The Job

The Job is the eighth episode of season two of The Amazing World of Gumball.

Synopsis
Richard gets his first job as a pizza delivery guy but the universe begins getting torn apart as a result.

Plot
The episode starts in the front lawn with a passed out Nicole,being slapped awake by Anais. She passed out at the news of Richard getting a job as a pizza delivery guy. Nicole uneasily walks back to the house, assisted by Anais, feeling that something is wrong. Before leaving, she tells the boys to watch over Richard. They nod their heads, and satisfied, she leaves. The boys express their surprise at Richard getting a job, and Richard cheerfully explains that he called a number to order a pizza, but it turned out to be a job application, and he got accepted. Then he lets them know the best part of the job: free pizza. His method of getting "free" pizza is by eating parts of the pizzas he's supposed to deliver. After drooling a bit, he decides to get to work, driving off like a madman and dropping all but one of the pizzas he's supposed to deliver. Gumball and Darwin notice this, and decide to deliver the pizzas he dropped.

Back in the house, Nicole can't seem to shake the feeling that Richard getting a job is a bad thing. Anais comforts her, saying that the additional income will help a lot. She uses a family picture to point out the fact that they've been wearing the same clothes for a year, that Nicole, Richard, and Gumball don't have shoes, and Darwin has been walking around pantsless. Nicole sighs in defeat, but notices something wrong with the picture: a huge crack where her husband is pointing on the stone model of the earth, and his red eyes. Anais reassures her that nothing will go wrong, but then they hear ominous music.

In the meantime, Gumball and Darwin have arrived at the first house - the Pepperonis at 438 Elm Street. They turn out to be two married pizzas, and the pizza they ordered is their baby. They gush over the new member of their family while the male pizza gives Gumball $20. Unfortunately, as Gumball reaches for the money, the pizza falls to the ground. Gruesomely, it slithers down the steps, leaving behind a blood-red trail of pizza sauce. The Pepperoni's are flabbergasted, and a panicked Gumball drops the empty pizza box and hands them a different one. Then they slowly walk down the stairs, taking off in a run once they got down but not before smashing the dead pizza baby's face into the pavement.

Richard, meanwhile, is singing a rap about his new job. He trips, and as he stumbles around on his vehicle, he leaves behind a trail of distorted reality.

The scene cuts back to Gumball and Darwin, who have fleed all the way to their next delivery stop, Mr. Small's house. Unfortunately, the second pizza they gave to the Pepperoni's was the one meant for Mr. Small. Gumball decides to improvise, cramming grass and dirt into a pizza shape and putting it into the box. Darwin notes that it doesn't look convincing, prompting Gumball to take a piece of gum off the pavement and appetizingly spread it on the pizza. As Gumball finishes, a starved Mr. Small pops out, and after explaining why he was starved, he tears into the pizza like a maniac. After a few monstrous bites, he stops, twitches, and faints. Darwin believes him to have stopped breathing, but it was only because of the bubblegum he had to blow out. Darwin, relieved, asks him for payment.

Back at the house, Nicole is filling a mug with tap water. As Richard passes by them, though, the water defies gravity by falling up to the ceiling. Nicole panics and turns the water off as Anais walks in. Nicole tries to show Anais the gravity-defying water, but as Richard is long gone, the water returns to normal. Anais decides to tease her mother, talking about how running water didn't exist when her mother was a kid. Nicole shrugs it off and solidifies her belief that Richard having a job is a bad thing, prompting Anais to take her coffee mug away. This small action causes Nicole to snap, exclaiming that she's not hysterical.

The final pizza that Gumball and Darwin need to deliver is to the Bananas. Banana Bob answers the door and begins chanting pizza repeatedly. He is soon joined by his wife and son, as Gumball and Darwin uncomfortably watch. Then Richard zooms by, distorting reality once again by putting the family in a continuous loop. Gumball and Darwin, not realizing this, believes the Bananas are just crazy. Gumball decides to tease them, asking a bunch of questions where pizza is the answer. Finally, tired of watching bananas dance around, they leave the pizza in the house and close the door. Gumball takes one last peek at them through the mail slot and sees them still chanting, but in slow motion. He dismisses it as the family's regular creepiness.

Meanwhile, Anais is trying to calm Nicole down because she thinks that Richard having a job upsets the balance of the universe and that it also upsets the balance of her power, because she is a little bit of a control freak. Nicole says that she does not know anymore. Gumball and Darwin enter the house and tell her that they delivered the pizzas to their houses and nothing went wrong. Nicole then turns on the TV and sees a breaking news report that it has been night all day at Food 'n' Stuff, and it was supposed to be noon, it has been snowing somewhere else in Elmore, and the old lizard woman says that it is supposed to be June, and that the red elder is floating, and he is supposed to be on the ground. Nicole tells them that this is because of their father and that me must be fired.

The family are driving with Larry Needlemeyer so he can fire him, although he says that tearing apart the fabric of the universe is not a dismissable offense. Richard then speeds towards his destination and further distorts reality by pushing an accelarator and turning day into night and the sun into a moon and making cars float and Mr. Robinson drop. His family realizes that they are getting close to him. They do so, but Anais warns them that they have to be careful, because the closer they are to him, the more warped the universe becomes. Richard pushes the accelarator many times and converts the family into many versions of themselves and arrive at his destination. And soon see a massive ray of light suck everything.

As Richard is slowly getting to the house, the family exits the car just in time, because a cloud turned heavy and crushed the car. He rings the doorbell and the ray of light is even brighter, and as the family tries to warn him, Nicole is turned into a puddle and the others into many more variations of themselves. The customer was about to take the pizza when he presented it and Larry finds out that Richard has been eating from the pizzas from the middle and is fired. All the universal damage is undone and everything is returned to normal in Elmore.

Richard is without the helmet and the family still likes him even without a job, and then he says he will get a new one and lightning strikes his finger.

Characters

 * Richard
 * Gumball
 * Darwin
 * Nicole
 * Anais
 * Larry

Minor Characters

 * Purple Moose
 * Mr. Small's Dog
 * The Pepperonis
 * Mr. Small
 * Banana Bob
 * Banana Barbara
 * Banana Joe
 * Pantsbully
 * Lizard Woman
 * Bert
 * The Old Men
 * Gaylord Robinson
 * Newspaper Employee
 * Principal Brown

Gallery


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

Trivia

 * This episode makes several references to the 1976 horror film The Omen, most notably with the strange things that occur as Richard does his pizza delivery and the heavy usage of choral music to signify the catastrophes he brings without realizing them.
 * Mr. Small mentions a 'Tibetian diet where you're supposed to eat nothing but sunlight', which may be a nod to the recent news story about a woman who tried something similar.
 * Gumball may technically be 'bald' because in the episode, "The End", and when he was turned into a girl, he had blonde hair. The same goes for Darwin.
 * Mr. Small complains about the weather being cloudy, but in this episode, it is very sunny outside.
 * Anais mentions that the family wears the same clothes all the time, as well as Nicole, Gumball and Richard not wearing shoes. She also mentions that Darwin does not wear any pants.

In The Painting Richard was supposed to get a job. Nicole didn't seem surprised. This is probley because she knew that Richard would fail.