History Recap / TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS3E27TheButterfly

During recess, Gumball and Darwin watch a butterfly emerge from his chrysalis and decide to set it free, which causes a chain of disastrous events through Elmore.

During recess, Gumball and Darwin watch a butterfly emerge from its chrysalis and decide to set it free, which causes a chain of disastrous events through Elmore.

* RewritingReality: When Charlie bumps into a weather map on a television, the cloud symbol flips over and turns into a tornado symbol, causing an actual tornado.

* AccidentalMarriage: Rocky falls down on one leg with a bagel in his hand in front of the crocodile lady, which she mistakes as proposing and accepts.
* AnArmAndALeg: Rocky tries to run from the crocodile lady by jumping over a fence, but comes back with his arm torn off, apparently by a dog.

* BehindTheBlack: Rocky tries to get away from the crocodile lady by [[VehicleVanish hiding when a bus covers the screen]].

* BrickJoke: The red construction worker mentioned that patting his son on the head [[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength sent him into the ground]] [[DiggingToChina until he came out in China]], but the son was on the first flight home. As the father's detached head bounces off a plane's wing, he sees his son in the window and asks him to tell his mom he'll be late.

* CallAndResponseSong: The Elmore Help Desk song begins with a call and response between the desk worker and a series of callers, but then the callers start talking faster than the worker can respond.

* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: [[ThoseTwoGuys The red and blue construction workers]] accidentally crush their coffee mugs when they toast each other. When the butterfly lands on the red one's head, the black one trying to swat it away results in the red one [[LegoBodyParts tearing off the other's arms]] and in turn [[LosingYourHead getting his head torn off and throw into the sky]].

* IAmNotWeasel: The crocodile lady angrily corrects Rocky when he calls her an alligator.
* InsistentTerminology: When Rocky calls the crocodile lady "crazy", she insists "I'm eccentric, I'm not [[CrazyHomelessPeople mad]]!"

* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: The red construction worker is ''decapitated'', but only seems somewhat annoyed. All he tells a help desk is that "An accident has left me very widely spread." and that his face itches.

* ReducedToRatburgers: The crocodile lady is seen [[HomelessPigeonPerson feeding crows]] so she can eat them, and said she'd been living in a van and subsisting on "squirrels and rust".

* TraitorShot: As the butterfly comes back to Gumball at episode's end and he questions why anyone thinks he could cause anything bad, the butterfly gets a smug grin and starts darting its eyes back and forth.

* BeastWithAHumanFace: The butterfly's face is a series of cut-outs from photographs a real life person's face.

* {{Bowdlerization}}: The Turkish version of this episode pixelates all of the butts Darwin sees after he's tricked into seeing Banana Joe's butt underneath a microscope (including the one on Miss Simian's face, which Darwin thinks is an improvement over how she normally looks).

* DisasterDominoes: The whole episode is based on the Butterfly effect being caused [[LiteralMetaphor by an actual butterfly]] (though not the trope ButterflyOfDoom, because it doesn't involve time travel), causing all sorts of havoc, including people falling over like ''actual dominoes'', and eventually creating a tornado.
* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: [[ThoseTwoGuys The red and black construction workers]] accidentally crush their coffee mugs when they toast each other. When the butterfly lands on the red one's head, the black one trying to swat it away results in the red one [[LegoBodyParts tearing off the other's arms]] and in turn [[LosingYourHead getting his head torn off and throw into the sky]].

* BeastWithAHumanFace: The butterfly's face is a series of cut-outs from photographs a real life person's face (see CreatorCameo to find out who it is).

* BeastWithAHumanFace: The butterfly's face is a series of cut-outs from photographs a real life person's face.

* BehindTheBlack: Rocky tries to get away from the crocodile lady by hiding when a bus covers the screen.

* CreatorCameo: The live-action face pasted on the butterfly [[https://twitter.com/benbocquelet/status/585127881904361472 is Chuck Klein]], the show's storyboard supervisor.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: In a similar vein to "The Extras," this episode focuses more on the people of Elmore more than it does Gumball and Darwin. Unlike "The Extras", the events depicted as [[RandomEventsPlot loosely]] connected and Gumball and Darwin actually had a hand in causing them.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: In a similar vein to "The Extras," this episode focuses more on the people of Elmore more than it does Gumball and Darwin (though Gumball and Darwin actually had a hand in causing the chain of events in Elmore, unlike "The Extras," where they didn't do much of anything except casually mention that today was a slow day).

* CreatorCameo: The live-action face past on the butterfly [[https://twitter.com/benbocquelet/status/585127881904361472 is Chuck Klein]], the show's storyboard supervisor.

* BehindTheBlack: {{Defied|trope}} when Rocky tries to get away from the crocodile lady by hiding when a bus covers the screen.
-->''Kid, I'm on the same side of the road as you, I saw you hide behind the trash can.''

* BolivianArmyEnding: The episode ends just as a tornado is created in the middle of Elmore and heading toward Elmore Junior High.* BrickJoke: The red construction worker mentioned that patting his son on the head [[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength sent him into the ground]] [[DiggingToChina until he came out in China]], but the son was on the first flight home. As the father's detached head bounces off a plane's wing, he sees his son in the window and asks him to tell his mom he'll be late.

* BrickJoke: The red construction worker mentioned that patting his son on the head [[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength sent him into the ground]] [[DiggingToChina until he came out in China]], but the son was on the first flight home. As the father's detached head bounces off a plane's wing, he sees his son in the window and asks him to tell his mom he'll be late.

* BolivianArmyEnding: The episode ends just as a tornado is created in the middle of Elmore and heading toward Elmore Junior High.

* RageQuit: Karen gets too many complaints at once while working a help desk, so she hangs up, quits work for that day, and [[ApplianceDefenestration throws her desk out the window.]]

* ScreamingAtSquick: Once Darwin finds out the thing he'd been staring at in the microscope is Banana Joe's asscrack, he starts screaming uncontrollably and [[MeatOVision seeing butts everywhere]], though the sight of Miss Simian's face replaced with a butt is actually an improvement over how she normally looks.

"I'm gonna need some details. So I can assist you."\\

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: 63 characters appear in this episode, beating out episodes like "The Shell," "The Finale," "The World," "The Extras," and "Christmas."

* ReducedToRatburgers: The crocodile lady is seen [[HomelessPigeonPerson feeding crows]] so she can eat them, and said she'd been subsisting on "squirrels and rust".

* RewritingReality: When someone bumps into a weather map on a television, the cloud symbol flips over and turns into a tornado symbol, causing an actual tornado.

* ScreamingAtSquick: Once Darwin finds out the thing he'd been staring at in the microscope is Banana Joe's asscrack, he starts screaming uncontrollably and [[MeatOVision seeing butts everywhere.]]
* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: Darwin and Gumball are only featured at the episode's beginning and end, while the rest of it is about following the DisasterDominoes as they fall all around town.

* LiteralMinded: Gumball thinks baby-boomers are "baby's going 'boom'".