Gumball and Darwin try to get back a family heirloom (an old watch) from an elderly neighbor (Marvin Finkelheimer, a red jelly bean-looking old man), only to find out it's junk — until they watch an Antiques Roadshow-style show and find that the watch is worth $700.
Tropes:
- Actually Pretty Funny: After doing the "check your hand", trick on Marvin when he tries giving Gumball the watch, Marvin does it right back to him. Gumball then tells Marvin to check his pants, which causes Marvin to realize he's suddenly wearing pants, before laughing.
- Brick Joke: Darwin mentions early on that Richard tried to give him the watch before Gumball. Once they admit to having lost the watch, Richard mentions offering it to Anais before Darwin.
- Check, Please!: The date Darwin and Gumball get for Marvin (the black hexagon woman) asks for the check after the clips holding his face up pop off.
- Contrived Coincidence: The guy Darwin gave the watch to at random just happened to be from the other family that had been fighting over it for years.
- CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable: Parodied when Darwin tries to resuscitate Marvin with CPR, but refuses to touch his mouth (which, believe it or not,
is sound medical advice), but instead tries to blow into it from a distance. Gumball tries covering his lips with toilet paper, but Darwin notices Marvin is still breathing right after Gumball starts. - Creator Cameo: On the antiques show, the show's creator (Ben Bocquelet) and director (Mic Graves) appear (with dubbed over voices) as the man with the ruined table and the host, respectively.
- A Day in the Limelight: For Marvin.
- Downer Ending: The watch gets blown up and no one gets the cash reward.
- Eye Scream: Gumball tries to force himself to cry for sympathy. When he overdoes it ("Are you trying to cry or lay an egg?") his eyes explode.
- Feuding Families: The Watterson and Finkleheimer families, over a valuable watch.
- Hot Potato: Gumball and Darwin each try to get the other to take their father's watch. Darwin agrees to keep it on the condition that he gets to keep anything he wants that Richard gives Gumball, but then gives the watch away anyway.
- Impossible Theft: Inverted when Gumball repeatedly puts the watch into other people's hands (and pants on Marvin's body) without them realizing until they look at it.
- Low-Speed Chase: Marvin races off to sell the watch on his very slow scooter. Darwin points out they could catch up on foot, but Richard insists on using the other old men's scooters. There's even a (completely harmless) collision with a Sheet of Glass. Richard tries to catch up by ditching the scooter... to get an unwilling piggy-bank ride from Mr. Fitzgerald.
- Made of Explodium: Richard assumes a pair of electric scooters will explode when they crash into each other. They're so slow that when they go right into each other they stop without either being damaged... then explode a second later anyway.
- Man Bites Man: Marvin bites Richard to get him off his scooter. Since he's missing most of his teeth, it doesn't hurt, but Richard is creeped out by how it's "all gummy and lukewarm".
- Milholland Relationship Moment: After Darwin and Gumball spend most of the episode worrying that Richard would hate them for losing the watch, it turns out even he thought the watch was just a burden, so they let Marvin hold onto it while still considering themselves the owners. Except then they find out it has plenty of monetary value and start fighting over it again.
- No Ending: Abruptly ends with the scooters exploding after Darwin suggests that now's the right time to "sell the watch and split the money".
- Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: When Marvin is wonder what he'll do with the $700:Richard: (perched above on a park restroom) I'll tell you what you can buy! Bandages!
(Richard jumps off, misses Marvin, and lands face-first)
Marvin: I'll mail them to ya. - Shout-Out: This opening scene with Richard giving Gumball the watch is very similar to a scene in Pulp Fiction, with Richard taking the role of Christopher Walken's character.
- Skewed Priorities: Subverted when Gumball and Darwin are about to play a game of chicken with Marvin.Gumball: Are we actually going to risk our lives for $700?
Darwin: Let's bail.
(they both jump off)
Marvin: Eh. Fair point.
(Marvin jumps off) - Stealth Hi/Bye: Gumball passes the watch off to Darwin by asking him to hold it while he ties his shoes, then is in another seat by the time Darwin realizes Gumball doesn't have any shoes. He does this again in the hall, but still only moves slightly out of view.
