The Dress

The Dress is the 6th episode of Season 1 and 6th episode of The Amazing World of Gumball. In this episode, Gumball wears Nicole's wedding dress to school (after he realizes his clothes shrunk) and pretends to be a new student. While Gumball is gaining popularity, at the same time, Darwin develops a crush on Gumball (not knowing that the crush he is having is actually Gumball himself).

Plot
One morning Gumball wakes up, and decides to cover himself in ice cubes. He tries to glide down the stairs with Darwin, but they fail and land right in front of Anais naked. Anais tells Gumball that he cannot go to school naked, so he tries to find his clothes and finds Richard asleep in the garden. Richard tells Gumball that he was doing the laundry when Nicole told him not to do so. Gumball's clothes have shrunk and he must wear Nicole's wedding dress to school. When Gumball's class sees him outside they don't recognize him, so he makes up an idiotic name (GumBallOopsEggWobbleUnderpants) and country of origin {GumBallNoWigBattleAxeNinja). They all believe him and head off to school.

When they get to class, Ms. Simian falls for the act as well. Gumball is confused. When they all leave class the is a puddle in the hallway and everyone is offering Gumball a way across, but he decides to walk around it to avoid any complications. He asks Anais what is going on, and she tells Gumball that anyone will do anything for a beautiful girl. Gumball realizes this, and abuses the power in a montage. Darwin is shown to fall in love with Gumball, not knowing it is his brother. Gumball receives a love letter from Darwin, requesting him to meet him on The Stomach Destroyer roller coaster after school. Anais informs Gumball that it is a love letter, but he is ignorant and believes Darwin just wants to hang out in a platonic way. He goes on the coaster with Darwin, where Darwin tells Gumball (as a girl) that he loves "her" and tries to kiss her. Gumball comes home terrified, and has a thought of what would happen if Darwin didn't move on. Gumball and Anais come up with a scheme to stop Darwin from loving Gumball and start moving on.

They stage a good bye for the "Darling of Elmore High" with a bus. When Darwin comes, Gumball hides in the bus and attaches the dress to a balloon with his face drawn on it. He jumps out of a window on the bus while naked, but the balloon does not go into the bus. Instead, it flies toward the sun and pops. This leaves Darwin sad and crying. Gumball goes and cheers Darwin up. Just when he feels better, Darwin immediately falls in love with a fire hydrant that the dress landed on. Gumball remarks that some people can't help but make fools of themselves, just everyone makes fun of Gumball for being naked. He walks away, humiliated.

Characters

 * Gumball
 * Darwin
 * Anais
 * Richard

Minor Characters

 * Miss Simian
 * Bobert
 * Banana Joe
 * Anton
 * Idaho
 * Clayton
 * Leslie
 * Penny
 * Masami
 * Tina Rex
 * Nicole (in a flashback)

Cameo Characters

 * Mr. Small
 * Alan
 * Juke
 * Rocky Robinson
 * Tobias
 * Molly
 * Carrie
 * Hot Dog Guy
 * Hot Dog Vendor
 * Teri

Music

 * That Lady May Be Mine by Richard Overall.

Trivia

 * This episode is the first of probably many instances of nudity. However, to avoid compromising the show's TV-Y7-FV rating, Gumball's private parts (including his buttocks) are censored by pixelization. In Regular Show, Pops was seen butt-naked in "Brain Eraser", same with Richard in "The Prank" (however, he was censored in a different way).
 * How can the dresser even send Richard flying straight out the window if no one opened it?(Although it is just a joke).
 * Ice 2.jpg If you look very closely at the beginning of the episode (before Gumball and Darwin slide down the stairs with ice covered on them), you can notice an image of Darwin about to kiss Gumball on the Stomach Destroyer roller-coaster, which is very strange of how the picture ended up over there at the beginning of the episode when it was fully seen in the middle of the episode after the two ride the roller-coaster. Either it may be secret foreshadowing or a very discreet spoiler.
 * Gumball: "This is a great idea of yours. Staging for the grand farewell of the darling of Elmore High." - At that time, he said "Elmore High" when it should be "Elmore Junior High". This may have been for dramatic effect (high school is cliche'd as the dramatic period of life).
 * Despite the size of Nicole's wedding dress, it somehow fits Gumball perfectly and doesn't show the bottom of the dress trailing behind him for the whole episode.Although it's possible Richard washed the Dress and made it shrink.
 * When Gumball was walking away with the dress and mutters while Richard is still hanging onto the dresser, the stool is still there. After Richard said "I can't believe this wardrobe is still standing!", the stool then disappears without a trace.
 * Although Gumball imagines that he will marry Darwin and have kids, the kids wouldn't even exist since they're both male. Also, if they even attempted to have kids, Darwin would have figured out that it was Gumball. But this is told from Gumball's perspective, and he naive, so he may not have thought the same way in that moment.
 * Anais comes close to breaking the fourth wall by looking directly towards the screen and saying "this plan already reeks of failure!".
 * Darwin probably did not pick up Gumball's button. It is unknown why Gumball would drop a button while wearing the dress, since the dress does not have any buttons attached to it. The button would have to belong to someone else, or Gumball had been carrying the button and dropped it.
 * Apparently, Gumball was not marked absent anytime during the episode. Miss Simian and any other teachers were probably too dazzled by "Gumballoopseggwobbleunderpants" to notice that Gumball was absent.
 * It is revealed that Darwin is left-handed when he made that sketch of "the new girl" (Gumball) into his notebook, although he is seen drawing with his right hand in future episodes. This may possibly mean he might be an ambidextreous.
 * When Gumball and the rest of Miss Simian's class leave on the bus, Anais and Darwin are left behind, making it a mystery how they managed to get to school.

Memorable Quotes

 * Gumball: "With this ice, we should travel down the stairs at the speed of light! Go!" [Gumball and Darwin go down the stairs, crashing]

[Anais facepalms]
 * Gumball: [observing his surroundings while trying to come up with a fake name after being questioned for his name] "Uh... Gum, Ball-- Oops! Egg... Wobble-- Underpants!"

Darwin: "I WANT MORE KIDS!" [Future vision scene changes back to the current time; Gumball cries with tears and then realizing Richard sitting there with Anais staring at him] Richard: "Who's your pretty friend, Anais?" Gumball: "It's me, Dad." Richard: "Hello, It's Me, Dad." [to Anais] "Is she foreign?" [Anais facepalms]
 * [Scene transitions to Gumball's vision of the future with his persona still up; Gumball ironing clothes with many children in the background as Darwin barges through the door with a hat and a briefcase]

Anton: "From Gumballnowigbattleaxninja!" Penny: "That's in Europe." [Class starts chatting about the new girl.]
 * Banana Joe: "That's Gumballoopseggwobbleunderpants!"

Gumball (as a girl): "Yeah, this is really cool!" Darwin: "But who am I to deny fate?" Gumball: "I know, this is gonna be great!" Darwin: "No, uh, what I really mean is..." Gumball: "What?" [short pause] Darwin: "I love you." [leans in for a kiss] Gumball: "Aaaahhhh!"
 * Darwin: "Well, uhm, I hope you don't think I'm a fool-"

Masami: "No, let me fly you over!" Clayton: "I could build you a bridge!" Tina: "No, let me carry you in my mouth!" [exhales, with visible smelly breath] Gumball: "Uh...I could just walk around, like this..." [walks around the puddle] Tina: "Oh, she's so clever." Unknown Girl: "So independent!" Other Unknown Girl: "What a free thinker!" [everyone leaves] Gumball: [confused] "What was all that about?"
 * Banana Joe: "Stop! There's a puddle! We can't let you walk across that -- let me help!"
 * Anais: "It's the dress. They think your a pretty girl. People will to anything fro a pretty girl. Anything." (Gumball cracks a simle.)

Gallery
The pictures are in chronological order from beginning of episode to end of episode.