The Banana

The Banana is the sixth episode of season two of The Amazing World of Gumball.

Synopsis
Gumball wants revenge when Banana Joe returns Darwin's pen chewed.

Plot
The episode starts off with Mr. Small teaching a class, in which he is giving a boring lecture on the composition of happiness. As the bell rings, the students are dismissed and Banana Joe gives Darwin back his pen that he had borrowed. Gumball notices something odd about the pen he had borrowed, and accuses Joe of chewing his pen, which he denies, leaving Gumball upset.

Later at lunch, Gumball goes up to Joe, and tells him that anything can be solved with a simple apology. Instead of saying he is sorry for chewing the pen, he instead says that he forgives Gumball for chewing it. Gumball is agitated, and asks if he can borrow his tube of glue.

Back in the classroom, Gumball is fiercely piercing the tube of glue, to Darwin's confusion. He tells his brother that he is exacting justice, but Darwin still does not quite understand. In an attempt to help him comprehend what he is doing, Gumball smacks Darwin's face with a ruler twice and asks him what he thinks is an appropriate thing to do in response, so Darwin offers love instead of vengeance, which Gumball admits is nicer, but is not justice.

When Joe comes back, he finds a note on his desk from Gumball and Darwin that thanks him for the glue. He is moved by this, and decides to make them a card in celebration of their friendship. As he is putting the finishing touches on his card, he finds that his hand is stuck to his tube of glue. Joe is undeterred by this, and continues to keep his spirits high, that is, until he accidentally pulls one of his eyes off.

In the nurse's office, the  nurse and Mr. Small are there as they unwrap Joe's bandages. At first, he is horrified to find that he has no face, but the nurse puts another one on and he's back to normal. Mr. Small informs Joe that he needs to be more careful because his tube of glue was covered in holes, but he claims that the tube was not when he lent it to Gumball.

Meanwhile, Gumball and Darwin come across the scene, where they discover that Joe had torn Darwin's homework. Infuriated, he breaks into Joe's locker and begins to bite on his books and destroy his other possessions. Upon discovering a fancy-looking pen, he begins to fiercely chew on it. As he asks Gumball what else they could do to it, Mr. Small comes over the intercom and requests that they both come to his office.

In Mr. Small's office, he explains to the kids that conflict can be resolved by reminding yourself that an enemy is like you but seen from another perspective, that all people have something in common, and that time is needed to reach an understanding. Darwin says nothing, and instead flips over the hourglass, throws the water on Mr. Small, and breaks the mirror and threatens Joe with it. Mr. Small is scared, and urgently requests that Joe gives Darwin the new pen. As he is giving it to him, he regales a story about his family's most prized possession - the pen that his great-grandfather Obadiah Banana used to sign the registry when he first came to his country.

When Joe finishes his story, he tells the two that he would lose his mind if that pen was chewed, which horrifies them because Darwin actually did. Mr. Small is touched by the boys' peaceful settlement and thanks them, then lets Joe go as he fills out a hall pass for Gumball and Darwin. While he is writing Gumball's name, he makes a mistake and decides to print another. The boys begin to grow impatient with him, so he asks them if they want to try his new herbal tea to soothe their nerves, but before he can finish his sentence he suddenly blanks out and stops responding to the boys, so they both leave without a pass.

Meanwhile, Banana Joe is merrily walking to his locker while whistling a cheerful tune, in contrast to how Gumball and Darwin are practically sprinting to get there before he does. While the boys are running, they inadvertently set off several accidents in the school's hall, but despite this, Joe still makes it to his locker before they do and discovers the chewed pen.

Gumball and Darwin try to walk away without diverting his attention to themselves, but it does not work and Joe yells at them angrily while demanding that they both turn around face him. When they do, he screams in a fit of rage and races towards them. Instead of hitting either one of them, he runs straight into a water fountain and passes out with a large bruise covering his face.

The boys are both incredibly guilty about ruining his family's most prized possession and causing him additional distress for the rest of the day. In an effort to not appear to have been bullying him, they both decide to beat themselves up and lay on the floor alongside Joe. When he wakes up, Gumball tells him that he beat them both up and they both apologize about ruining the pen, and Banana Joe forgives them both. When they are both getting up, Gumball feels something weird and checks his pockets for something, and he finds Darwin's pen. He realizes that Joe had his pen, not Darwin's, and that he chewed the pen himself, not Joe. Instead of pummelling him, Joe and Darwin pat him to show love instead of hatred.

Characters

 * Gumball
 * Darwin
 * Banana Joe
 * Mr. Small

Minor Characters

 * Alan
 * Carmen
 * Clayton
 * Leslie
 * Penny
 * Tobias
 * Bobert
 * Carrie
 * Rocky
 * Miss Simian
 * Tina
 * Idaho
 * Anton
 * Masami
 * Ice Cream Girl
 * School Nurse

Gallery


The gallery for "The Banana" can be found here.

Trivia

 * This is Banana Joe's first major appearance in an episode.
 * Banana Joe and Mr. Small recieve slight re-designs, continuing the re-design trend of Season 2.
 * The tune that Banana Joe whistles is the tune that plays in the title panel of the episode.
 * On his homework, Darwin gets question 3 wrong, mislabeling a cylinder as a "toilet paper roll". Also, on question 4, he puts the $ sign at the wrong side of the number (12$ instead of $12).
 * When Gumball pulls Darwin's pen out of his pocket, the bruise on Banana Joe's face is gone.
 * Banana Joe's whistle theme is a reference to the movie Kill Bill.


 * Goof: Mr. Small shows Banana Joe the tube of glue that caused all of his pain in the nurse's office, but when Gumball and Darwin see the ripped up homework in the classroom, the tube of glue is still there.
 * Goof: Mr. Small's ponytail is missing in establishing shot of the nurse's office.
 * Goof: In the final scene of the episode, the bruise on Banana Joe's face is missing in one scene, and then reappears immediately afterwards.