The Coach

"The Coach" is the third episode of Season 3 of The Amazing World of Gumball. It is the seventy-ninth episode overall.

Synopsis
The new coach at Elmore Junior High stands up to Jamie.

Plot
The episode begins where Gumball and Darwin knock on the nurse's door at Elmore Junior High in an attempt to skip gym class. On their way down the hall, they meet Coach, the new gym teacher.

At gym class, Gumball was doing push-ups and a large amount of sweat was poured out of his sweater. Coach then orders Jamie to do a cartwheel, and Jamie did it wonderfully. Gumball tries to do the cartwheel, but he did it so fast that he landed with a thud. Gumball does a trampoline to bounce higher, but ends up crashing up the ceiling.

At the school cafeteria, the tired and injured students complained about how hard it was in gym class. Jamie then bursts into the cafeteria, and orders the students to beat it, but Gumball still stood there. Jamie was about to hit Gumball in the face, but Coach stopped her and made her apologize to Gumball. Jamie says she's sorry and she will be friends, which shocked him, and the rest of the students were shocked too.

The next day, Jamie then encounters Gumball and Darwin. Gumball tries to convince to Jamie that she doesn't have to be a bully anymore, but Jamie shoves him in Darwin's mouth, and tells the classmates about the school going in history. Out of school, Gumball and Darwin discussed the moments of Jamie torturing the students. They then see Coach and Jamie riding home in their car. Gumball and Darwin went after them.

After running and encountering a bunch of dogs along the way, they arrived at Jamie's house, where Jamie's car arrived home at the same time. Jamie's father welcomes them home. Coach then reveals she is a woman, which shocked Gumball and Darwin again.

Characters

 * Gumball
 * Darwin
 * Coach
 * Jamie

Minor Characters

 * The School Nurse
 * Penny
 * The Eggheads
 * Banana Joe
 * Carmen
 * Teri
 * Alan
 * Idaho
 * Leslie
 * The Dogs
 * Richard
 * Anton
 * Sarah
 * Carrie
 * Rocky
 * Principal Brown
 * Jamie's father

Trivia

 * This episode aired one year after "The Pony."
 * This is Jamie's first major role in an episode.
 * For a long time, this is the first time a new CGI character was introduced to the show, next to Blitzer.
 * Teri's scream of terror is the same as heard in "The Virus."

Continuity

 * Gumball kicks himself in the same fashion as he did in "The Banana."
 * This is the second time Anton has been eaten by the ducks, the first being in "The Goons." This is also the first time he's been injured since Season 1.
 * This is the second time Taekwondo is mentioned, the first time was in "The Gi."
 * Gumball's internal organs are shown for the third time, the first time was in "The Bumpkin," and the second was in "The World."
 * This is the second time Carrie has blushed in the series, the first was in "Halloween."
 * This is the third time Gumball is in Darwin's mouth, the first two times were in "The Helmet" and "The Voice."
 * This is the second time Gumball gets frozen in cement. The first was in "The Third."

Cultural References

 * Coach tells Gumball and Darwin to cart-wheel "like a boss," a phrase which originates from Slim Thug's rap song "Like A Boss," later made popular by a parody of the song with the same name by The Lonely Island.
 * The song that Coach hums in the car is the "Chariots of Fire" theme.
 * Coach's voice sounds similar to that of Roz from Monster's Inc. Also, Gumball's brain talking mimics a professor on the news of the same movie.

Goofs/Errors

 * Coach says she won gold for cartwheeling in the 1986 Olympics, even though they didn't have the Olympics in 1986.
 * In this episode, Gumball and Darwin say that it was Jamie who fed Anton to ducks, a reference to "The Goons," although in the actual episode, it's shown that he fell into the river by himself.