The Laziest



The Laziest is the 11th episode of The Amazing World Of Gumball.

Synopsis
Darwin, Gumball and Richard face off in a laziness competition.

Plot
The episode starts in the house where Nicole is about to leave for work. She asks Richard to do all the chores while she's gone. He pretends that he's excited and Nicole leaves. Richard instantly sits on the couch. Gumball and Darwin notice this and reminds Richard that he has to play with them. Richard tricks them into taking out the trash by "robbing a bank". They get outside with the trashbag and notice that it's only a chore and not a game. They go back inside and tell Richard that if he can be lazy, then they can as well. Richard tells them that he is the laziest person in Elmore. So Richard makes a wager with them. If Gumball and Darwin can find someone more lazy than Richard anywhere in Elmore that he would the chores for the day. However if Gumball and Darwin lose that they would have to do the chores for the rest of their lives. They think that they can be lazier. And in a failed attempt they get a sugar rush from chips and soda. They get hyper and run to the old men. They tell them about "Lazy Larry" who was the laziest man in Elmore until he was beaten by Richard. The old men tell them that he works at the convienent store. But by then the sugar rush ends and Gumball and Darwin are exhausted. However they go to the store anyway. There they try to convince Laurence Needlemeyer to compete in a lazy contest but he refuses. He says that his lazy days are over. He now has a job, a house, a car, and a girlfriend that he's going to marry. As he asks Gumball and Darwin to leave, they come from the OTHER side and ask him again. He says no. Then they somehow get inside a pickle jar and ask him again. This goes on with Gumball and Darwin popping out of a sardine box, an egg cartoon, a cash register, and a woman's purse. Because Larry looked like he was shouting as customers, he gets fired. Then on his way home, Gumball and Darwin send a song to the radio station to convince him to be in the lazy contest. He still refuses, but then he sees them in the front mirror and gets scared. He jumps out of his car and it ends up being drove off of a cliff. Later that evening, he has a date with his girlfriend at a fancy restruant where he would propose her to marriage. However it gets foiled when Gumball and Darwin have signs out the window to convince him to be in the lazy contest. He gets mad and throws food at her girlfriend including his own chair thous losing her. Laurence goes home in despair having lost his job, girlfriend, and car. Gumball and Darwin put a cupcake and remote in Laurence's hands and he fattens up once again becoming "Lazy Larry". Gumball and Darwin go home and tell Richard that they've found Lazy Larry. They try calling Lazy Larry to be in the lazy contest. But he became to lazy to pick up the phone. So Gumball and Darwin decide to be in the lazy contest themselves. After a while Richard gets hungry, so he blows off a piece of paper setting off a Rube Goldberg machine (The paper pushes a pen to a skateboard, which rolled to a chair, knocking it so it hits the pizza box) which launches a slice of pizza in Richard's mouth. Gumball also grows hungry and trys the same thing as Richard. However it lauches a toaster that Darwin in the head and knocking him off the couch thous eliminating him. Gumball's feet hurt with pricks, but he can't move or else he'll be eliminated. He notices a monster truck commercial on and tries to use that to take his aching feet off his mind. Richard asks Darwin to change the channel, but Gumball is asking Darwin not to change the channel. Darwin gets confused and does nethier. Richard decides to change the channel by using "supernatural power" which is actually the remote between his butt cheeks. He changes the channel and Darwin gets scared from "paranormal activity" and runs upstairs.Richard then changes the channel to the shopping channel which bore Gumball. Gumball tries hard not to move to change the channel. But then the channel changes back to the moster truck channel when the button on his pants pop off and push the button. Richard then hears Nicole's car and has an idea. He pretends to lose to trick Darwin and Gumball into doing the chores. Gumball and Darwin are happy for winning the contest. Richard then struggles to do the chores. Nicole returns home and is mad at Gumball and Darwin for making Richard do the chores. She rests Richard down on the couch and makes Gumball and Darwin do the chores. The episode ends with Gumball vaccuming and Richard's feet are in the way. Gumball asks Richard to move his feet but Nicole told him not to move one muscle, literally. So Gumball and Darwin work together to move Richard's feet onto the couch.

Characters

 * Gumball
 * Darwin
 * Richard
 * Nicole
 * Laurence Needlemeyer

Minor Characters

 * Old men
 * Tree
 * Laurence's girlfriend
 * Organs
 * Sugar
 * Megan
 * Hot Dog Guy
 * Stan
 * Quidgits

Video
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Music
The Harris - The Amazing World Of Gumball Theme Song

Trivia

 * It is presumed that Laurence's girlfriend appeared in The End as one of the customers in the line. It may have been why he was smiling doing his work.
 * This may be the only episode where Gumball talks so fast you can't understand him.
 * This is the 3rd episode in which Anais does not appear.