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The Amazing World of Gumball is Amazing

FelixSH

FelixSH

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I already talked in TT 2.0 about how I started the show and immediately fell in love. Partly due to the art style (mixing real-world stuff with cartoon characters still looks great), partly due to the adorable characters (Darwin is so adorable) and, of course, the humour. The first season was fun and creative. And also really good natured, it is just enjoyable to spend time in this world.

Since starting season two, it feels like this show started going all out. Comparatively, season one feels mundane with it's storyline. S 2 gets out of the school and the home way more, and everyone acts and reacts more crazy. Characters seem to die more often (like the ice cream cone breaking in half or losing its ice cream ball. The silly things that happen are also basically the most fun thing I have seen in a long time. I think the last show that made me laugh so much was Spongebob in the early 00's. Which seems like a fitting comparison, Gumball feels very equally weird and absurd in it's world building and humor.

I'm just watching a very bizarre episode, where people are missing and forgotten, because the world is folding itself and Gumball just went into the folded part, which looks like an endgame part of a Dragon Quest game. There was also an episode about background characters, which felt pretty creepy.

I love this show, is what I'm saying.
 
Zef

Zef

Find Your Reason
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I thought it was the other way around--the characters or concepts were droll, thus unpopular, thus the writers got bored with them and quietly neglected to include them the show... which, for the rest of the characters in the show, means that reality just sucked them up into oblivion. It's some quirky meta-commentary that will only grow more and more frequent as the show goes on.

Re: background characters, this is one of those rare shows that makes anthologies and clip shows actually entertaining, as opposed to "we've run out of ideas, so let's throw stuff at the wall." It helps that, more often than not, the regular episodes are themselves collections of "see what sticks" non-sequiturs, so the anthology eps feel pretty natural.
 
FelixSH

FelixSH

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I just watched a great episode about the meaning of life, that had a bunch of fun musical numbers in it (one of them sung by the planets of the Solar System). Then, there was a Twilight Zone-esque episode, about a picture of something that would happen in the future, drawn before it happened. The next episode started with the weirdest/creepiest cartoon about being careful, and evolved into Darwin going all SMT Law route and "protecting" everything.

This show already went completely batshit in the best way possible. It's, uh, amazing.
 
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