The Ghost

The Ghost is the 12th segment of Season 1 and the 12th episode of The Amazing World of Gumball. In this episode, Carrie takes advantage of Gumball's body for excessive appetite, forcing him to fight back and stop her from her bad habit.

Plot
The episode starts in the Cafeteria, on a table with (from left to right) Carrie, Gumball, and Darwin, each with trays of food in front of them. Gumball and Darwin are loudly and visibly enjoying their food. Carrie is offended by this, explaining that ghosts can't eat or taste. She demonstrates by putting a lump of food in her mouth, only to have it fall through her body and back onto the plate. She wishes she still had a body to use but, at this point, Darwin tells her that she could use Gumball. Gumball is taken aback by this suggestion but before he could say anything, Carrie had already possessed him. After admiring how she was able to breathe and feel, she finally gobbled the food from Gumball's tray. She was still hungry for more and took off on a wild junk food spree, eating anything she could find. The next morning, Gumball, free of Carrie, was found underneath a pile of leftover food. Richard found him pugy and laugh at him, but realized he was the same as well before crying back home.

Back at school, Gumball lost his appetite, remembering what happened. He finds Carrie with a sandwich she bought from the cafeteria and asks Gumball if she could use his body again (not to mention emphasizing that she could not ask for a refund). Reluctant at first, he agreed for this one small gesture, but soon enough, Carrie's self-indulgence gets the best of her. Gumball finds himself in the same spot, and worst for ware.

Darwin decides to help create a drink from his fishbowl water with Tobias's headband sweat, Miss Simian's dandruff, Gumball's 15-day-old underwear, and Darwin's fish belch. Gumball and Darwin were sure that this disgusting blend would prevent Carrie from possessing Gumball again. At school, however, Carrie is in fact the only one not revolted by the smell. She loved the smell as it reminded her of the undead and made her hungry...

After another possessed eating spree, a fat Gumball asks his dad what he could do. Richard teaches him the skill of weaseling. He asks Gumball what he wanted. When he asked him how to stop Carrie from using his body, he responded that he needed to take some meatloaf out of the oven. Gumball sees him escaping out of the backyard. He figured what to do.

He used the meatloaf excuse on Carrie the next day, saying that he needed to check his locker. When she points it out, he said it was his gym locker. Carrie responds that he doesn't have a gym locker, making him reiterate that it was "Jim the doctor's" locker. He eventually ran out of excuses and gave up.

One more food spree later, he returns home and asks his mom for help. In the living room, Nicole tells him that all he needs to do is say no and mean it. To illustrate, she calls out Richard to bring her a bowl of sausages. When he asked her if he can have one, she says "no" and placed it on his nose. As she leaves the room, Richard is still waiting.

At school the next day, Gumball finally makes his stand and refuses to let Carrie borrow his body. The ghost is shocked to hear this. But it is clear if she can't ask anymore, she would have to simply take over by force. After a moment of binging, Gumball tries to fight back, but he is failing. He begs Darwin to beat Carrie out of him, but the fish points out that he's a "paci-fish". Carrie crashes outside the school and starts pigging out on garbage. At this point, Gumball has finally had enough and points out the ghost's problem to her. Carrie realizes this and finally decides to rid the cat of herself. But a moment later, Darwin arrives walloping Gumball with a trash lid before seeing that he was already free. Seeing Carrie depressed once more, Gumball came up with a solution.

Returning home, he introduced her to his dad, who was still holding the sausage with his nose. Carrie quickly possesses him and chows down on not only the sausage, but the food in the kitchen, with an angry Nicole constantly telling her husband to stop.

Characters

 * Gumball
 * Darwin
 * Nicole
 * Richard
 * Carrie

Minor Characters

 * Rocky Robinson

Cameo Characters

 * Molly
 * Tobias
 * Banana Joe
 * Alan
 * Bobert
 * Leslie
 * Penny
 * Teri
 * Tina
 * Sussie
 * Hot Dog Vendor
 * Hobo Otter
 * Laurence Needlemeyer
 * Donut Policeman
 * William
 * Masami
 * Jamie
 * Anton
 * Idaho
 * Clayton

Music

 * Parody of Prodigy song

Quotes
Darwin: [after Carrie possesses Gumball's body and walks away, causing someone to scream when seeing him] Another happy ending.

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Richard: [to Gumball after Carrie made him eat too much food] Muffin top! [laughs and then stops, realizing he has one too] It's only funny when it's someone elses' body. [runs off crying]

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Gumball: I can't eat a thing after last night. Carrie's got a real problem. She made me eat until I passed out. I cannot let that happen again.

Carrie: Hey, Gumball. [sighs] Feel like helping me eat this sandwich?

Gumball: Eh, sorry, Carrie. I'm not sure I want to do that again.

Carrie: The cafeteria doesn't do refunds, Gumball.

Gumball: [sighs] Okay, but just for this one san - [cuts to possessed Gumball eating a bunch of food, then lying in garbage while moaning when Darwin walks up] 

Darwin: Hey, Gumball!

Gumball: It's happened again, hasn't it?

Darwin: Yep! But I think I have an idea. [inside their kitchen] If Carrie likes going inside your body so much, we should make your insides somewhere she won't like.

Gumball: [suspiciously] How?

Darwin: By drinking this! [sets bowl in sink] Duh duh da duh!

Gumball: Your rancid fishbowl water?

Darwin: And the sweaty juice of Tobias's headband, [squeezes headband juice in bowl] ' a  generous sprinkling Miss Simian's dandruff, [sprinkles in dandruff] fifteen day old underpants -

Gumball: What? Where are you gonna get - [Darwin pulls Gumball's underpants off and drops them in the bowl] Oh.

Darwin: And fizzy fish gas. [sticks straw in bowl and blows, making the concoction sizzle]

Gumball: It's disgusting.

Darwin: It's ghostproof. [offers bowl to Gumball, who takes it, drinks a little, and coughs]

Gumball: [weakly] Finished?

Darwin: Come on, Gumball, you gotta drink it all! [Gumball starts drinking the rest, but Darwin places his hand on the bottom of the glass and tips it further toward Gumball's mouth to make him drink it faster] Nearly there, buddy. [when finished, Gumball burps] Now close you eyes and open wide! Here comes dessert! [Gumball does so reluctantly, but nothing happens] Mmm-mmm-mmm. [Gumball opens his eyes to see Darwin eating an ice cream sundae] This is so good! [Gumball sighs miserably]

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Gumball: Hhhhhhi, Leslie. [blows rancid breath in Leslie's face, which causes her to wilt] Hhhhhhow you doing, Bobert? [blows rancid breath on Bobert, which causes him to malfunction and shut down and Alan, who is nearby, to disinflate] Hhhhhhey, Sussie. Hhhhhow's your hhhhhot chocolate? [Sussie's mouth drops, causing hot chocolate to run down her chin] 

Carrie: Hey, Gumball. [sniffs] Oh, that smell.

Gumball: I know. Hhhhhhhhhhhorrible, isn't it? [blows rancid breath in Carrie's face, who smells it happily]

Carrie: Mmm, I love it. Smells like the undead. Makes me [flips bangs and bares teeth] hungry. [Gumball sighs defeatedly]

Gumball: [at home after gaining a lot of pounds] Eh, heh, eh.

Richard: Hey, son, what's up?

Gumball: [struggling to get on couch] What do you do when someone asks you for something and you, ugh, don't want to do it?

Richard: Well, people ask me to do things all the time, but do ya ever see me doing anything?

Gumball: Not really.

Richard: Exactly! Son, it's time I taught you about weaseling.

Gumball: Weaseling?

Richard: Allow me to demonstrate. Ask me for something.

Gumball: Oh-kay. Can you tell me how to stop Carrie from using my body?

Richard: Well, I'd love to, but I have to go and take the meatloaf that I've been baking out of the oven. [runs into backyard and hops the fence, then sticks his head back over] End of lesson! [disappears again]

Gumball: [at school] Well, I'd love to, Carrie, but, unfortunately, I have to go check on my meatloaf.

Carrie: Your meatloaf?

Gumball: Yeah, I left it in my locker.

Carrie: [hits Gumball's open locker with her elbow] You mean this locker?

Gumball: Uh, n-no. My-my gym locker!

Carrie: You don't have a gym locker.

Gumball: Yes, I-I meant Jim's locker!

Carrie: Who's Jim?

Gumball: He's. . my doctor?

Carrie: You mean your meatloaf is in your doctor's locker here at school?

Gumball: Yeah, it's because we're having Thanksgiving here, oh, whatever you can have my body.

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Trivia

 * This is the first episode to feature first-person mode.
 * When the possessed Gumball goes on an eating rampage, his arms are animated on squiggle vision.
 * The possessed Gumball may have also broken the fourth wall when he eat part of the Donut Policeman, acknowledging that he is made out of food.
 * Despite being a "paci-fish," Darwin violently destroyed a painting in The Painting, though there he might have destroyed the painting to help Gumball.