Gumball and Darwin must get Anais' talking donkey plush toy, Daisy, back from Tina (a realistic 3D-animated Tyrannosaurus Rex who lives in the town dump with her unseen, but equally scary father).
In 2011, this episode won the Annecy International Animated Film Festival for Best Television Production and was nominated for a Royal Television Society Award for Best Children's Programmenote , but lost to the Newsround episode "My Autism & Me."
Tropes:
- Badass Boast: Gumball tries one on the bus to get Daisy back "If you throw that doll out the window then you'll unleash the full fury of my terrifying anger. Mountains will shake! Cities will crumble! The skies will be ripped apart and the meteor of my wrath will grind you into DUST!" Didn't work; Daisy gets thrown out the window.
- Big Damn Heroes: Anais seems to disappear when she hands off Daisy to Gumball and Darwin, getting Tina to chase them, but shows back up to pin Tina to the ground with a crane just in time.
- Big "NO!": When her doll is thrown off the bus, Anais gives a big no and several smaller 'no's.
- Bolivian Army Ending: Gumball, Darwin, and Anais, are left defenseless from Tina's dad who eats any trespassers on sight.
- Bullying a Dragon: While trying to get Daisy back from Tina, Gumball and Darwin play with Tina's face as she sleeps.
- Cutting the Knot: Gumball, Darwin, and Anais hide from Tina inside of a car and lock the door. The window is open, but Tina's arms are too short to reach the lock, so she just starts crushing the entire car.
- A Day in the Limelight: Tina’s first one.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: Tobias and Carrie's roles in this episode as The Bully is much drastic to their characterizations afterwards in later seasons.
- Epic Fail: After twice demonstrating his inability to catch objects, Gumball fails to not catch one he's getting chased for carrying.
- Karma Houdini: Carrie and Tobias get away with throwing Daisy out of the window.
- Keep Away: The episode starts with Carrie and Tobias throwing Daisy around so Anais can't get it. At the episode's end, Anais, Darwin, and Gumball play Keep Away and Hot Potato with the doll, trying to keep it from Tina but also not be the one being chased after for it.
- Living Motion Detector: Gumball tries to become invisible to Tina by standing still.
- Nightmare Face: Anais gives one to Gumball after he said that Daisy is only a toy.Gumball: Relax sis, it's only a toy.
Anais: NO IT'S NOT!
Gumball: Okay, we'll get it back. - Not Hyperbole: When Anais says Tina's house is a dump, it's not an exaggeration—Tina literally lives in a shack inside the city dump.
- Oh, Crap!:
- Gumball and Darwin's expression after Anais says Daisy isn't just a toy.
- Everyone reaction when Anais' toy goes off next to a sleeping Tina.
- Puppy-Dog Eyes: Anais uses this on Gumball when he doesn't want to take it back, Then Anais and Gumball use this on each other when she tries to convince him to go over to Tina's house to rescue Anais' doll. Anais wins. Tina does it later in the episode. It works.
- Rubber Face: Gumball tries to use a pole to get Daisy from a sleeping Tina's arm, but gets distracted using it to play with her face, lifting her mouth to make her smile.
- Running Gag: Gumball failing to catch things.
- Shoddy Knockoff Product: An attempted replacement for Anais' Daisy doll is a version of the same doll with a badly stitched-together face that plays recordings in Chinese, dances, and then catches on fire, revealing a metal endoskeleton beneath.
- Skewed Priorities: Even in the face of being mauled by a T-rex, Anais refuses to give Daisy up.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Tobias and Carrie basically started this whole episode by defenestrating Daisy and dissapear later on.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: When confronted by Tina at the entrance to the dump, Gumball tells Darwin to stay still because Tina's eyesight is based on movement. Tina immediately tells him that only works in the movies and charges at them.
