Everything Wrong With The Amazing World of Gumball Part 1: Seasons 1-3 & Comics

EWW: The Friend

[From the opposite side of the backyard, Gumball and Darwin zero in on some cupcakes on a table; while they run to them, Gumball snags himself on a line, and accidentally pops a balloon, setting of a chain reaction of balloons popping around him and Darwin; the balloons pop like gunfire, and one takes him down; Darwin is taken down afterwards; Gumball regains consciousness, his ears ring]
Gumball: [Muffled] Darwin! You okay?
Jesus Christ, what did Anais fill these balloons with, gunpowder?! +1

Gumball: We surrender. [Points somewhere] Oh look! Your friends are here!
Anais: [Gasps] Really?!
Awww, c#mon, that was just mean dude +5

[Cuts to the duo crossing their arms, unhappy on the couch]
Richard: I know, and my decoy cupcakes were made out of toilet paper. But I kept eating anyway! [Plunges mouth with plunger]
Nicole: You two need to learn to give your sister more space. [A bubble growing from her mouth pops; sad] Mine were made from soap.
I get Gumball, Darwin and Richard trying to take the cupcakes, but it feels a little out of character for Nicole to do something like that tbh. She's not the kind of person to shovel down cupcakes or interfere with her daughter's party like that +1

[At the table, they immediately gobble up the cupcakes once again]
Gumball: [With mouth full] Wait, where is everyone?
Anais: [Sad] I don't know! I prepared everything, and no one came!
Darwin: Did you invite anyone?
Anais: Of course not, I have no friends.
Even if she's socially awkward, Anais is more than smart enough to know that no-one is gonna come to her party if she didn't actually invite anyway to said party. +1

Also, even if she doesn't have any friends to invite, she could have at least tried to invite everyone in her class. I doubt most of them would have come, but a few probably would have at the very least +1

Darwin: You need friends to have a party.
Not really. You can have a party with only family, or work colleagues. +1

Anais: But the whole point of this party was to make friends.
Gumball and Darwin: Hmm...
Gumball: Hey, how 'bout we make one up for you...
Darwin: Like an imaginary friend?!
Anais: [Sniffs] Okay.
And here we get to the main premise of the episode, one giant episode of Gumball and Darwin helping to create and befriend a new friend. And it's absolutely adorable! Not only is this an incredibly heartwarming premise, but it shows the exact opposite side of Gumball than we saw in the previous episode, and it's amazing to see the difference between the two. And I know which I prefer. -100

Gumball: Come on! think hard!
[He and Darwin think so hard their eyes pop out]
Gumball: Come on. You, too.
Darwin: Close your eyes and imagine!
[Anais sighs and joins them in imagining a friend]
Why is she annoyed at this? They're literally doing exactly what they just said they were going to do and trying to help her. +5

[Then the chimera appears, and they see it and stop imagining]
Somehow Chimera climbed into the garden and walked up without any of them hearing or noticing until they opened their eyes to check if anything was there. How does something that large not get immediately heard by all of them, especially Gumball? +5

Gumball: We could imagine I never got caught by mom using her hair-removal cream on my butt!
exhales through nose When I said I was looking forward to immature butt joke number 5 trillion, 6 billion, 2 million, 358 thousand, 260, I was fucking joking. Please, stop. I'm begging you. Just stop. +50

Gumball: Right. Well, Anais, looks like we found someone as socially awkward as you.
Anais: Ah! [Raises hands up in joy]
D'awwww, this reaction is both hilarious and adorable! I love it! -20