Line #4 Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS4E39TheStories


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2	->'''Molly:''' Hey, did I tell you about when my brown crayon ran out? Don't worry though, this story has a happy ending.
3	->'''Gumball:''' Does it involve the main character being slowly run over by a BUS?!
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5	Molly tries to entertain the school with stories, to the distress of everyone in earshot. Eventually, they just start avoiding her, but feel bad, and decide to help give her a more entertaining story to tell.
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7	!!Tropes:
8	* BaitAndSwitch:
9	** Gumball says someone has to tell Molly her stories are bad, but predictably means that "someone" is Darwin... then Gumball tells her anyway, forcing Darwin to hastily bluff his way out.
10	** Gumball and Darwin disguise themselves throughout the school at one point to hide from Molly. In the cafeteria, you clearly see two bags of trash the same colors as Gumball and Darwin. The two end up disguised as completely different items behind the trash.
11	** After Molly sees the amazing events set up for her to have a more interesting story, she initially appears to have either [[ComicallyMissingThePoint not noticed anything out of the ordinary]], [[EpicFail only remembered to tell the boring parts]], or [[DeliberateUnderPerformance intentionally left out the interesting parts]]. Then Molly makes it clear [[SmarterThanYouLook she saw through the charade entirely]], but was glad she has friends that would do something like that for her.
12	* TheBore: Molly's stories are ''incredibly'' boring. Played for drama a bit because when they think about confronting her about it they accidentally come across her and find out she's aware of this and highly self-conscious about it.
13	* CallBack: In "The Void", Mr. Small already mentioned that Molly was boring. Turns out he was more than right.
14	* ClownCarBase: When Gumball rallies the students to help Molly out, it's revealed that they've all been hiding in ''one'' of the lockers.
15	-->'''Gumball:''' You do realize there's like a hundred lockers in this corridor?\
16	'''Principal Brown:''' We panicked.
17	* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Gumball and Darwin set up a bunch of interesting events for Molly to witness so she has an interesting story to tell, but when she tells the story she leaves out all the interesting parts.
18	* ContinuityNod: In "The Apology", Gumball talked about how awesome it would be if Bobert fought Tina. As part of the plan to give Molly a more interesting story, they do just that.
19	* ADayInTheLimelight: For Molly.
20	* DiedInYourArmsTonight: Parodied; Gumball and Darwin cradle Molly after she takes a dodgeball hit for them because they listen to her stories, but instead of them screaming in grief because she dies, they give a [[SkywardScream Skyward]] BigNo because she immediately starts another one.
21	* DodgeballIsHell: The students being hit with dodgeballs by Jamie plays like something out of a war movie.
22	* GratuitousSpanish: Principal Brown and the Nurse speak Spanish in their part of Gumball's scheme, as a spoof of {{telenovela}}s.
23	* IntoxicationEnsues: Mr. Small gets a breath of toxic chemicals and goes completely insane, ripping his own clothes off and dancing wildly.
24	* MisterSeahorse: Principal Brown fakes being pregnant as part of Gumball's scheme, with the School Nurse as the mother.
25	* MySkullRunnethOver: Gumball claims he's heard so much of Molly's stories that they're starting to push out his older memories.
26	* ShaggyFrogStory: All of Molly's stories are endless droning leading to the most mundane events possible, so the entire school goes through a lot of trouble to give her an interesting story to tell, but it just gets weirder the further it goes.
27	* ShirtlessScene: Part of the kids' setup for Molly's great story involves Mr. Small ripping his shirt off in a chemical-induced fit.
28	* SuicideAsComedy: The students walk into the path of [[BarbaricBully Jamie's]] dodgeballs after hearing too many of Molly's stories.
29	* TakingTheBullet: Molly takes the dodgeball meant for Gumball and Darwin because [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe they listened to her stories]].
30	* TimeCompressionMontage: One tracking the bus on the ride to school, each cut with a voiceover of another one of Molly's stories. Darwin lampshades that if it was a TV show it'd be cut like this instead of making people suffer through every boring word.

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