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* TooDumbToFool: Mr. Robinsontries to stall Gumball and Darwin by assigning them [[MovingTheGoalposts near-impossible tasks]] to keep them off his back, [[AchievementsInIgnorance only for the two to finish each of them within]] ''[[AchievementsInIgnorance seconds]]''.

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* TooDumbToFool: Mr. Robinsontries Robinson tries to stall Gumball and Darwin by assigning them [[MovingTheGoalposts near-impossible tasks]] to keep them off his back, [[AchievementsInIgnorance only for the two to finish each of them within]] ''[[AchievementsInIgnorance seconds]]''.
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* TooDumbToFool: Mr. Robinsontries to stall Gumball and Darwin by assigning them [[MovingTheGoalposts near-impossible tasks]] to keep them off his back, [[AchievementsInIgnorance only for the two to finish each of them within]] ''[[AchievementsInIgnorance seconds]]''.
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* GolfClubbing: Mr. Robinson uses a golf club to destroy the Watterson's car in revenge.

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* GolfClubbing: Mr. Robinson uses a golf club to destroy the Watterson's Wattersons' car in as a way to get revenge.



* KarmaHoudini: Played with. While the Watterson's essentially get off scot-free for damaging Mr Robinson's car, it becomes more of KarmicProtection since they were ready to owe up to their mistakes and properly apologize to him, but Mr Robinson decided to escalate the conflict further by throwing a tantrum and destroying and getting himself into trouble. Even then, he was being a petty jerk at the begining of the episode.

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* KarmaHoudini: Played with. While the Watterson's Wattersons essentially get off scot-free for damaging Mr Mr. Robinson's car, it becomes more of KarmicProtection since they were ready to owe up to their mistakes and properly apologize to him, but Mr Mr. Robinson decided to escalate the conflict further by throwing a tantrum and destroying and trying to destroy ''their'' car as revenge, getting himself him and his wife into trouble.trouble with Donut Cop. Even then, he was being a petty jerk at the begining of the episode.



* NotHelpingYourCase: While the Robinsons are rather justified in being angry with the Wattersons for destroying their car, they don't exactly do themselves any favors by angrily screaming at Donut Cop to arrest them, destroying the Wattersons' own car as payback ''right in front of him'', and then flying into a rage and attacking him when he tries to calm them down; in the end, all they succeed in doing is getting ''themselves'' arrested.

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* NotHelpingYourCase: While the Robinsons are rather justified in being angry with the Wattersons for destroying their car, they don't exactly do themselves any favors by angrily screaming at Donut Cop to arrest them, destroying smashing up the Wattersons' own car as payback with a golf club and a feather-duster ''right in front of him'', and then flying into a rage and attacking attempting to attack him when he tries to calm them down; in the end, all they succeed in doing is getting ''themselves'' arrested.



* RevengeBeforeReason: The Robinsons demolish the Wattersons' car not only in front of the Wattersons, but also in front of Donut Cop. Just because the Wattersons destroyed their car. This encourages Donut Cop to arrest the Robinsons instead of the Wattersons.

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* RevengeBeforeReason: The Robinsons attempt to demolish the Wattersons' car not only in front of the Wattersons, but also in front of Donut Cop. Just because the Wattersons accidentally destroyed their own car. This This, alongside screaming at him to arrest the Wattersons and trying to attack him for trying to calm them down, encourages Donut Cop to arrest the Robinsons instead of the Wattersons.



* ShoutOut: The scene where Mr. and Mrs. Robinson smash the Wattersons' car is based on a similar scene in ''Film/TheBigLebowski''.
-->'''Mr. Robinson:''' This is what happens when you mess with Gaylord!

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* ShoutOut: The scene where Mr. and Mrs. Robinson smash the Wattersons' car is based on a similar the famous car scene in ''Film/TheBigLebowski''.
-->'''Mr. Robinson:''' This is what happens when you mess with Gaylord!Gaylord! THIS! IS! WHAT! HAPPENS!



* WatchThePaintJob: Mr. Robinson's fancy white car is entirely totaled by the mere touch of a sponge. Subverted, when it's revealed that the car fell apart because Richard tried to fix a dent (which he mistakenly thought was from him throwing the Electro-Fat machine at it, when in reality is was due to Nicole dinging the car), destroying the car, which he then put back together, but not well enough to prevent the car from falling apart at a single touch.

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* WatchThePaintJob: Mr. Robinson's fancy white car is entirely totaled by the mere touch of a sponge. Subverted, when it's revealed that the car fell apart because Richard tried to fix a dent (which he mistakenly thought was from him throwing the his Electro-Fat machine at it, when in reality is was due to Nicole dinging the car), destroying the car, which he then put back together, but not well enough to prevent the car from falling apart at a single touch.

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