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* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Gumball and Darwin ranting about the copycats leaves Richard salivating at the mention of exotic foods, margarine, butter and mirrors.
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* IgnoredEpiphany: After the Wattersons try to teach them (through song) that plagiarism is wrong if not illegal, the other family continues to ripoff the Wattersons.

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* IgnoredEpiphany: After the Wattersons try to teach them (through song) that plagiarism is wrong if not illegal, the other family continues to ripoff the Wattersons.Wattersons, starting with [[HypocriticalHumor ripping off the very song they used to teach them]].
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* ChekhovsGun: The fact that the ripoff family doesn't have an Anais of their own comes back to bite them, big time.

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%%ZCE * ChekhovsGun: The fact that the ripoff family doesn't have an Anais of their own comes back to bite them, big time.
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* ArtisticLicenceLaw: On of the lines in "Be your own you" is "copying is clearly theft, it's going to lead to your arrest". Whilst Criminal Copyright Infringment is a thing, it only applies to things like creating exact duplicates of copyrighted works without a licence to sell. The Copycats were simply recreating scenes from Gumball, using themselves in place of the Wattersons, which would be a civil matter rather then a criminal one, and would lead to lawsuit rather than an "arrest".
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* The copycat family falls off the unfinished bridge just like Ms. Simian did in "The Ape".

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* ** The copycat family falls off the unfinished bridge just like Ms. Simian did in "The Ape".
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* ForWantOfANail: The Wattersons escape the runaway truck because Anais is small enough to unhitch the gas tank. Because the ripoffs don't have an Anais, they plummet to their ultimate demise (or rather near-demise).
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* BorrowedCatchphrase: As part of his copycat nature, Chi Chi immediately copies Gumball's "What the what?" [[CharacterCatchphrase Catchphrase]] after being caught spying on the Wattersons through their house window.


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* The copycat family falls off the unfinished bridge just like Ms. Simian did in "The Ape".


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* TemptingFate: After seeing that there are no more videos of the rip-off family copying their lives, Gumball and Darwin brag about how they're irreplacable... only for [[TheNthDoctor their voices to be changed]] shortly after and it takes them until the very last second to realize this.
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* {{Bowdlerization}}: Most international versions cut the part during the montage of dangerous stunts the Wattersons perform to get rid of the Chinese knock-off family where Richard is chained and submerged underwater in his bathtub. The Russian, Polish, and Bulgarian dubs also cuts some of the fighting between the Wattersons and the knock-off family on the lawn and some of the more tense parts of the climax where the Wattersons attempt to drive their truck over the unfinished bridge.

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* {{Bowdlerization}}: {{Bowdlerise}}: Most international versions cut the part during the montage of dangerous stunts the Wattersons perform to get rid of the Chinese knock-off family where Richard is chained and submerged underwater in his bathtub. The Russian, Polish, and Bulgarian dubs also cuts some of the fighting between the Wattersons and the knock-off family on the lawn and some of the more tense parts of the climax where the Wattersons attempt to drive their truck over the unfinished bridge.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[DoubleSubversion Double-subverted]]; the Wattersons try to make their imitators suffer by doing dangerous things to be copied, but the copycats imitate them so exactly that they can survive anything the Wattersons can. Ultimately, the copycats cause their own undoing anyway by choosing to exclude an Anais equivalent, removing the one person who could save them in a key moment.

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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[DoubleSubversion Double-subverted]]; Double-Subverted]]; the Wattersons try to make their imitators suffer by doing dangerous things to be copied, but the copycats imitate them so exactly that they can survive anything the Wattersons can. Ultimately, the copycats cause their own undoing anyway by choosing to exclude an Anais equivalent, removing the one person who could save them in a key moment.
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* UsefulNotes/GreenIsBlue: Darwin's ripoff is a blue frog, but the translated website describes him as green.

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