Felicity: You [Nicole] know you'll never succeed so you want your kids to succeed for you. You hope that being friends with someone like me will help you climb that ladder, but you're living a lie. You are not good enough, they are not good enough, you've either got it or you haven't, and you haven't. So just be happy with who you really are.
Nicole sets up a playdate for Anais with Billy Parham (the blue, egg-shaped boy), but Billy's mother Felicity (the orange woman who has been seen a lot in previous episodes) thinks Nicole and the Wattersons aren't classy enough for her and her son.
Tropes:
- Cringe Comedy: Nicole trying so hard to make her family presentable to a snob like Felicity causes many moments of painful awkwardness.Nicole: Darwin used to be a goldfish, but through tender love and care and of course parenting skills, became a goldfish with legs! Show them, Sweetie!
(Darwin awkwardly puts a limp leg in Felicity's lap)
Darwin: Um, that's my leg. And there's one more where that came from.
Felicity: Eheh... very nice. - Damned by Faint Praise: Nicole introduces Anais by calling her a genius and Darwin by pointing out how he managed to grow legs. She couldn't think of anything to say about Gumball, so he started showing off that he could make a loogie slide in and out of his mouth.
- Death Glare: Felicity casts a furious stare at Billy when she notices he's enjoying himself with Anais even though she hates the other Wattersons.
- Easily Forgiven: Oddly, despite all the insults Felicity makes about the Wattersons, Gumball doesn't bring up Felicity's car-jacking or holding a police chief hostage in "The Law", despite calling her a "psychopathic criminal" who should have been arrested.
- Exact Words: Nicole tells Richard to get his finger out of his nose, then he starts picking his nose with his feet.
- Finishing Each Other's Sentences:Billy: Well, we do finish each other's—
Anais: Conversational sets of words that contain a subject, verb and statement? - Fully Automatic Clip Show: Felicity is horrified to see the Wattersons, then we see a rapidfire montage of actions she witness all the boys do: Richard's hip-hop dancing in "The Hero", Gumball stumbling around with a split head in "The Authority", and Gumball and Darwin being loaded in Donut Cop's squad car in "The Law".
- Funny Background Event: As Anais and Billy happily talk about how they can relate that they have no one equally intellectual to chat with, Nicole has transformed into a monster that starts attacking Felicity, all while Richard tries and fails to restrain her.
- Given Name Reveal: This is the first episode to mention Felicity's first name.
- Hipster: During part of Anais and Billy's song montage, they dress like stereotypical hipsters: Wearing flannel shirts, lumberjack beard, horn-rimmed glasses, artistic tattoos all over their arms, and listening to vinyl records.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Felicity lays out a savage analysis of Nicole's station in life. While most of it is unapologetic haughty condescension, she is right about Nicole trying to cozy up to people she views as higher on the social ladder as a way to try and claw her way up instead of just living as she already is and being content with what she's already got in her life.
- Lame Pun Reaction:Anais: I am Anais.
Billy: Anais to meet you.
Anais: It's Billy nice to meet you, too.
Billy: Not as quite good, but good effort. - Last-Name Basis:Nicole Oh, welcome Felicity!
Felicity: I prefer Ms. Parham.
Nicole: Sorry, you can call me Mrs. Watterson.
Felicity: Of course. Nicole. - Literalist Snarking: Felicity refuses to go inside the Wattersons' car because "she doesn't want to be seen in that heap of junk".Felicity: I'm sorry, but you're not getting me in that car.
Nicole: Challenge accepted.
(Nicole picks up Felicity and starts hitting her against the window.)
Gumball: Do you wanna me to roll down the window?
Nicole: Just a few more times.
(Nicole beats Felicity into the window three more times)
Nicole: OK, that'll do. - Loophole Abuse: While at the grocery store, Nicole demonstrated why coupons in real life usually have "no combined offers" rules.Nicole: (dropping a coupon each time) Half price, loyalty points, buy one get one free, two for one and double discount.
Larry: That comes to the store owing you 50 cents. - Metaphorically True: When Felicity asked what Richard's job was, the actual answer being "nothing", Nicole claimed he was self-employed.
- Minor Flaw, Major Breakup: Anais and Billy's blossoming friendship-and-maybe-love comes to a grinding halt once Anais finds out he hates Daisy the Donkey and instead watches Fireman Pete, which she decides is a "deal-breaker".
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Felicity eventually drops the pretense and outright lays out what she thinks of Nicole and her family. She's chewed out for it.Felicity: Look, Nicole, I get it. You dropped out of college to marry your childhood sweetheart and life was fun until, whoops, your first disappointment. So there you are working all hours to support your family while lover-boy over there is busy growing chins. Then, whoops, another disappointment. Followed by a third that you still dream is better than the others. I get it. You know you'll never succeed, so you want your kids to succeed for you. You hope that being friends with someone like me will help you climb that ladder. But you're living a lie. You're not good enough. They're not good enough. You've either got it or you haven't. And you haven't. So just be happy with who you really are.
(Richard, Gumball, and Darwin get incredibly nervous, Nicole squints angrily)
Nicole: (subtly angry) Hm. Fair enough. You want to see who I really am?
(Nicole transforms into a giant red demon and begins attacking Felicity as the camera pulls back) - Self-Serving Memory: While recalling her past interactions with the Wattersons, Felicity recalls Gumball getting fake arrested in "The Law" but conveniently leaves out the parts where she got arrested herself after going on a wild rampage.
- Shout-Out: Billy claims his favourite TV show is Fireman Pete.
- Slobs Versus Snobs: The main conflict between Nicole, who is working class and self-deprecating, and Felicity, who is very rich and stuck up.
- Stylistic Self-Parody: Darwin tries to make Intertwined Fingers to demonstrate a need for teamwork, but his lack of fingers confuses everyone until Gumball does it himself.
- Wildlife Commentary Spoof: Richard describes Felicity and Nicole's fight as if they're wild animals, then we cut to slow-motion footage of them headbutting each other around like hippos or elephant seals.Richard: Son, when a new mother enters the pride, she test the boundaries of the matriarch's dominance.
Felicity: (offscreen) Ew.
Gumball: What is that?
Richard: Oh, that's just territorial scent marking.
Gumball: So what do we do?
Richard: Just stand back and witness how beautiful and scary nature can be.
