The Worst

The previous episode was called "The Best" so it only makes sense that this would be called "The Worst"! Anyway, this episode features the Watterson family talking about the bad day they've had and how they decide to switch roles the following day. I guess it's never really stated if they go through actual physical differences, but Anais seems to feel it. We get scenes where the characters all talk about how bad their day was, but for some reason we never get to Anais on that. Why not? It was great fun to see all the individual stories.

It even started out great when we see all the angry characters cause destruction with their simple anger. Anais is so mad she cuts a school bus in half! The best story was probably with Gumball and Darwin who took on the personas of women. They unfortunately get crushed by an invisible barrier that stops women from being promoted. It helps like this was an attempt at satire, particularly with how Nicole complained about women being paid less. ***1/2

That is all I have to say about The Worst. The plot is too simple-minded, it repeats the same jokes about men getting credit for women's work and women being cut off in the middle of their sentence. It's a hopeless mess that says there is nothing good about being a man, woman, child or adult, and your life will be miserable no matter what prejudices or stereotypes you face. It is not my opinion, but a fact that it would feel more like an episode of Stressed Eric, where the world bends over backwards just to be cruel or lethally stupid to our main characters for no reason (particularly with the glass ceiling part), and The Amazing World of Gumball has done this several other times, too. It's the kind of stuff I love to hate-watch.

The Hero, The Finale, The Girlfriend, The Rival, The Brain - these are all nasty episodes that just exist to get a rise out of people by ruining The Amazing World of Gumball and real life for everyone with a bad message. Like when Family Guy or SpongeBob SquarePants have a few episodes in their later years that mess up this badly, but far more severe than that. There is basically no other substance than teaching bad messages that life sucks and it's all bad, or to tell us to be glad that our life is not as miserable as the characters we are watching.