Board Thread:Gumball Talk/@comment-24694752-20160513191304/@comment-28434450-20160513193243

Uhmm... they all have their strengths and weaknesses as characters but whenever they are acting as a family, the Wattersons do exhibit difficult-to-appreciate behaviour.

IMO this is done by the creators of the show on purpose because

1) it's for satire purposes, like in Futurama or The Simpsons when even the most reasonable characters make dumb decisions along with the rest of the group, so that the general public is criticized

and

2) it's a cartoon that chooses not to take itself too seriously, and so their  difficult-to-appreciate behaviour is there not to actually characterize the Wattersons but to make the plot of the current episode interesting. I'm sure the characters wouldn't behave so radically under ordinary circumstances (when the plot doesn't require it), because each family member has many times displayed admirable behaviour as well, when the plot required it. One would have to look at the overall premises of each character's behaviour and avoid letting extreme examples define the character.