The Dream

The Dream is the twenty-first episode of season two of The Amazing World of Gumball. It is the fifty-seventh episode overall

Synopsis
Darwin kisses Penny in one of Gumball's dreams and he gets mad about it.

Plot
Gumball is walking through the hallways of Elmore Junior High. A gigantic Ocho walks behind him, he passes Tobias, who melts, and watches a tiny Hector walk past him. Mr. Small is using the payphone, but hangs up using his head instead of the receiver. Gumball then opens his locker and water gushes down at him, and he takes out a pineapple. Richard, with the body of a centaur, gallops in front of him, speaks a garbled language, and gallops away, leaving a trail of rainbow sparkles from his butt. He sees Penny in front of him, and the hallway falls apart to reveal outer space. Penny sings opera, while Gumball dances towards her. The singing and dancing continues, until Gumball finds Darwin with Penny. They dance together while Gumball watches, shocked. Darwin makes an evil grinning face at Gumball, and kisses Penny. Gumball's pineapple explodes, and Gumball screams. He then finds himself in bed, showing that the preceeding events were simply a dream.

Because of the dream, Gumball is angry at Darwin. He tries to strangle him, but he points out that he hasn't got a neck. Darwin tells Gumball to chill out, since it was just a dream. Gumball knows this, but is still angry. This makes Darwin want to apologise; he doesn't want Gumball to be angry.

In class, Darwin recites a poem showing how sorry he is, but Darwin thinks it is too cheesy. Later, Darwin pops out of his locker and apologises, but this apology is too surprising. Then, Darwin e-mails Gumball a dog singing an apology, but this apology is too weird.

At home, Darwin apologises in an ancient rack with birds pecking at him, but this apology is too medieval. Darwin asks why Gumball can't simply ask Penny who she prefers, but Gumball says he can't let Penny know he 'like' likes her. Darwin agrees, and Gumball thinks of a plan.

Back at school, Gumball brings Penny cupcakes, a 'sweet, handsome, commited blueberry cupcake', and an 'evil, ugly, backstabbing, orange cupcake THAT NEVER SHOULD HAVE GROWN LEGS'. Penny chooses orange, and is about to eat it, until Gumball insists she has the blue one. As Penny is about to eat the orange one, he shoves the blueberry cupcake in her mouth, but Penny is allergic to blueberries, and swells up. She asks Gumball to bring her pills from her locker. Inside there are two jars of pills, one blue and one orange. Penny needs the orange pills, making Gumball upset. Darwin and Gumball are then walking on the sidewalk, explaining she SPECIFICALLY asked for the orange ones, which caused Gumball to start crying because he didn't know the blue ones were thumbtacks. He then tries to strangle Darwin again, but he still has no neck. Darwin decides that Gumball can kiss whoever Darwin loves the most, which is Gumball, so he pulls his own lips off and kisses himself all over his face. Gumball still doesn't feel better, and drops his mouth on the sidewalk. They then go home, where they have decided they won't talk about "the thing". Anais decides to play a DVD, but upon hearing in the intro "when one man stole another mans girl, it was the ultimate betrayal" Gumball smashes the TV.

Characters

 * Gumball
 * Darwin
 * Penny

Minor Characters

 * Ocho
 * Tobias
 * Hector
 * Mr. Small
 * Richard
 * Anais
 * Sal Left Thumb (on newspaper)
 * Lizard Woman
 * Pantsbully
 * Purple Moose
 * Sussie (face only)
 * Dolly
 * Juke
 * Carrie

Quotes

 * Okay so, dad has a lazer shooting out of his butt, and then Mr. Small's head fell off, then I found a pineapple in the locker so I started dancing in the cosmos, and then Darwin kissed her!

Trivia

 * This episode aired in the UK before the US.
 * Gumball may be claustrophobic as reflected in a dream in which he is trapped in a car underwater and hyperventilates in panic.
 * It was revealed in this episode that Penny is allergic to blueberries.
 * Gumball and Darwin break the fourth wall by fighting over the censorship panel.

Continuity

 * This was the second time Darwin's feet were censored. First was in "The Meddler".
 * This was the seventh time in the series we see Gumball naked.

Cultural References

 * The way that a few seconds in reality counted as five days in the dream world may be a reference to Inception or The Chronicles of Narnia. In these movies, it is explained that time elapsed in dreams is much greater than time elapsed in the waking world.

Goofs/Errors

 * When Gumball is explaining his dream to Anais there is a red lamp by the side of the sofa, when the camera cuts from Gumball back to the sofa the lamp is gone for a brief moment, only to reappear when Anais collapses.
 * After Gumball and Darwin drink finish their milk and fall asleep, there is a cup of water behind the alarm clock. When the camera switches to a close-up view of Gumball and Darwin, the cup of water becomes a cup of milk instead. The error corrected itself in the later scenes.
 * Also in the same scene, when Gumball and Darwin falls asleep, both drop their cups which rolled for some distance leaving a trail of milk. However, when the camera switches to a close-up view of Gumball and Darwin, the cups no longer leave a trail of milk, and are now much closer to Gumball and Darwin. The error corrected itself in the later scenes.