User blog comment:Jamesgrout/Top 5 Worst and Best Amazing World of Gumball Season 2 Episodes/@comment-31194372-20170302082938

Good list! I honestly love Season 2 a lot more than a lot of other people do and I really liked all the episodes that you hated, but it's good to see different opinions that are actually expanded upon. (I'm tired of people saying, "This episode sucked," and nothing else.)

I think that "The Lesson" is brilliant. I get that you think the characters are a bit too drab and sadistic, but that's only because they're intentionally reflective of the prison dramas that they're mocking. I can see how potentially off-putting it is for a lot of people when characters don't line up with how they're normally portrayed, but when they employ parody techniques I can't really blame bad writing so much as skillful emulation of the source material.

I also really liked "The Internet," if not just because of the ease at which the writers could make an episode spoofing the Internet. It's such an obvious pratfall that gets botched so many times Heck, even Regular Show tried the formula twice and couldn't make it work. ("Cat Videos," for instance, had nowhere to go beyond "Aren't cat videos hypnotizing? Kids still watch those on the Youtube, right?") The issue is always not understanding how to mock the material without looking cringy, but TAWOG was able to find a decent angle by personifying the Internet and not getting too self-indulgent in pointless references.

Special shout-out for "The Pony." It's just a solid, cohesive episode. It's the whole "comedy of errors" concept executed perfectly. I can't wait to see what you have to say about Season 3 because that season is golden.