History Recap / TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS3E39TheMoney

* MagicPants: Nicole HulkingOut [[ClothingDamage damages her clothes]], but both times only enough to fray the edges and [[BareYourMidriff raise her midriff a bit]].

* InsaneTrollLogic: Richard thinks that Swiss cheese is healthier than regular cheese because "It has holes in it".

* WalkingWasteland: After the loss of the Wattersons' money starts affecting their animation quality, everything in proximity degrades until it spreads to the whole town. [[WeirdnessCensor Somehow, no one but them notices.]]

* MediumShiftGag: The animation degradation at first leaves the Wattersons as still, rough sketches on a progressively glitching CGI background. Then they become storyboard images before being drawn frame-by-frame on paper, and depicted as childish drawings on Post-It notes and white paper.

* WontTakeYesForAnAnswer: The rest of the family accept Gumball's refusal to star in the commercial when he's only give part of his speech about why.

* BaitandSwitchSentiment:

-->'''Nicole:''' Stop making fun of your brother's principles. He might take it as a challenge, and make our lives a nightmare.\\\

'''Gumball:''' Look, guys. I get it. Times are hard. But we have something that they can never take away from us. The dishwasher! We could sell it and-\\

* WholePlotReference: This episode's gimmick is remarkably similar to the ''WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}}'' episode "Shopping Spree", where the cast members accidentally spend all their money, leaving no money for the show's animation. Except there, they just snapped into live-action with the voice actors held a car wash.

* PreemptiveDeclaration: Nicole informs a repo man taking the TV that it's broken. When he stops to confirm it with her, she kicks it into his gut.

* OcularGushers: The Wattersons all start bawling their eyes out when they realize their broke, but then realize they can't afford to waste water and start licking their own tears off the floor.

* WholePlotReference: This episode's gimmick is remarkably similar to the ''WesternAnimation/Chowder'' episode "Shopping Spree", where the cast members accidentally spend all their money, leaving no money for the show's animation. Except there, they just held a car wash.

* ContinuityNod: The hip-hop clothes Darwin wears in the commercial are the same ones in the photo Principal Brown finds to blackmail Gumball and Darwin in "The Fraud."

* GaggingOnYourWords: Anais cannot bring herself to admit Gumball was right to say they shouldn't sell out, so she asks Darwin to do it.
* GotMeDoingIt: Anais gets annoyed enough with Gumball to punish him with his own word, "imaginate", after repeatedly insisting it wasn't a real one.

* WontTakeYesForAnAnswer: The rest of the family accept Gumball's refusal to star in the commercial when he's only give part of his speech about why.

-->'''Nicole:''' Stop making fun of your brother's principles. He might take it as a challenge, and make ours lives a nightmare.\\\

** The repo men taking The Wattersons' belongings are also the prisoners they met on season two's "The Finale".

After Richard reveals that he lost the family's money (again), Larry the clerk tells the Wattersons that they can make more money by doing a commercial for Joyful Burger, but Gumball refuses to sell out...until the family begins to lose everything -- including their animation quality.

* DropInCharacter: Darwin's character in the Joyful Burger commercial doesn't seem to be part of the family the rest of the characters are in, just some kid who suddenly walks in on them [[AWildRapperAppears and briefly wraps about the restaurant]].

* NarrativeShapeshifting: Gumball shapeshifts during his song about [[{{Malaproper}} imaginating]] [[IfIWereARichMan a better situation]], taking the form all the things he describes, to the point that he imaginates the punishments his family describes in the following verses.

** The repo men hired to take the Wattersons' stuff were also the prisoners the Wattersons met when they were in jail in "The Finale" and the prisoners who tried to hum a prison blues melody in "The Extras".

* InsaneTrollLogic: Richard thinking that Swiss cheese is healthier than regular cheese because "It has holes in it".

* ThinkOfTheCensors: Gumball pretends to light the contract on fire and says he's fake burning it because he's not allowed to use a real lighter. In story, it could be because Nicole told him he couldn't use a real lighter, but given that this show is from the United Kingdom and the United Kingdom does edit kid- and family-friendly movies and (most) import and domestic shows for behavior and actions deemed dangerous and imitable (especially if it's done by a child character that kid audiences identify with), the line can also come off as this.

* MediumShiftGag: The animation degradation at first leaves the Wattersons as still, rough sketches on featureless CGI ground. Then they become storyboard images before being drawn frame-by-frame on paper, and depicted as childish drawings on Post-It notes and white paper.

-->'''Larry:''' There might be a less gross solution.

** The Joyful Burger commercial the Wattersons end up doing [[BadBadActing has terrible acting]] and [[ImpossiblyTackyClothes the most garish fashions of the 1980s]] for costumes.

* ContinuityNod:
** The hip-hop clothes Darwin wears in the commercial are the same ones in the photo Principal Brown finds to blackmail Gumball and Darwin in "The Fraud."
** The repo men who take The Wattersons' stuff were the prisoners who shared a jail cell with The Wattersons on season two's "The Finale" (and were the prisoners who tried and failed at humming a prison blues song in "The Extras").
** The TV static that briefly showed the Overlook Hotel from ''Film/TheShining'' that appeared at the beginning of "The Safety" appears when the episode ends on the TV showing the Joyful Burger commercial.

* GotMeDoingIt: Anais gets annoyed enough with Gumball to punish him with his own word, after repeatedly insisting it wasn't a real one.
* HulkingOut: Nicole does this twice, complete with glowing green eyes.

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: The Wattersons' finances are inexplicably connected to the show's animation quality. When their money is gone it follows. Not to mention this is because they refuse to [[ProductPlacement sell out]].
* {{Malaproper}}: Gumball uses "imaginate" in his song, which Anais points out is not a real word (although she ends up using it too).

* NarrativeShapeshifting: Gumball shapeshifts during his song about [[{{Malaproper}} imaginating]] a better situation, taking the form all the things he describes, to the point that he imaginates the punishments his family describes in the following verses.

* StylisticSuck: When the animation quality starts to drop, Anais' MouthFlaps get scrambled, then Darwin becomes a crude crayon scribble, then the CGI elements start to glitch, and by the end the characters are stick figures on Post-it notes.
* WalkingWasteland: After the loss of the Wattersons' money starts affecting their animation quality, everything in proximity degrades until it spreads to the whole town. [[WeirdnessCensor Somehow, no one but them notices.]]