User blog comment:Mattalamode/A Second Opinion: The Picnic/@comment-25832946-20170311050330/@comment-31194372-20170311201321

Of all episodes, I still think that "The Spoon" shows Gumball and Darwin at peak-idiocy. I can at least get some of the direction of this episode- they're in an unfamiliar environment, after all- whereas the dichotomy between "good guys" and "bad guys" is so obvious that their inability to comprehend it is baffling and frustrating.

I think "The Goons" was more of a botched, almost-meta commentary on the characters' intelligence and pigeonholing in the season. It just didn't work because the concept and execution weren't strong enough.