"Don't make a fuss! This one's about us!"
The Extras: You have ignored us, for way too long. Do you think that's really fair?
After Gumball and Darwin comment on how today is a slow day, the background characters of Elmore decide to have their own adventures in a series of vignettes (similar to the season two episode "The World") after scaring Gumball and Darwin with a musical number.
Tropes:
- Ascended Extra: The vast majority of the characters featured have been in the backgrounds of or had minor roles in previous episodes.
- The Green Bear, The green gummi bear who initiates the musical number and the dog and mushroom named literally Mushroom standing next to him have been seen in the background of numerous scenes in the school cafeteria.
- The two stiffly-animated crowd members really were in the background of "The Sweaters".
- A lot of the characters who appeared for the song but didn’t get a segment were shown previously like the librarian, the hexagon lady, the orange security guard Nicole traumatized in “The Limit”, Hot Dog Guy, Fuzzball, the floppy disk from “The Internet”, the cupcake lady, the hairy hobo, Pantsbully, the melted cheese guy, Tony (the fat yellow man, also known as Neck Beard), and Fenton Benson (the corn guy).
- The band-aid doctor was previously seen in "Christmas" (after the Santa hobo got hit by the Wattersons), "The Authority" (when Richard was put in the hospital after the satellite dish fell on his head), and "The Kids" (when Gumball and Darwin see him about their voices).
- The hamburger the doctor talks to has been seen several times (usually as a police officer along with Donut Cop and referred to as The Jolly Hamburger) — though the first time we see the hamburger was when Richard was high on anesthetics in "The Flakers", implying that The Jolly Hamburger wasn't real.
- Ed and his family were at the bus stop and were seen briefly in "The End" and the black rectangle was shown at Richard and Nicole's wedding in "The Wand" (in the flashback of Richard screaming "NO!" for 15 years) and "The Ape" (in the flashback of the many times Miss Simian called Nicole a loser).
- Hank and the Grey Construction Man, The two LEGO-looking construction workers talking about their co-worker, Steve's wig were seen a few times, including at Mr. Fitzgerald's job in "The Knights", carrying a glass sheet in "The Watch", and at the house party in "The Castle" who were surprised that Mr. Small was eating meat and assumed he was a "vegetarian eco-warrior". The blue LEGO-looking guy named Steve who Hank and the gray man made fun of is a new character and begins reappearing after this episode.
- The Bacon Man/Exercise Bacon was also at Richard and Nicole's wedding in "The Ape".
- The black bird and others like him have been seen throughout the show whenever they needed a bird (though the colorful bird is considered a new character, as he wasn't there in previous episodes).
- Billy and his mother (the Orange Woman, whose name would later revealed to be Felicity on the episode "The Egg") have been seen in numerous background shots, including speaking parts in "The Hero" and "The Kids".
- The fed-up officer workers (Charlie the cloud man and Lenny Smith, the green, Minecraft-looking office worker) were the same ones seen in "The Painting" when Richard tries to get a job. Mike, the clipboard man, however, was one of the government agents who took away and sent Darwin back home in "The Genius".
- The four senior citizens (Marvin Finkleheimer the red jelly bean, Louie the Mickey Mouse knock-off, the patch of tartan cloth later named Donald MacArthur according to season four's "The Crew" and “The Nest”, and Betty MacArthur, the chalkboard woman) had been shown numerous times, most notably when Gumball and Darwin were asking around about Lazy Larry in "The Laziest".
- The four prisoners (the butter knife, the spraypaint can, the bird-dolphin monster, and the gargoyle-looking tough guy) were the Wattersons's cell mates in "The Finale".
- The shooting star host of "Win or Don't Win" was the star Gumball wished on in "The Mustache". The show's contestant, a purple moose named Gary Hedges/Harry Gedges, was the mailman Kenneth ate in "The Microwave" and the neighbor whose car was crushed when the Wattersons fought over the garage door opener they thought was a remote control for the TV in "The Remote."
- The ghost doing situps was a background character in "Halloween".
- Siciliana and Quattro, the pizza-head couple was previously seen as one of the people Gumball and Darwin (tried to) deliver pizza to in "The Job”.
- A Day in the Limelight: Similar to "The World," this episode doesn't focus on any of the main or supporting characters. Rather, it focuses on the minor, one-shot, and background characters in a collection of sketches.
- Behind the Black: A cutout thinks he disappeared because he's turned sideways and thus barely visible to the audience (even though that should make him more visible to everyone else in the crowd).
- Bowdlerization: The vignette with the colorful bird doing his mating dance in front of the black pigeon (who tells him he's actually a guy, but wants him to continue the dance because it was cool) was cut on Latin America's Cartoon Network channel because of the
homoerotic undertones. - Brutal Honesty: Steve asks the gray construction man what he thinks of his wig. It starts with "YOUR HAIR IS HORRIBLE!" and goes downhill from there.
- Dissonant Serenity: Felicity Parham continues to keep a pleasant tone of voice, even as her son, Billy's incessant pestering leads her to driving her car into a house and beating herself unconscious with a shovel.
- Facial Horror: When Siciliana and Quattro, a married couple with pizzas for faces, kiss, the results are not pretty.
- Fantastic Racism: One of the cutout people gains the ability to move. After praising him for a few seconds, the others all decide to attack him for being different. It doesn't help that the one who learned that he could move, succeeds, and ends up being discriminated for it is Black...
- Flashback with the Other Darrin: Much like Logan Grove's voice being replaced with Jacob Hopkins' in the flashbacks shown in "The Name", Darwin's voice in the line in "The Sweaters" ("This is boring. This is so boring!") was said by Terrell Ransom, Jr. instead of Kwesi Boakye.
- Freudian Slippery Slope: Hank to Steve who has an obvious wig: "Hey Steve. We're just hanging hair-HERE! Hey, it's good to see you're rug-MUG! But anyway, how it's going toupee-TODAY?"
- Half the Man He Used to Be: One of the cutouts at Richwood High gets snapped in half when he reaches down for a dropped bag of popcorn. He doesn't mind because he reached the popcorn.
- Hostile Show Takeover: The episode starts when Gumball and Darwin mention their day being uneventful and a bunch of background characters decide this is their chance to be in the spotlight and demand Gumball and Darwin give them the episode. The two, naturally freaked out over this sudden rebellion, let them have it without a fight.
- I Resemble That Remark!: After Louie the mouse finishes dancing.Louie: (points to the right) You just got served, young man.
Marvin: Louie, that's a trash can. Did you take your medicine today?
Louie: No one asked for your opinion, magic talking fire hydrant! - Leaning on the Fourth Wall: The opening musical, about being a background character getting a chance to shine, seems to be technically addressed to Darwin and Gumball, but the singer spends the whole time looking at the screen (at one point Gumball and Darwin are in the sides of the foreground and the gummi bear man is looking right between them).
- Lower-Deck Episode: It mostly features a variety of vignettes about under-seen Elmore residents book-ended by an explanatory musical number. This is lampshaded at the end:Gumball: Turn around? (turns around, sees nothing) But there's nobody left back there.
The Green Bear: Yeah, I didn't think about that. - Moment Killer:
- The harmonizing prisoners get a pretty good rhythm going until the spray paint can starts his horrid harmonica playing.
- Quattro and Siciliana's romantic day out gets ruined when they kiss and their faces get smeared.
- Musical Pastiche: The music playing when the senior citizen "dance" is a pastche of "Rockit".
- Rimshot: A Running Gag has this caused by an anthropomorphic drum set sneezing at opportune times.
- Rhetorical Question Blunder: Lenny Smith, a disgruntled office worker asks why they aren't all running around and getting the life they deserve. Then he's handed his paycheck and considers it a satisfying answer.
- Unsettling Gender-Reveal: A colorful bird does a mating dance for a black pigeon, including shoving his tail plumage in his face, only to find out that bird is male and get disappointed. The black bird encourages him to continue because he thinks the dance is awesome, and the colorful bird happily complies—even the butt in the face part.
- We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties: "Win or Don't Win" is cut off when Gary, the constestent gets so excited over winning a microwave that he tackles The Shooting Star Host and starts forcefully belly kissing him.
