Gumball's Saddest Episode And Letting Go Of The Past

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my favourite emotional moment in gumball has to be how nicole met richard and how she accepts that her family life isnt perfect but she wouldent change that for the world

Gumball is like the only show where the workaholic mom and the lazy lay-about slob dad being together actually makes sense.

I like how Richard is portrayed as dumb and stupid but he's always there for his wife and is definitely emotionally smart at times. Nicole is the logical leader and Richard is the emotional supporter which is why they get along very well together

10:41 The metaphor here is that the mug is the relationship, it's not broken or cracked, it's oblitterated. And like a smashed mug, sometimes it's so broken it's beyond repair.

'' it's because you tried to ship Richard to Guatemala'' that line never failed to make me laugh 😅

Nicole has ALWAYS reminded me of my own mom. She grew up in a strict Korean-American family where she was always forced to overachieve. She ended up taking a vacation to Australia, meeting my dad, and getting married all within a few months without telling her parents anything.

6:45 “Didn’t want anything” Correction. He wanted out of that tree stump

As someone that lived with grandparents like this, low contact was the best thing that ever happened. My grandmother died without her daughter or grand-kids being beside her because of how much pressure she put on everyone. She had the guts to tell my anorexia sibling she was too fat while my mom was trying to get her to eat, and how much of a disappointment it was we where not born and raised old country. That was not even her greatest hits. I would remember my mother getting off the phone crying with her. This episode was clearly written by someone that has not experienced that.

Nicole has every right to hate her parents for how they treated her.

That last bit with the breathing in and out was honestly really sweet and useful. It's so easy to get caught up in everything going on around you and how difficult things are, you forget how reliving it is to just...breathe. It doesn't change your problems, but gosh darn it does it help you relax, even if it's for only a second.

10:27 this the mf that beat up dream

That last line about breathing in and out made me tear up wtf

When Mary opens her phone and it's revealed that she has Gumball, Darwin, and Anais on her phone and cares about Nicole's children is shocking I thought she didn't want nothing to do with them

It was really incredible storytelling when the writers made everything Gumball had said previously make sense in both the context of being about Nicole and her parents, and also in the context of being about Gumball wanting his grandparents to give him Christmas presents. Lines like: “If it’s too hard to forgive, then just give,” and before he even sings, “there’s too much on the line here,” can be easily interpreted as just being about getting Christmas presents.

There's a hidden detail about this episode- it's implied if Nicole's parents didn't hit the brakes, they would have DIED. The episode goes out of its way to show a truck was coming at the intersection, and Nicole's parents were distracted looking back and/or crying to notice the oncoming traffic. If her father hadn't hit the brakes to come back, it would've been too late to make up- forever.

It's crazy how the show can go from Gumball and Darwin trying to return a DVD and going to school, to loving someone for who they are and reuniting a daughter and her parents.

I dont know, I do like the episode, but I do kind of hate the message of "just move on and forgive", not because thats not important, but because its not always as simple as that. It didnt happen that way for Nicole luckily, but just moving on and forgiving someone whose not even sorry, and letting them back into your life can just open your life back up to people who will continuously cause you pain, and never be sorry for anything. Whose to say in a few years, that her parents dont start doing the same things to her kids as they did to her? Whose to say they dont get worse? Forgiveness and moving on are both important lessons, but I think its also important to know your worth, and know when youre owed an apology, or a show of behavior improvement.

Great ending message.15:00

I remember not liking this episode as a kid, but now seeing it again, it really is one of the best.