The Inquisition

"The Inquisition" is the forty-fourth and final episode of Season 6 of The Amazing World of Gumball. It is the 240th and final episode overall.

Synopsis
The students of Elmore Junior High find their world turned upside down when the mysterious school superintendent comes to stamp out their cartoonish ways.

Plot
The episode begins with Principal Brown running through the halls of Elmore Junior High in a panic. He rushes into the teachers' lounge and warns the other teachers that the school superintendent is coming to Elmore Junior High. In the auditorium, the students and teachers listen to a speech given by the superintendent, a live-action human named Superintendent Evil, who declares his intention to eliminate the cartoonish and nonsensical elements of their school.

In class, Gumball and Darwin discuss Evil's modifications to their school, including Teri's face being blank and Alan being forced to have a body. Masami then bursts into the room as a cartoon human, telling Gumball and Darwin that they're next. Gumball and Darwin flee in horror, running into several of their classmates who have been turned into cartoon humans, including Tobias, Tina, and Sussie. The duo are backed into Evil's room, where he is using machines to transform Rocky and Juke into humans. Evil remarks that he is "fixing" them and that their transformation is nearly complete; Masami, who is inside a machine, slowly transforms as her cartoon eyes disappear to reveal live-action ones.

Gumball and Darwin flee by using their world's cartoon logic to evade capture, but then resolve to save their friends, and reenter the school. They are able to return their classmates to their original forms using various zany antics, including singing with Banana Joe, goofing off with Sussie, and Gumball kissing Sarah (whom he mistook for Penny). With all of their friends and teachers restored, Gumball and Darwin are confronted by Evil, who initially prepares to fight them, but flees in fear. Banana Joe uses his banana peel to cause Evil to slip and fall at the end of the hallway.

The students and teachers approach Evil and find his face deformed; they pull off his mask, revealing to their shock that he is Rob in disguise. Rob attempts to justify his actions, warning them of an undisclosed event about to befall Elmore, and tells them that they can choose to either live in ignorance of what is about to happen or listen to him. However, before he can finish explaining, Tina uses her tail to knock him unconscious, and the show's distorted credits music play.

At night, Rob awakens in the school and angrily questions why the others didn't listen to him, saying that he was trying to save them and that transformation was their only hope of escaping to "the other place." At that moment, the ground suddenly begins to collapse, revealing the Void. Rob, horrified, holds on for his life, but loses his grip, remarking at the last second that "it's started." The floor disappears and Rob falls into the void screaming; the screen freeze-frames on him as the credits' first notes play, ending the episode and the series.

Main Characters

 * Gumball
 * Darwin
 * Rob (Superintendent Evil)

Minor Characters

 * Principal Brown
 * Rocky
 * Miss Simian
 * Mr. Small
 * Mr. Corneille
 * Coach Russo
 * Tree Librarian
 * Anais
 * Penny
 * Masami
 * Carrie
 * Banana Joe
 * Tobias
 * William
 * Ocho
 * Tina
 * Sussie
 * Idaho
 * Anton
 * Leslie
 * Teri
 * Bobert
 * Clayton
 * Alan
 * Carmen
 * Colin and Felix
 * Sarah
 * Juke
 * Hector
 * Molly
 * Hot Dog Guy
 * Green Bear
 * 8-Bit Dog
 * Julius
 * Mowdown
 * Scythe
 * Clare
 * Jared
 * The Moon

Trivia

 * This episode is the series finale of The Amazing World of Gumball.
 * This episode is the longest of the series with 12 minutes and 12 seconds. All other episodes last 11 minutes and 36 seconds.
 * This episode marks the only time a live action human being appears in person, even though it was just a disguise by Rob.
 * This is the first and only episode of season 6 in which Sussie and Molly physically appear.
 * Jamie is the only student in Miss Simian's classroom that does not appear at all in this episode.
 * Gumball and darwin have been turned into a human in The Nuisance but not in this episode.
 * Anias doe not apear in this episode.

Continuity

 * Rob sports the pig's tail Banana Barbara had painted on him in "The Future." He also tries to warn the same future events he was trying to fix in the same episode.
 * The last shot of Rob falling into the Void mimicks the exact pose as Banana Barbara's painting of him in that episode, as well as a shot of Superintendent Evil seen in the garage.
 * This is the eighth time Penny shapeshifts. The first seven were "The Shell," "The Bros," "The Mirror," "The Romantic," "The Blame," "The Transformation" and "The Mess."
 * This is the fourth time Penny shapeshifts into her dragon form. The first three was "The Shell," "The Romantic" and "The Transformation."
 * 15 people have been seen transformed into humans throughout this episode. These people are Masami, Tina, Tobias, Sussie, Juke, Rocky, Ocho, Banana Joe, Sarah, Penny, Leslie, Mr. Small, Anton, Bobert and Idaho.
 * The way Gumball turns Banana Joe back to himself is a reference to "The Singing."
 * The way Darwin turns Sussie back to normal is a reference to "The Weirdo."
 * This is the second time Gumball has accidentally kissed Sarah. The first time was in "The Disaster."

Cultural References

 * When Gumball rescues Banana Joe, the song that plays during it is Beethoven's Fifth Symphony; with a slight twinge of Walter Murphy's disco cover, "A Fifth of Beethoven".

Goofs/Errors

 * When we see the school at night, the three front doors are all red, when they usually are orange, blue, and pink.