The Ghost

The Ghost is the 12th episode of Season 1 and the 12th episode of The Amazing World of Gumball. In this episode, Carrie takes advantage of Gumball's body for excessive appetite, forcing him to fight back and stop her from her bad habit.

Plot
The episode starts in the Cafeteria, on a table with (from left to right) Carrie, Gumball, and Darwin, each with trays of food in front of them. Gumball and Darwin are loudly and visibly enjoying their food. Carrie is offended by this, explaining that ghosts can't eat or taste. She demonstrates by putting a lump of food in her mouth, only to have it fall through her body and back onto the plate. She wishes she still had a body to use but, at this point, Darwin tells her that she could use Gumball. Gumball is taken aback by this suggestion but before he could say anything, Carrie had already possessed him. After admiring how she was able to breathe and feel, she finally gobbled the food from Gumball's tray. She was still hungry for more and took off on a wild junk food spree, eating anything she could find. The next morning, Gumball, free of Carrie, was found underneath a pile of leftover food. Richard found him pugy and laugh at him, but realized he was the same as well before crying back home.

Back at school, Gumball lost his appetite, remembering what happened. He finds Carrie with a sandwich she bought from the cafeteria and asks Gumball if she could use his body again (not to mention emphasizing that she could not ask for a refund). Reluctant at first, he agreed for this one small gesture, but soon enough, Carrie's self-indulgence gets the best of her. Gumball finds himself in the same spot, and worst for ware.

Darwin decides to help create a drink from his fishbowl water with Tobias's headband sweat, Miss Simian's dandruff, Gumball's 15-day-old underwear, and Darwin's fish belch. This disgusting blend was guaranteed to prevent Carrie from possessing Gumball again, but at school, the ghost loved the smell as it reminded her of the undead and made her even hungrier.

A fat Gumball asks his dad what he could do. Richard teaches him the skill of weaseling. He asks Gumball what he wanted. When he asked him how to stop Carrie from using his body, he responded that he needed to take some meatloaf out of the oven. Gumball sees him escaping out of the backyard. He figured what to do.

He used the meatloaf excuse on Carrie the next day, saying that he needed to check his locker. When she points it out, he said it was his gym locker. Carrie responds that he doesn't have a gym locker, making him reiterate that it was "Jim the doctor's" locker. He eventually ran out of excuses and gave up.

One more food spree later, he returns home and asks his mom for help. In the living room, Nicole tells him that all he needs to do is say no and mean it. To illustrate, she calls out Richard to bring her a bowl of sausages. When he asked her if he can have one, she says "no" and placed it on his nose. As she leaves the room, Richard is still waiting.

At school the next day, Gumball finally makes his stand and refuses to let Carrie borrow his body. The ghost is shocked to hear this. But it is clear if she can't ask anymore, she would have to simply take over. After a moment of binging, Gumball tries to fight back, but he is failing. He begs Darwin to beat Carrie out of him, but the fish points out that he's a "paci-fish". Carrie crashes outside the school and starts pigging out on garbage. At this point, Gumball has finally had enough and points out the ghost's problem to her. Carrie realizes this and finally decides to rid the cat of herself. But a moment later, Darwin arrives walloping Gumball with a trash lid before seeing that he was already free. Seeing Carrie depressed once more, Gumball came up with a solution.

Returning home, he introduced her to his dad, who was still holding the sausage with his nose. Carrie quickly possesses him and chows down on not only the sausage, but the food in the kitchen, with an angry Nicole constantly telling her husband to stop.

Characters

 * Gumball
 * Darwin
 * Nicole
 * Richard
 * Carrie (antagonist)

Minor Characters

 * Rocky Robinson
 * Molly
 * Tobias
 * Banana Joe
 * Alan
 * Bobert
 * Leslie
 * Penny
 * Teri
 * Tina
 * Carmen
 * Clayton
 * Sussie
 * Hot Dog Vender
 * Hobo Otter
 * Laurence Needlemeyer
 * Donut Policeman
 * William
 * Masami
 * Jamie
 * Anton
 * Idaho
 * Clayton

Trivia/Goofs

 * Based on what Carrie said at the beginning of the episode, she may have been alive before, but died later on with an unknown reason of how she died.
 * Carrie's eating rampage is a parody of a music video by The Prodigy.
 * When Nicole was teaching Gumball to say "no", she uses Richard as an aid, but in a way similarly used to train dogs.
 * The fast-food restaurant during Carrie's food rampage is named "Joyful Burger".
 * This episode has some elements from the film The Exorcist, such as Gumball crawling on walls and ceilings, occasionally talking in a raspy voice, and fighting with himself.
 * While eating the food, Gumball (possesed by Carrie) used a similar voice to that of Chowder, a character from a former Cartoon Network series of the same name. This could have been Logan Grove's impression of Chowder's older actor, Nicky Jones, but it does not make that series go back.
 * Nearly every character used in The Amazing World Of Gumball is used in this episode. Some noticable characters that aren't are: Anais, The Robinsons (excluding Rocky), Mr. Small, Miss Simian (although she's mentioned), Principal Brown, and The Robber.
 * This is the second time Anton loses his sandwich to someone else. The first time was in The End.
 * It's unknown how Gumball could lose all that weight by the next morning.
 * Even though Darwin is a "paci-fish', but in The Painting he takes a bat to destroy the wood of inhibition.
 * Darwin claming he is a paci-fish, which is a pun to the word: pacifist.
 * When Nicole is talking to Gumball in the kitchen, there is a cereal box in the background. It says "Dizzy Flakes." But this is an obvious mistake because of the picture of Daisy next to the name on the cereal box. So, technically, it is supposed to say "Daizy Flakes."
 * While Carrie was going on a junk food spree in Gumball's body, she took the pickle out of the burgar before eating it, revealing that Carrie doesn't like pickles.
 * The way Gumball drools over Anton sandwich on the ceiling is a reference towards "Aliens."

Quotes
Darwin: "Another happy ending."

Gumball: " WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT!?!"

Richard: "Muffin top!" [laughs and then stops laughing, realizing he has one too] "Its only funny when its someone elses' body!"

Gumball:Mom, I think I'm putting on weight

Gumball:What do you do when someone asks you to do something?"