First, we have The Roots. At the local pet store, Darwin gives a sigh as he looks at some fishes. This causes the Wattersons to assume Darwin wants to return to his natural habitat. But rather than do that, they decided to do some pretty zany ways to make Darwin feel at home - by doing the things fish do. When that didn't work, they ultimately threw him into the local pond and as the Wattersons cry their way back home, Darwin had to fight his way through traffic towards the Wattersons and explain to them all he really wanted was a new Aquarium to replace his fish bowl by 'guilt tripping' them. He didn't get it, by the way as he lost to Nicole's 'guilt tripping' of sacrificing everything just to get the aquarium.
You know, I think this is the first time the entire Watterson family just went total bonkers over a misunderstanding. Normally, we would see at least one of them being the voice of reason. But in this case, they all went out of their way very, very badly just to figure out what's wrong with Darwin when they could've just asked.
The Blame is one of my three favorite episodes of this week, as it parodies the Video Game and Book mediums in the style of South Park. Billy tries playing video games for the first time and it caused such a ruckus that his mom called for a ban on video games as it warps the minds of children. Gumball tries and fails to prove otherwise, forcing all the Elmore kids to read books. They then do a musical in the style of "Don't Hug Me, I'm Scared", with the books being just as mind warping as the games themselves, which caused so much chaos that, instead of lifting the ban on video games, every book in Elmore gets burned to the ground.
Unintentionally, The Blame can also be seen as a social commentary towards the criticism of Video Games, and how books, despite having as much graphical descriptions, if not more so, within the narrative of text, gets a free pass. Perhaps coincidentally, The Blame can also be seen as a response to the accusations made by groups like Feminist Frequency towards the Video Game Industry.
The Slap is somewhat of the spiritual sequel to The Hug and The Awkwardness. But instead of Gumball dealing with Hot Dog Guy, it's Tobias. Tobias started getting a reputation of giving everyone a high-five, followed by a slap in the butt - except Gumball. Feeling left out, Gumball is determined to get Tobias to slap his butt, by ANY means necessary. After all the crazy attempts and failing to do so, we learn that the reason Tobias never slaps Gumball in the butt is because he figured Gumball wouldn't like it. Gumball insists in order to be included, and when Tobias finally does so, guess what? Gumball didn't like it at all.
I have to comment that this is perhaps the raunchy-est episode of Gumball as butt slapping is considered a sexual act, and I'm surprised that Cartoon Network is ok with this. If the show and this episode were under Nickelodeon or Disney, it would've been banned, outright.
The Detective is my least favorite of the episodes as it is a parody of crime-solving shows like CSI and Law & Order, of which I'm not a fan of. Anais's doll, Daisy, turns up missing. So she uses her detective skills and monologue to find out what became of her and who is responsible. It was obvious from the very beginning that Gumball and Darwin were responsible and they both had their comeuppance instead of a twist in the plot. I do, however, like the idea of the duo being so high in sugar as sort of a metaphorical representation of being high on drugs.
The Fury is the 'creme de la creme' of this week's episodes and the most anticipated one of this year. The episode uses a lot of elements from The Karate Kid movies, Dragon Ball, and of course, Kill la Kill.
It begins with Nicole meeting up with her childhood friend, Yuki Yoshida, Masami's mom, who aggressively harasses Nicole to get her to accept her duel. Nicole adamantly refuses to accept the challenge, despite the numerous shameful situationns placed on her that's reminiscent from Regular Show. Masami explains that as kids, Nicole and Yuki were trained under the same school and eventually fought each other at the local martial arts tournament, to which Nicole won. Yuki then spent many years in Japan training for her rematch. She finally gets Nicole to act after threatening to fire the latter from her job and re-possessing the Watterson Home.
As Nicole and Yuki engage in a Dragon Ball/Kill la Kill-style duel at the school gym, the kids got caught in the crossfire, forcing the two to work together to save them. Yuki cries saying she was jealous of Nicole's achievements as the winner of the tournament, and as a mother, wheras Nicole is jealous of Yuki being a rich bastard. The two made up and went home with the kids, who remain completely shocked at what happened - and the school gym totally wrecked.
I honestly wasn't expecting The Fury to have any comedy elements at all. But it did had some funny moments and I like how Richard tries to cheer up a depressed Nicole. The entire Nicole/Yuki fight, animated by Studio 4C, lasted around 3 minutes. Although the fight sequence wasn't as thrilling compared to One Punch Man, for example, it was overall pretty decent. And it's pretty obvious at this point Nicole will get even more fans now thanks to her Anime-style design.
I would put The Fury, The Blame, and The Slap tied with a rating of 4 out of 5, followed by The Roots with a rating of 3, and The Detective, my least favorite, with a 2. And despite me not liking The Detective, overall the week of episodes of Gumball is great, and I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
It begins with Nicole meeting up with her childhood friend, Yuki Yoshida, Masami's mom, who aggressively harasses Nicole to get her to accept her duel. Nicole adamantly refuses to accept the challenge, despite the numerous shameful situationns placed on her that's reminiscent from Regular Show. Masami explains that as kids, Nicole and Yuki were trained under the same school and eventually fought each other at the local martial arts tournament, to which Nicole won. Yuki then spent many years in Japan training for her rematch. She finally gets Nicole to act after threatening to fire the latter from her job and re-possessing the Watterson Home.
As Nicole and Yuki engage in a Dragon Ball/Kill la Kill-style duel at the school gym, the kids got caught in the crossfire, forcing the two to work together to save them. Yuki cries saying she was jealous of Nicole's achievements as the winner of the tournament, and as a mother, wheras Nicole is jealous of Yuki being a rich bastard. The two made up and went home with the kids, who remain completely shocked at what happened - and the school gym totally wrecked.
I honestly wasn't expecting The Fury to have any comedy elements at all. But it did had some funny moments and I like how Richard tries to cheer up a depressed Nicole. The entire Nicole/Yuki fight, animated by Studio 4C, lasted around 3 minutes. Although the fight sequence wasn't as thrilling compared to One Punch Man, for example, it was overall pretty decent. And it's pretty obvious at this point Nicole will get even more fans now thanks to her Anime-style design.
I would put The Fury, The Blame, and The Slap tied with a rating of 4 out of 5, followed by The Roots with a rating of 3, and The Detective, my least favorite, with a 2. And despite me not liking The Detective, overall the week of episodes of Gumball is great, and I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
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