Talk:The Finale/@comment-36054010-20180716071725/@comment-24514901-20191016053824

I agree! I always had tons of problems with it when it first aired.

1. The only time previously incompetent authorities get competent, they get even crueler than humanely possible and threaten to starve Gumball's family in prison if they don't stay silent.

2. If Principal Brown needs Gumball and Darwin to restart school from kindergarten, then how the fork did they get away with failing every grade for 7 years? Everyone waiting until one moment to deal the consequences to the Wattersons is one small nitpick, but this episode doesn't even question its own logic when it comes to karma.

3. It makes you regret laughing at any cartoon joke revolving around injury or destruction in your life (which is many of them) by pulling a The Good Place to show us that the Wattersons, as nice as they were, are still bad because they cause a lot of damage with no consequence, and punish us for rooting for them when the cupcake lady was being sarcastic about them asking them for forgiveness.

4. It's also hard to root for the Wattersons when all of them except Anais break more laws to try to fix their problems. Any sort of "Even the good guys are bad" type of scenario is awfully sad, especially when they are painted as being the more sympathetic side of the conflict in comparison because everyone else they wronged are so mean.

5. Last but most is perhaps the most insulting, disgusting, unforgivably bad thing about this episode-the triple-cross on its own message! It wants to take itself seriously by telling us to take everything from the past 2 seasons seriously that was meant to be taken as a joke, doesn't take itself seriously by giving the Wattersons even worse than they deserved, and makes all of that null and void by resetting the consequences the entire episode told us the actions had, but now they don't because they too lazy to spread the consequential arc over the next few Season 3 episodes.

To me, it's like that The Powerpuff Girls episode Town and Out that flubs up the point of the story by using gritty realism for comedy, and goes above and beyond by being too mean to the Powerpuff Girls before they even caused any damage in Citiesville.