The Remote

The Remote is the first episode of season two of The Amazing World of Gumball.

Sypnosis
The Watterson family has an intense brawl over what channel to watch.

Plot
The day starts off where everyone is excited and talking about the show that they will be watching for the evening. Gumball and Darwin are excited for the Cuter Pet show to reveal their picture, Anais about the Daisy the Donkey show where Daisy meets Sally the Snake, while Nicole hopes for the Win or Don't Win to get a new microwave, and Richard for the La Casa De Las Lagrimas finale. This is until everyone mentions that their TV shows are all scheduled for eight o'clock! A fight ensues between the family in the living room, until Anais screams that she should just go buy a new remote control if she could, and Nicole, after hearing her daughter's outburst, decides to go outside and buy one. While Nicole is gone, Richard, Gumball, and Darwin try to figure out what happened to the remote. Richard is sitting on the couch, and informs them that he hid it somewhere. When Richard hears the snap of a chocolate bar, the boys use this moment to persuade their father into telling them the location of the remote. After being persuaded, he tells the boys a riddle and they soon find out that it meant the remote is between their father's butt. When Gumball and Darwin finally move Richard, they discover a hole in the couch where Richard was sitting, and the remote is not there. And since Nicole has gone to the store, they know that only one person that could've gotten the remote was Anais. So Richard and the boys go upstairs to the bedroom, where they see Anais pull a thread on the back of her Daisy the Donkey plush. Richard and the boys confront Anais about the remote, and Gumball snatches Daisy from Anais's hands, using the doll as hostage. Surprisingly, Anais pulls the remote out from behind the desk, only to Richard and the boys' horror Anais throws the remote on the floor, where it is shattered to pieces. At that time, Richard, Gumball, and Darwin go into a slow-motion NOOOOO moment while Anais cleans up the mess at normal speed.

The scene changes to the parking lot of the mall, where Richard, Gumball, and Darwin are waiting for Nicole by the car, with a gang-member type look on their faces and stance. Suddenly the boys shout to attack, and an epic battle scene commences where evaryone is prying to get the remote from each other's hands. At one point Richard gets the remote, and the boys run straight into his gut, which causes them to be knocked unconcious momentarily, only to have Nicole steal the remote back for herself. They start running for the level gate of the parking lot, but the arm suddenly starts to go down. Gumball notices and he shouts to Nicole "You'll be setting a bad influence if you dont pay, Mom!" So as she's running she digs through her skirt pockets for the direct change, and when she finds the correct amount, it is apparently too late and is clotheslined by the gate's arm, knocking change out of her hand, and, most importantly, the remote. Nicole gets up and they all make their way to the next level where, like the scene from a Matrix movie, jumps from the parking lot to the next building in slow-motion. She lands it and keeps running with the remote. The boys though, they stop and just stare for a second in astonishment. Eventually, Gumball just says "Let's take the stairs" and you see them turn around. Then you see Richard run and jump for the next building like Nicole did, but fails horribly and smashes into the building's side face-first.

Soon, everyone arrives at the house, where everyone starts trying to change the channel only to hear a repetitive smashing sound, and Gumball points out that it isnt a TV remote, but a remote for their neighbor's garage door, where he starts shouting about his car because it is being smashed under the garage door. They throw down the remote and go to the window where they see Anais inside, unzipping the back of her Daisy plush and pulling out the real TV remote. At that time, everyone realizes what happened. Many flashbacks start to take place where they are shown that the remote that Anais pulled out from behind the desk was actually a calculator and you are shown a slow-motion scene that shows the screen of the calculator and its buttons being smashed to pieces on the floor, there was a flashback to when Nicole called and asked Anais what kind of TV they had so she could get a second remote, Anais told Nicole the name of the company that made their neighbor's garage, and everyone discovers that it really WAS Anais who crawled under the couch and stole the remote from underneath Richard. With sad faces, everyone watches from the window outside as Anais switches from the channel of Richard's show, in which case he exclims something in Spanish and passes out outside, to the infamous Daisy the Donkey show, where the camera zooms in on Anais's face as she is slowly drawn into the show, with the Daisy the Donkey jingle as backgound music.

Characters

 * Gumball
 * Darwin
 * Anais
 * Nicole
 * Richard

Minor Characters

 * Principal Brown
 * Purple Moose

Trivia

 * "The Remote" was first leaked on the The Amazing World of Gumball page on the Cartoon Network website.
 * The episode is being aired as a preview of season two, just as "The DVD" was for the first season. This technically makes it the second season premiere.