User blog comment:ThatGuy456/A Guy's Thoughts: (Week 2) "New Amazing World of Gumball in February!"/@comment-31194372-20170218200434/@comment-31194372-20170218221934

To Guy: Yeah, I kind of expect it at this point, I've been writing stuff on the Internet since 2013. You win some, you lose some. It definitely has to do with the fact that I haven't had time to get to know anybody over here (besides you, of course) because school is bogging me down way too much and I haven't been able to devote any quality time to checking into the chatroom. I'm basically as readily accessible as a hermit. (Plus, I suck at writing without launching forth a paragraph, which isn't exactly ideal for light back-and-forth, is it?) You gotta have connections.

To Red: It didn't make me super uncomfortable or anything, but yeah, Gumball's scene was super unnecessary and didn't really have a good punchline. It was all, "Let's see how far we can push the singular joke of Gumball being gross." The thing that makes Gumball different as a cartoon is that it can usually deploy these kinds of jokes with great success, but when there's nothing to really justify watching what happens, the bit just sinks. I only liked the laser pointer joke, because it seemed in line with the show's proper humor code- it's so farfetched and stupid that it works. The rest just wasn't.