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** Larry the clerk going mad from the revelation of how much of a grind his life is by robbing from the cash register, kissing his girlfriend and boss goodbye, stealing Mrs. Robinson's car, and [[SuicideBySea walking into the ocean]] ''a la'' Virginia Woolf (though he doesn't drown, since his head is actually buoying the rest of his body).

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** Larry the clerk going mad from the revelation of how much of a grind his life is by robbing from the cash register, kissing his girlfriend and boss goodbye, stealing Mrs. Robinson's car, and [[SuicideBySea walking into the ocean]] ''a ''à la'' Virginia Woolf (though he doesn't drown, since his head is actually buoying the rest of his body).



'''Darwin and Gumball''': ''Seventy years.''\\

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'''Darwin and Gumball''': Gumball:''' ''Seventy years.''\\
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[[caption-width-right:350:"What's the point in our lives?"]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:"What's the point in our ''our'' lives?"]]
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* KinkyCuffs: Implied; Darwin wakes up from a hallucinatory trip in handcuffs. Rather than just implying he was arrested, they have a bright-red furry covering, pretty blatantly reference use in sexual bondage.
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cause the meaning of life it to eat or be--([[KilledMidSentence CHOMP]])''

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cause the meaning of life it is to eat or be--([[KilledMidSentence CHOMP]])''
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[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the_question.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:"What's the point in our lives?"]]
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* WisdomFromTheGutter: The episode ends with Darwin and Gumball getting the most useful answer as to the meaning of life from ''[[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Sussie]]'': in an unexpectedly articulate manner, she says the answer is actually a question, namely finding out how to enjoy one's life.

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* WisdomFromTheGutter: The episode ends with Darwin and Gumball getting the most useful answer as to the meaning of life from ''[[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Sussie]]'': in an unexpectedly articulate manner, she says [[ItsTheJourneyThatCounts the answer is actually a question, question]], namely finding out how to enjoy one's life.
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* VisionQuest: Coach says the meaning of life is to find yourself: walk the harshest deserts, cross the most dangerous seas, climb the highest mountain! Gumball says he doesn't need to do any of those things to know he's too lazy for any of that.

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* VisionQuest: Coach says the meaning of life is to find yourself: walk the harshest deserts, cross the most dangerous seas, climb the highest mountain! Gumball says he doesn't need to do any of those things to know he's know. He's too lazy for any of that.
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* MadnessMantra: Larry begins repeating "I get up. I shower. I go to work. I go home. I go to sleep." after realizing how meaningless his life is.

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* MadnessMantra: Larry begins repeating "I get up. I shower. I go to work. I work all day. I go home. I go to sleep." after realizing how meaningless his life is.
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* TheHedonist: Richard says the meaning of life is attaining "a total feeling of satisfaction and pleasure", right before eating a stick of butter. Gumball says that just stuffing his face, and Richard agrees.

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* TheHedonist: Richard says the meaning of life is attaining "a total feeling of satisfaction and pleasure", right before eating a stick of butter. Gumball says that that's just stuffing his face, and Richard agrees.
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** Gumball and Darwin leaving Alan to get beat up by the bullies (both from the season two episode "The Lesson") who wrecked his lemonade stand for charity.

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*** As he tries to chase after them, his parachute suddenly deploys to hold him in place. "Oh ''now'' you're working."


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* InconvenientParachuteDeployment: As the ghost of a skydiver tries to chase after Gumball and Darwin, his parachute suddenly deploys to hold him in place.
-->''[[BlackComedy Oh NOW you're working.]]''
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* KickingMyOwnButt: Alan is so obsessed with being helpful that when the Bomb Guy announce he'll beat Alan up, Alan throw his face onto the guy's fist.

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* KickingMyOwnButt: Alan is so obsessed with being helpful that when the Bomb Guy announce Julius announces he'll beat Alan up, Alan throw his face onto the guy's fist.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Alan asks Gumball and Darwin to help when he's attacked by some bullies. They leave.

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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Alan asks Gumball and Darwin to help when he's attacked by some bullies.Julius and Mowdown. They leave.
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Janis is surely named for Janis Joplin.


* ContinuityNod: Mr. Small still drives Janice, the hippie van he got back from the dimension of the world's mistakes in "The Void".

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* ContinuityNod: Mr. Small still drives Janice, Janis, the hippie van he got back from the dimension of the world's mistakes in "The Void".
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** The planets of the solar system hear Gumball asking about the meaning of life, so they decide to answer in the form of a "[[BlatantLies feelgood song]]" where they tell Gumball that [[InsignificantLittleBluePlanet his entire world, and all life is pitifully meaningless on a cosmic scale.]]. The scene then flash-forwards to billions of years in the future as the sun explodes and destroys the entire solar system.

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** The planets of the solar system hear Gumball asking about the meaning of life, so they decide to answer in the form of a "[[BlatantLies feelgood song]]" where they tell Gumball that [[InsignificantLittleBluePlanet his entire world, and all life is pitifully meaningless on a cosmic scale.]]. scale]]. The scene then flash-forwards {{flash forward}}s to billions of years in the future as the sun explodes and destroys the entire solar system.
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A defining trait of a Dirty Coward is a lack of mercy to others, which they don't.


* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Alan asks Gumball and Darwin to help when he's attacked by some bullies. [[DirtyCoward They leave.]]

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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Alan asks Gumball and Darwin to help when he's attacked by some bullies. [[DirtyCoward They leave.]]

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