Board Thread:Gumball Talk/@comment-26173638-20150328203349

The writing staff for The Amazing World of Gumball keeps changing for each season, and gets larger by the season. But some writers' names just show up on some of my least favorite episodes. I seem to find patterns associated with some writers, and I can almost decipher each one's writing style. I'll name my least favorites.

Jess Ransom

He (or she, considering Jess is a very androngynous name) may be an okay side writier on some episodes, but works poorly as the cheif writer (aside from Ben) of an episode, for example: "The Society." I personally thought the episode wasn't funny and had a regressive potrayal of Gumball himself. "The Spoiler" had the exact same writing team as "The Society" and it was an improvement, but nothing too fantastic in my opinion.

Now for my least favorite two writers, I know I am going to write something controversial. Jon Foster and James Lamont are those two. Despite being two of the foundational people of the show, I find their work to have aged poorly. I may have liked the episodes they wrote back when I was 16-17, but only recently after rewatching the bulk of Season 1 and some of Season 2, I found myself uninterested and annoyed. I was thinking: "How was I able to tolerate this?" whenever Gumball was inexcusably stupid, whenever Gumball crossdrossed or when the males acted effeminine, or whenever the story shifted to attempt at being "cute" like the ending of "The Gi" and the second half of "The Hero." They left after Season 2, and once Season 3 started to get rolling I personally thought the writing made a huge improvement, with several duds. I can't imagine a Foster/Lamont-penned "The Shell" or "The Safety."

It's interesting to note that after those two left, they created the critically-panned British comedy I Live With Models. 