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>but also that they would become the main source of that weirdness
I don't like The Nuisance for that reason.
A world with heavy artillery robots, a psionic eyeball, shapeshifters, dinosaurs, giants, the undead, and a spider that is essentially a god... all that chaos we've seen, and all that potential chaos, and somehow Gumball and his family are the most chaotic force in town that people want them gone. And I know it's his whole family that's the problem in this episode, but we all know this bullshit ultimately revolves around Gumball in particular. It's the title of the show.
All these side characters with all these crazy abilities and yet it feels like they just live ordinary and mundane lives until Gumball gets involved with them. That there is no spark in this world until Gumball gets near by. That despite everything this world has, it all bends towards this one specific cat. The ball of clay and the piece of toast have no unique dynamics because they aren't allowed to. Only when Gumball is around and only with him, because otherwise they are normal and attribute nothing to the world. I almost want to say these side characters are lesser than NPCs. There are plenty of """jokes""" in this show that already makes it clear things run more smoothly without Gumball, but damn it do those jokes make the world feel so god damn hollow.
And now that I think of it, this is the point of The Spinoffs and The Inquisition and I've been in denial of it. That these characters "in lore" are fucking lame and boring without Gumball and they are incapable of anything truly exciting until he's near them. Taking everything I'm saying and reconfirming it. But it didn't have to fucking be like that. The cartoon went into a direction that takes the title of the show beyond literally in some meta twist. The world of this cartoon literally cannot exist without that stupid cat. It is a world built on breaking all suspension of disbelief just to make him the center of it all.