The Refund

The Refund is the eighteenth episode of The Amazing World of Gumball.

Synopsis
When Gumball and Darwin buy a videogame from Larry and find out it does not work, they attempt to get a refund.

Plot
Gumball and Darwin have waited seven months (long enough for hair to grow on Darwin's legs) to receive a video game, and they have finally received it. Excitedly, the boys open the disk slot on their game system and try to fit in the game, only to find that the game is in a cartridge and will not work with their system. Disappointed, they set off to the video game store to get a refund. Once they arrive at Ripley 2000 (the video game store), they ask Larry for a refund, to which he states that he cannot give no matter how much he wants to. Larry says he is not allowed to give refunds, and his boss is watching him through a security camera. The boys become upset and swear to get the refund out of Larry. They then leave, only to return and nonchalantly ask Larry for a refund, which he refuses to give. The manager calls Larry, where Larry says that he did not give the refund. The next ploy involves Gumball imitating the police using a bullhorn. At first, Larry is intimidated, but then he realizes that the boys are not actually the police and busts them, after telling them that he cannot give a refund. The boys then try to hypnotize Larry, but this proves to be a waste of time after he refuses to give them a refund. After that, the boys try again using sympathy. They pull out a TV and show Larry a video about the "hundreds of children that buy computer games and don't receive refunds", featuring a kid named "Jimmy"(a.k.a. Anais), who lives in a shoebox and a sad song about the children who have wasted their money on bad video games. Larry feels very guilty as a result, but still refuses the boys a refund. Richard says he will handle the problem. He grows a beard and puts on a biker jacket to look intimidating, then goes to the shop to try and intimidate Larry into giving him a refund. When that doesn't work, he places the game on the counter and takes money from the cash register, which calls out the manager. Larry manages to escape, but Richard and the boys are trapped. The shadow on the door shows a frightening, large puffy monster, but the door opens and reveals a small, cute bear as the manager. Richard laughs and makes fun of him, and asks for a refund, which causes the bear to attack him by biting him and crawling on him. Gumball and Darwin freeze, laughing at Richard, before they dash into the manager's office. Richard is losing the fight when Gumball and Darwin come out of the office with a security tape, which they blackmail the bear with. Suddenly, appearing to be in a nicer mood, the bear offers the three a 1% discount on a game system for the game (which the three find a bargain). The game system is purchased and taken home. Only for the three to find that the manager had ripped them off (swindled) with a shredder. At the end of the episode Richard is seen growing back his beard, and putting his costume back on, going back for revenge and beat up the tyrant.

Characters

 * Gumball
 * Darwin
 * Laurence Needlemeyer
 * Ripley 2000 Manager
 * Richard Watterson

Cameo Characters

 * Nicole (mentioned when Richard wrote her name in his tattoo)
 * Anais (as Little Jimmy)

Music

 * Refund the World
 * Bad to the Bone by George Throrogood and the Destroyers

Trivia

 * Darwin wears the same mustache he wore in The DVD for Gumball's video.
 * Anais has her Daizy the Donkey toy back to help get Darwin and Gumball's money back.
 * This is the second time Gumball and Darwin have made a video for Larry in order to trick him. The first time was in The DVD.
 * The song that Gumball and Darwin sing during their video "Refund the World" is a parody of the famous charity song "We are the World."
 * The game brought by Gumball and Darwin resembles a Super Nintendo game cartridge.
 * This is the second time where multiple clips of an episode were viewable on Cartoon Network's website.
 * The plot of this episode is similar to the Regular Show episode "But I Have A Reciept" as both duos want a refund to a cheesy video game, but the manager refuses to give them a refund.
 * The song that plays when Richard puts on the vest and grows the mustache and sideburns is "Bad to the Bone" by George Throrogood and the Destroyers.
 * When Larry slides under the closing door and grabs his hat at the last minute, it is a homage to Indiana Jones.
 * Richard had a game system in the episode, The GI, that played cartridge games so this leaves why Gumball and Darwin would need a refund in the first place. Though the console may have be damaged.Or flooded, or it could be a completely different console.
 * The game console in the episode was possibly a "slimline" version of the system Tobias had in The Third.
 * Goof: Darwin said he wanted so long that he had time to grow hair, but in the next scene, all of his hair is gone.

Quotes
Larry: "Uuuh...uh..." Gumball: "Now put your hands on the cash register and take out twenty dollars!" Larry: [opening the cash register] Gumball: "Now go outside and swap 'em for this computer game!" Larry: [suspicious] "...hey! What kind of police are you?" Gumball: [obviously lying] "The super-real police! Guh, refund department...of justice!" Larry: "Nice try, kids!" Gumball: "Darn!" [drops the bullhorn]
 * Gumball: [using a bullhorn] "This is the police! You are surrounded! Put your hands right where I can see them!"

Darwin: "Why's it called 2000 anyways? It's not like it's the future anymore!"
 * Gumball: "Ripley 2000, more like Rip-Off 2000!"


 * Gumball: "We will get a refund!"

Gumball: "What?! You have to. We asked you a ton of questions before we bought it, remember?" [Flashback, all the characters are talking at a faster pace] Gumball: "What's bigger, a lion or a tiger?" Larry: "A tiger." Gumball: "Why is the sky blue?" Larry: "Diffraction of light through nitrogen." Darwin: "Can anything escape from a black hole?" Larry: "Not unless it's a superheated quasar." Gumball: "What is 2,352 x 1,035?" Larry: "2,434,320." Gumball: "If you know all this stuff, how come you're a store clerk?" Larry: "Look, you want this game or not?" Gumball: "We'll take it." [End flashback] Larry: "Actually, you never asked me anything about the game."
 * Larry: "I'm sorry, kids, but it's store policy. I can't give you a refund!"