The Boredom

"The Boredom" is the fourth episode of Season 5 of The Amazing World of Gumball. It is the 160th episode overall.

Synopsis
Gumball and Darwin search for adventure during a walk around Elmore.

Plot
The episode starts off with Gumball and Darwin siting in their room floor, doing nothing. They notice their idleness and grow bored quickly, with Gumball pointing out that nothing is happening throughout what they have witnessed so far. Darwin suggests that if they keep doing nothing, something might happen, but Gumball refuses, so the two set out.

They then walk the streets of Elmore, oblivious of the events taking place around them. As they walk by, Neck Beard notices a dollar while mowing his lawn and lets go of the running lawn mower, which runs through the fence and runs over Principal Brown, who is relaxing on his front lawn, before cutting across the road, causing a car to swerve and crash. Then, there is a cut to Billy, who is admiring three puddles. He jumps in the first two puddles, but the third one turns out to be deceptively deep, causing him to sink, though the top of his head is still visible above the puddle. Right then, Gumball and Darwin come around the corner and, distracted, walk over Billy.

The Sun and the Moon are then seen having an argument on the basis of a series of miscommunications. The Moon complains about being stuck on the night shift, to which The Sun states that she is not bright enough to handle the day shift. The Moon takes offense, and The Sun attempts to clarify that she is not a star, further enraging her and causing her to throw herself at him. Suddenly, a truck pulls up in front of their fight, causing Gumball and Darwin to not take notice. When the truck pulls away, it is revealed that The Moon is unable to actually damage the Sun because he is ninety-five million miles away. The Moon settles it by suggesting that he did not hit her either and declares it a tie.

As Gumball and Darwin continue to walk the streets, Doughnut Sheriff drives by while on patrol, eating doughnuts. When he eats the last one, he calls the other cars and notifies them that there are not any doughnuts left and that he was going to the store to get more. En route, he speeds past Hamburger Cop who, alarmed by the reading on his radar gun, calls the Sheriff to chase the 'offender' down. After a series of increasingly fast maneuvers (causing property damage and the accidental beheading of Leslie), Hamburger Cop recognizes his mistake but does not have it in him to tell the Sheriff to stop the 'chase.'

Doughnut Sheriff speeds past Gumball and Darwin, who hear the sirens and look back, but by then, the Sheriff was already gone, so they shrug it off. The two then see a clipboard man in front of them looking for help in product testing. He tries to offer Gumball & Darwin something, but they reject his offer and keep walking. Banana Joe then walks by and decides to accept the offer, after which the product in question is revealed to be a lightsaber. Following a series of tests to determine its resourcefulness, all of which fail, the other surveyors at the testing lab surmise that the product is useless, and the inventor discards of it.

Gumball and Darwin walk through the Elmore Mall parking lot, and right as they leave, Sal attempts to break into a series of cars, causing several car alarms to go off. Right when he is about to smash one of the car's windows, he has a moment of realization, bursting out into a song discussing his past ills and apologizing to the crowd that gathered around him. However, it is ultimately revealed that Sal could not sing, causing the crowd to protest and making Sal, offended, revert to his old ways, driving off in a stolen car.

Inside the mall, Gumball and Darwin are people-watching when they notice a glass jar falling out of a cart and breaking, triggering a series of events. Harold then slips on the contents of the jar while grabbing onto Miss Simian's gown, which causes it to come off. Harold then gets up and sees Miss Simian naked, causing him to vomit profusely into Hexagon Lady's purse. She then looks inside her purse and, horrified, throws it into the air, causing it to land next to Mr. Small in a fan, causing the contents of the purse to explode all over him. However, each event is obstructed by Gumball and Darwin's vantage point, causing them to become infuriated and miss out on it. Tobias walks up to them and asks if they saw it, and when they say no, Tobias says he has it on his phone and shows it to them, only to reveal it was on selfie mode.

Defeated, they decide to go home and stare at their clock. After they go inside their house, the construction men walk by and incorrectly take their house away for relocation on the back of their truck. Unaware that their house is moving, Gumball and Darwin continue to stare at the clock, none the wiser. As the truck picks up speed, the outside of the house's front window grows fuzzy and changes signal, causing brief scenes of Clarence, Regular Show, and Uncle Grandpa to shuffle through. Meanwhile, at the front of the moving truck, one construction man notes that the house they picked up was the wrong color, which the other failed to notice due to his color-blindness. They are then forced to detour and drop the house off again.

Finally, Gumball and Darwin's interests are peaked when they hear the doorbell and open it to find the Manly Warrior. He tells them that he is in search of two brave heroes to embark on a quest, but instead of joining, Gumball and Darwin redirect him to the Eggheads. As the manly Warrior walks off, Gumball deduces that life does not just come knocking at your door and that it is up to him and Darwin to make things happen, but instead of going out to fulfill his idea, the two decide to go back inside. Suddenly, the Eggheads are seen flying above their house on a dragon, ending the episode.

Main Characters

 * Gumball
 * Darwin

Supporting Characters

 * Billy
 * The Sun
 * The Moon
 * Doughnut Sheriff
 * Hamburger Cop
 * Clipboard Men
 * Banana Joe
 * Sal Left Thumb
 * Construction Men
 * Manly Warrior

Minor Characters

 * Martin
 * Principal Brown
 * Gary
 * Green Oval
 * Blue Elephant
 * Melted Cheese Guy
 * Earth
 * Hector
 * Dolphin Man
 * Marvin
 * Leslie
 * Karen
 * Felicity
 * Cowboy
 * Patrick
 * Mrs. Fitzgerald
 * Jeff
 * Siciliana
 * Carmen
 * Sarah
 * Harold
 * Cupcake Woman
 * Brown Oval
 * Pantsbully
 * Crocodile Woman
 * Miss Simian
 * Orange Guard
 * Hot Dog Guy
 * Hexagon Lady
 * Mr. Small
 * Carmen's father
 * Carmen's mother
 * Tobias
 * Clarence
 * Mary
 * Mordecai
 * Rigby
 * Hi Five Ghost
 * Uncle Grandpa
 * Frank and Bean
 * Dragon

Trivia

 * Characters from Clarence, Regular Show, and Uncle Grandpa appear in this episode, making this the first time Gumball has crossed over with another show.
 * The Uncle Grandpa scene breaks the fourth wall as he talks to Gumball and Darwin (the viewer).

Continuity

 * Posters from "Halloween" and "The Nest" reappear.
 * Banana Joe's class president poster from "The Vision" appears outside the Clipboard Men's testing facility.
 * This is the fifth episode with a guest star. The others were "Christmas," "The Lie," "The Night," and "The Fury."

Cultural References

 * The gadget that Banana Joe tried out is a lightsaber from the Star Wars franchise.
 * Various Science-Fiction gadgets appear in the garbage dumpster:
 * The endoskeleton arm from Terminator 2.
 * The hoverboard from Back to the Future.
 * The jetpack from The Rocketeer.
 * The scene where the Manly Warrior talks about how he needs two guys to go on his "journey" and Gumball and Darwin tell him some other two guys would be good is a reference to the ending of Dumb and Dumber.
 * The giant white dragon Frank and Bean were riding on at the end of the episode resembles Falkor from the movie The NeverEnding Story.

Goofs/Errors

 * In the Regular Show scene of this episode, Mordecai's mouth is moving, but only Hi Five Ghost's voice is heard.