User blog comment:Mattalamode/The Bobert Problem/@comment-30307603-20170406202541/@comment-31194372-20170407013849

Admittedly, I do like "The Loophole" more than I'm letting on, but however many nice twists they had in the episode (and they did work wonders for the most part), they couldn't conceal that the plot has the same general beats as "The Bet." Whether intentional or not, it all comes down to the fact that Bobert wasn't written to sustain anything more than his original Season 1 utilities, and the inability of the writers to forgo that is frustrating.

There's always that conflict in my mind over whether I should accredit something for being funny even if it's glaringly derivative, and it's tough at times. Regardless of how well something works and plays out, I have to give more credit to when the show actually takes risks, whether good or bad. "The Loophole" was a fine episode, but it never tried to dissociate in any meaningful way.

Alright, so that video itself was... fine I guess. I prefer my humor delightfully British. I will say, though, that calling a cartoon character a sociopath just because they act in an exaggerated manner is kind of a dumb argument in the first place. You don't make a cartoon with the objective of capturing reality, more often than not - it's all a stretch for the sake of comedy. At the very least, the whole "Oh, he's only mirroring the ugly facets of our reality that we wish would remain unturned" argument is always a classy fallback that I've probably used on a few too many occasions.