Line #26 Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS3E5ThePuppy


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2	->'''Darwin:''' Look, I agree that he's kind of mega-gross, cold, wet, smells like a belly button, and has the beady eyes of a ventriloquist dummy, but he's part of the family now, so we're gonna love him like a Watterson.
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4	Gumball, Darwin, and Anais convince Richard to get a new puppy, despite Nicole's objections. Too bad Richard buys a turtle instead, who turns out to be a psychotic killer bent on attacking the family.
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6	!!Tropes:
7	* TheBait: Since Richard eats all the turkey legs that Anais and the boys were going to use as bait to catch their turtle, they end up using Gumball as bait instead, as the turtle seems to like biting him the most.
8	* BarefootCartoonAnimal: Lampshaded as the kids are practicing their pitch to get a dog.
9	-->'''Anais:''' Don't forget to compliment the buyer.\
10	'''Gumball:''' Love your shoes, by the way, I have the same pair myself.\
11	'''Anais:''' Dad doesn't wear shoes.\
12	'''Gumball:''' Love your feet, by the way, I have the same pair myself.
13	* BehindTheBlack: The kids don't notice Richard has left until it cuts to a wide shot of the living room despite them looking right in his direction the whole time.
14	* BittersweetEnding: Close to a [[DownerEnding downer]]; The turtle's rampage was stopped for now, but the Wattersons are pretty much stuck with her until she dies of old age.
15	* BlatantLies: Darwin says the turtle "passed away peacefully" while looking at her desiccated body with her face writhed in agony ("Like a peaceful, evil raisin").
16	* ChekhovsGun: Among the things Richard said "the store" sold was ''fireworks''...
17	* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Richard's insane rambling ended up predicting ''exactly'' where the van he got the turtle from went.
18	* {{Foreshadowing}}: "BITE, BITE, BITE! [[MiracleGroMonster NEED FOOD FOR STRENGTH TO BITE, BITE, BITE!]] [[YourTomcatIsPregnant MAKE LITTLE TURTLES TO BITE EVEN MORE!"]] hints at [[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS4E28TheNest the Evil Turtle's fate in the next season.]]
19	* FunWithSubtitles: In a moment of probably-accidental humor, [[http://i585.photobucket.com/albums/ss298/thatother1dude/official%20subtitles.png the official subtitles]] bluntly describe the sound the turtle makes as "[imitating Hannibal Lecter]".
20	* TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday: Richard believes he purchased the terrifying, near-immortal turtle from a shop that wasn't where he remembered it being...[[SubvertedTrope but it turns out it was just a red van that sold (probably stolen) merchandise and it drove off instead of disappearing]].
21	* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: After Darwin abruptly disappears into the bush, after a moment, you can hear a splash in the lake.
22	* MistakenForDog: Richard mistakes the vicious turtle he buys from a dodgy van for a puppy.
23	-->'''Richard:''' It's a labradoodle.\
24	'''Turtle:''' ''hisses''\
25	'''Richard:''' It's a labra''turtle''.
26	* TheNeedsOfTheMany: At the end, the Wattersons decide to keep the turtle, if only to spare the rest of the world her wrath. It helps that the turtle's stubby little limbs render her unable to leave her terrarium.
27	* NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead: Gumball hated the turtle even more than everyone else, so he couldn't think of anything to say when she appeared to be dead.
28	* NighInvulnerability: The turtle cannot be physically harmed, and even severe dehydration was merely [[NotQuiteDead an inconvenience]] -- shortly after being rehydrated, a car hits the turtle ''[[PedestrianCrushesCar and gets bounced back]]''.
29	* NotEvilJustMisunderstood: Combined with BrokenPedestal and TheFarmerAndTheViper--Darwin's the most caring towards the turtle and is the only one convinced that the turtle is totally harmless. It's not until she try kills to kill Darwin (by dragging him to the bottom of the lake in an attempt to drown him and eat him) that he finally turns against her.
30	* NotQuiteDead: The turtle appears to have died from dehydration, but was rehydrated [[SwissArmyTears by Darwin's tears]] ("[[EmotionEater It feeds on misery!]]")
31	* OffTheChart: When proposing to get a puppy, the children show a chart of their "projected happiness level" represented by a bar that goes off the notepad and through the ceiling.
32	* OutOfTheInferno: The turtle crawls out from the exploded van unharmed. Then Anais catches her under a bowl.
33	* RageBreakingPoint: Darwin has been pretty chill about the turtle, giving it chance after chance to integrate into their family with only natural concern that it might hurt him. When it drags him away and leaves him at the bottom of the lake, he shows up later, damp, dirty and ''furious'' at the reptile, forgoing attempts to peacefully interact and instead going on the attack.
34	* RealMenWearPink: Gumball is wearing a pink top at the start of the episode.
35	* SealedEvilInACan: The ultimate fate of the turtle, as the Wattersons decide to keep her from rampaging by stuffing her in a terrarium.
36	* StringTheory: Richard connects a bunch of photos on the wall by string to find the van he bought the turtle from.
37	-->'''Richard:''' So, we're here, and we know the store was here, [[CaptainObvious and if we draw a line between them, it spells the letter "i".]] And we all know that there's no "i" in team, [[InsaneTrollLogic so we know that the van isn't in a sports center!]] But look what happens when I draw a line here and here! The trident of Poseidon, lord of the sea! You know what that means? The store is waiting for us at 475 West Elmore Boulevard! \
38	'''Anais:''' That's a map of Switzerland.\
39	'''Richard:''' ''Exactly!''
40	* ShootingSuperman: The turtle tried dragging Darwin, a ''fish with legs'', to the bottom of the lake.
41	* TakeOurWordForIt: Whatever the turtle did that finally made Nicole and Richard agree that they needed to get rid of her was never shown and not really described (all we can gather is that was ''really'', '''''really''''' bad).
42	-->'''Richard:''' I mean, there's horrific (holds hand at chest level), and there's absolutely horrific! (raises hand to car roof) But you were- (opens window to raise hand above roof)
43	* TearOffYourFace: The turtle literally bites Gumball's face off at one point, leaving it [[TheBlank flat and featureless.]]

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