The Amazing World of Gumball

"The Slide" was really good. It's weird how this was Rocky's first major episode given he's always been one of the more recurring members of the supporting cast.

I noticed "The Code" and "The Slide" each had new storyboard artist. That's actually been relatively uncommon, despite the writing staff changing a lot.

Thought the episode was funny with on online dating.

I was half expecting her to date Rocky at the end.

Nah, it went exactly how it should...with necessary senior citizen violence...

It was pretty obvious she wouldn't—and shouldn't—somewhere between knocking the baby out of its stroller and stealing her medical records.

The joke where Rocky's mom was in the same dating app was amazingly dark.

The whole app concept was pretty accurate and the name trawler made me think of predators in real life.

Bobert really is the worst kind of robot that can be built.

Takes everything said literally and has the ability to do all commands.

Weird how he doesn't run into so many paradoxes with conflicting mentalities.

Bobert becoming like Glados from Portal was a nice Shout-Out.

They should have said "Bobert, you are a horrible machine, and the only way for the world to be safe is for you to completely destroy yourself and do it permanently. You must never come back."

I hardly need to say, after this episode I've finally realized how much I hate that thing.

That's terrible...

I'm not gonna budge on this one. That little fucker came close to literally destroying the world last episode, and has tormented Gumball and others in a variety of ways including misguided identity/life theft. This stuff always happens because an advanced robot with incredible powers doesn't know how to read a Figurative English dictionary. Most of his character is the annoying Mr Literal cliche. The same cliche that happens to make some of the disturbing social-torture episodes possible in shows like Spongebob and Camp Lazlo. (Which, honestly, I've never enjoyed because I don't want to watch an angry character suffer through even more anger just because of some idiot who lives nearby. Those are painful and hit too close to home.)

He's basically a fully-formed Evil version of The Load.

edited 23rd Nov '16 6:40:14 PM by Pyrarson

It seems more like people should just always be direct around him or not interact with him at all. No casualness, it stinks.

That's the stuff.

That's also a problem: Literality doesn't work. I realized after watching Guardians of the Galaxy again that something wasn't quite right about Drax. He wasn't a figuratives or metaphors type of guy. To the extreme. He can only understand and use words literally.

To a mildly unattentive viewer, it might seem like Drax could happen. Like there could be somebody who only relies on the precise, objective literal parts of a language. But the problem is that those words and phrases aren't enough. That's why you catch Drax saying phrases like "I shall meet my foe and face him head on!" Head on what? Is it your head?

There are numerous phrases in English and probably any language that are very important and form the basics of conversation, but that are very sneakily hiding a metaphor or something like that within them. A contrary example would be "fireplace". Obviously, it's an uncreative combination of 'fire' and 'place', perfectly literally explaining that there is an object with fire inside a place. Very straight forward, Bobert would not get that one wrong. How about a combat phrase that starts with "fire"? Bobert must have said this at some point, even though unlike what he intends it to mean he probably would have had the implication of "cover this large weapon in a mass of heated plasma that typically takes wood and oxygen as fuel". That one is fairly excusable, and has probably never harmed anything. Unless somebody brought a fire hose out in front of an execution squad.

I'm gonna think of a good one. How about the phrase:

"Delete that folder."?

Ah yes! Computers! Delete was, I'm pretty sure, a word we had before software was a thing. I think it meant "remove information basically by drawing a line through it". So if Bobert was carrying an actual physical folder some time, he'd probably end up blotting everything out on the paper inside instead of getting rid of something bad on a computer like he was supposed to. This happens because the creators intend it too, the characters exist in a world where its rulers have to rely on these kinds of mistakes happening a lot, and so make the sufferers suffer through these misinterpretations almost as a rule, with great lockdown-edness.

I'll admit, I haven't brought forward very good phrase examples. But these figurative phrases in English are everywhere, and I only didn't come up with many because we don't think about them very often and they hide so well, but there's quite clearly a gap of vocabulary when you can't even say stuff like "Let's hang/chill out!" or "I can't talk right now" which is made very apparent in The Misunderstandings, and if every day of your life is like The Misunderstandings, even on just one side, then how the hell do you survive?

Let's just sit and have a chat...

I can't talk at this momen, I'm busy...

They gotta be even more direct and use all words available.

"The Misunderstanding" is actuall easily avoidable, figure of speeches are the worst. Being super literal would not solve that problem.

edited 23rd Nov '16 8:24:22 PM by randomness4

No offense, but I think you're going a bit overboard with this.

You're right Adric. The weird unspecific phantom ghost person who secretly places his posts between every normal forum post in an imperceptible subspace that most people can't see is going overboard.

I was referring to you, there's no need to attack Random like that. It's getting uncomfortable how angry you're getting over a fictional character. Like, it's ok not to like things, but it's passing into a really uncomfortable level.

edited 24th Nov '16 2:40:27 PM by AdricDePsycho

I didn't see anything that looks like an attack in there...or anything specifically aimed at me.

edited 24th Nov '16 3:28:30 PM by randomness4

I think the "ghost person" was referring to you, because of your avatar.

This has NOTHING to do with his avatar. I wouldn't have made the joke about invisible forum posters if your "You're" post clearly indicated who the person aimed at by the second-person pronoun was, or even if the pronoun was SINGULAR.

Can we please stop this pointless drama over how bad Bobert can be? If you don't let the character, don't watch the episode.

Agreeing with this. Drop it.

So guys "The Ollie" is on CN's Video On Demand and that the main duo Gumball and Darwin got new V As!

Gumball: Nicholas Cantu

Darwin: Donielle T. Hansley Jr.

edited 2nd Dec '16 7:24:00 PM by NeoTerraKnight

So three voice actor changes now, but they won't change Anais's voice actress.

Then again, her voice sounding older and more mature is probably the point.