The Wattersons play a fantasy role-playing board game to resolve their differences.
Tropes:
- Balloon Belly: Nicole after the lunch break.
- Car Meets House: The Wattersons' station wagon has crashed through the wall as a result of the family fighting earlier.
- Continuity Nod: An instrumental of "Without You" is briefly heard.
- Fastball Special: Nicole's Barbarian tosses Gumball's Dwarf Warrior to help strike the final blow against the Witch.
- Genghis Gambit: In the Final Boss level, the family decides to turn against the Game Master to gain an advantage, which is what Richard was planning.
- Glass Smack and Slide: The shot of the car crashed into the living room shows Nicole's makeup smudged all over the windshield.
- Hollywood Board Games: The Wattersons play Dungeons & Dragons to settle a familial dispute. The gameplay is depicted very realistically (for a dysfunctional party, that is) and no one is characterized as geeky for enjoying the game.
- Mooning: Anais flashes her butt to her brothers to demonstrate that it "looks like a Fabergé egg" as a result of them bedazzling the toilet seat.
- Rail Roading: In a more benevolent example, Richard has the party saved from falling off the edge of the world by a portal spontaneously appearing under them that "conveniently" sends them to the end of the quest.
- Throw It In!: Invoked by Richard when the family pauses in the middle of the final battle to get some food. When the session resumes, all characters and the boss itself are now sluggish from overeating.
- RPG Episode: Richard makes the others play a role-playing game in order to get them to make up.
- Rule of Cool: Deliberately invoked by Richard when Darwin defeats a monster by breaking up with it via text message.
- Shout-Out:
- When Richard acts as Dungeon Master, he's dressed as the character of the same name from the Dungeons & Dragons (1983) cartoon.
- The riddle gate that the Wattersons go through is similar to the gate from The Never Ending Story.
- Anais's character looks like Gandalf.
- Tranquil Fury: Everybody except Richard displays signs of this at the beginning of the episode.
- Writing Around Trademarks: It's all but stated the Wattersons are playing Dungeons & Dragons, with Richard specifying that they'll be "raiding dungeons and fighting dragons". At one point, he even namedrops Gary Gygax.
