The Signal

"The Signal" is the twenty-fourth episode of Season 4 of The Amazing World of Gumball. It is the 140th episode overall.

Synopsis
Gumball develops a strange stutter, and it makes him accidentally offend Darwin.

Plot
The episode begins at the Elmore Mall, with Gumball and Darwin. Darwin tries on new hats, but when Gumball was about to tell him he looks great, he begins to glitch. Gumball tries again to talk to Darwin again, but he continues to glitch. When Darwin tries on a small beanie, he asks Gumball if the beanie makes it look like he has a fat head, Gumball starts glitching again. Darwin, thinking that Gumball offended him on purpose, storms off on his way home. Gumball tries to catch up with him, but the scene glitches out.

The next scene shows a No Signal message on the TV at home, with a panicked Richard trying to fix it. Gumball arrives home and asks his dad where Darwin is. Richard moves the sofa into the kitchen. Darwin was exercising, and Gumball talks to him, but glitches again, injuring Darwin by accident.

In the bathroom, Darwin gets mad, but Gumball cheers him up by tickling him. When Darwin smiles, he glitches and looks like he was melting, nauseating Gumball. And also when Darwin was going to give Gumball a hug, he glitches again showing human eyes replacing his regular eyes, nauseating Gumball again. Darwin storms out of Bathroom.

In his room, Gumball types a sorry message to Darwin, but Darwin gets mad at Gumball again, not knowing Gumball keeps glitching and slams the door in his face.

In the living room, Gumball keeps trying to apologize to Darwin, but the scene jumps to them fighting. Richard then pretends to glitch. Now that they stopped fighting Richard takes them to buy "them" an ice cream. In the car, Richard tries to cheer the boys up by playing a game. Darwin sarcastically said they could play a game about what offensive thing Gumball will say next. Richard makes up very funny insults which causes the boys to make up. The scene then jumps to a gas station.

At the gas station, Richard fills the car with gas, but the scene jumps to the car running away on the highway on its own with Gumball and Darwin still in the car, leaving Richard behind, who is glitching for real.

The car goes through many obstacle courses due to several glitches and crashes into Joyful Burger. The car slows down and stops to a telephone at the parking lot near Elmore Mall, but another glitch made the car go faster back into Elmore Mall and back to the TVs from the beginning of the episode, almost crashing into Larry. Now Gumball and Darwin come to the conclusion that they're in a TV show, but the next scene unexpectedly jumps to the whole family at the table, with Richard saying that Gumball and Darwin made up. He, Anais and Nicole laugh before the episode glitches one last time, ending the episode abruptly.

Main Characters

 * Gumball
 * Darwin

Supporting Characters

 * Richard

Minor Characters

 * Harold
 * Marvin
 * Cowboy
 * Gary
 * Steve
 * Patrick
 * Susan
 * Pantsbully
 * Blue Elephant
 * Jackie
 * Crocodile Woman
 * Neck Beard
 * Brown Oval
 * Larry
 * Anais
 * Nicole

Trivia

 * This episode was released on the Cartoon Network App and Video on Demand before it aired on TV on January 29, 2016.
 * It also premiered in the UK before the US.
 * Unlike most title cards in the series, this title card glitches.
 * Mic Graves can be seen below Gumball.
 * Jack Dingle, production accountant of the series, has his name shown in the logo.
 * Guillaume Cassuto can be seen through Darwin.

Continuity

 * A Pony's Tail, first seen in "The Pony," makes its second appearance.
 * Gumball echos Darwin's line, "When you cry, I cry," which was spoken in "The Robot" and "The Tape."
 * Music from "The Void" is reused.
 * Footage from "The Uploads" is reused.
 * La Casa De Las Lagrimas and Win or Don't Win can be heard from Richard while glitching.

Cultural References

 * TBA