The Picnic

The Picnic is the 20th episode of The Amazing World of Gumball.

Synopsis
After not listening properly to instructions, Gumball and Darwin must survive a school picnic in the Forest of Doom.

Plot
NOTE: The plot below is based on the preview shown on Cartoon Network's website!

The class has taken a school bus to a rural area, planning to walk the rest of the way to an unnamed picnic area to have a picnic. Miss Simian outlines the route they will take, specifically stating three times to avoid the Forest of Doom. The camera zooms in to Gumball and Darwin, who were sitting in the back having trouble hearing Miss Simian. Gumball mistakenly believes that they are supposed to go through the Forest of Doom. Miss Simian and the rest of the class leave before he can confirm this with her. Gumball and Darwin are left to travel through the Forest of Doom by themselves. Gumball, being a self-proclaimed survival expert, feels confident.

After three warnings that they are going somewhere dangerous (first an evil laughing tree, next squirrels who deviously smile at the plan of eating their deceased carcasses and say that Gumball & Drrwin will never get out alive, lastly the wind telling them twice that they are going the wrong way), they end up at a cliff, lost.

Gumball then attempts to follow Miss Simian's smell, the way a dog would. Using their senses of smell, they pick up a scent similar to Miss Simian's, so they follow it. It turns out to be a stinky outhouse.

Next, they decide to find their way using the stars. Darwin remarks that there are no stars, only the sun. Gumball reminds him that the sun is a star. And so they stare at it for a while to try to find their way. Obviously, it ends up burning their eyes. Their eyes burning from the staring at the sun, the duo starts running and screaming, coincidentally right past Miss Simian and the rest of the class. Miss Simian leads them on as Gumball and Darwin run by. They run into a tree and fall to the floor. Gumball finally admits that they are lost.

Gumball and Darwin sit by the tree. Gumball feels sad at how he isn't as good a survivalist as he thought he was, while Darwin remains optimistic, trying to cheer Gumball up. Darwin then suggests lunch, bringing out his lunchbox full of fish flakes and diet fish flakes, but Gumball throws it away and tells Darwin that they can get much better food out in "nature's supermarket". He explains the structure of food in a silly way:

"Everything is made from little bits. The bits themselves are made from the smallest bits of all: Circles! Circles with other little circles going around them. So, since everything is made from circles, then so is food!"

He demonstrates this concept by attempting to eat a rock. He and Darwin both bite the rock at the same time. Both of their teeth shatter. They decide to try eating something else. Darwin points out a deer, and they plot to kill and eat it. Gumball plans to use his claws as a weapon.

The two of them sneak up to the deer. When they finally reach it, Gumball hesitates, stopped by either his conscience or the creature's smelly behind. He tells Darwin to attack it first. So Darwin "fish slaps" it with his fin. It does nothing but anger the creature, which wasn't a deer, but some hideous, green, quadrapedal chicken. Gumball and Darwin shy away, pretending the slap was a mistake.

Characters

 * Gumball
 * Darwin
 * Leslie
 * Banana Joe
 * Tobias
 * Miss Simian
 * Idaho
 * Penny
 * Clayton
 * The Sun
 * Bobert
 * William
 * Molly
 * Juke
 * Anton
 * Tina
 * Evil Squirrels

Music
Unknown

Trivia/Goofs

 * Near the end of the episode, Darwin eats Gumball's clothes, rendering him naked. But when Gumball pops out of the Trash Can, he has his clothes back.
 * 3rd episode where a character is naked
 * 2nd episode where Gumball is naked, again with his intimate parts censored by pixelation

Quotes
Squirrel 1:They'll NEVER get out of here ALIVE. Squirrel 2: We'll feast on their carcasses. Both:(Hissing evilly)