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2	[[caption-width-right:350: "So there might not've been a millionth customer winner, but there ''was'' a big loser!"]]
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4	During a yard sale at the Banana house, Gumball happens upon a collection of paintings done by Banana Barbara, all of which have been finished before the events portrayed in them occurred. When her latest work of art depicts Gumball appearing naked at the mall in front of an angry mob, Gumball does everything he can to prevent it from happening.
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6	!!Tropes:
7	* ArbitrarySkepticism: Nicole doesn't believe Banana Barbara can paint the future, despite all the other weird things she's seen/experienced in the other episodes, like housing an amnesiac Santa Claus in "Christmas".
8	* BittersweetEnding: Gumball ultimately realizes that he cannot change the future and exposes himself on live TV as the painting foretold, but at least he did it on ''his'' terms.
9	* BrickJoke: At the yard sale during the episode's beginning, Richard plays with the zoom on a pair of binoculars. At episode's end, the Wattersons are disturbed by Barbara's painting's being a SelfFulfillingProphecy and we get a zoom in and out on them which [[NinjaProp turns out to be]] a POVCam of Richard playing with the binoculars again.
10	* ContinuityNod:
11	** "The Shell" previously showed Banana Barbara painting a prophetic image involving Gumball bursting in on Banana Bob's bath [[ChekhovsGag as an unexplained gag]]. Here, it's established that she's been doing this for years and it's shown that what she's doing is very disturbing, especially when the episode closes on her revealing her latest work of art.
12	** Banana Barbara's painting includes one of the Watterson kids sneaking into Tina's room in [[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS1E7TheQuest "The Quest"]] and Darwin kissing Carrie in [[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS2E9Halloween "Halloween"]].
13	** A partially visible sign for gum has the words "So fresh is gives penguins brainf--". Gumball tried to tell Penny almost the same thing in "The Mirror" ("You're so cool you give penguins brain freeze."); possibly that's where he got the line.
14	** One of the billboards at the mall is for [[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS2E38ThePlan Daniel Lennard cosmetics]].
15	** The painting shown at the episode's end has the rejected design for the Watterson house and a background of floating land pieces in television static (a very specific pattern in fact), just like the dimension of bad ideas seen in [[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS3E12TheVoid "The Void"]]. The scene ends with [[ThemeSongReveal the same musical sting]] as was used throughout "The Void".
16	* DeliberatelyCuteChild: Gumball tries act cute to get Nicole to take him to a thrift shop instead of the mall, but he lays it on too thick and just annoys her.
17	* DressedInLayers: Gumball wore his winter jacket under his sweater just in case it was torn off.
18	* DrosteImage: The first of Banana Barbara's paintings we see in this episode is of Gumball holding the same painting in the air, which can be seen repeating inside the painting to several levels.
19	* EpicFail: Gumball tries to [[VehicularSabotage sabotage the car]] so it won't start, but accidentally makes it faster--until it could have taken him away from the mall, ''then'' it breaks down and causes another part of the painting to come true (raining raccoons).
20	* FreezeFrameBonus: When Banana Joe is asked who made the painting and he points to his mom inside the house, she is already in the process of making the painting shown at episode's end.
21	* HumanKnot: Gumball pretends to tie the shoes [[BarefootCartoonAnimal he doesn't wear]] and ends up tying his toes in a knot.
22	* InternalHomage: After finding Banana Barbara's paintings, Gumball, Darwin, and Anais almost reenact the [[BorrowedCatchPhrase shared "What?" "The?" "What?"]] Gumball, Darwin, and Mr. Small had in "The Void", but Anais wasn't paying attention and came in late.
23	* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: What Gumball thinks is ominous music turns out to be a bunch of dads moaning and banging their heads on the wall because they had to come to the mall.
24	* {{Metaphorgotten}}: Gumball claims Banana Barbara knew about Darwin kissing Carrie because he has a reputation as a lady's man, describing him with a long, strange metaphor that Gumball admits to losing track of.
25	* NoodleImplements:
26	** The Banana family own a sort of pelvis-mounted harness called a toilet swing, which they use to keep from slipping into the toilet because of their weird body shape. Bob begins to explain how it works, but Darwin and Gumball both loudly cut him off.
27	** In the background of the Banana family's backyard there's a tutu which, judging from the initials "BJ" sewn onto it, belongs to Banana Joe.
28	* NonNaturalNumberGag: Banana Joe offers Gumball a mask for half a penny, and won't take a full one. Gumball points out that there's no way to pay that[[note]]The US originally had [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half_cent_%28United_States_coin%29 half cent coins]] but they were discontinued in the 1850s. In the United Kingdom, [[UsefulNotes/OldBritishMoney the "ha'penny" was a real coin]] until it was discontinued in 1969[[/note]], [[ComicallyMissingThePoint so Joe lowers it]] to a ''quarter'' of a penny. Gumball decides to add a painting to make it half a dollar total, [[ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine and pays with a torn half of a dollar bill out of spite]]. When Banana Joe [[HypocriticalHumor points out he could have just paid fifty cents]], Gumball would have hit him with the painting if the image hadn't distracted him.
29	-->'''Gumball:''' Dude, half pennies don't exist. That's like half a sentence. It doesn't make any--\
30	''({{Beat}} after Gumball stops talking)''\
31	'''Banana Joe:''' That sentence made no sense.\
32	'''Gumball:''' Exactly.
33	* NotWhatItLooksLike: Darwin breathes ''in'' on Gumball after being spilled by coffee to lessen the heat. Marvin comes by and sees what they're doing and thinks they're doing something inappropriate. He says he doesn't know ''exactly'' what they're doing and scolds them, making him crash into a store, causing a ruckus.
34	* {{Pun}}: Banana Bob calls his balaclava a "bananaclava".
35	* SelfFulfillingProphecy: The events depicted in the painting were caused by Gumball trying to avoid them. At the end of the episode, Anais wonders if any of it would still happen if they hadn't seen the painting.
36	* SequelHook: The ending has Banana Barbara painting a picture of the Wattersons running from Elmore as it's collapsing around them, possibly foreshadowing a future episode.
37	* ScrewDestiny: Gumball ends up naked on TV despite all his efforts to avoid it, but Anais maintains that it only happened because Gumball made it happen. Ultimately, despite everything else coming true by accident, Gumball was still only naked in the end [[GaveUpTooSoon because]] he ''deliberately'' took his clothes off, [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled preferring to end up that way of his own choosing to someone else causing it]].
38	* ShortDistancePhoneCall: Gumball tries to get the cops to close the mall with a phone call warning about something terrible happening. Donut Cop knows its him because he's [[RightBehindMe standing right behind Gumball]], who didn't actually dial the phone.
39	* ShoutOut:
40	** The records in Banana Bob's yard sale include Music/JoyDivision's ''Music/UnknownPleasures'', and the one with Bob on the cover is a parody of ''Music/TheVelvetUndergroundAndNico'' called "The Velour Overground".
41	** When Gumball's body gets antsy and starts moving without him, the erratic walking animation and music reference "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRZ2Sh5-XuM&ab_channel=DavidLewandowski going to the store]]" by David Lewandowski.
42	* SignsOfDisrepair: A billboard with several different posters layered over each other has some partially torn off, creating the message "[ALWAYS WATCHING] [GUM][BALL]"
43	* SkepticismFailure: Anais tries to deny that the painting is coming true even as a bunch of details in the painting start showing up at once. When raccoons start falling from the sky, she admits "I'm kind of running out of arguments, here."
44	* StylisticSelfParody:
45	** Anais is shocked to she how weird she looks like from behind, which Gumball describes as looking like butt cheeks after liposuction.
46	** Anais suggest the reason Gumball doesn't lose consciousness when taking a blow to the head is that his head is so oversized compared to his brain that it forms a cushion that prevents his brain and the inside of his skull from ever touching. Gumball adds that he can't see his whole face in the mirror and [[LimitedWardrobe always wears the same sweater]] because it doesn't come over his head, keeping him from taking it off.
47	* TapOnTheHead: Gumball [[HitMeDammit tries to get Darwin to knock him out]] so he can be sure he won't be at the mall by the day's end. No matter how hard he hits, Gumball doesn't pass out.
48	* {{Understatement}}: Nicole remarks "Now that's a serious manufacturing defect." in response to her entire engine ''flying out of the car''.
49	* TheUnreveal: We never find out how Gumball escaped from the angry mob or the police that were chasing after him--as soon as the painting came true, we skip to Gumball watching it on TV.
50	* WhamShot: The last shot of the episode shows Banana Barbara's newest picture, which features the Wattersons in the dimension of the world's mistakes (the same one from "The Void") running and screaming, setting up a future episode.
51	* WinsByDoingAbsolutelyNothing: Gumball tries to avoid ending up at the mall by just sitting in place at home, but he's too hyperactive then too paranoid to stay in place.
52	* WorstNewsJudgementEver: "Crowds are flocking to the Elmore Mall today as the millionth customer is to win some sort of promotional bribe for pushing a shopping cart. You are watching Channel 6 news, where we make a lot of news about nothing."
53	* YourTelevisionHatesYou: Nicole switching through several radio stations has their messages run together to form one.
54	-->''Are you worried about your future?--\
55	'cause indeed, you will reveal yourself~--\
56	In front of the biggest televised audience ever!''

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