How Gumball MASTERED Wacky Humor

Cartoon Network dominated the 2010s through numerous properties to the point where there has been some debate about what would happen to Cartoon Network's Mount Rushmore in the 2010s. To me, it would be obvious from the whimsical and fantastic story of the heavy journey that is Adventure Time. bro comedy, a little edgy, a chaotic, cultural binge, that's so-so, shows the innovative, emotional, vivid, character-driven dynamic that is the steven universe and the sarcastic boundary-pushing comedic meta, lack of unity stylistic that is the amazing world of

gumball

, regardless of what you think about anything. Of these shows in particular, one thing is for sure: if there was a show that

mastered

the art of being absurd, crazy, silly but also super funny, it has to be kind of good and get me closer, but we're getting ahead of ourselves here.

I'm going to stop clicking on my discord, so let me see the search for the best so far, which was 10 months ago. Oh, I guess time flies when you're having fun. I said fun. I meant in a coma. I don't know how else. I've been able to miss out on finding the best for so long, why didn't anyone tell me? Let's reflect on what has been reviewed so far. We have an episode that's weird, an episode that's weird, and an episode that's weird. I hope you see a pattern here, I know there are plenty of great less outlandish episodes, like the time a fish kissed the ghost, a cat kissed the shapeshifter, and the time the writers came so close to recognizing your creepy fan fictions in fan art like legally they could do more in legal matters. soon, but the best Gumball episodes aren't usually emotional, it is when it comes to being silly and the best silly episodes are usually the simplest ones that really try their best not to be serious.

Hey guys, why does long face feel gloomy? one, his face is long because he tried to stretch his skin to make it look like he's too old to go to school, two no, mom didn't believe it and three, yes, I feel sad, I take a normal bus ride some episodes like The best thing is that the bus ride was a minor scene in that episode. This is where you will spend most of the 11 minutes. The opening scenes primarily revolve around Rocky, the everyman of Elmore Junior High, who serves as the plot clue, hint, nudge, nudge, guiding the kids of Elmore Junior. high to suggest dropping out of school, to which I must say that it is not a difficult task to convince the children of Elmore not to go to school, apart from the implication that an adult is going to voluntarily hijack a school bus full of children to take them to a place no other adults will know about this is a great start i hope i haven't ruined the bus drivers now while

gumball

isn't exactly in a hurry to get to school others on the bus may be and by others i just mean Alan because Alan is always a thorn in Gumball's side, but not for long.

Well, I think we should go to school so we can work hard and have the best possible start in life. Anyone else wants to go to school. What makes this a fantastic start is that it is needed. what would be the mundane and extends it to the beginning of a whimsical adventure by accentuating the traits of the characters we have come to love. This is the fourth season and everyone on the bus has been properly introduced, including Rocky and Gumball's sarcastic, lazy personality. Outside of Rocky's optimism, a very common dynamic, I might add, serves to set the stage for what is supposed to be a simple day and I love all the ideas they have about places they would prefer to go in relation to their personality. .

Darwin's imaginative response. of being over the moon tobias wanting to go to the beach and sassy wanting to go on the school bus we are already on the school bus this is the trip however this innocent idea of ​​abandoning is not a spontaneous suggestion, it was a set up dun dun now while I scroll through epidemic sound to add a theme song from the game show. I want to ask you a question if you had to guess who the core of this whole crazy scenario is, would it be a police robbery? That's embarrassing. moment you had in high school or gumball's collective parents darwin allen banana joe tobias alongside principal brown well if you guess seed then you might need some therapy because it's not healthy to keep a memory like that so easily accessible in your brain because because it was actually made, however, there's a part where you really have to stretch your suspension of disbelief to maintain your immersion, so Rocky makes one more stop that involves bringing together Gumball's collective parents, Darwin Allen and Tobias along with director Brown.

I know it's rude. Make jokes about people's weight, but there's no way Richard's lard jar built like a refrigerator 80 packs of pepsi and cheetos a day, greasy bagels and whatever is less obvious to see and notice, get on the bus immediately and if I don't agree Here's a professional who agrees with me, fat man, now you may have wondered why when I mentioned Gumball's parents, Darwin, Tobias and Alan, I didn't also mention Banana Joe, that It's because I would end up doing something so stupid. Why take the bus? when the bus can catch you, the binoculars made it look closer than it was, so I guess it's still pretty funny, did it really turn out to be the smartest idea in this entire episode for reasons that you can address however I want?

Saying there's nothing wrong with stupid

humor

and I'll explain why right now, so the reason all these men get on the bus is because they're trying to make a statement, don't drop out of school, that's why we decided to show them The Dangers of Dropping Out of School is completely silly, but silly

humor

can produce some of the best comedy. Now I'm using the term silly humor, but what experts use is absurd humor, a type of humor based on intentionally setting aside logical reason for command. To amplify the ridiculousness of the situation itself, this is not to be confused with anti-humor or dead man humor, in which the idea is to aggressively subvert the expectations of a punchline by not delivering it or by delivering it very, very simply, Surreal humor can sometimes have no punchline or simply have one that doesn't make sense even for the joke you were conventionally setting up, let's take a look at an example carefully crafted by the gods of surreal humor that to some is just a waffle that is falls on others this is the defining moment of surreal humor and where you are on this line is nowhere it's a two dimensional line this could never exist in your environment like all humor is objective and Gumball is objectively hilarious it's the type of humor What happens in a show that wishes it was on Cartoon Network's Mount Rushmore, but can't understand it when one of the cornerstones of comedy is not waiting for the punchline, which ends up being the same anti-viewer sentiments in every episode, but I digested, I said digest, I'm sorry. really hungry right now hungry for a straight man nobody move or I will be forced to use this is a briefcase no more than that is a ticking briefcase no more than that no no no less than that yes, we are legally obliged to say which is None of those who were talking about those legal issues before seemed quite smart to me that, in typical Gumball fashion, they could walk the line of what is allowed on television and technically they didn't comply with that, but not legally, that's what What respect from some. of humor and gumball because it is deliberately designed in the way that I am sure many people who grew up with it will find it quite funny, but it only gets funnier as you grow up like the regular spongebob and phineas show and fer the The reason I think the team really

mastered

this type of

wacky

, absurd humor is because the situation here shouldn't work in a reasonable environment and they understood this and took advantage of the illogical element of this to make it hilarious and not annoying.

The costumes are poorly planned. the acting is horrible and this is all assuming Rocky is involved because otherwise why would Rocky keep driving when there is a robbery on the bus full of kids and they are deliberately ignoring it? However, when it comes to silly humor, here's What You Do With All That Pesky Internal Logic, Sometimes you can make some of the funniest episodes if you don't follow the internal logic. However, I've noticed that in animation the best way to control that humor is the straight man or, in this case, the straight cat Gumball seeing. beyond the ruse and neither her self-awareness of the situation nor his ability to not sell any of his stock ruins this episode, in fact, it makes it better because this is equally important for adults.

Many of the reactions come from Gumball's companions. Oh come on guys, it's obviously not about the ticking and the mask. Strangers have taken over the bus, but they are clearly our parents trying to teach us some kind of lesson. Director Brown hasn't even changed his name. Yeah, I mean, he has, I mean, he doesn't have, I mean, who is this director brown? Principal Brown is amazing here, he really brings out that energy he had in the fraud, a season three episode where his overreaction to Gumball and Darwin realizing that Principal Browns has a fake diploma really sells that episode he He is the centerpiece of this team He also serves the team's most memorable lines Even though everyone gets a little turn He also plays into Gumball's conscious disappointment The best at keeping up with the ineptitude of the adults on the bus Currently Tobias' father named Harold wilson fun fact legitimately calls the police who are not aware of this situation and claims to have taken a bus full of hostages bus full of hostages and claims to have taken a bus full of children hostage for money talking about Clidin you may wonder why I'm not taking points away from the other kids for not having a clue about the facts that this hostage situation is a hoax and that's such a dumb question.

Didn't you see my computer analogy from earlier? It doesn't matter. who don't see the trick, it only matters if they're funny, while they don't see the trick, if they're not funny, then yeah, this would be infuriatingly annoying since you're setting up something that goes against logical thinking and there isn't any. There's no humor at all, which is just bad writing for a show you want to have on a cartoon network. However, if they're funny like this scene with Allen and Gumball, then you might have something, oh, come on, Alan, what you're talking about. I don't even recognize the balloon wait, I do recognize it, yes, I saw it at our house last night, yes, on television, elmore's most wanted, but let's talk about the elephant in the room a long time ago, in a youtube ecosystem far away, i posted my first roblox video, i mean a gumball video about sweaters in which i criticized the episode for being painfully boring and quite annoying.

Now I know a lot of people really enjoy sweaters and I don't know how I can enjoy when this group of people are ignorant to the point of comedy, but don't enjoy when that group of people are ignorant to the point of comedy, well, It's simple, I don't like Sarah, you guys are crazy, no young lady, you're the crazy one here, walk across the street please, this is not a Sarah-centric video, so I'm going to keep this. brief. Sarah is often, if not always, one-dimensional in a way I can't stand. I have an immersion breaking, dislike for a character not because of what she represents, but because many times the reaction is to simply deal with it and fulfill her fantasy to appease her solely for her entertainment.

This is something I abhor in the Bottom of the Barrel SpongeBob episodes where SpongeBob creepily has an oppressive despotic fake. He optimistically takes the story and bends it towards a predictable will that normally punishes a straight man or should I say straight squid. What a stroke of luck now that I have a captive audience. I think there are moments in the episode where I can see why it's funny. mostly the Richwood High students, but I only like a few Sarah-centric episodes and even the ones I like, like shipping, are still based on the idea of ​​people bending to Sarah's will, but it's not that bad Like episodes like the Fan, which at some point I'll get to talking about points, the point is that it works here because all the characters play their role in a way that, while illogical, has an internal logic that makes sense and none of the characters is doing something that is truly immersive.

In fact, breaking Gumball isn't even as one-dimensional as straight men can be in surreal episodes like these, since he's not above retreating into the same chaos, he acts indirectly above. Look, they're not scary, you're right, we just need a leader. to reason with someone brave, someone who is not afraid to look at theenemy in the eyes and someone who laughs in the face of danger, I would say you are doing well, but obviously you are sick, maybe less, no I, however, after hearing his comments about skipping school. the police arrive and we get to where this video started, okay, too close, we are willing to meet their demands.

I'll throw the money in three, two, one. Now I want to be honest with you. I lied a little earlier. I said that. The core behind this ruse was the father, but in reality it was the police. The police in this episode really make everything shine because they add legitimacy and create this triple layer of bubblegum self-awareness at the bottom and top of the collective. in the suspension of logic and reality on the bus in the middle, plus the police's hyper-awareness of the situation in contrast to the cartoonish and often incompetent nature of them anyway in Gumball I'm talking about the police in Gumball, I swear if I see a politically charged kite, they work in harmony because each dynamic is written to not overtake any of the others and the also added dynamic of the police adds tension and excitement as one might reasonably suspect the average viewer understands. what this episode is about at this point and it's just good to throw a wrench in and give it a little twist and I realized I used a lot of big words in the last paragraph so in simple terms episodes like these work best when everyone is losing to the police.

Working legitimately on the terms of the men who foolishly decided that an idea like this should not have been executed by the emergency services minus Banana Joe who played 40 chests and stayed out of this, which made them legitimately get the money of the ransom they unintentionally demanded. Gumball uses this moment to say that the moral here is that crime pays and I bet most kids when they hear this aren't going to believe they can mug the police for money, any kid raised in an environment that promotes at least one percent rationality. Thought will not believe that any of this should be followed, imitated or praised.

That is why I so passionately enjoy the character who is not always a do-gooder, saves the world, with a moral character because he is not the only one. It's a way to have a great character that connects not only with the children but with the entire family. Sometimes making fun of a situation in an accessible way can be an effective form of communication and entertainment and I didn't choose that term because I was British. jargon, in fact, I have this graph here that shows how many kids committed a crime after this episode premiered and I also have this graph here that shows how many graphs based on fake data I made in this video after the kids They gathered enough confidence to realize that their kidnappers are also some of their parents, it was actually an intentionally disappointing scene, they realized that not only did their plans suck, but they also legitimately brought a bomb on a bus, being kind of double twist whose crazy idea was this sticks to the frying pan or everyone dies, that stupid thing never works, steal, oh now you remember my name.

I want to be honest with you. I lied again earlier when I said the police were behind this whole ruse, they really aren't. Actually it was Rob, it was always Rob. It's often appreciated that Rob is the twisted villain because I think he's often underrated in his less popular appearances on the show, while a lot of people talk about episodes like Disaster and Rerun or Future and Inquisition. I feel like Rob was really good here. He felt devilish but also consistent in his journey to get noticed, which is a great touch. I wouldn't say he stole the show with his appearance as there are better Rob appearances later nor would he.

I say he's the best character in this episode and depending on what kind of person you are, you can go to Gumball Principal Brown or Donut Cop personally. I think the donut cop was amazing. Here we also get an accurate representation of the process that happens when People decide to take my open DM on Twitter and Discord for granted to send me requests directly when there are open and public avenues available throughout my channel, meanwhile, on this runaway bus, The stakes are even higher when Gumball decides to become a hero and fight Rob. The highlight of this is Rob explaining his intentions.

This is not supposed to be attractive. Wait, so why are you doing this? Because I'm a villain. What option do I have? All I have on my resume is laughing maniacally and monologuing about evil. but as a student of Canadian history I can't exactly get into the case from the beginning, up to this point, the bus would have been his third major role before becoming a more prominent antagonist before this was the nobody and his nemesis, being the first his official reaction to being left in the void supported by his cameo in the void seeking revenge against the water sense for abandoning him and the last episode is an expansion of his new villain arc in comparison, the bus is not a jump so big, but yeah. important in the development of rob because after this would come the disaster and the repetition, which I would say is the peak of rob, yes, even above the future and yes, even above the inquisition, so while this does not is important in the grand scheme, taking some themes from the underlying premise of this episode, just like the episode is simple, Rob's appearance is pretty simple and that gives a lot of room for what they can do with simple ideas that, based on the great team that works on episodes like these, they did very Funny Gumball then finds out why Elmo's police are worse than the police in GTA 5.

Oh officer help me, he has a briefcase that ticks. Oh come on, these are professional law enforcement officers, like they're going down. You come with us given that. these are the same cops who messed up in the first season episode, the spoon, yes, bubblegum, you really shouldn't have been that surprised, however, since we think Rob gets away with it, he actually gets away with the bomb , not with money, which makes him explode. Back to the scene being arrested now, I'm not sure if they're talking about his arrest, but I'm pretty sure he was able to walk free with just a slap on the wrist thanks to the best lawyer ever, Phoenix, status quo, love. him or you hate him, you can't debate him because you'll be back to square one every time It's episodes like this that show how Gumball has mastered crazy humor; however, there are other shows like American Dad and Family Guy, Johnny Tess, Fanboy Chum. chum robot monster phineas and ferb which also have great moments of surrealism however I think gumball did it better and that is why when it comes to carrying the flag of crazy humor it had no rival in the 2010s on Cartoon Network due to episodes like this.

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