Deviation Actions
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Episode: S4 E18
Year: 2016
Writer(s): Ben Boquolet, Mic Graves, Louise Coats, Timothy Mills, Nathan Aurbach, Joe Parham, Tobi Wilson
They say that nobody in this world is truly evil, just good people who do bad things because they're unhappy. Those people are idiots. Take it from someone who knows for sure there is evil in this world, and some people in life just don't have a speck of good or a redeeming quality to their names, like Margaret Robinson! At first, it seemed as if the Robinsons were The Amazing World of Gumball's equivalent to Squidward Tentacles mixed with a Muppet. But overtime, we see that Squidward was never as big a jerk as these two! Mrs. Robinson has always been more of a grouch than her husband Gaylord, but it's here we see she's quite literally evil personified!
Every evil action Mrs. Robinson performs is done with the happiness and joy of a school girl; she even gets her own version of "My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music to SING about how she loves being evil! In essence, she's Vicky from The Fairly Oddparents after her flanderization, but she's handled so well she comes off as absolutely hilarious instead of disturbingly creepy! She just loves every single second of causing pain and misery to everyone around her; think the Pyro from Team Fortress 2 if he was actually aware of the horrors he's committing out of his fantasy world.
If there's one thing I didn't like about "Channel Chasers" being what could be The Fairly OddParents’ true series finale, it's showing that Vicky really was BORN evil and that she's just rotten all the way through, when what we saw in previous seasons goes against this notion that she actually has humanity. Here, Gaylord shows Gumball and Darwin that this is indeed the case with Margaret, even he knows that sometimes man just wants to watch the world burn. I dare not spoil the ending, but you know how most cartoons with a destructive protagonist don't give them any comeuppance for their actions no matter how despicable? Well, this goes into OVERDRIVE to give Mrs. Robinson payback for a lifetime of evil! Considering she watched Darwin choking and smiled among other things, I'd say she got what she deserved.
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The Wicked was definitely awesome in terms of making me as the viewer confront the harsh truth that people do sick and twisted things for fun. Mrs. Margaret Robinson perfectly encapsulates this so well that it is fascinating.