The Inquisition

"The Inquisition" is the forty-fourth and final episode of Season 6 of The Amazing World of Gumball. It is the 240th episode of the series.

Synopsis
The students of Elmore Junior High find their world turned upside down when the mysterious school superintendent comes to stamp out their cartoonish ways.

Plot
The episode begins with Principal Brown running through the halls of Elmore Junior High in a panic. He rushes into the teachers' lounge and warns the other teachers that the school superintendent is coming to Elmore Junior High. In the auditorium, the students and teachers listen to a speech given by the superintendent, a live-action human named Superintendent Evil, who declares his intention to eliminate the cartoonish and nonsensical elements of their school.

In class, Gumball and Darwin discuss Evil's modifications to their school, including Teri's face being erased and Alan being forced to have a body. Masami then bursts into the room as a cartoon human, telling Gumball and Darwin that they are next. Gumball and Darwin flee in horror, running into several of their classmates who have also been turned into cartoon humans, including Tobias, Tina, and Sussie. The duo are backed into Evil's room, where he is using machines to transform Rocky and Juke into humans. Evil remarks that he is "fixing" them and that their transformation is nearly complete; Masami, who is now inside a machine, slowly transforms as her cartoon hand and eyes disappear to reveal live-action ones.

Gumball and Darwin flee by using their cartoonish logic to evade capture, but they then resolve to save their friends and reenter the school. They are able to return their classmates to their original forms using various zany antics, including singing with Banana Joe, goofing off with Sussie, and Gumball kissing Sarah (whom he mistook for Penny). With all of their friends and teachers restored, Gumball and Darwin are confronted by Evil, who initially prepares to fight them, but flees in fear. Banana Joe uses his banana peel to cause Evil to slip and fall at the end of the hallway.

The students and teachers approach Evil and find his face deformed; they pull off his mask, revealing to their shock that he is Rob in disguise. Rob attempts to justify his actions, warning them of an undisclosed event about to befall Elmore, and tells them that they can choose to either live in ignorance of what is about to happen or listen to him. However, before he can finish explaining, Tina uses her tail to knock him unconscious, and the show's distorted credits music play.

At night, Rob awakens in the school and angrily questions why the others did not listen to him, saying that he was trying to save them and that transformation was their only hope of escaping to "the other place." At that moment, the ground suddenly begins to collapse, revealing the Void. Rob, horrified, holds on for his life, but loses his grip, remarking at the last second that "it's started." The floor disappears and Rob falls into the Void screaming; the screen freeze-frames on him as the credits' first notes play, ending the episode, and the series.

Main Characters

 * Gumball
 * Darwin
 * Rob / Superintendent Evil

Minor Characters

 * Principal Brown
 * Rocky
 * Miss Simian
 * Mr. Small
 * Mr. Corneille
 * Coach Russo
 * Tree Librarian
 * Anais
 * Penny
 * Masami
 * Carrie
 * Banana Joe
 * Tobias
 * William
 * Ocho
 * Tina
 * Sussie
 * Idaho
 * Anton
 * Leslie
 * Teri
 * Bobert
 * Clayton
 * Alan
 * Carmen
 * Colin and Felix
 * Sarah
 * Juke
 * Hector
 * Molly
 * Hot Dog Guy
 * Green Bear
 * 8-Bit Dog
 * Julius
 * Mowdown
 * Scythe
 * Clare
 * Jared
 * The Moon
 * Elmore Penitentiary Receptionist (voice)

Trivia

 * This episode is the series finale of The Amazing World of Gumball.
 * This episode is the longest of the series with twelve minutes and twelve seconds. All other episodes last eleven minutes and thirty-six seconds on average.
 * Although just a disguise, this episode marks the only time a live action human being appears in person, disregarding the production version of "The News."
 * This is the only episode of season six in which Sussie and Molly physically appear.
 * Jamie is the only student in Miss Simian's classroom that does not appear at all in this episode.
 * Fifteen people are transformed into humans onscreen throughout this episode. These people are Masami, Tina, Tobias, Sussie, Juke, Rocky, Ocho, Banana Joe, Sarah, Penny, Leslie, Mr. Small, Anton, Bobert, and Idaho.

Continuity

 * Rob sports the pig's tail Banana Barbara had painted on him in "The Future." He also tries to warn the same future events he was trying to fix in the same episode.
 * The last shot of Rob falling into the Void mimics the exact pose as Banana Barbara's painting of him in the end of that episode, likewise to a painting of Superintendent Evil seen in her garage.
 * This is the eighth and final time Penny shapeshifts. The first seven are in "The Shell," "The Bros," "The Mirror," "The Romantic," "The Blame," "The Transformation," and "The Mess."
 * This is the fourth and final time Penny shapeshifts into her dragon form. The first three are in "The Shell," "The Romantic," and "The Transformation."
 * The way Gumball turns Banana Joe back to himself is by singing "Banana Symphony," a song from "The Singing."
 * The way Darwin turns Sussie back to normal is a reference to "The Weirdo."
 * This is the second time Gumball accidentally kisses Sarah. The first time is in "The Disaster."
 * Darwin misunderstanding Gumball's quip about "Punchtown" is ironic, because he was the one who taught him about it back in "The Date."

Cultural References

 * When Gumball rescues Banana Joe, the song that plays during it is a reference to Beethoven's fifth symphony, modified by Walter Murphy's disco cover, A Fifth of Beethoven.
 * In the same scene, they both do the floss, a dance move popularized by the game Fortnite.
 * When William was trying to open the door the normal way, the sad song sounds like the Apple commercials for when the company releases a new product, such as the one heard here.

Goofs/Errors

 * Gumball and Darwin switch places in different shots of the auditorium.
 * When the school is shown at night, the three front doors are all red, when they usually are orange, blue, and pink.
 * When Gumball and Darwin fall backwards into Superintendent Evil's office, Gumball is missing an ear.