Line #34 Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS3E4TheJoy


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2	->'''Miss Simian:''' An outbreak. An outbreak of ''joy''.
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4	In this homage to zombie apocalypse/survival horror/found footage horror films, Miss Simian has to save herself from a contagious Joy virus that's infecting the whole school after Gumball and Darwin come to school smiling and acting happy on a Monday.
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6	!!Tropes:
7	* ADayInTheLimelight: For Miss Simian.
8	* ApocalypticLog: Miss Simian makes one all the way until she gets infected.
9	* ArbitrarySkepticism: Everybody Simian tries to warn scoffs at the idea of a virus that causes joy, despite living in a world with dinosaurs, ghosts, anthropomorphic objects, robots, giants, and a void where mistakes go.
10	* BloodFromTheMouth: Parodied by the joy zombies leaking rainbow-colored ''something'' (most likely drool) from their mouths.
11	* CameraAbuse: A closeup on Miss Simian hits the camera lense on her face... one scene ''[[RuleOfFunny before]]'' she started using an InUniverseCamera.
12	* ChekhovsGun: Miss Simian's impulsive insistent that Banana Joe follow the dress code ends up foiling her attempt to blend in with the zombies later.
13	* CorrelationCausationGag: Rocky sprays himself with body spray, and concludes it works when the infected school nurse tackles and hugs him.
14	* DeathGlare: Miss Simian's hate-filled glare [[ThePowerOfHate literally burns the back of Darwin's head]]... along with a hole in Teri's head and melting Sarah's.
15	* DownerEnding: Miss Simian fails to stop the spread of the happiness virus and can't even leave a message about how to cure it (play "[[Music/LudwigVanBeethoven Moonlight Sonata]]") because she does not know the song's name, nor can she sing it, and ends up being the joy virus' latest victim before the video cuts off and shows the embarrassing video that Principal Brown recorded earlier.
16	* EpisodeOfTheDead: Details the spread of a [[GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul happiness-inducing]] MysticalPlague.
17	* EvenBeggarsWontChooseIt: Even when they're zombies, girls still avoid having anything to do with Tobias. He doesn't even get infected with the virus until the last shot of the zombies trying to get into the room where Miss Simian is.
18	* EvilIsNotWellLit: [[PlayingWithATrope Played With.]] Halfway through, an infected Bobert hugs and shorts out the school's power grid, shutting off the fluorescent lights with only the blinding sunshine from the bright sunny day outside acting as the lighting. It's surprising how well it goes with the theme of the story.
19	* {{Flatline}}: The ECG Darwin and Gumball are hooked up to starts going flat...then the line ''turns into a rainbow.''
20	* FlippingTheTable: Miss Simian flips over a table [[EpicFail exactly 360 degrees, landing it back where it started with no change.]]
21	* FormulaBreakingEpisode: A homage to zombie apocalypse/survival horror films shot mostly on a camcorder and featuring Miss Simian as the protagonist.
22	* FurryReminder: Ms. Simian escapes the zombified band-aid nurse by taking off the plastic cover on her back then sticking her to a wall.
23	* GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul: A "wonder hug" from Richard, filled with all of the love and happiness in the world, makes a rainbow explosion and causes Gumball and Darwin to be uncontrollably happy even when they have no reason to be. Miss Simian treats it like a disease, but the nurse and principal think she's just insane. It's [[OurZombiesAreDifferent quite a]] [[TheVirus bit more]] than just a disease.
24	* GivingUpTheGhost: Darwin and Gumball start flatlining and spit out bright colors, stars, and hearts.
25	* GrossoutFakeout: Miss Simian pulls out a jar of yellow liquid from a medical cabinet and throws the contents on Darwin and Gumball for getting too close to her. She claims it's just water, but the nurse angrily corrects points out it was actually... cough syrup.
26	* HatingOnMonday: The bad mood that prompted Richard's "wonder hug" was caused by it being a Monday. Everyone else is depressed too, something [[SadistTeacher Miss Simian greatly enjoys]] and she finds it suspicious when Darwin and Gumball aren't.
27	* JerkassHasAPoint: Miss Simian mostly just finds Darwin and Gumball's happiness wrong because she's a killjoy, but she's right that's it isn't natural.
28	* LaserGuidedKarma: Miss Simian took glee in the students' misery, and was more happy with being right than concerned about Gumball and Darwin's apparent "deaths". She ends up being infected by the very two.
29	* LogicBomb: Miss Simian tells Bobert to run off because he's late to class but also that he can't run in the halls. Bobert figures if he can't fulfill such a task he's useless and [[SelfDestructMechanism self destructs.]]
30	* MistakenForUndead: Being ignored by all the girls left Tobias the only one not infected with the happiness virus that gives you rainbow drool, but his technicolor appearance made Miss Simian think he was anyway (possibly that's why none of the male infected bothered him either).
31	* MysticalPlague: Somehow, Richard's 'Wonder Hug' infected Gumball and Darwin with one of these.
32	* NinjaProp: One of the bloody time prompts hits Miss Simian in the face and she uses it to pull herself up.
33	* PatientZero: Gumball and Darwin are the first to be infected with the virus.
34	* PerpetualSmiler: Anyone with the joy virus is unable to stop smiling: Gumball even literally takes his smile off and flips it upside down, but it just contorts his face back into place.
35	* PretendWereDead: Ms. Simian gets the joy zombies to ignore her by pretending she's already infected. It works until her impulsive desire to enforce the dress code causes her to break character.
36	* RainbowPuke: The last symptom Gumball and Darwin exhibit before succumbing to the Joy Virus is vomiting a star with a rainbow trail. They then reanimate as "happy zombies", who constantly drool a rainbow-coloured fluid.
37	* SkewedPriorities: When it appears Gumball and Darwin ''died'' on the hospital bed, [[KickTheDog all Miss Simian can think about is that this proved her right]]. In Simian's defense, though, [[IgnoredExpert everybody scoffed at the idea]] [[ArbitrarySkepticism that a virus may be going around the school causing joy]].
38	* SoleSurvivor: Principal Brown was the only one to be cured from the virus onscreen. However, he may have been reinfected offscreen.
39	* StylisticSelfParody: Gumball accidentally takes Darwin's arm off and sticks it on his [[TheNoseless noseless]] face to give him a GagNose like Pinocchio.
40	* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: We get a first person view of Darwin with the joy virus: he sees everyone as [[MediumShiftGag live action props]] changing colors with sparkles everywhere.
41	* UndeathIsCheap: Playing sad music ("Moonlight Sonata" specifically) causes the joy zombies to recoil, and Miss Simian assumes it will turn them back, but she's turned before she can play it to the school--or even explain in her video which song to use. [[SnapBack Everything is back to normal next episode]], so they may have turned back anyway.
42	* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Richard's wonder hug is what gets the joy virus started.
43	* VisualInnuendo: Banana Joe has his peel forcefully "zipped" back up onto him. Part of his inside gets pinched in the peel and he makes a very pained face, making it a lot like when ''something'' else getting caught in a man's pant zipper.
44	* ZombieApocalypse: At least the whole school is infected, but given [[SnapBack the ending]] we can only guess how much farther it went.

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