User blog comment:Mattalamode/A Second Opinion: The Parking / The Vase/@comment-5961377-20170512133319/@comment-31194372-20170512170402

If "The Vase" isn't that dark relative to a lot of other shows in general, at the very least, the degree at which that type of humor is taken for an episode of Gumball is pretty noticeable. I can see your idea of it, though, as sort of breaking that escapist principle of cartoons with some crushing degree of reality - something the show excels at. (Still, I wouldn't really call smashing an urn unknowingly filled with cremated python remains "just another day in the life.")