Gumball: Dude! The objects are revolting!
Darwin feels bad for the household objects in Elmore and encourages them to rise up.
Tropes:
- Ass Shove: Implied. In the ending, Darwin is bent over, acting as a pencil sharpener — You can imagine the rest — especially when the pencil breaks and Darwin looks on scared.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: Darwin compassionately advocating for objects to get better treatment ends with them enslaving humanity, including Darwin himself.Gumball: (bitterly sighs) You happy now? I've got to spend the rest of my days as an easel.
Darwin: (regretfully) It's alright for you, I've just got to hope he doesn't want to sharpen the pencil... again. - Brick Joke: During Darwin's demonstration of how people treat objects, Gumball stops him short when he tries to act like a pencil sharpener. Guess which role Darwin ends up taking when objects overthrow the world?
- Brutal Honesty: Gumball doesn't pull any punches when he tells the objects what humanity does with them. Darwin derides him, saying they could've broken it to them more gently.
- A Day in the Limelight: For the sentient objects in Elmore.
- Didn't Think This Through: Darwin has a montage of objects being part of society, doing things like going to moon, being a model, and being elected president. Afterwards, Gumball gives a Once More, with Clarity of the montage to show how those examples aren't practical.
- Downer Ending: The objects have enslaved the entire population at the end and it isn't resolved onscreen.
- Fun with Homophones: When Gumball tells Darwin that the objects are revolting, Darwin assumes he means revolting like an insult, before Gumball mentions he meant in the revolution manner.
- Gory Discretion Shot: Principal Brown is flushed down the toilet in a manner that's implied to both rather violent and lethal, but we only see a small part of the lower half of his body (as everything else is covered by the stall door), a large puddle forming on the floor, and the toilet burping up his newspaper afterwards. Naturally, he's fine in the next episode.
- Hypocrite: After the objects overthrow humanity, they declare they'll start a new society where no one is oppressed. It then cuts to a society of objects with humanity being used by them.
- Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: The objects are perfectly fine being used until they learn that they're treated as disposable by people.
- Never My Fault: At the end of the episode, Gumball blamed Darwin for inanimate objects enslaving humanity, even though he was partially responsible due to revealing that they eventually get junked.
- Not Helping Your Case: When the objects get upset upon seeing that humanity throws them away, Darwin tries to tell them not everyone is like that, and certainly not them. A few seconds later, Gumball becomes tired with his phone, gets a replacement, and tosses the old one away, causing its screen to crack.
- Reveal Shot: When the objects ask Darwin what happens to them when they get old and broken, we see what appears to be Darwin having an Imagine Spot of garbage dumps, but it's actually Gumball showing it to the objects on his phone.
- Sequel Episode: To “The World”, as both episodes deconstruct the fact that everything in Elmore is alive. It notably expands the Brick Joke of a soda can outraged at being thrown away and getting revenge on Darwin for discarding it into the climax of the episode.
- Shout-Out:
- The scene with Tobias being chased by a tricycle through the school is based on the iconic hallway scene from The Shining.
- The Fan peeking out from behind a hedge to spy on the Hexagon Lady and Tobias' mother is straight out of Halloween (1978).
- Among the objects revolting is a Luxo lamp repeatedly stomping someone's face in. He's holding a DVD cover of a flying house on balloons.
- Soapbox Sadie: For this episode, Darwin is conscientiously against objects being used like... well like objects because they're sentient beings.
- Solar-Powered Magnifying Glass: Among the errors Gumball points out with Darwin's Imagine Spots of objects being a part of society, the magnifying glass that goes to the moon ends up bombarding Elmore with destructive solar beams.
- What Measure Is a Non-Human?: The objects of Elmore are all sentient , but many of the "people" of Elmore also appear to be sentient objects. It seems that the main difference is that the people are more anthropomorphic, as well as that the objects have no aspirations beyond being used for their intended purpose.
