User blog comment:Mattalamode/A Second Opinion: The Candidate/@comment-26293628-20180306062722/@comment-31194372-20180307062714

Satire is a double-edged sword which... I guess most swords are like that, really. That's not the point. For what it's worth, I think Gumball is one of the only cartoons that gets satire right; it's such a finicky thing, but the show has almost always found an interesting way of approaching this sort of thing beyond just spouting political rhetoric because it can. I think it's merely because of how many other shows handle it in such an aggressive or lazy way that Gumball gets weighed down by mere association, and it's a pity. Even when it does something right, people object to it simply on the grounds that it exists. I should hope, soon enough, people are able to make that disambiguation, because the community is in a weird state right now because of it.