Why Clarence is Rather Ordinary.

1/26/17

Clarence is an animated sitcom about the life of a boy named Clarence and his strange school friends.

The humor is relatively gross, which is usually what I'd expect from children's shows who want to attract more boys.  Sometimes, there are jokes that aren't based on disgusting things.  In fact, they do make subtle nods and references to other shows like that one time where Clarence's stepdad Chad had his head shaved causing him to look like Homer Simpson.  He stubs his toe and yells the famous catchphrase, "D'OH!".  That's it for the humor, it isn't really bad, or really good.

Image from Tumblr.

The art-style in this show is rather inconsistent.  Sure, the backgrounds look great and fit in very well, but the character designs are just borderline lazy-looking, and extremely random.  Like, what is this abomination!?!

Image from Clarence Wikia.

Why is his neck so long?  Is a mouth hiding under the shirt he wears?  Why is his nose huge compared to the others!?!  A lot of these side-characters look like they don't even belong to this show.  Now, I'll tell you how the episodes go.  The episode structure is really random and can be about almost anything.  Usually, the stories take place during Clarence's school day which does allow many opportunities for odd situations, which is probably why they usually take place at school.  I mean, his friends are there as well.  This allows them to develop the side-characters that they for some reason want to occasional prominent roles to in certain episodes.  Speaking of friends, Clarence's main best buds are Jeff, (the square guy) and Sumo (the bald one).  

Jeff, I have absolutely no problem with.  The voice acting is decent, his character design isn't too boring, and he just isn't super annoying.  You know who is super annoying, though, Sumo.  The voice actor probably has vocal chord problems from constantly doing his voice.  Sumo's voice sounds like he's growling very low while talking.  Once you get past that, however, he is a slightly interesting character and he balances the group out pretty well.

Image from Pinterest.

This show is very "eh" in general (meaning that it isn't good, nor is it bad).  I don't see this show lasting too long, but it is pretty charming and engrossing after the first episode.  If you like really weird animated sitcoms, then you'll probably like this one.  I give this cartoon a 3/5 because the show just feels so average and uninspired overall.