User blog comment:ThatGuy456/A Guy's Thoughts: Darwin, The Good Goody-Two-Shoes/@comment-31194372-20170527084746/@comment-31194372-20170527195543

Guy: To be fair, the writers have written two episodes where Darwin's moral compass is thrown away - "The Banana" and "The Sidekick," two very nice outings - but it's terrible to think that it's been a whopping 126 episodes since without even the slightest attempt to go in that direction any further. I just want to see his breaking point explored, or I want to see some episode where he actually feels like his actions are affecting Gumball's in some meaningful way (the most recent example I can find is "The Advice" - that's a long time ago), because as fun as it is to watch Gumball become more and more extreme, even if Darwin scales up his naysaying, the effect is the exact same, and nothing is really achieved.

Marvin: I can only imagine the "biological parents" episode is going to suffer from the same general issues. Like, what if Darwin is infatuated with his family and the Wattersons are trying to lure him back to their side? The gist of the episode would still be about the interplay of all the other Wattersons while Darwin sits there, blindly inattentive, and that's honestly the best case scenario.

If anything, I'd want to see an episode that knowingly gives itself to Darwin and prompts Gumball to desperately act out in the attempt to win the perceived audience's attention. It would be like some sort of meta commentary on the whole situation, though by acknowledging the problem, the show's failure to fix it at any point afterwards wouldn't look very good.