Bobert: The closest comparison to mankind is a virus. It must be terminated.
Darwin and Gumball give Bobert safety instructions, but his interpretations of them don't work out. He misinterprets Gumball's command of protecting the world to destroying the single factor that is harming the world: mankind.Tropes:
- Argument of Contradictions: Larry and Mr. Small bicker over how the word "quinoa" is pronounced (Mr. Small insists it's "kwe-NO-ah", Larry insists it's "keen-wah"). For those curious, Larry's right.
- Beware the Superman: Bobert taking instructions way too literally makes him a danger to himself and others. He ends up trying to destroy all of mankind.
- Body Horror: The radiation sickness Gumball experiences makes him sickly and green but he waits to stop it because he thinks he might get superpowers. He just ends up with a five-fingered tongue trying to escape his mouth.
- Chekhov's Gun: When talking about how he needs to preserve all life, Bobert mentions that viruses are included. When he later deems humanity as a virus that needs to be eradicated, Gumball and Darwin remind him about how he said he'd preserve viruses.
- The Chew Toy: Darwin tests their newly given restrictions on Bobert's behavior by ordering him to harm Gumball. Gumball suffers a lot from this, and he takes the earliest chance to order Bobert to harm Darwin. Too bad by then they've already achieved the right kind of orders that make him harmless.
- Continuity Nod: Gumball is knocked out of his room into his room of last year by Bobert, which puts him in "The Spoiler" at the scene where he was trying to make money for the movies.
- A Day in the Limelight: For Bobert.
- Helpless Kicking: During the Wimp Fight, Mr. Small goes down embarrassingly easily, and flails his legs trying to hold Larry back.
- Humans Are Bastards: Bobert's analysis of threats to life leads him to the conclusion that mankind is the greatest threat to life on Earth and must be destroyed.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Darwin avoids direct harm from Bobert after putting Gumball through the ringer testing him, but the next scene he's prevented from being saved from the harm of choking because the Heimlich might bruise him. Then Bobert follows orders to save him any way possible by the undignified method of inflating him through the butt until the blockage pops out of his mouth.
- Lawful Stupid: Bobert falls into this when Gumball and Darwin order him to uphold the law, choosing to uphold very ridiculous laws by burning off Miss Simian's hair with a laser ("According to the law in New Mexico, females are forbidden to appear unshaven in public."), threatening Gary who simply eating soup with an Arm Cannon ("According to the law in New Jersey, it is illegal to slurp your soup."), continuing to do so when Gary screams in fear ("In North Carolina, it is illegal to sing off-key."), ripping off the orange security guard's beard ("In Massachusetts, goatees are illegal without a license."), and blowing up Billy's lollipop ("Lollipops are also banned.") When Gumball tries to stop him, Bobert tries to shoot him for "obstruction of justice," only to miss and blow up the roof, at which point Bobert shoots himself for destroying public property, and then shoots himself again for committing aggravated assault on himself.
- Literal Metaphor:
- Bobert literally knocks Gumball into last year, which appears to be around the beginning of "The Spoiler".
- Bobert destroying the economy makes the Earth stop spinning because money made the world go round.
- Literal-Minded: The main conflict with this episode is due to Bobert taking things literally and always to the furthest extreme.
- Logic Bomb: In the form of using Bobert own analogy against him. He said that in order to safe all life, he must eradicate humans like the virus they are. Darwin explains that he can't eradicate humans because viruses are life too.
- Loophole Abuse: Bobert's way of fulfilling requests with increasing amendments and restrictions. When ordered not to move at all to harm someone and ordered to harm Gumball, he emits radiation to harm him motionlessly.
- Move Along, Nothing to See Here: Downplayed: after Gumball crashes into the opening of "The Spoiler", he deflects any questions by stating:Gumball: Sorry, guys. Bobert knocked me into last year. Just do your thing, I'll wait this one out.
- Shown Their Work: All of the "laws" that Bobert tries to enforce? They are actual laws, or at least rumored former laws that may have been on the books but never actually repealed and not enforced today. Even the goatee law
is not just made up for comedy - The Slow Path: If Gumball's "I'll wait this one out." comment means anything, it's that he willingly invokes this trope after winding up in "The Spoiler".
- Spin the Earth Backwards: Variation: Gumball is hit by Bobert so hard, he winds up being flung across the entire planet backwards until he crashes back into his room, one year prior.
- Suicide as Comedy: Bobert at one point concludes that he needs to be terminated. He then starts to delete System 32 as a comedic funeral dirge plays.
- Superficial Suggestion Box: Gumball wants to complain to Miss Simian about the concept of homework, so she suggests he put it in the suggestion box. There's a suggestion box next to the classroom door that drops Gumball's suggestion right into a paper shredder. Gumball follows up by saying he wants to file a complaint, to which Miss Simian says to go to the Complaint Box. Cue a shot of a mail box in the middle of a desert wasteland, with the bones of a student still gripping a letter sticking out of the mailbox lid.
- Three Laws-Compliant: Bobert already follows any order given to him and the plot of the episode is Gumball and Darwin avoiding their homework by figuring out orders that mitigate the danger of his literal-mindedness. They eventually order him not to harm anyone or allow anyone to come to harm from anyone else.
- We Need a Distraction: Gumball and Darwin distract Bobert to infiltrate his base by sending him an email that claims they're attached to it.
- Wimp Fight: Larry and Mr. Small get into a heated argument over how to pronounce the word "quinoa", and devolve into a pathetic slap fight.
- Your Head A-Splode: When Gumball wishes he could just "skip the whole hassle of life", Bobert takes it too far and decides to terminate his life by shooting a laser at his head causing it to blow up. It then suddenly regrows a second later.
