The Procrastinators

The Procrastinators is the nineteenth episode of Season 3 in The Amazing World of Gumball. It is the ninety-fifth overall

Synopsis
Gumball and Darwin go to extraordinary lengths to avoid taking out the trash.

Plot
The episode starts by introducing Nicole, Gumball and Darwin. Nicole tells them they are procrastinators because she seems to have asked them to take out the trash, to which Gumball responded that they would do it later. When Nicole tells them they are "procrastinators", a word that Darwin and Gumball don't know, Gumball tries to explain its meaning to his brother, to only end up telling a bunch of stupidities. Later, when realizing what he just said is obviously wrong, he admits that he doesn't understand the meaning of that strange word Nicole pronounced and that he only uses the dictionnary to scare Richars while spleeping (a flashback is shown, explaining that once Richard vomited his heart because of the scare he had got from Gumball). Anais shows up and informs them a procrastinator is person who is always trying to avoid his responsibilities by doing something else instead. Gumball laughs at Anais' explanation. Nicole interposes and explains to Gumball that he's such a procrastinator that he only finished his first sentence when he was four years old and the sentence he said was: "I'll do it tomorrow".

Then, Nicole manifests and tells them to take out the trash again, to which Gumball responds they will do it immediately. While trying to say they're not "procrastinators", he mispronounces the word. Anais decides to correct him. Nicole tells them a third time to take out the tarsh and intending to emphasize her demands, she acts like the Exterminator from the movie "The Exterminator". She goes out and explains she "will be back" at five p.m. Gumball promises to do what she asked for but, soon, we realize that he and Darwin re in their room, inspecting their account on Elmore + and eating chips. Darwin asks if they shouldn't take out the trash now. Gumball tells him to hold and decides to update their status on Elmore +.

Main Characters

 * Gumball
 * Darwin

Minor Characters

 * Nicole
 * Anais
 * Richard
 * Clown
 * Pigeons

Trivia

 * This episode has the longest title in the series.
 * A "procrastinator" is a person who carries out less urgent tasks in preference to more urgent ones, or does more pleasurable things in place of less pleasurable ones, and thus puts off impending tasks to a later time, sometimes to the "last minute" before the deadline.
 * This episode was originally titled "The Countdown."
 * Music from "The Law", "The Gripes", and "The Void" is recycled.
 * This episode is tied with "The Puppy" for having the least amount of characters in an episode.
 * Gumball shows his feline nature by chasing the laser point Darwin inadvertently displays all over the house.
 * It is revealed that chocolate and cheese are two of Gumball's favorite things.

Continuity

 * This is the seventh time Gumball has changed colors, the first six were in "The Ghost", "The Party", "The Flower", "Halloween", "The Plan" and "The Password".
 * This episode contradicts "The DVD" in which Gumball is shown to be allergic to make-up.
 * The Captain Punch comic from "The Colossus" reappears.
 * This is the fourth time Gumball has shown traits of an actual cat.
 * When he pretends to be an astronaut losing his breath in space, Gumball makes the face he did when he was surprised about Mrs. Wilson's strength in "The Mothers".
 * The Terminator vision Nicole had was the same one Bobert had in "The Bet".

Cultural References

 * Nicole mimics the actions of the Terminator, from the franchise of the same name.
 * Darwin does the moonwalk, a reference to Michael Jackson.
 * Gumball hums the iconic 2001: A Space Odyssey theme as he takes out a cheese and chocolate bar.
 * Pulling the tablecloth off a table without moving objects on it is a popular experiment, perfectly exhibiting Newton's laws of motion.
 * When Darwin shortens his legs and stretches his arms, he resembles the arms of Mr. Tickle, a character from Roger Hargreave's Mr. Men and Little Miss books.
 * While Gumball chases the laser, the piece Voices of Spring, by Annunzio Paulo Mantovani (originally Frühlingsstimmen, by Johann Strauss II), plays in the background.