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Waiting for Dad

[The Episode begins with the Watterson children sitting right outside of Elmore Junior High.]

Gumball: I’m just saying, why do people say grapefruit and tunafish but not eggchicken or beefmammal?

Darwin: [wailing] Come on Mr. Dad, when we said come pick us up after school we didn’t mean after graduation!

[Richard arrives on screen and dismounts his horse.]

Richard: GET ON THE HORSE!!

Gumball, Darwin and Anais: WHAT!?

Richard: [Jumps off horse] NO TIME TO EXPLAIN!!

[The children get on the horse and Richard slaps it’s behind, causing it to run.]

Meet Wunderklopp!

[The scene begins with the Wattersons looking out of their backgarden.]

Nicole: Let me guess: You saw it, had to have it and tried to let the kids take the fall for it.

Nicole: [face slaps] What is it called?

Richard: Wunderklopp.

[The screen cuts to Wunderklopp, who snorts, then neighs.]

Nicole: [sighs and face slaps] It’s okay. I’ve found a buyer to take him off our hands.

Anais: Wait. How can you already have a buyer for a horse Dad just brought home?

Nicole: Oh, sweetie, do you really think I didn't expect your father to buy a horse at some point in our marriage? The problem is the guy can't buy it before the first of next month, so short of having Wunderklopp for breakfast, [Wunderklopp neighs] I'm open to suggestions on how we're gonna survive until then.

Gumball, Darwin, Anais, and Richard: Hmmmmm....

Gumball: I guess we're gonna have to tap into the money you saved for me to go to college.

[Anais, Darwin, Richard, and Nicole all laugh at Gumball, who is annoyed at this.] What?

Anais: [Wipes away a tear] I don't know what's the funniest: the fact you think you've got a trust fund or the fact you think you'll make it to college!

Gumball: Well, you guys come up with a solution, then.

Richard: [Inhales sharply as mafia-style music plays.] I said I would never go back to that life. That it was all behind me. Sadly, the time has come for me to call... Don Luciano. [He dials the phone. A hairy hand with many engraved rings picks it up on the other side. It suddenly is revealed that Don Luciano is the owner of a pizzeria]

Don Luciano: Don Luciano Pizza!

Nicole: Richard, no! One of their pizzas might have enough calories to keep us alive for two weeks, but they've already taken two years off your life!

Don Luciano: Ricardo, is that you?

Nicole: [tearing up] No!

Don Luciano: Come back to us, Ricardo. We are your real family.

Nicole: [whispering, with big tearful eyes] No!

[Split screen of Richard and Don Luciano]

Don Luciano: I'll get your number sent off. Just for you.

Richard: [tearing up] I'm sorry, Don Luciano! [Points the phone at Luciano's side of the split screen.]

Don Luciano: You know, the sad thing about betrayal...it never comes from an enemy.

[Richard presses a button and hangs up the phone, causing Don Luciano's side to turn to static. Richard and Nicole drop to the floor as they embrace each other and burst into tears. The mafia music swells louder.]

Darwin: Oh! I know! We can invite people who need hugs and kisses to come to our house, and we give it to them for money! [Beat] Oh! I know! We all forget I just said that!

Richard: Guys, don't panic. I spent the last of this much food money on a metal detector and some lottery tickets. Worst case scenario: we can eat those!

Anais: I've got an idea! We rent the house as a bed and breakfast!

Nicole: Anais, we can't afford our own breakfast, let along pay for other people!

Anais: Fine! Then we rent the house as a bed and continue to fast!

Nicole: Hmmmm... [A thought bubble with a dollar sign pops up by Nicole, then by Gumball and Darwin. Richard just thinks of a crab with a human face dancing. Everyone else stares at his thought bubble, weirded out.]

The New Guests

[The doorbell rings, and the door opens to reveal Ethel and Bernie Klein, the first guests]

Ethel and Bernie: Hello!

Nicole: Oh, please come in!

Ethel: I'm Ethel, and this is Bernie. [They take a selfie with a Polaroid. The Wattersons, looking confused, are in the background of their shot.] Sorry! Bernie and I are making a travel map of our holiday! [She puts the photo into a map.] It's been our lifelong dream, see?

Nicole: I think you're the first tourists in Elmore since those two guys back in '83! The town was so happy, they put up a statue of them in the park with their motto underneath. [The statue is shown; it is of the two tourists running scared.] "Tell us the quickest way out of this dump!" [Everyone laughs]

Ethel: Well, beats our dump. It's so small, we don't need phones. We just speak louder! [Everyone laughs except Bernie]

Bernie: I must say, the house looks a bit different than the photo on the ad! [Holds up the photo; it is of a rich, opulent room with marble floors]

Nicole: Oh, they're just closeups, is all! That one was taken right here in the living room! Look! [Zoom in on a framed picture of the room from the ad in the living room]

Bernie: Right... Yeah, it also said you had cable? Does it have subtitles? 'Cause our hearing is--

Richard: Yes! [Walks up to a telescope by the window] Let me talk you through how it works. In here, you receive cable TV from right across the street. [Telescope view of the Robinsons' TV] Until around 7 p.m. when they shut the blinds.

Nicole: Hahahaha! [Notices Wunderklopp chewing on a napkin and deftly pushes him back]

Ethel: And how do we work the AC? We get terrible migraines in the heat, so-

Gumball: Oh, you can operate it like so. [The "AC" is just a fan with ice cubes attached to a baby mobile in front if it. Gumball turns on the fan and ice crystals blow into his face.] Ahhhh. Refreshing.

Ethel: Sure... And now, we also get awful rheumatic fever. [Wunderklopp comes up behind them.] And I think you had a hot tub somewhere?

Nicole: Sure! [Pushes them into the kitchen while Richard takes the horse out.] I give you... the hot tub!

[It's just a bucket full of water, with Anais blowing bubbles into it with a straw. Darwin is bathing inside.]

Nicole: Okay, I think it's time for us to go!

Bernie: Wait-is the house soundproof? We suffer from a rare ailment where-

Nicole: Payment? Yes, we'll take cash. Bye! [walks out]

Bernie: A rare ailment which means-

Richard: Bye! [walks out]

Bernie: We freeze and faint-

Gumball, Darwin, and Anais: Bye! [walk out]

Bernie: If anything loud or surprising happens! [Wunderklopp passes by and neighs loudly. The two freeze in midair and faint.]

Fasting in the Attic

[The Wattersons and Wunderklopp are all in the car.]

and Wunderklopp are all in the a]