History Recap / TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS4E14TheRomantic

* ADayInTheLimelight: Most of the episode follows Penny going through Gumball's romantic quest.

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Penny suffers a lot of pain as a result of Gumball's poor planning: she nearly has a heart attack from Rocky's reckless driving, is attacked by a chemical monster, turns into a shriveled prune from crawling into a desert and back, and has her head swell up like a balloon from food allergies.

** Anais drew one Emoji to tell her how she feels about Gumball's plan which he does not understand. (Which is a face blowing through nose in a huff out of frustration). Penny eventually does the same Emoji to show how was she feeling after what Gumball put her through and Gumball understands it a bit.
** Gumball does a Emoji which was the same one Penny used before in the ending after Penny had to witness the fireworks display. Penny sighs and just smiled as she can't stay mad at him after witnessing the fireworks.

* IsThisThingStillOn: The flash mob did everything Gumball want them to do by video... including the part where he was sending it and picking his nose, thinking the booger was either that or a piece of brain and putting it back into his nose before he realized the camera was still on. Penny giggled and smiled as she found Gumball being dorky.
* LaughingMad: Gumball's instructions accidentally send Penny into the [[RougeAnglesOfSatin "desert place" instead of the dessert place]] in Elmore, where they both shared their first ice cream. He even left her a message in the desert, made out of bones, apologizing he send her out there and [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]] how easily he could've corrected the original message in the first place. This makes Penny laugh maniacally for a moment while turning into a gorgon.

* YourInsane: Penny says this to Gumball after he confesses the entire scavenger hunt was based around a simple text message. And she does so in the form of a dragon.

* TooDumbToLive: Upon realizing the mistakes he made [[spoiler:(the spelling error on the blackboard and giving Penny blueberry ice cream, which she's allergic to)]], Gumball doesn't even try to correct them, which would've saved Penny all that trouble.

* {{Emoticon}}: The episode starts with Gumball and Penny's Emoji conversation, which ends with Penny typing one heart instead her usual three. Gumball overreacts to this and sets the plot in motion despite Anais's reassurances. Of course Penny found out and was not amused--which ironically saves them from the beasts in the forest, because it made her angry enough to [[InvoluntaryShapeshifter change form]] into a dragon.

* TooDumbToLive: Upon realizing the mistakes he made [[spoilder:(the spelling error on the blackboard and giving Penny blueberry ice cream, which she's allergic to)]], Gumball doesn't even try to correct them, which would've saved Penny all that trouble.

* TooHungryToBePolite: When Penny finally crawls from the desert to the dessert place, she's so dehydrated that she shoves her face into the bowl of ice cream in Larry's hands. She eats is so fast that she doesn't realize part of it is blueberry, which she's terribly allergic to.

* LaughingMad: Gumball's instructions accidentally send Penny into the [[RougeAnglesOfSatin "desert place" instead of the dessert place]] in Elmore, where they both shared their first ice cream. He even left her a message in the desert, made out of bones, apologizing he send her out there and lampshading how easily he could've corrected the original message in the first place. This makes Penny laugh maniacally for a moment while turning into a Medusa monster.

* RealityEnsues: When Gumball jumps down from the cliff to save Penny from the animals, he does a perfect three-point landing...then falls down in pain and moans that he hurt his ankle.

-->'''Gumball''': ''[Laughs]'' WHat are the chances?

* ImplausibleDeniability: After being told by Penny to stop with big romantic gestures, Gumball tries and fails to stop a firework show he set up beforehand. He proceeds to deny it, but the fireworks explode into phrases specific enough to incriminate him.

* IsThisThingStillOn: The flash mob did everything Gumball want them to do by video... including the part where he was sending it and picking his nose, thinking the booger was either that or a piece of brain and putting it back into his nose before he realized the camera was still on. Penny giggled and smiled as she found Gumball being {{Adorkable}}.

->'''Penny:''' [[SayMyName Gumball]]...

* LaughingMad: Gumball's instructions accidentally send Penny into the [[RougeAnglesOfSatin "desert place" instead of the dessert place]] in Elmore, where they both shared their first ice cream. He even left her a message in the desert, made out of bones, apologizing he send her out there and lampshading how he easily he could've corrected the original message in the first place. This makes Penny laugh maniacal for a moment while turning into a Medusa monster.

* ScaredOfWhatsBehindYou: Penny outruns a wolf that then cowers and begins slinking away. Penny taunts the wolf, believing it is afraid of her, only to discover that the wolf is fleeing from a bear approaching from behind her.

* BookEnds: The quest started at the mall with Penny's first reaction to Gumball's first big gesture was giggling a smile "Gumball..." and then ends with her final reaction to the last big gesture was a sigh with a smile "Gumball...", showing she still loves him.

** The flashback of what really happened when Gumball tried to kiss Penny (as seen on "The Shell"[[note]]It should be noted that Turkey banned the episode "The Shell", leading to a DubInducedPlotHole as it's not explained how Penny went from being a "doe-nut" to being a yellow shapeshifter[[/note]]).

** For the finale, Gumball tries to recreate the moment of their first kiss from [[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS3E20TheShell "The Shell"]]. However, he forgot that their first kiss wasn't on the school auditorium stage (complete with a quick flashback), but in the middle of the forest[[note]]after Gumball finds Penny staring at the moon, tells her that he wasn't trying to hurt her feelings and that he really does think she's beautiful, followed by a BigDamnKiss that turns her back into what she looked like when she first broke out of her shell[[/note]]. Gumball wears the costume he wore at that school play for the rest of the episode.

* CriticalExistanceFailure: Leslie's violin snaps in half after playing the same piece 278 times.

* TooHungryToBePolite: When Penny finally crawls from the desert to the dessert place, she's so dehydrated that she shoves her face into the bowl of ice cream in Larry's hands. She eats is so fast that she doesn't realize part of it is blueberry, which she's terribly allergic to.

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Gumball's insults to Penny about her mom and sister actually make Penny laugh rather than get her mad. She doesn't get mad until Gumball admits that the whole love quest was because he thought he didn't like her anymore because of two missing emojis.

** The flashback of what really happened when Gumball tried to kiss Penny (as seen on "The Shell").