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I'm your host Awestruck Vox, now the Amazing World of Gumball is probably my favorite show on Cartoon Network
It is just consistently gold and over the course of the show it has absolutely nailed its formula parodies and social commentary
Do we even have to talk about the times they've parodied Final Fantasy Seven?
Or their Chinese ripoff? The latter which we've covered and reviewed on the channel before
Go check that out after this video if you want to. Now Gumball's returning from its summer hiatus and it has some new episodes.
Including the Don't Hug Me I'm Scared parody. Now this past weekend as usual
They've released some upcoming episodes on the app early. One of them is an episode titled "The Best", which is social commentary on well..
Political correctness and social Justice warriors. If you've been on Twitter this past weekend
Chances are you may have seen this clip that went viral, it was actually posted by a fellow content creator, Jay YT Gamer
Check out his cartoon commentary Channel "JayToons"  and this clip features Gumball becoming a social justice warrior. GUMBALL: Maybe you should check your privelege
*Gumball does a cool light thing*
I have studied the martial ways of the SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIOR!
Fight me in an argument if you dare!
AWESTRUCK: Personally, I found this clip pretty amusing!
But I'm also afraid people are gonna get the wrong idea from the clip
Now, the rest of this video will contain minor spoilers from the episode called "The Best" which at the point making this video has not officially aired on television
But has been officially released on the Cartoon Network app. It's air date is September 8th.
So, if you don't want to be spoiled on the episode please click off now. The entire purpose of The Best
Is that Carmen looks up for everyone's best interest. She wants everyone to succeed in every aspect of their lives
But Gumball feels like she's being controlling. That her suggestions and concern are a bit overbearing. So Gumball decides
he's gonna one-up her and become the quote-unquote "better person", so he has Darwin hook him up to "Ramblr", which Darwin states is a
DARWIN: Bear knuckle fight to see who's the most tolerant person on the internet!
Which then is followed by the scene of Gumball becoming a Social Justice warrior
But, the clip that went viral on Twitter ends right before Carmen makes a point and it's a very important point that a lot of
People are going to disregard. Carmen States-
CARMEN: Exploiting those powers to win some petty argument will just hurt the cause of the people who really need our help!
And this is very important because I've seen a lot of people state that the scene is dumpling the importance of Social justice
when really that entire
segment
and the good portion that episode is trying to spread the message of "don't join a cause or what you think the cause is just
to look like a better person."
Gumball wasn't actually performing the practice of political correctness or Social Justice, rather
He was acting what he thought social justice was and he only did so for his own gain
Not because he actually cared about those movements or those causes and because of that his argument falls flat on his face
And I won't go into the rest of the episode because I think that's just something you need to watch.
When searching for reactions to this episode,
I think maybe a thing on Reddit sums it up pretty well
"The message of this episode was too difficult to put into an 11 minute comedy driven episode. And while it's a hilarious episode,
It's not without flaws. In fact with the scene of Gumball becoming a Social Justice warrior was supposed to portray, will
probably be lost upon a lot of viewers. Gumball was pretty much being an Anti SJW, going out of his way to
maliciously expose Carmen, and resorting to digging up dirt on her a line for no good reason on Earth to start drama and ruin her reputation
even further. The episode isn't saying SJW's are bad. In fact if you watch the episode
Carmen's pretty much in the right throughout. The episodes have seen a lot of
comparisons to South park and the Simpsons. Which, while I enjoy both shows, probably wouldn't have handled this episode any better
I thoroughly enjoyed, it as I tend to do with Gumball, and I encourage all of you to go out and watch it yourselves,  form
your own opinion. But what do you guys think? Do you believe Gumball handled this message well?
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