User blog:CartoonFan14/Cliche Clash 3: Bad Luck Clash Royale

Welcome to the first Cliche Clash Royale! Today we will be taking not two, but three episodes of the “Character is bad luck” cliche and seeing which did it the best. After its loss last time, The Amazing World of Gumball returns with “The Curse”, newcomer to Cliche Clash Ed, Edd n’ Eddy puts forward “Sorry Wrong Ed", and this wiki’s very own Loud House presents “No Such Luck”. All rules remain the same except one. The winner of each round will receive 2 points, and second place will receive 1 point. Now that we have that out of the way, I hope everybody enjoys Cliche Clash 3: Bad Luck Clash Royale!

Round 1: Comedy
Alright, we start things off with comedy. It’s time to start angering my peeps for crapping all over “No Such Luck”.

No Such Luck is the most dry, unfunny comedy episode I’ve seen come out of this normally amazing show. Nothing in this episode got a laugh, and only one got a smile, and that was the announcer. I wanted to laugh here, I really really wanted to laugh at least once, but I couldn’t. It was not funny. I constantly defend this episode from complaints I find dumb, but I didn’t enjoy the episode. I needed to get this off my chest. I don’t like No Such Luck, but I will continue to defend the episode from complaints I disagree with. Overhated yes, but good, no.

You know what’s worse than being unfunny? Being PAINFULLY unfunny, and that’s exactly what “Sorry Wrong Ed" is. The entire joke of the episode is Eddy gets tortured, he calls the telephone cursed and bad luck, and Double D says there’s no such thing. That’s all it is for 11 minutes. Thank God Lisa was so easily convinced. Otherwise Loud House might have put out an episode like this. This one deserves every ounce of hate it gets.

Finally we come to the Curse, and I’ll say this, it is the most hilarious episodes I’ve seen, because unlike Eddy, when the world beats down on him, he doesn’t go, “Why god why?! What did I do to deserve this!”, tries to overcome adversity and gets back on his feet each time, and actually wins in the end. He gets back up and stares down the universe, and tries to fix it, and you can laugh at Gumball’s misfortune, and That’s why we have a clear winner here.

Winner: The Curse

Runner-Up: No Such Luck

Score: 2-1-0

Round 2: Writing
The Curse was very well written, all the characters are likeable, in character, the reasoning for bad luck while absurd works. The feeling of intensity when Gumball and The Universe have their final duel is well presented, and I think this is one of the best written comedy episodes of the show.

No Such Luck was surprisingly not horribly written. The presentation of him being bad like, was actually smart, originally I found it poor because it just showed two instances of this bad luck, but I now see it as them showing the powerful effect rumors have on you if you let them, but that’s it. Lisa was still too easily convinced, Lucy didn’t have a spell in her spellbook to fix it, and that darn suit ending, while not infuriating, is still stupid. Although a little smart at times, this episode was too stupid for words.

Then we get to Sorry, Wrong Ed. Which was just soooooooo bad that I felt I couldn’t believe it. Normally in these episodes Eddy would have this happen because he scammed Rolf out of a perfectly good telephone, by telling Rolf it was cursed, which would be a lie, but then it would turn out to be cursed when the Ed’s got a hold of it, but no! Instead we get Rolf just trying to get rid of it and Eddy taking it. Wow, just wow, can you write this episode any worse?

Winner: The Curse

Runner-Up: No Such Luck

Score: 4-2-0 (Insert dank meme comment here)

Round 3: Characters
Sorry Wrong Ed has to have the worst character derailment I’ve seen in a Cartoon Network show. Edd is a complete jerkbag here, laughing at Eddy’s misery because “He was right about bad luck!” It’s sick, these guys were best pals, now you're laughing at your best friend being beaten to death. What the actual hell?! This episode was just horrible and I will never watch this episode again.

The Curse has great characters. Darwin is actually a helpful brother and best friend who wants to help Gumball, Anais while doubtful of bad luck’s existence, is not in any way acting like an a-hole, and seems concerned and also wants to help her brother, and then there’s Gumball, who don’t much different from Eddy, but the curse and punishments he endures don’t break him, he’s still Gumball, good old likeable Gumball.

Finishing with No Such Luck. All the characters are so stupid with the exception of Lincoln, unlike Raw Deal, their worries are horrible because Lincoln only affects himself with his worries in Raw Deal. The family’s ignorance affects Lincoln. So that’s why it’s one of the episodes with not so great characters.

Winner: The Curse

Runner-Up: No Such Luck

Score: 6-3-0

Verdict
By a score of 6-3-0, The Amazing World of Gumball has redeemed itself after its last loss, and proved it did the bad luck episode best with the Curse, No Such Luck came in second, and the trash known as Sorry Wrong Ed came rightfully in last.

Next Time On Cliche Clash!
Ed, Edd n’ Eddy comes for revenge in the next installment. Undie Pressure vs All Eds Are Off!