User blog comment:Mattalamode/A Second Opinion: The Candidate/@comment-9300845-20180306031015

Stellar review, as usual! Like you, I thoroughly enjoyed this episode, and I agree that its usage of political satire and utilization of characters were well done. So far, I'd consider "The Candidate" to be one of the stronger Season 6 episodes.

Although, I admit to being ambivalent toward usage of such satire in children's media. Normally, political satire is done in more adult-oriented media, with execution varying from being brilliant to being downright awful. I'm not sure there are too many children's media other than Gumball that uses political satire, let alone well-done political satire. Perhaps it's that I'm so worn out from seeing far too much poorly executed and overly partisan political jokes and commentaries shoehorned in, so seeing such content in children's media can make me wary.

Indeed, it can be risky to write political satire in children's media, but Gumball writers have been able to execute it well most of the time. Time and again, I'm impressed by their ability to satirize without becoming too heavily biased. I'm glad they seem to be capable of not allowing their personal views get in the way of comedy and turn Gumball into their own collective soapbox.