The Remote

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

Sypnosis
The Watterson family fights over the remote when they realize everything they want to watch comes on at the same time.

Plot
The episode begins with the Watterson family excitedly talking about the show they plan on watching that evening. Gumball and Darwin want to watch Cutie Pets to see the picture they submitted on make it on TV, Nicole wants to watch Win or Don't Win to win a new microwave, and Anais wants to watch a new episode of the Daisy the Donkey show. All is well until they realize their shows air at the exact same time: eight o'clock. They all rush into the living room where Richard is, who informs them that he has been saving his seat all night for the series finale of La Casa De Las Lagrimas. Unfortunately, Richard had already hidden the remote, and after informing the family of this, he promptly falls asleep on the couch. An argument ensues in the living room, going on until Anais exasperatedly decides to go to her room, loudly wishing she could buy her own remote. This gives Nicole the idea to do so, and she immediately leaves the house.

While Nicole is gone, Gumball and Darwin realize that they can change the channel by pressing the buttons on the TV manually. Gumball attempts to do so, but collapses before he can make it due to being too lazy. Darwin gets him back on the couch and breaks a chocolate bar to give to Gumball so he can feel better. When Richard hears the snap of the chocolate bar, he immediately awakens and asks for it. While the boys are taunting him with it, the phone rings. Anais gets it, and it is Nicole, who wants to know what brand the TV is, which Anais informs her of.

After the boys give him the chocolate bar, he tells them a riddle and they soon find out that it meant the remote is between their father's butt, but not after thinking that the remote is in a valley shaped like a butt and going there. When Gumball and Darwin move Richard, they discover a hole in the couch where he was sitting, and that the remote is not there. Since Nicole had gone to the store, they figure that only one person who could have gotten the remote was Anais. Richard and the boys go upstairs to their bedroom, where they find Anais sewing up 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 quickly pulls the remote out from behind the desk. As she is about to give them the remote, she promptly smashes it on the ground in front of them, much to the boys' dismay. After Gumball threatens to destroy the Daisy doll, she tells the group that Nicole went to the store to buy another remote, and they rush off to the store get it from her, with Gumball giving Anais back her Daisy plush. Gumball asked Anais why she wasn't coming with them, to which she replied that she did not care about watching TV anymore, and that she only needed her Daisy plush.

At the parking lot of the mall, Nicole is seen stepping out from an elevator, but is suddenly confronted with an angry Gumball, Darwin and Richard staring her down. The boys shout to attack, and an epic battle-chase scene commences, with everyone 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 in an attempt to grab it, which causes them to be knocked unconcious momentarily, only to have Nicole steal the remote back from her husband. Everyone makes their way to the next level of the parking garage and Nicole is cornered. To the boys' surprise, she jumps from the parking lot to the next building, landing perfectly and making a run for it. The boys decide to just take the stairs instead of following her. Richard however, decides to try the same trick his wife did, but fails horribly and smashes into the building. Nicole starts running for the gate of the parking lot, but the arm suddenly starts to go down. Gumball and Darwin get down the stairs and notice the gate closing, so Gumball shouts to his mother that not paying the toll would make her a bad role model to her children. As she hastily sprints towards the exit, she digs frantically through her skirt pockets for the correct change, but when she finds it, it is too late and she is clotheslined by the gate's arm, knocking the change out of her hand and, most importantly, the remote she bought. Gumball thanks Nicole for being a good citizen as he grabs the remote, and he and Darwin run home.

Soon, everyone arrives at the house, and they begin to fight over the remote again, pressing the buttons on the remote in the process. A repetitive smashing sound can be heard as they press the buttons, and Gumball points out that the remote their mother bought was not a TV remote, but a remote for their neighbour's garage door. He then angrily asks his mother why she bought a garage door remote, to which she informs him that Anais told her what brand of remote to buy. Gumball and everyone else then slowly begin to realize that the entire thing was Anais' scheme from the very beginning. The family recounts how Anais gave her mother the idea to buy another remote by yelling that she wished she could buy her own, when Nicole called and asked Anais what kind of TV they had so she could get a second remote, Anais overhearing Richard's riddle and stealing the remote from underneath him by cutting a hole in the couch, and when Anais apparently smashed the remote, which it turns out, was actually a calculator. They throw down the garage door remote and rush to the window where they see Anais sitting in the living room, unzipping the back of her Daisy doll and taking out the real remote. The rest of the family watches with horror as Anais switches from the channel of Richard's show, in which case he exclaims "Oh, Madre Mia!" and passes out outside, to the Daisy the Donkey show, as the camera zooms in dramatically on Anais' face as she joyously watches her show, while the Daisy the Donkey theme song ominously plays in the background before the screen fades to black.

Characters

 * Gumball
 * Darwin
 * Nicole
 * Richard
 * Anais

Minor Characters

 * Principal Brown
 * Purple Moose

Quotes
"Anais: Pets? I thought you preferred "animal companion."

Darwin: Oh, who cares about moral principles? This is TV we're talking about!"

"Richard: The remote is in a valley betwixt two hills. Its name begins with a "B", ends with two "T"s and has "U", in the middle."

"Gumball, Darwin, and Richard: Nnnoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo-...."

"Nicole: I feel so proud of her, yet... really scared at the same time."

Gallery
The gallery for "The Remote" can be found here.

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.
 * The fight scene is a reference to the movie District 13.
 * Richard's show, La Casa de las Lagrimas, translates into English as The House of Tears.
 * Darwin reveals that he prefers the term 'animal companion' instead of 'pet' in this episode.
 * The signs in the Elmore Mall's parking garage say: "Strictly no Kung-Fu within this car park" and "How come you're reading this, this is like 50 pixels on the picture?? Seriously, even I have trouble reading myself while writing this text. You have very good eyes. I strongly suggest you to apply for a plane pilot position, or a small animal spotter for a nature tv show. Bye."
 * This is the second time in the series that Richard's head has gotten stuck in a car. The first time this happens is in "The Ape".
 * This is the first time Butt Valley is shown.
 * This is the first episode to be free in the iTunes Store.
 * Goof: When Nicole Talks about how scared she is while gumball is blinking, Gumball's right ear is missing
 * This is the second time all The Wattersons family is figthing each other, the first time is in The Helmet