Board Thread:Gumball Talk/@comment-26293628-20150501013211/@comment-9300845-20150501020100

It's nothing new; it often seems as though good shows are being overlooked in favor of inferior ones. I have seen this phenomenon for years and years.

It's easy to scapegoat execs for being neglectful of our favorite shows, but the reality is that we don't always understand or even know their actions and their reasons for doing so. Their minds are such an enigma, aren't they?

I'm not the one to defend the execs at the Cartoon Network headquarters in Atlanta, but they probably have a reason for holding back the last 4 episodes of Season 3, whatever that may be. 3 of these episodes were originally slated for March, but they decided to swap it with episode premieres of other shows (first Steven Universe, then Ninjago, and currently Clarence.) Only if they would disclose why they weren't premiering new Gumball episodes in a different timeslot while other shows took its former 5pm/4pm central slot.

Gumball isn't going away anytime soon; from what I've read, its ratings rival that of Teen Turd Twits Titans Go. That's because both shows are popular with the network's target demographic of kids 6-11 and 9-14.

I have gripes about the merchandising, too, but at least Gumball has some decent merchandise -- I've seen too many cases of good shows having scant or virtually no merchandising. And a good show doesn't need tons of merchandise in order to merit as such, in my opinion. And I wouldn't want Gumball to be turned into a cash cow like Adventure Time.

So in short, I don't think execs are apathetic toward Gumball.