Line #24 Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS6E12ThePact


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2	->'''Principal Brown:''' Why don't you tell her [Penny]?
3	->'''Gumball:''' Because I prefer my heart beating safely inside my chest rather than being held in front of my screaming face.
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5	Gumball and Principal Brown make a pact to tell each other's girlfriends about problems they have. But when Principal Brown doesn't go through with his part of the bargain, Gumball goes to extraordinary lengths to force him.
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7	!!Tropes:
8	* AndShowItToYou: Discussed. As seen in the page quote, Gumball is afraid Penny will do this if he tells her about her annoying laugh.
9	* AnnoyingLaugh: Penny has recently started snorting heavily while laughing, which annoys Gumball enough to create the pact.
10	* BigBrotherIsWatching: When Gumball tries to reveal the truth about their pact to Simian, Principal Brown starts stalking Gumball using the security cameras and claiming that he has control over the whole school.
11	* TheCakeIsALie: Gumball goes to great trouble to get Miss Simian to fix her breath, but as soon as that's done, Principal Brown brushes off the idea of telling Penny about her laugh.
12	* ContinuityNod: At the start of the episode, Gumball is singing along to a recording of the song Darwin wrote about Carrie in "The Matchmaker".
13	* ADayInTheLimelight: Another one for Principal Brown.
14	* DownerEnding: Gumball's [[EngineeredPublicConfession plan to expose Principal Brown's misdeeds]] and Brown's HeelRealization end up revealing their entire pact, making both of their girlfriends mad at them.
15	* FalseReassurance: When Principal Brown asks Gumball if Penny and Miss Simian are [[RightBehindMe right behind him]], Gumball says they aren't; they're to the left of him.
16	* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: To avoid sharing a bus seat with Principal Brown, Teri splits herself in half.
17	* HumiliationConga: Gumball's part of the pact results in him being mutilated over and over by Miss Simian's breath, and with a pencil stuck... somewhere.
18	* InspirationNod: The episode's basis on ''Film/StrangersOnATrain'' is acknowledged when Gumball first proposes the pact. Principal Brown mistakes Gumball's plan to point out their girlfriends' flaws for [[MurderIsTheBestSolution straight up murdering them]] (which was the deal in the film).
19	-->'''Gumball''': Yeah, I take care of Simian and you take care of Penny, right?\
20	'''Brown''': But it'll have to [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident look like an accident]]!\
21	'''Gumball''': '''What!?''' I meant take care of the laugh and breath thing!\
22	'''Brown''': Oh yes, that's a much less illegal idea!
23	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Principal Brown, at the end, finally realizes he's been horribly abusing his power and should have just fulfilled his end of the deal.
24	* NoodleImplements: After Gumball told Miss Simian that her breath stinks, his only description of the aftermath is "[[FalseReassurance I didn't go to the hospital]]-- the nurse said it would be more dangerous to surgically remove [[ThePenIsMightier the pencil]]."
25	* PetTheDog: Miss Simian genuinely congratulates Gumball for getting a 1 out of 3 on his test, saying that it's his best score he's ever gotten.
26	* RightBehindMe: After Principal Brown accidentally antagonizes both Penny and Miss Simian over the intercom, he sees Gumball pull an "OhCrap" face, implying both of them had come up to exact revenge. He says this trope verbatim, to be told no, they're not. [[FromBadToWorse They're right next to him]].
27	* SanitySlippage: Both Gumball and Principal Brown grow crazier as the episode goes on when the latter refuses to finish the pact.
28	* SmellPhone: When Gumball attempts to tell Miss Simian about her breath from the safety of a pay phone, the stench carries through the phone line.
29	* StrangersOnATrainPlotMurder: The episode is a WholePlotReference to the TropeNamer; not only do the two protagonists making a pact to "fix" the other's problem, one of the duo backs out after the other has done the deed.
30	* StrippedToTheBone: Gumball is reduced to bones [[WiltingOdor upon smelling Miss Simian's breath]] while trying to slingshot a mint into her mouth (this is a step up from three of his classmates, who were reduced to ''[[ReducedToDust dust]]''). He could still smell it afterward, somehow.
31	* TakingYouWithMe: Gumball do this towards Principal Brown's threats. When Gumball said that he's going to be expelled anyway. Might as well tell Miss Simian that Principal Brown that makes him do it.
32	* ThisIsUnforgivable: Gumball goes completely berserk when Brown chickens out of his half of the deal. [[AmusingInjuries Though considering the amount of pain he endured with his part]], his anger is somewhat justified.
33	* ThreatBackfire: Gumball misinterprets Principal Brown's threat to frame him for stealing the money from the school's safe as a bribe offer, which he happily accepts.
34	* TwoRightsMakeAWrong: Gumball [[EngineeredPublicConfession turns on the intercom for the entire school to hear]] Principal Brown's EvilGloating, which turns out to be unnecessary when Brown is [[HeelRealization reconsidering his actions in using Gumball as a pawn]] and [[FromBadToWorse made worse when Brown mentions Gumball's complaints about Penny's]] AnnoyingLaugh. [[DownerEnding It ends]] [[RightBehindMe how one would expect]].

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