Why where these two plots shoved into one movie?

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Does anyone else think that the Gumball war and the GOLB subplot could have been two separate events? Honestly I was much more interested in the Gum War and it felt like not only did it get a shitty nothing ending, but GOLB was just shoved in there for no reason. Don't get me wrong, the scene where they're in the shrinking box had me tense, but I think maybe that should have been a separate thing entirely. I realize they only had one, one hour special, but maybe making two half hour long episodes would have made it better, so they didn't have to force these two plots together.