The Dress

The Dress is the sixth episode of The Amazing World of Gumball.

Synopsis
Gumball is forced to wear his mother's wedding dress to school and soon the whole school is fawning over "her".

Plot
One morning Gumball wakes up, and decides to cover himself in ice cubes. He tries to glide down the stairs with Darwin, but they fail and land right in front of Anais naked. Anais tells Gumball that he cannot go to school naked, so he tries to find his clothes. Gumball soon finds Richard asleep in the garden. Richard tells Gumball that he was doing the laundry when Nicole told him not to do so. Gumball's clothes have shrunk and they no longer fit him, forcing Gumball to wear Nicole's wedding dress to school. When Gumball's class sees him outside, they don't recognize him, so he makes up a fake name (GumballOopsEggWobbleUnderpants) and country of origin {GumballNoWigBattleAxeNinja). They all believe him and head off to school.

When they get to class, Ms. Simian falls for the act as well. Gumball is confused. When they all leave class, there is a puddle in the hallway and everyone is offering Gumball a way across as an act of love, but he decides to walk around it to avoid any complications. Still confused, he asks Anais what is going on, and she tells Gumball that anyone will do anything for a beautiful girl, which the students believe he is. Gumball realizes this, and abuses the power in a montage. Darwin is shown to fall in love with Gumball, not knowing it is his brother. Gumball receives a love letter from Darwin, requesting him to meet him on The Stomach Destroyer roller coaster after school. Anais informs Gumball that it is a love letter, but he is ignorant and believes Darwin just wants to hang out in a platonic way. He goes on the coaster with Darwin, where Darwin tells Gumball (as a girl) that he loves "her" and tries to kiss her. Gumball comes home terrified, and has a thought of what would happen if Darwin didn't move on and married him. Gumball and Anais come up with a scheme to stop Darwin from loving Gumball and start moving on.

They stage a good bye act for the "Darling of Elmore High" with a bus. When Darwin comes, Gumball hides in the bus and proceeds to attach the dress to a balloon with his face poorly drawn on it. He jumps out of a window on the bus while naked, but the balloon does not go into the bus. Instead, it flies toward the sun and pops. This leaves Darwin sad and crying. Gumball goes and cheers Darwin up. Just when he feels better, Darwin immediately falls in love with a fire hydrant that the dress landed on. Gumball remarks that some people can't help but make fools of themselves, just everyone makes fun of Gumball for being naked. He walks away, humiliated.

Characters

 * Gumball Watterson
 * Darwin Watterson
 * Anais Watterson
 * Richard Watterson

Minor Characters

 * Miss Simian
 * Bobert
 * Banana Joe
 * Anton
 * Idaho
 * Clayton
 * Leslie
 * Penny
 * Masami
 * Tina Rex
 * Nicole (in a flashback)
 * Mr. Small
 * Alan
 * Juke
 * Rocky Robinson
 * Tobias
 * Molly
 * Carrie
 * Hot Dog Guy
 * Hot Dog Vendor
 * Teri
 * Mr. Small's Dog
 * Egg Dad
 * The Dog

Music

 * She's a Lady by Richard Overall.

Trivia/Goofs

 * This is the first time a character with obscene private parts is censored and seen naked.
 * Despite the size of Nicole's wedding dress, it somehow fit Gumball perfectly.
 * Darwin drew a sketch of Gumball using his left hand, but in later episodes, he is seen drawing with his right hand, hinting that he may be ambidextrous.
 * Nicole's wedding dress reappears in Richard's flashback in The Wand.
 * Goof: Anais and Darwin miss the bus to school, but still arrive on time somehow.
 * Goof: Despite the dress not appearing to have any buttons, Darwin claims that a button on the floor belonged to it.
 * Goof: When Gumball walked away with the dress, the stool that Richard used to grab it was still visible. After a close up of Richard, the stool disappears.
 * Goof: At the beginning of the episode, the picture of Darwin kissing Gumball on the Stomach Destroyer can be seen at the top of the staircase, which is odd, because this had not yet occured in the episode.

Memorable Quotes

 * Gumball: "With this ice, we should travel down the stairs at the speed of light! Go!" [Gumball and Darwin go down the stairs, crashing]

[Anais facepalms]
 * Gumball: [observing his surroundings while trying to come up with a fake name after being questioned for his name] "Uh... Gum, Ball-- Oops! Egg... Wobble-- Underpants!"

Darwin: "I WANT MORE KIDS!" [Future vision scene changes back to the current time; Gumball cries with tears and then realizing Richard sitting there with Anais staring at him] Richard: "Who's your pretty friend, Anais?" Gumball: "It's me, Dad." Richard: "Hello, It's Me, Dad." [to Anais] "Is she foreign?" [Anais facepalms]
 * [Scene transitions to Gumball's vision of the future with his persona still up; Gumball ironing clothes with many children in the background as Darwin barges through the door with a hat and a briefcase]

Anton: "From Gumballnowigbattleaxeninja!" Penny: "That's in Europe." [Class starts chatting about the new girl.]
 * Banana Joe: "That's Gumballoopseggwobbleunderpants!"

Gumball (as a girl): "Yeah, this is really cool!" Darwin: "But who am I to deny fate?" Gumball: "I know, this is gonna be great!" Darwin: "No, uh, what I really mean is..." Gumball: "What?" [short pause] Darwin: "I love you." [leans in for a kiss] Gumball: "Aaaahhhh!"
 * Darwin: "Well, uhm, I hope you don't think I'm a fool-"

Masami: "No, let me fly you over!" Clayton: "I could build you a bridge!" Tina: "No, let me carry you in my mouth!" [exhales, with visible smelly breath] Gumball: "Uh...I could just walk around, like this..." [walks around the puddle] Tina: "Oh, she's so clever." Unknown Girl: "So independent!" Other Unknown Girl: "What a free thinker!" [everyone leaves] Gumball: [confused] "What was all that about?"
 * Banana Joe: "Stop! There's a puddle! We can't let you walk across that -- let me help!"
 * Anais: "The dress; they think your a beautiful girl. People will do anything for a beautiful girl. Anything!"

Gallery
The gallery for The Dress can be found here.