The Knights

The Knights is the third episode of season two of The Amazing World of Gumball.

Synopsis
Gumball and Tobias compete for Penny's affection by putting on the lamest duel in history.

Plot
Gumball is yelling at everyone to make the house perfect for Penny's arrival. He makes Anais unclog the sink and paint the house, Darwin has to bake cookies (which Gumball burns by turning the heat up all the way), Richard was eating the cookie dough so he makes him take a shower (again), and Nicole has to vaccum and take out the trash (which she did not do yet, causing Gumball to angrily throw two trashbags at her, knocking her in to the pile of trash in the yard). Gumball realizes he smells and literally throws Richard out of the shower, as well as the car tires, since Gumball told Richard to wash every part of the car.

Gumball then tries to use to soap to improvise toothpaste, since there is not enough toothpaste in the tube to squeeze out. When Penny and Mr. Fitzgerald pull in, Mr. Fitzgerald is grumbling about he doesn't like that side of town. When they pull in, they see that the house looks awful- Anais fell off the ladder, leaving a trail of paint on the roof, since he was thrown out of the shower Richard was "cleaning" himself off in the bushes with a hose, and Nicole is covered with trash from the dozens of trashbags. Darwin, holding a tray of burnt cookies, is pushed aside by Gumball, who runs out with the soap still in his mouth, and Mr. Fitzgerald drives off. Gumball tries to run after them, but finally gives in and returns home.

The next day at school, Tobias is dressed in a medieval outfit, complete with leotard and tights. He's talking to Idaho about how he'll win over Penny's heart and get her to work on the mideval project with him. As Penny walks by, he calls her a "fair maiden," but she ignores him. She talks to Gumball and Darwin who are sitting on the stairs about yesterday, to which Gumball tries to pretend was great. Penny brings up the fact she knows he was really excited about it, especially since he kept calling their house until four in the morning, to which Gumball tries saying it wasn't him. Mr. Fitzgerald arrives at the school, and without him seeing Penny tries to tell Gumball that her dad doesn't like him. We see Mr. Fitzgerald glaring at Gumball as Penny is telling him this. He tries to tell him about how they got off on the wrong foot the previous day. As Gumball rests his arm on the rearview mirror, it falls off. After a few failed attempts of trying to ram it back on, the airbag puffs up in front of Penny's dad. Penny's dad says that he does not want Gumball around his car or daughter, and drives off.

As they all leave, Darwin reassures Gumball that he will pass the mideval project, since Gumball memorized the entire book. Gumball responds that he memorized the entire book for Penny. Darwin just shrugs and says that Mr. Fitzgerald hates Gumball, to which Gumball decides that he will try and prove himself to Mr. Fitzgerald. Tobias then joins the conversation and talks about how Penny will be his, and starts laughing, until he realizes Gumball and Darwin and everyone has left, and runs after them, shouting that they wasn't listening to him.

Later, Gumball arrives at the Fitzgerald household, where he tells Mr. Fitzgerald he made him a mix tape and a cake. He slams the door shut, so he puts the mix tape through the mail slot as well as the cake, which obviously gets ruined. Then, Gumball follows Mr. Fitzgerald on his jogging route and tries to help him there, until Gumball collapses from exhaustion. Gumball then shows up at Mr. Fitzgerald's work, where he tries to tell a story about him and Mr. Fitzgerald, until he realizes that they never hang out. Later, Mr Fitzgerald drives down the highway. When he looks to see the billboard for his company, he sees it's been painted on to say "Watterson & Fitzgerald Co-Friendship Unlimited." Distracted by the billboard, Mr. Fitzgerald crashes into the Donut Sheriff's car, and the Donut Sheriff promply writes him a ticket, resulting in Mr. Fitzgerald's airbag to deploy very slowly. Finally, Gumball tries to sing a song to Mr. Fitzgerald at his house, but Mr. Fitzgerald shoos him off for the last time.

Not soon afterwards, Tobias arrives to claim Penny's hand and Mr. Fitzgerald slams the door on Tobias's foot, who asks to release his foot. Mr. Fitzgerald only locks the door, so Tobias tries to get it out. Later Gumball walks home, dissapointed, then seeing Penny he runs to her asking her Mr. Fitzgerald didn't want her to come she says she asked her mother. Then Tobias comes and slaps Gumball, demanding a duel. Gumball refuses, so Tobias slaps him making him duel with Tobias. Gumball says, "If I do this your gonna leave us alone right?!" Tobias says if he wins if he loses Penny is his, Penny says no she is not Gumball says that he considers penny feelings about the duel Tobias says no so they battle. Gumball trips on a rock making him fall on to Tobias, Gumball flies to the other side were Tobias was. Tobias flies to were Gumball was. Tobias challenges him to hand to hand combat Gumball calls him nuts so he chooses not to fight him any longer Tobias says that he wins and wins penny, Gumball shouts "No!" accidentally hitting Tobias's hand. Tobias challenges him to hand to hand combat (again). During the battle, Tobias grabs Penny's hand. Gumball throws the stick at Tobias, but accidentally hits Penny. Tobias gets angry and attacks Gumball. Gumball asks Penny to hand his stick. She throws it to Gumball to fight Tobias. Gumball loses the stick and grabs a trash can Tobias starts hitting the trash can. Penny runs and grabs Tobias arm and throws her on the street. Meanwhile, Mr. Fitzgerald drives by seeing Tobias hitting Gumball not noticing Penny on the street. Gumball and Tobias notice the car about to hit Penny. Gumball jumps and saves Penny. Mr. Fitzgerald notices Penny too late and quickly turns and the rearview mirror hits Tobias and falls off while Mr. Fitzgerald's car crashes into Gumball's house. Tobias runs off. Penny's Father gets out and thanks Gumball for saving Penny, then Richard comes out in his underwear and tells the family to get out of the house, since Mr. Fitzgerald almost ran over Gumball, and they all yell at Mr. Fitzgerald. Gumball and Penny watch the argument, then look at each other and shrug.

Characters

 * Gumball (Successful Antagonist to Penny)
 * Penny
 * Tobias (Antagonist to Penny)
 * Mr. Fitzgerald (Antagonist to Gumball)

Minor Characters

 * Nicole
 * Richard
 * Darwin
 * Anais
 * Doughnut Sheriff
 * Masami
 * Carrie
 * Banana Joe
 * Idaho
 * Old Mouse
 * Mr. Small's Dog
 * Mrs. Fitzgerald (mentioned)

Gallery


The gallery for The Knights can be found here.

Trivia

 * A short clip of this episode was shown at Comic-Con as a preview of season two.
 * Penny and Tobias get a redesign in this episode.
 * This is the second major appearance of Mr. Fitzgerald.
 * Penny saying that Tobias' tights looked nice is not irony, but sarcasm.
 * Goof: The Wattersons's car disappears and reappears on the Watterson's lawn through-out the episode.
 * Goof: When Mr. Fitzgerald's car approachs the Wattersons's house, Gumball knocks over Darwin to greet them, yet there was no possible way he could've done this since he didn't run out the door and the door was closed. The space between the door and the end of the right side of the porch is too small to have Gumball sprint as quickly as he did, moreover he wasnt there in the first place.
 * Goof: The paint on the roof disappears in the scene of Gumball introducing his house.
 * Goof: When Gumball is running after the Fitzgerald's car, the background clearly shows that nothing is in the Watterson's front yard.
 * Goof: When Gumball first attempts to put the mirror back on the car, his waist is too high because in the next shot of him trying to ram it in, his body is significantly smaller than the car.
 * Goof: When Darwin explains that Gumball will pass the medieval assignment, he casts a shadow over Gumball, which technically the sun is not in the right position to do.
 * Goof: When Gumball throws the stick at Penny, he casts a twelve o'clock shadow, but when he fights in the next scene, both Tobias and Gumball make three o' clock shadows.
 * Goof: When Richard calls down Nicole near the end, Nicole's footsteps are heard running but she doesn't come out the door. She comes from the right side of the porch, which again, can't happen because there is nowhere to run from.