User blog comment:Mattalamode/Second Opinion: The Promise/@comment-4037231-20170317131648

There's plenty of Gumball episodes I don't like, but only a few i could call bad...and only one I can say i hate. And it's this one. I went into detail on my blog ( https://spongey444.wordpress.com/2015/09/08/top-13-bad-episodes-of-cartoons-i-like/ Skip number ) but I'll qoute parts from my take on it to give you an idea:

"We’ve seen pretty horrible torture on this list but…this is a whole other level. I mean, we just watched a banana get horrifically crushed in an incredibly brutal fashion.

He INSIDES came out. He’s a banana but the real life version would be your blood or guts spewing all over the place. Yeah. I mean, if he were just hit that would be fine, but they go out of their way to make this is as brutal a possible."

"…Ugh. This episode is bad on a level I never expected. This show isn’t perfect but it’s screws ups are never this bad. I expect this level of bad-ness from a lesser show like Breadwinners or something. It puts Darwin in the right for ditching a friend, who hated them for real reasons and treats it like a sweet moment. "