It's the first day back at school, but Gumball and Darwin are nowhere to be seen.
Genres: Family Year: 2013
Dad has to make the kids on time for their first day back at school. But he's overslept and now he can't find Gumball, Darwin or Anais anywhere. He sets about retracing his steps from the day before, to work out where they might be. When he finally figures out where they are, it's a race against time to rescue them and prove to himself - and Mum - that he's not a bad father.
Gumball and Darwin discover that Rob, who once swore to wreak vengeance on them, has been trying to destroy them for some time. But his traps never work. Taking pity on him, the kids make it their mission to help Rob become a better nemesis. But they do their job too well, creating a super-villain they may not be able to control.
When Gumball and Darwin decide it's time they join a crew, they agree that the coolest posse in Elmore is the senior citizens. They do everything they can to fit in with them, going to extraordinary lengths to prove themselves worthy of running with them.
When Anais reveals she's in the grade above them at school, Gumball's and Darwin's eyes are suddenly opened to a whole new world of other students at Elmore Junior High. Gumball is horrified to learn that there are a bunch of characters who are barely aware of his existence and is determined to force his way into their lives.
Dad discovers that Granny Jojo and Louie are planning to get married and move to Florida. To stop this happening he adopts Louie so that (as his father) he can forbid him from marrying Granny Jojo. But this triggers a series of adoptions within the family which quickly spirals out of control, and causes the unexpected return of someone from Dad's past.
After they receive an extravagant invitation to Masami's birthday party, Gumball and Darwin are anxious to find just the right gift for her. However, they're not the only ones: it turns out every kid in Elmore is competing to get Masami the perfect present. When Gumball and Darwin decide to think outside the box, their unusual gift is a big surprise, but not a good one.
Gumball decides that the best way to show Mr Fitzgerald that he's good enough for Penny, is to become his apprentice for the day. The problem is, Mr Fitzgerald has an important interview and Gumball's enthusiastic attempts to help him might actually do more harm than good, both to Mr Fitzgerald's business and to Gumball's future with Penny.
Gumball, Darwin and Anais are delighted when Grandpa Louie gives them a check for $5,000. They immediately start fantasising over what to spend it on. But when Mum and Dad say they're going to spend the money on paying bills, it's a race to the bank to see who can cash the cheque first.
When they find Anais training herself for a brutal showdown, Gumball and Darwin realise that their sister is being pestered at school by an annoying kid: Billy. They try to teach her how to resolve the problem peacefully, but Billy has other ideas.
When Darwin taunts Gumball about how predictable he is, Gumball tries to prove that he can still surprise his buddy. He thinks that greeting a kid he barely knows with a hug will do the trick. He's right, Darwin doesn't see it coming. But what Gumball doesn't see coming is the awkward social repercussions of the hug: he now has to pretend to be good friends with this stranger or face the embarrassment (several hugs later) of admitting he's not.
Gumball and Darwin are devastated to learn that Mr Robinson - their favourite person in the world - is selling his house and leaving town. When they realise that making some final happy memories with Mr Robinson is not enough for them, they decide to stop him leaving, by sabotaging the sale.
Mum and the kids depart for their hard day's work, leaving a seemingly lazy Dad half-asleep on the sofa. Mum has given him one very simple job: buy mayonnaise. However, Dad manages to turn this mundane task into an epic quest, showing that his daily routine isn't as inactive as his family imagines.
When the Wattersons arrive at the mall for a day of shopping, they struggle to find a space in the parking lot. They search for a space everywhere - using all their intelligence, cunning and trickery - but as the day goes on, the desperate hunt for a space becomes more important than the trip to the mall itself.
Gumball and Darwin see an advert for the latest, cutting-edge Bobert operating system and excitedly talk Bobert into downloading it. At first it seems like a massive improvement, but the many flaws in the new operating system become increasingly apparent. After the upgraded Bobert malfunctions one too many times, the kids decide to reinstall his old operating system. But will they be able to downgrade from the upgrade and get their old friend back?
Sarah has created a comic starring Gumball as the heroic Laserheart. He embarks upon a vigilante quest for justice to rid Elmore of crime, but Gumball soon discovers that even a superhero is sometimes no match for a regular villain.
After Gumball convinces himself that Penny doesn't love him as much as she used to, he decides to put together a romantic quest to remind her of all the good times they've had together. But Gumball's romantic gesture backfires, landing Penny - and maybe their relationship - in serious peril.
Everyone knows you can never watch just one video on the internet, but Gumball and Darwin think they are the exception to the rule. However the more videos they watch, the looser their grip on reality.
After being framed for feeding coffee to the squirrels in the park, Gumball proclaims that Mrs Robinson is pure evil. Darwin tells him that there's no such thing as pure evil, and sets out to prove that Mrs Robinson wasn't born evil, she just became that way because of a trauma in her past. But when he learns the true darkness of her nature, he decides she deserves her grand comeuppance.
When Mum and Dad struggle to keep hyperactive, toddler-aged Gumball from trashing the house and exhausting them, they decide to buy him a pet. It works, but there's a problem: every goldfish they get him is short-lived, and inevitably ends up being flushed down the toilet. However, when Dad buys a talking goldfish from a mysterious shop, Gumball meets the best friend he'll ever have.
Via the sewers, Darwin finds himself flushed out to sea. He is terrified but determined to make his way back to the Wattersons. However, a fish can't get very far on land, so Darwin will have to do millions of years of evolution in a matter of hours if he's going to get home safe and sound.
Gumball has, through gritted teeth, prepared a special dinner for Alan, to apologise for the way he has treated him in the past. When Alan cancels, Gumball is overjoyed until a post on Elmore Plus reveals Alan lied about his Mum being sick, and is having a day of fun with his family instead. Gumball tracks down the traitor to give him a piece of his mind, but when he finds out his Mum really is sick he has to find a way to make it up to him.
To make Mr Small feel like he's inspired the students, Gumball and Darwin try to follow every piece of advice Mr Small gives them. However, when the vague platitudes lead to them trashing the school, they need to hide the disaster from him to stop him realising how terrible his advice was.
When Darwin asks for his advice on hats, Gumball suddenly can't speak and offends Darwin. Darwin is convinced Gumball said he had a fat head. But when Gumball tries to correct him, his speech and movement all start going wrong at the same time. He soon realises that he may not be the only one in Elmore having communication problems.
When she has no one to share her lunch with, Jamie realises she needs a sweetheart. Darwin is the only one who doesn't flee immediately, so he and Jamie are soon an item by default. He decides the best way to ride it out is to just say nothing until his new girlfriend gets it our of her system. But sometimes not making a sound is harder than it sounds.
Gumball and Darwin are reading Anais' dairy when they discover that her new friendship with Jodie seems a bit one-sided. Jodie has been eating Anais' lunch, taking credit for her work and making her carry her bag. Gumball decides she's a parasite, and wants to prove Anais has been brain-washed. But when Anais and Jodie become one symbiotic parasite, it's hard to tell who is the parasite and who is the host.
When Bobert finds he's infected with a virus called love.exe he asks Gumball and Darwin to give him a definition for the word 'love'. When they try to explain it through song, it gets him no closer to an answer, so he asks the other residents of Elmore to give their versions of what love means to them.
At Halloween show-and-tell, the class isn't buying Gumball's story about Gargaroth The Devourer until Carrie fakes a terrifying haunting. The kids convince the school to hire them as ghost exterminators, and take their payment in Halloween candy. But when it turns out Gargaroth is real, suddenly Gumball is expected to be the town's saviour.
Gumball is too busy singing about ketchup to notice he's about to bump into Hot Dog Guy. They manage to get through an awkward moment only to discover they're travelling in the same direction. Their journey becomes increasingly awkward until a delusional mall cop tries to arrest them and, in the process, allows them to finally go their separate ways.
A breaking news report tells the Wattersons their neighbour is among the several mysterious disappearances happening across Elmore. Their search for clues leads them to a strange egg, which they discover belongs to their own Evil Turtle. The family realises it's their responsibility to track down their pet before she and her brood do more damage to the town.
Gumball and Darwin discover that Tobias is doing way better than them in an online game called Galatrek. Tobias admits he earns "good points" doing chores for his parents, which he then exchanges for dollars to buy cool stuff for Galatrek. If Gumball and Darwin do Tobias' chores they can earn his "good points" and use them for Galatrek. Gumball and Darwin think they've hit the jackpot. But these "good points" may not be quite as "good" as Tobias claims.
When Rocky suggests that the Elmore Junior High kids skip school, the bus is boarded by criminals who seem to want to teach them the importance of school attendance. The masked culprits are clearly the children's parents, faking a heist to teach them a lesson. But when the police get involved for real, it becomes clear the parents aren't the ones pulling the strings.
As night falls in Elmore, the Moon takes us on a tour through the various dreams - and nightmares - of the town's slumbering inhabitants. Each character's dream shows us their innermost desires, their greatest fears, or just how weird they are.
Gumball has misunderstood about his date with Penny: he thought they were meeting for dinner, but they were actually meeting for lunch at a Diner called 'Dinner'. He runs to the mall but everyone he meets on the way seems to misunderstand him in a different way. Once he finally gets to the mall it seems all his misunderstandings have caught up with him.
When Mum sees Darwin gazing longingly at a fish-tank she thinks their mammalian lifestyle isn't fulfilling her adopted son and that deep down he longs to connect with his fishy roots. So the family tries to re-connect him with his aquatic culture; they try fish-food, fish-language, even fish clothes. But when none of it works, they realise they may have to let him go.
Gumball gives Billy his first taste of video-games but the sheer excitement causes him to pass out. His mother Felicity summons the Parent Teacher Association and threatens to ban video games all across Elmore. Gumball and Darwin are given three chances to prove that video games can be a force for good, but when they fail they decide to prove that books can be just as dangerous.
Tobias follows every high-five with a butt-slap, so when Gumball doesn't get one he feels insulted. He tries to get Tobias to slap his rear all day, but when it doesn't work he decides they need some enforced one-on-one bro-time to build their relationship up to a butt-slap.
Anais arrives in the bedroom to find a messy crime-scene and her Daisy doll missing. She realises that Gumball and Darwin are the chief suspects. Following a series of clues is her only chance to track them down, and her only hope of learning what happened to Daisy. But as the mystery unravels, it seems the culprits may have turned on each other.
When an unknown figure shows up and insults their Mum, the kids are expecting a massive showdown but are surprised when Mum chooses the path of peace. Mum explains that Yuki, Masami's mother, is an old school friend and repeatedly refuses to fight her, despite further provocation. However when Yuki threatens to get Mum fired from her job, Mum has no choice but to partake in a rematch of a karate match she and Yuki fought as children.
A compilation of some of the funniest, most bizarre clips uploaded onto the internet by the people of Elmore. Clips include Banana Joe's self-choreographed acrobatics, Richard's latest culinary invention and Gumball and Darwin's contest for who can pull the weirdest face.
Rob purchases a universal remote from the Awesome Store, and discovers he can control the entire universe with it. He rewinds into the past and remembers that Gumball had left him in The Void, leaving him scarred and in his current mutated shape. He uses the universal remote to destroy Gumball's life, while Gumball has to figure out what's going on before he's ejected once and for all.
It's the first day back at school, but Gumball and Darwin are nowhere to be seen.
2013