Amazing World of Gumball Plot twist, Role Reversal; Midterm Blog1

  The Amazing World of Gumball is an average cartoon about a animals and other fictional characters who plays roles an average kids in school and also as a family of 5. As regular American cartoons display now, the father role always has dominance. The father has a job while the mother stays home or the father makes more money than the mother does, either way the father always is more dominant.
  However, in this cartoon, the mother who is a blue cat, has a job, buys all the groceries, makes dinner after long hours at work, take care of all the kids problems with school and homework and has time between hours to get her sons of sticky situations. For example, in many episodes she is seen coming home from work and asking if the kids homework is done and telling them that dinner will be ready soon ad her husband sits on the couch. In other episodes, while she is at work she had the time to help Gumball and Darwin return an overdue DVD, even though she was very furious with them, playing the mom role, she also played the protector and problem solver. Usually,if boys do have problems they would prefer to go to their dad, yet their mom is always the one to call for rescue. Not to mention that her and Gumball are the same exact animal and they are blue, but they are different genders. Is Cartoon Network portraying the mother as a feisty manly cat or is that just a coincidence? hm....
 While that being only one aspect of the plot twist in this cartoon, the father who is a pink rabbit as well as the daughter, is a stay at home dad that does nothing but sit at home on the couch, watching TV, eating and sleeping. It's quite ironic though how he wears a  white work shirt, with a tie and khaki pants with no job. He is often looked at as having very weak and feminist in ways. In one episode he tried to keep from his family that he spent almost 3 million dollars on something a business was offering which is now the reason that their mother as to buy very cheap things. In that episode it showed how small their bread was compared to a regular size and how a mp3 player was actually a calculator that had taped headphones on it. In another episode the father was taking muscle pills that weren't working for him but as soon at Gumball and Darwin tried it they became huge, even Anais the 4 year old daughter had some and she also became huge. The role of the dad, actually doesn't make him a dad at all. The lesson that he is supposed to teach is kids arent lessons at all since he adds on to the drama and mischievous pranks going on in the house. Now like I mentioned before with the mother, Nicole and Gumball the son being the same color and animal; is that also a coincidence that the Father Richard and the daughter Anais are the same rabbit animal and the same pink color.
    Gender role is obviously reversed between mother and father as you can see above, but it also reversed in the role of the children. Gumball and Darwin (bestfriends, brothers by adoption and cat and goldfish) are both 12 and go to Middle School. Their younger sister Anais is only 4, yet she also attends Middle School with them and outsmarts them in every aspect. In multiple episodes, their mother always puts Gumball in charge, however that always seems to fail because Anais is the one who always figures out what to do and how it should be done. She talks as if she is 16 and outwits everyone. So, why is she 4 years old? Yeah, in some episodes she plays the role of a little girl and carries around a teddy bear but in many ways than others she always play the upper hand. Once again, the role is reversed gender wise, between the Anais the daughter and Nicole the mother, because they both outwit the male character, being the same animal as the males are.
   The last bottling thing I must touch on is the fact that a cat and a goldfish are bestfriends. Cat eat goldfish, they will never get along in the human world. Also, Darwin the goldfish is always getting Gumball out of stupid situations even though he does lack intelligence sometimes. The fact that two enemies in the real world are friends and that the goldfish seems to be smarter than the cat is totally mind blowing and fictional in so many ways. BUT, biggest plot twist ever.... Darwin the goldfish was originally a pet for Gumball the cat and instead of dying he grew legs and they adopted him!!! The goldfish was a pet, a pet! How does that even make sense? Instead of Gumball eating the fish, he become his brother! Also, why is Gumball the only fictional game? Wouldn't you name your pet goldfish Gumball instead of Darwin??!
   Role Reversal and mind gaming Plot Twist is added again in this cartoon. I've watched this show ever since it came it since it was the only cartoon besides Spongebob that I actually liked and now that I'm watching it from a different lens of perspective, everything is so much more mind bottling and OMG! since I've actually been paying attention. Never knew I could TV like that let alone, a show on Cartoon Network