History Recap / TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS5E18TheConsole

* VideoGamePerversityPotential: In-universe, Gumball abuses the [[HelloInsertNameHere ability to name himself]] by picking "MYBUTT" as a player name, and everyone calls him that without noticing how [[EscalatingPunchline increasingly ridiculous]] it sounds. Provides the trope image.

-->'''Darwin:''' Please MYBUTT, tell me what is going on. \\

** The final fight involves the main characters reaching out to various people they've met upon their journey, who in turn do heavy damage to the boss with their thoughts and energy. That's the exact same scenario as [[spoiler: the boss battle against Giygas]] in ''[[VideoGame/EarthBound1994 EarthBound]]''.
** Banana Joe's SummonMagic animation is a carbon copy of [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII Cactuar's 1000 Needles]].
** Darwin's post-battle victory animation is identical to [[VideoGame/StreetFighterII Chun-Li's]].
** At the end of Gumball, Anais, and Darwin's [[LevelGrinding rampage on the citizens of Elmore]], they finish off Billy with a rainbow CombinationAttack just like a ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' Triple Tech.

* BasementDweller: Jokes about the stereotype abound, from Anais and Darwin commenting that a gamer's greatest weaknesses are tortilla chips, sugary drinks, and the sun, respectively, to Gumball briefly transforming into a fat, acne-scarred, long-haired blob wearing a gamer-esque outfit (complete with headset) after completing the "Find My Pigeons" sidequest.

* GottaCatchEmAll: Parodied with Alison's [[CollectionSidequest "Find All My Pigeons" sidequest]]. Gumball screams that it's a "gamer's worst nightmare"--the compulsive desire to get 100% completion.

** The final fight involves the main characters reaching out to various people they've met upon their journey, who in turn do heavy damage to the boss with their thoughts and energy. That's the exact same scenario as [[spoiler: the boss battle against Giygas]] in ''VideoGame/EarthBound''.

** Darwin's post-battle victory animation is identical to [[VideoGame/StreetFighterII Chun Li's]].

* TemporaryBulkChange: After Gumball completes the "Find My Pigeons" sidequest," he's somehow transformed into a stereotypical BasementDweller by becoming incredibly fat. He's back to his regular self in the next scene.

* VideoGamePerversityPotential: In-universe, Gumball abuses the [[HelloInsertNameHere ability to name himself]] by picking "MYBUTT" as a player name, and everyone calls him that without noticing how [[EscalatingPunchline increasingly ridiculous]] it sounds.

'''Darwin:''' Here's some healing ointment to help MYBUTT in the heat of battle.\\

* AnIcePerson: Sarah's summon attack during the final battle is "Brain Freeze," which sees her removing her own ice-cream scoop head and throwing it at the console monster for cold damage.

* ElementalRockPaperScissors: [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] when the group is fighting the possessed Leslie; Anais points out that "a plant monster should be weak to fire attacks!" Gumball promptly [[DeadpanSnarker snarks]] that ''anything'' would be weak to [[KillItWithFire being set on fire.]]

* SuperOCD: Gumball's desire to complete the game despite the danger it represents can be considered this.

* WholePlotReference: Played with. While not plot wise, the episode is clearly an entire episode reference to JRPG conventions established by the ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' titles, especially by ''Final Fantasy VII'' and ''Final Fantasy VIII'', in regards to mechanics, general plot and etc.

* RunningGag: [[=NPCs=] (and at one time, Darwin) shouting out '''THE AWESOME STORE!''' whenever it pops up in their dialogue boxes.

* RunningGag: NPCs (and at one time, Darwin) shouting out '''THE AWESOME STORE!''' whenever it pops up in their dialogue boxes.

* RunningGag: '''THE AWESOME STORE!'''

Gumball's late birthday present from the Awesome Store is a handheld game system which turns all of Elmore into an RPG.

** Gumball willfully exploits the fact that video games basically allow [=PCs=] to loot [=NPC=] houses and takes Mr. Robinson's stuff. Then, when Mr. Robinson is forced to respond positively by the game he empties his wallet and moves on to sleeping in his bed. Mr. Robinson starts crying.
** After running out of small animals to level grind on the Watterson party starts blasting random civilians, starting with a mother taking her baby for a stroll.

* WordSaladTitle: The game Elmore is sucked into is called ''Inverted Paradox: The Enemy Within'', which causes Gumball to complain about video games having meaningless nonsense for titles. Turns out that subtitle is entirely appropriate because the console itself was their enemy all along.

* ScienceHero: In-game, Anais wields a move simply called SCIENCE.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: The Game Child was an actual rip-off released in the Game Boy's heyday, but it's unknown if the writers knew about it.

* TemporaryBulkChange: After Gumball completes the "Find My Pigeons" sidequest," he's somehow transformed into a stereotypical BasementDweller by becoming incredibly fat. He's back to his regualr self in the next scene.

** The final fight involves the main characters reaching out to various people they've met upon their journey, who in turn do heavy damage to the boss with their thoughts and energy. That's the exact same scenario as [[spoiler: the boss battle against Giygas]] in ''VideoGame/{{Earthbound}}''.

** Anais questioning why her weapon has a trigger is likely a TakeThat to [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII the Gunblade]] while the sword itself looks sort of like a black [[VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles Monado]].

* RealityEnsues: Gumball tries to gift an item to the possessed Penny in order to pacify her. His "animation" thus involves launching a VHS player at her... which hits her in the head, [[OneHitKO instantly defeating her]] and denting her head.