Board Thread:Gumball Talk/@comment-13142310-20130724075712/@comment-4060139-20130724203143

Maybe it's sort of like Spongebob, where his incompetence, though meant to be humorous, comes off as annoying to many viewers, especially when it causes harm to the other characters. I can't really think of examples of this behavior right now, but with Richard's incompetence and the writers' taking inspiration from Spongebob, there're bound to be a ton of them.

But Richard is definitely not as annoying as Spongebob. In Spongebob's later seasons, anyway.