User blog comment:Nacho1804/Season 6 Expectations Analysis 6: The Best Summer Ever (?), Part 2/@comment-30307603-20180714165757/@comment-33059809-20180716125938

My opinion on The Spinoffs is about the same as yours. Some of the gags didn't really click with me (Bobert's cooking show was predictable and Larry's segment took too long and left me feeling bored) but overall it was pretty good comedy-wise. Rob is up to something, and his character was used properly here, as you said. I think that what we're seeing here is the foundations of the series finale being laid. Rob has somehow managed to hijack the show, allowing it to play whatever he wants. Also, his goal here: to get the 'children' to stop watching Gumball, and shift their attention to anything else instead. Anyway. That's an interesting development that I think will be important later.

The Transformation was the Penny episode we've all been waiting for, but that doesn't mean it's stellar. It's perfectly fine, it's got some good gags, but as you said it just doesn't take full advantage of the premise. The Transformation could have been a full exploration of Penny's character post-The Shell, but it instead spends its time on Gumball's unnervingly animated (but admittedly hilarious) stories, and back-and-forth arguing that doesn't solve anything. Of course, that's the point of the episode, that you can agree to disagree, but I just felt like the episode could have done more.