User blog comment:ThatGuy456/A Guy's Thoughts: (Week 5) "New Amazing World of Gumball in February!"/@comment-31194372-20170312051357

Yeah, I hated "The Weirdo," but at the risk of causing a flame war, I'm just going to leave that there without elaborating too much. (You probably read my thoughts on it already anyway.)

As unpopular as it may be, I thought that "The Menu" and "The Heist" were the two best episodes of the past week. The sequence with Gumball and Darwin climbing the corporate ladder was one of my favorite moments of the past season because of how insane in got, to the point of the two literally removing their souls. Further, the whole pepper joke was one of those rare jokes that actually worked by stretching out the joke as long as possible. Your main complaint was the "sward" gross-out, but I honestly thought it worked. This season has been dipping into and repeatedly failing aimless gross-out a lot (what with "The Box" and "The Stars"), but here I think that the joke actually had a place in the episode. It actually made sense for it to exist.

Also, I thought that "The Heist" was the best episode of this batch (however low-key it was for a finale) because it showed an actual understanding of every character and how they functioned. This past Gumbomb has found the characters' behavior to be wildly inconsistent, so it was just a treat to see them as themselves without some external force distorting everything. (Plus, I really enjoyed Gumball's vision. I get that playing Gumball as kind of dopey is frustrating at times, but I thought that the premise of stuffing money into an ATM was dumb enough to make me laugh, especially compared to the complexity of everyone else's ideas.)

Can't wait to work with ya, but I am so loaded right now. I haven't even started the rest of the individual appeals yet because I've been so burned out from a ton of other stuff.