Darwin decides to stop eating potatoes to avoid offending Idaho, but this proves far harder than he expected.
Tropes:
- Bait-and-Switch: When Gumball looks up "things to do with your hands" on the Internet, he and Darwin are surprised at the results before Gumball says it returned origami. The implications of searching those terms on the internet and getting apparently shocking results is left unsaid.
- Carnivore Confusion: Directly addressed in this episode and subverted as Idaho considers himself fundamentally different from the potatoes others eat and is offended by Gumball presuming otherwise.
- Cold Turkeys Are Everywhere: Darwin is extremely oblivious to just how many foods use potatoes as their main ingredient.
- Compressed Vice: For the first time in the series, we see just how much Darwin likes potatoes.
- Continuity Nod: Gumball tries opening the door to the Wattersons' house by pulling it outward, but it won't open since it turns out the door opens inwards.
- Contrived Coincidence: Idaho decides to clear the air with Darwin, who is currently isolating himself to kick his potato habit, and is crisped by the sun, bastes himself with tanning lotion thinking it was sunscreen and salted by a salt truck salting for snow in the middle of summertime.
- Cut Apart: A cole slaw truck with malfunctioning breaks appears to be headed straight for Idaho, but it turns out to be one street over.
- A Day in the Limelight: For Idaho.
- Did I Just Say That Out Loud?: Gumball keeps saying his thoughts out loud, unwittingly revealing that he's not paying attention.
- Disney Acid Sequence: After Darwin starts tripping out on potatoes and seeing everyone as literal potato-heads, he starts hallucinating said potatoes becoming disembodied, floating in a stylistically-lit black void, and negatively singing about his (percieved) cannibalism, set to heavy rock and ominous chanting of "potato".
- Does This Remind You of Anything?:
- Darwin trying to cut potatoes out of his diet is played like going sober, complete with group counselling and stashes in implicitly vulgar places.
- When Idaho explains that he doesn't care if people eat non-anthropomorphic potatoes, he asks Gumball if all potatoes look alike to him. Gumball gets extremely nervous and avoids answering.
- Don't Look At Me: Mr. Small screams this at Gumball when the latter seems him tearing into a raw steak like an animal.
- "Everybody Laughs" Ending: Zig-zagged. After realizing that Idaho was offended by Gumball nicknaming him "Brotato", everyone begins laughing before a very embarrassed Gumball once again says his thoughts out loud to keep laughing so they understand, prompting everyone else to stop and pretend they didn't just hear him.
- Failed a Spot Check: The goblin salting the roads for snow somehow doesn't realize that it's the middle of June and 90 degrees.
- Fantastic Racism: Edible potatoes are different from potato people. Gumball doesn't know the difference.
- Foreshadowing: Idaho not being offended by Darwin's potato-eating habits is hinted at very early on. At the beginning of the episode, he watches Darwin eat a potato without reacting. You can also see him pull a disgusted face when Gumball calls him "Brotato" for the first time.
- Hypocrite: Gumball believes Darwin should stop eating potato products because it seems to upset Idaho but sees nothing wrong with eating wedges or crisps himself.
- Innocently Insensitive: Darwin has been innocently oblivious to how the culinary applications of potatoes might offend Idaho. Ultimately turns out to be worrying for nothing.
- Irony: Sarah mentions that she goes to Mr. Small's group therapy to help with her obsessive personality. She then declares that she hasn't missed a single session, even though she's tried.
- Made from Real Girl Scouts: Darwin had presumed french fries were made from French people.
- Milholland Relationship Moment: The plot of the episode is Darwin trying to quit potatoes cold turkey because he may be offending Idaho. Idaho was actually offended by Gumball calling him "Brotato."
- Pokémon Speak: Darwin's halucinated potato-heads only speak using the word "potato".
- Sanity Ball: Sara in this episode, big time: she understands about the situation Darwin is going through, and explains to Gumball as to why living Idaho go to Dyron is a bad idea
- Shout-Out: When Sarah tries to explain to Gumball why sending Idaho to Darwin was a bad idea, building a model of the block he lives in and apologising she didn't have the time to build it to scale. This is referencing Back to the Future in which Doc Brown also makes similar impressive model environments in a short amounts of time and apologising he couldn't have done better.
- Vacuum Mouth: As Gumball informs him of how insensitive he is to Idaho by eating a potato in front of him, Darwin gasps so hard he inhales all the food around him.
