The Matchmaker

I've watched every episode over 200 times at this point.

I'm going crazy.

My favorite will always be the matchmaker

Masami: Come on boyfriend!

Darwin: You don't wanna kiss me! I taste like fish!

Miss Simian: NO, ROMANCE!

The girls: MISS SIMIAN?!

ISimian: DETENTION!

The girls: Awwwwww

Darwin: yes! Thank you thank you thank you! Detention I go!

Masami: HMPF.

Simian: That means you Watterson!

Gumball:

Penny: I'm sorry Gumball.

4 seasons later......

Gumball: Is it me or does this music give a whole different vibe to the situation?

Simian somehow not affected by the universal pause button: NO, ROMANCE!

Gumball: Wait! It's not what it-

Simian: DETENTION FOR BOTH OF YOU!

Gumball & Rob in detention: ...........

Gumball: So we are gonna agree that was completely unintentional right?

Rob: yes it was.

Later.........

Bobert: I now pronounce you husband and flower.

Simian: NO, ROMANCE!

Bobert: Does not compute, was told to kick Leslie's butt and marry him to Alan.

Simian: Wait what?

Gumball: It's a long story.

Alan: Listen Simian, I have no idea what's going on. I just wanted lunch from the cafeteria.

Simian: DON'T CARE! DETENTION!

Alan & Leslie: :(

Later......

Simian: NO, ROMANCE!

Gumball: Listen Simian, we tried to separate them, it's hopeless!

Simian: DETENTION!

Darwin & Teri: GASP, yes Miss Simian!

Gumball:

Carrie: HOW?!

Gumball: I DON'T KNOW.

Is this mascara or just...tears?

I Love This Episode!

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In my opinion(in no order),

Christmas

The Storm

The Shell

The Lie

The Love

The Fury

The Choices

The Copycats

The Matchmaker

The Buddy

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I love The Matchmaker Episode. The Matchmaker is one of my favorite episodes in TAWOG!

Carrie Krueger is my favorite character in The Amazing World Of Gumball.

Today, I show you my ranking about Carrie's Major Episodes From Worst to Best.

This is my ranking.

7.The Drama (Worst)

While there’s nothing all that wrong about how “The Drama” lays itself out, there’s also just not much right to it, either. The bulk of the issue is just that “The Matchmaker” seemed to be opening new doors for the show in bringing Darwin and Carrie together, but The Drama feels less like a continuation of that development so much as a check-in, a surface-level acknowledgement that it happened that doesn’t ask any questions.

The entirety of the premise is bent around Gumball spying on them as they go through a day exhibiting several signs of being incredibly different people (albeit compatible), and at every turn, he makes some weird comment about how their relationship is on the rocks via some unnecessarily-extended metaphor. It’s a very formulaic episode that suffers in, yet again, structuring everything through Gumball’s perspective rather than the characters actually in question . The cycle only gets broken through the introduction of Carrie’s ex, Azrael, a charming but ultimately uninteresting fellow for Gumball to further react off of, as well as enabling a weird segue into a cool, albeit tacked-on, sequence with a change in art direction.

This is an admittedly smaller complaint, but not too big a fan of how Carrie's backstory is being retconned this late into the final season with both this episode and "The Ghouls" for the sake of some basic ghost jokes that aren't really adding much. It's just frustrating to see something established for so many years thrown out in the last minute for the ease of writing. It makes "The Mirror," which was a big deal for the character, feel somewhat pointless.

"The Drama” wants to be ceremonious, but it just isn’t, and that leaves me feeling disappointment more than anything else.

Rating:Bad

6.The Ghost

Some episodes benefit from being in season one. The more whimsical and lighthearted feel makes them seem less out of place, and plots that wouldn’t work now are fine because of who the character was at that point. This episode, however, would’ve been exponentially better if it was made today. This was Carrie’s first main role, and she’s improved as a character a lot since. There’s also Darwin, who could be thrown in as a middle-man, trying to help Gumball and Carrie settle their differences. But I’ll stop thinking about what could’ve been and start talking about what was.

Considering the concept involves possessing bodies, they really could’ve done more with it than eating-sprees. It’s a plot typical of season one, I’ll just leave it at that. However, it’s executed pretty well. They nailed the animation and feel of the first spree, and Gumball’s fight with himself was the highlight of the episode. There’s also the gross-out humor, and… well… I’m glad they stopped doing that. Overall, this is a good execution of a somewhat lackluster plot.

Rating:Meh

5.The Ghouls

The Ghouls” is a sloppy episode. Even if it frames itself as something else entirely, with Carrie showing Gumball and Darwin various examples of how the world simply isn’t afraid of some good old-fashioned scares, It's really just the incredibly loose frameworks for a vignette episode; it’s so loose, in fact, that Gumball, Darwin, and Carrie literally vanish for three minutes in the middle. All of it, too, leads to an ending that feels a bit too jarring to really land, taking advantage of the show’s status quo in a way that feels like everything ends just as it’s getting started.

On the plus side, though, everything else. Even if “The Ghouls” is a little graceless, it makes up for its shortcomings by being ridiculously fun. It’s the sort of episode that kicks everything off with a massive ensemble musical number just because, for instance. Being a vignette episode, too, it plays around with as many horror movie tropes as possible, allowing all of them to hilariously backfire.

Each sketch mirrors a specific movie, and they all find some weird caveat: what if Freddy Krueger’s victims were more afraid of being late for work, or worrying about their talents not living up to their expectations? What good does the girl from The Ring do if nobody from this generation knows what a VHS is? And what happens when, in the best vignette of the bunch, the victim is more horrifying than the villain itself, with Sarah responding to an ominous question about wanting to watch a movie by espousing every horror movie genre known to man?

In the battle between fun and flaw, the inherent likability and ambition of “The Ghouls” will always win me over, even if its problems mean it’ll never rise past this (admittedly pretty respectable) position on my list.

Rating:Good

4 .Halloween

Holiday episodes are almost always a mixed bag for a lot of shows, with festive themes often either interfering with the tone that their show usually goes after, or those holidays being used as an excuse to make something overly-saccharine. “Halloween,” though, went incredibly smoothly, thanks in no small part to Carrie, who allows the world of the living (Gumball, Darwin, and later Anais) and the dead to intersect in fun ways, perhaps no better demonstrated than by turning a haunted mansion into a raging, ethereal house party. (Honestly, if you only got out one day of the year, what else would you do?)

While watching Gumball and Darwin fly around town and mess with everyone else’s festivities was a lot of fun, though, “Halloween” is still fairly intuitive. There’s just a lot to cram into this 11 minutes, and I feel like the emphasis on how Gumball and Darwin were enjoying the holiday removed us from a lot of the other stuff going on, especially in regards to Carrie, who pretty much vanishes entirely until the climactic ending of the episode despite carrying it to the finish line. (Anais, too, doesn’t have a lot going on here, while also falling into a well and nearly dying after being inevitably turned into a ghost.) Still, insofar as this is a holiday special, Gumball lets loose just the right amount, finding some fantastic ways to spin the expected spooks into an enjoyable, wacky outing more intent to entertain than to frighten.

Rating:Good

3.The Scam

While Gumball's other Halloween offerings aren’t anything too phenomenal because of the age-old limitations of thematic episodes, “The Scam” goes far and beyond, with the end result being as compelling a journey as they come. Gumball doesn’t pull a single punch, and a lot of that has to do with the fact that “The Scam” feels fully developed as a character showcase for all three leading members—Gumball, Darwin, and especially Carrie—with its Halloween themes being more of a casual perk.

Gumball and Darwin, as the show’s protagonists, are used to maximum effect here. Gumball exercises peak cynicism in literally tricking the entire school into thinking that an evil spirit, Gargoroth, is roaming the halls and searching for victims, all for some low-effort candy; Darwin, meanwhile, gets to maintain the role of moral compass somewhat, though with his morality significantly-obstructed by his crush on Carrie, “The Scam” gets to flesh out his character in a different direction. Carrie, lastly, is the star of the show, allowing for some awesome, supernatural antics in the Ghostbusters sequence and adding to Gumball’s mischievousness in an exciting way: they’re just two folks hoping to get some suckers from some suckers. (Bad pun? You’ve been reading this stuff for two months, you should know what to expect from me.)

Their dynamic peaks in the episode’s climax, where Gargoroth surfaces for real, and the three are forced to actually perform some real-life ghost-busting. Gumball gets to play with the idea of going full-blown thriller, all while keeping the characters true to form: Carrie offers solutions with her general knowhow on the paranormal, Gumball is stubborn to the end, putting up a selfish fight in sacrificing all their candy to Gargoroth, and Darwin gets to be hilariously (though also acceptably) dramatic when Carrie almost marries Gargoroth as their sacrifice to him. That the selfless act that saves them is Gumball giving up his last piece of candy out of complete irritation is the perfect ending: what goes around comes around, but at least Carrie and Darwin are a few steps closer to going on a date.

Rating:Superb

2.The Mirror

It’s one of those rare episodes that manages to get almost everything right, becoming a fantastic combination of unrelenting comedy and an adrenaline-fueled thriller.

The first half is a lot of fun, if nothing too special. Gumball inheriting the cliched role of being a boyfriend who absolutely will not shut up about his girlfriend was a flash of brilliance, and it’s even more fun to see the world thoroughly chew him up after he fails to heed to the warnings of the Snatcher’s email. Mrs. Jötunheim also gets some great little moments through her interactions with Gumball and Darwin; the show uses her sparingly, but she’s always fantastic when she’s in the spotlight as the sort of nonchalant witch who gives kids a potion in a “#1 Mom” mug because she hasn’t done the dishes yet. (I was also a big fan of Gumball acting like an idiot in her wizard robes for, I assume, entirely self-explanatory reasons.)

The rest of “The Mirror,” though, is where the episode becomes fantastic, indebted largely to Carrie stepping it up as a leading character. Having the Snatcher turn out to not just be some malicious ghost, but her cursed father Vlad, adds an exciting twist to how everything unfolds, as well as giving the episode a surprisingly touching ending. Throughout the episode’s more dramatic moments, too, “The Mirror” never shies away from its humor, and punctuating their efforts to survive the Snatcher’s attacks with dumb moments like Darwin changing the TV channel he uses to Poltergeist them to a home shopping channel, only for Gumball to decide that nearing death is far less painful, are phenomenal. It’s little details like that which demonstrate how meticulous Gumball is in crafting the finest viewing experience it can, and it certainly pays off here.

Rating:Fantastic

1.The Matchmaker（Best）

The Matchmaker" was very effective because it saved the emotional closer for the end- it didn't have the intense build-up, sure, but the fact of the matter is that there were effectively two conflicts going on throughout the episode instead of one major concept - in this case, Darwin's forced love for Teri and Carrie's true, unrequited love for Darwin (which has been up in the air for a really long time) - and in finding the proper balance between the two, the show was able to execute something both emotionally and comedically strong.

This episode was consistently hilarious, and I actually mean that. The sheer amount of inventive and weird twists the writers were able to put into the episode is remarkable.

Darwin is sad because he is without the girl of his dreams which, Gumball surmises, is Teri. He then goes to Carrie to help him make the two fall in love. Carrie, initially reluctant to commit to the idea due to her own love of Darwin, stalls for a good while before finally caving, sacrificing her love for him just to make Darwin happy with Teri. That is, except for the fact that Darwin was never in love with Teri. He was in love with Carrie all along, but by subjecting him to the powers of a love potion, he's found a new love of his life. (I will admit that the episode is a bit different if you pick up on the whole "not appearing in a photograph" thing because it at least partially renders some of the plot null, but it certainly doesn't harm what follows.)

This was about Hansley Jr. being able to perform every stupid lovey thing his character had to, and he did great! Probably the biggest moment was Darwin's whole song at the beginning, which, aside from being a great entrance for the episode (abrupt ending and all), is a great showcase for Hansley Jr.'s singing talents. For him to voice Darwin already requires an artificially higher pitch, but to take that and go even higher and more rhythmically is astonishingly impressive.

Now, the jokes. While the new edition of Gumball overracting a painful death is kind of worn out at this point, the desired effect - to lure Teri into a quarantine room- is a complete disaster once she realizes that the waste Gumball is in is actually soda. We then cut to the quarantine room, with Darwin taped to the wall, rose in his mouth, with that freaking R&B music in the background. Then, the school nurse, the most underrated character in the whole series, walks in and deadpans, "I don't think there's a cure for that." That's a long set-up but Christ, that's impeccable stuff, especially for the sheer brevity of the actual scene. And it completely worked.

I enjoyed the characterization of this episode very much. Gumball and Carrie were both very well-written here, especially the latter. The writers were generous enough to let us see the different sides to our favorite ghost girl, from her deviousness to her vulnerability. This makes her a dynamic character that works off of any other character she’s placed with well. What completes her though is her maturity throughout the ordeal. Had this episode taken place in a prior season, there is no doubt in my mind that Carrie would have taken more measures to sabotage Darwin’s chances of romance than was shown here. As a result, she becomes likeable and someone who you want to root for.

Not to discount Gumball himself for a second, because he certainly isn’t a slouch, either. Gumball may be up to his convoluted, nonsensical shenanigans as per usual, but this isn’t the usual Gumball we know as far as actual personality goes. This is the selfless, determined Gumball that we’ve seen in episodes like The Shell, which I draw a number of parallels to. Speaking of, the acknowledgement of that episode’s events gives a deeper clarity as to why he goes to the lengths that he goes to here. Gumball is all too familiar with Darwin and Carrie’s predicament, and thus his sincere wishes for his brother and friend makes a lot of sense.

Other then that, the show kicked into its real victory lap when Carrie and Gumball fail to separate the two new lovebirds, and the ways that the two attempt to sabotage are downright inspired. At one point, Gumball rubs Alan all over the place, causing the static to stick to Teri's face, making them kiss. Darwin, blatantly entranced, is fine, because she's too good not to be shared. All of these jokes are great because they require two components to effectively hit - a smart visual gag and a humorous way for Darwin or Teri to dismiss it.

Another moment really stood out to me as well- when Teri asks Darwin how many people he's kissed: "Rachel? Carrie? Gumball? Gumball? Gumball? Okay, what's up with you guys? Penny? Sussie? Alan's balloon knot? Chris Morris?" First of all, because I'm a complete idiot, that stupid Sussie cutaway kills me every single time. But secondly, the fact that even Teri addressed how weird it is that Gumball and Darwin kiss so frequently was a surprisingly smart joke. It's the show admitting how lazy the whole concept is as to elicit humor, especially in regards to entire episodes in the first season being framed around it ("The Dress," "The Pressure"). There's a bit of risk in the writers slyly admitting how tripe the idea is, fully aware of how glaringly obvious the gimmick will be from now on, but it pays off amazingly well.

The capper, though, is a truly sweet and touching moment. Carrie's tear invigorated the love potion, but it also returned Darwin to reality- a clever bit of foreshadowing, I might add, and one less blatant than that of your most beloved episode, which pretty much summarizes the entire plot a la "Beauty and the Beast" from the get-go. It's the subtlety that keeps you on edge; we know it'll work out, but the fact that it wasn't as predictable made the ending stronger. Then, of course, there's the kiss, and while it's a lot less monumental than "The Shell," it's a touching moment nonetheless. Darwin's not a sweeping character, so to see him receive such a small moment definitely supplemented his place in the show without weakening the outcome. In other words, it's a flawless finish.

Rating:Fantastic

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