fatbeard he’s such a bitch in it #I love Cartman’s Silly Hate Crime 2000 even though he doesn’t do much #I love that is name is Clyde nobody is named Clyde #I don’t want bad things to happen to Clyde #also did I have this is the drafts and wait to post it until today #sort of #what are you gonna do about it? #did I say happy Mother’s Day last time I posted about Clyde two days ago #maybe #I’m just quirky like that (/s)