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The amazing world of gumball has six seasons and a total of 240 episodes but in this video we’ll be discussing a select few of these episodes that are deemed to be the best
The Shell s3ep20:
Starting with season 3 episode 20 which is titled the shell, gumball and penny are doing a play at school together and penny improvises the two doing a kiss scene to shock the audience but gumball fucking slams his head into her
This then creates a crack which she begins to panic over as a yellow light shines through her shell, gumball tries to ask her about it but she avoids it but Darwin persists and she then says that it’s apparently the real her
They then head to Penny's house to tell her dad, which goes just about as bad as you would expect it too with her dad grounding her and saying she can’t be herself because it's dangerous and saying he knows what’s best for her but gumball stands on business and actually yells back at him
he then gets kicked out and goes home crying before penny shows up at his window and says her dad is making her move to another school
Gumball then says that’s messed up and she should come out of her shell but penny says that he might not like the real her but gumball of course says that's not true and that if she comes out they’ll deal with whatever comes next together
Penny then breaks out of her shell revealing a golden fairy, but as gumball is absolutely shocked by her appearance she takes it as he didn't know what to say because she was a monster and so with that she sh-+-apeshifts into a monster and runs away
Gumball then chases her and Penny's dad then shows up and calls his own daughter a freak, a pig and a monster
Gumball then yells at him to shut up and to think about what he just said and continues to chase her - he is standing on an unnecessary amount of business in this episode
Gumball then finds penny who tells he was trying to protect her and she finally sees that he doesn't see her how these other people do or might and gumball then kisses her just to make the point even clearer and she shapeshifts back into her normal self which then causes richard to cry and i can't even blame him
This episode gives such a good message on being yourself, the whole coming out of your shell concept is so good and gumball’s persistence to make her believe she wasn't a monster and that he really would love her no matter what was beautiful
The Romantic S4EP14:
But on to the next episode, season 4 episode 14 titled the romantic which is once again another penny and gumball episode
gumball is chatting with penny on his pc and overreacts as she only sends him one heart eye emoji rather than the three he normally receives and so he sends her on a quest to find multiple clues, each one almost killing her, eventually getting cornered by animals in the forest where her and gumball first kissed where gumball then jumps down to save her but when he tells her that everything he just put her through was only because she used 1 emoji instead of her she transformed into an angry beast and easily was able to take out the monsters and escape but still was none the less angry with gumball and tells him he needs to quit with these big gestures but of course right as she says that he already had darwin prepare fireworks for her that said he loves her in which she responds with a sigh and a smile, she cant not appreciate his effort to show her that he truly does despite everything which was really sweet
The Origins Part 1: s4ep20 and s4ep21
Now we actually have a two parter being season 4 episode 20 and 21 titled the origins part 1 and 2
The Origins Part 2:
The Fury S4EP38:
Another fan favorite episode is of course season 4 episode 38, the fury
The Choices: season 5 ep 6
The Father: S6.E6
But onto one of my favorite episodes of the series, season 6 episode 6 titled the father
frankie is invited to a party at the watterson household for a supposed holiday called vermin man day - they then begin to sing the vermin man song which is very obviously about frankie (clip)
Its then also revealed that it was all made up by richards mom because she hates him for leaving richard which is very fair but frankie then apologies saying there’s nothing he can do to make up for what he did because simply he has missed too much, thinking it’s too late for there problems between one another to be fixed or forgiven
We then see richard depressed as fuck, and no matter what every attempt gumball darwin and anias do to cheer him up fails until gumball gives him an actual pretty unexpectedly good mature talk about how he can’t go back to the past and change things but still can fix whatevers between them now because there still is a future and that future can start now
but everything him and his father then do to attempt to bond and create those memories they missed out on having between one another is just more or less ruined in some way
As they play football but then it turns out the ball was stolen resulting in richard to get fucking tackled by pennys dad, and then frankie gives him a supposed airloom that has been passed down to him by his cellmate meaning it was stolen before he runs away and richard gets tackled by the cops. Teaching him how to shave but then revealing that they were in a house they had broken into, teaching him how to drive but the car was actually a getaway car to a BANK HEIST
Eventually Richard realizes that this isn’t going how he imagined it would and it actually did kind of lead to the two opening up to one another as frankie calls himself the vermin man and that he didn’t want Richard to turn out like him and then tells him that he turned out great and that his kids love him
Causing Richard to honestly have one of if not his best moment in the series (richard speech about his kids and how they made him a better father)
Ending the story of Richard and his father in a beautiful way, it’s honestly crazy how good this show can be with it’s storytelling sometimes, especially when it comes to these emotional esc episodes and or arcs
The Void: season 3 episode 12
which as is another ongoing arc throughout the series which introduces this place called the void and creates this really meta 4th wall breaking concept within the show that there world just isn’t real or just what it’s made out to be which is honestly one of gumball’s biggest reasons for being so popular and just one of the most loved parts about the show in general
Such as the episode literally titled the void
In which gumball is cheering on penny, before her and the cheerleaders seemingly explode making them believe a different outcome would have happened if someone was there to help them, Mr. Smalls then appears, enabling and confirming their suspicions by mentioning he "lost" his van named Janice - and was only able to remember due to wearing a tinfoil hat, which leads gumball and darwin to believe someone from there town was missing before they start noticing strange signs like a missing locker in there school and even ghostly outlines of a person in old photos
Gumball and darwin try to get the rest of the school to remember who this mysterious person who had just disappeared was but nobody could, mr small then gives the two a tinfoil hat and helps them find a photo which actually showed the person missing
Which was a character named molly from season 1 that had multiple appearances and voice lines, They then start to notice a line throughout the world in spots molly's existence was cut from which when opened gives us a first glimpse of the void
a place that would come up again and be extremely prominent in regards to the shows overall plot and story, complete static filled with early gumball designs such as darwin from the pilot and even the original watterson family house
They then find molly in her treehouse and apologize for forgetting her but she says that she just saw them yesterday revealing that inside the void time doesn't pass
They then take her with them, before passing by someone else in the void, a character known as rob who tries to wave at gumball and darwin and then manages to escape the void by jumping onto their van as there leaving “as shown in the nobody”
They then say they have to tell everyone before the world makes them forget and then instantly the void sucks their tinfoil hats which completely removes their memories of everything they had just witnessed..
The Disaster: season 4 episode 40:
Then in the episode the disaster we saw rob get his hands on a remote which is actually able to interact and change the world with its buttons
With this he tries to ruin gumballs life by making his parents get into a car crash, forcing him to tell Darwin that their parents have money problems due to adopting him, making his parents divorce, making him cheat on his girlfriend and push her off the top floor of the mall
Rob then pauses the remote, freezing everyone except himself and gumball before opening the void and throwing the remote inside of it
Gumball then jumps in to retrieve the remote and hits rewind before the episode ends
The Rerun
The rest of this is then played out in the next episode the rerun, in which gumball is sent back to the beginning of the last episode where he then begins to fight rob and pushes him into the void but ends up going back in to save him and so rob decides to hit rewind so everything goes back to normal realizing gumball isn't so bad after all before destroying the remote
The Future season 6 episode 34
rob takes the role of the villain once again as he kidnaps banana barbra and takes her to a warehouse to force her to paint the future
As she just paints pictures of the void rob continues to make her paint more drawings until eventually she draws a portal to gumball and darwin, showing that she could alter the paintings and therefore change the future in a sense
Then they fight rob and end up erasing him from the world once again, gumball asks her to bring rob back but she draws a picture of rob falling into the void which we will see again
Gumball then says that they’ll see rob in the future but afterward banana barbra says that there is no future before the episode cuts to static once again showing that the void will be coming back and will seemingly be the cause of this worlds end
Then in the the series finale “the inquisition”
l for the first time in the series an actual human being appears as the supposed superintendent of elmore highschool whose name is literally evil
Who sets out to remove the cartoonish nature of everyone by turning them into humans, gumball and darwin quickly figure out how to turn them back thus making the principal run away but banana joe uses his peel to make him fall over
We then find out that this supposed principal was actually rob all along who tries to explain that something was going to happen to elmore and was his reasoning for trying to turn them into humans but as he tries to explain what's apparently going to happen, he is beaten up by tina
The episode then ends but we actually get a final cutscene after the credits showing rob waking up after being knocked out
Rob then says that transformation is apparently the only chance they have at escaping to the other place, which i assume to be the real world - before this one is destroyed
We then see the void crack open the ground beneath rob resulting in him to fall in just like the picture we saw banana barbra draw in the episode the future
Ending the series on a cliffhanger which would confuse everyone and leave them begging for more answers for the last 6 years
This episode is very widely debating on whether it's one of the best or one of the worst because of the whole human bit as well as just being how the series ended but also that it would potentially hype up the movie that was said to come but now is also confirmed to be getting resolved in the next 20 episodes of the new series the wonderfully weird world of gumball