Talk:The Shell/@comment-26898905-20150909003814

Because of the comments below, I'm deciding to stick my foot in my mouth (to an extent) and just decide to put my 2 cents and thoughts upon The Shell.

For me (and lots of others) this is probably one of the best Gumball Episodes ever created and is one of the most important episodes in the series. As a series tending to be comedic, it's not bad to go away from that and create a serious story in there, which is a great refresher. Even so it still keeps a good amount of comedy in the episode and keeps it's plot going without any unneeded filler. The animation is also gorgeous and the animators did some amazing work.

As I stated earlier, this episode is also very important to the series as well. It introduces the big climax to Gumball and Penny's crush on each other and signifies that they can now take their relationship to boyfriend and girlfriend and put it to a new level (which can hopefully be expanded upon with The Romantic). This also is an important turning point for Gumball as well, and this episode is one of the first, if not the first episode to show that Gumball is maturing. As in episodes earlier, you can sum up Gumball as basically the physique of Nicole with the personality of Richard. Gumball in this episode showed his mother's traits in this episode, being his determination and compassion. Season 3 after the Shell and Season 4 Gumball are completely different compared to Season 1 and 2 Gumball, and it's great to see that Gumball is growing Nicole's traits as well, and not keeping a naivety that prevents him from learning his morals.

These are my thoughts on The Shell and the reasons why this is my favorite Gumball episode so far, hopefully The Romantic can step it up a notch.