User blog:Nacho1804/A Short Analysis of a Short Scene

The Introduction
Now, this entry to my self-esteem-crushing project aims to avoid beginning a small war in the comment section by not really doing much. And as such, this will be an unusually short post. But this one's got screenshots!

This is just a short analysis of the scribblings on the walls of the recently ransacked Watterson abode as shown in The Deal. [Insert 'as shown on TV' joke here.] These screenshots are a bit blurry, I know, but I took them from this very wiki so technically, you can only blame yourselves. Anyway, let's go analyze these screenshots for some obscure reason that is not clear to anyone, including me.

Stuff
Although this scene was short and unassuming (I never thought I'd ever describe a burning, despoiled house as 'unassuming,' but here we are,) it contains a few interesting easter eggs for those who take the time to look. Here's what I've found.

In the first screenshot, we see scribbles on the walls that seem pretty typical to what two little boys and a little girl would draw (marked in magenta): a tree, a car, a butterfly, a house and its environs, and an odd spotted animal - possibly a cow - that seems to be a recurring figure throughout the scene. Speaking of recurring figures, there are also a few alligators and planes, (marked in red) which could be a reference to the in-universe movie Alligators on a Train, which is in turn a reference to the work of art that is Snakes on a Plane. (While you're wondering, I think the Star Wars prequels weren't so bad. Whoops, I may have just started another flame war. Don't you hateit when that happens?) Anyway, after this is where things start to get dark. We can see a few (humanoid!) faces (in purple), as well as a few angry-looking sketches of Gumball (circled, thematically, in blue.) Next to one of these Gumballs is a similarly irate scribble of his brother (in orange, of course), near-invisible here but clearly decipherable if you have a good TV and pause at just the right moment. On to screenshot two. Before I cover this one, I'd like you all to direct thine eyeballs towards this: I've flipped over the screenshot and cropped out everything but Anais's dolls and their table. Something about this just... gets me. The dolls' bug-eyed, blank stares (especially Daisy's), their leering smiles, the way they look like they're drinking... something other than tea, let's just say... something about this just gives me the chills. Not to mention that if you look closely, you can see that the dolls are not only probably taped to the table, but also nailed to it by their hands (look at each's hand not occupied by a teacup or bottle). Add to this the fact that these very same dolls have been implied to be alive on numerous occasions. While my soul recovers from that tangent, let's look at this next screenshot. There are more animals, still marked in red, and another monstrous face in purple. There is also a very recognizable Gumball or Nicole in blue. the house from the last screenshot reappears as well. Now, on to the final screenshot, which is very blurry, but I've circled the most  notable scribbles. Again, you can see much better if you pause the episode yourself, but this is all I have. You can still see the random animals (in red), but there are notably less of them. The monstrous faces and odd creatures are widespread, circled in purple, and Gumball (in blue) and Darwin (in orange) are seen together, with sharp teeth and angry expressions. In yellow is the most telling drawing shy of the Sistine Chapel-esuqe illustration on the ceiling: Nicole and Richard, easily identifiable, on a backdrop of flames. In a more humorous note, there's also a cheeky Miss Simian drawing that I've circled in cyan, though it's really blurry here. ==The Conclusion==

That about sums up this entry in The Amazing World of Trying-not-to-start-flame-wars-with-poorly-researched-theories. Tune in (or, perhaps, toon in... I'll be here all week, folks)  the next general time interval for some other thing I think up. Bye!