History Recap / TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS5E34TheDeal

** Anais telling Nicole to "Send more cops" after she spits out Donut Cop's badge and part of his body is a direct reference to the zombie calling "Send more paramedics" in ''Film/ReturnOfTheLivingDead''.

** Carrie is seen wearing Nicole's wedding dress which Gumball wore in "[[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS1E6TheDress The Dress]]".

Nicole finally gets employee of the month[[note]]after the previous episode "The Worst" showed that Nicole had no chance because of the Rainbow Factory's male-dominated work environment, where her boss admits he doesn't put women on the Employee of the Month board because it's too distracting to the male coworkers[[/note]], and Richard wants appreciation too for being a good house husband, but when Nicole dismisses Richard's methods on keeping the kids clean and fed as insane, Richard goes on strike and the house goes to pot.

** Nicole becomes employee of the month, which she previously had complained about not being in "The Worst".

** Carrie is seen wearing Nicole's wedding dress which Gumball wore in "The Dress".

* LampshadeHanging: Gumball questions why anybody would frame a newspaper article about Richard being a loser.

* MoebiusNeighborhood: Lampshaded when Richard says the kids have taken "the neighbor", and has to explain that he didn't mean Mr. Robinson, but their other neighbor whose name he can't remember (Gary).

* {{Hypocrite}}: Nicole doesn't respect Richard at all, even though she's told her children they need to respect him.

Richard goes on strike to prove that his work around the house is under appreciated by Nicole.

* TookALeveLevelInBadass: After constantly being shown to be an idiotic screw up, here Richard is shown to be a fully capable father, able to take care of his children when Nicole cannot.

** This episode could be seen as one for Richard, after constantly being shown to be an idiotic screw up, here he is shown to be a fully capable father, able to take care of his children when Nicole cannot.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Didn't Nicole once give her sons into trouble for disrespecting Richard as being useless?

* {{Hyocrite}}: Didn't Nicole once give her sons into trouble for disrespecting Richard as being useless?

* LikeParentLikeChild: Turns out Nicole, like Gumball, may spontaneously bust into rap. Nicole's inability to be photogenic also seems to have been passed down to her son.

* SmashCut: Anais advises Richard to just tell Nicole he feels underappreciated, insisting her mother is a "reasonable wo-" [[DescriptionCut and we cut to Nicole outside]], where her self-celebratory fireworks show nails the moon in the eye and starts raining sparks on her neighbors.

** Anais telling Nicole to "Send more cops" after she spits out the Donut Sheriff's hat is a direct reference to the zombie calling "Send more paramedics" in ''Film/ReturnOfTheLivingDead''.

* BlackComedyCannibalism: When Nicole threatens to call the cops on her kids (who she doesn't recognize at the moment), they spit out a piece of the Donut Sheriff's body in front of her.

* PissTakeRap: After Nicole makes Employee of the Month, she performs a BoastfulRap about what a great worker she is.

* {{Squick}}: Gumball, Darwin, and Anais have head lice. Gumball steps on them with his bare feet.

* BlackComedyCannibalism: When Nicole threatens to call the cops on her kids (who she doesn't recognize at the moment), they spit out a piece of the Donut Cop's body in front of her.

** Anais telling Nicole to "Send more cops" after she spits out the Donut Cop's hat is a direct reference to the zombie calling "Send more paramedics" in ''Film/ReturnOfTheLivingDead''.

** Gumball compares Richard's terrible attempt at rapping to British dental work.

* BlackComedyCannibalism: When Nicole threatens to call the cops on her kids (who she doesn't recognize), they spit out a piece of the Donut Cop's body in front of her.