While discussing what crew they should join, Gumball and Darwin get it in their heads that the senior citizens, Marvin Finkleheimernote , Bettynote , and Donaldnote , are the most hardcore gang in Elmore and the duo decides to join them, but get in over their heads when they think Marvin wants Louie the mouse dead for leaving them.
Tropes:
- Bolivian Army Ending: The American version edits out the final scene where Sheriff Donut uses a taser on Marvin, causing the episode to end with the police surrounding the senior citizens.
- Bowdlerise: On Cartoon Network's American television broadcast and website video (and the version shown on HBO Max), the episode ends with the police surrounding Marvin, Betty, and Donald at the reservoir. In the versions aired in the UK and on digital platforms iTunes, Hulu, and Amazon.com Video, the episode ends a few seconds later with Marvin trying to explain himself, only to be tasered by Donut Cop when he reaches for his phone.
- Call-Back:
- Louie the mouse hasn't been hanging around the senior citizens, implicitly because he started dating Granny Jojo in "The Man". So they ask Darwin and Gumball to deliver a (cell phone) message for them.
- The assumption that the senior citizens are a street crew, besides being an ironic comparison, seems like a reference to one-off gags from earlier episodes showing the elderly as young and hip, such as all of them attempting to break-dance in "The Extras".
- Chekhov's Gun: Gumball's hearing aid. When he is listening to see if Marvin and the others have left (while Marvin is listening to see if they are in the house), they accidentally cause their hearing aids to feedback when they get too close to the front door.
- Cool Old Guy: Gumball and Darwin both assume the senior citizens are the most hardcore street crew in Elmore.
- Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: Gumball gives a (very weak) slap to Darwin due to him being hysterical. But, as Darwin points out their current situation, Gumball reasons that acting hysterical is perfectly logical.
- Imagined Innuendo: Gumball and Darwin are asked to send a message to Louie. As in, text him. Not, as they assume, "ice" him.
- Literally Shattered Lives: The end result of Gumball and Darwin jumping into the disused river. As a bonus, as they reform, they are restored to their youthful appearance.
- Low-Speed Chase: Gumball and Darwin (still elderly) wind up getting chased by the senor citizens as they attempt to skip town.
- Plot-Relevant Age-Up: Gumball and Darwin try to invoke this so they can join the crew. Their attempts fail, are thwarted or backfire until they succeed by exploiting the stress of having to parent each other.
- Racist Grandpa: Gumball lists one of the benefits of being a senior citizen as saying horribly offensive things and being excused for it because you were raised in a different time.
- Reset Button: Gumball and Darwin age themselves up into old men to join "the crew", but by the end of the episode they regain their youth.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When Gumball and Darwin assume the senior citizens want them to kill Louie, they decide to skip town and live under fake identities.
- Stealth Pun: In Gumball's vision of Marvin, Betty, and Donald as gangsta-rap style thugs, Marvin is shown wearing a pimp hat surrounded by money with two bitches (as in "female dogs," not the derogatory term for a woman) at his side.
- Technicolor Eyes: The visual cue for Gumball's telepathy is it flashing different colors radiating concentrically from the pupil.
- Toxic Waste Can Do Anything: Gumball and Darwin try to artificially age themselves in a polluted lake but only succeed in Gumball developing telepathy and Darwin becoming magnetic.
- Values Dissonance: One of Gumball's reasons for wanting to be a senior citizen is so that he can say the most offensive things he can think of and get away with it because "...things were different back then".
- Who's on First?: An entire scene is the senior citizens trying to clarify who was talking and what they were saying but bungling it because of poor hearing.
