To be fair, he deserves all of what he gets. He's not just a terrible father, but a terrible person too. Imagine being ready to have your son go to prison at your place.
The plot lines with Richard an Nicole’s parents really shows why their marriage works. Both of them have horrible families and they complete each other, even if they fight. This show had real human relationships instead of just spouse bad jokes.
Fr like wow! Showing a good healthy couple is a good thing who knew?? Like really I'm not the only one who's sick of shows who makes a couple be together just because and all they do is fight.
Also Nicole and Richard are opposites, but a perfect balance of what a family should be- Nicole is strict and keeps her family/children in line when things get rowdy, although Richard is lazy and childish, he takes it easy and let's his kids be kids; aka have fun and let loose. Just something I admire from their dynamic ^^
Richard gives Nichole the break she needs from her overbearing parents and Nicole encourages Richard to be more independent and free thinking despite his coddling mother
@@mugamoth2849 Even then you don't call people you don't respect by their given name. Other shows would have the characters solely refer to each other with insults like the "your mother/father" to their children schtick.
It's important to empathize with people who do the wrong things, true, but the reality is, this guy is only so tortured as a result of his own decisions. What happened to him should have happened. It's the natural end result of his behavior. He deserves compassion, but not pity or more chances, at least as far as I'm concerned.
@@IAmBuddythedecibwave I very much agree. Part of what makes TAWOG so great is thats its such an uncanny world with such uncanny looking characters, but they're actually some of them are the most realistic or relatable characters Ive seen in cartoons. Frankie is a very deep character with layers and for silly haha blue cat show its impressive.
@@IAmBuddythedecibwave I was really worried that you were pressuring the commentor to forgive their dad at first, so I'm glad it didn't take that direction. I agree, I remember the episode where the Wattersons acted like a prison, and it was enjoyable because he kinda deserved all those things. He walked in wanting to abuse their free rent and home, and walked out with his butt handed to him
@@emmagoebel650 exactly, i never knew Gumball would be THIS dark in terms of his father's childhood, sometimes this makes me regret for calling MY father a deadbeat, but doesn't that word MEAN a father who doesn't support his son or daughter and sets them up to be failures and a type of fathers who only love you if you do their bidding and not something YOU want
@@IAmBuddythedecibwave I agree with everything you said except for the "he doesn't deserve more chances" part, because it isn't up to you, it's up to Richard, and it seems as if Richard for better or for worse is willing to give his father that second chance. Also, before anyone hates on my comment, note that I am NOT stating that the original commenter or anyone else has to do the same and it is perfectly VALID IF YOU DON'T, I am just stating that it's not up to you whether or not someone else's father deserves that second chance.
I love how Frankie is considered a "deadbeat" but not the asshole stereotype of character in other shows and TV's. He's still a crook, but he feels bad; almost miserable. He's trying but just doesn't know or understand what to do.
Imagine if gumball turns out like him after ALL HIS BAD DEEDS (ex "the scam" with gumball ALMOST giving up carry and darwin's hapinness for a lolipopp YIKES) if you know what i mean ??? 😬😬😬😬😬😬
@EvokerInvokerble Frank and Frankie are completely different what are you talking about? Frank did not leave his children and wife unlike frankie, he isnt a con-man or a felon unlike him. Also the heffleys arent even that bad yall just like to be edgy 12 year olds.
I feel bad for those trying to defend Frankie. He abandoned his family and when he returned he immediately started scamming his son. He’s a deadbeat, a con artist and a person who doesn’t want to be better. Yea he has “morals” but still he’s a crappy person, it took Richard unconditionally forgiving him to make him realize what he’s done.
I think of him sorta like Grunkle Stan from gravity falls. In the context that they're both criminals, con men, liars, and aware they aren't the greatest. But both do try to put in an effort. However, Frankie doesn't do anywhere near as good. But unlike Stan, we don't know his backstory. We know why Stan turned out the way he did. Frankie could've and most likely had it way worse than him if he turned out this way. I'm not justifying Frankie, but he definitely is tortured soul
Plus gumball was SO CLOSE to frankie in "the scam", "the candidate", "the saint", "the bet" and others episodes he did something questionable (ESPECIALLY "the scam" 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😬😬😬😬😬😬😬)
Instead of focusing on Frankie, imagine poor Richard having to deal with his parents divorce. Literally one of the cons of divorce, the poor children 😭
I've always assumed that, while Frankie is a con man, he's not a very GOOD one, and tends to get punched in the face a lot by people he cheats. Otherwise, you'd assume the black eye would go away over the time (it is after all, just a bruise, they DO heal.)
@@sojoboscribe1342 i mean it could just be an eye infection he never got treated, he is after all too poor to even afford basic living expenses so treating an infected eye probably isn’t in his budget
@@Rabbitmancer77 Not impossible, but given how LONG he's had it, an infection would probably have either cleared up by now or progressed to being SO Bad, he'd have gone blind in that eye. Infections generally don't just "stay" as they are long term, they either get better or they get worse.
You know what sucks it's to think the characters INCLUDING gumball as shown in "the test" are forced be peoples they don't want to be (frankie seems a good exemple) or do things they NEVER wanted to do IN THE FIRST PLACE (ex : Larry and his multiples jobs) wich is why i love this show but i don't like it's writters 😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤
I mean he did abandon them and on multiple occasions straight up scammed his own son. When he does try, Richard is always really open to his efforts no matter how much he messes up.
@@Lutherstrode17492 He could've...become a better person. That's usually a lot to say but if the alternative is to ABANDON your child, I don't think it's asking too much
Frankie is a jerk. Frankie really had ditched his family for that long, only for him to try and take advantage of them a nice again. He’s not the worst person as he shows guilt yet still seems like he avoids doing the right thing.
Frankie Watterson is a horrible father and still a horrible person, but yet you can't help feel bad for him by how the rest of the family treats him although in most of the situations they attempt and try to treat him better then he treats them. He uses them for personal gain as in food, money, shelter, and even tried to get his own son to go to prison for him. There's humanity in him, but it's still apparently not enough for him change his ways, which can never justify his actions regardless. In some way, he caused all these problems in this video, it was nobody else's faults except for his.
Frankie was the most morally fascinating character…. Although he is morally bankrupt, and definitely deserve some of the abuse that he got…….. I can’t call him a completely awful person for some strange reason and I don’t know why
Maybe it's because he seems to feel bad about every bad decision he makes? Sure, he hasn't redeemed himself, but there's something sad about him not being able to become a better person.
@@yishmoosa1234 He isn't evil, just irresponsible and inmoral. Kinda belongs to a grey area where he isn't a bad guy but not a good guy either. Like an animal who just thinks for itself
I don’t get how anyone could say he was tortured or a victim, he deserves anything bad that happened to him. He was a terrible parent and a terrible person and hurt many people just for his own good
@jessicapeterson7171he didn’t went to prison, he didn’t want to go three days to prison and left Joanna and Richard 33 years for that, and still tries to constantly trick his son
@jessicapeterson7171 Ya that about sums it up. Especially since he never ctually went to prison. 3 days in prison with family visits or 33 yrs on the run, not even wanting to see his family. Guess what he chose and why? If he's not allowed to be close to his family that's his own fault.
I say this about a lot of cartoon characters, but I really feel bad for Frankie. Yes, it's despicable that he left his family in Richard's developing years, but it's clear that Frankie hates himself so much that he didn't want to trouble his family. He is so starved for love, as the Wattersons' song detailed. He's like Sal Left Thumb in that the hatred he faced led him to a life of crime, but even if he wanted to reverse his mistakes, which he says he does, there's nowhere left to turn. It's truly tragic.
Honestly despite Frankie being a failure as a father/husband. At the very least he suffers the consequences of actions on like Most bad cartoon fathers such as… Peter Griffin Stan Smith Randy Marsh Stephen Willis Scotch Carter Pewterschmidt Marty Glouberman Oh yeah let’s also not forget both Nicole’s parents were terrible. They weren’t deadbeats or abusive, however we’re completely neglectful and had beyond high expectations since the day she was born. NTM had absolutely no regard for their only daughter’s feelings.
Do principal brown being weird af >:D and also funny moment; "Whats father gonna say when he comes back?" "Father???" "Yeah! You said he went to buy some milk 42 years ago! He can be back any minute!" "ᴰʳᵃᵐᵃᵗᶦᶜ ᵖᵃᵘˢᵉ ᵒᶠ ˢᵗᵃʳᶦⁿᵍ ᵃᵗ ᵉᵃᶜʰᵒᵗʰᵉʳ."
I find it funny how Richard's das is teaching his son how to do "adult" tasks, as he shows clear stress and incompetence like he hasn't done those things before in previous episodes. The obvious irony and forced melancholic approach to that scene is hilarious since it's supposed to be empathetic, but in reality it's just fake.
This guy deserves to suffer. I’m sorry but he left Richard, never tried to contact him, never tried to get a job for his family, and tried to scam his family for money or food. He may have felt regret but he never tries to change
I'm not defending him for leaving his son and not trying to contact his family, but um, of course he tried he tried to scam them for food and money? I'm not saying it's moral, but if you're already a scam artist and that's what you know, and you desperately need food and money in order to live, why would you not try to do that? It seems like the first thing you would think of to try to do in that situation. Yes it certainly isn't moral to try to scam them like that, but you have to admit that it makes perfectly logical sense why he would try to do so given who he is as a person and the condition he is living in. He could have gone about it better than trying to scam them out of it, but at least in this case he is doing it for things to actually help him live instead of things like jewelry or something, I don't know.
I am disappointed that i have the same name as an animated rat who got bullied by a couple of children because he happened to leave his son "to go get milk" Life is strange.
On one hand, Frankie is an awful deadbeat dad who deserves terrible things. On the other hand, I feel like burning a wooden statue if himself in front of him while singing about how awful he is might be going a little bit too far
may i suggest a few other characters to make videos like this on: -the hot dog guy does he have a name i forgot tbh he feels like a dave so lets call him that -nicole watterson -the silly little evil rock guy nemesis whose name i forgot -principal guy whose name i also forgot have i mentioned i never actually watched this show in full and barely know any of the characters by name hehe
I think Richard knew but he chose to pretend he doesn't like how people block out bad memories then there's people like granny jojo who keeps bringing it up till said person remembers them I'm glad Richard chose the higher road in life instead still being himself with no complications
There is a likable quality to Frankie though. He abandoned his family specifically because he knew he would be a terrible influence on them and didn’t want his son to end up like he did. And judging by the life and loving family that Richard leads, it seems like Frankie‘s plan worked.
Where did Grannie Jojo get all of those instruments, how long has she been playing each, and is that how she kept the lights on for Richard? Questions I desperately need the answers to!
frankie deserves everything he got coming to him scamming his son for 400$ as a CHILD and then abandoning him only to come back to con him out of his house and make him homeless. If you think hes changed one bit your wrong he visits only for food and shelter not to visit his SON he ABANDONED 34 years ago smh i feel no pity for him at all
Everybody is debating whether to look at him as being a terrible person and not feel bad for him, or whether to look at him as a tortured person that are you do feel for at least a little bit, but very few people are realizing that you can have a bit of BOTH. You can see how terrible of a person he is AND feel bad for him at times for what his life has become. Note that nothing that I say here is a defense for what he's done. The people who don't feel bad for him no matter what, I can understand why, but I can't agree because even someone like him deserves food and clean water. The people who view him as the victim on the other hand are going too far the other way and need to remember that he is a deadbeat father who left his son and wife and also a scam artist on top of that. And the people who thinks he deserves nothing but torture because of that need to remember that even though what he did was unforgivable, he at least tried to make up for it but didn't know how and ended up feeling like he wasn't able to. Yes what he did was unforgivable, but I can't help but feel bad for him actually wanting to finally make up for it after all these years and not knowing how to. Also the fact that he has no food and had to boil water from a toilet is just sad no matter how terrible of a person he is in my opinion. But I digress, I'm probably going to get a lot of hate comments from the people don't feel bad for him no matter what that I'm trying to defend him when I'm not.
He is horrible in that he left his family and only came back to con them out of their home... But Joana has show how messed up a partner she can be so I can understand him walking out on HER. This is the woman who turned Richard into the braindead lazy slob we know, apparently via repeated psychological torment to scare him away from anything other than lazing about and eating (which left him woefully unprepared for the many dangerous things he gets involved in, she didn't teach him that some things were dangerous, just scared him into not taking any "risk" near her). It doesn't absolve him of his flaws but it explains some of his actions. It doesn't explain why Joana ever married him, but her actions and motivations are baffling anyway. Also I forgot that it was Anais that had the "genius" idea to make him feel at home by imitating the worst parts of prison... Has anyone ever called her out on when HER plans are dumb and cause problems as opposed to all the times she does that to gumball and darwin?
This comment is old but it kind of baffles me because...you can leave your wife without leaving your child, yk. And he even scammed Richard when he was a CHILD. Frankie was always an awful person. It has really nothing to do with Joanna, and if we are gonna justify Frankie's actions using Joanna's actions, then you can make an argument about Joanna becoming overprotective of Richard because abandoned by your partner who was also the parent of your child can be pretty traumatic.
You can leave your wife without leaving your kids. Also, how does that explain him still being a terrible person who tried to scam his son SEVERAL times even when he was a kid?
@ Joanna terrorized her new husband for having ANY other positive contact, assuming they were all going to "steal her man". To be fair most Gumball characters have moments like this- like all the times Nicole did evil due to being competative or caused massive property damage due to her anger issues.
The tragedy is that Frankie is a victim of his very own greed. Sometimes a man who is the constructor of his own fall can be tragic as well. Kinda like Darth Vader. Frankie just kept digging himself into a deeper hole, losing more and more and making him more and more consumed by greed. I think he does love Richard (not so much any of the other Wattersons though), but his own greed gets in the way of it Frankie deserves everything that happened to him but it’s also sad that he chose this path to begin with.
According to gumball chronicles, frankie's dad also left him as a child with his cockatoo mother. so, it makes his whole character much more depressing
"I didn't start off as a good father. But your kids see you better then what you are, so everyday, you bust your chops trying to live up to that." This show was something else.
idk whats more depressing, the fact that he probably turned out like this because his father also left him when he was a child (mentioned by Richard in ancestor act) or that he's genuinely trying to connect with his son but just can't because of his habits
Frankie is a bad father. When you look at the way he treated his own son Richard by abandoning him as a kid leading to Granny Jojo infantilizing Richard to the point where he can’t function on his own and trying to scam him even to this day, he honestly deserves hearing the vermin man song. Poor Richard is the way he is now and who can blame him?
1:42 to 2:00 My mind: Don't feel bad for him, don't feel bad for him, don't feel bad for him, don't feel bad for him, don't feel bad for him ... (A few seconds later in that episode) Anais: That's it! We have to make our home a prison cell because that's what he's use to My mind: nooooooooooooo! Also I really like the episode, but holy crap, imagine being tortured by pretend prison so much that when the real prison is offered to you it seems good by comparison
Honest do god really reminds me of my parents. My mom hated my dad for what he put us through simply because he really only loved his family and himself and we were the optional part. I hated him for a long time and absolutely hated his guts for what he did to our family, with my mom never speaking to him for 3 years. Until in 2018, he fixed himself. Sure he was still a bit of a selfish ass until he actually started to understand me and my autism. He started to understand I was a person, a person he created with my mom, who is also a person like him. He realized how much we really meant to him all his life and how big selfish assholes his part of the family was(except his dad). Over the course of 5 years of hard work and actually giving me the love I never had…. He’s my father now and I love him to the end, I will forgive most of what he’s ever done, but I will never forget the pain of everything, just as my mom won’t as she’s always on his ass about everything, but she respects him just as much as he respects her. That’s life in my book, that’s how life goes. People need to be given a chance but once that chance goes, that’s it, no more…. Just give people the chance and if they don’t, cut them out just as they’ve cut you. But if they take that chance, hold and love them until the end and never let them fall again. My dads currently got a raise in a company he’s worked for since 2019 and he’s doing better than he’s ever done in years I love my dad and he loves me, my mom, my brother and my sister Edit: there’s a few details I’m leaving out but it’s mostly personal stuff
To be fair, he deserves all of what he gets. He's not just a terrible father, but a terrible person too. Imagine being ready to have your son go to prison at your place.
yeah, even if he was a victim it doenst justify him being a fucking terrible person
u dont justify ur bad actions just cause someday in your life u where a victim cmom
@@h4ppyp3an4buter6 * Fricking
@@djamtz um nope they had it right, they meant it that way
First time they met again he tried to steal their house
"How about a joke?"
"Knock knock!"
"Dad?"
"What? No."
**Crying Intensifies**
Hilarious
He just like me frfr
Dream Stan
Classic
@@sinstory.8867How the fuck are they a dream stan? They aren't even subscribed to Dream.
The plot lines with Richard an Nicole’s parents really shows why their marriage works. Both of them have horrible families and they complete each other, even if they fight. This show had real human relationships instead of just spouse bad jokes.
Fr like wow! Showing a good healthy couple is a good thing who knew?? Like really I'm not the only one who's sick of shows who makes a couple be together just because and all they do is fight.
Also Nicole and Richard are opposites, but a perfect balance of what a family should be-
Nicole is strict and keeps her family/children in line when things get rowdy, although Richard is lazy and childish, he takes it easy and let's his kids be kids; aka have fun and let loose.
Just something I admire from their dynamic ^^
Richard gives Nichole the break she needs from her overbearing parents and Nicole encourages Richard to be more independent and free thinking despite his coddling mother
They don't got proper love by their parents when they were kids so they love eachother instead. It completes them both
I love their balanced relationship. They’re both sides of the Yin and Yang
I love how Frankie calls Granny by her real name, Joanna, while everyone else calls her JoJo. Shows even after the divorce he still respects her
Or they lost the right to be casual with her ever sense the divorce
Huh
@@mugamoth2849 Even then you don't call people you don't respect by their given name. Other shows would have the characters solely refer to each other with insults like the "your mother/father" to their children schtick.
Gumball is a jojo reference
Con artist
After everything hes done to his son and family, I'd say he had as least half of this coming to him. As someone with a dead beat dad, they suck.
It's important to empathize with people who do the wrong things, true, but the reality is, this guy is only so tortured as a result of his own decisions. What happened to him should have happened. It's the natural end result of his behavior. He deserves compassion, but not pity or more chances, at least as far as I'm concerned.
@@IAmBuddythedecibwave I very much agree. Part of what makes TAWOG so great is thats its such an uncanny world with such uncanny looking characters, but they're actually some of them are the most realistic or relatable characters Ive seen in cartoons. Frankie is a very deep character with layers and for silly haha blue cat show its impressive.
@@IAmBuddythedecibwave I was really worried that you were pressuring the commentor to forgive their dad at first, so I'm glad it didn't take that direction. I agree, I remember the episode where the Wattersons acted like a prison, and it was enjoyable because he kinda deserved all those things. He walked in wanting to abuse their free rent and home, and walked out with his butt handed to him
@@emmagoebel650 exactly, i never knew Gumball would be THIS dark in terms of his father's childhood, sometimes this makes me regret for calling MY father a deadbeat, but doesn't that word MEAN a father who doesn't support his son or daughter and sets them up to be failures and a type of fathers who only love you if you do their bidding and not something YOU want
@@IAmBuddythedecibwave I agree with everything you said except for the "he doesn't deserve more chances" part, because it isn't up to you, it's up to Richard, and it seems as if Richard for better or for worse is willing to give his father that second chance.
Also, before anyone hates on my comment, note that I am NOT stating that the original commenter or anyone else has to do the same and it is perfectly VALID IF YOU DON'T, I am just stating that it's not up to you whether or not someone else's father deserves that second chance.
I love how Frankie is considered a "deadbeat" but not the asshole stereotype of character in other shows and TV's. He's still a crook, but he feels bad; almost miserable. He's trying but just doesn't know or understand what to do.
Imagine if gumball turns out like him after ALL HIS BAD DEEDS (ex "the scam" with gumball ALMOST giving up carry and darwin's hapinness for a lolipopp YIKES) if you know what i mean ??? 😬😬😬😬😬😬
Reminds me of the same father with the same name with the same attitude:
Frank Heffley
frank heffley didn’t abandon his kids though lol
he’s a lot better of a parent, not that that’s saying much at all lmfao
@EvokerInvokerble Frank and Frankie are completely different what are you talking about? Frank did not leave his children and wife unlike frankie, he isnt a con-man or a felon unlike him. Also the heffleys arent even that bad yall just like to be edgy 12 year olds.
He's not trying, he's still an asshole, he is miserable though
Probably one of the most underrated characters in tawog.
Richard's mum's name is Joana?!
@@likando_05 Joanna (what Frankie calls her) Jojo(what others call her)
True
@@ZombossGamingChannel and considering how bizarre this show gets :)
not finishing that sentence by the way figure it out yourself
4:32 I like how he shows love to his son, and despite his initial intent and success in his plan, he chooses to be a better man.
I feel bad for those trying to defend Frankie. He abandoned his family and when he returned he immediately started scamming his son. He’s a deadbeat, a con artist and a person who doesn’t want to be better. Yea he has “morals” but still he’s a crappy person, it took Richard unconditionally forgiving him to make him realize what he’s done.
True.
I think of him sorta like Grunkle Stan from gravity falls. In the context that they're both criminals, con men, liars, and aware they aren't the greatest. But both do try to put in an effort. However, Frankie doesn't do anywhere near as good. But unlike Stan, we don't know his backstory. We know why Stan turned out the way he did. Frankie could've and most likely had it way worse than him if he turned out this way. I'm not justifying Frankie, but he definitely is tortured soul
Plus gumball was SO CLOSE to frankie in "the scam", "the candidate", "the saint", "the bet" and others episodes he did something questionable (ESPECIALLY "the scam" 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😬😬😬😬😬😬😬)
Reminds me of the same father with the same name with the same attitude:
Frank Heffley
Instead of focusing on Frankie, imagine poor Richard having to deal with his parents divorce.
Literally one of the cons of divorce, the poor children 😭
Not a single person mentioned he had a pink eye the entire time, especially himself
I thought he got punched by someone, but I guess it is remain a mystery.
10:30 it does not makes sense
I've always assumed that, while Frankie is a con man, he's not a very GOOD one, and tends to get punched in the face a lot by people he cheats. Otherwise, you'd assume the black eye would go away over the time (it is after all, just a bruise, they DO heal.)
@@sojoboscribe1342 i mean it could just be an eye infection he never got treated, he is after all too poor to even afford basic living expenses so treating an infected eye probably isn’t in his budget
@@Rabbitmancer77 Not impossible, but given how LONG he's had it, an infection would probably have either cleared up by now or progressed to being SO Bad, he'd have gone blind in that eye. Infections generally don't just "stay" as they are long term, they either get better or they get worse.
How is it granny JoJo, Nicole, Gumball, Darwin, Anais, knew the truths about Frankie Watterson while Richer is still in the dark
Because Richard is stupid
@@lovelandfrog5692 still would it kill them to tell Richard the truth
He has a negative iq
Richard isn't really the sharpest tool in the shed
Easy They are not dumbbells
If Richard can almost destroy the reality when he's go to work, Can Frankie also can destroy the universe if he was honest ?
Yes
Don't forget the whole town was in chaos cause Larry quit the jobs he was doing
You know what sucks it's to think the characters INCLUDING gumball as shown in "the test" are forced be peoples they don't want to be (frankie seems a good exemple) or do things they NEVER wanted to do IN THE FIRST PLACE (ex : Larry and his multiples jobs) wich is why i love this show but i don't like it's writters 😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤
0:26 love how they turned a side character into a character that's part of Gumballs family. just nifty.
Gumball was the type of show that fleshed out all of its side characters in the later seasons, so it's just par for the course.
Like Rob
@@dantdmfangamingrich9802 You mean Rich?
@@comiqueromosses9132i think he's reffering to ralph
At least Joanna has consistent taste, rodents
He’s the embodiment of a father who wants to be good at parenting but fails miserably and gets mistreated for it.
I mean he did abandon them and on multiple occasions straight up scammed his own son. When he does try, Richard is always really open to his efforts no matter how much he messes up.
@@vullord666 still he left so Richard wouldn’t become like him. He wants his son to live the life that he couldn’t
when life gives you the dice of fate...make sure they aren't FAKE!!!
@@Lutherstrode17492 He could've...become a better person. That's usually a lot to say but if the alternative is to ABANDON your child, I don't think it's asking too much
@@PumaArg it’s was either abandoning him or going to prison. At least Richard got to think his dad was a good guy for a while
I really liked how Darwin putted himself really deep in the crazy criminal role. The one who is for peace and things, became super out of his mind
Something I noticed is that granny JoJo ends up with a mouse boyfriend after a bad marriage with a rat ..... ✨Symbolism✨
What form of symbolism do mice represent?
@@luhtahstandly84Maybe nicer than rats?
She has a type
Both Louis and Frankie are rats, Granny Jojo has a type for rodents.
@Justarandomboy123 is he? I thought he was a rat?
One of the saddest plots on this show
2:17 HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME?! 33 YEARS AND YOU COME BACK INTO MY HOUSE WITHOUT THAT CARTON OF MILK *starts crying*
"Yeah! You said he went to buy some milk 42 years ago!"
Gumball was so ahead of it's time
"He could be back any minute!"
Yoo that hurt my soul.
*W h e e z e *
I’m pretty sure gumball created that meme.
Pretty sure this joke was around for more than a decade.
This show really did Richard dirty.. Such as the "Dad going for the milk. Goes missing for 42 years." joke
What do you mean
It’s fitting for his characterization
42 but yes Even though Granny Jojo said 33 🤣🤣
Didn't even bother to bring the carton of milk either lmao.
Yup along with the only time richard gets a job he's FORCED to give it up WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU WRITTERS ????????? 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
“Tortured side character”
Meanwhile most of the video is him scamming, lying, and stealing
Frankie is a jerk. Frankie really had ditched his family for that long, only for him to try and take advantage of them a nice again. He’s not the worst person as he shows guilt yet still seems like he avoids doing the right thing.
AND gumball showed clearly that his grandfather dna was in his blood NUMEROUS TIMES (ex the scam, the candidate) 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢
Frankie Watterson is a horrible father and still a horrible person, but yet you can't help feel bad for him by how the rest of the family treats him although in most of the situations they attempt and try to treat him better then he treats them. He uses them for personal gain as in food, money, shelter, and even tried to get his own son to go to prison for him. There's humanity in him, but it's still apparently not enough for him change his ways, which can never justify his actions regardless. In some way, he caused all these problems in this video, it was nobody else's faults except for his.
Couldn't have said it better.
Frankie was the most morally fascinating character…. Although he is morally bankrupt, and definitely deserve some of the abuse that he got…….. I can’t call him a completely awful person for some strange reason and I don’t know why
Maybe it's because he seems to feel bad about every bad decision he makes? Sure, he hasn't redeemed himself, but there's something sad about him not being able to become a better person.
@@yishmoosa1234 He isn't evil, just irresponsible and inmoral. Kinda belongs to a grey area where he isn't a bad guy but not a good guy either. Like an animal who just thinks for itself
He reminds me of gumball wich can says a lot about gumball potential FUTURE 😰😰😰😰😰😰😰
You can’t call him awful because the show makes you feel bad for him
Frankie is absolutely despicable, and every moment of his pain filled me with joy 😂😂
Im glad it wasnt just me who hated frankie too. Hes a crappy guy
agreed, deadbeat dads are irredeemable
@@Chaotic_Observer Yet didn`t he only leave but he didn`t want Richard to be like him and doesn`t like whatever`s he been like in the process
@@djamtz therapy is a thing, there are programs to help you. He didnt do any of those. Hes a coward
Same he reminds me of my father, whenever he showed up on screen it was too real for me
Frankie's the worst. Richard is a kind soul, this is traumatic for me.
I don’t get how anyone could say he was tortured or a victim, he deserves anything bad that happened to him. He was a terrible parent and a terrible person and hurt many people just for his own good
@jessicapeterson7171he didn’t went to prison, he didn’t want to go three days to prison and left Joanna and Richard 33 years for that, and still tries to constantly trick his son
@jessicapeterson7171 Ya that about sums it up. Especially since he never ctually went to prison. 3 days in prison with family visits or 33 yrs on the run, not even wanting to see his family. Guess what he chose and why?
If he's not allowed to be close to his family that's his own fault.
I say this about a lot of cartoon characters, but I really feel bad for Frankie. Yes, it's despicable that he left his family in Richard's developing years, but it's clear that Frankie hates himself so much that he didn't want to trouble his family. He is so starved for love, as the Wattersons' song detailed. He's like Sal Left Thumb in that the hatred he faced led him to a life of crime, but even if he wanted to reverse his mistakes, which he says he does, there's nowhere left to turn. It's truly tragic.
I agree with you bit the guy barley puts efforts into his redemption. Plus, his reasons don't excuse him. He could at least have paid child support.
a prime example of "He's not a villain he's a victim"
Well He Did Change In The End 🔚 Unlike Prince 🤴 Harry Potter And Megan Markle?.
Golden example of “not evil, just broken”
@@mecharaptor8.535 he left his kids and committed many felonies 💀
Still a deadbeat though
@@mecharaptor8.535 he literally is a con artist
2:13 - 2:23 me every time I see my dad
Honestly despite Frankie being a failure as a father/husband.
At the very least he suffers the consequences of actions on like Most bad cartoon fathers such as…
Peter Griffin
Stan Smith
Randy Marsh
Stephen Willis Scotch
Carter Pewterschmidt
Marty Glouberman
Oh yeah let’s also not forget both Nicole’s parents were terrible. They weren’t deadbeats or abusive, however we’re completely neglectful and had beyond high expectations since the day she was born. NTM had absolutely no regard for their only daughter’s feelings.
Your also forgetting how they said they were too old to have another child
Don’t forget Clay Puppington
Do principal brown being weird af >:D and also funny moment; "Whats father gonna say when he comes back?" "Father???" "Yeah! You said he went to buy some milk 42 years ago! He can be back any minute!" "ᴰʳᵃᵐᵃᵗᶦᶜ ᵖᵃᵘˢᵉ ᵒᶠ ˢᵗᵃʳᶦⁿᵍ ᵃᵗ ᵉᵃᶜʰᵒᵗʰᵉʳ."
I like how the show criticizes the US prison system.
the only dad that came back
But without the milk
''Knock knock?''
''Dad?''
''No-''
''WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH''
I felt the 5 stages of grief in that joke
I laughed way too hard when richard said “whens dad getting back with the milk?”
I find it funny how Richard's das is teaching his son how to do "adult" tasks, as he shows clear stress and incompetence like he hasn't done those things before in previous episodes. The obvious irony and forced melancholic approach to that scene is hilarious since it's supposed to be empathetic, but in reality it's just fake.
This guy deserves to suffer. I’m sorry but he left Richard, never tried to contact him, never tried to get a job for his family, and tried to scam his family for money or food. He may have felt regret but he never tries to change
I'm not defending him for leaving his son and not trying to contact his family, but um, of course he tried he tried to scam them for food and money? I'm not saying it's moral, but if you're already a scam artist and that's what you know, and you desperately need food and money in order to live, why would you not try to do that? It seems like the first thing you would think of to try to do in that situation. Yes it certainly isn't moral to try to scam them like that, but you have to admit that it makes perfectly logical sense why he would try to do so given who he is as a person and the condition he is living in. He could have gone about it better than trying to scam them out of it, but at least in this case he is doing it for things to actually help him live instead of things like jewelry or something, I don't know.
@@nickronca1562 conning your family goes too far man
@@nickronca1562 yes he’s desperate I understand that but that’s no excuse to do what he did
@@jamestolbert1856 I'm not saying I defend him, I'm just saying from a character perspective it makes sense.
@@nickronca1562yeah it does
Oh, brother, that Frankie’s got some problems. And everyone, if you’re watching this video, try being in the same show with him every DAY.
Wow Frankie aged way better than his ex-wife that guy has to be between 55 to somewhere in the 60s and he doesn’t look half bad for a bum😅
0:16 holy shit 💀💀💀
There is this weird balance between "man, he is an asshole" and "man, that's so sad"
Does he really live in there?
It could be worse, he could live in that
*Hello Watersons!*
Amazing World Of Gumball makes fun of important life lessons and still teaches them very well.
I am disappointed that i have the same name as an animated rat who got bullied by a couple of children because he happened to leave his son "to go get milk"
Life is strange.
Life is definitely strange...coming soon to pc, ps5 and xbox whatever the last one is.
If there's one word to describe Frankie, it's "pitiful", his existence is pitiful.
I agree
10:43 wait he was secretly smart
He seems like a man who had it coming for him, and well, it came for him. Really, he got himself into this mess
On one hand, Frankie is an awful deadbeat dad who deserves terrible things. On the other hand, I feel like burning a wooden statue if himself in front of him while singing about how awful he is might be going a little bit too far
We seriously need a redemption arc of this guy!
"he belongs in a more... PADDED cell, if you catch my drift"
honestly one of the more clever things gumball has said
5:25 Richard has his Season 2 eyes despite this being a Season 4 episode.
2:10 are we not going to question that fact that Darwin said what to dad
Gumball: you're not a dad.🤨
Darwin: sorry, it's been a confusing day.😅
may i suggest a few other characters to make videos like this on:
-the hot dog guy does he have a name i forgot tbh he feels like a dave so lets call him that
-nicole watterson
-the silly little evil rock guy nemesis whose name i forgot
-principal guy whose name i also forgot
have i mentioned i never actually watched this show in full and barely know any of the characters by name hehe
The nemesis is Rob and Principal is Brown
His name is Hotdog Guy >:(
"The silly little evil rock guy" Lmaoooo even in the show he never where this disrespected 🤣🤣 but yea I agree a compile on him would be great
I think Richard knew but he chose to pretend he doesn't like how people block out bad memories then there's people like granny jojo who keeps bringing it up till said person remembers them I'm glad Richard chose the higher road in life instead still being himself with no complications
5:34 that escalated quickly😂
There is a likable quality to Frankie though. He abandoned his family specifically because he knew he would be a terrible influence on them and didn’t want his son to end up like he did.
And judging by the life and loving family that Richard leads, it seems like Frankie‘s plan worked.
So instead of getting therapy to work on his problems, he decided to be a deadbeat?
@@lizzy1876
Many people ignore therapy if they have already convinced themselves that they are a lost cause.
He mostly brought the torture to himself.
Feel free to put 11:36 on repeat
4:56 “what’s up with him “ why are you asking questions ….
What?
13:08 One of my favorite lines from the series
1:40 bro they even stoled his tree
7:13 yooo this song 🔥🔥
Dude said he was sentenced to 3 days in jail, all this running was for nothing
The vermin man song is fucking funny.
And he’s a literal rat
I like how he's awful but also completely miserable
He lives in a hell of his own creation
7:38 Why was this sooo funny 😂
Frankie deserves everything imo
He is the OG gone for milk dad
0:04 “wh-hat? No.”
“AAAAUGHHHH”
Where did Grannie Jojo get all of those instruments, how long has she been playing each, and is that how she kept the lights on for Richard?
Questions I desperately need the answers to!
Okay, but the Vermin Man song is low key fire 🔥
frankie is like his son
but bigger
frankie deserves everything he got coming to him scamming his son for 400$ as a CHILD and then abandoning him only to come back to con him out of his house and make him homeless. If you think hes changed one bit your wrong he visits only for food and shelter not to visit his SON he ABANDONED 34 years ago smh i feel no pity for him at all
Nahhh not the milk joke 💀💀
why did this appear when i searched oppenheimer 💀
Frankie is what Moe Syzlak's fursona would be
Darwin: Knock Knock
Richard: DAD?!
Darwin: No.
Richard: 😢
0:18
He went to by milk 42 years ago.
Omfg
Everybody is debating whether to look at him as being a terrible person and not feel bad for him, or whether to look at him as a tortured person that are you do feel for at least a little bit, but very few people are realizing that you can have a bit of BOTH. You can see how terrible of a person he is AND feel bad for him at times for what his life has become. Note that nothing that I say here is a defense for what he's done. The people who don't feel bad for him no matter what, I can understand why, but I can't agree because even someone like him deserves food and clean water. The people who view him as the victim on the other hand are going too far the other way and need to remember that he is a deadbeat father who left his son and wife and also a scam artist on top of that. And the people who thinks he deserves nothing but torture because of that need to remember that even though what he did was unforgivable, he at least tried to make up for it but didn't know how and ended up feeling like he wasn't able to. Yes what he did was unforgivable, but I can't help but feel bad for him actually wanting to finally make up for it after all these years and not knowing how to. Also the fact that he has no food and had to boil water from a toilet is just sad no matter how terrible of a person he is in my opinion. But I digress, I'm probably going to get a lot of hate comments from the people don't feel bad for him no matter what that I'm trying to defend him when I'm not.
4:56
Gumball: dude I think you put this way too far 😒
The Amazing World of Gumball predicted the your dad left to get milk and never came back insult
He is horrible in that he left his family and only came back to con them out of their home... But Joana has show how messed up a partner she can be so I can understand him walking out on HER. This is the woman who turned Richard into the braindead lazy slob we know, apparently via repeated psychological torment to scare him away from anything other than lazing about and eating (which left him woefully unprepared for the many dangerous things he gets involved in, she didn't teach him that some things were dangerous, just scared him into not taking any "risk" near her).
It doesn't absolve him of his flaws but it explains some of his actions. It doesn't explain why Joana ever married him, but her actions and motivations are baffling anyway.
Also I forgot that it was Anais that had the "genius" idea to make him feel at home by imitating the worst parts of prison... Has anyone ever called her out on when HER plans are dumb and cause problems as opposed to all the times she does that to gumball and darwin?
Yeah, I love Anais, she is my favorite character in the entire show, I wish nothing but the best for her, but holy crap, that was pretty stupid.
This comment is old but it kind of baffles me because...you can leave your wife without leaving your child, yk. And he even scammed Richard when he was a CHILD. Frankie was always an awful person. It has really nothing to do with Joanna, and if we are gonna justify Frankie's actions using Joanna's actions, then you can make an argument about Joanna becoming overprotective of Richard because abandoned by your partner who was also the parent of your child can be pretty traumatic.
You can leave your wife without leaving your kids. Also, how does that explain him still being a terrible person who tried to scam his son SEVERAL times even when he was a kid?
@@ok.4720 I said it doesn't absolve him of his flaws, I just find him leaving his wife understandable because she acts quite flawed herself.
@ Joanna terrorized her new husband for having ANY other positive contact, assuming they were all going to "steal her man". To be fair most Gumball characters have moments like this- like all the times Nicole did evil due to being competative or caused massive property damage due to her anger issues.
The tragedy is that Frankie is a victim of his very own greed. Sometimes a man who is the constructor of his own fall can be tragic as well. Kinda like Darth Vader. Frankie just kept digging himself into a deeper hole, losing more and more and making him more and more consumed by greed.
I think he does love Richard (not so much any of the other Wattersons though), but his own greed gets in the way of it
Frankie deserves everything that happened to him but it’s also sad that he chose this path to begin with.
According to gumball chronicles, frankie's dad also left him as a child with his cockatoo mother. so, it makes his whole character much more depressing
I wonder how Frankie would look if he appeared in Season 1.
Cursed.
0:16 for some reason as a kid i thought this was meant to be an allegory for him being dead, not that he walked out on him.
They tormented this man for being a deadbeat, great lesson to kids lmaoo
10:39 richard legit just made a reference to the titanic
"I didn't start off as a good father. But your kids see you better then what you are, so everyday, you bust your chops trying to live up to that."
This show was something else.
0:13 what episode is this please-
The Man
You are too funny I'm subscribing
Thanks a lot!
idk whats more depressing, the fact that he probably turned out like this because his father also left him when he was a child (mentioned by Richard in ancestor act) or that he's genuinely trying to connect with his son but just can't because of his habits
“Knock knock” “DAD?”
0:22 dıd they just embrace the joke? THEY KNOW ÎT?
Frankie is a bad father. When you look at the way he treated his own son Richard by abandoning him as a kid leading to Granny Jojo infantilizing Richard to the point where he can’t function on his own and trying to scam him even to this day, he honestly deserves hearing the vermin man song. Poor Richard is the way he is now and who can blame him?
2:18
That’s a pretty reasonable reaction for when your dad finally comes back after he abandoned you for so many goddamn years.
1:42 to 2:00
My mind: Don't feel bad for him, don't feel bad for him, don't feel bad for him, don't feel bad for him, don't feel bad for him ...
(A few seconds later in that episode) Anais: That's it! We have to make our home a prison cell because that's what he's use to
My mind: nooooooooooooo!
Also I really like the episode, but holy crap, imagine being tortured by pretend prison so much that when the real prison is offered to you it seems good by comparison
best show on cartoon network by far
Honest do god really reminds me of my parents. My mom hated my dad for what he put us through simply because he really only loved his family and himself and we were the optional part. I hated him for a long time and absolutely hated his guts for what he did to our family, with my mom never speaking to him for 3 years. Until in 2018, he fixed himself. Sure he was still a bit of a selfish ass until he actually started to understand me and my autism. He started to understand I was a person, a person he created with my mom, who is also a person like him. He realized how much we really meant to him all his life and how big selfish assholes his part of the family was(except his dad). Over the course of 5 years of hard work and actually giving me the love I never had…. He’s my father now and I love him to the end, I will forgive most of what he’s ever done, but I will never forget the pain of everything, just as my mom won’t as she’s always on his ass about everything, but she respects him just as much as he respects her. That’s life in my book, that’s how life goes. People need to be given a chance but once that chance goes, that’s it, no more…. Just give people the chance and if they don’t, cut them out just as they’ve cut you. But if they take that chance, hold and love them until the end and never let them fall again. My dads currently got a raise in a company he’s worked for since 2019 and he’s doing better than he’s ever done in years
I love my dad and he loves me, my mom, my brother and my sister
Edit: there’s a few details I’m leaving out but it’s mostly personal stuff