User blog comment:ThatGuy456/A Guy's Thoughts: (Week 3) "New Amazing World of Gumball in February!"/@comment-31194372-20170226001506

The more and more I think about it, the more torn I am about "The Cycle." I think of the episode a lot like "The Laziest" from Season 1- it's an episode with a ton of strong bits but nothing else going for it.

Yes, I admittedly really liked Harold's march to detonate his house and the extravagance of it all, but I just didn't like Harold as a character. I'm fine if you write a character as a jerk, but there has to be some dimension to it, which they failed to provide, and it seriously hindered the first half of the episode. Seriously, the whole flashback especially was pointless and terrible: there were no jokes and we learned literally nothing about either Harold or Richard that hadn't already been established. It's not even like anything Harold was doing to Richard to ruin his life was funny- it was just sadistic and tedious. (The mustache reveal, however, was the best joke of the whole week, so I'll give them that.)

Other then that, I can't wait to see you rip apart "The Diet" (I haven't seen it yet, but I have incredibly low hopes for it) and I can't wait for all the inevitable flamewars on how you felt about "The Stars." Good luck. You're gonna need it.