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7* In "The Shell", after Gumball kisses Penny, it clicks: what does it take to [[StealthPun buy a Gumball? A Penny!]]
8* In "The Fridge" why does Nicole try so hard at making Gumball into a winner? Because throughout her childhood and adolescence she has always been called a loser (mostly by Miss Simian, who made fun of her from her first steps to her wedding day). So once you think about it, she just wants Gumball to not suffer the same thing she suffered from back then.
9** This would also explain her hyper-competitive nature and her willingness to even INJURE AND/OR BERATE others for being losers. She even tell Anais (The one she considers to "have all the good genes") to "learn how to be a good loser". Those people she mentioned in "The Fridge" who "bonded in the hospital" were victims to her monstrous will to compete with others and win by any means necessary, whether it involve hurting others or risking lives or not. AND THIS ISN'T THE FIRST TIME SHE'S SHOWN THIS KIND OF SCARY BEHAVIOR EITHER!!
10** Ironically enough, she is also doing what her ''own mother'' did to her (though Nicole had it much worse).
11* Why was Gumball so caring towards Kenneth in "The Microwave", even though he was a repulsive monster? Because ''he'' was an ugly baby! He knew exactly what it felt like to be ridiculed for being born odd-looking, and so he wanted to keep Kenneth from experiencing the same thing.
12** Or, that could be the way that parents always see their babies as beautiful because they're their babies, no matter what they look like.
13* It seems weird that Clayton (the red ball of clay) would be a bad liar who only does it to make his life more interesting, but it actually makes sense when you realize that clay can be molded into whatever the sculptor wants it to be, but it's still clay no matter what.
14* In "The Flower" during one of Gumball's tirades about Leslie he calls him a "Self Pollinator." If you know anything about reproduction in flowers and plants, he basically just called Leslie a jack- (or jerk-) off.
15* Juke's dream involves him speaking English instead of the usual noises and music he uses to "speak". He says "I can communicate again!"...which makes perfect sense when you remember Juke is canonically an immigrant to Elmore. This whole time, he's been speaking the language of his homeland, and it just sounds like sound effects and music to us.
16* In "The Void," Darwin and Gumball suggest that Janice might have left Mr. Small as opposed to disappearing. Mr. Small seems to freeze before laughing maniacally and stating that Janice can't go anywhere without him. Given what we discover in the Void that Janice is a van and not a person, Mr. Small's statement becomes more literal and less crazy. She ''literally'' can't go anywhere without him.
17* In "The Slap", the reason Gumball is so upset over not being slapped on the butt by Tobias is due to cats viewing their butts as a sign of trust, friendship, and friendliness.
18** That and Gumball has an ego the size of his own disproportionately big head, so the fact that Tobias didn't slap his butt because he (as Gumball assumed) wasn't good enough was a huge slight on him. Notably when he does get a slap at the end of the episode he immediately goes on a tirade on how disgusting it was proving it was just about principle.
19* Overlaps with FridgeHorror, or perhaps HarsherInHindsight: In "The Nemesis," Gumball and Darwin follow Rob, their [[TitleDrop nemesis]] around all day trying to make him a better villain. Their efforts--loudly making up his theme song behind him on the bus, following him and throwing out obnoxious new villain names--result in only mild annoyance on his part. So what makes him snap? The last two "names" they suggest consist of "Doctor," followed by annoying static sounds ("Doctor KSSSHHHHHHHHHH"). Given how sensitive about his new, staticy Void-body Rob is, of course he'd flip out. The thought of being constantly reminded of his "broken body" (as he puts it) is completely unbearable. It'd be the equivalent of calling someone covered in accident scars "Doctor Scar".
20** You're probably right, but it's not like Gumball and Darwin knew this. They can't remember who Rob was or what he looked like before, so it's not like they knew that his static was a result of being disfigured.
21** That brings up another good point about "The Nemesis": Rob was already annoyed on the bus, but the reason he suddenly shouted when Gumball and Darwin got his name wrong in his theme tune ("''It's ROB!''")? They ''never'' remember him or even his name--even back in his first speaking appearance, they didn't get it right. It's basically a BerserkButton for poor [[RunningGag Bob]].
22* When Darwin completely owns Gumball in an exhaling contest by releasing a constant, endless stream of air, why wouldn't he need to stop exhaling? He's a fish! The air was just continually flowing through his gills, so he would only need to breathe normally to continue breathing out.
23* In "The Club", the Wattersons have the Rejects' Club tied up at the back of their car for their scheme against Gumball and are contemplating what to do to them: [[TheStoolPigeon tell on their parents]], spray them in honey and leave them at the zoo, or [[ShamefulStrip strip them naked and leave them at the mall]], the club members, who are tied up and silenced, happily agree to the last one. It becomes fairly evident they realized this was as close to non-punishment as possible since they're mostly undressed to begin with.
24** In the same episode, Gumball tries to join his dad's Fantasy club and gets rejected. Why? Because he missed the point of the club; he was supposed to pretend to be a fantasy character like a wizard or an orc (it's not called a "fantasy club" for nothing), but Gumball had no idea what his dad was talking about when he asked "Be you orc?" and "Be you dwarf?" and just kept replying with "No". The fact he tried to join Anais' Physics club right before trying to join this one probably helps, as Anais points out "multiple types of intelligence" and says she thinks Gumball doesn't have any of them.
25* Hector is easily the biggest character in the show. [[MeaningfulName His name]] sounds like "hectare", which is a unit of measurement equal to over a ''hundred thousand'' square miles--that's pretty big.
26* Nicole is at home by herself, Richard having gone to work and the kids to school. She cleans the entire house, waxes the car, 'bleached the fruit', all 5 hours before everyone gets home. Bored and frustrated, she pushes over a vase in order to have something to clean. Nicole is a [[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/19/jerk-cats-love-knocking-sht-over_n_3942685.html cat]].
27** In the same episode, why does Richard have such a hard time getting to his job? Because as seen in "The Job", if Richard were to get a job, the universe would collapse on itself. It doesn't just ''seem'' like the universe wants him to be late-it actually does.
28* In the music video for the Japanese theme of the show called "Yes/No Continue?" by Moumoon, We see the female member of Moumoon Yuka as a marionette performing the song while Gumball and Darwin dance. Why she's portrayed as a marionette? Well one reason is because she's a performer, and second because at the release of the music video, humans did not exist in Elmore until the season 2 episode "The Sweaters".
29* If [=ElmoreStream=] and [=ElmorePlus=] are their versions of Youtube and Facebook, shouldn't they be global websites? So why are they named to imply that they're just for Elmore? Because as shown in "The Internet", The Internet lives in Elmore. Seeing as he's incredibly narcissistic, he probably has extreme CreatorProvincialism.
30* Remember in "The Tape" when Gumball tells Darwin that all he needs to do is be cute? What's the #1 thing people love most about kittens?
31* In "The Joy", Miss Simian mistakenly thought Tobias was one of the infected, since he was so colorful. This is probably why he wasn't jumped by the other infected earlier in the episode. They also thought he was one of them.
32** [[FridgeLogic Then why didn't Mr. Small's rainbow shirt throw them off?]]
33** Who ever said it didn't? Considering Tobias is shown to be infected at the end of the episode, it's possible it threw them off initially and they only ''later'' realized he wasn't one of them.
34* Lots of Fridge Brilliance about Penny comes into play once you learn that she's actually an EmpathicShapeshifter encased in a peanut shell. First, that you get a glimpse of her true form early in "The Shell" (she'd obviously get self-conscious about herself as soon as she sees her "scar" and promptly change form as seen from inside her eyehole) and it also makes a lot of sense that she'd admire Gumball for daring to be himself in "The Gi".
35* Why was Darwin immune to Jealousy in "The Flower" and yet was jealous in "The Burden" over Gumball dating Penny? It's because he already has Gumball as both a brother and best friend who's always around and is enough to make him happy. Judging from his behavior in "The Burden", this will escalate in "The Bros" because he feels nothing without Gumball.
36** In fact, this may be why in "The Sidekick" he's always feels that his sidekick and in his shadow. Gumball did asked him if he did this to himself, well subconsciously... he ''might have''.
37** Then his fear of abandonment makes sense that Darwin was a pet before he was adopted into the family. He might have feared that if Gumball pays more attention to Penny... he would be abandoned by him like how a family gives away their pet out of loss of interest. That means Darwin might still think of himself as a pet and not as a welcomed family member. [[FridgeHorror Maybe he might have experienced or seen something like this before as a pet fish.]]
38** This is supported even more in "The Origins" when he watched his family try to replace him after he went missing. That's probably where his abandonment issues came from.
39** It would explain why he still calls his parents "Mrs. Mom" and "Mr. Dad". That semi-formality suggests he doesn't feel entirely comfortable being less formal with Mom and Dad.
40* In "The Skull", even if Clayton wasn't lying and the shock collar was turned on, it wouldn't have worked anyways since clay is an insulator.
41* In "The Burden", when Darwin is talking to the clump of Principal Brown's hair that he thinks is Chris Morris, Darwin angrily yells, "You don't get to judge me, Chris Morris! You're not one of my dads!" He could either be referring to his biological father (a fish) and Richard (whom he calls Mr. Dad) or, since he is a fish and most fish species reproduce by having the female lay eggs and the male swim by and fertilize them, any of the male fish that fertilized the egg he came from.
42* In "The Password" it turns out Anais changed the password. This makes sense, considering that in "The Goons" Richard explicitly states that his favorite child was Darwin.
43* In "The Night" Darwin dreams that he is sleeping in a bigger fish bowl than the one he's already in. In "The Roots" (a couple of episodes later) Darwin tries to get a bigger fish bowl (or rather, a fish tank) in the pet store.
44* In "The Stories", Principal Brown pretends to be [[MisterSeahorse pregnant with the nurse's baby]]. This actually sort of makes sense when you remember that Principal Brown is described as a "furry slug", and that real life slugs are hermaphrodites.
45* At this point it's really no secret that the whole universe (Not just individual planets but the universe ITSELF) is sentient and able to do things such as dumping things it considers mistakes into the void. So, wouldn't it get bored? It might, seeing as it's apparently intelligent. The Rule of Fun and Rule of Funny events AND the various mishmash of artstyles, people coming out of lethal situations alright (even if they didn't survive, like everyone's favourite cartoony piece of toast) might just be the result of the world itself being bored and allowing for willful suspension of REALITY just to see how much fun it would be if, for example, the Watterson family had a street race... [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome WITH IMAGINARY CARS!]]
46* It makes sense that in "The Gift" the kids would think Masami would try to ruin their lives seeing how she acted in "The Storm" when she couldn't get Alan to be her boyfriend and how she sometimes turns her nose at people for not being rich no wonder they'd think she'd overreact for not getting her the perfect gift.
47* Based on the evidence given in "The Sweaters", "The Slide", "The Uploads", "The Nuisance", "The Extras", "The News", "The Scam" and the characters of Sussie and Kip Schlezinger. I have come to this conclusion on how humans work in the [[TitleDrop The Amazing Wold of Gumball]] there are 4 (technically 5) types of humans:
48** Live action humans who are practically nonexistent in [[QuirkyTown Elmore]] and [[HumansAreCthulhu are considered horrifying freaks]] due to the closest thing they have to them being puppets they [[UncannyValley see them as "Like puppets made of meat".]]
49** Animated humans who are all [[StylisticSuck made in the choppy and awkward style of]] WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero and such and can only occasionally move mostly being 2D cutout's, however if the cutouts decide to move they can indicating they may all originally be born that way.
50** Puppets, they're not people but [[AnimateInanimateObject actual puppets]] made from material and filled with stuffing, but as mentioned above they're the closest to humans you can get in Elmore.
51** Chins who are [[HumanoidAbomination human heads with mouths and detachable eyes on their chins, arms, legs coming out the top of their heads]] [[OurNudityIsDifferent and consider it inappropriate for anything but their chin to be showing.]]
52** If someone from Elmore acts or makes themselves look really good they become an animated human who will come of on camera or video as live action (Rocky in "The Slide", Sussie in "The Uploads", the Watterson's in "The Nuisance", Kip Schlezinger presumably looks that way due to makeup.)
53*** In "The News" Kip is made of newspapers instead of being a human, so that may be true...
54* In "The DVD", Gumball can be seen sitting around in his underwear at the beginning of the episode. Later, it's revealed that he lost his pants, explaining why he wasn't wearing them.
55* In "The DVD", while going back and forth with his mother, Gumball makes a note that, despite all the times she complains about spending money on the kids, they were still kids that Nicole chose to have (which causes Nicole to punch a hole in the door). However, come "The Choices", you learn that this wasn't entirely the case. A flashback implies that Nicole and Richard had a shotgun wedding because of Nicole becoming pregnant with Gumball, so technically she didn't choose to have Gumball and he was an accident.
56** Although, in a brilliant sort of way, Gumball remains right. Even though his conception was more than likely an accident, Nicole DID technically choose to have him, rather than having an abortion.
57* In "The Vase", it's revealed that Richard dropped Gumball on the ground when he was a baby, and in "The Treasure", that he had a disfigured face at some point. Also, in "The Origins: Part Two", Sussie was intelligent but became dumb after being dropped on the ground. It's possible that Gumball [[BrainyBaby was smart as a baby]] (we rarely see him as a baby anyway), but being dropped resulted in his face being disfigured for a while, and caused brain damage.
58** This in itself may imply that being a child prodigy would run in the family, and Anais is the default child of the family. Gumball is seen to be fairly creative and clever, he mostly lacks Anais's book smarts. Were this the case, it means that, had the hypothetical dropping not occurred, Gumball may have turned out as smart as Anais. (Darwin, of course, doesn't count seeing as he's technically adopted/was a family pet, and not a blood related Watterson child. But even he kind of counts as he's incredibly intelligent for a goldfish.)
59* By the end of "The Schooling", Gumball and Darwin learn that they should go to school and get a good education so they aren't stuck in deadend retail jobs like Larry, who didn't finish school. This seems out of character for the hardworking Larry, until you remember he used to be ''Lazy'' Larry, the laziest person in Elmore. His laziness probably caused him to get bad grades, meaning he couldn't graduate. Assuming he wasn't too lazy to go to school at all, that is.
60* In "The Singing", Dolphin Man and Spray Paint Bottle are randomly at the schoolyard, which seems weird at first since they're adults and don't work there. However, in "The Cage", it's revealed there are prisoners being kept at the school, and both have been seen as prisoners in some episodes.
61* At the end of “The Inquisition”, it’s revealed that Rob was trying to save everyone from the Void, which was going to (and eventually did) consume the world. Why was this happening? Because the series was ending. Without any new episodes, there was no reason for the show’s universe to exist anymore. So, it was sucked up like similarly irrelevant mistakes found inside the Void.
62* Director Evil doesn't appreciate Ms Simian's attempts to flirt, for a couple obvious reasons (this ''is'' Ms Simian, after all). But even if it was another teacher trying it, it wouldn't work on the director who is actually Rob. As a teenager at the oldest and a former student of Elmore Junior High, he has more than enough reasons to reject Ms. Simian based on sheer age-gap Squick factor.
63* The reason that the class of Gumball voted for him to be the leader of them instead of Anais in [[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS6E10TheCandidate "The Candidate"]] was because the heat was starting to make them mad.
64* Sal Left Thumb is arrested in almost all his appearances, but he appears again, considering how [[PoliceAreUseless incompetent]] that is the police of Elmore is logic that an inmate can escape.
65** It's more than just incompetence. Sal is a fingerprint, so he'd easily be able to slip out of the prison bars. He's also shown to be able to disguise himself as an actual fingerprint on the ground, meaning that he has a means of excellent camouflage.
66* While it's definitely possible that "The Choices" really ''does'' showcase what would have happened if Nicole never got together with Richard, one could also see the episode as reassurance that Nicole isn't miserable living her life with Richard and their three kids despite their less-than-ideal circumstances. In other words, every alternate reality is even worse than the one Nicole ended up with because she literally ''can't imagine'' a happier life without Richard.
67* "The Gi": "Gi" refers to a martial arts uniform, but it's ''also'' one of the Seven Virtues of Bushido, meaning integrity and making the right decision. It would've been the right decision for Gumball and Darwin to give up their karate uniforms and not lie to their mother about it.
68* In "The Worst," the only character that doesn't have a flashback explaining what they're angry about is Anais. While this might stick out to some people, it makes sense when you think about it. The reason Anais was angry was because she felt adults didn't take her seriously because she's a kid. But even though she spends her days at school, Anais's circumstances are still different from Gumball and Darwin's; not only does she not interact with her classmates much due to having {{No Social Skills}}, but Anais has [[ChildProdigy skipped a few grades.]] Chances are that her teachers would never be condescending towards an academically model student. Anais's family, on the other hand, doesn't care about that. They just treat her like a normal four-year-old girl, which is why showing ''them'' being condescending to her is still effective.
69* A lot about Ocho's personality ends up making sense once you realize what exactly he is. He's not just a living video game character, he's a video game ''mook'', specifically a {{VideoGame/SpaceInvaders}} style enemy. As an enemy A.I, Ocho would naturally be aggressive against whoever opposed him. His HairTriggerTemper is essentialy his programming kicking in to put him on the offensive.
70* Why did Penny tried to threaten Gumball during"The Transformation", It's because she most likely saw this as a matter of personal choice for herself between being who she is freely versus shutting it all away in a hollow casing. If Gumball went against her, he’d essentially be breaking his vow to her on the day she broke free and if he did, then he’d be losing the respect of the person he already has a relationship to begin with.
71*  Timmy/The Internet being able to hack power lines (as in the actual physical objects) and fire hydrants,[[EverythingIsOnline among other things]] in "The Internet" seems a bit unusual.... until you realize he's most likely manipulating [[RealityWarper the shows animation itself]],even if he may not have become consciously [[FourthWallObserver aware of the 4th wall]] until a point in time closer to "The Spinoffs".
72* Season 1 Mr. Small is notably more maniacal and prone to angry outbursts than in later seasons. Later seasons also play up his hippie nature, so perhaps the new interest in herbal tea helped get the mood swings under control.
73* In "The Sorcerer", it may initially seem odd that Mrs. Jotenheim refers to Mr. Small as that and not by his given name. However, Mrs. Jotenheim has a son in the school where Mr. Small is a teacher, so it's because she recognizes him as her son's teacher and refers to him accordingly.
74* At first it seems odd that despite humans being practically non-existent, Elmore seemingly makes minimal accommodations for it's multi-species nature, however it actually makes sense that a city designed for a diverse population of {{Toon}}s might not look ''that'' different from a human city for a few reasons:
75** 1. Due to their cartoony nature, they simply don't ''need'' as many accommodations as it would initially appear, for example characters who would appear too small or weak to perform mundane tasks such as opening doors are only shown to struggle with them for brief jokes and are otherwise at least as capable as average human children, often [[YourSizeMayVary changing size]] to facilitate what said characters would otherwise consider a superhuman feat.
76** 2. In some cases the seemingly human-centric nature of the city can actually be an advantage to cartoon characters, for example the lack of specialized toilets may lead to an increased risk of a toon accidentally flushing themself or dipping their tail in the potty, but it also makes it easier for them to [[ToiletTeleportation make a convenient escape]] if they need to.
77** 3. Of course there likely ''are'' some accommodations, it's just that most of them are implemented too subtly for the audience to notice without them being explicitly pointed out.
78* In "The Inquisition", Superintendent Evil spends most of the episode just standing and talking about his plans, while almost every other character is much more physically active and only speaks when they're specifically reacting to something else. Not only does this highlight how animation often has more movement than live action, it also demonstrates that Rob's supervillain instincts won't let him resist monologuing.
79* In "The Secret", Darwin seems oddly excited by the idea of flushing himself down the toilet. [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS4E20And21TheOrigins The last time he got flushed]], it ultimately resulted in him gaining his lungs and legs, which he would likely consider the best thing that ever happened to him, thus explaining the positive connotation.
80* In "The Brain", it may seem odd that the chart highlighting the intelligence of the Watterson family puts ''Gumball'' as higher than Darwin, since Darwin tends to have more common sense between the two and plays the straight man. However, Darwin is shown regularly to be extremely optimistic, almost to the point of naivety. While this works out in some cases, many times it backfires on him like "The Wicked" and "The Girlfriend", which, when combined with his stubbornness, causes him to act just as dumb if not dumber than Gumball. Gumball by contrast is highly cynical and lazy, and doesn't bother putting in the effort if he sees it as a lost cause, and ends up coming across as more worldly when he's not bogged down by his ego. Considering the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism in the series leans more and more on the cynical side as the show continues, it makes sense that the cynical Gumball would end up being smarter than the idealistic Darwin, since Gumball actually sees their world for how cruddy it can be, and chooses to find the good in the bad, rather than act like the world is something it isn't.
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84* In "The Mustache", Gumball and Darwin get rid of their black hairs they begin sprouting by removing all of their fur with tape. Sure, it doesn't sound so bad with Gumball, but ''Darwin is a fish, and he does the same thing''.
85* All those times Gumball has popped Alan? Sure, it's funny until you realize this means Gumball has been trying to '''murder''' Alan for being "too perfect".
86* In the beginning of "The Fan" Gumball and Darwin are running to stop the Rainbow Factory from exploding... which is where ''their mother works''. It does explode and [[ConvenientlyEmptyBuilding there's no mention of any fatalities]], but they may have not known that beforehand.
87** It is even worse, maybe the building WAS NOT empty, we only know that Nicole and Mr. Yoshida weren't there, but it doesn't mean that nobody was there. Also if the building was not empty, or they didn't know that was empty means two things
88*** 1: Gumball, even if later [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone get worried and remorseful]] was during a time dispossed to explode a building with people, what other atrocities could he do impulsively and be too late to stop it when get remorseful?
89*** 2: Two children, or maybe only a child, because is probably that Darwin hasn't helped Gumball with it; are capable of enter in a fabric and make it explode, but the fridge horror is that if one or two children can do it what can do a group of adults (and more experienced) terrorist?
90* In "The Limit" Nicole's rage was obviously nightmare fuel. But while watching the episode this thought wandered into my head. Gumball is a blue cat just like Nicole and he's her son. So there's a strong possibility he inherited that ability... Yeah.
91** Though "The Vacation" shows that if anyone inherited her UnstoppableRage, it's probably ''Anais''.
92*** Combining that with [[ChildProdigy Anais's intelligence]]... ''her'' inheriting her mother's rage is probably '''''WORSE'''''.
93*** But Gumball has done many things his mom also did: He kicks his house's door during the Ketchup Rap, like Nicole kicked the office's door during the Employee of the Month Rap; he aged Idaho in "The Worst" like Nicole did to the guard from "The Limit"; He bends a metal spoon in "The Sorcerer", similarly to how Nicole bent a steel bar in "The Authority"; In "The Sale" he and Darwin get very angry and grow their teeth, and with deep voices that Nicole did many times before; he becomes the Hulk in "The Society" like Nicole in "The Finale" and "The Money", and the entirety of "The Downer" shows how he is when he's in a bad mood, he makes people explode in "The Traitor" in his fury, etc... So he does probably does have his mother's anger and strength, but he's too scared and lazy to fight other people (like in "The Copycats")
94* In one episode it's revealed that the reason Anton is MadeOfIron is that his parents keep remaking him in a toaster. So... what happens to the ''original'' Anton?
95** Furthermore, this may also have some possibly disturbing implications for the other Elmore citizens. Up until the Anton episode, it was assumed that every citizen of Elmore simply ran on the rule of NegativeContinuity after death. However, this is not the case for, at the very least, Anton. Does that mean that each time a citizen from Elmore dies, someone like say, their parents, revive them by using a different method? Do Allen's parents blow up a new balloon and draw a face on his new body after each and every time he dies? And what about the organic citizens?
96* The events of "The Void": now that Molly is freed from that world, where will she live since her house and locker were folded into space? And how would we know she wouldn't be erased again?
97** Adding onto that, remember Rachel, Tobias' older sister? Considering that the staff of the show hated her and that she hasn't been seen at all since her first appearance, there could be a possibility that she's in that world as well..
98*** Teri remembers her kissing Darwin in "[[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS5E16TheMatchmaker The Matchmaker]]", so she's most likely not in the void.
99*** An episode of DarwinsYearbook reveals that she is gone to college.
100** In "The Nobody", Rob says he has no family even after he escaped the Void. This may have just been because he was still suffering from IdentityAmnesia, but given the aforementioned point about Molly's house/locker/etc. still being gone, it seems the Void takes whole families at once... or that people sent there never have families to begin with.
101* At the end of "The Bros" we see the Fitzgerald house was caught on fire, but the family members managed to get out. So where's Mr. Cuddles?
102* Richard finds the Anton clones in "The Recipe" and prepares to eat them without even knowing anything about their [[ExpendableClone origin]]. This basically implies Richard is so gluttonous that he would cannibalize ''children'' if he thought they tasted good.
103** This is also supported by "The Crew" when he licks a jerkified Gumball and Darwin ({{ItMakesSenseInContext}}) and he says that he doesn't know if is more sad that he fact he was gonna to eat them, or the fact that he can't. [[NightmareRetardant By the good side]], [[TheDitz Richard]] is not intelligent enough to know how to do it successfully
104* Gumball and Penny's relationship has been compared to Richard and Nicole's on certain occasions. Does this mean Gumball will grow up to be a manchild like Richard? (even without an overprotective mom).
105** They were compared in reverse as well: Gumball to Richard and Penny to Nicole in "The Gi", but Gumball being Nicole and Penny being Richard in "The Shell". Gumball might be like Richard at times, but at least he inherited {{Determinator}} tendencies like his mother. And Penny, like Richard, was under the care of an overprotective parent who fortunately realized that Patrick needs to loosen his grip over his daughter and thus she grows up happily and comfortable with her skin. And like Nicole, Penny is caring, patient but certainly not to be trifled with.
106* In "The Wicked," it's shown that Margaret is a very malicious KarmaHoudini and that Mr. Robinson knows this and that there is no FreudianExcuse for why she is this way. She's also Rocky the janitor's mother, which begs the question: Has Rocky been abused by her? If not, how did he manage to escape her wrath?
107* In "The Choices", if Nicole got a motorcycle ride from Sal he crashed and she died because she wasn't wearing a helmet. Sal also wasn't wearing a helmet, so he must have been horribly injured, because we know he's not dead.
108* In "The Bus", Rob made progress as a genuine threat to Gumball and the others. Just how much he can be even a bigger threat? We may find out in "The Disaster".
109** It gets pretty bad.
110** And now the world isn't even TRYING to suck him back into the void... Which means that it considers Rob important enough to keep around. And if Gumball hadn't given him the idea to BE their nemesis in the first place, he might not have been around anymore. I don't know which is scarier, the fact that if you won't actively try to ruin someone's life, you'll end up having yours taken away, or that it will happen AGAIN, OR that once you manage to accomplish it you will have outlived your usefulness.
111* One skit in "The World" shows Gumball not hearing his fries and burger screaming as he eats them. Except that other jokes in the same episode and others make it clear that the anthropomorphic objects in Elmore can communicate with and understand the non-anthropomorphic ones. So... that means Gumball actually ''can'' hear his food begging for help as he eats it, and so can the rest of Elmore's population, and everyone just has to learn to tune it out to avoid starving to death. [[CrapsaccharineWorld Holy crap.]]
112* In "The Money", Nicole says Gumball tried hunting his own food and Anais responds with "He broke down when he had to chop the baby carrots." At first it seems like a joke about how Gumball is so wimpy he couldn't even cut some carrots. Then you remember how Elmore works...
113* "The Joy's [[NightmareFuel status]] is pretty well established but it can go further when you remember that all the episodes are apparently canon even after the credits reset. Which means that Alan experienced the whole thing first hand and and as of "The Vision" still thinks [[HappinessIsMandatory it's]] a good idea to implement.
114* In "The Signal" whatever was the entity with [[ItCanThink seemingly malicious intent]] that was screwing with the TV signal was never really resolved. It apparently wasn't Rob since he generally takes credit for his schemes and only seemed to stop or have been stopped when [[FourthWallObserver Gumball and Darwin found out about what it was]].
115* In "The Misunderstandings", the Hobo thinks he is on a date with Gumball. While that was just a HoYay joke, Gumball is 12 and the Hobo is an adult. The Hobo could be a pedophile, and that's why he wanted to go in a date with him...
116* In "The Transformation", Penny and her entire family would be willing to seriously harm Gumball if he makes the wrong choice regarding on if the rest of the family should come out of their shells or not. This is a depressing thought once you remember that with all of Gumball's screwups with their relationships in past episodes, Gumball and Penny will be in an unhappy and abusive relationship once they get older. Think Nicole and Richard, but much, much worse.
117* Gary has two pets: a blue dog with one eye, and a white cat. Where were they when his house blew up in "The Neighbor?" Especially considering that they haven't appeared all season.
118* ''The Future'' has several:
119** Banana Barbara is revealed to be able to [[RealityWarper alter reality]] with her paintings. Then you remember what Banana Joe said about the paintings they were selling in ''The Oracle'', that the paintings of the Wattersons she made had been made years earlier. Suddenly the question is raised: how much free will does anyone in Elmore have if Barbara's been painting these things years in advance and reality conforms to what she paints? Does choice exist if the citizens of Elmore are slaves to a painting?
120** The reason Rob kidnapped Barbara was so he could predict the future, but all Barbara painted was static. She then later says "[[WhamLine There is no future]]". If Barbara can literally rewrite reality with her paintings, what does that mean? Is whatever is coming something not even she can change? Or is she the one making sure there is no future?
121** Go back to the episode ''The Vegging'', and recall that a message was sent to Gumball and Darwin, specifically saying: "This is a message from the future. The strange things that happened today were for a reason and it was all the work of --" before it gave up once Gumball and Darwin stopped paying attention. Now recall that Barbara tried at several points to alert them and Joe about her location by altering the location they were at in the hopes they'd pay attention, before giving up and just making a portal once she realized they weren't paying attention. The implication is that someone tried to warn the past about this by using Barbara to alter the past, only to give up themselves once Gumball and Darwin refused to listen. The questions are then raised, who was it that sent the message? How long has the lack of a future been known? How many times have their been chances to avert the future only to fail due to Gumball and Darwin not caring? '''''Just what is going on?'''''
122* This came up when I recently saw a scene from The Console. When Gumball, Darwin and Anais find the Awesome Store, Anais points out that they aren’t strong enough to take on the boss, so Gumball has the group grind until there are no more enemies that can spawn, at which point they turn their attacks on innocent civilians. That isn’t the worst part. The worst part is that they ran out of enemies in the first place. That is NOT something that can happen in a standard JRPG! But you know where that can happen? The Genocide Route of Undertale. That’s right. Gumball unwittingly performed a genocide route on the entirety of Elmore, which makes you wonder. What happened to Gumball at the end of the quest?
123* In "The List", Gumball and Darwin give Nicole a virtual tour of the world through Elmore's version of Google Earth. They end up in the ocean in front of an orange fish that Darwin remarks 'looks like one of his parents', the fish (virtually) eats them, they travel through its digestive system and they transition to a plate in a restaurant. [[DeceasedParentsAreTheBest We just watched Darwin's biological parent]] [[KilledOffForReal die onscreen...]]
124* In The Web in the Harlem Shake, Gumball says that they've gone through two world wars. That means that the holocaust has happened in this universe.
125* [[DownplayedTrope More like]] Fridge NauseaFuel, but how many times have the Wattersons' food been licked by Richard?
126* The MythArc that the show [[NoFourthWall is literally a show in-universe]] with reality dictated by whatever is in control introduces tons of fridge horror, as well as just straight up horror towards the end where Rob is explicitly trying to rework the show to stop it from being cancelled and thus damning everyone to the static void.
127** One of the biggest examples is Penny's whole existence, from a meta standpoint we know that she loves Gumball because she's the LoveInterest and that's her role in the story but we see that this is actually enforced by reality itself in "The Test." When Tobias temporarily becomes the main character Penny suddenly shifts her affection to him, it is essentially a law of nature that Penny must love whoever the main character is in the same way that Richard cannot be allowed to have a job. Now consider that Gumball is an openly sociopathic and violent criminal and imagine what it would be like to be forced into a romantic relationship with such a person with no free will in the matter...
128*** Even if that ''was'' true, which it isn't btw since Gumball's neither a sociopath nor a violent criminal, "The Test" firmly established that Gumball is ''locked'' into his role too. The moment he stops trying to be a LoserProtagonist, not only does reality shift to make ''Tobias'' the new main character, taking over Gumball's life in the process including family and girlfriend, Gumball is shown to be in physical pain from bottling up his feelings while trying to ''not'' be the LoserProtagonist. It's as if the universe itself is railroading him into being the LoserProtagonist, and should he attempt to develop ''away'' from that, not only will someone else take over his entire life, it will slowly kill him. Gumball is just as locked into his role as Penny is, ''everyone'' in Elmore is, and should anyone deviate from their role or be seen as not entertaining enough, they're replaced and sent to The Void.
129** Everyone who isn't a main character is not only lacking autonomy but don't even seem to have their own lives fleshed out. Side characters seem to be aware that they "disappear" in some sense when not animated on screen and there are several instances of background characters just accepting that they exist as scenery, never meant to have more than a few passing lines and the barest hint of personality. They may not even have homes and families if those things were never shown, making Rob's lines about having nobody even after coming back from the void possibly horrifyingly literal.
130** The plots skew negative in terms of how much suffering people endure. While there are many instances of happy endings or at least things working their way back to neutral, homes getting destroyed and people being maimed are pretty much a daily occurrence in Elmore. Whatever is controlling this world sure loves watching bad things happen. Even the main characters, seemingly the only people who get to lead full lives, are bound to live a life of romanticized poverty, which comes with a lot of nice family bonding time but also a lot of hardships. If GodIsEvil isn't in play then at the very least BlueAndOrangeMorality is, their universe might as well be a giant monster toying with its food before devouring it.
131* In "The Treasure" Richard (unknowingly) bought a star for his ninth-generation grandchild. The company he bought it from went bankrupt. And you know something? It was gonna go bankrupt anyway. Why? The star went out at the end of the episode. Starlight takes thousands of years to reach Earth, and if it just went out, then it must've died thousands of years ago. Meaning by the time Richard bought the star, it technically already died.
132** And to add insult to injury, it would've died by the time the ninth-generation grandchildren would've used it
133* In "The Shippening", Elmore (if not the whole world, or perhaps even the entire universe) is lucky that the only thing Sarah was interested in using the magic book for (and being unaware that it's a magic book) is shipping various Elmore characters! Imagine if that book was to instead fall into the hands of, say, an OmnicidalManiac!! Or anyone else with nefarious goals.
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