Thread:Mattalamode/@comment-31626342-20170807051609/@comment-31194372-20170807053341

Okay, maybe the joke's a bit more ambiguous than I thought...

I was always under the impression that Richard's "Well, it could've been worse" suggested that the incident was part of some aftermath of the parent's evening, and that Richard's shifting focus in the conversation to Gumball and Darwin was more a means to try to distract from him having been responsible (and to feed into the episode's progression).

Honestly, it might make more sense simply as him trying to save face, assuming he was praising Gumball and Darwin for doing so. I genuinely have no idea.