User blog:Baghead11/The Bagheaded Critic— Part 3: The Copycats

Welcome everyone to my third critic blog! Today I will be reviewing The Copycats.

Eggs- From- Cowboys?
So the basic plot of the episode is, Gumball and his family are at the mall and Gumball and Darwin notice a new exotic food section. After Gumball and Darwin crack several jokes, they leave. However, people who look like Gumball and Darwin come and do exactly what Gumball and Darwin did. Gumball and Darwin try to explain to the rest of the family, but they see their doppelgängers, and crash. The family eventually find out that their doppelgängers are making money by copying them. They try to change their doppelgängers’ lives to stop them from copying, but they copy that too! So the family starts doing life threatening stuff to get their doppelgängers to risk their lives. Eventually they do, but then Gumball and Darwin get new voices.

Death, Anyone?
Now this episode had some funny moments, like the opening scene (just so you know, caviar is fish eggs), and the truck scene, but this episode may have been the end of the Wattersons. Instead of just reporting their doppelgängers to the government, they risked their lives and may have been reported by the government. Some things they did: Also, Anais’ doppelgänger was deleted because she was a girl (although this may be because this episode was modeled after a Chinese rip-off of Gumball, and you can only have one child there due to overpopulation).
 * Almost set off a bomb
 * Nearly ate rat poison
 * Chained themselves underwater
 * Juggled chainsaws
 * Donated a random organ

The Incredible Rip-off of Chi Chi
So the inspiration for this episode came from a dairy company. They used parodies of Gumball, Darwin, Nicole, and Richard, and made an animated video to advertise their company. Apparently, Bocquelet and the other writer and artists were outraged, and decided to make a Gumball episode to mock the rip-off. What angers me, but fills me with questions, is: the crew had to make parodies of the parodies, so they could prevent a possible lawsuit, even though they could have easily put a lawsuit on the company.

So that was my blog. Be sure to comment and check out my other blogs: #1, #2. See you guys next time!