History Recap / TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS2E36TheSweaters

* YeahShot: The episodes ends with [[EverybodyLaughsEnding everyone laughing]] at Gumball's question about Carlton sweater, then freeze-framing on Carlton in mid-air... [[DefiedTrope but Gumball and Darwin are still moving.]]

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
-->'''Frank:''' Oooh, what's the matter? You scared little piggies!?\\
'''Gumball:''' ''(deadpan)'' Uh yeah, you're a fully grown man screaming at us and if you continue I'm gonna call the police.

* StylisticSuck: The humans manage to [[NonstandardCharacterDesign stick out of the rest of the cast like sore thumbs]] -- an impressive feat for a show with as much MediumBlending as it has. Their animation is deliberately very stiff and jerky, and their designs look like they were taken from late-70s to mid-80s era cartoons (think something out of ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero'' or anything made by Filmation). To make this more obvious, during their match with Gumball and Darwin the crowd members seem to be something like cardboard cutouts, with one of them ''falling over'' after being hit.

* StealthHiBye: Carlton and Troy appear to disappear when Gumball had his eyes closed, [[SubvertedTrope but]] Darwin saw [[NoPeripheralVision they just climbed up a tree]].
* StylisticSuck: The humans manage to [[NonstandardCharacterDesign stick out of the rest of the cast like sore thumbs]] -- an impressive feat for a show with as much MediumBlending as it has. Their animation is deliberately very stiff and jerky, and their designs look like they were taken from late-70s to mid-80s era cartoons (think something out of ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero'' or anything made by Filmation). To make this more obvious, during their match with Gumball and Darwin the crowd members seem to be something like cardboard cutouts, with one of them ''falling over'' after being hit.

* ADayInTheLimelight: For Carlton and Troy.

* ShotInTheAss: Carlton sends a tennis ball to hit Gumball, while crying a SingleTear because he doesn't want to. Gumball, ignoring the match to mess around with Darwin, was facing the other way and gets hit in the rear end ("[[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl Aaaaah!]] Right in the glute."), [[GameBreakingInjury taking him out of the match.]] Mr. Small claims he can heal Gumball, but when he spits on his hands and reaches for Gumball's buttocks, Gumball decides to just walk it off.

* CityOfWeirdos: Everyone other than Gumball and Darwin goes along with the sports movie parody.
-->'''Darwin:''' Has there been some kind of chemical leak today? 'Cause right now everyone's acting like total psychos.

* SelectiveObliviousness: Darwin and Gumball deny Sarah, Carlton, Troy, or Mr. Kreese's claims to them thinking they are "more hardcore", yet are always treated as if they do.

* ShotInTheAss: Carlton sends a tennis ball to hit Gumball, while crying a SingleTear because he doesn't want to. Gumball, ignoring the match to mess around with Darwin, was facing the other way and gets hit in the rear end ("[[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl Aaaaah!]] Right in the glute."), [[GameBreakingInjury taking him out of the match.]] Mr. Small claims he can heal Gumball, but when he spits on his hands and reaches for Gumball's buttocks, Gumball decides to just walk it off.
* StealthHiBye: Carlton and Troy appear to disappear when Gumball had his eyes closed, [[SubvertedTrope but]] Darwin saw [[NoPeripheralVision they just climbed up a tree]].
* StylisticSuck: The humans manage to [[NonstandardCharacterDesign stick out of the rest of the cast like sore thumbs]] -- an impressive feat for a show with as much MediumBlending as it has. Their animation is deliberately very stiff and jerky, and their designs look like they were taken from late-70s to mid-80s era cartoons (think something out of ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero'' or anything made by Filmation). To make this more obvious, during their match with Gumball and Darwin the crowd members seem to be something like cardboard cutouts, with one of them ''falling over'' after being hit.
* TheyJustDontGetIt: See SelectiveObliviousness. Also applies to Sarah, who likewise doesn't seem to register that the boys want no part in the conflict yet [[GotVolunteered gets them further in the hole]].

* StylisticSuck: The humans manage to [[NonstandardCharacterDesign stick out of the rest of the cast like sore thumbs]] -- an impressive feat for a show with as much MediumBlending as it has. Their animation is deliberately very stiff and jerky, and their designs look like they were taken from late-70s to mid-80s era cartoons (think something out of ''GIJoeARealAmericanHero'' or anything made by Filmation). To make this more obvious, during their match with Gumball and Darwin the crowd members seem to be something like cardboard cutouts, with one of them ''falling over'' after being hit.

* ArtShift: In contrast to the show's usual live action backdrops, the tennis match in the second half (which takes place in a different school) is fully animated in the same style as the human characters (in that flat, brightly-colored, stiff 1970s-1980s style[[note]]think something from Filmation or the episodes of ''GIJoeARealAmericanHero'' where the animation was outsourced to Sunbow[[/note]]) -- right down to the ''sky''.

* SelectiveObliviousness: Darwin and Gumball do not contest Sarah, Carlton, Troy, or Mr. Kreese's claims to being "more hardcore", yet are always treated as if they do.

* TrivialTitle: The episode's antagonists all wear sweaters, but those sweaters just make them look even weirder than they would otherwise; they aren't important to the plot in any way.

* GenreSavvy: New student Sarah thinks that Gumball and Darwin are "hardcore" because of all the [[WeirdnessMagnet wild stories she heard about them.]] While they are tempted to lie and accept that title, they quickly refuse because they know something will go wrong if they lie. True enough, the rest of the episode is spent with students from Sarah's old school trying prove that they're not hardcore, much to the two's [[DeadpanSnarker total indifference.]]

'''Gumball:''' (points to Carlton) [[BrickJoke Told you it would end like that.]]

* StylisticSuck: The humans manage to [[NonstandardCharacterDesign stick out of the rest of the cast like sore thumbs]] -- an impressive feat for a show with as much MediumBlending as it has. Their animation is deliberately very stiff and jerky, and their designs look like they were taken from late-70s to mid-80s era cartoons (think something out of ''GIJoeARealAmericanHero'' or anything made by Filmation). To make this more obvious, during their match with Gumball and Darwin the crowd members seem to be something like cardboard cutouts, with one of them ''falling over'' after being hit. "The Extras" reveals that they actually were cardboard cutouts the whole time.

* FacelessMasses: The crowd at Richwood High are faceless mobs of color in long shots. Though they have faces in closer shots, they never move and are revealed by a stray tennis ball to actually be flat cutouts:

* FacelessMasses: The crowd at Richwood High are faceless mobs of color in long shots and though they have faces in closer shots. They never move and are revealed by a stray tennis ball to actually be flat cutouts (season three's "The Extras" reveals that they can break out of being flat cutouts, but don't want to as anyone who does gets attacked for standing out out in the crowd):

* CouldSayItBut: Mr. Small and Principal Brown both given token disapproving comments on the fight, while actually supporting it by giving them advice on how--[[AdultsAreUseless even though]] Gumball and Darwin came to them so they would ''stop'' it.

* LiteralAssKicking[=/=]ShotInTheAss: Carlton sends a tennis ball to hit Gumball, while crying a SingleTear because he doesn't want to. Gumball, ignoring the match to mess around with Darwin, was facing the other way and gets hit in the rear end ("[[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl Aaaaah!]] Right in the glute."), [[GameBreakingInjury taking him out of the match.]] Mr. Small claims he can heal Gumball, but when he spits on his hands and reaches for Gumball's buttocks, Gumball decides to just walk it off.

* ParodyEpisode: The episode parodies 80s sports movies, especially ''Film/TheKarateKid''.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Darwin and Gumball originally planned to leave when everyone expects them to fight, but Gumball decides stay to impress Penny.