Halloween

Halloween is the ninth episode of season two of The Amazing World of Gumball.

Synopsis
Carrie takes Gumball, Darwin and Anais to a real haunted house party on Halloween.

Plot
It's Halloween, and the kids decide to go trick-or-treating. Gumball voices his disapproval of Anais' princess costume, arguing that Halloween is meant to be scary. Anais counters by saying cute costumes earn more candy. Darwin, meanwhile, is white and shaken because of how scared he is of Halloween. The group then moves out, with a worried Nicole frantically warning them to be careful, and to be back by 7 p.m. Gumball, being the oldest, gets put in charge of the group.

The trio ends up wandering into a cemetary, which Gumball says is a shortcut to a place filled with candy. He then points to a creepy house smack in the middle of the graveyard, to which he labels their "destination". A flabbergasted Darwin stands there with his mouth hung open in fear, while Anais questions how much candy they'll get out of that house. Gumball then reveals that he never planned to go trick-or-treating at all; he actually wanted to go to an undead party. Carrie warps in to tell them how every Halloween night, the ghosts and other undead gather at this graveyard house for a huge party. Darwin, still shaken, suggests simply partying at the entrance. He dances for a few seconds, then attempts to flee the scene, but Gumball urges him to stay. Darwin tries to refuse, but Gumball reminds him who's in charge, causing Darwin to shout," DARN!" Anais, on the other hand, is enthusiastic about going to the party. Unfortunately, Carrie disapproves of her babyish outfit. Gumball wholeheartedly agrees, and hangs Anais on a tree.

Carrie, Gumball, and Darwin continue on to the party, only to find the house empty. Carrie warns them not to tell anyone they're alive, and something else that is inaudible. She repeats herself twice; on the second time, Darwin yells at her to just spit it out. Carrie tells them to drink a single drop of a mysterious potion, but only one drop. Darwin, exasperated, reasons that anything that should only be eaten in minute quantities are bad for you. Gumball, capitalizing on an opportunity, flicks a drop of the potion into Darwin's gaping mouth. Darwin instantly goes wide-eyed and stares blankly into the room, causing Gumball to rethink drinking the potion. Darwin, however, yanks Gumball's mouth open and slips a drop of potion into it, causing Gumball to see the explosion of ghosts that Darwin saw.

In the meantime, Anais, who is still stuck in the tree, is determined to get into the party. She tries to shake herself off the tree, and succeeds. Unfortunately, directly under her was a well. A deep well, that she falls to the bottom of. She yells "DANG NABITT!" in exasperation.

Back at the party, Carrie, Gumball, and Darwin mingle with the other ghosts. Carrie floats near a bowl filled with a strange substance, which Gumball is interested in. Carrie informs him that it is what ghosts are made of: ectoplasm. Gumball immediately wants to try some, but Carrie says he can't. Gumball immaturely yells that he wants some, and a passing ghost obliges him. Unfortunately, Gumball isn't enough of a ghost to touch ectoplasm yet, and so it passes right through his hand. All the other ghosts notice, and turn their attention to the two living creatures. Gumball, thinking quick, decides to drink Carrie's potion until he fully turns into a ghost, but Darwin advises against it. After a little peer pressure, though, Darwin yanks the bottle from Gumball's hands and takes a big swig himself. The two of them take turns gulping the potion down until Carrie stops them. Gumball and Darwin crack up, but their laughter is cut short when their spirits leave their bodies and they turn into ghosts. Darwin gives Carrie a spontaneous kiss, and the party rages on. Gumball and Darwin are extremely excited to have all the powers of being a ghost (levitation, invisibility, etc.) and decide to mess around in town with their abilities.

First, at the gas station, they draw a gruff face on Larry similar to a guy on a wanted poster behind him. The Donut Cop, mistaking him for the criminal, pulls his taser out and arrests him. Next, they animate a moose head in the Robinson house, giving Gaylord and Margaret a spook. Finally, they possess Tina and plan on going on a T-Rex rampage through town. Unfortunately, the controls are too hard and Tina lands face-first on the pavement. But before leaving her body, Gumball farts inside it.

Back at the cemetary, Anais has finally climbed her way out of the well, and rushes to the house party. Meanwhile, two ghosts find the bodies that Gumball and Darwin left behind, and use them as puppets. Anais sees this and looks confused, then notices a potion bottle nearby and decides to dip her finger into it and taste it. She turns into a ghost as well.

Carrie tracks down Gumball and Darwin and warns them that if they don't get back to their bodies by midnight, they will remain ghosts forever. The three race back to the haunted house, as the stroke up midnight sounds. The ghosts all return to their graves, and an enormous vortex opens up in the floor of the house, sucking everything nearby back to the afterlife.

The ghosts attempt to halt Gumball and Darwin, but Carrie holds them off (able to keep herself from being sucked into the underworld due to being a part of the mortal world) and Gumball and Darwin manage to get into the house, finding Anais there (now a ghost) and they all make a desperate leap for their bodies before the vortex closes behind them, taking the house with it.

A horrified Carrie finds the house gone, and begins to mourn for her friends, just before all three are spat back out. Having apparently been rejected because they were mortals. Nicole arrives, enraged that it was past midnight and they weren't home yet. As the three try to explain themselves, it is they have taken the wrong bodies, and therefore have "switched bodies". They assure Nicole that Carrie can get them back to normal, only for Carrie to vanish after an awkward silence. The guys are ended with a fear face and Nicole still really don't know what happen to them.

Characters

 * Carrie
 * Gumball
 * Darwin
 * Anais
 * The Monsters
 * Nicole

Minor Characters

 * Richard
 * Banana Joe
 * Idaho
 * Larry
 * Doughnut Sheriff
 * Margaret Robinson
 * Gaylord Robinson
 * Tina Rex

Gallery


The gallery for "Halloween" can be found here.

Trivia

 * This episode is the show's first official holiday special.(All holiday specials will not have "The" in it).
 * This is the third time that Carrie gets a major role in an episode. The first was in "The Ghost", and the second was in "The Flower".
 * This is the first episode to not have "The" in the title.
 * The way Gumball and Darwin control Tina is a parody of QWOP.
 * Darwin tells Gumball to "Come at me, bro!" at one point, a catchphrase made popular by the show Jersey Shore.
 * One of the ghost's reaction to Gumball and Darwin being mortals is a reference to the alarm call that the body snatchers make in the film Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
 * Carrie reveals she was born a ghost, which explains why she is able to be seen by normal people. The other ghosts attending the party all actually died.
 * However, this explanation contradicts what she said in "The Ghost" about missing her old body.
 * Carrie also states that she belongs to "this world", so the other ghosts were not able to send her to the underworld.
 * It is revealed that Carrie can teleport, albeit with low accuracy.
 * The climax of the episode in which the house is sucked through the vortex seems to be a parody of the final scene in the film "Poltergeist".
 * It is implied that Darwin has had a crush on Carrie for a while, as he gave her a spontaneous kiss as soon as he realized he was able to.
 * The wanted poster at the convenience store has the dollar sign on the wrong side (10,000$ instead of $10,000).