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

EWW: Issue 5- Battle of the Bands

SYNOPSIS: Gumball and Darwin  are having a totally relaxing day. No wacky misadventures, no getting into trouble...just enjoying each other's company and—oooh, Battle of the Bands!! They've gotta try out for that!
At this point I feel like I kinda have to give Kaboom credit for actually releasing the issue with a relevant synopsis.  2/5 is a pretty bad track record. Let hope things can turn around! -5

[A montage is shown of Gumball and Darwin's day. The two brush each other's teeth, have fun flinging their cereal at each other, and tells each other jokes on the bus]
Gumball: Did you hear the one about the dog?
Darwin: Nope.
Gumball: Me either!
Firstly, either? Shouldn't it be "me neither"? +1

Secondly...awwww, I love seeing the boys just hanging out and having fun for once. Not often we get to see the two simply having a good time and being bros together. -5

Banana Joe: Whoa! Guys, there's a big fight out front! I think Tina is gonna eat Ocho!
Gumball: That sounds awesome!
Darwin: BUT! We're just going to stay here and do nothing.
Awww come on, don't be such a party pooper. I mean, Tina VS Ocho sounds like a much more interesting plot than a generic battle of the bands story line! +1

Banana Joe: Oh man, Tina just learned how to breathe fire!
How is...how is that even biologically possible!? +5

Gumball: That sounds so cool...I can imagine it...Darwin, maybe we can just...
Darwin: Thank you Joe, but we'll just hang out here.
God damnit Darwin, are you trying to make this issue as boring as possible? Cause you're sure as fuck doing a great job at doing so right now! +1

Darwin: See? That wasn't hard! We turned down what was sure to be a comical misadventure...and we reap the reward of a peaceful afternoon
Gumball: I guess...
So...why does Darwin get to speak for Gumball here? If he doesn't want to go and see the fight, that's fine, he doesn't have to. But he doesn't get to decide that for Gumball too. If Gumball wants to go and see the fight, which he very clearly does, than he can damn well do so. +10

Darwin: I know! Let's go look at the ol' school notice board! We can check out all of the lame after school activites that we'll never sign up for! That always cheers you up!
Really? Not really sure how one can find looking at sign up sheets for after shool activities entertaining. +1

[The two look at the notice board, which has sign up sheets for fight club, knitting club, football tryouts and Battle of the Bands. As well as Bobert being named the Honor Student for two months in a row]
Firstly, why the fuck does the school have a fight club? Surely having a club where students beat the shit out of each other must be insanely illegal +5

Secondly, Bobert is the honor student? Really? I mean, he's a computer who can literally look up the answer to every single question on every single test and exam. That alone should immediately disqualify him for any such award.

Surely Anais, who actually spends hours upon hours of her life studying and learning all of this stuff, and thus actually earning her high grades, should deserve such a thing way more than he does +10

Gumball: Darwin, look! Battle of the Bands! That's the coolest! Imagine all the glory! All the attention!
Darwin: I'm not going to sign up for that! We'll end up competing against each other and then we'll have to make up and somehow everything will escalate until we're both beaten up or something!
I mean...it's Battle of the BANDS. As in, you sign up as a group. You won't compete against each other unless you intentionally sign your selves up as competitors. +1