The Extras

"The Extras" is the eighth episode of Season 3 of The Amazing World of Gumball. It is the eighty-fourth overall.

Synopsis
It's a slow day for Gumball and Darwin, and the others in Elmore get to take center stage.

Plot
Gumball and Darwin are in the the cafeteria, commenting on how they are having a slow day, and that nothing much is happening. Suddenly the Green Bear stands up from the table in the background, and shouts, "Finally!" He starts singing "Just Notice Us." As the song goes on, the entire minor characters join in, and sing along singing how they can finally be noticed. When the song stops, Gumball and Darwin are still shocked from this sudden development.

The first clip takes place in a flashback to the episode "The Sweaters," when Gumball and Darwin are having a tennis match against Carlton and Troy, and Darwin is singing "This is boring." The scene cuts to the audience in the back which becomes the main part of the episode. A guy in a green shirt walks up to a blond guy, his friend, with popcorn and soda. Being cardboard-like, they can't move an inch, so the popcorn spills when the guy in the green shirt gives it to his friend. The blond guy tries to get his change but he gives up, and lets his friend keep it. Once the soda spills after an attempt of giving it to his friend, the guy in the green shirt goes off to get another one.

The second clip takes places at Elmore Hospital, where a hamburger is a patient. The doctor walks up to him, and he asks the doctor what's wrong with him. His answer is, "well your cholesterol is way too high, I recommend you become a veggie burger." A rimshot is heard in response to this joke, but it actually comes from a drum kit patient, who is sick and has a cold. The doctor then says to the drum kit that he'll be attending to him soon.

The third clip takes place at the bus stop. The Shape People say hi to the bus stop sign (which they think is one of them), but the bus stop sign doesn't reply. One of them gets mad at it for ignoring him, and angrily hits the bus stop sign. Then the triangle's friend notices that it is a real bus stop sign.

In the next segment of the story, Hank and his friend (both of them being the construction workers) talk about their other construction worker friend, Steve, and his new haircut. Steve then comes up to them and the two others overreact, thinking his haircut looks bad. After Steve is insulted by their reactions, he leaves them. But his haircut blocks his vision when he turns around, and he falls down.

Exercise Bacon is seen in the next part of the story, walking and singing about how he's bacon. He accidentally bumps into the Eggheads, and the result is a frowning bacon and eggs face. The drum kit person from earlier passes by, and sneezes.

Back in Richwood High, the guy with the green shirt comes back with popcorn. He tries giving it to his friend slowly, but it falls to the ground again. The blonde-haired cardboard-like human tries to bend over to pick up his food, but instead ends up flipping himself upside-down.

A pigeon lands on the Watterson's house's chimney. Suddenly, a colorful bird lands near the other bird, and starts dancing, trying to attract it. The colorful bird stops dancing after the pigeon tells him that he is male. However, the pigeon tells him to keep dancing anyways.

In the next clip, Felicity and her son, Billy, are on the road in her car. Billy repeatedly asks his mother if they are there yet, wherever they are going to go to. Felicity tries her best to be patient, but after Billy asks her to drive faster, she crashes their car into a house. Billy's mother tells him that his father will take care of him while she'll have a "little lie down." On the lawn of the house, she knocks herself unconscious with a shovel.

The next segment of the story takes place in the Chanax Inc. Building. 3D Cube Employee, a Clipboard Man, and Charlie hang out. After 3D Cube Employee asks the Clipboard Man what his job is, the Clipboard Man says he's a financial practitioner contractor. Then he reveals that he doesn't know what it is, and he hates it. The 3D Cube Employee is glad that he isn't the only one, and Charlie also tells them that he first came to use the men's room, and he has never found his way out. They question themselves why they're still working when Karen gives them their payment for their work, reminding them of the reason they're working.

The Senior Citizens have a dance-off. Marvin plays some music, and does some moves. He is followed by the Plaid Old Man, and all of them are wowed by the Elderly Chalkboard Woman doing some moves, and standing up. Then it is Louie's turn. He gets up, and all of them ooh at this. Louie stops them, saying he hasn't done his moves. He does them, and points at a trash bin saying, "You just got served, young man." Marvin says that he is talking to a trash can, and Louie (mistaking Marvin for a magic talking fire hydrant) asks him that he didn't ask for his opinion.

In Richwood High, the guy with the green shirt says to his friend that the tennis ball is coming his way. He doesn't know what to do, and his friend asks him to catch him. The green-shirted guy tries to catch it, but the ball just bounces off of him, and flips him to his side, making him seemingly disappear. After his friend "saves" his life by making him "appear" again, they hug, but their arms get stuck.

In the next clip, a group of prisoners in their cell start humming, and singing a song. One of them snaps his fingers to it. The song goes well until another prisoner plays his harmonica out of tune. The others don't mind, and continue their song.

Gary is seen in Win or Don't Win, waiting to see if he won the prize: a microwave. Shooting Star, the host of the game, announces that he won. Gary becomes so excited, he roars, tears his shirt off, and shouts his thanks at the host repeatedly. The host is happy until Gary hugs him not-too gently, and begins kissing him. The Shooting Star tries to flee, and screams for help. Then the show is cut-off.

Back in Richwood High again, the man with the green shirt complains about his arms getting tired, and the blonde-haired guy remarks that they can't do anything about that. The guy with the green shirt questions this, and after some effort discovers that he can actually move. The other cardboard-like spectators are amazed by this, until they see he is different, and become hostile against him. The guy grabs his still unmoving friend, and flees from the angry crowd.

In the cemetery, a ghost rises, and falls from his grave again and again. Another ghost nearby rises, and asks the first ghost what he's doing. The first ghost says he's working out, and shows him his gut. The other says a joke, and the drum kit passes by, and sneezes.

The guy with the green shirt steals a car, and flees with his friend from the school. His friend is glad that he wasn't left behind, but is blown away by the wind. The guy with the green shirt then says he will never leave him behind, unaware of his friend flying away.

In the cafeteria, the minor characters sing the reprisal of "Just Notice Us." Gumball and Darwin look behind them after the Green Bear asks them to, and they say that there are no more minor characters behind them. The Green Bear says he didn't think about that.

Main Characters

 * The People

Supporting Characters

 * Drum Kit Guy

Minor Characters

 * Gumball
 * Darwin
 * Penny
 * Leslie
 * Carmen
 * Tobias
 * Eggheads
 * Karen
 * Blue Elephant

Trivia

 * The episode was originally titled "The People."
 * This episode is very similar to "The World":
 * Gumball and Darwin are minor characters.
 * It is composed of short skits.
 * A song begins and ends the episode.
 * The lengthy skit of the Pepperonis' love story mirrors the lengthy skit in "The World" of Anais and her Daisy the Donkey doll's heartfelt friendship from when she first got her, both are lengthy and are shown to soft music, but ends in a way which comically ruins the whole heartfelt set-up, and both are the second last skit in the episode before the song which ends the episode.
 * Gumball only has three lines of dialogue throughout the episode and Darwin only has two lines, one of which is during a flashback to "The Sweaters."
 * In the car where Billy asked "Are we there yet mother?" the song playing on the car radio was the same song that Darwin's synchronized swimming group danced to in, "The Club."
 * Darwin's line in "The Sweaters" is redubbed by Terrell Ransom Jr.
 * Two of the ghosts from "Halloween" reappear in this episode.

Continuity

 * This is the first time the Green Bear, the 8-Bit Dog, Fuzzball, the Librarian, the Beanie Bird, the Construction Men, and the rest of the minor characters that don't approach much have had major roles in the series.
 * This is Gumball and Darwin's second minor role. Their first was in "The World."

Cultural References

 * The music that the Senior Citizens dance to sounds similar to "Rockit" by Herbie Hancock.
 * When the Green Bear starts the song by saying "Finally!", it is done similarly to the way Queen starts off their song "We Are The Champions."
 * The background characters bursting into music is a possible reference to High School Musical.

Goofs/Errors

 * Marvin Finklehimer is one of the characters seen in the "Just Notice Us" song, singing that he never got the chance into the spotlight, even though there was an episode with him as a major character.
 * When the crow flies onto the chimney, he is covering more than half of the chimney. After it zooms in, the crow is covering noticeably less. It's possible that the crow did this so the chimney would have enough room for the 2nd bird to land on.
 * When the view of the car changes, the side mirrors disappear.
 * During the song at the end, the Pepperonis are seen in the front. After it zooms in on the Construction Men, they disappear.
 * During the part where the 3D Cube Employee protests about his job, Charlie's tie disappears when he is crying, and reappears as soon as he stops crying.
 * When Gary is hugging Shooting Star, some of the confetti clips through Shooting Star.

Running Gag

 * The Drum Kit Guy walking past people.

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