User blog comment:ThatGuy456/A Guy's Thoughts: "The Rival" and "The Lady" - Season Six's Solid Start?/@comment-30278733-20180115145702/@comment-30307603-20180115162635

If there is one thing this show is good at, it's taking a relatable premise and elevating to an animated degree while still keep a sense of realness to it. Episodes such as "The Pony" and "The Misunderstandings" are excellent in the regard they exercise as much animated exaggeration out of fairly mundane issues such as purchasing a DVD or miscommunication, but they never become too absurd that they lose that ordinary connection. It is a magic that this series captures amazingly.

My youngest sibling while nowhere near as calculating as Anais, was still fairly aggressive as a toddler, so I can somewhat relate to the struggles Gumball and Darwin have to go through. Believe me when I say I know that not all kids are as sweet as their appearance may suggest.