Gumball and Darwin try to make Sussie the chin puppet normal after seeing how everyone rejects her gifts and bullies her for being weird, but Sussie ends up teaching Gumball and Darwin what it's like to be her.
Tropes:
- Art Shift: Once Gumball and Darwin put on Sussie's eyeballs, the entire episode shifts into a cruder, constantly shifting, crayon drawing art style (which was actually provided by a London kindergarten class for the show).
- Battle Strip: Gumball threatens to fight the Gang of Bullies picking on Sussie and takes off his clothes until Darwin stops him.Gumball: Alright, I'm-a fight these punks!
Darwin: What, Greco-Roman style? - Bait-and-Switch: When Gumball asks how Sussie came to be, she gives them three scenarios that seemingly lead up to her birth, only for it to end up something else each time. Then she nonchalantly says that she was just born.
- Be Yourself: What Sussie does, even if she's gross and Lethally Stupid.
- Bowdlerise:
- In the UK, the scene where Julius spits gum in Sussie's hand and Sussie eating it is cut, making it look like Gumball gets mad at Julius and the other bullies simply for calling her a weirdo.
- A lot of international versions (barring the American version) cut out some of the grosser scenesnote in the "Hey, It's Sussie" musical montage.
- Blaming the Victim: Upon observing Sussie getting bullied by Julius and his gang, Darwin claims that she's making herself an easy target by being so weird. Never mind that she can't help it, or that the people who bully her would find another reason to bully her if not that because they're, well, bullies (and Darwin should know, because he's been victimized by the same Gang of Bullies due to his naïve nature, both before and after this episode).
- Broken Aesop: The end of the episode presents Sussie showing Gumball and Darwin how being her weird self is how she finds her bliss. But much of her behavior isn't just alienating, it's unsanitary and even harmful, and not just to herself—one of her "gifts" was a spider that poisoned Darwin.
- Cartoon Creature: Lampshaded. Gumball tells Sussie it's hard to change her identity without knowing what she actually is.I mean, no offense, but you look like the result of some novelty app.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Sussie's odd perspective is the focus on the episode. She keeps different sauces in each of her pockets, and thinks spiders are raisins that can dance.
- A Day in the Limelight: This episode focuses on Sussie exclusively. She's been included in numerous episodes, but none of them ever really go into good detail about who she is.
- Extreme Omnivore: Sussie sings that "Anything can be food, if you're in the right mood!"
- Gag Lips: As a part of seeing what Sussie sees, Gumball and Darwin gain exaggerated lips when they put on her googly eyes.
- How Is That Even Possible?: Unable to think of a way to throw out his Sussie-gift without Sussie noticing, Banana Joe picks himself up and throws himself in the trash while his present floats out of the room. Gumball seems just as confused as we are.
- In Another Man's Shoes: Sussie gives Gumball and Darwin each a pair of her plastic, googly eyes so they could see what she sees.
- Laser-Guided Karma: The gang of bullies are all caught in Julius's explosion at the end.
- Naked People Are Funny: Sussie likes to sing nude in the shopping center because of the acoustics. We don't see her naked in her usual appearance (for obvious reasons) but as part of the fantasy sequence of her song.
- Rhetorical Question Blunder: Julius, the bomb-headed bully, asks Sussie "What do you call a chin with two butts?" but Darwin answers "Butty McButt Chin" before he can start calling names.
- Self-Disposing Villain: In the final scene, Darwin, Gumball, and Sussie walk away from the Gang of Bullies' insults without a care, and Julius gets so angry at being ignored that he detonates.
- Through the Eyes of Madness: Gumball and Darwin literally see the world through Sussie's eyes, depicted as a series of child's pictures animated together.
- Truth in Television: Darwin's speech to Sussie about how society treats people who are different and/or whose behaviour goes against the norm is all too true in real life.
- Unwanted Gift Plot: A minor early episode plot point, where Sussie gives random things out as gifts. Zigzagged with Darwin, who refused a "crumpled green picture of an old man" as Sussie describes it, when the latter reveals a hundred dollar bill, tearing it in half. She then gives him a spider (aka a "dancing raisin") which causes him to jump in panic in an attempt to shake it off before it bites him, knocking him out.
- Worthless Yellow Rocks: Sussie tears apart "a crumpled green picture of an old man" after Darwin refuses it, sight unseen, based on what happened with everyone else's gifts. Turns out said picture was really a hundred dollar bill!
