The Treasure

The Treasure is the tenth episode of season two of The Amazing World of Gumball.

Synopsis
Anais uncovers a secret that she's sure will lead her to the Wattersons's hidden family treasure.

Plot
The episode starts in the living room, where Richard is taking a nap. Richard, being a compulsive sleep talker, becomes a source of amusement for the kids. After poking fun at him for a bit, Nicole comes back from grocery shopping and scolds them for messing with their father. The kids help Nicole bring the groceries in, but are surprised at the high quality food she bought. Nicole explains that she probably took someone else's groceries, which causes the kids to wonder why they always get the cheapest food. Nicole is about to tell them, but catches herself, and disappears before saying anything else. The kids refuse to let this go, and complain about all the cheap stuff they have, like how their blender is a fan, and their MP3 player is a calculator with earphones. Anais suggests finding out what Nicole is hiding, but is interrupted by the phone ringing. She answers it, and a strange voice tells her not to delve into the secrets of the Watterson family, which piques her curiosity. She succeeds in tricking the voice into telling her where the first clue is: the attic. The trio decides to begin searching.

In the cluttered attic of the Watterson house, the trio ponders where to start searching. Anais happens upon a box, which Gumball is immediately defensive of. He lunges at the box, but is held back by Anais while Darwin opens it. Inside were a bunch of his baby pictures, and Gumball was a very ugly baby. Darwin and Anais crack up at the pictures, while Gumball counters with a photo of Darwin's messed up face. Now Darwin is angry, and pounces on Gumball, trying to get rid of the photo. While they struggle, they knock over a stack of boxes that blocked the window. The light seeps into the room, refracts off of a snow globe, and reveals a hollow spot on the chimney. Anais begins picking away at the strange brick, but it turns out the brick was a weak point on the chimney. As soon as Anais removes it, the chimney crumbles apart. Gumball and Darwin sarcastically congratulate Anais on her discovery of the Watterson family conspiracy: that someone was trying to steal the chimney. Anais throws the brick at the floor in anger, causing a floorboard to knock her out. After a while, she comes to, and the trio finds that under the floorboard were a bank statement and a key. The bank statement reveals that the Watterson's used to have a lot of savings, but at one point, a purchase was made to Stellar Corp. for over twenty thousand dollars, and ever since then, they've been poor. Gumball vaguely remembers seeing the key as an infant, but is unable to remember the context. The trio decides to hypnotize it out of him.

In the kids' bedroom, Darwin hypnotizes Gumball. He continually pushes him further and further back in his life, until he finally gets to the memory where he saw the key. Gumball was an infant, and Nicole hid a suitcase under her and Richard's wardrobe while telling Gumball not to tell anyone about it. Anais, delighted at this revelation, wants to get to that suitcase immediately. Unfortunately, a magnet drops into the room from the window and tries to snatch the key. Anais frantically tries to pull the key away from it and yells at the boys to help, but Gumball is still regressing further and further back into his life, until he starts reliving previous lives. At the end of the chain, he relives his life as a hypnotist, and hypnotizes Darwin. Darwin hypnotizes him back, and the two get locked in a duel. Anais, successful in getting the key back but ticked off that she had to do it alone, splashes water on the boys to snap them out of their hypnotization. She wants to get the suitcase, but the boys are tired and want to go to bed. Anais, not having any of that, splashes them again, causing the boys to agree reluctantly.

Gumball walks into his parents' room and wants to sleep with them, his excuse being that he had a bad dream. Nicole tells him he's too old to bed with his parents but Gumball, refusing to take no for an answer, begins flicking the lights on and off annoyingly. Nicole reluctantly agrees to let him stay.

He lies down in the middle of his parents and is about to make his way to the wardrobe but unfortunately, Richard grabs him in his sleep. Gumball shrugs it off, but Richard starts moving again, and starts pushing gumball with his hands. Eventually, Richard just rolls over him, and Gumball has to worm his way out from under his dad's fat. Shaken from how traumatic that experience was, he continues on to the wardrobe and pulls out the box.

He opens it, and then loses his smile, when he just finds a receipt, from Stellar Corp. He shows it to Anais, and she decides that they have to go and investigate what they could've bought from Stellar Corp, but Gumball and Darwin refuse to go. Anais ends up having to pull them out of the house at night.

Characters

 * Gumball
 * Darwin
 * Anais
 * Nicole
 * Richard

Gallery
The gallery for "The Treasure" can be found here.

Trivia

 * This episode was first announced on this video on the offical Cartoon Network website.
 * This episode reveals what Gumball actually looked like when he was a baby.
 * The promo for this episode was put up on Cartoon Network's site over two weeks before its scheduled premiere date.
 * This episode premiered out of schedule - promos stated it would air Tuesday, October 30th, but it instead aired on the 25th, on one of the rerun slots.
 * In one of the flashback sequences, Richard can be seen wearing a Nirvana shirt.
 * The sound that played when the light shone on the chimney is an homage to the iconic sound in the Zelda games that plays when a secret is discovered.
 * The movie How to Ratatwang Your Panda is a parody of two Mockbuster's of Pixar/Dreamworks films, Ratatoing (Ratatouille), The Little Panda Fighter (Kung Fu Panda) and How to Train Your Dragon.