The Schooling

"The Schooling" is the eighteenth episode of Season 6 of The Amazing World of Gumball. It is the 210th episode overall.

Synopsis
Gumball and Darwin take on Larry's jobs for 5 minutes and realize how bad it is.

Plot
The episode begins with Gumball and Darwin walking in the gas station with backpacks, stating they ditched school whilst complaining. They walk up to the clerk, Larry while they ditched school.

Larry states and Gumball and Darwin should go to class and not ditch school. Gumball tells Larry that he’s been doing small jobs with no expectations, and he’s been living the dream. Gumball complains that school is way worse, and not only that they had six weeks of summer off instead of eight. Larry gives them an opinion to go to college, saying that it’s pretty fun. Then Gumball and Darwin get an idea to take on Larry’s jobs and convince Larry to take his five-minute break.

Gumball and Darwin begin their jobs by following the to-do scroll from down a railroad track to Joyful Burger. Harold calls the boys for service, and rush to him. He complains to them about that his drink was bottomless, but it was not. Harold pulls out a dictionary to look up the word bottomless. Gumball pokes the cup, making the soda pour out.

Then, an old lady calls the boys for help. She says that she’s lost his little boy, Timmy, and asks that if they could help find him for her. Darwin asks her what does her son looks like, the old lady states that he is 5/10, and has a mustache. Darwin asks when was the last time she saw him, the old lady says he is in New Jersey, which confuses Gumball and Darwin. Gumball speaks into the microphone to call little Timmy to come to the counter. The old lady tells him to sing the song to Timmy, which Gumball does literally, which disgusts the shoppers. Timmy eventually appears to reunite with his mom, and lick their fingers, much to Gumball and Darwin’s disgust. The old lady rewards them with a pair of wisdom teeth.

Felicity summons Gumball and Darwin, asking them to push her closer to the window. They keeping pushing Felicity to the window, until they accidentally push her out the window, which breaks, and she fell into a bush. Suddenly, a bank robbery occurs. A criminal wants to rob the bank, but Gumball and Darwin, now bank clerks, orders the criminal to drop his mortgage in the bag, then his watch, and his pants, and the criminal walks away, crying. The bank manager scolds them, stating them that they forgot to give the crook a payday loan and a thousand percent interest. At the pet store, Mr. Small complains that the animals are caged and they should be free. But suddenly he is attacked by tarantulas, snakes, parrots and dogs.

At Fervidus Pizza, Gumball receives a call from a customer. They are required to deliver it to a place that is competely barren, and they quentioned if it was the correct address. The caller then tells Darwin to hold up the pizza and it is revealed that the caller is a pilot, when a plane suddenly comes in really low and snatches the pizza out of Darwin’s hand, leaving the boys terrified. When Gumball asks where is the money, the pilot simply said she tossed it out of the plane and asked if they got it. Darwin says that”wearing a adult uniform is like wearing a sign that says kick me”, and Gumball suggests that the sign would say something worse.

Later, the boys are the employes of a store which has customers banging on the doors. Nervous, Darwin asks what day is it and it turns out to be Friday November 24th, Black Friday. Both of them are trampled by the mob of customers who broke into the store to hunt for bargins. It turned into a massive free-for-all and left the store competely empty.

The two are then needed at the gas station again where Cowboy requests for the bathroom keys, and angrily Gumball cleans it after that. Darwin then delivers a package which instructs him to climb into the window of the house. He is met with Melted Cheese Guy who instructs him to open the package, take out the nail clippers inside and cut his toenails. After Gumball cleaned the toliet again, they are tasked to clean an extremely messy movie theater. Gumball angrily exclaims ,”LIKE HOW!?” It turns out during the movie, Ice Cream Guy tossed a popcorn into the air and into his mouth to impress the girl sitting next to him. The rest if the males in the theater saw this and followed suit to the girl next to them and failed, the popcorn went everywhere resulting in the huge mess.

After cleaning the bathroom again, the both of them work at a Bobert factory and comments that it’s not so bad because the robots do all the work, but they are later fired because they are not needed. Darwin later erases his pupils after a operation in the hospital and faints. They go on to do other frustrating and difficult jobs like cleaning the bathroom multiple times and trying to fit a shoe on a huge lady’s foot.

Larry then comes back to the gas station and calls for Gumball and Darwin. Suddenly Gumball jumps up from behind the counter and on Larry’s face, asking why was he gone so long. Larry then says that was five minutes. Gumball is in disbelief and said both of them had time to grow wrinkles. Larry then laughs and said that wrinkles are not caused from aging, it is “your face contorting with pain realizing that you are spending the majourity of your time on Earth for seven dollars an hour.” They ask Larry how he does this day in and day out, and he replies that the threat of getting kicked out from not paying his rent us a great motivation.

He explains that if he had a good job, he would have a good pay so it would not be so hard to buy the things everyone wants in life, like a car or a television. Darwin believes Larry let them try his jobs to teach them a lesson. Larry smiles and asks them what was the lesson, to which they reply “that we should go to school in order to learn more in order to find jobs that fufil our soul so we don’t have to waste our lives chasing after money to buy pointless stuff to fufil the gaping hole of our existential dread, like you do!” They then thank Larry and go off to school while Larry ponders over Gumballs words, thus ending the episode.

Main Characters

 * Gumball
 * Darwin

Supporting Characters

 * Larry

Minor Characters

 * Ocho
 * Mr. Robinson
 * Harold
 * Grey Woman
 * Felicity
 * Cowboy
 * Alison
 * Principal Brown
 * Jeff
 * Gary
 * Pantsbully
 * Siciliana
 * Karen
 * Hot Dog Guy
 * Little Timmy
 * Dolphin Man
 * Teller
 * Mr. Small
 * Tarantulas
 * Snakes
 * Parrots
 * Poodles
 * Melted Cheese Guy
 * Hexagon Lady
 * Tony
 * Carmen's mother
 * Billy
 * Byrdie
 * Rocky
 * Banana Joe
 * Patrick
 * Mrs. Fitzgerald
 * Carmen's father
 * Jackie
 * Quattro
 * Susan
 * Ice Cream Guy
 * Ice Cream Girl
 * Julius
 * Debbie
 * Bobert
 * Goblin
 * Leonard
 * Cow Woman

Trivia

 * Running gag: Gumball putting up more signs on the bathroom door after every cleaning.
 * According to Gumball, this episode takes place on a Friday in November 24th.

Continuity

 * This is Larry's seventh major role. The first six were "The DVD," "The Laziest," "The Refund," "The Pizza," "The Stars," and "The Menu."
 * An instrumental of "I'm Singing" plays at the restaurant.

Cultural References

 * Gumball mixes up Issac Newton with the Pokémon character Mewtwo from Pokémon Red and Blue.
 * As Gumball and Darwin are frantically working Larry's jobs, In the Hall of the Mountain King, by Edvard Grieg, plays.