The Skull

The Skull is the thirteenth episode of season two of The Amazing World of Gumball.

Synopsis
Gumball and Darwin befriend their classmate Clayton, who is a compulsive liar.

Plot
The episode starts off with Gumball and Darwin yelling. Then, Miss Simian tells Gumball and Darwin to hurry up and take a shower, but Gumball and Darwin refuse to. Then, Clayton suggest the boys to wet their hair in the water and say they took a shower. When Clayton goes on the sink and puts water water on his head, the sink falls off and the sink's pipe is spraying water. Clayton tells the boys to give them one of their towels, but they refuse. Clayton puts his mouth over the pipe, which fills his mouth with water. Clayton goes flying all over the boy's shower room and causes the room to be a mess. The room is also on fire.

In the principal's office, Principal Brown demands one of the three to explain how $20,000 of damage happed in 30 seconds. Gumball tries to explain what happened, but he fails to. Then, Clayton steps up and says they caught a guy trying to steal from the lockers. He says they fought the guy and threw him across the room, causing the damage. Claytons says he was about to get pounded, but he says Gumball and Darwin came out of the shower and trashed the guy, but he escapes. Then, Miss SImian says how did the guy look like. Gumball said he looked like a guy with facial features all around his face and Gumball also said he had a big skull. Principal Brown shows Gumball a drawing he drew up about the desciption Gumball gave, but Gumball says it's a boat. Then Pricipal Brown the boys to leave his office.

Outside the office, Clayton says "Good job team!" But Darwin suggest Clayton is a bad influence for lying about the bathroom incident. Gumball says that they shouldn't see each other again. Clayton asked Gumball if they are friends. Gumball says "yes" if Clayton doesn't lie anymore. But, Clayton lies after the promise causing Gumball to give him another chance. Clayton tells them to follow him. The boys follow, but Gumball's towel is caught between the door and he loses his towel offscreen.

In the cafeteria, the boys are laughing until Gumball starts to choke. Clayton saves Gumball by squeezing the food choking Gumball and the food bit lands in Miss Simian's coffee. Everyone in the cafeteria claps for Clayton and he gets a medal for saving Gumball.

In the hallway, the boys sees Tina bullying Anton, causing Anton to pull out money. But Clayton goes up to Tina and squeezes her on the should making Tina fall asleep. Everyone claps for Clayton again, and he gets another medal.

In the classrom, the boys are showing the class an experiment. The boys mix the chemicals and the product made by the chemicals is a diamond. Clayton wears the diamond and the boys fly.

Characters

 * Gumball
 * Darwin
 * Clayton

Minor Characters

 * Principal Brown
 * Miss Simian
 * Penny
 * Tina Rex
 * Anton
 * Teri
 * Carrie
 * Banana Joe
 * Carmen
 * Idaho
 * Alan
 * Masami
 * Tobias
 * Leslie
 * Ice Cream Girl
 * School Nurse
 * Sussie (in a photo)
 * Razor

Gallery


The gallery for "The Skull" can be found here.

Trivia

 * This episode aired in the UK a day before the US.
 * This episode marks the first time Clayton has a major role.
 * At one point, Gumball holds up a Dodge or Dare card.
 * The design on the medal that Clayton receives for performing the Heimlich Maneuver on Gumball is very similar to that of the Combat Medical Badge.
 * The song that plays when Banana Joe's feelings get hurt is Vesti La Giubba from the opera Pagliacci.
 * The scene where the boys use shock therapy to stop lying was cut from the U.S. airing, marking the first time the U.S. has edited an episode.
 * When Clayton imitates Banana Joe, he has Banana Joe's Season 1 design.
 * Goof: In Razor's student file, the word "address" is mispelled as "adress".
 * Goof: It was first stated Razor was punished with a suspension that had already ended, but at the end of the episode it was claimed he was expelled.
 * When Darwin holds up a photo of Sussie. her eyes are yellow.