User blog:Baghead11/The Bagheaded Critic—Part 2: The Ex

Before we go anywhere, I just want to make a shoutout to CD234, who explained to me why this is a bad episode. Then I watched it and I was like: “Huh”.

Welcome everyone to my second critic blog! Today I will be reviewing The Ex. You are in for a treat, as I actually know what I am doing this time (LOL).

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So the basic plot of the episode is, Gumball and Penny are at the mall and Gumball sees Rob. Thinking he is there because his is planning for their next battle, he is happy, and goes up to him. However, Rob explains he has a new nemesis, and because of their last battle, (I don’t know how Rob remembers that or anything else he’s supposed to forget) he dropped Gumball as his nemesis. Gumball becomes very depressed, not thinking about Penny at all. Soon, Rob goes to Gumball’s house to return all of the nemesis stuff he had. So Gumball starts doing ridiculous stuff to get Rob back. Finally he gives up and then tries to be his friend. However, Gumball accidentally ruins the trap Rob made, and Rob becomes Gumball’s nemesis again. At the end, all’s well that ends well- sort of. Gumball realizes what a bad boyfriend he was to Penny and puts a balloon in her locker to apologize.

Character Development, Anyone?
Now this episode had some funny moments, like the Darwin’s nemesis scenes, and the Banana Dance scene, but this episode ruined the character development for 2 characters, maybe even three. Some things that did so:
 * Gumball acts like a smart-alek, and neglects Penny the entire episode.
 * Banana Joe acts all serious, not like a bully or a class clown (this also happens later in the series).
 * Penny gets mad at Gumball for neglecting her, when she’s only done that in a few episodes.
 * Rob becomes softer and then really mad, and in between (bittersweet. It’s not like this in his softer episodes).
 * (Also, episode development, CD said it ruined good things about Rob’s last major roles.)

Things That Didn’t Make Sense
Now If I were Gumball I would be happy that I was free of Rob, because of all the violence I was in. So why would Gumball want to have him as a nemesis? And wasn’t Darwin a nemesis of Rob? And how did only Albert age? I am full of questions.

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