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* ApologyGift: Gumball eventually apologized to Penny for spending the episode getting Rob to hate him, and ignoring her, by getting a card for it. He couldn't find any cards that specific, so he wrote "I'm Sorry Penny" on a bunch of things in her locker and put a balloon in there. The balloon being ''[[StuffedIntoALocker Alan]]''.

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* ApologyGift: Gumball eventually apologized apologizes to Penny for spending the episode getting Rob to hate him, him and ignoring her, her by getting a card for it. He couldn't find any cards that specific, so he wrote "I'm Sorry Penny" on a bunch of things in her locker and put a balloon in there. The balloon being ''[[StuffedIntoALocker Alan]]''.



* ADayInTheLimelight: For Rob.

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* ADayInTheLimelight: For Rob.Rob, as this episode focuses on his attempt to move on from Gumball.



* LockerMail: Gumball apologizes to Penny by writing "I'm Sorry" on everything in her locker. He writes the same on Alan and shoves him in there, too.



* SerenadeYourLover: Or "hater" in this context. Gumball desperately tries to get back Rob into hating him by playing a song he hates from the boombox like in ''Film/SayAnything''. Rob responded that he doesn't hate it anymore like he doesn't hate Gumball as he walks away.

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* SerenadeYourLover: Or "hater" in this context. Gumball desperately tries to get back Rob into hating him by playing a song he hates from the boombox like in ''Film/SayAnything''. Rob responded responds that he doesn't hate it anymore like he doesn't hate Gumball as he walks away.
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* OhCrap: The episode ends with Darwin realizing he's been wearing his "nemesis", the baseball cap, on his head, prompting him to run away in a panic that it managed to "get him".
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* MusicalPastiche: Rob throttling Gumball is played in slow-motion alongside a parody of Music/WhitneyHouston's cover of "I Will Always Love You" from ''Film/TheBodyguard''. Instead of the "And IIIIII..." that hers is known for, "Love Me Forever" kicks in with "And YOUUUU..."
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->'''Rob:''' Look, I try to end you, you try to end me. You save me, I save you. It got complicated. I need something more simple right now.
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* ContinuityCavalcade: Rob's major appearance as a villain is recounted, with Gumball bragging about the "The Nemesis" and "The Bus" to Penny, and then by Rob describing "The Disaster/The Rerun" (which Gumball doesn't remember because of Rob using the remote to rewind back to when he decided to buy the remote from The Awesome Store and deciding not to buy it, effectively erasing the events of the episode).

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* ContinuityCavalcade: Rob's major appearance as a villain is recounted, with Gumball bragging about the "The Nemesis" and "The Bus" to Penny, and then by Rob describing "The Disaster/The Rerun" (which Gumball doesn't remember because of Rob using the remote to rewind back to when he decided to buy the remote from The Awesome Store and deciding not to buy it, effectively erasing the events of the episode).erase that episode's events).
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* YearningForANemesis: Gumball enjoys having Rob as a nemesis (and wouldn't shut up about how cool their confrontations were), and becomes desperate to keep him as such.
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* BlackComedyBurst: Rob mentions that he's stolen the batteries from the Wattersons' smoke detector, implying that he was planning on burning down their house.
* ContinuityCavalcade: Rob's major appearance as a villain are recounted, with Gumball bragging about the "The Nemesis" and "The Bus" to Penny, and then by Rob describing "The Disaster/The Rerun" (which Gumball doesn't remember).

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* BlackComedyBurst: Rob mentions that he's stolen the batteries from the Wattersons' smoke detector, implying that he was planning on burning down their house.
house (or letting them die in a fire they caused).
* ContinuityCavalcade: Rob's major appearance as a villain are is recounted, with Gumball bragging about the "The Nemesis" and "The Bus" to Penny, and then by Rob describing "The Disaster/The Rerun" (which Gumball doesn't remember).remember because of Rob using the remote to rewind back to when he decided to buy the remote from The Awesome Store and deciding not to buy it, effectively erasing the events of the episode).



* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: They're not subtle about treating Rob like an ex-boyfriend that Penny has to share Gumball with.

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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: They're The writers are not subtle about treating Rob like an ex-boyfriend that Penny has to share Gumball with.

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* BehindTheBlack: When Penny tries to convince Gumball not to go lusting after Rob, the camera darts back and forth between them until Gumball replaces himself with Darwin and puts his clothes on the latter.

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* BehindTheBlack: When Penny tries to convince Gumball not to go lusting after Rob, the camera darts back and forth between them until Gumball replaces himself with Darwin and puts his clothes on the latter.



* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: They're not subtle about treating Rob like an ex boyfriend that Penny has to share Gumball with.
* EnmityWithAnObject: Darwin believes a baseball cap sitting in his room is his personal nemesis. When Gumball notices he's been wearing it and thought he got over it, Darwin notices it and he flees in panic about his nemesis being on his head.

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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: They're not subtle about treating Rob like an ex boyfriend ex-boyfriend that Penny has to share Gumball with.
* EnmityWithAnObject: Darwin believes a baseball cap sitting in his room is his personal nemesis. When Gumball notices he's been wearing it and thought he got over it, Darwin notices it and he flees in a panic about his nemesis being on his head.



* GladIThoughtOfIt: Gumball ignores Penny giving him advice to try and befriend Rob to conclude it's better for him to try and be friends with Rob. We actually hear hear his thought process while using this trope, with Penny's words being muffled as he comes to the conclusion she was trying to tell him.

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* GladIThoughtOfIt: Gumball ignores Penny giving him advice to try and befriend Rob to conclude it's better for him to try and be friends with Rob. We actually hear hear his thought process while using this trope, with Penny's words being muffled as he comes to the conclusion she was trying to tell him.
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* ADayInTheLimelight: For Rob.

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He has a giant ego and he's been self obsessed with Penny before


* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: They're not subtle about treating Rob like an ex boyfriend that Penny has to share Gumball with.



* OutOfCharacterMoment: Gumball inexplicably goes from only occasionally being able to remember Rob's name in all prior episodes (not counting "The Rerun", which was erased from history by TimeTravel) to being completely obsessed with him, talking about him constantly, and even ignoring Penny and Darwin for most of the episode because of his focus on getting Rob to hate him again.
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* OffscreenRealityWarp: Penny grabs Gumball by the shoulders, insisting he not go out to see Rob. The camera cuts repeatedly between close-ups of Gumball begging and Penny saying 'no', and [[RuleOfThree on the third cut]] Gumball has put Darwin in his place--and in most of his clothing.

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* OffscreenRealityWarp: Penny grabs Gumball by the shoulders, insisting he not go out to see Rob. The camera cuts repeatedly between close-ups of Gumball begging and Penny saying 'no', and [[RuleOfThree on the third cut]] Gumball has put Darwin in his place--and [[RightOutOfMyClothes in most of his clothing.clothing]].
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* BigWhy: Tobias shouts "WHY?!" while [[BlownAcrossTheRoom flung through the by]] away by a bomb that Gumball planted in his house, thinking it was Banana Joe's.

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* BigWhy: Tobias shouts "WHY?!" while [[BlownAcrossTheRoom flung through the by]] away air]] by a bomb that Gumball planted in his house, thinking it was Banana Joe's.

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* BigWhy: Comes from Tobias when he's blown away after triggering a bomb that Gumball planted in his house, thinking it was Banana Joe's.

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* BigWhy: Comes from Tobias when he's blown shouts "WHY?!" while [[BlownAcrossTheRoom flung through the by]] away after triggering by a bomb that Gumball planted in his house, thinking it was Banana Joe's.


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* SomebodyDoesntLoveRaymond: Gumball gets obsessed over Rob not ''[[InvertedTrope hating]]'' him anymore, but the plot plays out similarly, and it's clearly motivated by [[{{Narcissist}} Gumball's ego]].
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* StallingTheSip: Banana Joe gets a burger from a "secret admirer", but it's actually one of Rob's booby traps, rigged to explode when he tries to eat it. Banana Joe keeps almost eating it, but then stops to take off the pickle, the onion, and every sesame seed ''individually'', which he counts. Then he gets distracted by Gumball imitating him, and walks off without eating.
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* ApologyGift: Gumball eventually apologized to Penny for spending through the episode getting Rob to hate him and ignoring her by getting a card for it. He couldn't find any cards that specific, so he wrote "I'm Sorry Penny" on a bunch of things in her locker and put a balloon in there. The balloon being ''[[StuffedIntoALocker Alan]]''.

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* ApologyGift: Gumball eventually apologized to Penny for spending through the episode getting Rob to hate him him, and ignoring her her, by getting a card for it. He couldn't find any cards that specific, so he wrote "I'm Sorry Penny" on a bunch of things in her locker and put a balloon in there. The balloon being ''[[StuffedIntoALocker Alan]]''.
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* RonTheDeathEater: In-Universe Gumball considers "that creepy ginger dude" the nemesis of that wizard boy because he followed him around and [[TheLoad never helped]].

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* RonTheDeathEater: In-Universe In-Universe, Gumball considers "that "[[TropeNamers that creepy ginger dude" dude]]" the nemesis of that [[Franchise/HarryPotter wizard boy boy]] because he followed him around and [[TheLoad never helped]].
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* GladIThoughtOfIt: Gumball ignores Penny giving him advice to try and befriend Rob to conclude it's better for him to try and be friends with Rob.

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* GladIThoughtOfIt: Gumball ignores Penny giving him advice to try and befriend Rob to conclude it's better for him to try and be friends with Rob. We actually hear hear his thought process while using this trope, with Penny's words being muffled as he comes to the conclusion she was trying to tell him.

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* BigWhy: Comes from Tobias when he's blown away after triggering a bomb that Gumball planted in his house, thinking it was Banana Joe's.
* BlackComedyBurst: Rob mentions that he's stolen the batteries from the Wattersons' smoke detector, implying that he was planning on burning down their house.



* ShoutOut: After being served by Banana Joe a subpoena over violating his intellectual property Gumball exclaims [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons "Ay caramba"]]

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* ShoutOut: After being served by Banana Joe a subpoena over for violating his intellectual property Gumball exclaims [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons "Ay caramba"]]caramba"]].
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* ReasonYouSuckSpeech: Rob really lets Gumball have it once he reaches his RageBreakingPoint, [[InsultBackfire but Gumball is just glad Rob is hating him again]], and most of the rant is inaudible.

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* ReasonYouSuckSpeech: TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Rob really lets Gumball have it once he reaches his RageBreakingPoint, [[InsultBackfire but Gumball is just glad Rob is hating him again]], and most of the rant is inaudible.
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* ReasonYouSuckSpeech: Rob really lets Gumball have it once he reaches his RageBreakingPoint, [[InsultBackfire but Gumball is just glad Rob is hating him again]].

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* ReasonYouSuckSpeech: Rob really lets Gumball have it once he reaches his RageBreakingPoint, [[InsultBackfire but Gumball is just glad Rob is hating him again]].again]], and most of the rant is inaudible.
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* ReasonYouSuckSpeech: Rob really lets Gumball have it once he reaches his RageBreakingPoint, [[InsultBackfire but Gumball is just glad Rob is hating him again]].
-->'''Rob:''' What is wrong with you?! You just ruined the whole thing for me ''again''! I don't believe it! You've got to be the most insufferable, annoying, selfish person I've ever met!
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-->'''Penny:''' That is ''literally'' what I just said.\\
'''Gumball:''' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Aww, we make such a great team.]]
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* WhyCantIHateYou: Despite promising Gumball to be a better enemy to him in "The Rerun", Rob just didn't hate Gumball anymore and moved on to Banana Joe. Eventually his hatred toward Gumball is rekindled at the end when he was stopped from hurting Banana Joe once again.

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* WhyCantIHateYou: Despite promising Gumball to be a better enemy to him in "The Rerun", Rob just didn't hate Gumball anymore and moved on to Banana Joe. Eventually his hatred toward Gumball is rekindled at the end when he was stopped from hurting Banana Joe once again.again.
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When Gumball learns that his nemesis has found a new nemesis, Gumball tries to sabotage Rob's new "enemy-ship."
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* ApologyGift: Gumball eventually apologized to Penny for spending through the episode getting Rob to hate him and ignoring her by getting a card for it. He couldn't find any cards that specific, so he wrote "I'm Sorry Penny" on a bunch of things in her locker and put a balloon in there. The balloon being ''[[StuffedIntoALocker Alan]]''.
-->'''Gumball''': Yeah, I couldn't find any balloons either.
* ContinuityCavalcade: Rob's major appearance as a villain are recounted, with Gumball bragging about the "The Nemesis" and "The Bus" to Penny, and then by Rob describing "The Disaster/The Rerun" (which Gumball doesn't remember).
* EnmityWithAnObject: Darwin believes a baseball cap sitting in his room is his personal nemesis. When Gumball notices he's been wearing it and thought he got over it, Darwin notices it and he flees in panic about his nemesis being on his head.
* FoeRomanceSubtext: Gumball tries to win back Rob as his arch-enemy while Penny, despite being his girlfriend, is left feeling like the third wheel who helps Gumball out.
* GladIThoughtOfIt: Gumball ignores Penny giving him advice to try and befriend Rob to conclude it's better for him to try and be friends with Rob.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Gumball laments about feeling neglected and underappreciated by Rob who moved on to Banana Joe as his arch-enemy... to Penny and Darwin who were with him the whole time.
* {{Irony}}: Penny's advice to Gumball was to be friends with Rob instead of being enemies so they can be close again. This actually lead to Gumball messing up his plan to hurt Banana Joe by accident and Rob hating Gumball again. But that's all Gumball wanted anyway.
* OffscreenRealityWarp: Penny grabs Gumball by the shoulders, insisting he not go out to see Rob. The camera cuts repeatedly between close-ups of Gumball begging and Penny saying 'no', and [[RuleOfThree on the third cut]] Gumball has put Darwin in his place--and in most of his clothing.
-->'''Darwin:''' [[HowIsThatEvenPossible How did he do that?]]
* OutOfCharacterMoment: Gumball inexplicably goes from only occasionally being able to remember Rob's name in all prior episodes (not counting "The Rerun", which was erased from history by TimeTravel) to being completely obsessed with him, talking about him constantly, and even ignoring Penny and Darwin for most of the episode because of his focus on getting Rob to hate him again.
* PerplexingPlurals:
-->'''Penny:''' What is with you two?\\
'''Gumball:''' We're nemesises... Nemesisses? Nemesi?\\
'''Penny:''' Nemeses.
* RoguesGallery: Penny points out that even though Rob wouldn't be Gumball's enemy anymore, there's plenty of people on the list that would hate him. Irate neighbors (likely the Robinsons), outraged friends (likely Tobias), humiliated teachers (likely Miss Simian), and such.
* RonTheDeathEater: In-Universe Gumball considers "that creepy ginger dude" the nemesis of that wizard boy because he followed him around and [[TheLoad never helped]].
* SequelEpisode: To "The Disaster[=/=]The Rerun"; since [[SaveTheVillain Gumball saved his life]], Rob doesn't hate Gumball anymore and decides to become someone else's nemesis.
* SerenadeYourLover: Or "hater" in this context. Gumball desperately tries to get back Rob into hating him by playing a song he hates from the boombox like in ''Film/SayAnything''. Rob responded that he doesn't hate it anymore like he doesn't hate Gumball as he walks away.
* ShoutOut: After being served by Banana Joe a subpoena over violating his intellectual property Gumball exclaims [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons "Ay caramba"]]
* WhyCantIHateYou: Despite promising Gumball to be a better enemy to him in "The Rerun", Rob just didn't hate Gumball anymore and moved on to Banana Joe. Eventually his hatred toward Gumball is rekindled at the end when he was stopped from hurting Banana Joe once again.

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