User blog comment:Mattalamode/A Second Opinion: Gumball Wiki Individual Appeals: Part II/@comment-30307603-20170923041544/@comment-31194372-20170924065549

Oh, don't get me wrong, both Gumball and Anais' portions are, by far, the worst in the episode, and they pretty much sum up the extent of Season 5's issues - botched experimentation (in this case the gross-out) and generally being derivative - but I feel like "The Box" wasn't as thoroughly bad as I made it out to be. Maybe I'm just getting that rosy retrospection, but it's definitely one of those episodes that I'm looking back at a bit more fondly, and even if I don't think it warrants, like, a better grade than I initially gave it, it's not completely unsatisfactory.

It is, by no means, a hidden gem, but I don't think it's just another instantly disposable bits of comedy like I originally made it out as. So... I guess I sort of liked it!