User blog comment:Nacho1804/Season 6 Expectations Analysis 5: The Best Summer Ever (?), Part 1/@comment-30307603-20180605193711/@comment-33059809-20180606010027

Exactly. As always, I'm holding out hope that The Brain will somehow manage to be good or even acceptable. But the plot 'characters are stupid, look at all the stupid things they do' is not a good plot and never was. (A tangent. Just this afternoon, I saw a short clip in a commercial on CN. It consisted of Gumball trying to eat a corn cob off of a drill while it spun around, getting a tooth knocked out in the process. Not sure what to make of it, but I am reasonably certain that that's from The Brain.)

Anyway, Richard's characterization has improved since Season 1 (like every other character's), and he has his moments that show that he is indeed a good person. But, as you've said, everything is overshadowed by his stupidity, which can give the impression that there's nothing more to his character. Of course, there's a lot more there, and I wish the show would explore that more, instead of more 'Richard is dumb' episodes. (One theory I have about it is that the negative reaction to The Hero drove the writers away from that sort of episode. I, personally, think that The Hero is a great episode. Anyone who wishes to fight me about it is free to do so.) It's sort of a waste of all Richard's other traits to just focus on stupidity.

I should have communicated more in my review of The Intelligence that I'm not really sure if it's about Bobert. That seems like the most likely thing it would be, so I just assumed. Your interpretation of the episode is very interesting, and you could very well be right. One possibility that I've thought of is that it might be some sort of one-off episode in the vein of The World, except focusing on technology instead of random objects. The vague synopsis opens it up to lots of different interpretations. I'm always happy to conversate whenever anybody wants, so thanks for your comment!