History Recap / TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS4E40TheDisaster

[[caption-width-right:350:"[[DarkestHour I did warn you. I said I would destroy you, and everyone you love.]]"]]

* AndYourLittleDogToo: Rob's vow to destroy "everything and everyone Gumball loves".

* {{Angrish}}: Nicole is so enraged by Gumball's antics apparently wrecking their car that she can't finish her scolding, and outright states that she's going to just make noises.

* FissionMailed: Rob closes the gateway to the void while Gumball is inside it, [[DoorClosesEnding the camera hangs on the static wall the void-side of the portal was made on]], and the credits start to roll... except they're backward and the music is muffled because we're seeing them from the ''[[BreakingTheFourthWall inside]]'' the screen. Then the camera shifts to the remote tumbling through the void and Gumball catches up to it, fixes the battery, and rewinds time to the beginning of the day. ToBeContinued.

* CardboardPrison: Rob was arrested at the end of "The Bus", and there's no explanation for why he's free now (other than the fact that Elmore's police force [[PoliceAreUseless are useless]]).

* SemanticSuperpower: The remote has a setting to control "parental filter". Setting it to "off" for Gumball's parents cause them to lose their ''mental'' filter, after which they immediately tear into each other so hard that they ''break up'' within a few minutes.

* ThemeTuneCameo: During the car ride, the Wattersons sing the show's ending theme WithLyrics.

* CardboardPrison: Rob was arrested at the end of "The Bus", and there's no explanation for why he's free now.
* {{Cliffhanger}}: The episode (and season proper) end on a pretty bleak note.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Easily one of the most darkest episodes in the show, tone-wise.

* BreakingTheFourthWall: PlayedForDrama and {{Deconstructed}}. Rob had discovered beforehand that he, along with everyone else in the universe are trapped inside an actual TV show. He does not take this discovery well and wants to remove Gumball from the show.

* IntelligibleUnintelligible: After Darwin storms off, Gumball is weeping so hard that he can only make whimpering noises, but the rest of his family can understand him anyway.

* NoticingTheFourthWall: Rob has realized that the world he and Gumball are in isn't real.

* ItsAllAboutMe:

* NeverMyFault: Rob blames Gumball for making him the villain even through he Choose to be the bad guy and still does it for the rest of the series.

* InsaneTrollLogic: The Wattersons somehow conclude that Gumball flipping the car window up and down made the other cars run into them at the parking lot.

-->'''Rob:''' Well I guess you’re going to do what any hero to save the ones he loves: You’re going to follow the remote.\\

* DarkestHour: Rob precisely paused at the moment where Darwin is nowhere to be found, Anais is lost and crying, Nicole and Richard are divorced (with Nicole happily on the arm of the Red Lego Construction Worker and Richard [[HeartbreakAndIceCream drowning his sorrow in donuts]]), and Penny falling to her likely death... to rub it into Gumball before he attempts to push him into the Void.

* NinjaProp: During their struggle, Rob attacks Gumball by using the remote to change the aspect ratio.

* GaveUpTooSoon: As soon as the remote malfunctions, Rob assumes it's broken. Since using it was Gumball's only hope of reversing Rob's actions, Rob throws it into the Void to force Gumball to follow in after it. Turns out the only thing wrong was one battery falling out of alignment, which Gumball easily corrects.

* BallisticDiscount: The store owner tries to take the remote back from Rob when he finds out he'll use it for evil, but Rob uses it to send his car flying away. When the store owner tries to at least get Rob to ''pay'' for it ($12.99), Rob ''erases him''.

--> '''Rob:''' Well I guess you’re going to do what any hero to save the ones he loves: You’re going to follow the remote.\\

* CorrelationCausationGag: Gumball continues playing with the car window even though Nicole asked him to stop. When he asks [[TemptingFate what could possibly happen]] Rob turns on all the cars in the parking garage, causing them to crash and wreck their car. Nicole seems to blame him in spite of Gumball rightfully pointing out it wasn't his fault.

* GaveUpTooSoon: As soon as the remote malfunctions, Rob assumes it's broken. Since using it was Gumball's only hope of reversing Rob's actions, Rob threw it into the Void to force Gumball to follow in after it. Turns out the only thing wrong was one battery falling out of alignment, which Gumball easily corrected.

* WhamEpisode: Rob accomplished ruining Gumball's life, put him in the Void, and pointed out that the world they live in is not real. At the last moment when falling into the Void, Gumball presses the ResetButton in the form of a Rewind Button on the Universal Remote to undo what Rob did.

-->'''Rob''': You really don't get it, do you? So happy to star in your ''amazing'' world. Can't you see that none of this is real!?

** Played straight when Rob puts subtitles under Gumball that make it look like he wishes Darwin weren't his brother. Darwin doesn't question how the subtitles are magically appearing in front of Gumball and just assumes they are his actual thoughts.