The Flower

The Flower is the fifth episode of season two of The Amazing World of Gumball.

Synopsis
Gumball gets jealous when he sees Leslie with Penny.

Plot
It's lunchtime, and as usual, Gumball goes to the cheerleader practice to gawk at Penny while he eats his lunch. In his mind, it's a sunny day, and Penny blows him a kiss as she does aerial flips, while he cheers like a maniac. In reality, however, it's pouring rain, and Gumball just cheered Penny on for painfully failing, earning him scorn from Leslie and the other cheerleaders. Leslie walks Penny off and gives her a warm hug, causing the Jealousy in Gumball to intervene. Jealousy assumes direct control of Gumball's body and angrily races off towards Leslie, blowing through many obstacles along the way. Unfortunately, he uses too much of his energy on the obstacles, causing him to harmlessly pass out once he reaches him. Leslie and Penny walk off without noticing him.

In the cafeteria, Gumball spies on Leslie and Penny. Jealousy once again overtakes Gumball, causing him to scornfully mock Leslie, and eventually charge in to beat him up, but Leslie easily brushes him aside and once again walks away with Penny. Gumball begins to get mad at Jealousy. He starts fighting back against his control, but Jealousy is too powerful. Gumball ends up getting knocked out by his own limbs.

With Gumball knocked out, Jealousy gained uncontested control over the body. He attempts to frame Leslie for the theft of a trophy, but he doesn't do a very good job. Apparently, he smashed open the trophy case, took a trophy, pried open Leslie's locker with a crowbar, and placed the stolen trophy inside, but many things went wrong with this operation. First of all, he left a trail of glass behind him; second, Leslie's locker was already pried open when he dragged everyone there; and third, inside his own locker was herbicides, vandalized pictures of Leslie, and a crowbar. Upon being caught, Jealousy gives a dazed Gumball his body back, leaving him to take the fall. Everyone involved gets called into Principal Brown's office.

At the office, Gumball attempts to apologize to Leslie, but is interrupted by Jealousy, who spews a long string of insults at Leslie. Gumball believing he's going to prison, sadly resigns to his fate, but Principal Brown notifies him that he won't be incarcerated. Upon hearing this, an ecstatic Jealousy repossesses Gumball and attempts to flee to Mexico, but his plan is foiled by his inability to open the door. He repeatedly runs into it until knocking himself out. Gumball, lying knocked out on the ground, agrees to attempt to patch things up with Leslie.

He decides to take Leslie out on a walk in the park. The trip starts out friendly, but turned out to be a trap set by Jealousy. Gumball benignly offers Leslie a seat on a shady bench, which Leslie gingerly accepts. This is where the trap starts - Leslie sat on superglue, and Gumball pulls a string, unleashing snails and other herbivorous insects upon him. Gumball, after a few mildly clever remarks, leaves Leslie to die.

The next day at school, Penny and Darwin remark on how nice it is that Gumball and Leslie are getting along. The pleasantness is interrupted, however, when a naked and partially eaten Leslie walks in and calls Gumball insane. Penny immediately rushes to his side, causing Gumball to become completely overtaken by Jealousy. Gumball, with no traces of his former self visible, pounces on Leslie and brutally rips his petals off one by one. Darwin rushes over and, with Penny's help, restrains a feral Gumball from hurting Leslie further. By then, everyone notices that Gumball is not himself. Carrie comes up with a plan, and leads them all to her house.

Carrie rightfully believes that Gumball is possessed by Jealousy, and calls everyone to her room to perform an exorcism. They put Gumball in the center of a circle of candles and occult markings while chanting "Jealousy be gone..." repeatedly. It works, and the Jealousy is expelled from Gumball's body, taking the form of a lumpy green ball of ectoplasm. Penny steps into the circle to try to help Gumball, but doing so causes the protection ward to break, releasing Jealousy from his prison. He immediately wreaks havoc on the room, trashing anything and everything that he is jealous about. Eventually, he decides that if he can't have Gumball, then nobody can, and prepares to blow himself up. The only way he can be eliminated is if Gumball stops being jealous of Leslie. Gumball says that's impossible as long as Penny dates Leslie, to which Penny responds that they're not dating; they're cousins. Now that Gumball is no longer jealous of Leslie, Jealousy disappears. The five of them lie exhausted amidst a pile of Carrie's stuff. Then Carrie makes the mistake of giving Gumball a friendly punch in the arm, causing Jealousy to possess Penny. The episode ends with everyone saying "Wow."

Characters

 * Gumball
 * Darwin
 * Leslie
 * Penny
 * Carrie

Minor Characters

 * Jealousy
 * Carmen
 * Teri
 * Tobias
 * Bobert
 * Jamie
 * Rocky
 * Principal Brown

Gallery


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

Trivia

 * First major role of Leslie.
 * Second major role of Carrie. The first was in "The Ghost".
 * It is revealed that Penny and Leslie are cousins.
 * A scene where Penny sees the "distant Gumball" as he approaches is similar to a scene regarding a farsighted guard from the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
 * When Gumball tries to kick Leslie in midair, he yells out "Hadouken!", a reference to Street Fighter.
 * This was the first episode where Leslie is seen naked.
 * This was the first time that Carrie's house is seen.
 * The circle of pepper used to isolate Jealousy during the exorcism is a reference to putting down a ring of salt. In some beliefs a ring of salt is used as a protective barrier against demons and other spirits.
 * When Carrie yells, "And it must be expelled!" her voice sounds slightly more polytonous than usual.
 * This was the second time that a spirit possessed Gumball, the first time was in The Ghost.
 * This is the third time Gumball changes color. The first time was in "The Ghost", then in "The Party".
 * Leslie's anti-vegitarian campaign poster advertises a website, www.elmoreveggieconcerns.com, which currently does not exist.
 * When jealous Gumball is running through the football track, Bobert is seen running along with other students in the rain. However, in "The Robot", Bobert shorts out when wet.
 * The part where Carrie, Penny, Darwin and Leslie try to exorcise Jealousy out of Gumball is similar to the scene in the 1973 movie "The Exorcist".
 * First time and so far the only time Penny had been possessed by a spirit.
 * Error: When Leslie said, "Well, someone founded entertaining," one of the frames in the shot just shows the background, but no characters.