"Dude, little tip: Normal people don’t hug for this long."
When Gumball and Darwin try to help Bobert (an intelligent, but socially ignorant robot boy, animated in 3D) be a real boy, Bobert decides he'll just take Gumball's identity instead.
Tropes
- Chekhov's Gun: Lampshaded when Gumball hopes out loud for something that previously seemed insignificant to come save him. Cue Darwin running into the scene to help, only to get swept to the side by Bobert ("OK, some other insignificant thing!") followed by the sprinklers that splashed Gumball when he tried to sleep on the lawn earlier turning on, temporarily shorting Bobert out.
- Concealment Equals Cover: Bobert attacks Gumball at point blank with an attack that caused a mushroom cloud that must have been thousands of feet tall. Gumball is unharmed because he hid behind a plastic garbage can.
- Easy Impersonation: Bobert's disguise has him perfectly imitate Gumball's voice, but visually all he does is paint a badly drawn facsimile of Gumball's face on himself and attach cardboard ears and a tail. Everyone falls for it, even characters like Penny, Nicole and Anais, who wouldn't be fooled by something so transparent in any other episode.
- A Day in the Limelight: For Bobert.
- E = MC Hammer: A demonstration of what emotions are causes Bobert to claim emotion "equal x over y plus the square root of the hypotenuse".
- Everyone Has Standards: Alan is upset at Bobert for kicking their soccer ball away, but he doesn't insult him unlike the other kids.
- Here We Go Again!: Bobert failed to steal Gumball's identity, so he's just going to try and take Darwin's.
- Hurl It into the Sun: Bobert tries to kick back a soccer ball to other kids but kicks it so hard it flies into the sun.
- Ignored Epiphany: Gumball attempts to give Bobert a well-deserved reboot but Bobert stops him, pleading Gumball not to do it, saying the two of them can do "great things" together. Gumball flatly declines and reboots Bobert anyway.
- Literal-Minded: Bobert is told he has to be "cooler", so he grows a fan and point it at himself.
- Nuclear Option: Mirrored, when Bobert nukes Gumball despite being the exact opposite of a 'last resort.'
- "Open!" Says Me: When Gumball finds his locker combination has been changed, he opens it with a paper-clip—by poking himself in the butt with it, spurring himself to headbutt the door and force it open.
- Overly Long Hug: Bobert does this twice. First, he does this after Gumball and Darwin try to teach him to be a real boy. The second is after Bobert is brought back to normal after attempting to Kill and Replace Gumball.Gumball: This is even longer than last time.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: Bobert's Gumball disguise is extremely crude and obvious due to a half-baked paint job and his giant eye. He's still able to fool everybody into thinking he's Gumball.
- Sudden Anatomy: Gumball's regular cat-like ear is replaced by a gigantic human-like ear when trying to listen to something across the room.
