Board Thread:Gumball Talk/@comment-23891957-20140628005126

I don't know how many people hold my opinion as well, but out of all the episodes I've seen, The Robot has to be the one I liked the least.

There are two things that tick me off about the episode.

1) The writers never bother to explain how Bobert managed to fool literally everyone. We all know characters like Penny and Nicole are smart enough to catch something obvious enough for Gumball to catch, yet they're entirely convinced here- without any reason known to us. What's more irritating is that this could be solved with a simple POV switch for just a few seconds to show what Bobert looked like to them. Why they didn't fill that plot hole is beyond me.

2) The whole episode is incredibly mean-spirited. I'm talking Zeus Cervas mean-spirited, for those familiar with his work. Gumball was nothing but helpful to Bobert- he tried to include him when no one else would, and he did his best to grant Bobert's wish of becoming a real boy. So, in return, Bobert hijacks Gumball's life- and when Gumball understandably gets angry, he proceeds to beat him and Darwin half to death. And then, after all that, he goes and does it again to Darwin, for no understandable reason. It's punishment of the innocent taken to a hideous extreme. 