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Recap / The Amazing World of Gumball S1E6 "The Dress"

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"I want more kids!"

Gumball's clothes are ruined thanks to his dad's mishap with the laundry and now he has to wear his mom's wedding dress. He is soon mistaken for a girl and becomes popular in school, not to mention a crush from Darwin.


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  • Bait-and-Switch: Richard spends several seconds hanging off a shaking wardrobe fearing it will collapse. A beat after it stops shaking, the wardrobe spontaneously opens, flinging him off and out the window.
  • Big "NO!": Darwin shouts out "No!" after the fake balloon Gumballoopseggwobbleunderpants from Gumbaldnowigbattle-axeninja's head pops.
  • Comically Missing the Point: Darwin sends Gumball a love letter inviting "her" to a roller coaster, but Gumball thinks it's a regular letter with x's at the end "to show how extreme it'll be!"
  • Cringe Comedy: Darwin having a crush on a girl who is (unbeknownst to him) his brother in drag is played for laughs.
  • Disguised in Drag: Gumball spends the episode wearing a dress and pretending to be a new student, though he was wearing it because all his other clothes were destroyed and only treated it as a disguise when no one recognized him.
  • Even the Girls Want Her: Everyone but Anais fawns obsessively over Gumballoopseggwobbleunderpants and acts like "her" servant, even the female students and Ms. Simian.
  • Flashback Fail:
    Richard: I've been up all night doing the laundry, just like your mother asks me to.
    (cut to Nicole and Richard in the laundry room)
    Nicole: Whatever you do, don't do the laundry.
    Richard: Aye, aye, captain!
  • The Freelance Shame Squad: Gumball is afraid that the other students will laugh at him when they see him in a dress, but they instead assume he's someone else. Then they actually do laugh at him at the end of the episode when he's naked in public.
  • Homosexual Reproduction: Gumball has an Imagine Spot about Darwin marrying him (because Darwin doesn't realize he's just Gumball in a dress). In the imagine spot, Gumball is surrounded by cat/fish babies as Darwin comes home and yells "I WANT MORE KIDS!"
  • Hurl It into the Sun: The balloon Gumball pretends is Gumballoopseggwobbleunderpants accidentally comes untethered and floats into the sun (which seems to be a couple hundred feet into the sky and maybe twenty feet across).
  • Idiot Ball: Everyone, except for Anais, falls for Gumball's Paper-Thin Disguise, even the students that are usually smarter than this.
  • Improvised Clothes: Before Richard gives Gumball the wedding dress, he wore a cereal box as clothing.
  • Line-of-Sight Alias: Gumball tries to come up with a name from his surroundings when all the classmates see him in the dress and assume he's a different person. What are the first things he sees? Someone chewing gum, and a ball. Which he quickly amends with "oops...egg...wobble...underpants." And then when he's asked where he's from, he sees gum and a bald head... and then "no, wig, battle-axe ninja!" His classmates ended up interpreting the whole thing as "Gumballoopseggwobbleunderpants from Gumbaldnowigbattle-axeninja".
  • Literal Metaphor: "All day long, people have been bending over backwards for me!" Cue Mr. Small walking by, literally bent over backwards.
  • Not Now, Kiddo: Anais tries to warn Gumball that Darwin has a crush on him, but he interrupts her.
  • One Size Fits All: Nicole's wedding dress fits on Gumball even though he's less than half her size.
  • Only Sane Man: Anais is the only who knows that Gumball is still Gumball when he has Nicole's wedding dress on.
  • Paper-Thin Disguise: When Gumball comes to school in Nicole's wedding dress, everyone there thinks he's a new girl, and Darwin flat out falls in love with him, and even Richard later falls for it, the only one who's able to see through the disguise is Anais.
  • Shrunk in the Wash: Gumball is forced to wear his mom's wedding dress to school because his father shrunk all his clothes in the wash. When he's inevitably spotted by the other kids, they don't recognize him (in fact, they're all smitten with him).
  • Stalker with a Crush: Darwin immediately falls in love with Gumball in the dress, something Gumball entirely fails to notice, and does things like taking unsolicited picture and collecting "her" burp gas and sweat.
  • Stupidest Thing I've Ever Heard: Miss Simian finds the identity of the "new student" the other kids put forward to be the most ridiculous thing she's ever heard, but since Gumball(oopseggwobbleunderpants) is wearing a beautiful dress, it must be true.

 
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In the episode "The Dress," when Gumball wears his mother's wedding dress to school, the entire school (even the girls) is smitten with "her", and his brother Darwin obsessively stalks him.

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