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I noticed that Clyde is the most generic out of the secondary fourth graders with him mostly being an blank slate that’s just there to provide the generic line or two and the only things that make him more distinct from the other kids is being a wimpy crybaby and being slightly dumb sometimes. I also feel like Clyde‘s characterization is just inconsistent with him going back and forth from being either dumb to having average intelligence or being Cartman’s sidekick in some of his schemes to outright hating him just as much as the other kids. but I do think the newer seasons is starting to give Clyde more characterization than he ever had before with him almost always being portrayed as an shallow douchebag which is nice to see

Does anybody notice how back in seasons 19-23, Stan was mostly reduced to being an side character who only got two episodes focused on him and otherwise was just there to react to Randy's wacky shenanigans with almost nothing else beyond that. Like in Season 20 for example, Stan barely does anything throughout the whole season besides breaking up with Wendy and joining the Wieners Out Movement with Butters and overall had the same amount of relevance as a character like Clyde or Craig. He overall was becoming much less prominent to the show at this time as Randy became an borderline main character starting in seasons 18-19 with the whole lorde and whole foods story lines and was overall getting much more screen time and lines than his own son

One thing I always notice about the Imaginationland Trilogy is that Kenny and Jimmy completely disappears from the story after the initial trip to imaginationland with the other boys plus Kenny doesn't even have a single line and is completely absent in the next 2 episodes of the trilogy despite being one of the main 4 characters so I always wondered why Kenny and Jimmy wasn't really mentioned in the rest of the trilogy