The Refund

The Refund is the eighteenth episode of The Amazing World of Gumball.

Synopsis
When Gumball and Darwin buy a videogame from Larry and find out it does not work, they attempt to get a refund.

Plot
Gumball and Darwin waited 7 long months (long enough for hair to grow on Darwin's legs) to receive a video game, and they have finally received it. Excitedly, the boys open the disk slot on their game system and try to fit in the game, only to find that the game is in a cartridge and won't work with their system. Disappointed, they set off to the video game store to get a refund. Once they arrive at Ripley 2000, they ask Larry for a refund, to which he states that he can't give no matter how much he wants to. Larry says he isn't allowed to give refunds, and his boss is watching him through a security camera. The boys become upset and swear to get the refund out of Larry.

They then leave, only to return and nonchalantly ask Larry for a refund, which he refuses to give. The Ripley 2000 Manager then calls Larry, where he says that he did not give the refund.

The next ploy involves Gumball imitating the police using a bullhorn. At first, Larry is intimidated, but then he realizes that the boys are not actually the police and busts them, after telling them that he cannot give a refund. The boys then try to hypnotize Larry, but this proves to be a waste of time after he refuses to give them a refund. After that, the boys try again using sympathy. They pull out a TV and show Larry a video about the "hundreds of children that buy computer games and don't receive refunds", featuring a kid named "Jimmy" (a.k.a. Anais), who lives in a shoebox and a sad song about the children who have wasted their money on bad video games. Larry feels very guilty as a result, but still refuses the boys a refund.

Richard says he will handle the problem. He grows a beard and puts on a biker jacket to look intimidating, then goes to the shop to try and intimidate Larry into giving him a refund. When that doesn't work, he places the game on the counter and takes money from the cash register, which calls out the manager. Larry manages to escape, but Richard and the boys are trapped. The shadow on the door shows a frightening, large puffy monster, but the door opens and reveals a small, cute bear as the manager.

Richard laughs and makes fun of him, and asks for a refund, which causes the bear to attack him by biting him and crawling on him. Gumball and Darwin freeze, laughing at Richard, before they dash into the manager's office. Richard is losing the fight when Gumball and Darwin come out of the office with a security tape, which they blackmail the bear with. Suddenly, appearing to be in a nicer mood, the bear offers the three a 1% discount on a game system for the game (which the three find a bargain).

The game system is purchased and taken home, only for the 3 to find that the manager had ripped them off with a paper shredder.

Characters

 * Gumball
 * Darwin
 * Larry
 * Richard
 * Ripley 2000 Manager

Minor Characters

 * Anais (video only)
 * Ocho (in painting)

Music

 * Refund the World
 * Bad to the Bone by George Throrogood and the Destroyers

Quotes
Darwin: "Why's it called 2000 anyways? It's not like it's the future anymore!"
 * Gumball: "Ripley 2000, more like Rip-Off 2000!"

Gumball: "What?! You have to. We asked you a ton of questions before we bought it, remember?" [Flashback, all the characters are talking at a faster pace] Gumball: "What's bigger, a lion or a tiger?" Larry: "A tiger." Gumball: "Why is the sky blue?" Larry: "Diffraction of light through nitrogen." Darwin: "Can anything escape from a black hole?" Larry: "Not unless it's a superheated quasar." Gumball: "What is 2,352 x 1,035?" Larry: "2,434,320." Gumball: "If you know all this stuff, how come you're a store clerk?" Larry: "Look, you want this game or not?" Gumball: "We'll take it." [End flashback] Larry: "Actually, you never asked me anything about the game."
 * Larry: "I'm sorry, kids, but it's store policy. I can't give you a refund!"

Gumball: "We couldn't get a refund, and now were really cheesed off!" Richard: Watch your language, young man! Cheese is not to be invoked in vain in this house.
 * Richard: "Hey kids what's up?"


 * Larry: [to Richard] WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME, YOU NUT-BURGER!?!?


 * Gumball: "I'm gonna slap myself and Darwin is going to hold his breath until you do something." [Darwin breathes and Gumball slaps himself] "Ow, ow, ow, this is on you Larry!"

Larry: "Get out of here."
 * Gumball: "This is not the end of it Larry Needlemayer. Mark my words, we will get a refund!" [Gumball and Darwin walk away only to come back] "Hi Larry, can we have a refund please?"

Gallery


The gallery for The Refund can be found here.

Trivia

 * Darwin wears the same mustache he wore in The DVD for Gumball's video.
 * Despite giving her Daisy the Donkey toy to Tina in The Quest, Anais is shown playing with one in the Refund the World video.
 * The song that Gumball and Darwin sing during their video Refund the World is a parody of the famous charity song "We are the World."
 * The game bought by Gumball and Darwin resembles a Super Nintendo game cartridge, and their console resembles an Xbox 360.
 * The plot of this episode is similar to the Regular Show episode "But I Have a Receipt" as both duos are refused refunds for a cheesy video game.
 * The riff that plays when Richard puts on the vest and grows the mustache and sideburns is a classic blues riff, and it's specifically styled after the version found in the song Bad to the Bone by George Throrogood and the Destroyers.
 * Larry sliding under the closing door and grabbing his hat at the last minute is a reference to Indiana Jones.
 * In The Gi, Richard was playing a system using cartridge games, but in this episode, they instead have a system that uses discs.
 * The game console in the episode was possibly a "slimline" version of the system Tobias had in The Third.
 * Gumball thinks Richard looks like his wedding picture with his 'stache and jacket, but in The Wand, it is shown that he had neither a mustache nor a jacket at his wedding.
 * Nobody knows what really escapes a black hole despite Larry saying a superheated quasar.
 * Richard is revealed to be a pacifist.
 * Ripley 2000 has the same inside background as Laser Video.