Line #43 Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS2E36TheSweaters


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2	->'''Darwin:''' What part of 'we're not hardcore' did you not understand?
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4	Gumball and Darwin befriend a new girl -- a living ice cream cone named Sarah G. Lato, and kids from her old school demand a tennis match against Gumball and Darwin. Despite refusing to go along with it (as they can predict what's going to happen), everyone else becomes uncharacteristically competitive and pushes them to do it.
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6	!!Tropes:
7	* ArtShift: In contrast to the show's usual live action backdrops, the tennis match in the second half (which takes place in a different school) is fully animated in the same style as the human characters (in that flat, brightly-colored, stiff 1970s-1980s style[[note]]think something from Filmation or the episodes of ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero'' where the animation was outsourced to Sunbow[[/note]]) -- right down to the ''sky''.
8	-->'''Darwin:''' This school's weird.\
9	'''Gumball:''' Yeah, I can sorta see why Sarah didn't fit in.
10	* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Hilariously subverted, as Gumball and Darwin repeatedly try to avoid conflict in the most direct way possible (letting the other kids think they're better and refusing to fight). [[ButThouMust Everyone continues as if they hadn't.]]
11	* CouldSayItBut: Mr. Small and Principal Brown both given token disapproving comments on the fight, while actually supporting it by giving them advice on how to win--[[AdultsAreUseless even though]] Gumball and Darwin came to them so they would ''stop'' it.
12	* DescriptionCut: Penny tries to talk Gumball out of the fight, but actually convinces him to do it because she mentions finding it attractive.
13	-->'''Penny:''' Listen to your heart. What does it say?\
14	'''[[OrganAutonomy Gumball's heart]]:''' GET A RESTRAINING ORDER ON THOSE GUYS AND LIVE HAPPILY IN SHAAAAAME!\
15	'''Gumball:''' It says I have to fight.
16	* DickDastardlyStopsToCheat: Mr. Kreese [[WrongGenreSavvy thinks Gumball and Darwin are planning something]], so he [[OrderedToCheat tells Carlton to injure Gumball]] even though they're one serve away from winning [[ParodiedTrope while the other team has not scored a single point and is not trying to win or even play at all]]. Technically subverted in that they win anyway.
17	* DressedInLayers: Carlton gives Gumball one of his sweaters as a sign of respect, but not before taking off all the ones he has over it on his body, shoulders, and waist--''[[OverlyLongGag nine]]'' in total.
18	-->'''Gumball:''' Dude, do you actually start dressing in the morning by tying a sweater around your shoulders? Like, do you wear one as your underpants as well?
19	* FacelessMasses: The crowd at Richwood High are faceless mobs of color in long shots. Though they have faces in closer shots, they never move and are revealed by a stray tennis ball to actually be flat cutouts.
20	-->'''Gumball:''' How do they clap without moving?
21	* LimitedAnimation: The human characters movements are jerky and stiff.
22	* LosingAShoeInTheStruggle: Principal Brown [[InvokedTrope suggests]] that if you're grabbed by someone in a fight, you should grab the other guy's shoe and throw it across the room, so that they will release you to retrieve it.
23	* MistakenConfession: The episode begins with Darwin and Gumball being called to the principal's office for unknown reasons. Darwin suggests fessing up immediately, which Gumball does while adding a ''massive'' dose of PlayingTheVictimCard, but they weren't even in trouble in the first place.
24	-->'''Gumball:''' Yes! Yes it was us! But before you judge think about this! Video games! Rap music! Television! The internet! Advertising making us want something your generation shoves down our throats so you can get even richer! Who's the ''real'' victim here!? And while you're at it, think about this! Who is the real culprit; the victim of your corrupt society, or the man that could've done something, but let it happen? \
25	'''Principal Brown''': (nearly falling out of his seat) Uh... I-I called you in because I thought you wouldn't mind showing [[NewTransferStudent Sarah]] around the school. \
26	''(Darwin and Gumball [[BehindTheBlack turn and notice Sarah sitting next to them]])''\
27	'''Gumball:''' Gah, [[GoshDangitToHeck dag nabbit]] man. I just wasted the best excuse material I've ever had.
28	* MundaneMadeAwesome: The tennis match is played up by the camera and music as some epic confrontation; Carlton and Troy even [[CallingYourAttacks enthusiastically shout the name of their shots]]. Gumball and Darwin care so little that they are doing ''literally nothing'' to stop the other team from scoring.
29	* NonstandardCharacterDesign: As mentioned below, human characters appeared in the show where [[AnimateInanimateObject everything literally comes to life.]]
30	* OnlySaneMan: For this episode, Gumball and Darwin immediately see how insane everything Carlton and Troy are trying is, in contrast to everyone else.
31	* PainToTheAss: Carlton sends a tennis ball to hit Gumball, while crying a SingleTear because he doesn't want to. Gumball, ignoring the match to mess around with Darwin, was facing the other way and gets hit in the rear end ("[[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl Aaaaah!]] Right in the glute."), [[GameBreakingInjury taking him out of the match.]] Mr. Small claims he can heal Gumball, but when he spits on his hands and reaches for Gumball's buttocks, Gumball decides to just walk it off.
32	* ParodyEpisode: The episode parodies '80s sports movies, especially ''Film/TheKarateKid''.
33	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Darwin and Gumball originally planned to leave when everyone expects them to fight, but Gumball decides to stay to impress Penny.
34	* RightForTheWrongReasons: When Mr Kreese tells Carlton and Troy to cheat, Carlton argues that he could make the winning score, ignoring that they are far ahead and Gumball and Darwin aren't even taking the game seriously.
35	* StealthHiBye: Carlton and Troy appear to disappear when Gumball had his eyes closed, [[SubvertedTrope but]] Darwin saw [[NoPeripheralVision they just climbed up a tree]].
36	* StylisticSuck: The humans manage to [[NonstandardCharacterDesign stick out of the rest of the cast like sore thumbs]] -- an impressive feat for a show with as much MediumBlending as it has. Their animation is deliberately very stiff and jerky, and their designs look like they were taken from late-70s to mid-80s era cartoons (think something out of ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero'' or anything made by Filmation). To make this more obvious, during their match with Gumball and Darwin the crowd members seem to be something like cardboard cutouts, with one of them ''falling over like one'' after being hit.
37	* TheyJustDontGetIt: Darwin and Gumball deny Sarah, Carlton, Troy, or Mr. Kreese's claims to them thinking they are "more hardcore", yet are always treated as if they do.
38	-->'''Darwin:''' What part of "we're not hard core" did you not understand?\
39	'''Carlton:''' If you're so hardcore--\
40	'''Gumball:''' We just said we weren't.\
41	'''Carlton:''' --then what are you going to do about ''this'' (flicks Gumball), face-ache?\
42	'''Gumball:''' Absolutely nothing, dude.\
43	'''Carlton:''' Sounds to me like you want to fight, dweebazoid!\
44	'''Gumball:''' ''OK'', I don't know what kind of movie you're living in, but I don't want to be in it. \
45	'''Carlton:''' That's right! Walk away before it gets ugly.\
46	'''Darwin:''' What do you think we're doing with our legs right now?
47	* TrivialTitle: The episode's antagonists all wear sweaters, but those sweaters just make them look even weirder than they would otherwise; they aren't important to the plot in any way.
48	* UnsportsmanlikeGloating: The coach of the rival team incessantly taunts Gumball and Darwin.
49	* YeahShot: The episode ends with [[EverybodyLaughsEnding everyone laughing]] at Gumball's question about Carlton's sweater, then freeze-framing on Carlton in mid-air... [[DefiedTrope but Gumball and Darwin are still moving.]]
50	-->''(halfway through the episode)''\
51	'''Gumball:''' We'll freeze-frame in some kind of high-five, mega-happy-ending cheese pose.\
52	''(end of the episode)''\
53	'''Gumball:''' (points to Carlton) [[BrickJoke Told you it would end like that.]]

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