The Nuisance

"The Nuisance" is the thirty-sixth episode of Season 5 of The Amazing World of Gumball. It is the 192nd episode overall.

Synopsis
The Wattersons fear the worst when they are summoned to a Town Hall meeting, but are surprised when they're offered a new house - until they discover it's in a different state.

Plot
The episode begins with the Wattersons looking at many files. Nicole receives a summon to the Town Hall by the Mayor of Elmore, which shocks the whole family.

At Town Hall, the citizens of Elmore are chanting “Go, Wattersons, go!”, which Richard waves nervously to. The Mayor offers the Wattersons a new house, but it turns out that the Mayor was protecting the citizens from the Wattersons, which the latter explains as the citizens angrily trying to kick the Wattersons out of Elmore.

Back at home, the family is shocked that their new house is in a different state. In order to stay in Elmore, they decide to become model citizens. They help Marvin move a grandfather clock, but they’re actually end up dropping the clock onto the ground. At school, Anais helps Jared answer a question by forming herself with letters to spell the word “Shakespeare,” which annoys Mr. Corneille.

The Wattersons succeed in becoming model citizens, but suddenly they turn into human characters, and Darwin turns into a dog. They receive a call from the mayor to come to his office. At the mayor’s office, it turns out the main reason why he wants to get rid of the Wattersons is that he wants to sell Elmore, which disappoints the family. On the way home, they turn back into their original anthromorphic forms. They then decides to sabotage the sale by turning Elmore into a disaster area.

Gumball and Darwin destroy a house with termites, while Mr. Small acts like a dog and bites Martin in the butt. Richard plants radiation liquid in Harold’s front yard, which turns him into a mutated caterpillar. The boys attempt to break a window, but no avail. Cartax wrecks the street with daggared rocks. Darwin destroys a house’s grass and tree with weed killer. On the sidewalk, Anais draws a dead person, lays an axe down on the ground, and whistles as she walks away. Nicole takes a wheel off a car and passes it to Richard. He tosses it into a burning tire pile, making the Sun cough, Mrs. Jötunheim fall to the ground, and himself pass out. In an alley, Gumball convinces Sal Left Thumb to mug people in the neighborhood with a bat, which he beats him up with and mugs his wallet from him. With a finishing touch, Nicole drops a match on a trail of oil, setting it on fire and destroying several houses in the process.

The next day at Town Hall, which is also damaged, the mayor is displeased that the Wattersons scared the rich people away, but Gumball declares that Elmore is not for sale. The mayor then realizes the lesson of all this is more valuable than money. However, he then laughs constantly, which annoys Nicole, declaring that the decent and honest people of Elmore will thank them for saving the city. Unfortunately, the whole Watterson family gets punished by the angry citizens, pelting them with tomatoes, ending the episode.

Main Characters

 * Gumball
 * Darwin
 * Anais
 * Nicole
 * Richard

Supporting Characters

 * Mayor of Elmore

Minor Characters

 * Marvin
 * Sal Left Thumb
 * Harold
 * Jackie
 * Hot Dog Guy
 * Gary
 * Jeff
 * Susan
 * Shape People
 * Cowboy
 * Mr. Pepperoni
 * Siciliana
 * Felicity
 * Mr. Poop
 * Principal Brown
 * Mrs. Fitzgerald
 * Patrick
 * Hexagon Lady
 * Martin
 * Cupcake Woman
 * Human
 * Doughnut Sheriff
 * Coffee Cop
 * Betty
 * Donald
 * Tobias
 * Rotten Cupcake
 * Juke
 * Mr. Corneille
 * Pixel Octopus
 * Gorilla
 * Bulldog
 * Clare
 * Mole
 * Mike
 * Tree Woman
 * Mr. Small
 * The Sun
 * Pigeon
 * Mrs. Jötunheim

Trivia

 * One of the art pieces that Gumball vandalizes has "Mic Graves" written on it.
 * Gumball mentions adding bath salts to the town's water supply. Bath salts is a term used in North America and Europe to describe a number of recreational designer drugs.
 * The man responsible for the Miami cannibal attack was believed to be on bath drugs, and was referenced by Mr. Small attacking and biting Martin Peaches.

Continuity

 * This is the seventh time Elmore is devastated. The first was in "The Microwave," the second was in "The Colossus," the third was in "The Job," the fourth was in "The Finale," the fifth was in "The Pizza" and the sixth was in "The Nest."
 * This is the fourth time the Elmore citizens turn against the Wattersons. The other three were "The Finale," "The Gripes," and "The Pizza."
 * The suitcase used in "The Heist" reappears near the dumpsters at the Elmore Mall.
 * An image in Marvin's room shows him blinged-out as he appears in Gumball's imagination from "The Crew."

Cultural References

 * The mayor of Elmore bears a resemblance to 45th U.S. president Donald Trump.
 * Among the art exhibitions Gumball has inadvertently vandalized are Fountain by Marcel Duchamp, Sunflower Seeds by Ai Weiwei, and Tourists II by Duane Hanson. Other works in the exhibition spoof Jackson Pollock and Damien Hirst.
 * The appearances of the Wattersons as model citizens are based off Ben Bocquelet's family, excluding Darwin, whose transformation is a parody of the 1981 film An American Werewolf in London.