The Bros

"The Bros" is the twenty-second episode of Season 3 of The Amazing World of Gumball. It is the ninety-eighth overall.

Synopsis
When Darwin gets jealous of Gumball and Penny's relationship, he sets out to find information on Penny that will break them up.

Plot
The episode starts with Gumball asking Darwin several random questions on the bus, like his best dance move, best face, and best party trick. Rocky drops Penny off Gumball looks out the window to Penny and does a funny face and Penny laughs as the bus leaves. Gumball then asks Darwin where he would have a special place to do something special for someone. They start coming up with ideas, and laughing like little girls, eventually shattering car windows. Gumball asks Darwin who he would invite, they answer simultaneously, and Darwin answers "you," while Gumball answers "Penny."

After Gumball and Darwin are dropped off by the bus, Darwin starts yelling at Gumball about not making a scene. Gumball goes to the store, leaving Darwin in the driveway. Darwin is jealous of Penny and states that he will "get dirt on her," to reveal that she is a horrible person.

Next is a compilation of Darwin spying on Penny, every time Penny saying "Hi Darwin...bye Darwin." After this Gumball has a date with Penny at the school cafeteria, where he is going to propose. Darwin shows up and ruins the whole thing. Eventually Darwin starts being mean to Penny, in this case at the gym in basketball, with him hitting Penny with the basketball.

After these events, Gumball is in the library ready to propose to Penny. When he walks up to her, and says he has something to tell her, she also has something to say. Gumball counts down from 3 so they can tell each other what they have to say at the same time. On 2, Penny suggests that they stay separate for a while, which shocks Gumball. Penny says that she wants everything to clear up between Gumball and Darwin. Gumball rushes off towards home. When he gets to his room, Darwin is dressed in a horribly made cardboard costume of Penny. Gumball asks what he is doing, and Darwin says "Whatever I can do so you can love me again." Gumball starts crying, and asks Darwin if his affection for Penny is weird. Gumball tells Darwin that he was going to propose to Penny, and Darwin says that that is weird. Darwin says he can give Gumball the “perfect moment.” Gumball then asks where are they going to find a log cabin and starts doing his favorite R&B dance and telling Gumball to "come on."

That night, Darwin knocks on Penny’s door and runs away. Penny answers it, and sees origami roses making a path to The Wattersons' shed. In front of the shed, there is a puddle of antifreeze, meant to be a blue lake. When Penny enters, Gumball is lying on the ground, making a weird face. He asks Penny to sit down on the floor. Penny tries to hold in her laughs, and sits on the floor. Gumball reads some footnotes, and offers Penny a soda. When he pours the drink in the cup, he drops a ring in. He gives Penny the cup, and says to us." He starts strangely laughing, claps, and yells "chocolate fountain!" Darwin starts blowing chewed up chocolate through a hose, and it gets all over Penny. Gumball then tries to propose, but is too nervous. Then, Penny takes a sip of the drink and starts choking on the ring. Darwin nervously starts telling Gumball to "come on", and hits his head on a jar of fireflies, causing it to break. Fireflies start going everywhere, and set the roses on fire. Penny starts shapeshifting randomly, and a firefly flies into the antifreeze, and it explodes. Darwin rushes into the shed, squishes Gumball's cheeks into sounding out the words "will you marry me," and gets all three of them out of the shed before it explodes.

The three land on the ground, and Penny coughs out the ring and lands in the grass. Penny asked Gumball what he said, and he picks up the ring and says “marry me.” Penny says she can’t because they are twelve. Penny has an idea for what to do with the ring, and she uses for as a bro-like wedding for Gumball and Darwin. The episode ends with the Fitzgerald’s house on fire, in affect of the origami roses catching fire as well.

Main Characters

 * Gumball
 * Darwin
 * Penny

Minor Characters

 * Rocky
 * Jamie
 * Carrie
 * Sarah
 * Carmen
 * Tobias
 * Banana Joe
 * Teri
 * Anton
 * Alan
 * Masami
 * Sussie
 * Leslie
 * Eggheads
 * Richard (photo)
 * Nicole (photo)
 * Anais (photo)
 * Juke
 * Idaho
 * Coach
 * Patrick
 * Mrs. Fitzgerald
 * Penny's Sister
 * Hank
 * George

Trivia

 * Originally, Leslie was going to appear in the girl's bathroom in rough animation, but he got replaced by Teri in the final version.

Continuity

 * In "The Flower," it is stated that Darwin is immune to Jealousy, so it is likely that Gumball hanging out with Penny more is the first thing to trigger jealousy in Darwin (which he shows briefly in "The Burden").
 * Gumball and Penny are dating due to the events of "The Shell."
 * When choking on the wedding ring Gumball had given to her, Penny keeps transforming into some of her forms in "The Shell."
 * This is the second time Penny refuses to marry Gumball due to the fact they're both twelve years old. The first was in "The End."
 * Darwin puts make-up on his face again. The first time was in "The DVD," and second time was in "The Procrastinators."
 * In this case, his face looks like how it did with make-up in "The Procrastinators."
 * Darwin hints again that he was a part of previous families before the Wattersons, when he says that Gumball is his "brother from another mother." The first time he implies about this was in "The Burden" when he yelled at Chris Morris not being "one of his dads."
 * A tune from "The Authority" (when Granny Jojo first appears) is reused when Penny says to Gumball that they need some space.

Cultural References

 * Gumball's shocked face is similar to every anime that uses that expression.
 * While choking on the wedding ring Gumball had given her, one of Penny's transformations resembled that of Medusa from Greek mythology.
 * While dancing on the bus, Gumball and Darwin can be heard humming a song that sounds very similar to Seal's "A Kiss from a Rose." This is a highly logical inference as Gumball previously mentioned R&B music.
 * The scene in which Penny and Gumball find themselves eating the same piece of spaghetti is a parody of a famous scene from the movie Lady and the Tramp. In that movie however, the scene ends with the two characters accidentally kissing. In the episode, Darwin interferes.

Goofs/Errors

 * In the first scene, Carmen is sitting at the back of the bus. When Penny gets off the bus, Carmen appears in front of Gumball and Darwin.
 * When Gumball runs off to the bus with his shocked face, the bus's doors are on the right side instead of the left side. In all of its other appearances, the school bus's doors are on the right, mimicking an American school bus.
 * Banana Joe's size is inconsistent through the episode, with him being as large as Tobias, Gumball, and Darwin in the first scene.
 * When the Watterson's shed explodes, Penny's left antler disappears briefly.
 * During the dodge-ball scene, before the game begins, Penny's pupils are red when they should be brown.
 * During when Darwin kissing Gumball on the first scene, Penny's pupils are black when they should be brown.
 * When the basketball game starts, one of Gumball's arm-bands goes missing.
 * This could mean that Penny's pupils are changing because same happened when she was playing dodge-ball her eyes were different color again.
 * In the scene where multiple Darwins crowd around Gumball complaining about Penny, they don't have eyelashes.
 * When Penny was following the rose track, a scene shows 2 roses of the track is on the car, but when burnt, it is in front of the car. They might've fallen off when on fire.