The Phone

The Phone is the seventh episode of season two of The Amazing World of Gumball.

Synopsis
Darwin becomes addicted to Gumball's new cell phone.

Plot
The episode begins with Gumball and Darwin at home. Gumball is destroying several household items with a golf club as he assumes he'll never need them again thanks to his new phone. Darwin doesn't see the point of owning a cellphone, as Gumball wonders how he ever lived without it. The phone is an old fashioned brick, but Gumball doesn't seem to care.

At the bus stop Darwin gives Ocho the phone number, but Gumball believes Ocho to be nuts and warns Darwin about giving his phone number out to random people. At school Gumball waits for his phone to ring, after recieving no calls he gives up and hands the phone over to Darwin who gets a call from Ocho instantly.

After school Gumball and Darwin reach the final boss of a Space Invader style video game and attempt a combo breaker to beat the game. The phone begins to ring and Darwin loses his concentration, he answers the phone causing an angry Gumball to lose the game.

The following morning Darwin gets his phone confiscated by Mr. Small in the library and begs Gumball to sneak into his office to get it. Gumball reluctantly sneaks into Mr. Small's office to retrieve the phone, but the curtains set on fire due to a knocked candle. Gumball extinguishes the flames with no help as Darwin won't take his eyes off the phone.

At home Gumball confronts Darwin about his addiction and unknowingly offends Ocho on the other line. As he trys to make amends he makes the problem worse by accidentally offending his mom in a text message. The two try to run away but Ocho has already arrived outside the house. Ocho fights the two Space Invaders style by dropping bombs on them. Ocho blows Darwin to pieces only for him to come back as he had two more lives left.Gumball and Darwin try to reflect with trash can lids Ocho's bombs back at him but when finally hit him Darwin reacts and left his trash can shield on his left side leading one of Ocho's bombs to vaporize Gumball leving him with two lives left.When Gumball respawns again he argues with Darwin why he made him lose a life but they were distracted, so Ocho's bombs hit both of them so they are both left with one life.Soon after they got left with one life they attempt to hide in a lawn so they dicide to call the cops but Gumball drops the phone by accident but Ocho destroys the phone causing Darwin to fight back.Gumball and Darwin try to attempt a combo breaker on Ocho as they did in the game. It misses but Ocho's Mother appears to calm Ocho down and take him home. Gumball and Darwin spend the rest of the day repairing the damages caused to the house by Ocho, but it's clear Darwin still isn't over his addiction.

Characters

 * Gumball
 * Darwin
 * Ocho

Minor Characters

 * Bobert
 * Ocho's Mother
 * Mr. Small
 * Teri
 * Carmen
 * Penny
 * Tobias

Gallery


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

Trivia

 * This is the first time Ocho ever speaks.
 * "01110000011011110110111101110000" does indeed spell "poop" in binary code.
 * The game that Gumball and Darwin play is a reference to "Space Invaders", the classic 8-bit arcade game.
 * This is the second major appearence of Ocho, the first was in The Club.
 * Darwin's phone seems to resemble early cell phone models, particularly Motorola's DynaTAC series, which were often nicknamed "brick phones" due to their size and weight.
 * Goof:On the box it is spelled "brik phone" even though the correct term is "brick phone"