The Girlfriend (The Amazing World of Gumball)
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The Girlfriend is 22nd episode of the fourth season of The Amazing World of Gumball.
Plot
The intimidating school bully, Jamie, gets a crush on Darwin after Alan convinces her to find her sweetheart.
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- First of all, this episode is absolutely tasteless, yet even had a great potential ruined by its ruthless nature. Just like Family Guy's Screams of Silence: The Story of Brenda Q. episode, it represents abusive relationships in a quite hideous way, thanks to the elevate mean nature featured here, to the dumb characters' moves and the great lack of humor. The worst thing is that Courage the Cowardly Dog did this concept in a better way in the episode The Mask without being way too much mean, and that show was not so obscure than TAWOG in terms of realism. While they wanted to do things more realistic here, they went too far.
- Unlike Brenda Q., where the person who's the molesator, Jeff, at least gets his punishment by being crushed on a tree by Quagmire on his car, Jamie here doesn't take any penality here at the end, which makes her a Karma-Houdini and things more painful.
- From the beginning, the episode is a full lazy rehash of "The Pressure" from the first season, cause both episodes involve one girl (Masami for The Pressure, Jamie for this) who wants to make Darwin her boyfriend. However, The Pressure ironically did this kind of plot better than this, without being too offensive or too carefree and had a good moral at the end, and it comes from a season where humor and plots are weaker than the following seasons.
- Jamie is a really detestable and disgusting being in all the episode due to her abuses on Darwin, Gumball, Sarah and the other classmates, her fraudulent and weenie behavior and her obsession for a sweetheart made by misunderstanding Alan. Never reflects on her accomplished crimes and never tries to apologize Darwin for what she has done. If she wanted a boyfriend, why didn't try at least to ask to Gumball or Leslie, for example?
- The beginning is cruel, cause Jamie eats up and then spits Banana Joe's brain, menaces Anton to eating itself and deflates Alan for a stomach joke she doesn't understand. What a good way to start an episode!
- The next scene isn't anyway better, cause Jamie now tries to find a sweetheart by (and we're not jockin') exploding an entire bus. She could potentially kill all the passenger in!
- Then she looks towards Darwin (who for some reason didn't escape away from the explosion), making the plot starts in a very forced way.
- Incredibly bad and unjust jokes about Jamie's savage status and ignorance, which is sad because Gumball is known for having lots of hilarious humor and memable scenes in. The humor here is just horrible because in every circumstance Jamie tries to ruin everybody's life by assaulting whom and acting like a gorilla. Is so bad it can easily compete with the humor in SpongeBob's One Coarse Meal . For some examples of what we're talkin' about:
- There's a scene in which tries to have an "original humor" but it fails hard. In the scene, Gumball hides himself in a locker near Darwin and then Jamie comes with a present to be given to Darwin, Darwin opens it and founds another small present, so basically Jamie takes the present and indicates that it had always been for her in first place. Then opens it and reveals there's a perfume in it, so starts to criticize Darwin because she thinks he feels she stinks, so starts also to punch the locker where Gumball hid himself, with the result Gumball gets panned for no reasons.
- In another scene not far from the latter, Jamie stares at Darwin with a ugly face while Gumball turns himself into a bench for the "couple". Meanwhile, Sarah arrives and greets Darwin. Somehow Jamie feels betrayed and she ends up torturing Sarah by punching her, throwing a garbage bin to her and farting on her. Then picks up a piece of Sarah's icecream head and licks off it. All this rage... for a greeting?
- Picks up a sort of racket and fits it in Richard's head.
- To "apologize" with Darwin for hurting his dad, knocks out many school employees (including Principal Brown) and hangs them on a wall, just to form a written which says "SORREE".
- Changes idea about Darwin and ends up to love Gumball literally for no reason. Then, we have a ruthless scene in which she acts as a stalker when Gumball tries to escape her in a gloomy hallway. Jamie turns on candles, sings awful nursery rhymes about her love with Gumball and dresses as a evil twin from The Shining.
- She ends up to realize her mistakes, just to punch Darwin's face when he wanted to save Gumball.
- Another serious problem seen here is that neither Gumball and Darwin both try to ask help or consulting an adult person like a normal kid would do after being bullied or stalked. Instead, they try to menage the situation alone. That's a bad moral to teach to kids, because the risk of being wounded by bullies while you handle the situation alone, even with the help of a pal, can be high and there's a chance you'll get to the hospital or even being killed. Seems even hypocritical, since another episode of season 1 (precisely "The Fight") had Gumball wounded thanks to Tina's revenge sake and then her father gets tortured by Nicole for what she did to her son. So, if season 1 could do these plots without messing something, why season 4 cannot?
- Speaking of Gumball, he acts as a stereotypical toxic teenager while gives to Darwin futile advices to avoid Jamie, like when he asks to Darwin to appear ugly (which backfires) or when says to him to just confess their love doesn't exist.
Redeeming Qualities
- Gumball and Darwin are likable.
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