History Recap / TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS5E8TheTest

* GoshDangItToHeck: Sarah says "Oh, gosh darn it!" after says "It'll turn out that it was all a dream!" which also another sitcom's cliches.

* TorsoWithAView: The [[LiteralMetaphor venom]] Gumball shoves [[FacialHorror into Tobias' face]] burns a free-standing hole through his entire [[{{Cephalothorax}} body]]. Darwin and Gumball laugh as Sarah's BondOneLiner ("[[IWouldSayIfICouldSay I would say 'in your face']]--if you had one!"), but the nurse is rather rightly horrified.

* AnalogyBackfire: Gumball tries to claim he's developing an AcquiredPoisonImmunity to his own bile by comparing himself to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithridates_VI_of_Pontus that "Roman Emperor guy" who achieved the same]]. Darwin gets him to admit that the man had his castle invaded and couldn't [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled poison himself]] to escape it, so being poisoned would have been preferable even if neither situation is desirable.

* {{Nerd}}: Anais in Tobias' version of the show gains glasses for her beady eyes and a lisp.

* ShallowNewsSiteSatire: The episode opens with Gumball criticizing ElmoreBuzz, which is full of useless listicles like "26 Pictures of Llamas that Pretty Much Sum Up the Human Condition" and shameless advertising scams. When he agrees to take the "Which Sitcom Character Are You?" quiz, he berates how arbitrary the questions are.

'''Gumball''': I'm pretty sure these tests are created by pouring seeds on a keyboard and having pigeons peck at it.
* SitcomHomageEpisode: In a way. While most sitcom homage episodes (at least the ones in America) are just a parody (deconstructive or otherwise) of a popular sitcom (or a popular genre of sitcom, like the 1950s family sitcom[[note]]or even the 1980s and 1990s subversions of those type of sitcoms where the family is dysfunctional and/or life isn't all perfect and pretty, as seen with shows like ''Married...With Children'', ''Roseanne'', and ''The Simpsons''[[/note]], the "kids-in-school" sitcoms like ''Saved by the Bell'' or ''The Facts of Life''[[note]]the latter of which was masterfully done on the ''American Dad!'' episode "Top of the Steve"[[/note]], or even the workcom[[note]]as seen on the ''American Dad'' episode "Flirting With Disaster", where parts of the episode have the look and feel of the American version of ''The Office''[[/note]]), this episode's sitcom homage highlights all the ways a good sitcom can JumpTheShark, especially when a main character is replaced with one that [[TheScrappy fans don't like]] (or liked in small doses as a one-scene wonder or a supporting character). There are impossibly cliché plots that begin and end [[HalfwayPlotSwitch in a disjointed fashion]], direction is so poor that [[RevealingContinuityLapse the set changes between shots in a single scene]], [[FalseCameraEffects the picture looks out of focus and has noticeable glare]], the sound quality takes a nosedive, and [[AspectRatioSwitch the screen shifts to a 4:3 aspect ratio]].

* ShallowNewsSiteSatire: "The Test" opens with Gumball criticizing ElmoreBuzz, which is full of useless listicles like "26 Pictures of Llamas that Pretty Much Sum Up the Human Condition" and shameless advertising scams. When he agrees to take a "Which Sitcom Character Are You?" quiz, he berates how arbitrary the questions are.

* WhamLine: This line, which has the episode go from Tobias taking over the show to Tobias taking over Gumball's ''life'':
--> ''Let me ask my genius sister for help! Oh, ''Anais!''''

* SitcomHomageEpisode: In a way. While most sitcom homage episodes (at least the ones in America) are just a parody (deconstructive or otherwise) of a popular sitcom (or a popular genre of sitcom, like the 1950s family sitcom[[note]]or even the 1980s and 1990s subversions of those type of sitcoms where the family is dysfunctional and/or life isn't all perfect and pretty, as seen with shows like ''Married...With Children'', ''Roseanne'', and ''The Simpsons''[[/note]], the "kids-in-school" sitcoms like ''Saved by the Bell'' or ''The Facts of Life''[[note]]the latter of which was masterfully done on the ''American Dad!'' episode "Top of the Steve"[[/note]], or even the workcom[[note]]as seen on the ''American Dad'' episode "Flirting With Disaster", where parts of the episode have the look and feel of the American version of ''The Office''[[/note]]), this episode's sitcom homage highlights all the ways a good sitcom can JumpTheShark, especially when a main character is replaced with one that [[TheScrappy fans don't like]]. There are impossibly cliché plots that begin and end [[HalfwayPlotSwitch in a disjointed fashion]], direction is so poor that [[RevealingContinuityLapse the set changes between shots in a single scene]], [[FalseCameraEffects the picture looks out of focus and has noticeable glare]], the sound quality takes a nosedive, and [[AspectRatioSwitch the screen shifts to a 4:3 aspect ratio]].

* SitcomHomageEpisode: In a way. While most sitcom homage episodes are just a parody (deconstructive or otherwise) of a popular sitcom (or a popular genre of sitcom, like the 1950s family sitcom[[note]]or even the 1980s and 1990s subversions of those type of sitcoms where the family is dysfunctional and/or life isn't all perfect and pretty, as seen with shows like ''Married...With Children'', ''Roseanne'', and ''The Simpsons''[[/note]], the "kids-in-school" sitcoms like ''Saved by the Bell'' or ''The Facts of Life''[[note]]the latter of which was masterfully done on the ''American Dad!'' episode "Top of the Steve"[[/note]], or even the workcom), this episode's sitcom homage highlights all the signs of an [[{{Retraux}} outdated]] [[StylisticSuck and utterly godawful]] sitcom once Tobias starts taking over Gumball's reality. There are impossibly cliché plots that begin and end [[HalfwayPlotSwitch in a disjointed fashion]], direction is so poor that [[RevealingContinuityLapse the set changes between shots in a single scene]], [[FalseCameraEffects the picture looks out of focus and has noticeable glare]], the sound quality takes a nosedive, and [[AspectRatioSwitch the screen shifts to a 4:3 aspect ratio]].

* TwoTimerDate: Right after Tobias takes over Gumball's role, he gets dates with Masami ''and'' Clare (Masami rejected him but changed her mind after Clare accepted), and Sarah is offended that something so cliche would happen.

* SitcomHomageEpisode: The show with Tobias as the main character becomes an [[{{Retraux}} outdated]] [[StylisticSuck and utterly godawful]] sitcom: impossibly cliche plots begin and end [[HalfwayPlotSwitch in a disjointed fashion]], direction is so poor that [[RevealingContinuityLapse the set changes between shots in a single scene]], [[FalseCameraEffects the picture looks out of focus and has noticeable glare]], the sound quality takes a nosedive, and [[AspectRatioSwitch the screen shifts to a 4:3 aspect ratio]].

Gumball takes an online test about what kind of sitcom character he is, and it says he's a hyper-critical loser. Gumball decides to improve his popularity by holding in his criticisms, but this ends up making him ill and causing Tobias to fill in the place he left.

* ConversationalTroping: The beginning of the episode holds a discussion between Sarah and the Watterson boys about character roles. This sets the theme for the rest of the episode. They discuss too many tropes to list.

* ChristmasSpecial: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded.]]

* BlackComedyBurst: The episode ends with Gumball literally spewing bile on Tobias' face, [[BloodyHilarious burning a hole through it]]. Then [[EverybodyLaughsEnding everybody starts laughing]] as Tobias writhes in agony and Joan screams in horror.

* BlackComedyBurst: The episode ends with Gumball literally spewing bile on Tobias' face, burning a hole through it. Then [[EverybodyLaughsEnding everybody starts laughing]] as Tobias writhes in agony and Joan screams in horror.

* AsideGlance: Tobias starts giving goofy looks of surprise towards the camera at the cliched plot points of his stories.

* BlackComedyBurst: The episode ends with Gumball literally spewing bile on Tobias' face, burning a hole through it. Then [[EverybodyLaughsEnding everybody starts laughing]] as Tobias writhes in agony and a nurse screams in horror.

* AllJustADream: Sarah says that, with Tobias as the main character, it's inevitable that everything will turn out to be a [[FlashbackBackBack dream... dream... dream...]] [[TemptingFate Sure enough]], Tobias then wakes up from a boating accident where he tried to jump over a shark.

* SitcomHomageEpisode: The show with Tobias as the main character becomes an [[{{Retraux}} outdated]] [[StylisticSuck and utterly godawful]] sitcom: impossibly cliche plots begin and end [[HalfwayPlotSwitch in a disjointed fashion]], direction is so poor that [[RevealingContinuityLapse the set changes between shots in a single scene]], [[FalseCameraEffects the picture looks out of focus and has noticeable glare]], the sound quality takes a nosedive, and [[{{Retraux}} the screen shifts to a 4:3 aspect ratio]].

* SitcomHomageEpisode: The show with Tobias as the main character becomes an [[{{Retraux}} outdated]] [[StylisticSuck and utterly godawful]] sitcom: impossibly cliche plots begin and end [[HalfwayPlotSwitch in a disjointed fashion]], direction is so poor that the set changes between shots in a single scene, [[FalseCameraEffects the picture looks out of focus and has noticeable glare]], the sound quality takes a nosedive, and [[{{Retraux}} the screen shifts to a 4:3 aspect ratio]].

* SharkJump: Referenced at the end of the episode, with Tobias waking up in a hospital because he attempted this.

* BlackComedyBurst: The episode ends with Gumball literally throwing up on Tobias' face, burning a hole through it. Then [[EverybodyLaughsEnding everybody starts laughing]] as Tobias writhes in agony and a nurse screams in horror.