The Responsible

The Responsible is the second pilot episode of Season One and the very first episode of The Amazing World of Gumball. It premiered on May 9th, 2011. In this episode, Gumball and Darwin babysit Anais when Nicole and Richard are at the parent-teacher meeting. However, things start to get a little out of hand when Gumball and Darwin find that they can't really control Anais.

Plot
When Richard forgets to hire the right babysitter for Anais, Nicole reluctantly allows Gumball and Darwin to babysit her instead while they go have a conference with Miss Simian. The two boys have no idea what "responsible" means, but they promise to look after Anais.

After Nicole and Richard leave, Anais is about to go upstairs, but Gumball and Darwin forbid her by jumping on top of her because "79% of stair accidents happen on the stairs." So instead, Anais decides to watch her favorite TV show, Daisy the Donkey. When the commercial break comes on, Gumball then states that "commercials can corrupt your mind.", so he and Darwin smash the television set with a baseball bat, setting it on fire. When Anais asked them if they lost their mind. Gumball says that there is already to much violence on tv anyway, which is ironic, considering they smashed the TV to bits. However to Gumball, It was the "responsible thing to do". They then throw a bucket of water on it despite Anais' advice to not throw water on electric fires. She then puts it out wih a fire extinguisher.

Meanwhile Nicole and Richard are waiting for the Parent Teacher Meeting outside Miss Simian's office. Richard claims that its like a bad dream, the ones where you're at school naked. Nicole calms him down, and says that she can't do anything now, that they're the parents.

Gumball and Darwin decide to take Anais for a walk in the park, where they drag her along with a leash. An old man then stops and teases her with a dog biscuit, before getting bitten by Anais. Assuming that she is hungry, Gumball and Darwin make her a disgusting lunch, consisting of a fish sandwich, a potato and a stinky boot. They then decide to chew it thoroughly and spit it back out for her so she doesn't choke on it. She then spits it all over them so Gumball and Darwin make her take a bath. Darwin points out that water is dangerous, so they ask her to dry clean herself. She decides to take a regular bath anyway. Before she hops in, they ask her to wear a diaper so she "doesn't have an accident".

Anais decides she has had enough of their ridiculous demands so she starts running around the house with Gumball and Darwin chasing her the whole way, while the bath water is still running. Anais eventually locks them out on the roof and taunts them by not following their rules. She starts to go take her bath but then she realizes that the house is flooded. She can't open the window so she is stuck in her bedroom while Gumball and Darwin are forced to climb through the sewers to get inside. They swim into the fireplace and out the chimney. Nicole and Richard then get home and are swallowed by the amount of water that meets them when they open the front door. Nicole says she is furious and asks who is responsible for the flood. Anais starts to confess but then Gumball says he wants to take responsibility for once. He then sees how angry Nicole is so instead blames it on Darwin. Darwin then states out that Anais left the faucet running, and Anais says it is Nicole's fault for leaving Gumball and Darwin in charge. Nicole then points fingers at Richard for not hiring a babysitter. He then points to a smashed laptop and blames it. Nicole askes what he's blaming. He replies, "The Internet?" and the whole family calms down and agree with his statement there.

Characters

 * Gumball
 * Darwin
 * Anais
 * Nicole
 * Richard

Minor Characters

 * Miss Simian
 * Snot Babysitter

Cameo Characters

 * Daisy the Donkey
 * Banana Joe's Parents

Transcript
The transcript for this episode can be found here.

Quotes
Nicole: "Responsible." Gumball: "Yeah, that's what I meant."
 * Gumball: "Come on, Mom. We were born reprehensible."

Richard: "No!" Nicole: "Richard, pants on!" Richard: "No!"
 * Nicole: "Richard, put your pants on -- we're off!"

Anais: "Ow. What are you doing?" Gumball: "79% of stair accidents happen on the stairs." Anais: "What does that even mean?" Gumball: "It means you're safer right here."
 * [Gumball and Darwin jump on top of Anais and land on her]

Gumball: "She's four, now." Old Man: "Well, now. [pulls out biscuit] You wanna biscuit? Huh? You wanna taste of this, you wanna have a little taste of this? Well you can't have it, 'cause it's mine! Ooh, I was teasin' ya! [holds out biscuit too close to Anais, and she bites his hand] Aaah! Ohh, she bit me!" Gumball: "You know what means? She's hungry!"
 * Old Man: "Oh, isn't she lovely! [to Gumball] How old is she, then?"

Gumball and Darwin: "RUN! HIDE!"
 * Gumball: [to Anais] "You can run, but you can't hide!" [Anais throws various foods at them]

Richard: "I know. Pretty cool, right?"
 * Nicole: "Look at this bill. How do you set a swimming pool on fire?"


 * Richard: [saddened after seeing the TV burnt] "How do you burn a TV underwater?"

Nicole: "And exactly who are you blaming here?" Richard: "The internet?" Everyone: [agrees with Richard]
 * Richard: "None of this would have happened if it wasn't for you!" [points directly at a wet, broken laptop]


 * Snot Babysitter: Hi, I'm here to sit on the baby.
 * Nicole: What?
 * Snot Babysitter: Well duh, I'm the babysitter.

Trivia

 * The old man will be seen later in The Debt.
 * The only way to set a swimming pool on fire is to pour gasoline or oil in the pool and then throw a lighted match or flame in the pool, as how Nicole was confused about it.
 * Darwin is able to show his full fish-like abilities when swimming and eating flakes in the submerged house, as opposed to when he nearly seemed to drown when submerged in The Pressure.
 * This is the first time Anais is an antagonist.
 * When Nicole gives the boys permission to babysit Anais, they perform a pose similar to one of the show's promos, which makes sense since the motions from it came from this episode.
 * When Ms.Simian walks out to meet Nicole and Richard, the bench they were sitting on has vanished.