Board Thread:Gumball Talk/@comment-30307603-20161211010948/@comment-30307603-20161214135632

Valer22 wrote: What do you mean? Gumball always a self-centered jerk. He's no thug, not saying that, he's just very naïve, which sometimes gets the better of him. And he is just as kind-hearted kid as he was before too. Heck, in later seasons, he's actually shown a bit more maturity to notice his errors

I thought that was what I basically just said, but I must have not been very clear. Yes, Gumball is a self-centered jerk, but there is a limit to it. Like you said in a later post, Gumball does have some traits of his mother's friendliness, and that's what makes him a good "loser", per say. My qualm with it is that in this episode is that Gumball is too much jerk, and he doesn't have those good traits to make it likable ("The Fan", "The Scam") nor is it exaggerated enough to make if hilarious ("The Saint"). It's just a realistically mean guy berating his father for not much reason, and it annoys me, especially since this was one of the times Richard was finally stepping up to the plate.

Valer22 wrote: I don't know why people complain about Gumball being out of character in The Hero. He isn't always a nice kid and is sometimes pretty obnoxious and self-centered (although he has matured a bit in later seasons). If anything, I think Nicole was out of character in this episode. What kind of mother denies their children food and their basic needs? That's practically child abuse. She could have just grounded them or something. Aside from this episode, Nicole has always been portrayed as the only rational one in the family.

Nicole was also another problem in this episode. She was just way out of character, and it bugged me; I thought she was supposed to be the nicest and the most morally-rounded of the nuclear Watterson family, but instead in this episode, she refuses to feed her children.

Now, I'm not saying this is a "trashball" episode, but it's definitely one of the weaker ones for me.