Gumball and Darwin sneak into the Rainbow Factory while Nicole tries to convince the shareholders of the factory to not close the place down.
Tropes:
- Bait-and-Switch:
- Nicole mistakes two graphs with projections that look like faces for the Shareholders because of how things usually work in Elmore. Turns out they really are just inanimate objects.
- One of the Shareholders says the only pictures on his wallet are of Washington and Benjamin. Turns out those are the names of his two kids, with Nicole lampshading that she thought he meant dollar bills. (He also had a third son named Hamilton, whom he fired.)
- Behind the Black: The boys stowaway in Nicole's briefcase, which Gumball hands to her from within the briefcase, and somehow she didn't notice that her briefcase was floating to her carried by an arm sticking from inside it because the camera angle didn't show that at first.
- Big Red Button: Gumball and Darwin push one that happens to make the factory go haywire. A second such button activates the override that returns the factory back to normal.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: The Shareholders who want to shut down the rainbow factory value profit above all else, giving their workers very little free time. This is most evident in their perception of children; proposing that employees save time spent with them by all sharing one large child so they can work longer hours, suggesting the surplus children be fed to the shared one.
- Don't Touch It, You Idiot!: Nicole sees Gumball and Darwin outside the meeting room window and tries to silently gesture not to press the Big Red Button on a control panel. After hearing the shareholders are going to shut the factory down, she makes a gesture that they interpret to mean press the button, causing the factory to have a catastrophic breakdown.
- Eye Scream: Gumball climbs the factory's wall using his eyes as suction cups.
- I Have No Son!: One of the Shareholders disowned his third child for going "over budget" asking for more hugs than he was allotted.
- Is This Thing Still On?: As the Shareholder gets accidentally beat up by Nicole for mistaking him as a button, he screams out begging that he will not close the factory, treat his employees much better with raises and better working conditions as well as more vacation days. He said all this while every other worker got affected by the toxic fumes.Shareholder: Thank heavens everyone's out cold and didn't hear that.
All Employees: (wake up) Yeah we did! (goes back to passing out) - Laser-Guided Karma: The shareholders get this as everything they denied the employees including Nicole as well as wanting to shutdown the factory; they end up suffering from the factory's malfunction, get accidentally beat up by Nicole, and forced themselves to give the employees the benefits and raises as well as better working conditions they deserve thanks to Gumball and Darwin.
- Meaningful Appearance: The greedy shareholders of the Rainbow Factory are walking talking piggy banks.
- Mushroom Samba: The toxic fumes as a byproduct of rainbow production cause hallucinations.
- Must Have Caffeine: Rather than pour hot water on her cup with instant coffee, Nicole instead pours it on the instant coffee jar and drinks that.
- Noodle Implements: Apparently, rainbows are actually made from gasoline, arsenic, latex, lead, and rust.
- Not Hyperbole: When Nicole leaves Gumball and Darwin at her desk, she tells them to stay there and touch nothing. And when she says "nothing", she means even the floor.
- Spanner in the Works: Had Gumball and Darwin not gone to Rainbow Factory, they wouldn't have saved it from shutting down and giving workers their needed raise and 10 extra days of vacation while providing more safety measures to it as well thus saving their mother's job and their livelihood.
- Spoonerism: While under the effects of a Mushroom Samba during his and Gumball's song, Darwin sings "Led, lorry, lellow, greeny, bludigo, and violet!".
- "Take Your Child to Work Day" Plot: It's bring your child to work day, and Gumball and Darwin unsuccessfully try to convince Nicole to take them to the Rainbow Factory because Richard doesn't work.
- Threat Backfire: When Nicole asks to be excused to go back to her desk, one of the Shareholders state if she kept it up, her desk would be moved to a bathroom stall. Nicole points out that normally that would be a threat, but seeing as how employees don't get bathroom breaks, it'd actually be an improvement.
- Throw the Dog a Bone: Nicole and the Rainbow Factory workers get this with their jobs saved, their pay increased with other benefits, and the working environment became more positive thanks to Gumball and Darwin.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: Gumball and Darwin were expecting the Rainbow Factory to be a happy, magical place where rainbows are made in a whimsical manner like Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. They discover that the factory is actually as depressing and nauseating as a real factory, even for a place that deals in something nonsensical as rainbows.
